Silsbee council weighs water and sewer plan costs
The Silsbee City Council discussed extending water and sewer lines to subdivisions and outside sites. Mayor McClanahan asked Racki and city engineer Haile to prepare an estimated cost, with a later report to council. A two inch plastic line for 22nd Street was approved, with tap fees at 50 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Hopkins
McClanahan
Racki
Charles R. Haile
W. W. Ferguson
Silsbee
22Nd Street
Plaas
Wayne DuBose
City Planning Board
DuBoi
Texas Municipal Retirement System
Silsbee School Board
Alf Fullingim
Riders Invited To Join Trail Ride To Houston Show
The Texas Independent Trail Riders invite all who seek frontier days spirit to join a five day trek to Houston leaving Feb 19 from L. L. Jones Ranch Sour Lake. The ride visits Batson Liberty and Houston areas with nightly western dances and ends Memorial Park Houston Tuesday night. Officials include L. L. Jones trail boss Billy Cupit Lewis Cline ramrod Fd Wortham wagon master Ike Loycannon scouts Walt Tiner Bud Burns Richard Watsor Bob Meacham James Oglesbee Bob Phelps with Melba Tucker and Elwanda Cupit secretaries. Contact L. L. Jones Sour Lake or Melba Tucker Silsbee for more info.
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Texas
Texas Independent Trail Riders
Houston
L. L. Jones
Sour Lake
Highway 105
Dan Fregia
Batson
Liberty Exposition Grounds
Liberty
Ata
Publicity Seen as Answer to Juvenile Crime
Judge W. Buford Lewallen of Anderson County Tenn credits publicizing names, addresses, and parents of juvenile offenders for a 40 percent drop in felonies since May. In Oak Ridge, where names are not published, felonies fell 12 percent while traffic offenses rose 16 percent.
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W. Buford Lewallen
Anderson County
Renn
Oak Ridge
Trunkline Gas To Fete Employees For Safety Record
Trunkline Gas Company will honor employees from its Kountze Pipeline District and Area Communications Section with a dinner Monday February 15 at 7 p m at the Ridgewood Hotel Beaumont. The pipeline district has logged over 342000 consecutive man hours without a disabling injury since November 10 1951 and all field communications teams surpassed 59000 hours with no disabling injury since June 6 1963.
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Trunkline Gas Company
Kountze
Ridgewood
Beaumont
Elementary PTA Meeting at Kirby Elementary Tuesday
A joint PTA meeting of Kirby and Read-Turrentine Schools is set for Tuesday at 3 30 p m in Kirby Elementary. Mrs Guy Ferrell will preside and Earl Wills will speak on What Has Become Of Our American Heritage. A social hour with refreshments follows. Parents of both schools are invited.
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Pta’s of
Kirby
Read-Turrentine
Guy Ferrell
Earl Wills
Silsbee Chamber Receives Plan for New Dues Structure
Victor Norvell of Gulf States Utilities outlined an assessment plan for 180 Silsbee businesses. Dues would range from 36 to 600 dollars annually, with most between 36 and 300. Clifton Caraway said 75 percent of major contributors were contacted and 30 large firms would pay about half the new budget, while 130 small firms cover the rest. Members asked questions as the group voted to begin the program, with a two week campaign planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Norvell
Gulf States Utilities Co
Silsbee
Jewel P. White
Terry Stanford
Ross Eppes
E. M. Wilson Jr
L. A. Yankie
Betty Sherrell
Bobi Ford
Clifton Caraway
Chamber of Commrece
Mistrial in Burglary Case Involving Local Suspects
Jefferson County Justice of the Peace Tuesday charged Earl Wayne Harvey 17 Silsbee and James William Price 22 Loeb with burglary of a Beaumont business after a Saturday break in that included a failed safe opening. They faced bonds of 2500 and 5000, respectively, and were held for grand jury action.
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Ney Dwayne Overstreet
Earl Wayne Harvey
Silsbee
James William Price
Loeb
Jefferson County
Beaumont
Kirbyville
Harvey
Price
Jasper County
Acadia Parish
Bobby Gene Segrest
A. D. Moore Jr
U. S
Federal
Cecil Cobble to Speak at St Vincent's Church Sunday
Cecil Cobble a lay speaker from First Methodist Church of Silsbee and senior vice president of Silsbee State Bank will be guest speaker Sunday February 14 at the 11 oclock services at St Vincent Methodist Church Ave N and Twelfth Street Reverend Clarence Breaux is pastor of St Vincent's.
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Cecil Cobble
First Methodist Church of
Silsbee
Silsbee State Bank
St. Vincent Methodist Church
Ave. N
Twelfth Street
Clarence Breaux
St. Vincnet’s
Den 1 Cub Pack 201 Meets With Five Cubs
Den 1 of Cub Scout Pack 201 met at Mrs. R Brunner’s home with five cubs present. They pledged to the flag and worked on plaques while preparing for the Blue and Gold banquet. Ken Rose served refreshments. Next meeting set for Feb 16 at 2 30 p m. Richard Brunner scribe.
