Gun Toting DWI Fines Highlight County Court Week
Three cases heard in county court include Rihard C. Stockton pleading guilty to pistol toting with a fine of 100 dollars. Two men, Gar land Pack and Clyde C. Chaddick, were convicted of drunken driving with fines of 50 dollars and three days in jail each. Chaddick faced an additional charge of driving without a license. A total of 24 arrests were reported at the county jail, with offenses ranging from drunks to assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher Richardson
Rihard C. Stockton
Port Neches
Garland Pack
Maud, Okla
Clyde C. Chaddick
Spurger
Chaddick
Paul Delk
Roland Irwin
Kountze Negro
Robert Jackson
Beaumont Negro
Jackson
Beaumont
Delk
Irwin
Services Held For Burks Infant In Auto Wreck
Funeral services were held for Theresa Jean Burks 14 weeks daughter of Mr and Mrs Jerry Burks Jr of Loeb and Houston at Woodcrest Methodist Church Chance Loeb. She died Tuesday July 10 from injuries in a LaMarque Texas auto accident. Rev Cliff Lamb and Rev Eugene Fitz Water officiated. Survivors include paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Jerry Burks Sr of Loeb maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs FE R McKenzie of Jasper and paternal great grandparents Mr and Mrs M F Riley of Honey Island. Burial followed at Old Hardin cemetery near Kountze under Pace Wells Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theresa Jean Burks
Jerry Burks Jr
Loeb
Houston
Woodcrest Methodist Church
Chance-Loeb
LaMarque
Texas
Cliff Lamb
Eugene Fitz Water
Jerry Y. Burks Sr
FE. R. McKenzie
Jasper
M. F. Riley
Honey Island
Old Hardin Cemetery
Kountze
Pace-Wells Funeral Home
LL Moms Dads Managers Play Ball Tuesday Night
Mothers of Little League boys and mothers of the major league teams played a park ball game Tuesday night. The minor league mothers won 10 to 9 while the managers and assistants were defeated 11 to 9. Port Neches visitors in Hemmenway and Davis homes last Sunday.
Silsbee FFA Members to Attend State Meet in Fort Worth
Four Silsbee FFA boys Terry Harrell Bobby Corley Lynn Patillo and Kenneth Patillo will attend the State FFA Convention in Fort Worth July 18 to 20. Jerry Harrell is a delegate and Bobby Corley an alternate. The event will elect a state president choose delegates to the National Convention and select a sweetheart and top talent team. O L Miller vocational agriculture teacher will accompany the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Future Farmers of America
FFA
Fort Worth
Bobby Corley
Silsbee
Terry Harrell
Lynn Patillo
Kenneth Patillo
Jerry Harrell
Kansas City
O. O. Miller
Presbyterians Approve Land Sale at First Church
At a church meeting the Congregation of First Presbyterian approved selling one and a quarter acres along South Third Street. Proceeds will reduce church indebtedness to the Brazos Presbytery as the parish moves toward a highway location after the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Presbyterian Church
South Third St
Highway 96
Larry Correll
South 3Rd Street
Presbytery of
Brazos
W. C. Caraway
Earl Stover
Silsbee
Firemen Rescue Puppy From Narrow Well
Volunteers rush to the scene as a small dog falls into a ten inch well behind a house. Fire Marshal Slavik ultimately frees the pup with a wire loop while Fire Chief Busby and others assist. Mary Tarver, the pup’s owner, comforts the grateful dog as firemen head to dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Slavik
John Busby
Martin McKinney
Mary Tarver
Lois Tarver
Shorty McDaniel
Girl Hurt in Car Wreck Recovers
Jo Anne Gentry four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs E W Gentry of Silsbee was reported in good health after a Beaumont car crash last Tuesday. She was treated and released from a Beaumont hospital after a bruising mishap as a passenger in her father’s car. The other vehicle was driven by Mrs Janice Elan May of Beaudont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jo Anne Gentry
E. W. Gentry
Silsbee
Beaumont
Janice Elan May
Beaudont
