Silsbee Ready Writing Finalists Parade Opens Day
James Leigh of Silsbee High School places second in regional Ready Writing and advances to the state finals in Austin May 5 and 6. A parade and opening ceremony will feature the Little League queen Kathy Fuller, Cub Scouts, bands, and six league teams with sponsors and officials.
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Bond Building Materials Yankees
Buna
Morris Pharmacy Cardinals
Ear B. Stover
Silsbee
Cub Scouts
Silsbee Trailriders
S. M. Miears Jr
Kathy Fuller
Little League
Trail Riders
3Th Street
Assembly Point
Bluebonnet Cafe
Payne Road
Little League Park
J. D
James Leigh
Silsbee High School
Houston
Leigh
Austin
Harold Leigh
Indians
Chance Loeb
Optimist Club
White Sox
East Texas Transit Mix Concrete Co
Young’s Supermarket Tigers
Conoco Oilers
Kountze
Miears
Little League Auxiliary
Doyle McKeown
BE. BE
Bubba” Kaine
Billy Dinkle
Young’s Supermarkets
Travis McDonald
East Texas Concrete
Cecil Wright
Chance-Loeb
Glen Reid
Morvis
Bubba Moye
Silsbee High School 1960 valedictorian and top graduates named
Candy McWhorter daughter of Mr and Mrs W McWhorter of Silsbee is the valedictorian with a four year high school average of 82. Sherry Hinkel is salutatorian with 96.97 average and Lynn Hartman tops among others with 95.42. The commencement program on May 27 will be outdoors at Kirby Stadium weather permitting. Baccalaureate services are May 22 with speaker unnamed.
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Candy McWhorter
W. McWhorter
Silsbee
Bruce Watts
Miss McWhorter
Kirby Stadium
Sherry Hinkel
Marvin Wilams
Yeaker
Watts
Firemen Plan Annual Placard Sale In May
Silsbee volunteers will hold their annual placard sale during the first week in May to raise funds for the fire department. The drive follows a chicken and dumplin supper and supports operations at the fire hall, with city and Hardin County contributions noted.
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Silsbee
City of
Hardin County
Cliff McKay
Houston Natural Gas Co
McKay
John Busby
Busby
L. A. Yankie
Chool
City Hall
Tigers To Host French Today At 4
Coach Maurice Hobbs' Sils vce Tigers host Victor Pirates baseball this afternoon at 4 in their district 1IAAA outing. They lost opener to Nederland 5-4, tied 4-4 in the eighth, then Nederland won on a single in the ninth. Next Tuesday Silsbee travels to Beaumont to face French at 4 p.m.
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Maurice Hobbs
Silsvce Tigers
Victor Pirtes
Thisfternoon
Bulldogs
Silsbee
Beaumont
French
Azalea Garden Club Plans Annual Show Here Saturday
The fourth annual Azalea Garden Club show titled Witchery of Wings runs 2 to 6 p m Saturday at Read Turrentine Elementary School. General chairwoman is Mrs R E Jackson. Judges include Mrs R L Stuart Mrs H L Shear Mrs W J Rogers Mrs Cc R McGrew Beaumont Mrs Sam L Webb Victor and Mrs A L Davis Orange. A Tricolor award and a sweepstakes award will be given in horticulture and artistic divisions.
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Azalea Garden Club
Read-Turrentine
R. E. Jackson
R. L. Stuart
H. L. Shear
W. J. Rogers
Cc. R. McGrew
Beaumont
Sam L. Webb
Victor
A. L. Davis
Mrs J W Wiggins Visits Relatives in Honey Island
Mrs J W Wiggins recently visited relatives in Honey Island leaving details few. The note records a brief social update with no additional names or dates.
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J. W. Wiggins
Honey Island
Waggoner Carr Campaigns In Silshee
Texas House speaker and attorney general candidate Waggoner Carr visited Silshee on Wednesday afternoon. He spoke with several local residents as he continued his campaign tour.
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Waggoner Carr
Silshee
Texas
House of Representatives
Carr
Services Held For Train Accident Victim Roebuck
Funeral services for Jimmy Dee Roebuck, killed in a freight train accident near Silsbee, were held at Woodrow Baptist Church with Rev. B G Roberts and Rev. R L Bateman officiating. Roebuck died when the northbound Santa Fe freight car struck him while he walked atop cars with six fellow Silsbee High students. his body was later buried at Beancery Kirbyville.
