Texas 61st Legislature ends busy session with education gains
Texas lawmakers wrapped the 61st regular session with a record pace and a $2.8 billion one year budget. They approved major education boosts including a $61.9 million teacher pay raise, new medical and nursing schools, and several universities. A state criminal justice plan seeks $1.1 million for law enforcement and other reforms to be funded by federal approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Ben Barnes
Gus Mutscher
Preston Smith
Laredo
Mutscher
State Criminal Justice Council
Smith
U. S. Department of Justice
Council
Congress
Midland District Court
Texaco
Port Arthur
State Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Clyde Durbin Jr
University of Texas
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Decker Lake
Beautify Texas Council
Villa Capri Motor Hotel
O. P. Schnabel
San Antonio
DeWitt Greer
State Highway Commission
R. H
Dick) Hackendahl
Washington, D. C
C. P. Waggoner
Grand Prairie
Crawford Martin
Spring Cheek
Honey Grove
Martin
Texas Foundation School Fund
Bexar County
Davis W. Tees
Arlington
Institute of Urban Studies
University of Texas System
Carl F Schupp I
Texas Adjutant General
Legion of Merit
Temple Banker
S. R. Greenwood
Max H Specht
New Braunfels
Texas State Guard
Harley B. West
Dallas
A. Ross Rommel
Houston
Tom Bishop
Odessa
Lubbock
Department of Public Safety
Corpus Christi
Dimmitt
Fort Worth
Rosebud
San Diego
Uvalde
Texas Highway Commission
Harlingen
Midland
Rio Airways Inc
Brownsville
McAllen
Hoys
Good Shepherd Revival Set for June 8 at Silsbee Church
The Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Silsbee announces revival services June 8 through 15 with evangelist Bobby Mankin as speaker. Mankin, a former heroin addict and ex-convict who found faith after meeting James Robinson, now attends East Texas Baptist College and travels widely for revivals. Singer Gene Dickson, blind and longtime White Oak native, will lead music under Rev. C. E. Willis. Services start at 7:30 each evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Shepherd Baptist Church of
Silsbee
Bobby Mankin
Mankin
James Robinson
East Texas Baptist College
Gene Dickson
White Oak
C. E. Willis
the Good Shepherd Church
Bourgeois and Ovesny Wed in Pine Crest Baptist Church
Judy Carrol Bourgeois and Cpl. Thomas Dale Ovesny exchanged vows at 8 p m Saturday at Pine Crest Baptist Church with Rev. Ed Smith officiating. The couple plans residence in Santa Ana, California, where he serves in the Marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Carrol Bourgeois
Cpl
Thomas Dale Ovesny
Pinecrest Baptist Church
Eddis Smith
Hardy J. Bourgeois
Frank Ovesny
Texas City
Cpl. Ovesny
Janet Williamson
Wyman Wilson Jr
Beaumont
Pam Ovesny
Travis House
Baton Rouge
Hardy J. Bourgeois Jr
Ronald
Donald Dunbar
Willie Fletcher
Houston
F. C. Leonard
New Orleans
Lawrence Hebert
Avery Island
L. J. Guiollte
Port Neches
Elizabeth Bowen
Santa Ana
Calif
US Marines
Three Silsbee Churches Plan Joint Vacation School
Three Silsbee churches First Christian First Presbyterian and St John s Episcopal will run a one week Vacation Church School from June 9 to June 13 at St John s Episcopal Church Roosevelt Drive Extension. Teachers from each church will staff the program with a $1 registration fee for children aged four through completing sixth grade. The school ends with a Friday hotdog cookout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
First Christian
First Presbyterian
St. John’s Episcopal
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Roosevelt Drive
Piano in Storage Offered at Low Payment Balance
Beautiful spinet console stored locally reported as like new. Responsible party may take advantage of a large saving with a low payment balance. Address: Joplin Piano, 315 South 16th, Waco Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joplin
South 16Th
Waco
Texas
Milstead daughter marries Marine Sgt Richard Arnold in Baltimore ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Milstead announce the marriage of their daughter Carol Milstead to Marine Sgt. Richard Daniel Arnold. The couple wed in Baltimore in a private ceremony. Carol, an Army nurse, is assigned to Walter Reed in Washington and will move to San Diego in July to join Arnold. He expects discharge in October, and they plan to live in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl G. Milstead
Carol Milstead
Richard Daniel Arnold
Marine Base
San Diego
Calif
Baltimore
Walter Reed General Hospital
Washington, D. C
Silsbee High School
Arnold
Atlanta
Texas highway construction bids sought for US 96 project
Sealed proposals to build 1.608 miles of graded gravel base and storm sewers from a new US 96 location 2.1 miles south of SH 327 north 1.6 miles on US 96 in Hardin County are due at the Texas Highway Department in Austin by 9 00 A M June 17 1969. Plans and wage rates are available from the Resident Engineer in Silsbee and the Austin office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Highway Construction
Flex. Base, Co. & G
Hardin County
Highway Department
Austin
Lester P. Landgraf
Silsbee
Texas
Texas Highway Department
Treasury notes on Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares safety
The article explains that savings bonds and freedom shares can only be redeemed by their registered owners. If lost stolen mutilated or destroyed they are replaceable free of charge by the Treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Freedom
Treasury
Also Mentioned on This Page
America
Jon
the Aeronautics Commission
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Henry Grover
U. S. Senate
George Bush
Sewell’s
Worm Ranch
Old Kountze Road Star Rt
Neches National Bank
Joyce Crawford
Good Shepherd
Judy Bourgeois
Thomas Ovesny
Richard Arnold
Allamanda
Mon's Nursery
South 7Th & Ave
Steve McQueen
Mississippi
IX Ag Aene
AGRE
Fifth Street
Avenue I
Silsbee, Texas
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!