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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1969
Page
2
Cub Scout Pack 88 holds the final summer outing Tuesday at 5 30 p m at Pine Hill Swimming Pool with homemade ice cream and mothers invited to attend.
Warren School names Morris Smith as principal from Tarkington High and Robert Jimerson as band director from Madisonville. School register Aug 29 with buses. first day Sept 2. faculty meet Aug 28. Local residents' health and family news included with travel, visits, and a military funeral for T. J. Whiddon. Soldiers listed bound for Vietnam. Sylvester Wallets join Lake Charles reunion.
U S Congressman John Dowdy will be guest speaker at the Silsbee Lions Club noon meeting Tuesday at the Blue Bonnet Cafe. Alvin Morgan is program chairman and Nick Mitchell will preside.
Pack 88 will organize three new dens in September. All eight year olds who want to join cub scouts should have their parents call Alvin J. Ragan at 385-5815. Cub members receive a free swim and may go early if accompanied by parents.
Beta Sigma Phi Xi Zeta Rho Chapter held a family picnic August 17 at the Live Wire Club hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dean. The social committee led by Mrs. Bill Coldren prepared and served the menu. Honored guest Mrs Elton Smith and her family are moving to Gillette Wyoming this week.
The Jones family and neighbors on Jones Road express gratitude to the State for cleaning a tree branch near their homes, noting improved safety and property conditions.
Mr and Mrs Lee L McNeel Jr announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter Martha Marie McNeel to Arthur Leroy Tidwell son of Mrs W H Love of Porter Texas and Jack Tidwell of Liberty They will wed at 8 p m August 29 at the bride elects parents home 165 South Third Street Silsbee A reception follows The groom will attend Lamar State College after graduating Silsbee High School He works for Damre Construction Co
Silsbee High School will offer a new cooperative training course this fall titled Parttime Cooperative Training in Vocational Agriculture. Eligible students must be 16 or a junior, attend four periods daily, and work three hours in an agriculture related industry. The two credit course includes on the job experience at firms like Kirby Lumber Corp or Eastex Inc and requires contact with Principal Weeks Crawford or Miller for details.
Mr and Mrs Randy Read of Houston welcome a son Randy Wayne born August 14 at Methodist Hospital. Geraldine Renee Parks joins Aug 17 at Mixson Hospital Kirbyville. A son to Mr and Mrs Thomas J Martin of Silsbee born Aug 18 at Silsbee Doctors Hospital. Melissa Jill Cawley born Aug 19 at Baptist Hospital with grandparents Elsie Gore and J T Cawley. Other births include Scott Allen Derrell Roberts Spurger Aug 14, Christopher Easton Slaydon Jr Silsbee Aug 16, Dennis Wayne Moore Jr Fred Aug 18, Scottie Wayne Winger Kountze Aug 18, Glenn Horace Rentzo Jr Silsbee Aug 15, Gary Edward Mathis Jr Silsbee Aug 20, Charlene Haynes Silsbee Aug 20.
Laura Lea Coe of Keuntze Hardin County won the Texas 4-H Horse Show high point rider title at Sweetwater. She claimed the Championship in pole bending with a 20.76 sec final run, and posted 42.18 seconds total on two runs. She earned fourth in Barrel Racing with 17.03 best, while D Ann Crider of Medina won that event again. District 11 was the state high point district and Hardin County the top county in District 11.
The Diamond Jubilee Committee will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Gulf States Utilities Building meeting room. Chairman Robert A Scott invites the public and all committee members to attend.
Miss Debi Ann Matthews and Don Wayne Mannino announce plans for a October 4 wedding at 7 p.m. in Woodrow Baptist Church. Rev. W. C. Copeland will officiate the double ring ceremony. He is the son of Mr and Mrs D Mannino of this city. Mannino is a Silsbee High School graduate and employed by the city of Groves.
The family of May Hall expresses gratitude for food flowers and acts of sympathy. Special thanks go to Rev. B F Monroe and the Friendship Baptist Church members for their kindness during this difficult time.
Charles W Hakill stationed at Fort Bragg North Carolina with the US Armed Forces visits his mother Mrs Evelyn Whaley before heading to Vietnam.
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