Silsbee School Board loses long-time member C R Baker
C R Baker resigned from the Silsbee Independent School District Board of Trustees effective July 13 1966 after ten years service including a year as vice president and terms as secretary. The July 7 1966 letter to President George D Tennison MD states willingness to help education and notes an upcoming board appointment. The resignation was submitted at the regular meeting last night with no successor named yet and a forthcoming appointment expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Baker
Silshee School Board of Trustees
George D. Tennison
Board of
Silsbee Independent School District
Roosevelt Drive
Silsbee
Texas
Doctor Tennison
Fatal sandlot baseball accident claims Thomas Peden Jr
Thomas Jearl Peden Jr. ten died after a ball struck him on the neck at a sandlot game near Chance Loeb. He was on the mound when the line drive returned to him and he collapsed en route to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services are set for 11:00 a.m. at United Pentecostal Church with burial in Zavalla. Survivors include his parents, three brothers, two sisters and grandparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jearl Peden Jr
Rt. 3
Chance
Boggy Creek Road
Chance-Loeb
United Pentecostal Church
Chance- Loeb
Thomas
Beaumont
FE. W. Stanley
Zavalla
Kelley-Hixson Funeral Home
Thomas J Peden Sr
Charles Wayne Peden
San Antonio
Jimmy Don
Robert Scott Peden
Carless Ann
Peggy Jo Peden
Chance - Loeb
Carlo Latino
Daisy Peden
Three Silsbee FFA Members Attend State Convention
Three members Kenneth Davis Robert Townsend and Johnny Gibson from the Silsbee chapter of the Future Farmers of America attend the State FFA Convention in Austin July 13 to 15. More than 1000 chapters represented by one voting delegate each and over 5000 members attend. The chapter holds the Gold Emblem rating for four straight years. Stanley W. Gore is a Lone Star Farmer candidate. Accompanying them is O O Miller the FFA advisor. W E Sheffield returns home after Baptist Hospital treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Austin
Kenneth Davis
Robert Townsend
Johnny Gibson
Silsbee Ffa
Beaum on Births Highlight Local Family News
A baby girl Julie Lahoma weighed six pounds two ounces born July 5 at St Elizabeth Hospital Beaumont to Mr and Mrs Douglas Arnold. A son John Edgar born July 10 to Mr and Mrs Lonnie Brudie Batson. Patricia Ann born July 8 to Mr and Mrs Joette Cravy Fred. Roger Allen born July 10 to Mr and Mrs C W Smith Buna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julie Lahoma
Douglas Arnold
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Beaumont
Hardin Memorial Hospiats
Kountze
Lonnie Edward Brudie
Batson
John Edgar
Patricia Ann
Joette Cravy
Fred
Roger Allen
C. W. Smith
Buna
Crosses Burn Again In Kountze For Dowdy
Two more heavy crosses were burned near Kountze after a speech by Congressman John Dowdy. The objects, built of lumber with oil soaked burlap, were tied to iron spikes and found near Highway 69 and the Cypress Creek bridge. Both crosses were moved to the county jail as evidence. Sheriff Overstreet reported 31 detainees last week for various offenses, including drunkenness, theft, liquor violations, and traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kountze
John Dowdy
Chamber of
Henry Overstreet
Silsbee Social Notes Highlights From Local Visitors and Events
W H Holland returned home after hospital treatment in Beaumont. Dallas visitor Mrs Bill Mangold and Kilgore visitor Mrs Curtis Paramore joined folk at Carl Paramore Sr.’s home. Mrs L R Clawson and daughters plan Oklahoma City trip via Hope and Nashville Ark. Recent guests included Mr and Mrs J C Jones and baby of Jackson Ala and others from Lafayette La Shreveport La Blanchard La. Mrs Glenn Marshall and others visited Paul Breder’s in Orange. Jesse Mask of Beaumont celebrated his 86th birthday with J E Mask. Robert Gore discharged from US Air Force after service in Japan and Hawaii. Kilgore visitors L L Dockery and daughter with B P Dockery and Marvis Gore’s family in Huntsville. Westinghouse show in Houston attended by Marvis Gore. Death reported of Fred A Benke of San Antonio. wife Nan Hancock Benke is from this city. R L Read returned from Lexington Ky visiting son Randy, at Rice University in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Mangold
Dallas
Curtis Paramore
Kilgore
Carl Paramore Sr
L. R. Clawson
John Clawson
Oklahoma City
Okla
Hope
Nashville
Ark
W. H. Holland
J. C. Jones
Baby
Jackson
Ala
Homer Holland
Lafayette
D. G. Carpenter
Shreveport
Glen Mitchel
Blanchard
Glenn Marshall
Wayne Dubose
Orange
Paul Breder
Jesse Mask
Beaumont
J. E. Mask
Robert Gore
Stanley W. Gore