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Den 1
Cub Scout Pack
R. Brunner
Ken Rose
Richard Brunner
Silsbee School Menu Week of February 15 to 19
Silsbee Public Schools publish the weekly menu. Monday features Italian spaghetti with sides and iced cake squares. Tuesday offers roast beef with rice and gravy and banana pudding. Wednesday serves baked ham with candied yams and cookies. Thursday provides hamburgers with potato salad and fruit cobbler. Friday includes tuna salad on lettuce with shoestring potatoes and jello with fruit.
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Silsbee
Silshee Art League Sets Portrait Classes February Twenty Three
Gerry Newman from Lamar Tech led portrait sketching with charcoal and canvas prep for oil portraits to Silsbee Art League members. He will lead oils and other media at the next meeting February 23 from 7 30 to 9 30 at the Silsbee Public Library. Interested artists may join via Mrs Earl Watson or Mrs Wesley C Latham.
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Gerry Newman
Lamar Tech
Silshee Art League
Newman
Neat
Silsbee Public Library
Art League
Earl Watson
Wesley C. Latham
Xi Zeta Rho Hears Book Review By Mrs Read
Xi Zeta Rho chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met in the Hardin County Savings & Loan clubroom with 19 members present. Mrs Maurice Hobbs presided as the meeting report covered Mothers March and Valentine dance plans while Hobbs Weeks Crawford Barney McMahon and Ray McGallion were named to the nominating committee. Mrs David Read reviewed the book When the Cheering Stopped.
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Xi Zeta Rho
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Hardin County Savings & Loan
Area Teachers To Meet Saturday in Kirbyville
Delta Epsilon Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma holds a Kirbyville meeting at First Methodist Church. Coffee at 10 30 a m precedes a business luncheon. Mrs Mabel Manley of Livingston directs the program on Nations of the Common Market with committee members from Livingston and hostesses from Kirbyville.
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Delta Epsilon
Delta Kappa Gamma
First Methodist
Kirbyville
Mabel Manley
Livingston
Attye Fitch
Ruth Prichard
Jessie Sheppard
Lillian Woods
Carter
Conn
Miller
Stepleton
Locals Welcome Thornals. Rodgers Family Relocates
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Thornal and children of Beaumont visited their mother Mrs. R. E. Thornal on Sunday. Basil Rodgers and children Sharon and Bryan from Texarkana Ark moved to Silsbee and now reside at 113 Cravens Drive.
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E. G. Thornal
Beaumont
R. E. Thornal
Basil Rodgers
Sharon and
Bryan
Texarkana
Ark
Silsbee
Cravens Drive
Art-Crafts Division Added To Program Of Silsbee Library
Silsbee Public Library expands art education with an Art-Crafts division adding ceramics wood carving floriculture leatherwork metalwork and needlework. Instructors include William K Hilliard Gilbert Dominguez Harold L Gardner and several Mrs Williams and Mrs Edwards will supervise registrations at designated dates and locations.
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Silsbee Library
Silsbee Public Library
William K. Hilliard
Gilbert Dominguez
Barney A. McMahon
Harold L. Gardner
Edward B. Brown
C. B. Stevens
Wesley Latham
William K. Isilliard
Edward K. Brown
Methodist Worship Led By Senior High MYF
The Senior High MYF of First Methodist Church will lead the 7 p m Sunday evening worship service. Members conduct the service parts and present the film A Better World Begins With Me about personal improvement. Offerings support the MYF project for seasonal pulpit runner cloths. All interested are invited.
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MYF
First Methodist Church
Scout Worship Service Planned by Methodists
A Scout worship service will be held Sunday at 10 50 a m in the First Methodist Church. All boys and adults in Scout work here have special invitations from Rev. Eugene Jonte, pastor. The church sponsors Cub Pack 88 Boy Scout Troop 88 and Explorer Post 188.
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First Methodist
Eugene Jonte
Rummage Sale Hosted by Evadale Pentecostal Church Ladies
The United Pentecostal Church women in Evadale sponsor a rummage sale at Santa Fe Park. The sale starts Saturday at 7 30 a.m. Mrs. C L Womack is in charge.
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Ladies of the United Pentecostal Church
Evadale
Santa Fe Park
C. L. Womack
LL Baseball Fans To Meet Tonight
A Little League meeting for all mothers and fathers is set for tonight in the Neches Room at Neches National Bank. Jim Conner, president, invites anyone interested in helping with the Little League to attend.
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Neches
Neches National Bank
Jim Conner
Card of Thanks for prayers and hospital visits
Words cannot express my appreciation to my many friends for prayers flowers cards and especially do I thank Rev Barclay Rev Pringle and Rev Shettles for their prayers and visits during my recent illness and stay in Baptist Hospital Shelby Neely and family
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Silsbee
Card of Thanks for Mrs. Helen Griffith
Words cannot express our sincere thanks and appreciation for the many kind deeds and thoughtful acts of sympathy during the loss of our loved one Mrs. Helen Griffith. The family of Mrs. Helen Griffith.
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Helen Griffith
Mrs
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