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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1961
Page
1
City Manager B D Banks disclosed preliminary street repair costs for Silsbee. He sought bids from J W Summerville of Beaumont for work the city crews cannot handle, with two phases totaling about 2700 and 9000 dollars respectively. Banks planned to present figures and a streets list at next Tuesday’s council meeting.
A total of 5200 poll taxes have been sold in Hardin county. Tax Assessor-Collector Willie Bean said Wednesday. This compares with 7120 poll taxes sold in 1960. Sale of automobile license plates begins Monday morning at the tax assessor's office, with substations opening later in the week. Sub stations will be at Silsbee Sour Lake Chance-Lownd Sarataoga.
Mrs. B A McMahon of Silsbee announces candidacy for Silsbee Independent School District school trustee. She filed Wednesday with Supt Don L Hough. She holds a degree from North Texas State College and is a former teacher. Incumbents Alf Fullingim Dr George Tennison and James E Pete Farmer have filed. deadline February 28.
Mr and Mrs Jack Huffman and children visited in Orange with Mrs M D Ramsey. Carl Britton and family stayed in Orange after visiting Hollywood and Phoenix. Mrs Louis Sanders returned from Baptist Hospital Beaumont. Visitors to Jim Ed Franklin's included Robert Franklin family of Shreveport. Several families from Kirbyville Buna Evadale Beaumont and Nederland were guests in local homes.
Beard faced murder charges with a $2500 bond after waiving examining trial. Sheriff Whitaker and deputies investigated. grand jury to convene February 20. Efforts to reach the sheriff were unsuccessful. Funeral services for Mr. Wetzel were held in Beaumont. he was a Hess merchant seaman from Hazleton, Pa. Survivors include wife Lou Wetzel, son Foster Jr., mother Anna, five sisters and three brothers. Burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park with pallbearers named.
Ellis W. King, longtime Silsbee resident and railroad brakeman, filed for a council seat on the April 1 ballot. He leads local Negro civic efforts as president of the Negro Chamber of Commerce and serves as a New Bethel Baptist Church trustee. Incumbents C. E Landolt and Bert Slaydon also filed for the two council seats, while three candidates vied for mayor: Choate, McClanahan, and Caraway.
Silsbee Tigers, 4-5, aim for third place as they close 10-3A play hosting Jasper Bulldogs Friday night in Conroe Nederland. Jasper leads tied with Huntsville. Silsbee seeks a win after a 56-42 victory over Conroe last Friday.
Doug Fullingim of the Sils bee 4-H Club will exhibit a Guernsey scramble calf in the Junior Division of the 1963 Houston Fat Stock Show from February 22 to March 5. The event marks the 29th annual show, already setting new records for attendance, premiums exceeding 160000, and trophies over 300 valued above 7000. The Houston event features multiple breeds, a Salt Grass Trail ride, a grand parade, and performances by Rex Allen Johnny Puleo and others, with shuttle buses to aid parking.
The Sabine District Dental Assistants group will meet at Dr. W C McNeil on Monday night at 7 30 Floyd Johnson will be guest speaker on Prescriptions For Tomorrow Mrs Neil Horton of Dange ts president of the group There will be representatives from Port Arthur Beaumont and Orange
The 1961 Har din County United Appeals drive raised $17,362.14, about 64.25 percent of the quota, with Lamoyne Goodwin noting the total at a Tuesday meeting. Spear Lakes United Appeals led by Rev. Glenn Drumgoole exceeded its target by $47, while Silsbee posted $10,259.71 and other towns listed include Kountze, Hon ey Island, Village Mills, Chance-Loeb, Sour Lake, Batson, and Votaw with smaller sums.
A 12 hour first aid training course starts February 13 at Kirby Elementary School with 25 openings. Classes meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Instructors are James E. Farmer and Mrs. H. M. Donelson. People may call for more information.
Employers are cautioned to read carefully the information notice about Social Security deductions that was recently received with their direct mailing of Tax Form 941.
Chief Grady Tarver reported that in the last three weeks the city made 48 arrests including 22 traffic violations and 26 jailed for fines or misdemeanors. Jailed were 16 for drunkenness, one for rape held for Jasper county, three affrays, one vagrant, three drunk in car, one for disturbing the peace and one for taxi ordinance violation. In Beaumont a Silsbee youth Larry Albert J Mueckaby 18 was charged with auto theft and held on $2000 bond after waiving examining trial.
Funeral services for W G Pat Sheffield 61 of Spurger were held Feb 3 at the Spurger Methodist Church with Rev Paul Moon officiating. He died Feb 1 in Woodville. He retired after 17 years with Sinclair Oil Co. Survived by wife Ella Jane, three sons Earl Garvis and Drew, daughter Frances Hill, mother, brothers, sisters and nine grandchildren. Burial in Beech Creek Cemetery. Pallbearers named.
Dr. Harry B. McCarthy dean of Baylor University College of Dentistry, a leading dental educator, will visit Silsbee Thursday afternoon as a guest of Dy W. C. McNeil. He will be joined by Dr. Charles F. Beusher. They will tour the city and meet residents. McCarthy is set to speak at the District Dental Society meeting in Beaumont tonight.
Silshee Woman's Club will meet today Thursday at 2 40 p m in the home of Mrs L H Wade with Mrs R H Ernst and Mrs Karl Stover as co hosts The program topic Happy The Home When Variety of Interest Is Found will be in charge with Mrs I F Eldredge assisted by Mrs B L Moreland and Mrs H Fuller Mrs J W Oldham to preside
December arrest report from the Game and Fish Commission shows 124 hunters fined for deer hunting with headlights, with license suspensions for some up to a year. Total fines reached $21,339.94 plus $966 in costs, totaling $22,305.94, with 140 others fined for hunting or fishing without a license.
