First City Budget Hearing Set For January in Silsbee
Silsbee will hold a public budget hearing at city hall on January 11 at 7 20 AM for the fiscal year ending June 30 1955. City Comptroller Bill Pennington funded a proposed plan with total revenues of 101 597 32 and expenditures of 103 002 50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Tuesa Alax
TaAwaiwawey
Uay
WallUaLy
Feuposase
Bill Pennington
Pennington
Water and Sewer Department
General Fund
H. M. Jones
Local Authorities Aid In Texas Manhunt This Week
Hardin county sheriff's officers and Silsbee Police Chief Grady Tarver aided in a manhunt for two negro fugitives who assaulted Tyler county Sheriff Dan Johnson and escaped after stealing a pistol. The pair, escapees from Floydada jail on forgery charges, were captured Tuesday night between Bryan and Navasota after a gun battle. one suspect was wounded. Sheriff reports 12 arrests this week including eight drunks and a forgery case.
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Hardin County
Silsbee
Grady Tarver
Tyler County
Dan Johnson
Floydada
Bryan
Navasota
Dave Rountree
Bee
Gay Wilson to Wed Miss Jeanette Cargill at Willis
Gay Wilson a teacher will marry Jeanette Cargill December 28 at 8 p m in Willis First Baptist Church. Miss Cargill daughter of Mr and Mrs B F Cargill of Willis. Wilson son of Mr and Mrs W T Wilson of Conroe. Both graduates from Sam Houston State Teacher College Huntsville. The couple will reside in Silsbee where Wilson teaches art at Silsbee Junior High.
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Jeanette Cargill
B. F. Cargill
Willis
Texas
Gay Wilson
Silsbee
First Baptist Church
Mr. Wilson
W. T. Wilson
Conroe
Willis High School
Sam Houston State Teacher’s College
Huntsville
Conroe High School
Wilson
20th Century Club Christmas Program Held At Mrs McNeil Home
The Twentieth Century Club met at Mrs. W. C. McNeil’s home with Mrs. Kate Blackwell as co host for their annual Christmas party. Twenty three members and three guests attended. Readings and music included selections by Mrs. Weathersby and Mrs. Brigance with performances of The Greatest Gift Ever Given Gifts of Nations to Another and The Messiah opening. Decorations featured Christmas trees candles and holly berries. The meeting closed with Silent Night and a note that the next gathering will be January 5 at Mrs. M. M. Bell’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentieth Century Club
W. C. McNeil
Kate Blackwell
W. L. Armstrong
Ermine Vanderburg
O. C. Seely
F. G. Weathersby
W. L. Brigance
Liberace
Tigers to tourney at Livingston in invitational swing
The Silsbee Tigers basketball team will travel to Livingston for an invitational tournament this weekend. They went 1-1 in the Victor tourney, beating Kirbyville and losing to Buna. On Monday they beat Bishop Byrne 64 to ? The Livingston Journey runs Thursday through Saturday this week.
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Silsbee Tiger
Livingston
Tigers
Kirbyville
Buna
Bishop Byrne
Farmer Named Pony League Head For Coming Season
Pete Farmer will head the Sils bee Pony League in 1955 after being elected president at a recent meeting. New officers include Grady James as vice president, Mrs. O. B. Caraway as secretary treasurer, with directors Frank Payne Elmer Hollyfield Merle Graham Harmon Weathersby Hart Brookins and Tom Barclay. A good crowd attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete Farmer
Silsbee Pony League
Grady James
O. B. Caraway
Frank Payne
Elmer Hollyfield
Merle Graham
Harmon Weathersby
Hart Brookins
Tom Barclay
Not Harmful Says Experts On Evadale Paper Mill Waste
East Texas Pulp and Paper Company at Evadale reports near normal operations and says released wastewater will not harm Neches river by the time it arrives. Orange County charges accuse the firm and VP and GM R M Buckley of water pollution as officials review low oxygen levels and seek alternative disposal plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Texas Pulp and Paper Company
Evadale
Neches River
State Health
J. W. Wilson
Houston
Orange
R. M. Buckley
Game and Fish Commission
State Health Department
Orange Justice Court
Silsbee Garden Club Christmas Lighting Contest Leads Festive Effort
The Silsbee Garden Club sponsors a home Christmas lighting and decorating contest with four prize classes. Judging takes place Monday or Tuesday night December 20. Residents may register with Mrs. L. P. Skinner or mail details to P O Box 756. Only registrants will be judged inside or outside the city limits.
