Eastex to Pay Back Wages and Bonuses in Civil Rights Settlement
Eastex, Inc. will pay back wages and bonuses totaling 325000 to 83 women and 54 Black employees who faced discrimination. A consent decree was entered by the Civil Rights Division after a suit linked United Paperworkers Local 801 and 825 and IBEW Local 390. The deal requires hiring goals, transfer rights, and 20 percent of entry level openings for Blacks and women to reach 18 percent and 15 percent of the workforce respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastex, Inc
Atty
William B. Saxbe
Eastex
United Paperworkers International ‘Union
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Postal hike to raise local mail costs in 1974
New York report outlines a 15.8 percent rate increase by the U S Postal Service effective March 2, raising stamps from 8 to 10 cents for letters and air mail from 11 to 13 cents. Local Silsbee residents mailing a letter daily face about 7.30 extra dollars yearly, while commercial mailers see higher increases. Estimated local postal expenditures rose from 223 500 last year to about 258 800 this fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Postal Service
Servce
Post Office Department
Elmer T. Klassen
Postal Service
Cost of Living Council
Silsbee
Silsbee Council Seeks Federal Flood Insurance Aid
The Silsbee City Council on February 12 approved resolutions to pursue flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program. If approved, residents may buy coverage for flood damage. The city will study data, prepare a local flood plain profile, and reports suggest a decision in two to three weeks. Officials acknowledge added staff duties but expect existing controls to suffice with possible building permit denials and variances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Insurance Office
U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ronald Hickerson
Washington
Silsbee
Hickerson
Paul and
Allen Johnson
East Texas Transit Mix Co
Nineteenth Street
Lee Miller Road
Robbery Suspects Arrested Seven Minutes After Kountze HoldUp
A Silsbee man, Charles E. Carrell, 19, and two 16 year old youths were arrested seven minutes after the Feb 10 Kountze hold up at T Bone Drake's drive in grocery. Deputies stopped a green 1964 Rambler at FM 418 roadblock and recovered a bank bag with cash and a .22 revolver. Carrell and one youth were arraigned with $20,000 bonds. the minor remained detained after a Feb 13 hearing and birth records showed he is 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Tbone
Drake
Kountze
Hardin County
Billy Paine
The
BEE
Charles E. Carrell
Mike Holzapfel
Charles Laird
Bessie Self
Saratoga
Holzapfel
Laird
Tyler County
Roger Harville
Carrell
Child Hurt As Horse Kicks TwoYearOld Morrows
A two year old girl Margie Morrow daughter of Mr and Mrs William Otis Morrow of Star Route Silsbee suffered a compound skull fracture Feb 11 when kicked by a horse. She was moved to St Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont and listed in stable condition Feb 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margie Morrow
William Otis Morrow
Star Route
Silsbee
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Beaumont
Maggie Peak
Silsbee Convalescent Center
Cline Yarborough
Mrs. Peak
Terre Haute
Indiana
Texas
Batson
Harry Weaver
Houma
SISD To Review Administrative Contracts
Silsbee Independent School District boards set to review annual personnel recommendations including a new High School Principal. Supt. Don L. Hough to retire. Weeks Crawford to assume superintendency. Agenda also covers the 1974-75 calendar, Daylight Saving Time hours, and compulsory workers compensation insurance under a new state law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Independent
Board of
BEE
Don L. Hough
The
Hough
Weeks Crawford
Crawford
Hunt for L Garrett Continues in East Texas
The manhunt for 21 year old Leevester Garrett of Lufkin continued Wednesday with sheriffs deputies city police highway patrol Texas Rangers and the FBI combing East Texas for the jail escapee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leevester Garrett
Lufkin
Texas Rangers
FBI
East Texas
Tigers Face Crosby For 10-3A Title Friday
The Silsbee Tigers meet Crosby Cougars for the 10-3A basketball title at Lamar University on Friday night after Silsbee outlasted Little Cypress Mauriceville 48 46 to advance to the final. Coach Dan Montgomery praised a fourth straight zone crown as the team improves to 24 5 on the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamar University
McDonald
Silsbee Tigers
Crosby Cougars
Tigers
Little Cypress Mauriceville
LCM
Dan Montgomery
Garrett
Angelina County
Lufkin
Loftin seeks Precinct 4 commissioner post in Hardin County
