Motorcycles Banned in Silsbee Park Areas
Silsbee City Council used its emergency prerogative to adopt on first reading an ordinance banning motorcycles on city park property. The measure, effective immediately, carries fines from 10 to 200 dollars and follows over 500 dollars in park damage in three months.
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Silsbee's Park
Silsbee
James L. Hays
Texas Municipal League
Houston
Ronald Hickerson
Knupple Road
Methodists Lose Stereo and Lamps in Church Break-In
Burglars forced entry to the First United Methodist Church recreation hall late Tuesday or early Wednesday and escaped with $254.48 in goods. Stolen from the youth department classroom was an Electrophonic BSA VicDonald stereo record player valued at $164.90 and two lamps.
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First United Methodist Church Recreation Hall
Silsbee
Ronald Barnes
BEE
16 Year-Old Leads Officers In Chase Through Woods
Silsbee officers tracked a 16 year old boy through woods near Silsbee High School after a woman reported he entered her home and ordered her to remove clothing. He was arrested at the high school, preliminaries filed for disorderly conduct with burglary and trespass pending. He was later taken to juvenile authorities in Kountze.
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Silsbee Police
James Fulgham
Ronald Barnes
Silsbee High School
Fulgham
the Bee
SHS
Barnes
Silsbee
Kountze
a _ Silsbee
Man Arrested For Indecent Exposure In Silsbee
A Silsbee man Willie B. Ashworth was arrested after witnesses reported a naked man running along Avenue P at 7 05 and 7 30 p m Sunday. He was taken from his home by officers and released after paying a 50 municipal court fine. He reportedly chased a female juvenile during the incident.
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Silsbee
Avenue P
Dennis Allen
James Martin
Willie B. Ashworth
Y. A. Yankie
Business As Usual At Hardin County Probation Office
Hardin County probation offices on the second floor of the County Courthouse in Kountze remain open. Frances Roberts says publicity about leaving the regional probation system caused confusion, but commissioners have funded the department locally at least until January 1976 and may continue next year. John J Costner serves as probation officer.
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Hardin County
Kountze
Frances Roberts
Constable Roland Million Misidentified in Bee Notice
The Oct 23 Bee item misidentified Roland Million as a deputy sheriff. Million is the constable of Precinct 1 in Silsbee, not a sheriff’s deputy. The Bee regrets the error.
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Roland Million
Wotan
BEE
Sheriff's Department
Silsbee
County Voters Reject Texas Constitution Revision Proposals
Hardin County voters turn out 2,300 ballots to defeat all eight revision proposals. Only Proposition Three on election procedure passed by 64 to 63 in Pinewood Precinct 14. Across the county, margins ranged from 630 to 1,668 against to 671 for nine proposed changes.
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Hardin County
Texas
Hardin
Pinewood
Associated Press
Texas Home Health Opens New Office in Silsbee Area
Texas Home Health, Inc. invites the public to an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday November 13 at its 580 North Sixth Street new offices. The service with offices in Jasper Lufkin Woodville Cleveland and Kirbyville began in Silsbee in 1969 offering visiting nursing and rental of hospital equipment. The 6000 square foot building also houses the Texas Rehabilitation Center and a Southwestern Bell Traffic department.
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Texas Home Health, Inc
North Sixth Street
Sidney L. Dauphin
The
BEE
Texas Rehabilitation Center
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Youth flees DPS, crashes into pole in Kountze
A 16-year-old Kountze youth tried to elude a Department of Public Safety patrol car about 7 15 p m on October 27, sped along US 69 and struck a phone pole near the H H Cash System Store. He was treated at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kountze and released later in the week. Trooper N W Barrow and Kountze Police Chief Robert McDaniel investigated the crash.
