Silsbee News Staff Details and Publication Info
Publication details for the Silsbee Texas newspaper include second class mailing under April 19 1919, Thursday issues at 410 Highway 96 Silsbee TX 77656. Co owners and publishers are David Read and R L Read. Editors Tommy Read and Mrs Leona Whitman. Mechanical and printing staff listed by name.
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Silsbee
Texas
Highway 96
Hardin
Jasper
Tyler
Jefferson
David Read
R. L. Read
Tommy Read
Leona Whitman
Harold Leigh
John S. Basye
James Johnson
Billy Joe Williams
Winter Concert Invitation From Silsbee High School Band
Silsbee High School Band invites Mr David Read to its winter concert at the high school auditorium on February 17 1967 at 7:30 PM. Enclosed is a complimentary ticket as thanks for support this year. Velma Savant secretary James Jones band director. Beaumont Civic Opera thank you note for Fifth Annual Production Offenbach La Perichole February 24 and 25 at Stephen F. Austin Junior High School Auditorium two complimentary tickets reserved for Mr Bobby Read. Gladys E Armstrong president.
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David Read
North 7Th
Silsbee
Texas
Read
Velma Savant
Mr. James Jones
Bobby
Beaumont Civic Opera
Stephen F. Austin Junior High School
Gladys E. Armstrong
Den 9 Cub Pack 88 Meets at Den Mother's Home
Seven members and Den Chief Larry Gardner attend in Mrs. Meade's home on Tuesday. Boys paint items and Gardner describes a reward. Terry Howard serves refreshments. Bobby Taylor serves as scribe.
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Den 9
Joe Taylor Named To Baylor U Student Congress
Joe Taylor of Silsbee Texas has been elected senior arts and sciences representative to Baylor University Student Congress. A Silsbee High School graduate, he attended Lamar Tech before Baylor and majors in political science with a history minor.
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Joe Taylor
J. J. Taylor
Britton Drive
Silsbee
Baylor University
Joe
Silsbee High School
Lamar Tech
Baylor
Den 10 Cub Pack 88 Meeting at Mrs Thompson's Home
Den 10 of Cub Scout Pack 88 met Monday at Mrs Thompson's home. Paul Shepherd opened with the Pledge of Allegiance. Duane Thompson led exercises. The boys worked on lion and bear plaques. Mitch Hickman served as John Buchanan’s scribe.
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Den 10
Cub Scout Pack
Paul Shepherd
Duane Thompson
Mitch Hickman
John Buchanan
Community News From Lumberton Area Welcomes New School Leader
Lumberton welcomes Nelson Eichman named unanimously March start as Lumberton schools superintendent after a called school board meeting. Residents in Hitchcock, churchgoing families, hospital visits, and local anniversaries fill a busy period with guests from Houston Victoria Port Arthur and Beaumont.
Voter and Tax Receipts Delayed Says County Official
Hardin County Tax Assessor-Collector W. T. Bean says voter registration lists and receipts face delays amid confusion. The tax office and volunteers work overtime to finish before March 1, urging voters to bring registration receipts to the polls as mailing delays for tax and registration receipts continue due to high mail volume.
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Bean
W. T. Bean
Hardin County
Sealed Bids Sought for Wrecked 1966 Ford Police Car
City of Silsbee invites sealed bids in duplicate by 3 00 p m March 6 1967 for one 1966 Ford police car wrecked and viewable at City Garage on Dardin Drive contact G T Buin erriene. City reserves right to reject bids and waive formalities. Wayne DuBose City Manager. $22.
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P. O
Texas
Dardin Drive
G. T. Buin
Erriene
Silsbee
South Seventh Street
W. T. Hobson Jr
Caraway
Lenox Hawthorne Sr
Weekly school cafeteria menu list
Monday Tamales cole slaw pork and beans banana pudding milk hot rolls butter. Tuesday Hamburgers potato salad Jello milk. Wednesday Ham shanks pinto beans green salad apple pie milk cornbread butter. Thursday Fried chicken rice gravy English peas yams milk bread. Friday Fish tartar sauce macaroni and cheese pickled beets pineapple pudding milk bread.