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Jimmy Dee Roebuck
Silsbee
Woodrow Baptist Church
B. G. Roberts
R. L Bateman
Young Roebuck
Santa Fe
Beaumont Highway
Andrew Hare
George Frazier
James Ellis
Tommy Hartman
Lynn Hargrove
Marvin Parker
Silsbee High School
Hargrove
Roebuck
Beaumont
William Whitaker
I. W. Moore
E. W. Coleman
Louis Sellers
Farmer Funeral Home
Bill Brownlee
C. R Landis
J. E. Herrington
D. H. Barclay
Bean Cemetery
Kirbyville
Dwayne Parks
Roy Reeves
Doyle Riley
William Duren
Floyd Patterson
Billy Wayne
Silsbee rally and box supper invites political candidates
An old time rally with a box supper is set for Silsbee at Santa Fe Park this Saturday April 30 at 7 p.m. Local and state candidates will attend and speak. If weather fails, the event moves to the junior high auditorium. Doug McCraw will MC and music is planned. Local families also report son Pvt 1-C Corbit T. Jones Jr. recently toured Denmark Paris and other towns in a 10 day army trip.
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Silsbee
Santa Fe Park
Elaine Register
Mnother
Emmet Lack
John Parker
W. C. Mangum
Earl Stover
Ross Brockman
H. A. Coe
R. S. Coe
R. A. Richardson
Ramsey Hooks
W. T. Bean
W. “Whit” Whitaker
A. D. Lindsey Jr
C. E. Callaway
Frank S Payne
D. J. Knighten
Henry Donelson
Corbit L. Jones Sr
Pvt
Corbit TL. Jones Jr
Fourth
Germany
Denmark
Paris
Elementary Track Meet Planned Friday Afternoon
The second annual Silsbee elementary school track and field meet is set for Friday afternoon at Kirby Stadium beginning at 3 30 with events for fifth and sixth graders. Read-Turrentine Kirby and junior high campus elementary teams will compete with field events starting at 3 30 and running events at 4.
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Silsbee Elementary
Kirby Stadium
Joe Hignett
Read-Turrentine
Kirby
Ladies Invitational Golf Tournament Set For May 31
May 31 is the day set for the Ladies Invitational Golf Tournament at Harden County Golf Course. Invitations will go to area country clubs. The event will be an 18 hole competition. In the monthly nine hole flight winners were Mrs. Helen Wright net 34 and Mrs. Ann Brown net 37. In the 18 hole flight winners were Mrs. Macil Spillar net 75 and Mrs. Alyne Mc Mahan net 77.
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Hardin County Golf Course
Helen Wright
Ann Brown
Macil Spillar
Alyne McMahan
Junior High Band Sets Spring Concert Tonight
The Silshee Junior High School band led by Glenwood L. Vernon will present its Spring Concert tonight in the junior high auditorium. The 58 member ensemble performs at 7 39 o clock.
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Silshee Junior High School
Glenwood L. Vernon
Multiple Birth Announcements From Silsbee and Beaumont
In Hardin Memorial and Baptist Hospital facilities a string of births is announced. Paula Jean Rand, Michelle Ada Sonnier, Allanda Gayle White, Cynthia Sharon Curtis, Johnny Lee Fillmar, Jackie Lynn Baker, William Carter Work, James Ricky Cunningham, Charles Manford II Castle, and Jason Knighten are named with birth dates in April and parental listings to local families.
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Paula Jean
Jimmy Rand
Silsbee
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Val D. Hickman
Mark DeWayne
Baptist Hospital
Beaumont
Michelle Ada
Fred Sonnier
Kountze
Ray White
Allanda Gayle
Cynthia Sharon
Charles E. Curtis
Herman Fillmair
Johnny Lee
Jackie Lynn
Jack Baker
William Carter
Michael Work
James Cunningham
James Ricky
Charles Manford Castle Jr
Charles Manford II
Spurger School Plans May Fete With Paris Theme
Spurger High and Grammar schools host Springtime in Paris May Fete at 7 30 p m Friday in the Spurger High School auditorium. Queen Gay Nell Linder and Queen Janice Odom to be crowned. Proceeds support P TA equipment purchases for the school.
