Woman Dies in Flaming Home Near Silsbee
A 54 year old Dayton woman, Lois Irene Sprouse, died in a fire at the L. C. Walters residence in the Drake community north of Silsbee Tuesday night. Walters and his family escaped but could not reach her due to the blaze. Sprouse was deaf and was sleeping when flames trapped her inside before neighbors or occupants could rescue her.
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Dayton
L. C. Walters
Drake
Silsbee
Billy Paine
Lois Irene Sprouse
Walters
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
Highway 418
Bonner Street
Rufus Samuel
Deronda Dell Sims
Gladys Sims
Clarence Albert Johns
Bert van Pelt
Sis Vee
Lumberton
Beverly Slaydon
County votes to abolish deputy constable post
Hardin County commissioners voted to eliminate the deputy constable job held by Jerry Clark amid hunting club and district court disputes. The action followed protests by Clark, Constable Lester Cowart, and hunting supporters over alleged illegal arrests and county authority.
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Hardin County
Jerry Clark
George Kirkpatrick Jr
Clark
Neches Wildlife Association
Lester Cowart
Commissioners Court
Justices of the Peace
Cowart
Jerry
Saratoga
Ray Martin
Lumberton
Emmett Lack
Kirkpatrick
The
Bee
Wild Bill Hickok
Neches
Howard Barrington
Barrington
Don Hawthorne
Silsbee City Council Approves Garbage Containers and Insurance
Silsbee council spent about 40 minutes on five items including purchasing 13 garbage containers from American Environmental Systems and approving Blue Cross Blue Shield employee insurance. The meeting also turned down a dump truck bid from Simmons Motor Co and passed Resolution 77-31.
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Silsbee
Cesar Dominguez
Simmons Motor Co
American Environmental Systems of
Houston
Nederland
Dominguez
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Quiet holiday at jail reports no killings or knifings
Sheriff Billy Paine said the holiday week at the jail was quiet with only routine drunken arrests. He noted no killings or knifings occurred, aside from a death by self harm in the Pine Ridge community near Sour Lake.
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Billy Paine
Paine
Pine Ridge
Sour Lake
Precinct 2
Lester Cowart
Silsbee Little League
Silsbee
Sheriff's Department
Tigers Climb To State Semi finals
The Silsbee Tigers led by Coach Pat Day reached the State AAA Semi finals in a season highlighted by a 12 week run and a 12 0 loss to Dickinson Gators. Other notable events include fires burglaries and a bank robbery in Hardin County, gun violence, labor and infrastructure developments, and community milestones like a first baby of 1977 and school district politics.
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Tigers
Silsbee
The
Bee
Pat Day
Silsbee Tigers
Dickinson Gators
Lumberton
Billy Paine
Hardin County
Baptist Foundation of Texas
State Judicial Qualifications Board
Emmett Lack
Joseph Benjamin McCoy
J. B. McCoy
Warren
Tiger Cagers
Livingston Lions
Silsbee Choir
U. S
Lloyd Bentsen
Fourth Street Railroad
Houston
James P. Doane
South Park Greenies
McDonald Gym
West Orange
Hardin County Depository
First National
Wesley Yawn Seeks District 5 Texas House Seat
Wesley Yawn of Silsbee says he plans to run for the District 5 seat in the Texas House after incumbent Herman Adams resigns to join the University of Texas system. Yawn, 27, former Adams aide, currently supervises taxes for Kirby Forest Industries and signals intent to file with the Secretary of State to enter the special election.
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Wesley Yawn
Silsbee
Texas
House of Representatives
Herman Adams
Yawn
Rep
Adams
University of Texas System
Kirby Forest Industries, Inc
Austin
Dis
Final Rites For Robert S. Glaze Set
Robert S. Glaze 47 of Pine Ridge died from gunshot wounds. Justice of the Peace Charlie Lambert ruled the death accidental? He died about 8:15 a.m. in his home. Funeral at 11 a.m. Thursday at Pine Ridge Baptist Church with burial in Pine Ridge Cemetery. He was a Korean War veteran and recent Saudi Arabia returnee with Arabian American Oil Co. Survivors include his wife Nina Glaze, his parents W. W. and Mrs. E. Glaze, and two brothers Farr and Fred W. Glaze.
