Turpentine Crews and Pines in East Texas Heritage
Early Texas lumber camps used chippers and dippers to extract oleoresins from long leaf pines near Temple Eastex, producing turpentine for decades. Veterans recall camps with black workers from Alabama and Mississippi, a vanished industry now replaced by pulp mill by product recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Wildcatters
Temple- Eastex Woods
East
Yecllowpine
A. G. Mott
Beaumont
Albert Washington
Temple
Pineland
Alabama
Mississippi
Washington
Narrie Smith
Clyde Thompson
Temple Industries
Naval Stores Department
Thompson
Temple-Eastex
Pulp and Paperboard
Evadale
PTHAY
Asibert Washington
Temple-Hastex
East Texas
Temple-Fastex
Drawing by Silsbee native wins Best of Show in Dallas
Denison lawyer Joe Taylor, a Silsbee native, won Best of Show at the Art About Town charity show in the Dallas Fairmont Hotel. His 22 by 28 inch pencil drawing “Other Lands were Bred and Bord, Texas grew from Hide and Horn” was chosen from 267 area artists and 22 galleries, marking the first Best of Show award in the event’s 11th year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Taylor
Jane Stuart
Society For Crippled Children
Dallas
Taylor
Southwest
West Texas
New Mexico
Denison
Texas
Fairmont
al G. Hill, Jr
Dallas Society For Crippled Children
Joey
Silsbee High School
Mary Frances Taylor
Britton Drive
J. J. Taylor
Baylor University
Infant Jesus Garage Sale Planned This Weekend
Infant Jesus Altar Society hosts a winter garage sale in the parish hall on Friday and Saturday November 4 and 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale features frozen chicken gumbo quarts, winter clothes, and plants with barbecue chicken sold by the C.Y.O. on Saturday. The hall is two miles north of the Kountze Silsbee Y in Lumberton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Infant Jesus Altar Society
Highway 69
Kountze - Silsbee Y
Lumberton
Ruth Brickley
Ladies Altar Society
C.Y.O
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First National Bank of
Silsbee
Warren Bower
First National
Silsbee Bank
P.O
F.d.lc
H. E. Munden
North Sth
Helen Ratliff
Nolds
Paul McClinton
Waco
Beta Sigma Phi
Nu Upsilon Sorority
Whiteface
Betsy Toney
Whiteface High School
U.S.A
Lions
Canada
Nu Upsilon
Betsy
Jefferson County
Cathi Thompson
Linda Dietrich
Joe Thompson
Xi Kappa Nu Sorority
Imogene Nelson
Linda Allen
Susan Irvin
Sue Roach
Trudy Unruh
June Flanakin
R.L. Read
Dorothy Palmer
Lubbock
J. D. Moore
Fort Worth
Cecil Smyley
Jo Anna
Baytown
Eddie Plunk
R. L. Read
Houston
Debbie Rey
Bill Shepherd
Bobby Marshall
Barney Parks
Bruce Collier
The
Azalea Garden Club
Paulette Crain
Dix-ie
Carolyn Grubbs
Becky Donalson
Hilda Arnold
Joan Work
Tena Walker
Janice Baldwin
North Eighth Street
Houston Thompson
Lee Worley
Bert Slaydon
Pud Walker
Bruce Watts
Arthur Delaunes
Betty Ann Mitchell
Darrell Doggetts
Raymond Bradshaws
Infant Jesus
Polly Poquling
Silsbee Public Library
Girls Town USA
Silsbee State Bank
Talk of the Town
David Stanley
Kirbyville
Nederland
Highway 96
Kountze-Sillbee Y
O’bannion
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