Reserved Seats Offered For 1962 Football Season
Silsbee school board approved adding a reserved seating section on the home side and reserving 256 seats on the visitors’ side. Over 1100 seats were added earlier as stadium improvements. Reserved seats cost $1.25 general admission $1.00. season tickets in the reserved area priced at $6.90, a 25 cent savings. Board also sent seven coaching staff to a coaches school with $100 per man expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirby Stadium
Silsbee Tiger
Silsbee School Board
Supt
Don Hough
Tiger
Hough
Lubbock
Janette van Winkle
Doris Winger
Sharee Potts
Bert Kellar
Darryn Crenwelge
Bill Spillar
Hardy Walters
Dave Cravy
Mozelle Hardison
Lela Parker
H. N. Lee
Two Auto Wrecks Reported in Area
Two vehicle accidents occurred in the Silsbee area over the past week. James Riley Moore, 19, of Silsbee, was taken to Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kountze after his car overturned on the Kountze highway about 2.3 miles east of Kountze near Village Creek around 6 a.m. Tuesday. Edger Creel of Rt. 1 Silsbee and Jack Gore of Rt. 1 were involved in a Sunday evening two car crash north of Silsbee. no one was seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
James Riley Moore
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Kountze
Village Creek
Leo Hickman
Moore
Edgar Creel
Rt. 1
Jack Gore
Gore
Creel
Hickman
Firemen Find Two Lost Boys Monday
Silsbee volunteer firefighters searched dense underbrush south of Bakers camp between the Santa Fe Track and Cook Road Monday afternoon for two lost boys. Robert Dean 13 and Cade Smith 10 were found unharmed around 4 p m. They are sons of W L Dean of Knupple Rd and Wallace Smith Jr of 302 Yaupon respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Bakers
Cook Road
Robert Dean
W. L. Dean
Knupple Rd
Cade Smith
Wallace Smith Jr
Further Talk On Feed Lot Set At Chance Loeb
Residents of Chance Loeb and property owners plan a second meeting Friday at the school house to discuss the Zummo Meat Company feed lot under construction south of Village Creek. John Zummo says precautions will curb flies and pollution, and that the lot aims to be an asset, with 6000 head of fed beef produced annually and a local market for calves and feed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chance-Loeb
Zummo Meat Company
Village Creek
John Zummo
Zummo
Funeral services held for Thomas C Ford former Silsbee resident
Thomas Collier Ford 74 died in Liberty and funeral services were conducted July 14 at Magnolia Springs Church. Rev. J F Pett ey and Rev. D H Starks officiated. Burial followed in the church cemetery with Silsbee Masonic Lodge No 927 in charge. Survived by two daughters Mrs Billie Sue Rhodes Liberty and Mrs Biela Ewing Silsbee, one son Howard Ford Kirbyville, four sisters and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were by Farmer Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Collier Ford
Magnolia Springs Church
J. F. Pettey
Kirbyville
D. H. Starks
Silsbee
Liberty
Biela Ewing
Howard Ford
Clifford Dill
Thibodeaux
John Wadell
Alexandria
Minnie Meehan
Nell Bodreaux
New Orleans
Weden Ford
Columbia
Farmer Funeral Home
Visitors listed at George Hart home include numerous Texas and Mississippi guests
Recent visitors to the George Hart residence featured Mr. and Mrs Jimmy Hart and children from Wichita Falls Texas. Others included Mr. and Mrs Joe Good and children from Port Arthur Miss Ivy Humphrey of Newton Mr and Mrs Grayson Lee of Hampshire Mr and Mrs Hugh Good Frank Gilbert Mrs Lillian Fabergase Mrs Earl Gilmore and son Mr and Mrs W SJ Burkhart Mr and Mrs Felix Strahlen and children and Mr and Mrs Doyle Wingate of Beawnont and Miss Hans Wilkerson of Victor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hart
Jimmy Hart
Wichita Falls
Texas
Joe Good
Port Arthur
Ivy Humphrey
Newton
Grayson Lee
Hampshire
Hugh Good
Frank Gilbert
Lillian Fabergase
Earl Gilmore
W. SJ Burkhart
Felix Strahen
Doyle Wingate
Beawnont
Hans Wilkerson
Victor
New Baptist Group To Install Officers Next Week
