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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1962
Page
4
Years of planning culminated in Silsbee's new public library, a dream rooted in the thirties when civic groups sought a full time facility. A small lending library existed in a private home before WW II halted progress, and postwar growth finally sparked the library project.
In the 1950s and 1960s community groups including the Twentieth Century Club Kiwanis Lions Chamber of Commerce organized funding and planning for a city library. On December 10 the Silsbee Public Library opened in part of the East Texas Wildlife Conservation building, later moving to a dedicated city site with a formal library department and equipment installed by local volunteers.
The city library opened in its new building on Monday August 20 with borrowed furniture and now displays all new fruitwood pieces including a checkout table youth and adult reading tables chairs worktables and a card file. An open house is set for Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Methodist Division of Temperance and General Welfare will award five grants of 750 dollars each to support graduate research on social concerns. Deadline is April 1, 1963. Applicants must be in graduate school or seminary. non Methodists may apply.
A devotional urging spiritual transformation through Christ and the gospel. It emphasizes renewing the mind, trusting in Christ's keeping grace, and living by repentance faith and obedience as central to a life of service and comfort. Robert P. Turner signs the message as the Thought for the Day.
Silsbee Public Library suspends fines during Dec 1 8 week to mark opening. Overdue books begin to come in including titles borrowed over a year ago. A large green barrel outside allows dropoffs without entering. More than 100 items are expected to be retrieved. further steps depend on returns by Saturday. Free Day is a temporary measure tied to the opera house event.
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