US Air Force
Japan
Hawaii
L. L. Dockery
Kirbyville
B. P. Dockery
Marvis Gore
Tracy Gore
Huntsville
Westinghouse
Readers Wholesale, Inc
Houston
Fred A. Benke
San Antonio
Lexington
Randy
Rice University
Librarian Lists New Books For Summer Reading
Silsbee Public Library adds several best seller titles for adults and teens. New adult picks include Tell No Man, Tai-Pan, How to Avoid Probate, The Enchanted, Kennedy, The Comedians, Green, Stone and India A World in Transition. Youth reads include April's Year, Taps in Troop 10, Spy on Danger Island, You and the Next Decade, I Have a Dream, Triple Trouble, and Peril on Mars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Public Library
H. T Horka
St. Johns
Glavell
Dacey
Delmar
Lamb
Teicher
Danger Island
Waiden
Paradis
Fterne
Lambert
Moore
Three Silsbee Firemen To Attend Texas School
Silsbee Fire Chief John Busby Russell Busby and J C Busby will attend the Annual Texas Firemen Training School at Texas A M University from July 17 to 22 Chief Busby will instruct a pump operation course and has taught there every year since 1949 as an instructor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
John Busby
Russell Busby
J. C. Busby
Texas Firemen's Training
Texas A&m University
Busby
Final Rites Held Wednesday For Mrs Beadman
Funeral services for Mrs. Johnnie Mae Beadman 42 of Groves were held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at Farmer Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Williams and Rev. James Sylvester officiating. Burial followed at Morse Cemetery near Buna. Mrs Beadman, ward clerk at Park Place Hospital Port Arthur, died in her sleep Saturday night at her camp in Barlow Estates near Cam B. She is survived by husband E B Beadman of Groves, her parents Mr and Mrs John A Hester of Evadale, two sisters Mrs James M Stephens of Victor and Mrs Clarence Ette of Evadale, two sons George Albert Nesbitt of the Navy and James Edward Nesbitt of Port Acres, two stepsons Billy Ray Beadman and James E Beadman of Groves, four stepdaughters Mrs Deanna Carol Walker of Beaumont, Mrs Delores Jane Madore and Mrs Jeanette Louise Hathaway of Topeka Kan, and Mrs Mary Frances Young of St Paul Minn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnnie Mae Beadman
Groves
Farmer Funeral Home
Charles Williams
Port Neches
James Sylvester
Buna Pentecostal Church
Oris
Terry
Lyle Hester
L. J. Harris
Alford Henderson
Wilburn Simmons
Morse Cemetery
Buna
Last Of Free Range Voted In Hardin County Saturday
Voters in Pet. 6 of Hardin County chose Saturday to end free range for cattle and for donkeys hogs sheep and goats. Hardin County Commissioners canvassed returns in Thicket and Votaw with totals of 39 for 104 against on cattle and 37 for 102 against on donkeys hogs sheep and goats. The stock law takes effect once Judge Fletcher Richardson proclaims it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pet
Hardin County
Hardin County Commissioners Court
Fletcher Richardson
Thicket
Votaw
Richardson
Pioneer Resident Mrs. J. H. David Dies at 84
Hannah Frances David 84 died Tuesday night at Hamilton Nursing Home Beaumont after a lengthy illness. She lived in Silsbee since 1908 and was a member of Good Shepherd Baptist Church and the Eastern Star. Survived by son Charlie Allen. four daughters. three stepdaughters. 45 grandchildren. Interment Resthaven Cemetery. services at Good Shepherd Baptist Church with Rev. David Blaylock officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah Frances David
Hamilton
Beaumont
Order of Eastern Star
Good Shepherd Baptist Church
J. H
Jake” David
Kirby Lumber Company
Silsbee
David Blaylock
Oklahoma
Resthaven Cemetery
Charlie Allen
City
R. L. McAlister
E. L. Allamon
Ralph Thornell
Nederland
C. F
Pud) Walker
Sarah Yawn
Allen Chance
Chance-Loeb
C. E. Bond
New Readers Meet The Bookmobile
The Har dim-Polk-Tyler Multi-County Library bookmobile makes biweekly stops across 32 communities. New readers who joined in June total 130. each family card covers borrowing limits for two weeks with renewals. A stop was arranged at North Hardin Baptist Church attracting sixteen families on June 30, with future visits set for Thursdays 11 to 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardim-Polk-Tyler
W. H. Sherman
North Hardin
North Hardin Baptist Church
Texas State Library
Mary Laurine’ Yust
Batson
Shelia Maxine
Kirkland
Corrigan
Juliene
Yanette Jordan
Segno
Elaine Satar
Village Mills
Strange Lizard Found By Boys In Silsbee Shed
Ricky Welborn and Richard Wilson found an unusual lizard near their homes in Silsbee. The creature resembled a common tree lizard but had a forked tail, a trait not seen locally. The sighting was reported to the Silsbee Bee newspaper last Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricky Welborn
