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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1962
Page
2
Texas voters in 12 big city counties show potential legislative clout as governor candidates spar over redistricting. Poll tax exemptions rise with age and weather effects on city turnout noted amid DPS motorcade death tolls and park site bids for Lorenzo de Zavala’s burial ground.
Silsbee Lodge No 349 Knights of Pythias meets Tuesdays at 8 00 p m in Community Hall Members urged to attend and visiting brethren invited Silsbee Chapter Order of DeMolay meets first and third Thursdays at 730 p m in Silsbee Texas Visitors and Masons invited Edwin Read M C Joey Taylor scribe Chancellor Commander M O BrownPhillip McKinney see
The piece lists organizers and volunteers for door to door campaigning led by Mrs. W. C. McNeil and a group including E. M. Wilson Jr. and others. It cites the 1962 Cancer Crusade and notes multiple proclamations by national and state leaders urging April as Cancer Control Month to promote early detection and treatment.
Texas citizens urged to observe Cancer Control Month by supporting the American Cancer Society and learning vital cancer facts. Proclamation dated March 29, 1962, signed by Frank L. McClanahan, Mayor of Silsbee.
Parade organizers list captains and participants in the Easter Seal Parade set for Monday in Silsbee and Kountze and Tuesday in Sour Lake. Names include Parade Pugh and Jimmy Smith among many. Local captains cover Batson Thicket Wotan Village Mills Honey Island.
Pole vault results show Drake and Silsbee leading the Nederland pool with King and Crosby in the mix. In discus Black of Silsbee and Byers of Huntsville place high, followed by Bourg Nederland and Connerly Liberty. 100 yard dash lists Davis Huntsville and Bailey Nederland among top six. 120 yard high hurdles see Smith Nederland leading with Overstreet and Allison Woodville close behind.
A travel itinerary takes visitors through the Big Thicket to the Alabama Cou shatta Indian Reservation east of Livingston then to Woodville for the Woodville Dogwood Festival. The tour continues along US 69 287 through the Pig Thicket area and back to Beaumont via Kountze, Hardin County.
Silsbee Little League Auxiliary invites all mothers of league players to Kirby Elementary Cafetorium at 3 30 p m Thursday April 5. Officers for the coming year will be elected and plans made for the approaching season according to Mrs R A Hebert president. mothers of boys in major or minor league are invited to attend.
Spring fund drives appeal for overseas aid programs across the Protestant Catholic and Jewish faiths. The One Great Hour of Sharing aligns with the 1962 United Appeal in Protestant churches on April 1. The Bishops Relief Fund occurs in Catholic churches the same day. The United Jewish Appeal remains a continuing effort during this season.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Connally plans a four day East Texas swing starting April 4 with stops in Kountze Woodville Jasper and Kirbyville from Beaumont before ending Friday in Austin for a Homecoming Day rally Supporters organize as Connally seeks votes in the Beaumont Orange Port Arthur industrial region He also holds funeral services for Allen Geisendorff in Silsbee with burial at Frank's Branch cemetery He is survived by his parents a daughter in Honolulu a brother and a grandmother
Silsbee school board awarded a $33,350 contract to Foster Bros of Port Arthur in a special session last Wednesday to build a band hall at Silsbee High. The board also sought bids for Kirby stadium decking and approved $10,860 for seating expansion on the home side. Additional bids will remove existing decking on both stands to install new pressure treated decking with local lumber yards invited to bid.
A check for 19 727.15 dollars was sent to Hardin County by the Texas Highway Department as partial payment of the state's share for land needed on State Route 105 between Centerline of Ann Street in Sour Lake and 0 2 miles west of Fannin Street. District Engineer W E Simmons will transmit the check to the Hardin County Commissioners Court. The state covers title insurance and appraisal costs. other items have already been forwarded.
The East Texas Shrine Club hosts a rummage sale at Santa Fe Park in Silsbee beginning at 7 a m Saturday. Co chairmen Frank L McClanahan and Billy Wellborn plan merchandise donations to Tom Allen before Saturday. Proceeds aid Shriners welfare work.
A. E. Read, owner of A. E. Read Appliance Co. in Silsbee, is expected to have surgery at St. Therese Hospital in Beaumont this morning.
Texas Department of Public Safety closes the 1961 traffic death book showing 2,314 deaths and 132,570 injuries from 324,149 crashes. Overall miles driven rose 2.43 percent to 47.9 billion while the fatality rate fell to 4.8 per 100 million miles.
Evadale Lions Club met at the new high school building and heard nominating committee recommendations. Officers named include Norman Wallace president Verlon Bobbitt first vice president Ed Nash second vice president Jack Rigsby third vice president H D Smith secretary A A Olsen treasurer J A Black lion tamer Bert Fling tail twister Jim Rainey and J B Stimus directors. Two floor nominations added B W Gravis second vice president Tootsie Owers Lion Jamer. Visiting guest Ben Green of Metairie La past president of the Tampa Lions club attended. Dinner by Evadale Homemakers. H D Smith presiding. Officers to be elected April 9.
Evadale Junior High guard Patsy Nash and forward Bess Brous Sard received the district recognition trophy and were named to the all district team. Evadale, with coach Harold Smith, placed second in the district behind Sour Lake and Saratoga.
Mrs. Cecil Cobble hosts a brunch inviting senior girls to renew acquaintance with Marilyn McGinty of Texas City and with Misses Carole and Cecile Cobble. The event occurs Saturday morning April 28.
Rev Larry M Correll and Billie Rue Kirtley Correll announce daughter Laura Elizabeth born March 25 at Baptist Hospital Beaumont. D R Strake and wife of Fred welcome Floyd Ray born March 26 at Hardin Memorial Hospital Kountze. Kenneth Joe born March 27 to Mr and Mrs B J Alford Buna. Charles Murray born March 27 to Mr and Mrs J H Bond Buna. Granderson Wayne born March 21 to Mr and Mrs David Chessher Saratoga. William Travis born March 23 to Mr and Mrs J S Ard Fred. Edward Virgil born March 20 to Mr and Mrs J N Cravy Thomas Jefferson. Edward Virgil Cravy noted, details incomplete.
We express sincere thanks for kindnesses and love shown at the loss of our son and brother Connie Carlton. Special thanks for food, flowers, and words of sympathy and to the Silsbee High School class of 1961 for the flowers. The family of Connie Carlton.
Notice is given that letters of administration for Vera Vestula Woodard Updike have been issued to Coleman B. Woodard on February 5 1962. Creditors must present claims by law before the estate is closed. Address: 812 East 25th Street Odessa Texas. Dated March 26 1962. Administrator: Coleman B Woodard. No 2792. County Court of Hardin County Texas.
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