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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1965
Page
1
City of Silsbee gar bage trucks will not run this Saturday January 1 1966 per city manager Wayne DuBose. Regular pickups shift to Friday and resume Monday after the New Year’s Day holiday. DuBose noted pickups occurred on Christmas Day.
Silsbee marks the retirement of F B Bert Durdin after 44 1/2 years in the United States Postal Service. He came from Port Arthur in 1942 and became Silsbee’s first Assistant Postmaster in 1953. Active in church Masonry and local boards, he plans farming on Dardin Drive and raising cattle.
Betty Ann Mitchell announces January 23 as the date for the Democratic Women of the 3rd Senatorial District art contest. Local artists may enter. winners advance to the state contest. Entries due to E J Dietrich by January 22. Show to be open 1 to 4 PM at Silsbee State Bank Heritage Room.
Hardin County law enforcement officers kept busy over the Christmas holiday period with 48 persons reported held in the county jail. Among them 24 were picked up for being drunk and disorderly. Traffic violations were second with 12 held for speeding driving without a license license suspended running stop signs and related infractions. Additional detainees included three for misdemeanor driving while intoxicated one felony driving while intoxicated one hot check two game violations one aggravated assault two affrays one car theft and one threatening life.
Graveside services were held for Mrs. Quintilla T. Spencer Thomas 60 of Buna at Antioch Cemetery. Rev D L Ross officiated with nephews Cleves Adams and Roland Raymond Cleveland among pallbearers. E E Stringer Funeral Home of Kirbyville directed. She died Sunday afternoon in Buna Hospital after long illness. She was born in Pickering and lived in Buna 30 years. Survivors include one son Paul Spencer of Buna three brothers and four sisters.
Silsbee volunteers answered three fire calls last week, including a suspected false alarm. Fire Chief John Busby noted rapid action saved Rodney Cole’s car on Highway 96 East as flames damaged the right rear. A Monday call for a grass fire near North Third Street proved unfounded. another woods fire two and a half miles west near Highway 327 required Forest Service help to contain. Chief Busby urged residents to avoid burning trash and be cautious as frost killed grass and winds dried scrub.
Army Pvt. Jim My. D. McEntire, son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie O. McEntire of 578 East Ave Silsbee, was named soldier of the month for the 2d Training Brigade at the U S Army Training Center Armor Fort Knox Ky on December 3. He is an instructor at the center and entered the Army in April 1965 after basic at Fort Knox. He is a Gainesville High School graduate class of 1959 and attended Ohio University Athens and the University of Toledo Ohio.
Most Silsbee area businesses will close this Saturday for New Year’s Day. City utility offices take Friday off, county offices close except sheriff’s, with law officers working long hours to prevent trouble. Sheriff Overstreet praised officers for a calm Christmas weekend and aims to maintain the record into the new year.
Hello World was born in Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kountze. Melanie Anne Esmond arrived Dec. 23 to Mr and Mrs Jerry Esmond of Silsbee. Randy Jay Ebard born Dec. 20 to Mr and Mrs Eddie Ray Ebard of Silsbee. Holiday guests include J T Cawley and L M Caw ley Caw ley of Cisco, J W Caw ley, Paul Cawley of Rising Star, Larry Cawley of Huntsville, and Katherine Cawley of Beaumont.
Funeral services for Leila Dryden 76 of Fred were held at Franks Branch Church with Rev Marion Drake officiating. Burial followed in the adjacent cemetery. Survivors include husband Ben Dryden three sons a daughter a brother two sisters eighteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs Buddy Courtney and their children visited Mrs Mattie Childress and Mr. and Mrs H E Courtney over the weekend. The Childress family then accompanied the Courtneys home for a week’s visit.
Funeral services for William C. Collins 85 of Route 2 Silsbee were held at 2 p m Sunday at South Side Church of Christ Silsbee with Oliver Murphy officiating Burial followed at Franks Branch Cemetery Collins died Friday night at St Marys Hospital Port Arthur after a long illness He was a native of Harris County a retired farmer and highway worker and a member of the South Side Church of Christ Surviving are his wife Mary and six daughters Mrs W M Simmons Mrs G A Black Mrs Gordon Brazil Mrs Eli Hollier Mrs Johnny LeBlanc and Mrs G A Davis
A message titled An Irish Blessing was received by L P Skinner from a man met on a world tour. The blessing includes light and sun imagery, rain and earth references, and a final benediction. The writer signs James Robert Murray.
The Har din Polk Tyler Multi County Library announces the 1966 bookmobile stops in Hardin County with dates January 5 8 and 13 and time slots for Honey Island Wotaw Thicket Saratoga Batson Pine Ridge Sour Lake Pinewood Transcontinental Village Mills Milner's Store and Chance Loek. It also notes adults and students aim to read two books weekly with listed titles including Winesburg Ohio Stranger Death be Not Proud Of Human Bondage Cry the Beloved Country Fathers and Sons and more.
Cub Scout Pack 88 will hold its monthly committee meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the home of Mrs. C. R. Lambert on Roosevelt Drive Extension. The January theme is transportation. Den Mothers Assistant Den Mothers and Committeemen are invited to attend.
Holiday visitors to the home of Mrs. Ruby Bledge included Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Smith and son, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Cobb and son of Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Billy D. Moore and then of Nederland, and other family members.
Mrs Leona Whitman listed as contact for brief local notes. The item notes numerous visits by relatives and friends over holidays to and from Waco Huntsville Houston Temple Dallas Pasadena San Antonio and Beaumont. Military personnel family travels and hospital plans are included along with a large family Christmas gathering of Emery W and C I Davis descendants on Gentry Road Christmas Day.
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