Silsbee Public Schools to Observe Public Schools Week Weeklong events planned
Supt Don L. Hough announces March 7 through 11 as Public Schools Week in the Silsbee district. Career day events will feature professionals at Silsbee High and Lamar Tech visits for seniors. Lunch visits are scheduled by campus with Kiwanis Lions clubs and local groups invited.
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Silsbee
Don L. Hough
Hough
Silsbee High
Lamar Tech
Tarentine
Frank Robinson
Waldo Mathews
Kirby Supt. Hough
Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
Exquisett
Royal Clover Leaf Clubs
Dowdy seeks re election to Congress in new district
Congressman John Dowdy announces his bid for re election highlighting 14 years in Congress and eight years as District Attorney. He asks citizens to support his record rather than promises and offers to use his influence to aid constituents. Also notes illness of Mrs. R. C. Axtell and the Axtell family relocation from Silsbee and Beaumont to Malden Missouri.
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John Dowdy
Congress
Third Judicial District
Seventy-Eight Held At Hardin County Jail In Week
Hardin County jail records for Feb 24 to Mar 2 show 38 individuals detained. Among them 17 were drunk and disorderly. other arrests include six for affray one for abandonment of wife two for hot checks one for AWOL from the army one for car theft one for disturbing the peace three for aggravated assault on a peace officer one for bigamy one for vagrancy and four for traffic violations.
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Hardin County
Henry Overstreet
Little League Registration Day This Saturday
Registration for Little League baseball will be held Saturday at the Little League park from 9 a.m. to noon. Boys aged 8 through 12 must register and bring birth certificates and at least one parent.
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Little League Park
Absenteeism Floods Silsbee Schools Amid Illness Surge
Supt. Don L. Hough reports 835 Silsbee district schools plagued by measles mumps and viruses with absentee rates above 10 percent for a week. February heavy absenteeism concentrated in elementary grades as 477 students missed on Monday and total enrollment 3734.
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Silsbee
Don L. Hough
Read-Tarentine
Silsbee Council Accepts Charter Changes by Unanimous Vote
The Silsbee city council approved 20 proposed charter amendments aimed at updating the charter to comply with state law. Voters will decide yes or no on April 5 alongside elections for three council seats. The amendments were formed by the charter study commission led by Horace Whittington and will be published with explanations next week.
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Alof
Silsbee City
Tall
Charter Study Commission
Commission
Horace Whittington
THE
BEE
Terrell Buchanan
Silsbee
Whittington
E. M. Simmons
Earl Wills
Cecil Cobble
Richard Jones
Clifton Caraway
Eugene Jonte
Warren Bower
Bruce Watts
J. L. Shine
I. F. Eldridge
Wes Latham
Gibson Shows Official Constable Commission
John Gibson, constable of Precinct 5 in Hardin County, refutes untrue statements about his officer qualification and displays his commission signed by Governor Connally and Secretary of State Crawford Martin. The article also notes city charter amendments and local political figures connected to Silsbee.
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John Gibson
Silsbee
Connally
Martin
State of Texas
Hardin County
City of
Austin
A.D
John Connally
Texas
Voter Registration Under New Bill Explained
The first phase of a new voter registration law starts with a 15 day emergency period this Thursday. Voters may register by visiting the county tax assessor collector office by mail or in person at fixed locations, with the process largely similar to the poll tax system except for the $1.75 fee.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Bond
John Connally
League of Women Voters
Labor and
Texas
Funeral Services Held Friday For Gertis H. Matlock
Funeral services for Gertis Henry Matlock 58 of Silsbee were held at 2 p m Friday at Farmer Funeral Home with Rev Frank Poole officiating. Burial was in Resthaven Cemetery. Matlock died at 3 30 a m Thursday at home after a short illness. He was a native of Brookeland a retired carpenter and a Baptist. Surviving are his wife two sons a daughter his mother two brothers and four sisters.
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Gertis
Henry Matlock
Silsbee
Farmer Funeral
Frank Poole
Sunny Acres Baptist Church
Resthaven
Matlock
Brookeland
Oren Matlock
Asie L. Matlock
Beaumont
Gertis H. Matlock Jr
Montgomery
Ala
J. T. Campbell
Port Neches
G. A. McDonald
Jasper
Clarence Matlock
Ernest Matlock
Lonnie Crouch
Myrtle Hulett
Two Cases Heard In Hardin County Court
Two cases were heard in the Hardin county court of Judge Fletcher Richardson in the past week. On February 23 H E Smith of Silsbee was fined 100 dollars and court costs for carrying a pis Susan Weaver and Keith Weaver of Wilmington California were each fined 40 dollars and court costs on March 1 for aggravated assault.
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Hardin County
Fletcher Richardson
H. E. Smith
Silsbee
Susan Weaver
Keith Weaver
Wilmington
Calif
Silsbee Infant Dies Of Meningitis
Kandi Anna Fuller, 14 months, daughter of Mr and Mrs Billy K Fuller of Silsbee, died of meningitis at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services were held at 2 p m Saturday at the Former Funeral Chapel with Rev Eugene Jonte officiating. Survivors include sister Kristi Fuller and her grandparents Maida Fuller and Mr and Mrs W L Stackpole of Silsbee.
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Kandi
Anna Fuller
Billy K. Fuller
Silsbee
Baptist Hospital
Beaumont
Eugene Jonte
First Methodist Church
Restjhaven
Henry Donielson
Norman
February Is Slack Month In City Court
February in city traffic court showed low activity per a report by Silsbee Corporation and Judge George Goynes. Fines totaled 1039.25 with 54 traffic violators and seven other misdemeanors. City patrolmen issued 63 traffic tickets and nine other violations. Thirteen accidents, with one injury, were caused by traffic violations. Speeders led with nine tickets. crossing double yellow stripes accounted for two violators.