Den 1 Cub Pack 201 Meets For Blue and Gold Prep
Den 1 of Cub Scout Pack 201 met at the home of Mrs. Robert Brunner with eight boys present. They worked on napkin holders for the Blue and Gold banquet and closed the meeting with a living circle led by den chief Rickey Brunner.
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Den 1
Cub Scout
Robert Brunner
Den
Rickey Brunner
Silsbee Public Schools Weekly Menu
Silsbee Public Schools offer a weekly menu from February 27 to March 3. Monday features chili beans cheese strips tossed green salad cake squares fruit topping rolls and milk. Tuesday serves hamburgers with lettuce tomatoes onions French fries fruit cobbler milk. Wednesday offers beef stew vegetables pinto beans pickled beets chocolate cake rolls milk. Thursday includes chicken and dressing cranberry sauce green beans apple pie roll milk. Friday serves fried fish with coleslaw buttered corn lettuce and tomato salad pineapple upside down cake rolls and milk.
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Silsbee
Card of Thanks for Flowers and Prayers
Mrs Thomas B Read expresses gratitude to friends for flowers cards candy visits and prayers during her recent surgery.
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Thomas B. Read
Chief John Busby to Attend Fire Workshop Saturday
Silsbee Fire Chief John Busby will attend a weekend workshop and planning meeting for the 38th annual Fireman's Training School at Texas A&M University. He has served as an instructor at the school for the past ten years. instructors attend at their own expense.
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Silsbee
John Busby
Texas A&m University
Busby
GOP Women Set April 20 Nominating Meeting
Republican Women of Hardin County held a February gathering in the Hardin County Savings and Loan Association community room. Officers and delegates were chosen for state and national events, with plans for a spring fundraising social and an April 20 meeting featuring a Dirksen speech tape.
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C. R. Byrd
Beaumont
Keith Gary
Lumberton
Hardin County
Hardin County Savings and Loan Association
Byrd
Gary
Newton Guilbeau
Lauriston Taylor
Julian Monferdini
Everett Dirksen
National Federation of Republican Women
Washington, D. C
HD Club Plans Spring Planting and Bake Show
The Town and Country Home Demonstration Club met with seven members present at Mrs. Bob Foster's home. President Mrs. Billie Simmons announced the bake show on February 28. The program on Planting and Fertilizing was led by Mrs. Simmons, with literature handed out. The next meeting is set for March 2 at Mrs. Lloyd Goolsby’s home.
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Town and Country Home Demonstration Club
Bob Foster
Billie Simmons
Simmons
Lloyd Goolsby
Buddy Courtney
Brady Turk Named to Dean's List at Dallas College
Brady Turk, son of Mr and Mrs Y D Turk, earned a place on the Dean's List at Dallas County Junior College in Dallas. A sophomore majoring in accounting, he previously attended Waldo Mathews High School where he played Panther football and belonged to the high school band. He was employed by Kirby Lumber Corporation before college.
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Y. D. Turk
Brady Turk
Dallas County Junior College
Dallas
Turk
Waldo Mathews High School
Panther
Kirby Lumber Corporation
Den 4 Cub Pack 201 Meeting Report
Mrs Minnie Callaway led Den 4 of Cub Scout Pack 201 with five boys and den chief Richard Brunner. They opened with the pledge and offered invitations to the Blue and Gold Banquet. The cub scout promise closed the meeting and refreshments were served.
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Den 4
Minnie Callaway
Den
Richard Brunner
Nephew of Silsbee Residents Dies in Vietnam
Army CWO2 Richard John Wright of San Antonio, nephew of Mrs. Letha Smith and Char ley Wright of Silsbee, was killed in Vietnam on February 8 when his plane crashed during a visual reconnaissance mission. Burial with military honors was held at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wright of San Antonio.
