City Receives $20 625 EPA Waste Water Grant for Planning
The City of Silsbee was awarded a $20 625 EPA Step One grant for planning and studying a wastewater treatment project. City manager Ronald Hickerson noted infiltration issues between 30 and 100 percent and said funds will fund line monitoring, smoke tests, and TV surveillance to locate leaks and reduce plant size.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Silsbee
EPA
Arthur W. Busch
Ronald Hickerson
Bayshore Engineers of
Deer Park
Jsewer
Hickerson
Texas
Man charged in theft of bee hives near Sour Lake
Sammie Murel Brown 24 of Kountze was charged with felony theft for stealing 50 commercial bee hives valued at 3500 from woods near Sour Lake where Gunter Honey Corp kept them. Deputies arrested him Jan 29. hives recovered the same day. bond set at 5000. An examing trial was to be set for Winkie Loftin charged with burglary of Ward's Grocery Store.
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Sammie Murel Brown
Box 8
Kountze
Hardin County
Billy Paine
Sour Lake
Gunter Honey Corp
Charles Laird
Brown
Paine
Justice of the Peace
Cecil Overstreet
Emmett Lack
Winkie Loftin
Caney Head
Ward
L. J Foux
Jim Monk Injured On Job In head trauma Jan 30
James Monk 46 of Silsbee a PBX installer for Southwestern Bell was found on a Beau mont warehouse floor with a skull fracture after a head injury suffered while working on telephone lines. He was taken to St Elizabeth Hospital and placed in intensive care Tuesday was reported in satisfactory condition after surgery to relieve a blood clot. Monk has worked for Southwestern Bell about 28 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Monk
Silsbee
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
BEE
Monk
Clint Lyons
Nance Air Systems Co
Liberty
Beaumont
Lyons
The
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Southwestern Bell
Parents Aid Silsbee in Planning Tri-Semester Year
Silsbee High School adopts a tri-semester system for 1975-76 with three 60-day quarters. Parents and eighth graders receive pre-registration forms Feb 12–13 to plan schedules and select courses, including 71 proposed electives, with 18 quarter units earned per year and 60 needed for graduation.
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Silsbee
S. A. Wallace
The
BEE
Wallace
Silsbee Independent School District
Joe Hignett
East Zone Tigers to Host LCM Bears Next Tuesday Showdown
Silsbee and Little Cypress-Mauriceville sit 8-1 in District 10-3A after recent wins. Silsbee beat South Park 59-52 and LC-M crushed Bridge City 69-37 to set up a 7:30 p.m. clash next Tuesday at Silsbee High School as Jasper visits Friday. Michael Dabney led Silsbee with 22 points and 18 rebounds while Anthony Brown added 18.
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Silsbee
Little Cypress
Mauriceville
South Park
Greenies
Bridge City Cardinals
Stark
Bears
Redbirds
Silsbee High School
Tigers
Jasper Bulldogs
Michael Dabney
Green
Larry Taylor
Chiefs
Dabney
Artie Shankle
West
Hardin County Readies 3800 Foot Airport Runway Plan
Hardin County Airport Commission met with Texas Aeronautics Commission chief engineer W O Karpenko to discuss funding for a $350000 upgrade. A 3800 foot paved lighted airstrip with beacon ramp and taxiway is planned with 75 percent federal grant and 25 percent state and county share. County may supply part of its share as property or equity.
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Hardin County Airport Commission
W. O. Karpenko
Texas Aeronautics Commission
The
BEE
Airport Commission
Don Hawthorne
W. K. Hilliard O Thomas
Karpenko
Hawthorne
Hardin
TAC
Hardin County
Three Vehicle Crashes Leave Three Injured in Silsbee Area
Mrs. Glenda Skinner of Warren suffered leg fractures in a Feb 3 crash on US 69 when the family Chevrolet El Camino left the road and hit a bridge abutment. Her husband Ronnie Skinner drove. both were taken to St Elizabeth Hospital.
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Glenda Skinner
Warren
Silsbee
DPS
Highway Patrol
Skinner
Ronnie Leon Skinner
Danny Smith
The
BEE
Village Mills
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Robert Glenn Cutter
Port Neches
County officials shelve raises until budget hearings
Hardin County commissioners put a request for across the board $40 monthly raises for constables and justices of the peace on hold until the 1975 76 budget hearings. County Judge Emmett Lack and others urged planning funding in next year's budget.
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Hardin County
Rex Moore
Emmett Lack
Moore
Olan Davis
L. C. Kirk
Kirk
Wildwood
Davis
Horace Moye
Vernon
Moye
Sour Lake
George Robinson
Buddy Moore
Lack
Robinson
Pet
Kyle Reeves
Billy Paine
Judge Lack
Reeves
Paine
Senior Service Group To Draft Constitution
A meeting to form a Senior Service Organization for Hardin County will be held at 10 a.m. Friday Feb. 7 in the Hardin County Courthouse Commissioners Courtroom. Mrs. Joyce Thiery of the SETRPC Aging Planning division announced that locals consider forming a nonprofit to provide meals transportation and other services for the county elderly. A second meeting is set for Friday Feb. 14 to review the first draft of the constitution.