Remus Elliott, 50, brother of Jack Elliott of Silsbee, died in the Panhandle likely from exposure after his pickup became stuck in snow while tending livestock. He lay in Dumas, Texas, as funeral services were planned, with Jack Elliott traveling there from Shine's Mobil Service Station.
A total of 25 persons were jailed during the past week. Nine pleaded guilty in county court to various offenses. Cases included murder, traffic, trespassing, drunken driving and 18 drunks. Several individuals received fines and short jail terms. The Feb 7 docket was continued to Feb 14 to dispose of remaining cases.
Murray Weston, 54, of Gilchrist and a former resident of Silsbee, died at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday in Brooke General Hospital San Antonio after retiring from the Army as a master sergeant. He owned the A M Cafe and chicken ranch north of Silsbee from 1949 to 1955, later moving to Gilchrist. Survived by wife Adela Weston of Gilchrist, three sons Clark H Donald James Weston of Gilchrist, and a brother of Beaumont. Funeral arrangements by Carroll Wallace Funeral Home.
For the week of February 13 through 17 the Silsbee Public Schools present a daily menu. Monday offers baked ham green peas mashed potatoes pineapple tidbits orange and cheese salad milk bread. Tuesday features Italian spaghetti green salad spiced red apples valentine cake hot rolls milk. Wednesday serves barbecued beef on a bun potato salad tomato and lettuce chilled peaches with peanut butter cookies milk. Thursday includes chicken salad baked corn shoestrings Jello with fruit crackers applesauce cake milk. Friday offers tuna noodle casserole with potato chips seasoned green beans carrot and raisin salad cake squares with peaches milk and bread.
The Selective Service System seeks Ovcar James White Jr., colored, of Silsbee, Texas, for local draft consideration. The Liberty draft board, located at 425 Fantin Street, coordinates outreach with Mrs Lola Grillette, clerk, to contact Mr White.
Manuel Samuel, 59, a colored employee at Buck Jones Lumber Co, died of a heart attack at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kountze. He was stricken at work about 7 a.m. Wednesday and rushed to the hospital by a Farmer Funeral Home ambulance.
The Business and Professional Women's club meets tonight at 7:30 at Mrs. Marie McKinney's home with Mrs. McKinney presiding. Miss Jake Mack led a poll tax sale handling 478 taxes and 14 exemptions. The district president’s luncheon for Mistriet 14 is set for February 19 at the Blue Bonnet Cafe banquet hall at 1 p.m. with district presidents expected.
Evadale Independent School District trustees set April 1 as election date with balloting at the school. Filing deadline is March 1 with Principal Bert Fling noting J B Stimits will not run while Willard Ivy plans to seek reelection. Ben Bruce is election judge and a board of equalization was formed.
Cheryl Markham senior at Silsbee High School has been chosen for the Daughters of the American Revolution good citizenship award. She is the daughter of Dr and Mrs Ira Markham of Silsbee. The award, based on dependability patriotism citizenship and grades, will be presented at the Washington Tea in Jasper on February 19 by the Daniel Witcher DAR chapter. Markham also wrote an essay on the DAR theme For What Avail If Freedom Fail.
Silsbee Lions Club announced the annual minstrel show will be staged here April 21 with cast work starting. Chairman Wade Walker and R O Jackson announced plans to attract crowds and noted proceeds fund Lions civic projects. The club also voted to sponsor a Little League team as the league expands to eight teams after Buna and Kountze were dropped, with J Donalson reporting on the changes.
In a Kountze trial, William Eugene Wright and Jasper Paul Stanley Jr. were sentenced to 25 years each for robbery by assault linked to the Pine Ridge Grocery hijacking on Christmas Eve near Sour Lake. A .22 pistol and shots at a car tires emerged in statements read at trial. Earlier, Travis Gilley and Bruce Deal received seven and three year terms for forgery and burglary. All four were taken to Huntsville to begin serving sentences.
Mrs Deriene McLemore age a7 died Jan 28 in Hotel Dieu Beaumont after brain hemorrhages. She lived in Silsbee with parents Hall and Minnie Wells, later Beaumont resident eight years. Funeral Jan 30 in Holly Grove Cemetery Polk County with Rev Robert Walters officiating. Survivors: husband Farnest McLemore, son Dennis, parents, brother Jack Wells Houston, sister Virginia Wells Silsbee, six stepchildren.
Hello World reports Mr. and Mrs. Dickey Sharp of Silsbee welcomed daughter Kathy Gene born Jan 20 at Baptist hospital Beaumont with paternal grandmother Osalou Sharp of Silsbee. Lonnie Ferguon and Mrs. Ferguon of Silsbee name son Kenneth Eugene born Jan 19 at John Sealy Hospital Galveston. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Brown Sheffield of Silsbee.
Shawn Ray born to Earnest Ray Johnson and wife in Grayburg in February. Cynthia Motchell, daughter of Albert Motchell and wife in Kountze, born February 3 to J. J. Mettlen Jr. and wife in Silsbee. Ruth Griceelda, daughter of R. E. Briceño in Kountze and Herbert Hooks of Silsbee, born January 1. Lisa Michelle, daughter of Albert Anderson and wife in Village born January 2.
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