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Silsbee Garden Club
Silsbee
L. P. Skinner
Optometry Practice Sold as Dr Batton Retires in Silsbee
Dr T E Batton sells his Silsbee optometry business to Dr Louis H Thacker Jr after 35 years of service. Thacker, a San Benito native and Southern College of Optometry graduate, will retain the 135 East Avenue H location with wife Mary Cowan Thacker, a medical technologist, at his side. Dr Batton plans rest and leisure after a long career in Alabama and Texas.
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T. E. Batton
Louis H. Thacker, Jr
Silsbee
Thacker
East Avenue H
San Benito
Texas
Brownsville
Southern College of Optometry
Memphis
Tennessee
Air Force Reserve
Mary Cowan
Grenada
Miss
Millsaps College
Jackson
Baptist Memorial Hospital
First Baptist Church
Batton
Northern Illinois College of Optometry
Chicago
Alabama
Dr. Batton
Mrs. Batton
Louis H. Tucker, Jr
Christmas Greeting Issue Next Week
Next week's Bee will include special Christmas greetings from local businesses to thousands of readers. Beautiful seasonal cuts and stories for the Christmas reading are planned. Businessmen who have not placed ads should do so at once. deadline is Monday of next week.
Post Office Extends Hours to 5 P.M. Saturday
The main post office and the parcel post annex on North Fifth Street will stay open until 5 p.m. Saturday. Postmaster L. A. Yankie stated all services will be offered as usual. He noted a large Christmas mail rush is in progress at this office.
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North Fifth Street
L. A. Yankie
Silsbee
Parcel Post
N. Fifth
Morris Pharmacy
Yankie
N. Fifth Street
Christmas Peak Nears As Shoppers Crowd Stores
Shoppers crowd stores as Christmas buying nears its peak in Silsbee. City officials enforce a fireworks ban in the business district under a Dec 6 1936 ordinance, with fines up to 100 dollars. Posts and parcel post traffic surge at the new 345 N Fifth Street station.
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Silsbee
H. M. Jones
Lindseys Celebrate Golden Wedding at Home
Mr and Mrs R L Lindsey will be honored Sunday December 19 at their home for their Golden Wedding Anniversary A reception from 2 to 5 pm invites friends Hostess Mrs L W Belt says no other invitations will be issued The couple married December 21 1904 in Milltown with Mollie Smith as bride and Bob Lindsey a locomotive engineer They returned to their longtime home in 1947 and have one son C B Lindsey and one grandson
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R. L. Lindsey
L. W. Belt
Bob Lindsey
Mollie Smith
Silsbee
C. C. Swearingen
Milltown
Lindseys
C B. Lindsey
First Baptist Church Christmas Cantata Presents "Bethlehem"
The Choir of the First Baptist Church offers its annual Christmas cantata The Child of Bethlehem by Forrest G. Walter in the church auditorium on Sunday December 19 at 8 00 p m. The program features full choir numbers women’s choruses solos duets and the men’s chorus with Mrs John Bower at the piano. Floyd Moore musical director invites all to attend this musical program.
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The
First Baptist Church
Forrest G. Walter
John Bower
Floyd Moore
Fire Destroys Outbuilding At Shine Home
A fire spread from burning trash and destroyed an outbuilding at the home of Mrs. J. A. Shine last Thursday afternoon. Firefighters arrived quickly and prevented the fire from reaching nearby structures.
