92 Elected Officials Are Serving In County
New York February report shows Hardin County maintains 92 local government officials, 27 county, 17 municipal, 38 school district, and 10 in special districts. Census data notes Texas has 22,504 officials nationwide total about 508,720, with declines since 1962 due to school district consolidations.
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New York
Hardin County
United States
of Texas
The
Depart
North Central States
Texas
South
Commerce Clearing House
WWI Vet Units To Hold Saturday Meeting In Spurger
Second District Veterans of World War One and auxiliaries will meet Saturday in the educational building of First Baptist Church of Spurger. A joint meeting will be held at 10 30 a m with presiding leaders and a panel including Rev John Mills and others. After lunch separate meetings of the Barracks and Auxiliaries will occur at 1 30 p m with district officers presiding. All World War I veterans their wives and widows are invited.
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Second District
First Baptist Church
Spurger
Harry Bruton
Woodville
Grace Sheffield
John Mills
Bronson
Pru Benson
Kirbyville
Wendall Martin
Dallas
William L. Caylor
Jessica Duhr
Leora Caylor
Arthur G. Lundine
Beaumont
A. G. Lundine
Buna
Lundine
Two Silshee Boys to Enter Calf Scramble at Houston Rodeo
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo runs Feb 19 to March 2 with two Silshee boys entering the calf scramble. The event, a recurring spectacle since 1942, awards calf certificates funded by sponsors, supports 4-H and FFA youth education, and features 24 boys per performance chasing 12 calves in the Astrodome. Salt Grass Trail riders depart Brenham Feb 15 for Houston, with a top rodeo purse near $100,000 and appearances by Roy Rogers, Wayne Newton, Boots Randolph, Jimmy Dean, and more through March 2.
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Houston
Texas Boys
America
FFA
Texas
Astrodome
Houston Livestock Show
Brenham
RCA
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Wayne Newton
The
Nashville Sound
Boots Randolph
Sonny James
Jimmy Dean
Jim Nabors
Gomer Pyle
Todays Meditation The Worlds Widest Devotional Guide
A brief note introduces Todays Meditation as the world’s most widely used devotional guide. It highlights its reach across readers and its aim to provide daily reflections and spiritual guidance. The piece frames the guide as a longstanding resource for personal contemplation and practice.
A Neighbor For God And Man From Gate Arch To Love
Benjamin C. LeRoy reflects on Luke 10 27 and Mark 21 31 urging love thy neighbor as self. He describes the St Louis Gateway Arch gleaming after clouds parting and asks how neighborliness reveals Gods image in others. A brief daily prayer asks for love and brotherhood to advance through kindness.
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St. Louis
Mississippi River
God
Jesus
Benjamin C. LeRoy
Kentucky
Jobs Available For College Grads In Many Fields
In College Station on Feb 12 Mrs Wanda Meyer Extension home management specialist notes that projections through 1975 foresee imbalances by profession. Demand rises for physicians dentists engineers and physical scientists while shortages persist. teachers mathematicians and life scientists may be in surplus. About 6.2 million graduates needed by 1975 with 4.3 million professional technical roles 0.9 million managerial 0.7 million sales and clerical and 0.3 million other fields. Colleges will confer 6.5 million bachelor and first professional degrees 1966–74 and 1.7 million master's and doctorates. Surplus of teachers remains largest for women. widening women’s access to high demand fields could improve outlook. Expanding medical and dental school capacity is urged to ease physician and dentist shortages.
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College Station
Wanda Meyer
Extension Home Management
Department of Labor
Texas A&m University
Meyer
Private ownership shapes South forest land totals
Of the South's 198 million acres of forestland, 40 million are owned by industry with 17 million in public ownership, the vast majority 141 million acres in miscellaneous private hands. Herein lies the greatest opportunity for further substantial boosts in the South's tree arm totals now standing at 48 million acres, the Southern Pine Association says.
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South
Southern Pine Association
1 Percent Million Highway Maps To Be Distributed
Texas officials release the Official State Highway Map for 1969 with 127 new interstate miles and enlarged inset regions for Longview Kilgore Tyler and Beaumont Port Arthur. The department offers 11 tourism bureaus and 1,100 safety rest areas, with Spanish conversion tables and direct orders from Austin.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Highway Department
Amarillo
New Mexico
Dallas
Longview-Kilgore-Tyler
Rio Grande Valley
Beaumont- Port Arthur
Orange
Preston Smith
Highway Department
Roy Bean
Cactus Garden
Langtry
Capitol Building
Department of Public Safety
Anthony
el Paso
Laredo
Waskom
Texarkana
Denison
Gainesville
Wichita Falls
State Capitol
Jacana Invades Brazoria Refuge
National Wildlife Refuges in Texas report a rare South American jacana visiting Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas Gulf coast. Ray mond Fleetwood cites this as likely the northernmost sighting, following last summer’s Masked Ducks at Anahuac Refuge observed by many bird watchers.
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Texas
South America
Raymond Fleetwood
Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge
Texas Gulf Coast
Fleetwood
Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge
Barnes predicts no compulsory school consolidation in Texas
Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes says the Governor's Committee on Public School Education offers constructive recommendations but foresees the Texas Senate rejecting mandatory district consolidation this year. He expects voluntary consolidation incentives to be favored, not mandatory laws, as Senate Bill No. 2 moves through the Education Committee.