Richard Wilson
Silsbee council approves cab fare hike and city projects
Silsbee City Council votes to raise taxi fares within the city from 45 to 50 cents for one rider and from 60 to 75 cents for two and 90 cents to $1 for three inside city limits. Four council members meet with one abstention. The meeting also covers bids for two pickup trucks, sale of a warehouse site, scrap of jail cells, vacation benefits expansion, library board representation, cemetery water taps, asphalt trials, Dardin Drive bridge work, and a new high school water line. The city ends the fiscal year with an estimated $6000 surplus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Max Zeller
Zeller
H. C. Hopkins
Wayne DuBose
Avenue I
J. W. Burlin
Burlin
DuBose
Paul Georgas
Resthaven
Dardin Drive
Naked Man Charged in Vil lage Creek Incidents Near Silsbee
Silsbee teenager Bruce Whisneant, 18, was nabbed by Deputy Sheriff Billy Paine near the FM 418 bridge after weeks of reports of a nude man. He faces charges of illegal weapon possession and indecent exposure, with a $6000 bond set and detention at the county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Village Creek
Bruce Whisneant
Highway 92
Billy Paine
FM 418
Paine
School Trustees Hear Financial Reports And Discuss Bus Repairs
Silsbee Independent School District trustees met last night to cover regular business. The agenda included financial reports resignations and recommendations bus repair and glass replacement on buses and school supplies. Discussions planned on folding chairs for the junior high choral room student insurance for 1966 67 an underwriter auditor selection for year ending August 31 and coaches attending coaching school in August in Houston. Bids for library and home economics furniture were also to be set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Independent
W K Hilliard to Lead Beaumont Kennel Club
W K Hilliard of Silsbee has been elected president of the Beaumont Kennel Club. Other new officers are Mrs Iva Duegins first vice president Jack Perryman second vice president Mrs Rosemary Jackson corresponding secretary Mrs Jackie Barnes recording secretary and C E Chick treasurer. John Barnes is retiring president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. K. Hilliard
Silsbee
Beaumont Kennel Club
Iva Duegins
Jack Perryman
Rosemary Jackson
Jackie Barnes
C. E. Chick
John Barnes
Summer Workshop at Silsbee Public Library
The Silsbee Public Library sponsors a summer art workshop for children from Monday July 18 to Friday July 22 under director John Alexander an art student at Lamar State College of Technology. For more information contact Mrs. Earl P. Watson EV 5 2086. Alexander recently held a one artist show at the Gold Coast Fine Arts Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Public Library
John Alexander
Lamar State College of Technology
Earl P. Watson
Alexander
Gold Coast Fine Arts Association
Strange New Okra Grown Here By Steve Redmond
A 41 inch okra pod grown by Steve Redmond was brought to the BEE office this week. He notes some pods may exceed 41 inches and describes the running okra vine producing gourdlike pods. Redmond says the pods can be sliced fried and taste like ordinary okra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve Redmond
BEE
Redmond
Sagstetters Mark 52nd Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs L J Sagstetter celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary on Monday. Emma Babin of Jernerette La and L J Sagstetter of Wabash Ind married July 11 1914 at St Johns Church Shreveport La. They have four sons and two daughters and live in Silsbee 40 years. Mr Sagstetter is a retired Santa Fe Railway employee. Their children visiting include W J Sagstetter family and Raymond FE Sagstetter family of Houston. Delmar Sagstetter and family also from Houston. Arriving Friday will be R L Sagstetter and family from Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. J. Sagstetter
Emma Babin
Jernerette
Wabash, Inc
St. John's Catholic Church
Shreveport
Silsbee
W. J. Sagstetter
Raymond FE. Sagstetter
Delmar Sagstetter
Houston
R. Il. Sagstetter
Fort Worth
Jaycee-Ettes Assist With Welcome Wagon Effort
The Jaycee-Ettes met with six members in the home of Mrs. C. Z. Pope Jr to discuss aiding the Welcome Wagon project. Visitors Tom Knighten and Travis Wotan outlined the chamber initiative for newcomers, while the group collected nine welcome gifts for new residents and planned recipe submissions for a National Jaycee Headquarters cookbook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaycee-ettes
C. Z. Pope Jr
Richard Worley
