Tigers Scrimmage Nederland In Friday Night Test
Silsbee travels to Nederland for a second scrimmage at Bull dog Stadium to gauge progress against a bigger faster opponent. Coach Ray McGallion notes offense ahead of expectations with position battles continuing and a key knee injury to Padge Collier.
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Silsbee
Tigers
Nederland
Bulldog Stadium
Ray McGallion
Bulldogs
McGallion
Woodville
Uni
Padge Collier
Pete Nichol
Harold Wayne Fanner
Dobie Dear
Tiger
Kevin Coles
Mike Benoit
Carly Skinner
Mike McGuire
Nelson Long
Derrick Shelton
Artie Shankle
Doug Almond
Tom Sawyer
Bill Pike
Johnny Stepnik
Dock Mullins
Harold Westmoreland
Paul Sweatt
Carl Smith
Leonard Atkins
Don Muckleroy
Monster
Jim Rawls
Rawls
Mullins
Paul Broussard
David Davenport
Leon Stanley
Stepnik
Westmoreland
Look Out for School Children Safety Plea From Police Chief
Silsbee Police Chief Rob L Ogden urged motorists to watch for pedestrians as school starts. He warned that children will walk on busy streets during peak traffic periods and stressed drivers must slow down and be vigilant. police will monitor traffic and enforce speed limits.
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Silsbee
Rob L. Ogden
Ogden
Burglars Hit Three Stores In Lumberton
Thieves broke into Bell's 7 11 Lumberton Red Barn Building Supply Layton's General Store and a fourth unnamed site in late August. Cash and merchandise worth several hundred dollars were stolen including cigarettes watches lighters hand tools and cash. Deputies Morris Cole Jesse Cartwright Bruce Gravis and Constable R E Ricks investigated with Layton O Banion reporting two suspects and an alert neighbor description.
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Lumberton
Morris Cole
Jesse Cartwright
Bruce Gravis
R. E. Ricks
Bell
Billy Paine
Red Barn Building Supply Co
Gravis
Ricks
Paine
Layton O’banion
Layton
O’bannion
Ideputies
Cole and
Five Sentenced To Pen By 88th Court In Silsbee
Five people appeared before the 88th District Court last week. Frankie Lee Williams and Willie Mack Madden of Silsbee each drew 25 year sentences after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery at Bell's 7-11 on Highway 327. Williams had a seven year probated sentence revoked, Madden had parole revoked for a prior Angelina County burglary. Colon Lemuel Hooks of Silsbee received two concurrent four year terms for felony theft and auto theft in Hardin County. David Page of Sour Lake drew two years for burglary of a Sour Lake residence.
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Silsbee
Jefferson County
BEE
Frankie Lee Williams
Willie Mack Madden
State Penitentiary
Bell
Highway 327
Williams
Madden
Angelina County
Dwayne Overstreet
Colon Lemuel Hooks
Hardin County
David Page
Sour Lake
Hooks
Page
Kerry Armstrong
Silsbee Council studies drainage and old age transport aid
The Silsbee City Council discusses a drainage plan by First Baptist Church to place heavy pipe in a church ditch and cover it. It considers donating part of a $2,260 estimate for a county elderly transport program costing about $10,000 with 90% state aid, but resists subsidizing beyond limits. A public hearing on a zoning change for Avenue J is scheduled for Sept 24 and the 1974-75 city budget hearing for Sept 10.
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Silsbee
First Baptist Church
Texas Home Health Service
Lenox Hawthorne
Ronald Hickerson
Hawthorne
James L. Hays
Hickerson
Sidney Dauphin
Art Cawthon
Texa Home Health Service Office
Cawthon
Stat
Health Service
Dauphin
Hardin County Commissioners Court
Brary
David Shows
Avenue J
Silsbee Police Recover Motorcycle After Theft
Silsbee Police and Jefferson County Sheriff units recovered a stolen 1974 Harley-Davidson Sportster within an hour of the theft at the Hargrove Hotel area. The bike was found dismantled in Jefferson County with two suspects arrested, Jesse Hancock and Conrad Ferguson, each held on $15,000 bonds for felony theft.
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Silsbee
SPD
Bob L. Ogden
Charles Little
Fort Worth
Little
Hargrove Hotel
Silshee
Jefferson County
Jesse Lee Hancock
Lumberton
Conrad Milton Ferguson
Hancock
Hardin County
Kyle Reeves
Ferguson
Reeves
Ogden
Eastex Workers Await Union Sanction Over Pay Dispute
Nearly 800 Eastex Inc. workers in Evadale await strike sanction this week after rejecting Fastex Inc. offers. Union official Don Thomas says Local 825 and 801 expect approval from David D. Gordon within days. Verbal strike notice was given August 27, with a 10 day waiting period before walkouts. main issue is wages.