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Army
Richard John Wright
San Antonio
Letha Smith
Charley Wright
Silsbee
Vietnam
Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery
John H. Wright
Lumberton school board election set for April first
Lumberton Independent School District voters will choose trustees on Saturday April 1 with candidate filings due March 1 at noon. Absentee ballots run March 15 to 28 at the Lumberton tax office or Chance Loeb school. J A Marlowe is absentee voting judge. Sympathy extends to families of deceased H Bailey and Mrs Weeks. Funeral in Bronson with burial at Horton Cemetery. John Waite and Mrs Bridges visit. Roberts attends church. Nelson Eichman named superintendent effective March 1 after transfer from Hitchcock ISD. Eichman holds a Masters from SHSTC and pursuing a Doctorate at the University of Houston. New baby born Friday Feb 17 at Baptist Hospital Beaumont. Cecil Rawls to discharge from armed forces March 10 and plans Alaska move. Wishing sympathy to Bethel Morgan over Jetta Sanders death. Youth revival ongoing at Chance Loeb UPC. Rev. Robert Fuller of Louisiana to lead. Dor is Nell Rogers to wed Charles Leatherwood March 18 at Rogers home.
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A. T. Langham
Cook’s Lake Road
H.E. Lewis
David Lewis
Houston
James S. Erwin
Linda Martin
Victor
Sidney Okun
Curtis
Ann
Bell Smallwood
Curtis Erwin
Beaumont
James Martin
Paula Okun
James Sterling
P. Okun
Jillness
Okun
M. Weeks
Fannie [Smart
Henry A. Bailey Sr
Pete le Normand
A. C. le Normand
Tony Broughlam
Beaumort
F. Landrys
LeRoy Hale
Virgil Bearden
Houston Were Guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. L. Goutreaux. Rev. E. W. Stanley
Etta Sanders
Farmer Funeral
Silsbee
Jerry Ward
Lumberton Independent
Iile
Lumberton
Chance-Loeb
J. A. Marlowe
Madelline Weeks
Fannie Smart
Weeks
John Waite
Orange
Keeton Leatherwood
R. J. Bridges
Baytown
G. L. Hall
Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church
Bridges
Lumberton Independent School District Board of Trustees
Nelson Eichman
Lamberton
Eichman
Hitchcock Independent
Southwest Texas State College
San Marcos
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Eichlman
University of Houston
Harold F. Householder
Baptist Hospital
Cecil J. Rawls
Air Force
Cecil
Navy
Alaska
Bethel Morgan
Jetta Sanders
Chance
Village Mills Social Notes Highlight Weekend Visits
Village Mills residents and relatives share weekend visits across Houston and Port Arthur. Families and friends including the Wiggins, Richardson, Williford, and Frey Jones circles gather for church, travel, and hospital updates. Local clubs such as Bethel Baptist WMU and Eastern Star host events with guests from Warren, Providence, and Beaumont areas.
Local notices and meetings from Emanuel Baptist and area groups
Charlies Leatherwood workers at Bethlehem Steel in Beaumont. Emanuel Association WMU Prayer Retreat set for Feb 23 Camp Wilbur 10 am to 2 pm. Associational Music Festival Feb 27 7:30 pm at church. Annie Armstrong Week of Prayer March 5 to 10 Fletcher Emanuel Church. Lena Lair Circle met 7 pm at Mrs. Cleon Williams home eight members. J W Perdue led mission study Trails Through Urban Jungles. Next meeting March 6 at Mrs. Helen Fuller home with Royal Service by Mrs. Fred Holton. Margie Mines Circle II met four members and one visitor at Mrs. Mary McEwing home. Wanda Davis finished Beneath the Himalayas. Local families visiting relatives including Brent River Oaks and Waters Woodville. Glynn Mitchell Port Arthur visited Keeton Leatherwood parents. E H Gilchrist and W A Wright visited Segno near Livingston to celebrate Donald Neal birthday with Mrs. Shelton Cain. J M Byerly visited Orange with Doyle Byerly. A G Lassiter and children Fannett visited Harlen McKnight and Leatherwood family. H F Malone tax official visited Cleveland. Lumberton Home Demonstration Club met Feb 21 with Estelle Butler and I M Butler Sr. program on fertilizing plants and gardens. Next meeting March 7 9 30 am at Mrs Blanch McKenzie.