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Paris
Spurger High School
Jess Collins
Gay Nell Linder
Grammar School
Janice Odom
P-Ta
Santa Fe Ships Special Paper for Eastex Exhibit
A 35 ton shipment from East Texas Pulp and Paper Co. bound to General Index Manufacturing Co. in Baltimore includes 15 tons Manila file stock in 14 inch rolls and 20 tons tag board. The paper is shown at a General Index anniversary exhibit in Baltimore on a DF Shock Control car to protect goods during transit.
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East Texas Pulp and Paper Company
Evadale
Hardin County
General Index Manufacturing Co
Baltimore
General Index
Santa Fe Railroad
Silsbee Teachers Stage Melodrama May 12 13
Silsbee Teachers Association presents For Her Child's Sake or Her First False Step a vintage melodrama May 12 and 13 in the high school auditorium. Proceeds benefit the Classroom Teachers scholarship fund. Music by The Faculty Five. Teachers and locals participate.
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Silsbee Classroom Teachers Association
City Police Arrest Twenty Five In Two Week Period
Police Chief Grady Tarver reported 25 arrests by city officers in the past two weeks. The totals included 4 for unnecessary noise 2 for no driver's license 2 for speeding 2 for disturbing the peace 3 for following too close 8 for drunks 1 for felony driving while intoxicated and 3 for petty theft.
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Grady Tarver
Boilermakers Will Elect Officers May 7
Boilermakers Local 587 to elect officers including business manager at Silsbee firehall on Saturday May 7. Polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for union members to vote, per Glenn Adair.
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Boilermakers
Silsbee Firehall
Glenn Adair
Mrs B L Moreland Heads to TFWC Meeting in Austin
Mrs B L Moreland will attend the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs conference in Austin on Monday. She is one of fourteen trustees elected statewide and will meet with the new group.
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B. L. Moreland
TFWC
Austin
Hardin Memorial Hospital Named by County Commissioners
Hardin County commissioners met briefly in Keuntze Monday morning and voted to rename Hardin County Hospital to Hardin Memorial Hospital. A request for the change had been presented months ago and was tabled earlier.
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Hardin Memorial Hospital
Hardin County
Keuntze
Hardin County Hospital
Hardin
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Meira Lee Eilers
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Carolyn Sue Fabrigaze
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Victor Freeman
Raymond D. Gilmore
Elizabeth Ann Gore
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Ida Lee Gray
Charles Green
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Patricia Ann Hare
Polly Ann Harrison
John S. Hartman III
June Hartman
Julia Faye Harvill
Billy Paul Herrington
Sher-ron Sue Hinkel
Nancy V. Holland
Barbara Jane Hough
Dennis T. Hunter
Curtis Raymond Jackson
Judith Maureen Jackson
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Robert E. Jones
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David Wayne Lewis
Jo Alice Lindsey
Barbara Jean Marshall
Emma Lois McDaniel
James H. McGallian
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Betty Ann Paine McInnis
Lorita Mae McKee
Carol Anders McWhorter
Albert Miller
Joyce Marie Million
Thomas Jefferson Milstead
Judy Meureen Mene
Ima Jean Morgan
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Jayne Odom
Ivy O'Quinn
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Clarence Elray Simmons Jr
Margie Ann Simmons
Myrtis
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Charlotte Ann Smith
Emma Lee Smith
Mary Ann Smith
Richard Smith
Brice St. Aubin
Linda Bernice Stirling
Richard Daniel Sutton
Charles William Tarver
Jackie Pauline Terrell
Bill Thomas
Peggy Sue Bradshaw Thornton
Cecile Marie Verdine
Bovee
Napoleon Ward
Bills Wayne Weathersby
Mattie Louise Wells
Kenneth Whitney
Patricia Ann Wiggins
Brenda Lou Wilson
Carolyn (Hartman) Wilson
Dee Ann Wilson
Keith Alfred Wingfield
Charlie Woodard
Geraldine
Judy) Woodward
John Harepman
Firemen Plan
Woodlea
Ave. I
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
College Station
Tigers
Jimmy Roebuck
Rainbow Girls
Nicken
Charlie Allen
W. H. Boddie
R. J. Parks
Johnny Duval
Benford Walters
Russell Busby
Spurger
Eastex
Silsbee Teachers Association
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