Loeb News Highlights Local Families and Church Activities
Mrs. Amanda Martin 97 died in Texas City with services in Texas City and burial in Livingston. Community notes include hospital updates, club gatherings, vacation Bible school dates at Woodcrest Methodist Church, and a garden of visitors and relatives from Beaumont, Silsbee, Nederland, and Baytown.
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Howard Gafford
Amanda Martin
Texas City
Church of Christ
Funeral Home
Livingston Cemetery
Gafford
Judge Reddell
Texas Methodist Unit To Absorb Negro Churches
The Houston Texas Methodist Conference, covering 54 counties, voted June 1 to absorb Negro churches from the all Negro Central Conference. Bishop Paul H. Martin said the move complies with a 1960 General Conference amendment to end segregated leadership and membership, aiming for full integration by 1968 during the conference’s sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas Methodist Conference
Texas
all-Negro Central Conference
Paul H. Martin
Methodist General Conference
Methodist Church
Episcopal Bishop Visits St. John’s Church on June 13
Bishop J Milton Richardson of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas will visit St. John's Episcopal Church in Silsbee on Sunday June 13 at the 11 o'clock service for the Feast Day of the Most Holy Trinity. He will confer Holy Confirmation on a class prepared by Rev. Joseph C. Harrison. a reception follows at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Milton Richardson
Episcopal Diocese of
Diocese of
Texas
Richardson
Sylvester
Macon
University of Georgia
Emory University
Virginia Theological Seminary
Alexandria
University of the South
Elizabeth Williams
Mary Dale Nelms
Jordan Sellers
Leonard A. Walton
Bishop Richardson
Bowers Road
Instant Traction and Gun Rack Cushioning Tips
Hunting and fishing enthusiasts face icy roads and spinning wheels on glazed ice. Scraping mud from under fenders provides grit for traction. Gun racks often use felt strips. replace with ordinary weather stripping for better protection and longer wear.
Atmosphere Deep as Ocean Depths Surpasses Records
A science note states Earth's atmosphere reaches 75 times the depth of the deepest ocean trench, signaling extreme scale differences between air layers and seawater, with implications for pressure, gas behavior, and planetary models.
Vacation Bible School Ends and Travel Notes Dot Local News
By Mrs Sidney Davis the Vacation Bible School at Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church closed last Friday after five days with an average attendance of 142 each day. Various local families report travel, hospital visits, moves, and social visits including camping trips to Lake Texoma and a homecoming in San Augustine Texas.
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Fletcher Emanuel Baptist Church
Henry Shettles
Harold Delaney
Bob Allen
Lake Texoma
Willie Morgan
Blanton Road
James Larry
Circle Concrete Co
A. E. Pickering
Sidney Davis
Victor
Ray Shaw
Bernice Gage
Robert Eugene Allen
Jasper
O. Gage
Clean Williams
Selma
F. B. Selman
Hershall McDonald
Hamilton
Texas
Ben Selman
John D. Trahan
Silsbee
Trahan
D. V. Trahan
Jo Ellen Pickering
Houston
Pete Ener
Pat
Ginger
Charles
Big Bend National Park
Christmas Mountains
Shriners Fish Fry Set for Cravens Camp Saturday
More than 500 people from about a dozen area points are expected at the Shriners fish fry at Cravens Camp, north of Silsbee, Saturday. The event runs from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. with signs posted five miles north of Silsbee on Highway 92.
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Shriners
Cravens Camp
Sils
Bee
Louis Petit
Port Arthur
East Texas Entertainment
el] Mina Temple
Petit
Silsbee
Highway 92
Boy Scout Troop 62 Cookout by Neches River
Boy Scout Troop 62 of Waldo Mathews School with Scoutmaster Curtis Lee Thompson held a Thursday cookout on the banks of the Neches River. They built fires, cooked their food, fished without success, and enjoyed games before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldo Mathews School
Alo
Curtis Lee Thompson
Neches River
Sinclair Wives Club Prepares Summer Vacation
The Sinclair Production Wives met June 3 at the home of Mrs. Lee Crowley with Mrs. L. E. Martin presiding. They decided to suspend meetings for July and August and will resume in September with Mrs. George Dunn of Beaumont as hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loeb He
W. A. Wright
T. C. Jordan
Dorothy Taylor
Ben Viel
Austin
Mrs. Heniry Shettles
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