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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1973
Page
2
An editorial urges motorists to slow and watch for students as classes resume. With hundreds of children walking bicycling and exiting cars traffic safety is critical due to rising elementary through high school student movement and increased vehicle use.
Mrs. J. H. Richardson came home Saturday after a week’s stay in Bellaire with her daughter Mrs. Edna Gibson. She was accompanied by Mrs. Gibson and Mrs. Aubrey Miller and by Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Shuptrine and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Tuckler.
President Nixon signed a three year $20 billion highway act ending a two year logjam. Texas officials including Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Representative Jim Wright led conference talks to advance dozens of highway projects as urban and mass transit funding expands.
Ricky Kolls attended the Texas Teen-Age Baseball League state finals in Athens as San Angelo defeated Odessa. Kyle Kolls, 12, played for the San Angelo All-Star team, which claimed the state title after beating seven teams. San Angelo earned state by winning city and district championships in 51x playoff games. The Kolls are former residents of the city.
Rev Dan G Kent of Dallas will lead a revival at First Baptist Church August 19 to 26 with Francis LaRocque in charge of music. Services at 10 am and 7 30 pm with nursery. Kent, a Baylor and Southwestern Theological Seminary graduate, has pastored in Grapeland Crockett Brandon DeSoto and Oak Cliff. LaRocque, McNeese State University graduate, previously served as Music Minister in Bridge City Lake Charles and Sulphur. R E Barclay is pastor.
Mrs Nona Vaughn and Hollis Vaughn announce the engagement of their daughter Nita Lorraine to Anthony Leroy McClelland son of Mrs Mary Mell Eaves and Leroy McClelland. The wedding is set for August 31 at 8:30 p.m. at New Covenant Assembly Church on Highway 92 North in Silsbee with friends invited through the press.
Funeral services for Mrs Mittie Mansfield 79 of Silsbee will be held at 2 p m in Farmer Funeral Home Chapel with Rev R E Barclay officiating Burial will follow in Resthaven Cemetery She died Aug 14 at Doctors Hospital in Silsbee She was a Weberville native who lived much of her life in Port Arthur and moved to Silsbee five years ago Survivors include her husband Z T Mansfield two sons Richard W Mansfield of Port Arthur Harold Mansfield of Silsbee and two sisters Mrs Alice Brown of Silsbee and Mrs Velma Banks of Port Arthur
Monday offers baked ham mashed potatoes green beans fruited jello cookies rolls and milk. Tuesday features chicken fried steaks rice green lima beans pear halves peanut butter cake rolls and milk. Wednesday serves hamburgers lettuce tomatoes onions pinto beans pickles apple cobbler and milk. Thursday presents beef stew vegetables mashed potatoes pickled beets chocolate cake rolls and milk. Friday includes tuna salad shoe strings baked corn green salad white cake with cherry sauce rolls and milk.
Dr and Mrs Jimmy Goodman return to their Carrollton home Sunday after visiting Mrs Goodman s parents Mr and Mrs Tom Singletary in their home.
Waterfowl hunters in Port Arthur Texas face favorable outlook for the coming season. Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist Charles Stutzenbaker notes generally good range conditions and ample ducks and geese, though prairie Canada production dipped due to drought. Geese are expected to rise. local Texas conditions could shift with dry spells or heavy rains affecting early teal and rice-planting timing.
Robbie Beall 81, last survivor of the Beall Brothers chain, died Sunday in a Lufkin hospital. He began as an unpaid apprentice printer at a Henderson weekly, helped grow a small East Texas shop into a 64 store chain, and was buried Monday near his East Texas home.
Austin Corpus Christi diver Jim Frith, 26, speared a 630 pound jewfish near a gas platform three miles off Mustang Island. The 7 feet 4 inch fish with 68 inch girth qualifies for the Unrestricted Division of Texas state fish records by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
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