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Emmanuel Association
WMU
Camp Wilburr
Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church
Annie Armstrong
Lena Lair
Fletcher Emanuel Wmu
Cleon Williams
J. W. Perdue
Helen Fuller
Fred Holton
Margie Mines Circle No. II
Glynn Mitchell
Port Arthur
Keeton Leatherwood
E. H. Gilchrist
W. A. Wright
Segno
Livingston
Shelton Cain
J. M. Byerly
Orange
Doyle Byerly
A. G. Lassiter
Fannett
Harlen McKnight
M. Leatherwood
H. F. Malone
Lumberton Independent
Cleveland
Lumberton Home
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Eaitor
New Christy Minstrels
Lamar Student Association and Union
Silsbee, Texas
Taft Street
Baylor U. Student Congress
Lumberton-Loeb
Hitchcock
G. V. Willette
Steve Dorney
Henderson
E. J. Hale
James Goutreaux
Hale
W. C. Lund Jr
LaPorte
Pasadena
Bay Shore Hospital
M. Cole
Alice Keith
Olive Mitchell
Ellen
Glen Bendy
Leon Goutreaux
Goutreaux
John Boykin
Kountze Memorial Hospital
L. M. Howard
Bartmess
Cornell St
Woodcrest No. 2
Huntington
Nora Weeks
Victoria
James Bradford
Loeb First Baptist Church
Brotherhood
Ronnie Davis
Henry Clausen
Nederland
C. J. Benty
John David
Texas City
Frank Gayer
Herman
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Ivie Erwin
Inez Curl
Sue McBroom
Peggy Thornton
E. W. Stanley
Loeb Pentecostal Church
Robert Fuller
Cotton Valley
Stanley Home
Jessie Barland
Newton Thevenot
Allen Thevenot
Bunkie
Bernice Nobles
Sam Rayburn
Pete Sharpe
Inez Berwick
Sadie Cole
Doris Gager
John Sealy Hospital
Cole
R. G. Miner
Wayne DuBose
Thunderbird Ranch
Fort Apache
Highway
Kountze
Buck & the Westerners
Lumberton School
Silsbee School
Byrom Fabric Shop
South
Whitehead Sewing Center
Singer
4Th Street
Dallas College
Fletcher News
Mable Rogers
Doris Nell Rogers
Charles M. Leatherwood
A. L. Leatherwood
McFaddin
Miss Rogers
Beaumont High School
Beaumont Commercial College
Village Mills
Irene Taylor
W. H. Taylor
Clarice Fowler
Susie Wiggins
Lou Fuller
Leroy
Stella Richardson
Dobbin
L. L. Moye
Groves
Raymond McClain
Kathy
Hill Durham
Rosa Lee Durham
Port Neches
J. P. Fildschan i
John Prothro
Bethel Baptist Church
Warren
WMS Methodist
J. T. Riley
A. H.akins
Wildwood
Valentine
Minnie Collier
Unkle
Pearly Williford
Orland Williford
Port Artthur
Berry Smith
Order of the Eastern Star
Lee Evans
Earnest Fowler
Katy Bass
Ima Woolley
Theo Kincaid
Wilma Harrell
Vera Waldrop
Grace Duffy
G. P. Heath
Providence
Dean
Herman Holland
C. Harper
J. C. Edmonds
Wilson Fruge
Aline Dunlap
R. V. Keel
Jimmy Copeland
W. C. Copeland
Mamie Waddell
James
J. B. Mire
iPort Arthur
Lela Davis
Anna Frey Jones
Anna Maria
Walter Whiddon
Sam Whiddon
Mattie Overstreet
Joe Fiew
Timmy
Callie Mae Allen
Camalee Wallet
Allen Camp
Sheffield Ferry
Spurger
Woodville
Hazel Ghent
Mike Langston
Max Langston
Camp Place
Dickson
Triple D
Jack Gardner
Hubert Braziel
J. E. Braziel
Maplewood
George James
L. A. Brownlee
Gore’s
Smokehouse
Charlies Leatherwood
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Maes Number Seven, Inc
East Avenue N
Maes ‘Number Seven, Inc
Thomas M.maes, II
Robert S. Burns
John R. Mikeska
Thomas M. Maes
Clarence
First Baptist Church
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