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Hardin County
Commissioners
Hardin Cunty
Joyce Thiery
Thiery
South East Texas Regional Planning Commission
Jefferson
Orange Counties
Hardin
Setrpc
Thier
Silsbee Man Shot and Stabbed Feb 2 No Charges Filed
Daniel Camacho a 36 year old of 1420 Woodrow Road Silsbee was attacked with a .410 shotgun and a butcher knife at a mobile home park off Old US 96. He was treated at Hardin Memorial Hospital for knife wounds and shotgun injury after 12:30 a.m. He pleaded guilty to drunk in public and was fined 27.50 with no assault charges filed.
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Silsbee
iSheriff
Billy Paine
Paine
Daniel Camacho
Woodrow Road
Hardin Memorial Hospital
US 96
Camacho
Silsbee Chamber seeks five new directors for 1975 76
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce ballots have been mailed for the election of five new directors for 1975 76. A board meeting on February 18 at 7 30 p m will canvass returned ballots. Members who did not receive ballots may call the Chamber office to obtain one.
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Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Farley M. Bowers
Candidates file for city and school jobs in Silsbee
Three people including one incumbent filed for Silsbee city and school board races. R David Shows seeks a second term as Place Four City Councilman with an April 1 election. Also to be chosen are Mayor and Place 5 and Place 6 councilors. Ed Grubbs seeks ISISD Place One and Robert M Herbst Place Two. Incumbents Whit tington Place One and Sanford Place Two had filed by Feb 5. School board seats Place Three and Place Seven also open. election April 5 with March 5 filing deadline.
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Silsbee City
R. David Shows
Temple-Eastex
Shows
Silsbee
Silsbee Independent
Ed Grubbs
ISISD
Robert M. Herbst
Eastex Inc
Horace Whittington
R. F. Sanford
Man Booked For Fatal Stabbing In Hardin County
A Silsbee man Lee Delman 46 was booked on a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of his nephew Jerry Wayne Hooks 18 of Jasper. Hooks died after a left chest wound at Elmer Eddings home near the Hardin Tyler line. Autopsy ordered. bond set at 25000. investigators proceed with sheriff and district attorney.
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Silsbee
Hardin County
Billyne
Lee Delman
Justice of the Peace
Bennie L. Como
Eddings
Jerry Wayne Hooks
Jasper
Como
Hooks
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
Silsbeek
Elmer Eddings
Hardin-Tyler County Iine
Paine
Sheriff's Department
Hardin County District Attorney's Office
Caney Head Assembly Church
Frank Poole
Franks Branch
John W. Hooks
Eloise Eddings
Jerri Yvette
Vickie Hooks
Gilchriest
John Luther
Services Held For Shaw Infant In Silsbee
Funeral services were held January 29 at 10 a.m. at McGrue Temple Church of God in Christ in Silsbee for Lisa Janetia Teresa Shaw six months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ray Shaw. Burial followed at Kirby Cemetery. She died January 26 at home. Survivors include sister Angela Shaw and brother Donald Ray Shaw Jr. of Silsbee.
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Lisa Janita Teresa Shaw
Donald Ray Shaw
Silsbee
McGrue Temple Church of God In Christ
Thomas Harris
Kirby Cemetery
Angela, Shaw
Donald Ray Shaw Jr
Suspect Arrested For Burglary Of Morris Pharmacy
Gilbert Franklin Robinson of Route 2 Kountze was charged January 24 with the November 2 burglary of the Morris Pharmacy building in Silsbee. He surrendered with attorney Dwayne Overstreet, was arraigned before Justice of the Peace Kyle Reeves, and bond was set at 3000 dollars. The theft included a watch a Kodak camera and tampered drug containers.
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Gilbert Franklin Robinson
Route 2
Kountze
Morris Pharmacy
Silsbee
Bob L. Ogden
The
BEE
Ogden
A. L. Burleson
Texaco
South US 96
Goodyear
Scott Trailer Park
East Avenue L
Billy Davenport
de Scott
10 From Area Post Perfect Averages At Lamar U
Beaumont Nines residents of Silsbee and one from Evadale join 264 Lamar University students with a perfect 4.0 for Fall 1974. The deans list includes 17 December graduates and names Silsbee honor students across several disciplines. Albert Stark of Evadale is noted for refrigeration and air conditioning technology.
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Area
Lamar U
Beaumont
Silsbee
Evadale
Lamar University
Lamar
Susan Abercrombie
Michael Anders
Melinda Bell
Harvey Boddie
Ellen Cover
Nelda Doyen
Donna Langston
Margaret Lewis
Albert Stark
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Jim Monk
LCM Bears
Orange
Bridge City
Orange Stark
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Smith
Cutter
GMC
Jones Feed Co
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department
Russell Busby
Ruth Laurent
North
Richard Elmer Laurent
Rose Herrin Brewer
Star Route
C of C
Man
Shaw
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