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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1957
Page
1
The Silsbee city council planned a 7 pm special session to meet with a Houston bonding firm to discuss hiring them as fiscal agent for a proposed water and sewer bond election. Monday night the council previously met with Mr. Barth of Chas. R. Haile and Associates to review options.
The Houston firms J. R. Phillips Investment Co and Rauscher Pierce Inc will act as fiscal agents for the city in a $650,000 water sewer bond election. They will determine bond size and assist in election and sale if approved. Fee is 1.5 percent of bonds sold. no fee if the measure fails. Represented by Glover Wills and J. R. Phillips.
Maps show three water lines altered with two canceled and others moved. A line from Maxwell and Dardin drives to Highway 96 was dropped in favor of a northward line toward Read Turentine elementary school area. An additional line reaches Knapple cemetery road. A Houston law firm proposed fees of 1000 guaranteed if bond fails and 1 percent of the total issue if approved, which councilmen opposed at Monday night meeting.
In Hardin County Court Judge Fletcher Richardson records show one guilty plea for driving while intoxicated. H. W. Boudreaux was fined $50 and costs and given three days in jail for the DWI on April 25.
Weather notes in Silsbee show clearing skies after a three and a half inch rainfall from Monday afternoon to Wednesday morning. Streams and ditches ran near capacity though no major floods appeared. Neches River overflowed bottom lands and Dam Bat Town Bluff released water as the dam neared capacity.
William Whitaker Hardin County Sheriff receives the Outstanding Sheriff of the Year award at a Texas Lawmen's Association banquet in Austin May 6. The 14 year peace officer has led high profile East Texas cases, including the Twitchell and Sour Lake Bank holdup investigations.
Silsbee volunteer firemen plan their annual fund raising campaign starting early next week. Fire Chief John Busby says contributions support department operations and equipment purchases, not recreation. Donors will receive placards acknowledging their support for the local volunteer fire department.
Rainy conditions reduced preschool age pupil registrations on April 29 and 30. Mrs. W. E. Sheffield, principal, requests parents who have not yet registered their children to visit her office during school hours.
Three Silsbee grocery and supermarket owners went to Austin on April 24 to back House Bill 25 the no limitation sales act. Attending the House committee hearing were Dudley Young of Young's Supermarkets G W Gilchriest of Crockett and Gilchriest Big Star Store and J T Craft of J T Craft Grocery.
Mr and Mrs Frank Jones of Silsbee will hold an open house Sunday for their Golden Wedding anniversary. Married May 5 1907 in San Augustine County at Blue Spring Baptist Church, they lived in Jasper County before settling in Silsbee in 1941. They have five children and sixteen grandchildren. Relatives and friends are invited to noon.
A called meeting of Silsbee Lodge No. 927 A F and A M is set for Friday at 7 30 p m. Members are urged to attend and visiting Masons are invited to join in work in the master's degree.
Allen Johnson 17 tops Silsbee High School 1957 class with a 94.661 four year average and will study engineering at Texas A M. He is quarterback, senior class president and active in student government and honor society. Betty Simmons 17 is salutatorian with 94.656 and plans elementary education at Lamar Tech. Evelyn Moore 17 ranks third with 94.604 and pursues home economics at Lamar Tech.
The Little League Auxiliary met with 14 members in the junior high auditorium. Officers elected for the new year include Nellie Jo Powers as president, Margaret Head as vice president, and James E Downey as secretary and treasurer. A financial report and plans for opening night of baseball were discussed.
A Saturday parade near Silsbee Junior High starts the Little League season at 3 p.m. with bands floats and uniformed players. Opening ceremonies at 4 p.m. feature John Hessel as principal speaker and fan prizes donated by local merchants.
A consortium representing about 85 percent of Silsbee ISD taxes met with the school board to review a larger operating budget for next year driven by three new elementary schools. The plan increases the tax rate by about 10 percent and won unanimous approval with offers of further assistance.
Two judging teams from the Silsbee FFA chapter will travel to A and M College on Friday to compete in the state judging contests. The dairy products team includes Jack Simmons Jr, Bobby Pontes and Don Cudd. The dairy cattle team lists Don Spell, David Stevenson and Billy Paul Herrington.
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