Baptists Launch Statewide Living Proof Campaign
Texas Baptists unveil a $1.5 million Living Proof media push featuring celebrities Billy White Shoes Johnson Dean Jones Eldridge Cleaver and Jennie C. Riley. The four week campaigns start Feb 20 in North Texas March 6 in South Texas and March 27 in West Texas with aims to reach every resident at least ten times via TV radio print and outdoor ads. Local churches will host events to showcase Christian fellowship as mayors proclaim Good News Week to boost public participation and evangelism.
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Allas
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 Elder
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
County Extension agent Mrs. Toy Smith notes jeans are back to basics this spring with straight lines and smooth denim for a cleaner classic look. Colorful rainbow stitching appears on canvas and denim. seaming shifts across the leg while the jean leg narrows slightly from the knee.
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Toy Smith
Retired Lt. Col. Hubert Watts Ends 20 Years in Army
Lt. Col. Hubert B. Watts of the U S Army Quar termaster Corps retires after 20 years active duty. A Silsbee native and Texas A&M graduate, he served most of his career in food service and dining facility management with units in the United States and abroad. He directed 25 skilled technicians serving 21 000 personnel across 1 200 Army dining facilities. Watts earned two Legions of Merit and three Army Commendation Medals. His sister lives in Silsbee. his parents are deceased.
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Ft. Lee
Hubert B. Watts
Quartermaster Corp
U.S. Army
Silsbee
Silsbee High School
Watts
United States
France
Germany
Vietnam
Army
Texas A&m University
Douglas Dreddy
C. H. Watts
Rites Held For Clayon Stutts At 59
Funeral services were held for Clayon Stutts age 59 at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Farmer Funeral chapel with burial at Rest Haven Cemetery Rev. R E Barclay officiated. He died February 9 at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont after a long illness. He was a native of Camp Ruby and longtime Silsbee resident, employed as a heavy equipment operator. Survivors include his wife Jesse Ruth Stutts three daughters Edna Grant Sara Pontes and Barbara Lynn Stutts six sisters Winnie Milligan Elena Leon Verliss Rizzo Elsie Anderson and R. A. White two brothers Hightower and Judson Stutts Pallbearers were Charles Kent Edward Findley Harris Pontes Asa C. Grant E R Lemons Jr. and Richard Hawthorne.
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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
Freeman Funeral Rites Held For Silsbee Resident
Frenie Freeman 84 longtime Silsbee resident died February 11 at St Elizabeth Hospital. Services were held February 14 at Franks Branch Church with burial in the church cemetery officiated by Joe Knighten. Survived by 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. Services were at 2 p.m. Saturday at Green Pine Baptist Church with burial in District Cemetery. Rev. Eddie Haynes officiated. Hood a retired sawmill employee, a native of Nighton, lived in Kountze 21 years. Survived by wife 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 claim challenged
A reader argues that a surtax targeted at men is incorrect, insisting the tax rule does not apply solely to male individuals and urging clarification on who is affected by the levy.
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Gwendolyn
The Upper Room Devotional February 17 1977
Psalm 46 guides readers to trust in God as the eternal refuge and everlasting arms. A childhood beach memory contrasts safety with danger as a daughter clings to her father until divine help is sought in trouble. Betty H Kanouse, Los Angeles, offers a prayer and thought for the day.
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Daddy
Hitchcock
Betty
God
God the Creator
East Texas Forest Fires Score Losses in 1976
East Texas suffered 35 124 acres burned in 1976 costing taxpayers 1.5 million dollars with Southeast Texas adding 13 868 acres. Counties hit hardest included Anderson Leon Trinity Jasper Houston Hardin Newton Angelina Cherokee Liberty Tyler and Polk. Fire boss Pat Ebard urged public prevention and safer burning during windy dry periods.
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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
Significant gas-bearing reservoirs were encountered in multiple pay zones in the first well on Vermillion Block 397 in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil Development Co of Texas Santa Fe Industries owns 40 percent, Mesa Petroleum Co operator owns 60 percent and will drill further to gauge extent. The block sits 115 miles offshore Louisiana in 390 feet of water.
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Gulf of Mexico
Oil Development Co. of Texas
Santa Fe Industries
Mesa Petroleum Co
Louisiana
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Hubert B. Watt
Vreditation
Heavenly Father
Betty H. Kanouse
Los Angeles, Calif
Foday’s
Ebard
Gulf
D. H. E. Munden Chirgpractor
North 5Th Street
Burkeville
Kirbyville Kountze
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Lumberton Nederland
Savon Drugs
Lumberton
Davis Whitted
Tommy Wright
Aaron McBride
Linda Cox
Roy Daves
South Brown Kountze
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