OCAW Strike Hits Silsbee Area Workers and Local Plants
More than 200 workers in the Silsbee region face job losses as the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers union launches a nationwide strike. Picket lines surround Sinclair plants 26 and 25 as negotiations with Sinclair stall in Kansas City, with wages and hospital fringe benefits central to the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
Sinclair
Brooks Field
North Silsbee
OCAW
Fred Himmelreich
Louisiana
Barbers Hill
Mobil
Pure
Texaco
Gulf
Jefferson County
Wendell Jones
Kansas City
Himmelreich
Jones
Texas
Astro Scout Sees Shaw At Gary Job Corps Center
Lendell Shaw of Silsbee, a 19 year old Auto Paint Sheet Rock student, was signed by Astro scout Stan Hollmig after excelling in intramural football at the Gary Job Corps Center. Shaw, grandson of Mae Donie Scott, plans spring training with Houston with a Class A assignment possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lendell Shaw
Silsbee
Gary Job Corps Center
Astro
Shaw
Mae Donie Scott
Corell Shaw
Stan Hollmig
Hellmig
Hollmig
Frank Robinson
Baltimore Orioles
Houston
Coco
Fla
Hollimig
Fred Anders Names Deputies For 1969 Voter Registration
Hardin County voters were reminded to obtain a registration slip by January 31. Deputies will man sites across Hardin County including Silsbee Chamber of Commerce 270 Highway 96 South and City News Stand, H P Morans Grocery, Bean s Store in Caney Head, Lumberton school tax office Ray Martin Humble Station Eburge Drive In, Sour Lake Ray Edmon son Insurance Agency, Gray sburg Ed Johnson, Saratoga Miss Beulah Skinner, and the County Tax Office in Kountze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County Tax Assessor
Dollector
Fred Anders
Silsbee
Chamber of Commerce
Highway 96 South
Cuity News Stand
H. P. Moran
Caney Head
Bean's
Lumberton
Ray Martin
Humble Station
Eburge
Drive In
Ray Edmondson
Sour Lake
Thirty men from local area to be inducted January 22
Twenty three area men from Hardin Liberty and Chambers counties will be inducted January 22 per Selective Service Board 86 Liberty. Additional 25 to take Army physicals January 22. The draft board in Liberty seeks Layton Joseph Haynes and notes misaddressed mail returned.
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Paris
Hardin
Liberty
Chambers Counties
Selective Service Board 86
Shelby Monroe Croucher Jr
Silsbee
Earl James Wills
John Earl Stevens Jr
Playton
Tommy Oscar Gandy
Cleveland
Norris Wayne Cox
Dayton
Bobby Glenn Lebow
Monroe City
Thomas Harris Havard
John David Marshall
Anahuac
Alvin Ray Anderson
Charles Thomas Evans
Spear Lake
Artis Fugene Swift
James Ward Telford
Gary Joe Raggio
Darwin Gale Jordan
Wilford Simien
John Wayne Jackson
Ispberty
Charles Henry Luquette
Foy Douglas Griswold
Melvin Earl Dever
Mavion
Harold Wayne Ballard
Michael Lee Parnell
Winnie
Richard Dale Fountain
Charles Ray Budro
Carl Lester Bean
Walter Webb Stovall
Willie Edward Stanley
Pine, Silsbee
Hevinald Blackburn
Pat Conecord Road
Beaumont
Leon Crum to Head Silsbee March of Dimes Drive
Leon Crum named campaign director for the Silsbee March of Dimes fundraising drive against birth defects. Cesar Dominguez of the Hardin County Chapter notes a strong local leadership team for January fund raising. Crum cites national goals to fund research and more than 100 Birth Defects Centers across the country.
