Silsbee City Bills Jump Nearly Eleven Thousand
City invoices for March rise about $11 000 from February totals with increases in five areas including legal fees for Crum and Ratliff plants for city parks and equipment for the fire department and valve components for the Avenue I water tower. Executive session planned while council reviews trailer ordinance amendments and street dedication plans for Prince Hall Villa.
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Silsbee
Jerry Jones
The
BEE
Cesar Dominguez
Jones
Crum and Ratliff
Fred Herron
Don's Nursery
Arthur Dooley and Son, Inc
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department
Utility Supply Co
Avenue I
Golden - Anderson
Leon Crum
Claude Coward
Council
County Arrest May Break Houston Cycle Theft Ring
A Hardin County arrest linked to an April 11 motor cycle theft of Leon Curry of Silsbee to a Houston based cycle theft ring. Alfred Buckley Gary Henry Wayner Thacker and a 15 year old were charged. Ten motorcycles found at a suspect home may be stolen. Bond set at 3000 each. juvenile sent to California authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Curry
Silsbee
Hardin County
Billy E. Paine
Paine
Alfred Jerome Buckley
Sisbee
Gary Michael Henry
Wayner Thacker
Houston
Curry
Lumberton Justice of the Peace
Ray Martin
Kountze
California
Howard Grantham
Jesse Cartwright
Sour Lake
Hardin County Auditor warns of 150000 dollar deficit by 1971
In a 34 page 1970 financial examination Horace V. Moye to the Hardin County Commissioners warned that General Fund and Officers' Salary Fund expenditures will outpace revenues, forecasting a tax and fee shortage between 150000 and 100000 by December 31, 1971.
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Hardin County
Commissioners Court
Horace V. Moye
Moye
Harding County
Six Holiday Burglaries Reported To City Police
Silsbee police logged six burglaries over the Easter weekend and arrested two juveniles, ages 13 and 11, on burglary charges. The youths were arraigned and sent to county juvenile authorities. Items stolen included cash, belts, brass hardware, firearms, stamps, and meat from several local sites.
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Silsbee
Don Merrill
Merrill
Silsbee Justice of the Peace
Rex Moore
Silsbee Grain Co
Marvin L. Morgan
Silsbee Ice Co
Hardin County Rejects 1500 State Match For Unit
At a special session the Hardin County Commissioners Court declined to match 1500 in state funds for the Soil and Water Conservation Unit in a 3 to 2 vote. The decision followed concerns about county overexpenditure and budget planning, with relief offered to consider earmarking funds next year. Also discussed were monthly financial reporting and a pauper birth policy at Hardin Memorial Hospital.
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Hardin County Commissioners Court
Hardin County Soil and Water Conservation Unit
W. W Howell
Horace V. More
Emmett Lack
Bob Kerr
Virgil Caraway
Judge Lack
Howard Barrington
Hugh Bevil Means
Howell
Soil and Water Conservation Unit
Barrington
Trustees To Appoint O Neil Scholarship Award Committee
The Silsbee ISD board will appoint a screening committee to select the 1971 O Neil scholarship recipient, a Silsbee High School graduate, at the April 14 meeting. The agenda also lists teacher resignations, summer programs, Title I II and III participation for 1971 72, and creation of a Distributive Education program.
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O'Neil
Silsbee
Silsbee Independent School District
Don L. Hough
BEF Pressi
Silsbee High School
Bishop Copeland to Consecrate New Methodist Sanctuary in Silsbee
Formal consecration of the $300000 Sanctuarys of Silsbee First United Methodist Church will be led by Bishop Kenneth W. Copeland at 10 45 a m Sunday April 18 Rev R Eugene Jonte announces Assisting will be Dr Ed Matheson Beau ment District Supt Jay Collier will be organist Youth and Chancel Choirs directed by Roy Bean sing Immortal Invisible Following the service open house for the church plant from 3 p m
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Silsbee
First United Methodist Church
Kenneth W. Copeland
Houston
United Methodist Church
R. Eugene Jonte
Copeland
Aransas
Westminister Junior College
Jonte
Ed Matheson
Beaumont
Jay Collier
Roy Bean
Wallace Hornibrook
Methodists
Langston Grade Stake Shop Destroyed by Fire
Fire at 980 Darin Drive damaged Langston grade stake shop owned by J. E. Langston. About 4000 dollars of power saws stake materials and hand tools were destroyed. Firefighters from Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department controlled the blaze.
