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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1974
Page
7
The Tigers are now 1-4 after a March 12 game where Orange Stark hosted and posted a 4-3 result in eight innings, with the season starting March 1.
The Silsbee Tigers, coached by Charles Powell, face Port Arthur Jefferson at 6:30 p.m. on the Orange Stark diamond to begin the Orange Baseball Tournament. Silsbee beat TJ 5-4 on March 6 before a tourney loss.
The Southeast Texas Regional Planning Executive Committee schedules its monthly health meeting at 7 30 p m Wednesday March 20 in the district courtroom Hardin County Courthouse Kountze. The Criminal Justice Committee will start at 6 30 p m March 20 at the same site.
The Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission sponsors an Information Workshop for Hardin County seniors at First National Bank of Silsbee at 2 p.m. on March 15. Speakers include Ralph Wilson SSA James Bennett State Welfare Sidney Dauphin Texas Home Health and Kenneth Alsandoor SSI Coordinator. Participants may ask questions about Medicare Medicaid Food Stamps home health services and SSI program operations.
The East Texas Historical Association will hold its spring meeting at the Big Thicket Museum with papers on East Texas and Big Thicket history. A quilt contest exhibit offers prizes including 25 for oldest quilt and 10 for best pattern or quilting, judged by Mrs. W. C. Cameron.
Texas Woman's University lists fall semester honorees with Betsy Porter of 530 N. 6th and Martha K. Skinner of Highway 96 South among those earning a 3.0 GPA on the all A list and those with 2.3 or better on the Special Honor Roll.
The Friendship Garden Club will convene at the Masonic Temple on Wednesday March 20 at 7 30 p m at the corner of 15th and Avenue J Leola Ewing will preside over the business meeting Members are asked to bring a plant to exchange and plans will be made for a possible field trip.
Sergeant L A Reinhart of the Texas Highway Patrol said February closed with no rural fatalities in Hardin County. There were 25 rural crashes with 15 injuries, totaling 43 rural accidents and 34 injuries in Hardin through February. In Feb 1973 the county had 57 rural crashes with two deaths and 28 injuries. Across District 2B in February, 289 rural accidents occurred with seven deaths and 125 injuries.
Cub Scout Den 7 visited KKAS radio station on March 12 to learn how news and weather are broadcast. The group received a record and returned to Mrs. Carruth's land as Matt served refreshments with Stephen Grimes serving as scribe.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jimmy Young, a Houston resident aged 57, were held at 2 p.m. March 7. The obituary notes her death on March 6 and lists her surnamed spouse and city of residence.
Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kountze has been accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals for November 1973 to November 1975. The on-site survey confirmed the facility meets JCAH standards and maintains a 17 year record of excellence. Hardin Memorial remains one of about 4900 general hospitals nationwide holding the accreditation.
Pace Funeral Home Kountze with Rev Paul W Stephens officiating. Burial in Mt Pisgah Cemetery in Woodville. Mrs Young died in Houston March 6 after living there 15 years moving from Woodville. Survivors include husband Joe Thomas Young three sons John L and Don Young both of Houston James D Young of Kountze one brother Herman L Powers of Neder land and two sisters Mrs C L Wolcott of Kountze and Mrs O E Frizzell of Devers.
Rev L H Bigham 74 died at 3 10 p m Sunday in Silsbee Doctors Hospital He was a Willis native who lived in Silsbee 58 years and was a retired minister Funeral services set for 1 p m Sunday at Primus Chapel Methodist Church Burial at Kirby Cemetery Survivors include son Albert Jackson Leggett sister Josephine Grant New Willard and brother Peter Jackson Los Angeles
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department reported only one fire call between March 6 and 8, a large woods fire 13 miles northwest of Silsbee off FM 92. Fire Chief Russell Busby said the blaze, reported at 11:49 p.m. on March 8, was hard to reach and required notifying the Texas Forest Service.
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