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Silsbee Corporation
George Goynes
Goynes
Tennis Stars Driscole Harris To Play Exhibition Saturday
Driscole and Harris two former nationally ranked players will offer an exhibition match Saturday afternoon at 3 at the high school courts weather permitting. Driscole, Port Arthur YMCA athletic director and former Lamar Tech ace, and Bill Harris of Beaumont, ex Texas University star, will meet in the event. Dragged from source, both have Wimbledon and Forest Hills ties. the match aims to show local fans a higher caliber of tennis with no admission charge.
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al Driscole
Port Arthur Ymca
Lamar Tech
Bill Harris
Beaumont
Texas University
E. E. Bean
Driscole
England
Forest Hills
New York
Harris
Bean
Murphey enters race for Texas State Senate 3rd District
Bob Murphey a 44 year old attorney from Nacogdoches released his official announcement this week as candidate for State Senate from the 3rd District. A former district attorney and active civic leader, he vows to halt rising taxes and back education water resources and law enforcement.
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Bob Murphey
Nacogdoches
Murphey
Angelina
Cherokee
East Texas
Stephen F. Austin State ‘College
U. S. Merchant Marine
University of Texas
Austin
Texas House of Representatives
Nacodoches
2Nd Judicial District of Texas
State Firemen’s and Fire Marshal's Association
State Senate
Services Held For Irvin M. Thompson
Funeral services for Irvin M. Thompson 86 of Silsbee were held at 2 p m in the First Baptist Church with Rev R E Barclay officiating Burial followed at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Beaumont under direction of Farmer Funeral Home Thompson retired farmer former justice of the peace and peace officer died at 1 40 a m Tuesday in Hotel Dieu Hospital Beaumont Born in Lovelady Tex he lived in Silsbee 52 years He was a member of First Baptist Church of Silsbee and the Masonic Lodge of Lovelady Surviving are a son Houston I Thompson of Silsbee a daughter Mrs Julia Sands of Long Island N Y a brother Guy Thompson of Crockett and a sister Mrs Ethel Murfee of Abilene
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Irvin M. Thompson
Silsbee
First Baptist Church
R. E. Barclay
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Beaumont
Farmer Funeral Home
Sils Thompson
Hotel Dieu Hospital
Lovelady
Tex
First Baptist Church of
Masonic Lodge
Houston I. Thompson
Julia Sands
Long Island
Guy Thompson
Crockett
Ethel Murfee
Abilene
Mrs J A Smith Visited Family in Houston and LaMarque
Mrs J A Smith returns home after visiting her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Eugene Smith in Houston and Mr and Mrs Perry A Smith in LaMarque. The trip touched nearby family households and concluded without incident.
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Albert McBroom
Houston
R. M. McCuistion
J. A. Smith
Eugene Smith
LaMarque
Perry A. Smith
Final Right of Way Land Acquired On 96 By-Pass
The final right of way for Highway 96 By-Pass east of Silsbee was secured in a condemnation hearing. The $2 million highway program aims to let contracts in March and April for grading and grub on the by-pass to Village Creek and for improvements to Old Spurger Road. The LNWA letter and court actions set conditions including a 12 by 6 feet boat lock, alternative power for gates, a portage, an emergency spillway, and public access and tests.
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Silsbee
Fletcher Richardson
Village Creek
Commissioners Court
Kountze
Lower Neches Valley Authority
Pine Island Bayou
Ten Accidents During Week Leave Two Injured in Silsbee
An outbreak of ten accidents across Silsbee over a week caused two injuries. Incidents included a Tuesday collision at Kirby Avenue and North Fifth, and a Sunday crash at 11th Street and Avenue J. Dorothy Gray and Lydia Smallwood were treated for minor injuries, while Charlie Maze suffered injuries in a separate Avenue J collision and was released from Hardin Memorial Hospital.
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Silsbee
Kirby Avenue
North Fifth
11Th Street
Avenue J
Dorothy Gray
Lydia Smallwood
Charlie Maze
Hart Brookins
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Buna Sergeant Reflects On Complicated Vietnam War
Staff Sergeant Ishmael Spell, 32, Buna native, returned from 18 months in Saigon and says the Vietnam War is complex and not clearly winnable. He notes Vietnamese self-interest, mixed views on Red China, morale among U S troops, and cites hardship in Saigon, including rising rice prices and crowded conditions.
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Viet Nam
Korea
Japan
Europe
Ishmael Spell
Tom Spell
Buna
Saigon
Set
Spell
Robert Kennedy
Metropole
Army
Sgt. Spell
Hardin County EOA Meeting Elects Temporary Leaders
Hardin County Judge Fletcher Richardson was elected temporary chairman of the Hardin County Community Action Committee at a county wide meeting in Kountze attended by over 100 people. Dorothy Taylor named temporary secretary and a slate of directors was appointed. Robert Watts explained Economic Opportunity Act programs and that up to 90 percent federal funding may be approved, with Hardin County allotted 111000 dollars before June 30, 1966.
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Hardin County
Fletcher Richardson
Hardin County Community Action Committee
Dorothy Taylor
Richardson
George Dixon
Sour Lake
Rev
H. L. Foster
Tom Knighten
Silsbee
Harold Peck
Kountze
Buck Hobbs
Batson
Chance-Loeb
Robert
Student Cecile Cobble Visits SFA Roots in Nacogdoches
Miss Cecile Cobble, a student at SFA in Nacogdoches, spent the weekend visiting the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Cobble.
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Cecile Cobble
SFA
Nacogdoches
Mrs
Cecil Cobble
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Artest
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A. E
R. L. Read
W. A. Read
J. R. Read
A. P. Reed
Port Arthur
City News Stand
Pa-Go
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LNWA
EOA
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