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Silsbee
Leon Crum
North Sth Street
March of Dimes
Cesar Dominguez
Hardin County
National
March of Dimes Foundation
Crum
Dominguez
1968 County Tax Statements To Be Mailed This Month
County tax statements for Herdin County property owners are being prepared and mailed in January. Tax Assessor-Collector Fred Anders expects to mail them by January 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herdin
Fred Anders
Rev P F Herndon Dies In Beaumont
Funeral services were held for the Rev Presley Fisher Merndon 32 of 9036 Park Beaumont at Car yell Wallace Funeral Home. Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery with pallbearers and honorary pallbearers from the Beaumont Ministerial Association. He died at 530 p m Tuesday in Milam Nursing Home after a long illness and had previously served as supply minister for The First Christian Church in Silsbee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presley Fisher Merndon
Park
Beaumont
Car‘yell-Wallace
1625
Robert A. Scott
First Christian Church
Silshee
Magnolia Cemetery
Co. F. Morain
B. RR
Melean
D. Cheatham
J. L. Goodwen
C. C. Wright
John Tusby
Governor's School Program Could Raise Local Education Costs
Silsbee taxpayers may bear a larger share of school funding if Gov. Connally's Public School Education committee plan is adopted. The proposal would raise local minimum foundation funding from 20 to 30 percent over ten years, estimated to add about 46 000 dollars in three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
John Connally
Committee
Don L. Hough
Hough
Silsbee Lions Club Names Committees For Coming Year
The Silsbee Lions Club board met January 6 at Neches National Bank to set evening meeting dates starting January 21 for Founders Night programs. Committees and chairmen were named including Light Conservation and Blind Bob Riceman chair, Attendance Paul Georgas co-chair J D Donalson, Membership Lenox Hawthorne chair, and Nick Mitchell Ernie Dietrich W. W. Howell. The Great Merlin Mystery Show is planned for February 5–6 at Silsbee Junior High, with Wor rer, Bower, Terry Curran and Riceman on the committee. April 7 is set for the annual Lions Club Variety Show at the junior high with co-chairmen James Hayes and Bob Scott. Lions International aims to reach 1,000,000 members by March 31, 1969. the local club hopes to add 12 new members. Sweetheart Night is February 11 with Miss Vida Hayes and Miss Sharon Hawthorne. A January 14 program will feature Silsbee High School band members under director James Jones. Marion Almond is program chairman for January 21 with past presidents to be honored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Lions Club
Neches National Bank
Wes Lallam
Light Conservation and Blind
Bob Riceman
Bill Barclay
Paul Georgas
J. D. Donalson
Lenox Hawthorne
Nick Mitchell
Ernie Dietrich
W. W. Howell
Georgas
Silsbee
Worrer
Bower
Terry Curran
Riceman
Lions Club
James Hayes
Bob Scott
Bob Flores
David Shows
Latham
Lions International, Inc
Vida Hayes
Sharon Hawthorne
Warren Bower
Silsbee High School
James Jones
Marion Almond
Retired Persons Association Meet Today in Silshee
The Retired Persons Association of the Silshee area will meet today at 7 p.m. in the O'Neil Intermediate School cafeteria. Ted L. Stoten, president, asks all committee chairmen to attend as plans for the new club year are discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silshee Area Retired Persons Association
O'Neil
Ted L. Stoten
World War I Vets Meet Saturday at Neches Bank
Barracks 2641 of the veterans of World War I and Auxiliary will meet Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at the Neches National Bank. Commander John J Richardson said legislation and laws for veterans pensions will be discussed. L D Daniels is acquainted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neches National Bank
John J. Richardson
Ft D. Daniels
Administrators Attend Austin School Meet
Governor-elect Preston Smith will keynote the Administrators Advisory Conference on Education in Austin. More than 2,000 school administrators from across Texas attend the 20th annual mid winter conference at the Terrace Motor Hotel convention center. Workshops start Thursday at 1 30 p m with other sessions Wednesday through Friday morning featuring state leaders and association presidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Preston Smith
Terrace Motor Hotel Convention Center
Don L. Hough
Weeks
Crawford
Silsbee
E. C. Nash
Bert Fling
Evadale
Nelson F Eichmann
Lumberton
L. W. Hughes
Kountze
J. R. Curlee
Hardin Jefferson
Afb
Texas State Teachers Association
Harold Yeary
Laredo
Texas Association of School Boards
Ben R. Howell
el Paso
State Board of Education
Texas Education Agency
Albert McKinney Named Miss Silsbee Parade Marshal
Albert McKinney Precinct 5 constable and Hardin County Sheriff’s Posse president will be this year’s parade marshal. He is a Korean War veteran and a volunteer fireman. The Miss Silsbee Parade starts at 10 am Saturday January 25 with entries gathering at Jack Dreddy’s Chevrolet and Apache Lumber Co before proceeding to Pine Plaza. Prizes will go to the top three entries. A garage sale to raise funds is set for Saturday June 11 at 3 am at 212 Read Street Mrs Clarence Dehart’s home. Parade entrants should contact McKinney or Mrs Scoggins promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert McKinney
