Council to Discuss Operational Shakeup Tonight With C of C
Hardin county commissioners hear residents Leon Finkley and Mrs. Mills urge road widening from FM 421 to Dade Hatcher's place for a safer bus route serving 14 school children. The court weighs right of way, pipeline costs, and potential court action while planning city government changes in Silsbee.
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Sour Lake
Pine Ridge
Hardin County
Leon Finkley
Mills
Finkley
FM Road
Dade Hatcher's Place
Tom Burch
Burch
Lee Griffin
Griffin
Fletcher Richardson
Millso
Hatcher Place
Richardson
Commissioner's Court
Cypress Creek
Trunk Line Pipeline Company
Ward
West Texas Pipeline
Gulf Refining Company
Dnd Ncilman
Pines Theater
Silsbee
Beaumont
E. M. Wilson, Jr
Susbee State Bank
Thomas B. Creel Services Set For Port Neches Resident
Thomas Ben ton Creel 62 of Port Neches died at his home there Wednesday morning. Services are 3 p m today from Farmer's Funeral chapel Port Neches, with interment at Village Mills cemetery. Survivors include wife Sadie Creel a son Eugene and a daughter Nelda Sue Creel, five brothers, two sisters and two grandchildren.
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Thomas Benton Creel
Port Neches
Creel
Silsbee
Farmer's Funeral Home
J. C. Clement
First Baptist Church of
Village Mills
Sadie Creel
Eugene Creel
Nelda Sue Creel
Edgar and
Amos
Emmett
Jesse
Hillister
Carl Creel
Nacogdoches
Effie Fountain
Mary Wiggins
Mrs Richardson Visits Sister in Union Valley Texas
Mrs J H Richardson spent last weekend with her sister Mrs Gussie Stroud in Union Valley Texas.
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J. H. Richardson
Gussie Stroud
Union Valley
Texas
Complaints to Be Filed In Game Law Violations
County attorney Herman Reynolds said several complaints will be filed in county court this week over game law violations stemming from the arrest of W A Moorman and Ira Flowers. Moorman faces charges of unlawfully hunting deer with dogs during a closed season, resisting arrest, and serious threat to life after allegedly aiming a rifle at Game Warden Joe B Brower. Flowers is charged with unlawfully hunting deer with dogs during a closed season. Wardens, aided by jeeps and two way radios, conducted the manhunt and arrest in Saratoga and Kountze. Captain Lewis Morris noted the serious Moorman charge and possible involvement by the attorney general’s office.
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Herman Reynolds
W. A. Moorman
Ira Flowers
Moorman
Reynolds
Joe B. Brower
Brower
Saratoga
Kountze
Flowers
Lewis Morris
Attorney General’s Department
Morris
B and PW Club Names President in Silsbee
The Business and Professional Women's Club of Silsbee completed organization with 17 charter members and elected Mrs. G L Magee as president for the coming year. Officers include Mrs Joe Barnes as vice president and Mrs Clayon Stutts as secretary treasurer. Regular meetings set for the second and fourth Thursdays at 7 pm.
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Silsbee
Business and Professional Women's Club
G. L. Magee
Joe Barnes
Clayon Stutts
Don L. Hough
Beaumont Club
Visitors Stop At Sheffield Home From Sherman Denning Port Arthur
Guests include Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Grimes and children Mike Don and Cindy of Sherman and Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Norman and daughters Joyce and Polly of Denning New Mexico plus Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sands of Port Arthur. J. B. Cravy on furlough from Washington visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cravy.
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W. E. Sheffield
D. W. Grimes
Mike
Don
Cindy
Sherman
M. R. Norman
Joyce
Polly
Denming
New Mexico
W. A. Sands
Port Arthur
J. B. Cravy
Washington
Bill Cravy
Petitions Seek Stock Law Election In Precinct One
Hardin County residents circulate petitions asking the commissioners court to call a stock law election prohibiting livestock from running at large in Precinct One. Separate petitions target cattle and donkeys hogs sheep and oats with a view to simultaneous elections. If approved, other precincts may follow.
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Hardin County
Commissioners Court
Sheriff's Department
Local Negroes Ask Integration in Silsbee Schools
A delegation of five Negro citizens pressed the Silsbee school board to begin desegregation by September. The board said immediate integration was physically impossible and considered starting with lower grades gradually, with a fall 1956 target if feasible. The meeting closed without action.
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Silsbee
Odis Alexander
Alexander
Kid Grice
Elton Irwin
Elijah Conaway
Otis Domino
George Tennison
Tennison
B. M. Prewitt
Football drills spark at Tiger stadium August 22
Football workouts for the 1955 season begin at Tiger Stadium August 22 with two a day sessions and possible night scrimmages. Coach Dinkle plans conditioning emphasis and early focus on blocking tackling. Eleven returning lettermen anchor a squad with several promising newcomers and key position shifts headed by senior Larry Hargrove and junior Tommy Childress.
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Tiger Stadium
Dinkle
Charlie Horses
John Bates
Tommy Childress
Childress
Larry Hargrove
Billy Hartman
Tommy Stanford
Stanford
Doyle
Buzz” McDonald
Jim McMurray
Silsbee High
Ray Moore
Moore
OS Offenders Arrested During Past Week
Sheriff's Office reports 31 arrests in the past week led by 22 drunken arrests. Also includes two traffic arrests and single cases for timber theft AWOL air force pickup felony DWI theft and three disturbing the peace arrests. About 50 horses and mules sold under provisions and enforcement.
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Dave Rountree
Air Force
William Whitaker
A. W. Million
Local Woman Receives Suspended Sentence After Shooting
A juried verdict of guilty against Mrs. Junior Hutto in Judge H A Coes 88th district court followed a Dec 5 shooting and stabbing at the Hutto home. She drew a three year suspended sentence while her husband faced similar indictments in a related case involving J T Carroll of Kountze.
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H. A. Coe
Hutto
Carroll
William Whitaker
Herman Reynolds
Reynolds
Yeagers Visit Drake Family Home in Houston Ties
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Yeager and their son from Houston visited recently in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Drake, sharing family time.
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C of C
Sour Lake Road
Cooley
Trunk Line
Payne
Landolt’s
Santa Fe Railroad
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
H. M. Jones
Jones
Chamber of Commerce
Gulf States
Nederland
H. C. Hopkins
Howard Hargrove
Pete Landolt
Mr. Jones
Mr. Landolt
Terrell Buchanan
Thomas B. Creel
B & PW Club
Zenata Withers
Ona McGinty
Robert W. Holmes
Sybil Moore
Alice Beleford
Jake Mack
Ethredge
Precinc
Grice
Mr. Prewitt
Hopkins
Jack Redman
Steve Seely
Seely
Keith Parker
George Keith
Sheriff's Office
W. M. McDowell
Basil Jones
C. R. Cochran
Paina
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