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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1956
Page
1
A bolt of lightning during a thunderstorm in Evadale halted all paper and pulp production at the Eastex East Texas Pulp and Paper mill for about six to eight hours. A Gulf States power line to the pump station was burned, wiring repairs were underway, and officials expected full operation to resume by Wednesday night.
Lee Mack 61 of Buna died in a logging accident near Bragg when a chain slipped on a load of logs and crushed him. He died en route to Hardin county hospital. An inquest by Justice Berneice Seale was held at the hospital. Rev. Robert Davis officiated at Evadale Assembly of God Church services. Funeral arrangements by Farmer Funeral Home and burial at Damoth cemetery near Conroe.
Hardin county commissioners hired Willie Warren of Kountze as deputy sheriff with a 312.50 monthly pay. Ira Moore gets 12.50 raise to 325. Chance and Loeb boards select seven trustees for a consolidated district with four from Chance and three from Loeb. vote set for Saturday August 4. Proposals include 20 acre Hooks estate site eight miles south of Silsbee and a planned consolidation with Silsbee district, bonds and building program await sale.
First Lt. Jack D. Hedge of 206 Oglesbee is on two weeks active duty at the Army Reserve School Fort Polk Louisiana. He attended a refresher course at the school and is the son of Mrs Sylvian Devil lier of North Texas City.
Spring semester honor roll at Lamar State College in Beaumont lists 297 students, including four from Silsbee. Frank Allen Bell and Curtis Killion are distinguished with high marks, while Ruby Perdue and Luther Dee Laminack made B Honor Roll. Bell and Killion earned Bachelor of Business Administration degrees in May, Perdue a Bachelor of Science in elementary education, Laminack a sophomore major in chemical engineering.
C E McClelland of New Caney visited over the weekend in the home of Mr and Mrs Hal T Burrows.
Hayden Moore, field representative for the Beaumont District Office of the Social Security Administration, will be at City Hall in Silsbee on Tuesday, August 7, at 9 00 a m to help eligible residents file social security claims.
The columnist shares news of the birth of twin grandsons last Friday at Baptist Hospital. They were kept in incubators, later seen through the nursery glass, and are expected to gain weight before release. Names honor family members and the mother’s wishes.
In Saturday primaries Earl B. Smokey Stover won county attorney over incumbent Herman Reynolds. J. C. Hooks defeated Frank Carpenter for State Representative. Polk county backed Hooks by a 1700 vote margin. Coe kept the 88th judicial seat. Whitaker and Payne won sheriff and county commissioner races. Weaker write-ins included Red Lindsey and E. Cotton. Precincts set conventions. party loyalty measures discussed.
Lt. Thomas Harold LaToof is officially declared dead after a July 24 Catalina Channel crash near California. His body remains unfound. memorial services are set at El Toro Marine Air Station. His wife, Jo Ann Slavik, travels to California. pilot M/ Sgt George V. Mikkelsen survived after 13 hours in the water.
Anita Parks daughter of Mr and Mrs Bernard Parks of Silsbee will be valedictorian of Hotel Dieu school of nursing graduating class on August 5 Dr M M Self a Silsbee native practicing physician in Beaumont will deliver the commencement address Miss Parks is a Silsbee High School graduate and attended Lamar Tech in Beaumont for a year Her August 6 wedding to Floyd C Leonard of Silsbee is announced in this week's Bee.
Spindletop of Beaumont defeated Silsbee Little League All Stars 9-6 in Port Arthur Tuesday, ending Silsbee’s district bid after a back and forth game. Randy Read homered for Silsbee, but Spindletop surged in the fifth inning to grab the lead and hold on as errors and hits fueled their rally.
Mr and Mrs E M Simmons owners of Simmons Radio and Appliance in Silsbee earned an eight day all expense paid air trip to the Santo Domingo world fair in the Dominican Republic for their sales record on Fedders window air conditioners. The trip is set to begin September 24.
City Council names D. M. Short Herbert Elmore and A F Johnson to the board of equalization at a special meeting. They also seek highway department cooperation to string street light wires over head on newly paved highway 96. Cost drives underground wiring off limits. Delinquent tax adjustments remove nonresident and closed businesses from the rolls.
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