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Austin
Ben Barnes
Texas
Texas Senate
Barnes
Senate
A. R Schwartz
Galveston
Oscar Mauzy
Dallas
Senate Education Committee
Beauchamp Promoted to Maintenance Foreman in Beaumont
W H Beauchamp Jr of Lumberton takes over as maintenance construction foreman for the North Jefferson County section of the state highway headquarters in Beaumont. He succeeds Ray Shaw who is deceased. Beauchamp joined the State Highway Department January 6 1954 in the Beaumont area and has served as assistant foreman for ten years. The Beauchamps reside on Hooks Road in Lumberton.
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W. H. Beauchamp Jr
Lumberton
Jefferson County
State
Beaumont
Ray Shaw
Beauchamp
State Highway Department
Bridal Shower for Miss Louise McLean Held February 14
Miss Louise McLean was guest of honor at a bridal shower in the fellowship hall of the First Christian Church hosted by the Christian Woman's Fellowship. Wedding bells will ring for Miss McLean and William Thomas McGallion on February 28 at 7 30 PM, and the public is invited to attend.
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Louise McLean
Fellowship Hall
First Christian Church
Christian Woman's Fellowship of the Church
Miss McLean
William Thomas MecGallion
February school meals menu week
February meals outline for Monday through Friday lists items such as barbecue buns fries carrot and celery sticks pear salad cookies and milk on Monday. pork patties rice gravy fried blackeyed peas tossed salad yellow cake with chocolate icing rolls and milk on Tuesday. spaghetti with lettuce tomato salad purple hull peas pineapple upside down cake rolls milk on Wednesday. hamburgers with lettuce tomatoes onions potato salad fruit pies Thursday. fried fish with coleslaw tartar sauce au gratin potatoes buttered English peas cinnamon rolls fruit rolls milk on Friday.
Piney Woods TB Association Formed in Woodville
A 16 county Piney Woods TB and RD Association was formed at its first meeting in Woodville. Headquarters will be in Beaumont with staff to serve all counties. Joe K. Wells led representatives from each county, part of the Christmas Seal network, to consolidate former county tuberculosis groups. Three committees were named for bylaws staff and board nominations. Christine Read of Kountze joins the steering committee.
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Piney Woods Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association
Area
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association
Woodville
Beaumont
Joe K. Wells
Austin
Texas TB and RD Association
Piney Woods
TB and RD Association
Area Board of Directors
Christine Read
R. N. of
Kountze
Garden Club Plans Visit To Nurseries
Silsbee Garden Club organizes its annual field trip to Beaumont area garden centers and nurseries on Tuesday. Members meet at First Baptist Church parking lot, depart at 9 30 a m, then dine at Don's Seafood and Steak House in Beaumont after a short business meeting.
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Silsbee Garden Club
Beaumont
First Baptist Church
Don’s Seafood and Steak House
Fragmentary Thought Meditates On Identity And Home
A reflective fragment considers being different and questions marriage to a split level house as a life choice. The speaker hints at a personal mismatch between self and place, ending with a tentative repetition of maybe.
Tigers Clinch 9-AAA Tie With 69 46 Victory Over Liberty
Silsbee Tigers finish district play 7 7 after beating Liberty 69 46 in the Silsbee gym Grady Walters 19 points earns district scoring honors Randy Kolls adds 22 Walters ends 14 game schedule with 246 points 17 6 average Dunagan 13 moves to second in scoring West Orange second 10 4 final standings list Livingston district champ 46 32 over Cleveland Jasper third 8 6 tied for fourth Silsbee Liberty Cleveland 7 7
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Silsbee Tiger Cagers
Liberty
Tigers
Silsbee
Cleveland
Grady Walters
Panthers
Randy Kolls
Mike Dunagan
Walters
Tiger
Dunagan
West Orange
Livingston
Lions
Aldine Carver
A&m Consolidated
Jasper
Bridge City
Port Acres
Episcopal Laymen To Spend Weekend At Pineland Retreat
Laymen and women of St. John's Episcopal Church will spend a weekend with Bishop J. Mil ton Richardson of Texas at Lakeview Methodist Assembly in Palestine from March 7 to 9. The event features dialogue prayer and meditation, informal conversations, open group discussions, and talks by the bishop on issues facing Episcopalians in the 57‑county diocese.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
Texas
J. Milton Richardson
Lakeview Methodist Assembly
Palestine
Episcopal
Dixie Gore Wins Homemaker Award
Dixie D. Gore has been named 1969 Miss Boy Crocker of Silsie High School for achieving the highest score in a home making knowledge and aptitude test taken by senior class girls December 3. She will receive a silver charm and her paper is entered in state competition for the title State Homemaker of Tomorrow. The winner will earn a $1,500 scholarship from General Mills, Inc.
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Dixie D. Gore
General Mills, Inc
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WWI
Partment Tourist
Travel and Information Division
P. O
Jacana
Brazoria
W. H. Beauchamp
Piney Woods TB Association
Peace Corps
Sinoe
Liberia
Hollywood
John
Marlin Luther King
Ronnie
P.S
Harlem
Annmary Dalton
Washington, D.C
Vas
South Vietnam
Saigon
Pineland
Dixie Gore
Homemaker
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