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J. E. Langston
Dardin Drive
John Busby
Busby
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department
Langston
Gore
Silsbee
North Fifth Street
Boles Street
Biscamp Road
Beaumont Man Gets Two Years For Silsbee Burglary
Danny Boy Shannon of Beaumont was sentenced to two years in Huntsville prison after admitting burglary before 88th District Judge H A Coe in Kountze Hardin County. He had been charged with the February Morris Moore Chevrolet Co. burglary in Silsbee and was held pending transfer to Jefferson County for further burglary charges. Two suspects remain at large in the company crime.
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Claude Lindsey
Sour Lake
George Robinson
Paine
Perry Albert Goodman
Lumberton
Goodman
Beaumont Justice of the Peace
J. Paul McNeil
Hardin County
DPS
Wayne Pullen
Jim Baldwin
Danny Boy Shannon
Beaumont
Huntsville
H. A. Coe
Kountze
Billy Paine
Shannon
Morris Moore Chevrolet Co
Silsbee
Jefferson County
Observance Of Library Week Planned Locally
Silsbee celebrates National Library Week April 18 24 with co sponsors American Library Association and National Book Committee Inc The event highlighted by Librarian H T Horka includes a mayoral proclamation from Claude C Coward and visits by local second grade classes Eva dale and Fred schools will tour April 20 and 21 with library use instruction and a story hour by Mrs James Smith and others.
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National Library Week
Silsbee Public Library
H. T. Horka
American Library Association
The
National Book Committee Inc
Silsbee
Evadale
Fred
James Smith
Silsbee Tigers Eye 11-3A, Set to Face Livingston Friday
Diamond Varsity Sports notes Silsbee High School aims to close the 11-3A season with a 3-0 district mark and 10-8 overall after a 8-3 win over Crosby. Pitcher Jim Bowie went seven innings, four hits and four walks, while Joe Price and Grant Dear led a 10-hit attack with key RBIs. The Tigers travel to Livingston for a 7:30 p.m. game under the lights after an open date this Tuesday.
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Pat Day
Silsbee High School
Livingston
Crosby
Jim Bowe
Sils Xce
Tigers
Joe Price
Tutus Cook
Grant Dear
Price
Jean
Cook
Sheriff Warns Of Confidence Artists In Hardin County
Hardin County Sheriff Billy E Paine cautions residents about scammers posing as old age assistance and utility officials. Jesse James Owens 25 of Mont Belvieu was arrested in Chambers County on theft by false pretenses for taking 40 dollars from an 89 year old Kountze man by claiming he represented an aid program. Owens is jailed in Hardin County on a 10 thousand dollar bond. Authorities seek additional suspects and urge verifying credentials and reporting any doubt to police or the relevant company.
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Mont Belvieu
Hardin County
Billy E. Paine
Paine
Jesse James Owens
Chambers County
Owens
City adds 300000 gallons to water supply at Silsbee plant
City officials say new eight inch altitude valve on Avenue I will enable full use of the Woodrow station tank and add about 300,000 gallons to the supply. Residents on the north side may experience brief pressure slowdowns during installation but will gain steadier pressure and less rusty water long term. City Manager Ron ald Hickerson and Water and Sewer Supt. Bill Allen cited separate controls for the two tanks as part of the improvement.
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Silsbee
Ronald Hickerson
Hickerson
Avenue I
Bill Allen
The
BEE
Woodrow Station
Woodrow
Allen
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County Nixes Conservation Unit
H. A. Hooks
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
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Har‘din Memorial Hospital
Overstreet
Hardin County Hospital Board
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