J L Loftin of Sour Lake files for Commissioner Precinct 4 seat. He is married to Irene Swain with children Jim and Lisa and has lived in Hardin County all his life. A World War II Air Force veteran, Loftin holds a BS in economics business and accounting and pledges a fair impartial county government and a road and drainage program. He has been active in church and civic groups and ran a 20 year Sour Lake business career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Loftin
Sour Lake
Precinct 4
Harding County
Irene Swain
Jim Loftin
Land
Lisa Loftin
Houston
Hardin County
Methodist Church
Loftin
15 year old charged with residential burglaries in Silsbee
A 15 year old Silsbee youth was referred to Hardin County Juvenile authorities after being charged with the February 6 burglaries of two private residences on Read Street. Police Chief Bob L. Ogden said all stolen items were recovered, including bead curtains, floor-length curtains, two watches, and a roll of eight cent stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Harding County
Bob L. Ogden
W. K. Hilliard
Read Street
Wayne Robinson
Ogden
le Bass
Chain saw injures Silsbee operator at Eastex yard
Twenty year old Dorman Allen Walters of Silsbee was injured at 1 40 p m February 13 when a chain saw he was operating glanced off a log and struck him in the chin and lip Walters was breaking up logs in the woodyard at Eastex when the saw leaped upward out of control He was taken to Baptist Hospital in Beaumont where he was scheduled for surgery Wednesday and listed in fair condition before the procedure
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorman Allen Walters
Silsbee
Eastex Inc
Evadale
The
BEE
Walters
Eastex
Baptist Hospital
Beaumont
Hardin County approves $1600 annual for seven fire departments
Hardin County Commissioners voted to raise each of the seven volunteer fire departments to 1600 annually, while libraries face potential reductions. Lumberton Fire Chief W. R. Baer sought 1974 contract payment, sparking debate with Virgil Caraway Rex Moore over SVFD funding and county budget limits. Judge Emmett Lack urged funding beyond the line item to address local needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lumberton
W. R. Baer
Pet. 2
Virgil Caraway
Pet. 1
Rex Moore
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department
Caraway and
Moore
Silsbee
Silshee
SVFD
Groves Bank Officer to Speak at Silsbee Chamber Banquet
John Stevens senior vice president of First Bank and Trust of Groves will be guest speaker at the Silsbee Chamber of Commerce Banquet. The event is set for Tuesday March 19 at Silsbee High School, announced by C of C secretary Nelda Snell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stevens
First Bank and Trust of
Groves
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
C of C
Nelda Snell
Silsbee High School
Buckalews Sail To Lubbock For Surgery
Mr and Mrs W F Buckalew left February 9 for Lubbock where Mrs Buckalew will undergo surgery in a Lubbock hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Buckalew
Lubbock
Silsbee Trio Charged in Felony Marijuana Case
Charles Wachter Robert McWilliams and Clinton Mosley all of Silsbee were charged February 12 with felony possession of marijuana after a transfer of a paper bag containing close to a pound of suspected marijuana along with pipes and burned paper was found. All three were arraigned with bonds set at 5000 each. Mossey also faced Harris County warrants for possession of dangerous drugs and remained jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles John Wachter
Robert Michael McWilliams
Clinton Leonard Mosley
South Fourth Street
Silsbee
James Fulgham
Dennis Allen
Mike Anding
Bob Ogden
The
BEE
Justice of the Pesce
Bennie L. Como
Mossey
Hardin County
Harris County
Ogden
Warren Man Held on Silsbee Thefts in Woodville
Jimmy Stevens, 19, of Warren, is jailed in Tyler County for burglaries at Warren High School and at O'Neil Intermediate School in Silsbee, Frank Robinson Elementary, and Kountze High School. He was arrested Feb. 9 by Deputy Herman Noland. bonds set at 10,200 dollars per county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Stevens
Box 415
Warren
Tyler County
Woodville
Warren High School
Silsbee
Hardin County
Herman Noland
O'Neil
Frank Robinson
Kountze
Kountze High School
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Silsbee High
Harmon Weathersby
SHS
Betty Ruth Mitchell
Tommy Dunnigan
Henry “Butch” Smith
Betty Ann Mitchell
Ray McGallion
Dixie Donelson
Cindy Smith
Sharon McDonald
Civil Rights Division
U. S. Department of Justice
U. S
William Steger
New York
Council
Paul Johnson
Johnson
Frank Grote
Paine
Claude Lindsey
Flannaman
Child
SISD
L. Garrett
Crosby
Pine Tree
Michael Dabney
Anthony Jones
Artie Shankle
Shankle
Dabney
Stephen F. Austin
SFA
Tiger IV
Eastex Yard
Hugh County
Emmett Lack
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