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Robert S
Jack” Glaze
Pine Ridge
Justice of the Peace
Charlie Lambert
Glaze
Lambert
Pine Ridge Baptist Church
Pine Ridge Cemetery
Saudi Arabia
Arabian American Oil Co
Nina Glaze
Ww. E. Glaze
Farr
Fred W. Glaze
District Court Docket Lists 149 Civil And Criminal Cases
A district docket released by Clerk Aline Harper lists 149 cases set for trial in January February and March in Hardin County Texas. The schedule shows multiple court dates starting January 30 1978 and continuing February 6 13 and 20 with varied civil and criminal matters including assaults forgery theft burglary and other offenses.
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Silsbee
Deborah Renee Edmondson
Stacey Lynn Edmondson
Michael Joe Collier
Houston
Drew Dahl
University of Florida
Bee
West Orange
Tiger
Lumberton Raiderettes
East Texas State University
Aline Harper
District Court
Hardin County
Texas
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Britton-Cravens Lumber Co
Ave. G
Dairy Queen
Scott LeBlanc
Federal Aeronautics Administration
Hawthorne
Trotti and Thompson
Beaumont
Russ Miller
Sheriff Paine
First National Bank
John Henry Read
David Tee Moshay
Moshay
Walker-Kurth
Santa Fe Industries
Apache Lumber Co
Raymond Tennison
Yarold Norris
Jasper Eagers
South Park
the Bee
Robert Langston
Evadale
Department of Labor
Rusk State Mental Hospital
Charles E. Powell
Truman Daugharty
Silsbee State Bank
Four Corners
Ben D. Smith
Rusk State Hospital
Silsbee High School
Robert S. Glaze
Ferra Jones Davis
Lessie C. Johnson
Jim Seymour
R. L. Gillespie
Ira Weldon Kelley
Sue Ferguson
Sarah Frances Paine
Billy Ray Griffin
Geraldine E. Read
Bobby Jeffcoat
the Fidelity & Casualty Co
N.Y
Jo Ann Alford
Charles Curtis Alford Sr
Renate
Nadia Sieffers
Erich Sieffers
James M. Dorman
Wal
Ter W. Blackshear
Kirby Lumber Corp
State of Texas
John Curtis Crain
Billy Martin
Michael Fielder
Curtis Sanders Jr
Marcus Lacefield
Robert Lynn Easter
Tommy Jernigan
Paul Herron Stephens
Philbrick Hill
Eddie Lee Herman
Mary N. Starkey Et al
Trotti & Thompson Inc
Roy Edwin Cole
Mary Ann Lucas
Richard Hartley
Paul McKinney
Wilmer Loyce Rose
Ford Motor Co
Bill J. Sanders
R. T. Milner
J. E. Bingham
J. S. Romero
Texas Employers’ Insurance
Martin Brown Jr
Dwight L. Franklin
Texas Compensation Ins
Earl Chester Snelling
Jackie Marie Fitzpatrick
Valla
Pauline Terrill
Roger Don Goodman
Trinity Universal Ins
Venora Reynolds Hampton
R. C. Williams
Shannon Malone
Next Friend
Charles Samuel Pate
State
Samuel Cuyler Dodson
Louis Gore
W. E. Crawford
Earl Shavers
Marvin Lawrence Coleman
Betty Jean Burns
Danny Ray Daniel
Katherine J. Turner
Howard Wise
Kent Lee Dill
Walter Kindred Jr
Elmer Lee Tanton
Robert Wayne Grisham
Kenneth Fregia
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