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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1968
Page
2
Affiliate member notice lists postmark April 19 1919 and mailing permit for Silsbee Texas Published Thursdays at 410 Highway 96 subscription rates 3 50 in local counties 4 00 elsewhere editorial staff owners publisher editors and department heads named with roles in this historic newspaper notice
Buna residents plan church and civic Christmas activities. Students, families, and veterans are highlighted with volunteers, visitors, and local engagements from Buna to nearby towns. Major Dunn returns from Vietnam with family and community support.
Tickets priced at 25 dollars are on sale across Texas for the January 20 dinner in Austin honoring Democratic officials on the eve of Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes’s inauguration. District 3 sales are handled by James C. Sewell in Corsicana and Mrs. Jack Hardee from Atens.
Boy Scout Troop 82 met with Scoutmaster Bob Parr and 19 boys. Eleven scouts hiked five miles to the scoutmaster’s home, worked on their bus, used archery sets, and received merit badges including lifesaving cooking home repair. James Terrell earned first class manship. Clint Parr first class music athletics. Vance Swarthout scribe. Sergeant Morris Cole demonstrated arrest procedure for Dwi.
The event features a parade and gala inaugural balls with dinner sponsored by the State Democratic Executive Committee. Tickets are available by mail orders sent to 702 Brown Building, Austin, Texas 78701.
Major Hubert B. Watts of Silsbee Texas receives his third Army Commendation Medal at Fort Lee Virginia in a ceremony dated November 29 1968. Watts a 1956 Texas A&M graduate and ROTC alumnus will start a second Vietnam tour in January 1969. His wife Elaine resides in Hopewell Virginia.
W T Wright of Silsbee with Texas Parks and Wildlife reports the East Texas squirrel population is the strongest in eight years. Summer reproduction was very good and many summer young are in hunters bags. Ground feeding will continue after winds and rain knocked hardwood mast down, with conditions favorable for hunting rest of season.
The article notes uncertainty about Christ's birth date with early Christians observing varying dates for over three centuries. By the mid fourth century Liberius and Rome fixed December 25 as Christmas in part to supplant the Feast of Saturn and honor Christ as the Light of the World. Some Eastern churches still observe January 6.
The Young People of the United Pentecostal Church will go caroling Monday night for the shut ins. Call 385 4217 with names of shut ins who would enjoy the singing. Rev. Jerry Ward is pastor of the East Highway 327 church.
Four years of high school raise average income by 16 percent at age 21 and 38 percent over a lifetime. In 1966 the average 21 year old with high school completed earned 5021 dollars. lifetime income estimated at 341000 dollars for high school graduates versus 247000 for elementary graduates. Peak earnings occur later for high school graduates with 8287 dollars at age 48 compared with 6054 dollars at age 44 for those with only elementary education.
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