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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1958
Page
7
F. G. Gurley chairman of the board at Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway System receives the honorary title Friend of 4-H for his heartfelt interest in 4-H club work and the welfare of young people.
A National 4-H Conference citation in Washington on June 18 honored Mr Gurley for leading Santa Fe’s expanded 4-H scholarships and awards. Santa Fe now offers $350 college scholarships and raises awards this year by $100, marking 36 years of 4-H support with a commemorative plaque accepted by R M Clark in Gurley's absence. Gurley also serves Chicago civic roles as Museum of Science and Industry trustee and Chicago Sunday Evening Club director.
A 231784 contract for an Army Reserve Training Center at Lake Charles Louisiana was awarded to Span Glass Inc of Houston Texas. The air conditioned masonry building will house 200 men with classrooms rifle range kitchen facilities and offices plus outdoor recreation and drilling areas. Edward D McGehee will supervise the project which begins mid July with a completion date set for March 1959.
Texas faces the nation’s largest tally of designated enemy bomb targets, with Fort Worth Dallas Houston Austin and other cities named. The state earns a $320000 federal grant to draft a survival plan due by year end as officials stress local family preparedness and fallout risks.
A Youth Forestry Short course will be conducted near Woodville August 18 22 for FFA and 4 H Club boys announced today by R M Townsend president of the Texas Forestry Association The course will be run jointly by the Texas Forest Service and the Texas Forestry Association Sixty two youths will be sponsored by local clubs chambers of commerce banks and businessmen They will receive practical forestry training and take written tests Prizes await top scorers Instructors include graduate foresters from the Texas Forest Service and forest industries William A Smith of the Texas Forest Service will direct the course The 1958 session is the 13th since the program began and more than 800 youths have benefited The Texas Forestry Association promotes conservation extension and wise use of Texas forests
The nation recorded more births than deaths by a margin greater than 2,680,000 in the previous year, highlighting a substantial natural increase in population.
Silsbee Lodge No. 348 Knights of Pythias meets Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. in the Community Hall. Members urged to attend and visiting brothers invited. A. E. Spec Shaw Chancellor Commander Phillip AlcKinney, Sec. 46 of
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