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Shine Home
J. A. Shine
Friendship Baptist Presents Christmas Pageant The Greatest Gift
Friendship Baptist church will stage The Greatest Gift a Christmas pageant on Wednesday December 22 at 7 30 p m The event features the beginners primary and junior departments with Rev O L Beck as moderator the intermediate choir will sing and a community Christmas tree with gifts marked His or Hers will follow a Santa Claus will attend the tree and all are invited
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Friendship Baptist Church
O. L. Beck
Santa Claus
Congressman Brooks Tours East Texas Pulp and Paper Mill
Congressman Jack Brooks of Beaumont toured East Texas Pulp and Paper Company Tuesday with aide Davis Carter. Clyde Cole guided the visit from pulpwood to finished rolls, including the lab tests, settling basins, and a 14 mile canal carrying mill effluent before Brooks' return to Washington in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Brooks
Beaumont
Davis Carter
East Texas Pulp and Paper Company
Clyde Cole
Mr. Brooks
R. M. Buckley
Washington
Congress
Kiwanis Club Teens Sing Cantata at Luncheon
The Silsbee Kiwanis luncheon featured the Junior High School Glee Club singing a Christmas cantata and songs. Fifty girls directed by Mrs. O L Bertram presented the program as committee members reported progress on a fund to fill stockings for the needy and more volunteers were asked to help.
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Silsbee Kiwanis Club
O. L. Bertram
Texas Highway Plan Initiates 1955 State Road Work
The Texas Highway Commission from Austin announces the first 1955 program funded by state sources. In Hardin County, State Highway 826 and F M Roads 418 and 770 will receive added surfacing and grade reconstruction at estimated costs of 30000 and 84000 dollars, with Resident Engineer R B Terry directing work once planning and right of way are complete.
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Texas Highway Commission
Austin
E. H. Thornton, Jr
W. F E. Simmons
Texas Highway Department
Beaumont
Hardin County
Kountze
Silsbee
Simmons
The
Highway Commission
R. B. Terry
Docket Set For January Session 80th District Court
January 1955 docket lists Civil filings for first week trials including Herman Cornell versus Charles Mc Cartney and multiple pairs against Kirby Petroleum, Humble Oil, Oscar Garcia, and others. Second week covers ordinary felonies with trials January 10 1955 including theft forgery kidnapping and assault cases.
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Herman Cornell
Charles McCartney
Edward D. Brandt, Jr
Frank Polley
Nathan Carruthers
R E. Booth
Pauline R. Cuthbertson
P. C. Middlebrook
W. C. Wells, Sr
Oscar Garcia
Rosie Cryer
Ralph Womcak
Arnold T. Gibson
Arnold Transportation Co
Mary Minerva Crawford
J. P. Owens
Butler L. Haynes
John Whisenant
Ida Lyle Reeves
W. W. Cochran
Mary Starr Neindorff
Jess Jordan
Emma Markby Colnet
Et Air
Kirby Lumber Corporation
J. E. Wiggins
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Spurgen Peck
Lonnie L. Brown
Virginia W. Crockett
Charles Shutter
Willie Joe Doggett
Frank P. Knapp
Florence FE
State of Texas
Thos
H. Coffey
Percy L. Tomlinson
Bill Jiner
Bennie R. Carruthers
Buddy Lambrick
Warrants Refunded Into Bonds At Hardin County Meeting
Hardin County commissioners refunded 140000 dollars of right of way warrants into 10 year refunding bonds at the Monday session. Bonds carry three and a quarter percent interest. Judge Fletcher Richardson announced he will attend the State County Judges and Commissioners Association meeting in Houston December 14 to 17 to discuss the legislative program affecting county government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County
Fletcher Richardson
Commissioners’ Court
Richardson
State County Judges and Commisioners Association
Rice Hotel
Houston
Claude Coward Again Heads Oil Workers Local
Claude Coward is reelected head of Oil Workers Union Silsbee Local 592 after a December 9 election at the Union hall. Other officers include Earnest Nerren as first vice president L. E. Swinney as second vice president Ben Walker secretary treasurer G P Sheffield recording secretary Steve Redmond and Allen Butts as trustees Floyd Bingham guard Leon Yawn guide Cline Yarbro chaplain and J D Burrell L E Swinney and George Verret elected to the workmen's committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Coward
Oil Workers Union
Silsbee
C. E. Jergins
Earnest Nerren
L. E. Swinney
Ben Walker
G. P. Sheffield
Steve Redmond
Allen Butts
Floyd Bingham
Leon Yawn
Cline Yarbro
J. D. Burrell
George Verret
Workmen's Committee
Corporal Britton Mock
American Poteau
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Sheriff’s Office
20Th Century Club
Farmer
Pony League
R. L. Lindseys
Friendship Baptist
Congressman Brooks
Kiwanis Club
R.O.W
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