Tom Knighten
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
Travis Wotan
Houston Natural Gas Company
Chamber of Commerce
Rodney Glenn
Caesar Dominguez
Wayne Dubose
National Jaycee
Jaycee Arena
Monitoring Course To Be Taught Here
A Civil Defense radiological monitoring course will start Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Silsbee Fire Hall and run 15 hours over five days. Instructor will be Sawyer Wolston, Jefferson County Civil Defense Director, with John Busby, Silsbee Civil Defense Director, inviting all local residents to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Sawyer Wolston
Jefferson County Civil Defense
John Busby
Silsbee Civil Defense
Hartman on honor roll at University of Texas College of Engineering
Donald W. Hartman, son of Mrs. John S. Hartman of Silsbee, was named to the University of Texas College of Engineering Spring Semester scholastic honor roll. The list, released this week by Dean John J. McKet, includes two hundred thirty students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald W. Hartman
John S. Hartman
Silsbee
University of Texas College of Engineering
John J. McKet
Two Fires Hit Silsbee Weekend Damaging Businesses and Home
Fire Chief John Busby reports two weekend fires in Silsbee. At 3:00 a.m. Saturday the Top Burger No. 1 on Highway 96 South suffered damage from wiring in a jukebox, owned by Ross Eppes and leased to Benny Gardner, with a quick 20 minute control. At 4:36 a.m. Sunday a four mile north house owned by M. E. Faer, unoccupied after resident James A. Ferguson moved out, was destroyed. cause unknown as fire crews fought the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
John Busby
Highway 96
Highway 327
Busby
Ross Eppes
Benny Gardner
M. E. Faer
James A. Ferguson
Funeral Services For Pfc Hood Scheduled Today
Funeral services for Pfc. William Henry Hood 21 of Silsbee are set for 10:00 a.m. today at Farmer Funeral Home chapel with Rev. C. C. Jenkins of Bethel Tabernacle Beaumont officiating. Interment with military honors will follow at Resthaven Cemetery. Hood died July 5 in Germany after a swimming incident in Orleans France and a brain stem compression. Survivors include his father August Hood of Cambridge Ohio, stepfather and mother Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Carter, two half-sisters Brenda Gail Carter and Mrs. Frankie Louise Drake, and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Frisby, all of Silsbee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfc
William Henry Hood
Germany
Farmer Funeral Home
Rev
C. C. Jenkins
Bethel Tabernacle
Beaumont
Resthaven
Hood
Orleans
France
LaChapelle Hospital
Second General Hospital
Landstul
Army
August Hood
Cambridge
Ohio
R. D. Carter
Brenda Gail Carter
Frankie Louise Drake
Henry S. Frisby
Silsbee
Correction In Report Of Wilmer Miles Jr. Death
A Silsbee Bee correction states Wilmer Miles Jr. was a passenger in a car driven by Billy Cooper when the June 25 crash occurred. Miles died July 1 at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont from injuries. he was 22 and survived by parents Wilmer Miles Sr. and two brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Bee
Wilmer Miles Jr
Highway
Tommy Clark
Miles
Billy Cooper
Will Cooper
Fresenius Road
Cooper
Baptist Hospital
Beaumont
Wilmer Miles
West Avenue L
Silsbee
Ray McCardell
William Miles
Young People Head to Ridgecrest Baptist Meet
Thirty six youths and five adults from The Emmanuel Baptist Association travel by chartered bus to Ridgecrest North Carolina for the Ridgecrest Baptist Association youth and training union leadership conferences. The association covers bus charter and participant expenses. Accompanying adults include Rev and Mrs Eddis Smith Pine Crest Baptist Church Mr and Mrs C J Leslie Fletcher Emanuel Baptist and Miss Flo Nash Loeb First Baptist. They plan to return to Silsree July 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmanuel Baptist Association
Ridgecrest Baptist Association
Ridgecrest
N.C
Youth and Training Union
Eddis Smith
Pine Crest Baptist Church
C. J. Leslie
Fletcher Emanuel Baptist
Flo Nash
Loeb First Baptist Church
Silsree
Mrs Sim Ward Returns From Dallas Furniture Market
Mrs. Sim Ward came home Tuesday after attending a Dallas furniture market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sim Ward
Dallas
Also Mentioned on This Page
C.R. Baker
Thomas Jearl Peden
Chance Loeb
C. 0. Miller
W.E. Sheffield
Silsbee Social Notes
Mrs. Leona Whitman
Mrs. Beadman
J. H. David
Cesear Dominguez
R W. Collier
Dwayne Overstreet
Young Whisneant
BBE
Overstreet
W.K. Hilliard
Public
Sagstetters
W. H. Hood
Baptist
Ridgecrest, N. C
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