Silsbee school calendar sets Aug 18 start for 1975 term
Silsbee Independent School District schedules fall term with in service days Aug 11 and Aug 4 8 pre registrations for new students at Silsbee High School Counselor's Office. New students must bring transcripts and guardians for under 16. Class schedules issued Aug 12 with grade by lobby area. Schedule changes limited Aug 13 15. First grade and second grade newcomers register Aug 4 at John Kirby Elementary. List of key dates includes holidays in Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Apr May and graduation.
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Silsbee
Silsbee Independent
SHS
S. A. Wallace
Silsbee High School
Wallace
John Kirby
Vandals Break Windows At O'Neil School
Silsbee police investigated vandalism at O'Neil Intermediate School with a broken east gym window found July 27 and six windows broken over two weeks. Maintenance said youths likely involved. A separate July 14 burglary at the maintenance building saw three tool boxes stolen valued around 25 dollars.
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O'Neil
Silsbee
The
BEE
Ralph Osborne
George Read
Dennis Allen
Osborne
Mike Anding
O’neil
Traffic Accident Injures Nine Near Silsbee Saturday
A two vehicle head on collision on FM 92 north of Silsbee at 3 04 p m Saturday July 26 injured nine people. The 1974 Ford pickup driven by Hubert Davis 25 Kirbyville and the 1973 Ford sedan driven by Kermit Willman Jr 26 Victor collided as the truck passed on the shoulder. Davis and Willman were treated and released. several passengers were hospitalized with fractures and contusions including Nan Quebedeaux and Nina LeBlue.
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Silsbee
Texas Highway
Hubert Davis
Kirbyville
Davis
Willman
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
Pasengers
Davis Auto
Eda Davis
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Beaumont
Hubert Davis Jr
Beaumont Hospital
Jamie Davis
Nan Quebedeaux
Nina LeBlue
St. Elizabeth
Local Option Vote Planned for Lumberton August 23
Absentee voting starts August 4 at the Hardin County Clerk in Kountze for a local-option election to permit off premises sale and consumption of alcohol in Lumberton. Five Hardin County Commissioners set the date after a petition drive. polling places and times to be announced. Prohibition on alcohol has stood in Lumberton since the 1950s.
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Lumberton
Hardin County Clerk’s
Kountze
Hardin County
The
BEE
Fall Civil Court Docket Lists 70 Cases For Trial
Seventy civil cases were docketed for trial in the 88th District Court across six weeks of August and September with trial weeks beginning August 18 25 and September 2 8 15 and 22. Docket calls at 9 a.m. include cases such as Reeves vs Kennedy McGallion vs McGallion White vs Droddy and others.
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88Th District Court
Aline Harper
Free elderly transport to continue in Hardin County
Hardin County will keep free transportation for residents 60 and older, funded by the Older Americans Act and SETRPC. The service shifts to Hardin Helping Hands with Courtesy Cab Co. as carrier, starting Aug. 1, after Texas Home Health ends operations. About 192 eligible riders used the program over the year, with 1100 to 1200 trips completed.
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Hardin County
Texas Home Health, Inc
Home Health
Sidney Dauphin
Dauphin
Hardin Helping Hands
South East Texas Regional Planning Commission
Gladys Carmenar
Oyan Biano
HHH
Barrington
Kountze
BEE
Hardin County Transportation Service
Texas Home Health
Governor’s Commission On Aging
Hardin County United Appeals
City of
Sour Lake
Hardin County Commissioner’s Court
Wotaw
Honey Island
Saratoga
Village Mills
Lumberton
Silsbee
County eyes $400,000 airport with $12,500 study
Harolin County could obtain a $400,000 airport facility with a $12,500 engineering study. FAA would cover 75 percent, Texas and Hardin County split the rest. Hardin County’s share could be $40,000 to $50,000 depending on final costs. Land commitments total 35 acres from Kirby Lumber Southland Paper and county officials.
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Harolin County
Federal Aeronautics Commission
Don Lee Hawthorne
Hawthorne
County Airport Commission
FAA
State of Texas
Hardin County
Kirby Lumber Corp
Southland Paper Co
George Kirkpatrick
Mower Stolen From Vacant Silsbee Rental
Silsbee contractor Paul Jordan told police a riding lawnmower valued about 250 dollars was stolen from a vacant rent house he owns at 815 West Avenue B. The 1968 Comet mower disappeared around 3 40 p m on July 26 after the property had stood empty for roughly 40 days.