The Neches River Baptist Association plans an installation meeting on Wednesday at 9 30 a m at Good Shepherd Baptist Church. Officers include Mrs W L Caraway president and Mrs David Diden recording secretary. Twelve churches in the newly organized association will name zone leaders and committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neches River Baptist Association
Good Shepherd Baptist Church
Sidney J. Hebert
Groves
H. C. Davidson
East Tesa
C. R. Ferry
C. A. Murph
Oscar Hoffpaul
David Blalock
Chester Carpenter
W. L. Jones
Henry Shettles
J. M Byerly
First Baptist
Loeb
Lumberton Fletcher Emanuel
Voth
Henry Nix
Friendship Baptist
Woodrow Baptist
First Church
Silsbee
Honey Island
Pine Crest Chapel
C. A. Weatherford
Central Baptist of
Evadale
First Baptist of
Good Shepherd Baptist of
Thompson Family Visits Augusta Kin in Georgia
Mr and Mrs H L Thompson and children of Augusta Gen visited last week in the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Earnest Hutto Mrs Hutto stayed several days in the Thompson home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Thompson
Augusta
Gen
Earnest Hutto
Kountze Plans Wood Products Show in October
A wood products festival is planned in Kountze from October 21 to 26 during National Forest Products Week. Buford Rea, secretary, said the show arose from a meeting attended by about 15 people. Planned events include exhibits, a parade, a queen’s contest, and discussions on efficient wood use. steering officers are Clark Allen chairing, W. G. Birdwell vice chair, John Meyers first vice chair, Rea secretary, and George Christian treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kountze
Buford Rea
Clark Allen
W. G. Birdwell
John Meyers
Silsbee
Mr. Rea
George Christian
Mrs Skinner Shares World Cruise Tale With Silsbee Lions
Mrs. L. P. Skinner described a two month world trip with her husband via jet from California to New York aboard an ocean liner on a Silsbee Lions Club meeting day. Zone meeting attendees E. J. Dietrich George Goynes W. W. Howell Al Mashburn. Labor Day radio ad sales progress reported by Doug Reed. The club plans to donate Labor Day proceeds to furnish the new Silsbee Public Library building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. P. Skinner
Silsbee Lions Club
Skinner
Doug Reed
Lions Labor Day Radio Project
Lenox Hawthorne
Leon Kelly
al Mashburn
Tom Tennison
Paul Georgas
Lions Club
Silsbee Public Library
Little League All Stars Open Playoff Action Tonight
The Silsbee area Little League All Stars meet Evadale in Evadale for the first round of LL playoffs. If they win, they advance to Silsbee for home games Friday and Saturday nights, with Glen Reid managing the team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Evadale
Glen Reid
All Stars
Architectural Engineer George Markham Visits Family Ties
George Markham an architectural engineer and civilian government employee spends a few days this week in Silsbee visiting his mother Mrs J G Markham Sr and his brother Dr Ira G Markham. He also called on brother Kenneth Markham in Beaumont during his Bermuda trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Markham
Hamilton
Bermuda
Silsbee
J. G. Markham Sr
Ira G. Markham
Kenneth Markham
Beaumont
Port Arthur Visitors Stop at Rethke Home
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ledge and family from Port Arthur visited Friday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Rethke. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Olson and their Port Arthur son visited Saturday in the Rethke home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Ledge
Port Arthur
R. W. Rethke
Owen Olson
Rethke
Kirby Union Near Agreement on New Labor Contract
Local 5 114 of the International Wood Workers of America and Kirby Lumber Corp near a labor pact. Workers voted unanimously for the offer last Saturday. A three cent hourly raise took effect Monday with more increases to follow under the three year contract without a wage reopener clause. The old contract expired Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Wood Workers of America
