Baptists Launch Texas Living Proof Campaign Across State
Texas Baptists unveil a $1.5 million Living Proof media evangelism drive featuring testimonials by Billy Johnson Dean Jones Eldridge Cleaver and Connie Smith among others. The four week campaigns begin February 20 in North Texas March 6 in South Texas and March 27 in West Texas with aims to reach every resident multiple times via TV radio print outdoor and transit ads.
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Dallas
Texas Baptists
Living Proof
Jesus Christ
Billy ‘White Shoes” Johnson
Houston Oilers
Dean Jones
Eldridge Cleaver
Jeannie C. Riley
Texas
South
West
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Lloyd Eider
Jesus
Christ
Elder
Billy “White Shoes
Allan Mayer
Oscar Mayer Co
Mayer
Rebecca Ann Reid
Connie Smith
Rosargentina Pinel
Republic of Honduras
San Antonio
Paulino Bernal
Antonio Mendoza
U.S. Office of Equal Employment
L. L. Morriss
BGCT
Evangelism
Christian Fellowship
Basic Blue Jeans Return To Fashion
Mrs. Toy Smith, county Extension agent, notes a spring comeback for basic blue jeans with cleaner lines and smooth denim. Colorful rainbow stitching on denim and canvas jeans remains popular. leg styling shifts to narrower, slightly flared from the knee.
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Toy Smith
Retired Lt Col Hubert Watts Ends 20 Years in Army Service
Lt Col Hubert B Watts Quartermaster Corps US Army retired after 20 years active duty. native of Silsbee Texas and Silsbee High School graduate, he directed 25 technicians at Fort Lee VA serving 21 000 dining personnel and 1 200 facilities worldwide. He earned two Legions of Merit and three Army Commendation Medals.
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Ft. Lee
Hubert B. Watts
Quartermaster Corp
U.S. Army
Silsbee
Silsbee High School
Watts
Food Service
United States
France
Germany
Vietnam
Army
Texas A&m University
Douglas Dreddy
C. H. Watts
Rites Held Feb 11 for Clayon Stutts 59
Funeral services for Clayon Stutts age 59 were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Farmer Funeral chapel with burial in Rest Haven Cemetery. Rev. R. E Barclay officiated. Stutts died Feb 9 at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont after a long illness. He lived in Silsbee and was a heavy equipment operator. Survivors include his wife Edna Ruth Stutts three daughters six sisters two brothers and pallbearers listed.
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Clayon Stutts
Farmer
Resthaven
R. E Barclay
C. A. Bevil
Stutts
Baptist
Edna Grant
Sara Pontes
Barbara Lynn Stutts
Silsbee
Winnie Milligan
Galveston
Elena Leon
Piedmont
Calif
Verliss Rizzo
Las Vegas New
Elsie Anderson
R. A. White
Livingston
Hightower
Judson Stutts
Cleveland
Charles Kent
Edward Findley
Harris Pontes
Asa C. Grant
E. R. Lemons Jr
Richard Hawthorne
Mrs Frenie Freeman Dies at 84 in Silsbee
Mrs Frenie Freeman 84 longtime Silsbee resident died February 11 at St Elizabeth Hospital. Funeral services were held February 13 at Franks Branch Church with burial at the church cemetery. Officiating was Joe Knighten. Surviving are two daughters Bessie Mae Gordon and Dessie Watts a sister Lydia Mock and a brother Lee Ard.
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Frenie Freeman
Silsbee
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Franks Branch Church
Joe Knighten
Bessie Mae Gordon
Dessie Watts
Fred
Lydia Mock
Spurger
Lee Ard
Rites Held For Robert Hood 70 In Kountze
Robert Hood 70 died February 5 at his home in Kountze. Rites conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Green Pine Baptist Church with burial in District Cemetery. Rev. Eddie Haynes officiated. Hood, a retired sawmill employee, was a Nighton native who had lived in Kountze 21 years. Mrs Creola Hood.
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Robert Hood
Kountze
Green Pine Baptist Church
Eddie Haynes
Hood
Nighton
Creola Hood
No surtax applies only to men claims debunked
A statement denies that a special levy targets men alone, clarifying the tax rule and countering a gendered misconception. The remark emphasizes that the supposed surtax affects another group or is gender neutral in application.
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Gwendolyn
Meditation of Faith in the Upper Room Devotional
The Upper Room devotional shares a memory of beach play with sand castles and waves, then contrasts childhood security with adult reliance on God. It emphasizes God as refuge and everlasting arms, concluding with a prayer for care, comfort, rescue, and creator support through trouble. Betty H. Kanouse, Los Angeles, California.
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Daddy
Hitchcock
Betty
Heavenly Father
God
East Texas Forest Fires End 1976 Toward 35,000 Acre Toll
East Texas suffered 35,124 acres burned in 1976 with $1.5 million in taxpayer costs, the season ending as Pat Ebard of the Texas Forest Service warns on fire prevention. Southeast Texas lost 13,888 acres amid winds and drought, with Anderson, Leon, Trinity, Jasper, Houston, Hardin, Newton, Angelina, Cherokee, Liberty, Tyler and Polk counties hardest. Public vigilance and careful burning hours are urged to avoid repeat losses in 1977, with only 2,495 acres already burned by year’s start and a projected 15,000 for the year.
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East
Texas
Pat Ebard
Texas Forest Service Fire Control Department
East Texas
Anderson
Leon
Trinity
Jasper
Houston
Hardin
Newton
Angelina
Cherokee
Liberty
Tyler
Polk
Nacogdoches
San Augustine
Shelby
San Jacinto
Orange
Sabine
Chambers and
Jefferson
Gas Reservoirs Found in Vermillion Block 397 Gulf
Oil Development Co of Texas, 40 percent owner, reports significant gas-bearing reservoirs in multiple pay zones from the first well on Vermillion Block 397 in the Gulf of Mexico. Mesa Petroleum Co., operator, holds 60 percent and will drill further to map the discovery’s extent. The block lies 115 miles offshore Louisiana at 390 feet depth.
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Gulf of Mexico
Oil Development Co. of Texas
Santa Fe Industries
Mesa Petroleum Co
Louisiana
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Oun Iet
Myer
Hubert Watts
Hubert B. Watt
God the Creator
Betty H. Kanouse
Los Angeles, Calif
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D. H. E. Munden Chirgpractor
North 5Th Street
Burkeville
Chester Colmesneil
Deweyville
Evadale
Hamshire
Fannett Hardin-Jefferson
Kirbyville Kountze
Little Cypress-Mauriceville
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Savon Drugs
Crest
Lumberton
Davis Whitted
Tommy Wright
Aaron McBride
Linda Cox
Roy Daves
South Brown Kountze
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