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Silsbee
Paul Jordan
James Ohlrich
Jordan
West Avenue B
Trustees Award Bids For Roofing Renovations At Silsbee ISD
Silsbee Independent School District trustees reviewed bids Tuesday and awarded roofing work to H H Sanders and Sons Co of Beaumont and glass repair to Morris Glass Co of Silsbee. Coastal Dry Wall won ceiling installation at Silsbee Jr High. Sabine Industries bid to tear out Kirby roof was noted. The district awaits final tax and budget actions including a 1.8 million renovation package.
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Beaumont
Silsbee Glass
Silsbee Independent School District
Board of Trustees
H. L. Lackey
H. H. Sanders and ‘Sons Co
Morris Glass Co
Silsbee
Silsbee High School
Coastal Dry Wall
Coastal Dry Wall and Acoustical Specialty Co
Silsbee Jr. High School
Kirby
Read-Turrentine
Sanders
Read - Turrentine
Robinson
Jr. High
Sabine Industries
Read
Neches Glass Co
Biswanger Glass Co
Coastal Dry Wall and
Aceutical Specialty Co
Coastal
Sabine
Emily Holt
Sara Withers
Land
Elaine Warden
Alford McKeller
Vivian Rogers
Nelda Doyen
Jane White
Judith F. Couture
Beyond the Sundown at Alabama Coushatta Reservation
Hardin County night Aug 5 at the Alabama Coushatta Indian Reservation in Woodville features the outdoor drama Beyond the Sundown about the Texas Mexican War era. Tickets for East Texas residents are $1 on designated nights at First National Bank in Silsbee. main price is $3 to $4 with shows at 8:30 p.m. This year’s cast includes about 65 performers from local to New York theaters and runs until Aug 28 before a spring 1976 hiatus.
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Alabama - Couhatta
Texas
New York
Pineyawoods
Alabama-Coushat
Hardin No-Billed in Wilson Death
Jefferson County grand jury chose not to charge William McGowan Hardin 25 of Orange after an Orange driver was accused of involuntary manslaughter in the June death of John Martin Wilson 23 of Silsbee. Wilson died from injuries after his motorcycle was struck.
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Jefferson County
Deputies recover stolen auto and various thefts across counties
Deputies recovered an abandoned 1962 Chevrolet sedan left on Cook's Lake Road by thieves who stole it from a Port Arthur residence. The owner Walford Higginbotham reported the theft July 24. Deputies also investigated a Browning shotgun and tape deck stolen from a pickup owned by James Odom. In Jefferson County, Bobby Joe Yeagin faced three felonies and Deidre Perdue was charged in bomb paraphernalia case. Daniel Dickerson pled guilty to three offenses and received ten year probation and fines.
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Bo Welborn
Richard Brunner
Russell Busby
The
BEE
Hardin County Sheriffs Deputies
Cook’s Lake Road
Port Arthur
Mike Holzapfel
Walford Higginbotham
Fourth Street
Cook's Lake
Sheriff's Office
James Martin
L. J. Foux
Guillory
Lumberton
Martin
James Odom
Kountze
Odom
Jefferson County
Bobby Joe Yeagin
Silsbee
Beaumont
Justice of the Peace
J. Paul McNeil
Yeagin
Diedre Kelly Perdue
Rodeway Inn
Daniel Mack Dickerson
Dickerson
Knupple Family Attends Frayter Smythia Wedding
Mr and Mrs Joe B Knupple Jr of Abilene Mr and Mrs Robert E Knupple of Beeville and Miss Jennifer Newstead of Dallas visited Mrs Cornelia Knupple over the weekend They attended the wedding of Miss Beverly Fray ter and David Smythia in Lumberton on Saturday
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Joe B. Knupple Jr
Abilene
Robert E. Knupple
Beeville
Jennifer Newstead
Dallas
Cornelia Knupple
Beverly Frayter
David Smythia
Lumberton
Lafayette Becomes Major General in Continental Army
On this day in 1777 the Marquis de Lafayette offered his services to the Continental Congress and was commissioned a major general. A brilliant young leader at 20 he served at his own expense and became a celebrated figure of the American Revolution.
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Marquis de Lafayette
Continental Congress
Continental Army
Lafayette
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Robert Clayton Hooks
Frank Truman Hare
Maxine Cravy Hare
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L. M. Carson
Chrysler Motors Corp
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