Kirby Lumber Corp
R. C. Williams
Kirby
Births in Silsbee and surrounding areas July entries
Mr and Mrs Harold Ray Swift of Orange welcome son Stephen Ray born July 9. Grandparents listed as Mr and Mrs C E Swift and Mr and Mrs Z B Thornton. In Silsbee a son Dwayne Morris Thorn ton born July 9 at Baptist Hospital Beaumont. grandparents Mr and Mrs Glenn Thorn ton and Mr and Mrs M E Fowler. Ruby Annette Whitmire born July 17 in Hardin Memorial Hospital Kountze to Mr and Mrs Tommy Whitmire. Clifford Grant Hollyfield born July 14 to Mr and Mrs Hannon Hollyfield of Silsbee. Mark Amos Webb born July 11 to Mr and Mrs Robert Lee Webb of Silsbee. Elizabeth Lynell Havens born July 17 to Mr and Mrs John Edwin Havens of Evadale. David Glenn Laur ent born July 16 to Mr and Mrs Clifford Laur ent of Kountze. Anita Cariol Ruse born July 15 to Mr and Mrs Glenn Ruse of Silsbee. An additional daughter Sandra Evan born July 14 to Mr and Mrs Louis Jenkins of Fred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Turk
Turk
Tulsa
Okla
William Free
Herbert Free
R. R. Burgess
Franklin Park
N. J
E. L. Ashcraft
Woodville
Lois Brinson
Bobby Fountain
A. Fountain
Anacoce Camp
Louisiana
John Cannon
Miami
Fla
Pat E. Leviness
Paxton C. Leviness
Silsbee
Air Defense Center
Fort Bliss
Texas
Army
Simon Roth
Mary
Saratoga
Quartermaster School
Fort Lee
Richard Roth
Kountze
Fort Knox
Charles H. Kyles
Deloris
P. A. Smith
Lamarque V Sted
J. A. Smith
Gladys Poland
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Smith
Frank Alen
Bell of
Houston
Harold Ray Swift
Orange
Stephen Ray
C. E. Swift
This City
Glenn Thornton
Dwayne Morris
Baptist Hospital
Beaumont
Z. B. Thornton
M. E. Fowler
Hannon Hollyfield
Clifford Grant
Mark Amos
Robert Lee Webb
John Edwin Havens
Evadale
Elizabeth Lynell
Clifford Laurent
David Glenn
Sandra Evan
Louis Jenkins
Fred
Glenn Ruse
Anita Cariol
Santa Fe Safety Meeting Held Here Wednesday
A regular quarterly Safety meeting for Silsbee employees of the Santa Fe Railway was held at the roundhouse on Wednesday July 18. KE. E. Baker, Southern Division superintendent at Temple, W. B. Miller safety supervisor from Temple, and local employees attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Santa Fe Railway
Roundhouse
KE. E. Baker
Southern Division
Temple
W. B. Miller
Rainbow Girls and Demolay Honor Party Tonight
The Rainbow Girls and their dates along with the Demolay boys will be honored at a watermelon and swimming party tonight at 6 30 p m at the Silsbee Swimming Pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Swimming Pool
Langhammer Visits San Antonio Guest at Jack Hill Home
E. G. Langhammer of San Antonio visited the Jack Hill home on Wednesday, sharing time with the host and enjoying a cordial call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. G. Langhammer
San Antonio
Jack Hill
Swift Family Visiting in Orange at Son's Home
Mr and Mrs C E Swift are visiting in Orange at the home of their son and family Mr and Mrs Harold Ray Swift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. C. E. Swift
Orange
Mrs
Harold Ray Swift
Mrs Hill Heads Home After Visit to Nick Hill
Miss Carolyn Hill leaves for her home in Sinton after visiting her father Nick Hill for several weeks this Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Hill
Nick Hill
Sinton
Gulf States Utilities Tops National Safety Contest Field
Gulf States Utilities leads 415 public utilities in the National Safety Council contest with a perfect record since January 1. The company has a clean slate since November 20, 1961 and approaches four million working manhours without a disabling or lost time injury. An award plaque was given for three million manhours, as officials push for a broader safety campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf States Utilities
National Safety Council
Gulf State Utilitie Co
Council
Gulf States
GSU
National Statter Council Re
Cently
Gulf
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