Tigers Sweep Hardin County Relays In Track Meet
Silsbee led by Joe Blackmon and Pudgie Black and Sour Lake's L Cole and G Collins dominated the Hardin County Relays with multiple firsts. Collins captured 120 high hurdles 180 low hurdles pole vault and broad jump as Sour Lake topped Sour Lake with 239 points and Silsbee followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Hardin County
Joe Blackmon
Charles Tarver
John Harrell
Richard Ratliff
John Hartman
Joe Black
Mon
Robert Modisette
Charlie Woodard
Sammy Barrow
Pudgie Black
Cole
Sour Lake
Barclay
Kountze
S. Barrow
Brown
Bobby Modisette
Castilaw
Collins
David Drake
Marvin Gordon
Silsbee Williams
Williamson
Woodard
White
Chisum
Modisette
Lack for state representative faces harsh county rivals
Emmett Lack of Kountze the sole Hardin county candidate for the 19th district shows with his family. He is 36, has lived in Hardin county 38 years and works as a plant employee in Beau mont. He promotes education and equitable tax laws as a Democrat.
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Emmett Lack
Kountze
Hardin County
Hardin, Polk
San Jacinto
Mr. Lack
Silsbee Road
E. C. Lack
The
Baptist Church
Socony Paint Products Co
Beaumont
Lack
Physicists use golf ball blend to break up explosive mixtures
At the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Silver Spring Maryland scientists use golf balls in blenders to break up lumpy explosive mixtures. The method is faster and safer than brushing the explosive mixtures through a fine screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Silver Spring
Gulf States Utilities Reports 1959 Net Income At $16 Million
Gulf States Utilities Company released its 1959 Annual Report showing net income of $16,023,000, a 14 percent rise, with 1,177,000 kilowatts net generating capacity after adding three 111,000 kilowatt units. The firm also expanded bonds and stock, split common shares two for one, and increased annual common stock dividends to $1.00 per share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf States
JIia@ll OL Lie DUVALU alu vt epi, dent
United States
Honor Roll List Ties March 25 Junior High Honors
Silsbee Junior High announces its nine weeks honor roll ending March 25. The list includes Shirley Barnes Patricia Cook Llewellyn Dickinson Steve Eppes Louis Grissom Linda Hanzel Mary Harrison Sandy Hile Ben Holmes Judy Jones Ike McWhorter Danny Modissette Patsy Penry Barbara Perkins Britt Plunk Vicki Riley J Q Vanderburg Susan Williams Brenda Young and many others across grades.
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Shirley Barnes
Bill Bellenger
Patricia Cook
Llewellyn Dickinson
Steve Eppes
Louis Grissom
Linda Lou
Hanzel
Mary Harrison
Sandy Hile
Ben Holmes
Judy Jones
Ike McWhorter
Danny Modisette
Patsy Penry
Barbara Perkins
Britt Plunk
Vicki Riley
J. Q. Vanderburg
Susan Williams
Brenda Young
Local Sailor Tops Navy Shore Patrol Graduates in Corpus Christi
Billie Be Gregory, boilerman second class USN, is among the first Navy Shore Patrolmen to graduate from the Basic Police Training Course at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Rear Admiral Louis J. Kirn congratulates him as he receives a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion. The 136 hour program covered first aid rules investigations law and courtroom procedure. Gregory, a Corpus Christi serviceman, is son of Mrs. Hattie Gregory of Silsbee and husband of Mrs. Eileen Callaghan of Chelsea Massachusetts. He joined eight Corpus Christi City Police Officers and four Navy men in March 10 ceremonies after enlisting in February 1946 following Silsbee High School.
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Billie BE. Gregory
USN
Louis J. Kirn
Naval Air Advanced Training
Corpus Christi
Texas
Navy
Gregory
Naval Air Station
Hattie Gregory
Silsbee
Eileen T. Callaghan
Clark Ave
Chelsea
Massie
Iodine-Driven Thermostat Wins Instant Heat Response
A highly sensitive thermostat built at Naval Spring, Maryland reacts instantly to heat from a match struck ten feet away. The device uses an iodine solution to detect temperature changes and trigger rapid responses.
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Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Silver Spring
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Tigers
Dash
Barrow
Hartman
Williams
Tarver
Blackmon
Harrell
Ray
Warren
Anders
Overstreet
Mile Run
McDonald
Wingfield
Stafford
Saratoga
Ratliff
Clawson
Wiemer Kountze
T. Hartman
Gordon
Patterson
Black
Smith
Ward
Bianc
Sour’ Lake
Riggs
Marcontel
G. Collins
Drake
D. Collins
Mabry
Milstead
Discus
Cones
Biano
Séuw Lake
Archer Fullingim
Seneca
Fuller Building
Prescription Chemists
Mobilgas
M.P.G
USAC
Rambler
America
Caraway Motor Company
Silsbee Junior High School
Dale Bailey
Brenda Bartle
Dickie Boddie
Yvonne Bourgeois
Doyle Brown
Connie Buckner
Linda Cheshire
Shirley Claude
Ray Crabtree
Thelma Cravy
Sylvia Cunningham
Dennis Darrell
Gayle Davis
Mary Virginia Dear
Nelson Flanagan
Jimmy Fleetwood
Ellen Ford
Lynda Gore
Wilburn Gore
Harold Graves
Robert Grote
Gayle Hatch
Jesse Hawthorne
Marcia Herndon
Patricia Herron
Johnny Hodge
Sheila Holliyfield
Bettie Hook
Joy Hopkins
Billy Kelly
Jimmy
Leslie Ashworth
Carolyn
Carl Adams
James Marvin Bell
Betty Bolin
Terry Creekmore
Yvonne Cryer
Eugenia Cunningham
Sally Hartman
Richard Head
Paul Johnson
Anita Jo Kirtley
Sally Lakey
Margaret McLean
Betty Pearce
Jeanelle Shavers
Leon Stokesbury
Billy Winger
Gradi
Kay Busby
Sandra Davenport
Isabel Bledge
Carolyn Fuller
Johnny Isbell
Mary Laird
Barbara McConnell
Billye McNeely
Kathy McWhorter
Joan Meyer
Barbara Pattillo
Janet Reeves
Thomas Riley
Dagma Rudisaile
Sue Shine
Nelson Tennison
Mildred Alexander
Melva Collier
Mary Cook
Patricia Dear
Judy Delaune
Lynetta Falls
Charles Gore
Pat Grisham
Doyle Haley
Frances Herrington
Carolyn Johnson
Jack McMahon
Carolyn Matthews
Gloria Matthews
Jean Miears
Joyce Rhea Miller
Wayne Nash
Edwin Read
Delores Register
Johnny Riggs
Barbara Selph
Betty Stuart
Joey Taylor
Annette Tutt
Charles Wright
Larry Young
Wheeling
W Va
William Custer
Ifl
Silsbee Dry Goods Co
Houston
Natural Gas
Avastem
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