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Department of Public Safety
Kountze
N. W. Barrow
The
BEE
DPS
US 69
H&h Cash System
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Robert McDaniel
Barrow
Bridge City Cardinals Host Silsbee Tigers in Final East Zone Tilt
Bridge City hosts Silsbee in a Friday Night showdown at Cardinal Stadium at 7 30 p m to close the East Zone 10 3A schedule Both teams opened with high hopes but were edged by Jasper In recent weeks Silsbee features back Artie Shankle and fullback Derrek Shelton while Bridge City relies on quarterback Steve Bratton and running back Richard Slaydon The match offers a tough finish for Golden Triangle fans with district implications intact
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Bridge City Cardinals
Silsbee Tigers
Cardinal Stadium
Jasper Bulldogs
Jasper
Dogs
Tiger
Tigers
South Park
Silsbee
West Orange
Bulldogs
Stephen F. Austin-Liberty
Golden Triangle
Ray McGallion
LCM
McGallion
David Jones
Robert Arline
William Graham
Rayford Dolford
Richard Slaydon
Orange Stark
Slaydon
Gary Vorster
Art Simmons
Robbine Truncal
Randy Feverjean
David Tuttle
Burglars Hit Eastex Transit in Silsbee
Thieves struck the Eastex Transit Mix facility in Silsbee on Oct 30 using a cutting torch to cut a locked chain and steal two 10,000 by 20 tires two rims and two tubes valued at 498 dollars. A prior Oct 25 theft at a concrete contractors site yielded tires rims and wheels worth 508 dollars. A Newcomb record player was taken from Frank Robinson School Room 106, entry gained by smashing a north window.
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East Texas
Silsbee
Billy Davenport
The
BEE
Paul Johnson
Avenue J East
Newcomb
Brand
Frank Robinson School
Ronald Barnes
Jury selection begins in KISD tax suit case
Jurors start selection in the tax suit against Kountze Independent School District. The complaint, filed by property owners and several companies, accuses W R Owens and Associates of Nacogdoches of conducting a cheap mass appraisal of timber lands as arbitrary and unlawful. Judge Arthur C. Leschur Jr. will preside after other judges declined.
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Kountze Independent School District
Erk
Aline Harper
He Bee
88Th District Court
Arthur C. Leschur Jr
151St District Court
Houston
88Th
Clyde E. Smith Jr
Smith
Kountzchool
Hunter found safe after missing remains in woods chase
Silsbee hunter Wayne Smith 32 of Silsbee wandered from a friend Sunday afternoon during a hunt near the Neches River. He reentered Franklin Lake Road area Monday morning with a diabetic episode, was aided by his sister Jane Gore, and returned home. FBI agents also arrested Port Neches man Roger Coulson 29 for stolen property charges and flight to avoid prosecution in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Silsbee
Neches
Hardin
Andl
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kountze
Port Neches
Birmingham
Ala
al Burleson
Roger Daniel Coulson
Walnut
Billy Davenport
James Ohlrich
FBI
Burleson
Justice of the Peace
B. L
Coalson
Hardin County
Polk County
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Stella Brookins
Resthaven Cemetery
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department
Gulf States Utilities Co
GSU
Hays
Vincent, Elkin, Sears, Connally, and Smith, Inc
Paine, Webber, Jackson, and Curtis, Inc
East Avenue
Donalson Motor Co
Dodge
Morris Moore Chevrolet
Silsbee Auto Co
Donalson
Morris Moore
Silsbee Auto
Thomas Auto Supply
Silsbee State Bank
SSB
First National Bank of Silsbee
Hickerson
Allied Fence and Landscaping Co
Highway Department
Fourth Street
Silsbee Public Library
Criminal Justice Council
Hardin County Probation Office
Texas Home Health Plans
Jimmy James
Allen Sanford
Danny Doyen
Bears
Cardinals
Bridge City
Oliver Lewis
Artie Shankle
Derrek Shelton
Tommy Golden
Norri Green
TE Dewight Fobbs
Ronald D. Robertson
LG Lynn Robinson
Jerry Fontaine
D Robertson
Frankie Spearman
Dou Shankle
Davie Jones
Lynn Robertso
Jimmy Rawls
Don Muckleroy
Steve Bratton
Robbie Truncale
Kim Bryant
Gary
Neal Jenkins
Randy Fults
Howard Harvey
Randy Feverjea
Charles Warner
Thad Thompson
Gary Worster
Little Cypress-Mauriceville
Steve Brister
Bridge City Cardinals Tomorow
Eastex Transit
Robinson School
KISD
Hunter
Bottoms
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