McKinney
Hardin County
Air Force
Jack Dreddy
Chevrolet and Apache Lumber Co
Pine Plaza
Brother Of Two Local Residents Dies In Jasper
Jessie McDonald 82 of Jasper died Monday at Mary Dickerson Memorial Hospital after a short illness. A native of Arkansas he was a retired construction worker and a Jasper Pentecostal Church member and preacher. Funeral at J. Stringer Funeral Home with burial at Frisby Cemetery. Grandsons served as pallbearers. Survived by a half sister Mrs L H De Loune and a half brother Sar McElroy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie McDonald
Jasper
J. ©. Stringer
B. M. Hallam
Frisby
Monlay
Mary Dickerson Memorial Hospital
Arkansas
Jasper Pentecostal Church
L. H. DeLoune
Sar McElroy
City
Tigers Triumph 65-56 Over Cleveland Indians in Local Gym
Silsbee Tigers routed Cleveland 65-56 as Grady Walters poured in 36 points on 17 field goals plus two free throws. Bobby Paret added 11. The win leaves Silsbee 1-1 in District 9-AAA, with Gary Wood quitting the squad and West Orange remaining 2-0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Tigers
Cleveland Indians
Grady Walters
Bobby Paret
Tigers
Stephen F. Austin
Port Arthur
West Orange
Dan Montgomery
Gary Wood
Wood
Tiger Cagers
Silsbee
Cleveland
Bridge City
Diamond Jubilee Plans Discussed At Community Meeting
An organizational meeting for a proposed Diamond Jubilee celebration in Silsbee, set for next fall, will be held at 7 p.m. at Neches National Bank. Lenox Hawthorne and Rev. Robert A. Scott, co chairs of the Chamber of Commerce committee, invite interested clubs organizations and individuals to attend and help formulate plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Neches National Bank
Lenox Hawthorne
Robert A. Scott
Chamber of Commerce
Cross Action in Oil Firm Tax Suit Denied in Hardin County
Atlantic Richfield Co and Sinclair Oil and Gas Co lose request for writ of mandamus and temporary injunction to stop Hardin County from certifying 1968 tax rolls. Hearing set for March 4 on the tax suit. prior 1967 case also scheduled. Cross action seeks to halt oil production and relocation of property across county lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County
Atlantic Richfield Co
Sinclair Oil and Gas Co
H. A. Coe
Glen Kirby
Silsbee
Detones
Atlantic and
Liniclair
Silsbee Slim Tops Lose 786 Pounds in 10 Months
The Silsbee Slim Tops chapter of T. O. P. S. Inc. reports 54 members have shed 786 pounds since March, with an average loss of 22.5 pounds per person. Champion dieter dropped 82.5 pounds in seven months. The group meets Tuesdays at the Hardin County Savings and Loan clubroom and invites new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Slim Tops
Silsbee
International Club
T. O. P.S. Inc
D. H. Suitt
Jsther Schul
Manz
Hardin County Savings and Loan
Mrs. Reeves Sues Over Husband's Drowning in Galveston Bay
Sylvia Ann Reeves of Susbee widow of Richard D. Reeves sues in U S District Court Beaumont for herself and two minor children for 577600 damages claiming Columbia Drilling Co and Humble Oil and Refining Co operated an unseaworthy barge on which Reeves drowned last November after a fall in Galveston Bay. Audrey Reeves and Lisa Michele Reeves are the under two year old children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia Ann Reeves
Susbee
Richard D. Reeves
Galveston Bay
U. S. District Court
Beaumont
Columbia Drilling Co
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Reeves
Ao Seaman
Columbia Drilling
Humble Oi
Audrey Reeves
Lisa Michele Reeves
Mrs. Twila Crawford of Warren Dies at 32
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Twila Smith Crawford 32 of Warren at Concord Baptist Church of Rye. She died 7:20 am Saturday in Beaumont Baptist Hospital after a weeklong illness. Survived by son Robert H Crawford. daughters Edwina Ruth and Patricia Kay Crawford. mother Mrs Johnnie I Smuth, Warren. Burial in Concord Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twila Smith Crawford
Warren
Concord Baptist Church of
Rye
Concord Cemetery
Rayford Crowell
Spurger
Alvin Tomlinson
Beaumont
J. T. Riley
Hardin High School
Robert L. Crawford
First Baptist Church
Order of the Eastern Star
Robert H. Crawford
Edwina Ruth
Patricia Kay Crawford
Johnnie I Smuth
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The
San Antonio Express
Houston Astros
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Lola Grilliette
Draft Board
Grilliette
Haynes
P. F. Herndon
Hardin - Jefferson
West Hardin
Wotan
Vernon
W. J. Poshataske
Earl
B. Stover
George D. Tennison
Pete Farmer
Robert Neyland
John Meade
Rayford Birdwell
E. J. Dietrich
W. C. McNeil
L. E. Martin
Elizabeth Williams
Emma Dean Bell
USDA
Waldo Mathews High School
Silsbee Trail
Jo Anne Hignett
O’neil
Florence Nell Williams
Sylvia Gilmore
Enid
Okla
Austin School
A. M. Aikin Jr
J. W. Edgar
Crarrett
Redkey
Walters Hy
Mexfield
Paret Rolls
G Jackson
Higginbotham
Richards
McDutile
Johnson
Tctals
Tops Club
Sylvia Reeves
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