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Eastex Inc
Evadale
United Paper Workers International Union
Don Thomas
Local 825
the Bee
David D. Gordon
Baton Rouge
Thomas
The
BEE
Fastex Inc
UPIU
Woman and Child Hurt As Auto Crashes Fences in Silsbee
A Silsbee woman Joyce Lux and her five year old daughter Stephenia Lux escaped serious injuries when a 1968 Dodge ran out of control on Oxlesbee Street, crossed a curb, and smashed through two fences near their home on Pecan Street. They were treated at St Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont and released the same day. A second item notes John Baptist Kelley injured in a motorcycle crash on Fifth Street.
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The
BEE
Bob L. Ogden
Ira Watts
Hickory Street
Parsley
Stanley Shhaefer
Ogden
John Baptist Kelley
P.O. Box
Silsbee
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
Chief Ogden
Kelley
Fifth Street
Mes
Loretta Massey Powell
Kountze
North Fifth Street
Avenue G
Auditor Says Revenue Sharing Funds Reallocated For Roads
A Lumberton commissioners court meeting over road funds and library financing ended split. Auditor Horace Moye said federal revenue sharing monies were redirected to cover deficits, threatening library closures and urging a tax rise, while only two commissioners favored supporting libraries and fire subsidies.
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Yellot
Don Sheffield
Silsbee
Silsbee Library
Sour Lake
Kountze
Horace Moye
Move
The
Assembly
Moye
Pete Trest
Hugh Bevil Means
Means
Sheffield
61 District Criminal Cases Set For Four Week Kountze Term
The 88th District Court in Kountze will hear 61 criminal cases across four weeks this fall. Docket calls occur the weeks of Sept 23 and 30 and Oct 7 and Oct 24 with trials starting Sept 23 1974 at 8:30 a.m. and Sept 30 1974 at 8:30 p.m. involving charges from murder to burglary and DWI to rape. The list names defendants including Charles E Whittle Hannon Hollyfield Johnny Baldwin Weldon Forse Barbara Fregi Sidne y Barnes and others across multiple offenses.
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Kountze
Aline Harper
Charles E. Whittle
Hannon Hollyfield
Johnny Baldwin
James Jones
Weldon Forse
Robert Andrew Breaux
Ricky Joe Wood
Grover Ray Ros
Harry James Kenner
Versie L. Thompson
Alfred Gallander
Forrest Milburn Bussey
Barbara Fregi
Habitation
Francis Glover
Jerry Boudreaux
David L. Reeve
Barselee Camel
Sidney Barnes
Dwi
Ervin Balfour McLeroy
Ellis Worsham
Timmie Lee Jones
Craig Harris
Silsbee Swimmers Shine At Nederland AAU Meet
Shawn Dunnigan age 10 and Becky Ratliff age 8 of Silsbee starred at the Gulf AAU meet in Nederland on August 24. Dunnigan won the group championship in breast and back strokes with a fourth in butterfly and seventh in freestyle. Ratliff placed third in butterfly and fifth in breast stroke and earlier earned three firsts at a Colorado meet. Coaches included Bill Straight and Pat Eppes.
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Shawn Dunnigan
Silsbee
Gulf Amateur Athletic Union
Nederland
Becky Ratliff
Becky
Lee Roger Ratliff
Shawn
L. A. Dunnigan
Colorado
AAU
Amateur Athletic Union
Dunnigan
Fire at Prince Hall Villa Turns Out False Alarm
Silsbee volunteers responded to a house fire report at Prince Hall Villa on August 20 but the call proved fictitious after dispatchers verified it. Fire chief Russell Busby said the blaze involved cooking flames igniting ceiling tile at Melba Payne home and firefighters arrived around 10:46 p.m. A separate incident saw a 1966 Pontiac hood fire at 3:55 p.m. on August 26.
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Silsbee
Russell Busby
The
BEE
Prince Hall Villa
Busby
Melba Payne
North Eleventh Street
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Don Clayton
Keith Gilchrist
Mark Stevens
Mitch Hanley
Joe Brown
Ders
Council Studies
Frank Grote
Co. E. Landolt Jr
John Fordinal
Hays
Eastex
Esther Keyes
Oglesbee Street
Joyce Lux
Stephanie Lux
Commissioners Court
Oscar Yellot
H. T. Horka
Its of
City of
Virgil Caraway
Rex Moore
Trest
Caraway
Moore
Michael Lynn Williams
Gary Rene Smith
Charles Brookshire
James Edward
Nederland Aau
Golden Triangle Swim
Bill Straight
Pat Eppes
Silsbee Pine Mill Club
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