Council Hears Citizen Complaint Against Police and Tax Roll
Silsbee City Council heard both sides of an alleged police abuse incident and approved the 1973 tax rolls. Police Chief Bob L. Ogden presented the officer reports while Mayor May L. Hays and others weighed whether to open a formal investigation. The council also set gas and vehicle bids, tabled radio equipment bids, and granted street light and bus route requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
J. di. Mowers, Jr
Bob L. Ogden
Rogers
James L. Hays
Ronald Hickerson
Hickerson
Comnei
Bob L Ongden
C. E. Landolt J
Ogden
Sinc Rogers
John Fordinal
Ferdinal
Hays
Frank Grote Mid
Cesar Dominguez
Mayer Hays
Houston
Roy Baker
Council
Sweet Garry Lane
Wimberlane Drive
Insurance Advisory Commission
Bie
Alvin E. Morgan
Two Hurt In Accident North Of Silsbee On FM 92
A two car crash early Sunday near Silsbee on FM 92 left two injured. Robert Flanak in 20 of Ibee and Merton McGallion 26 of Fred were treated for minor injuries at Silsbee Doctors Hospital and released. DPS officers Dougharty and Mangham investigated.
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Silshee
Silshee Doctors Hospital
Robert Flanakin
Ibee
Merton McGallion
Fred
Silsbee
DPS
Fryman Dougharty
Crane Mangham
Silsbee School Trustees Meet Briefly On November 14
The Silsbee Independent School District board met on Wednesday November 14 in a routine session. Items on the agenda included the 1972-73 audit by McMillan and Juncker Beaumont, resignations and employment recommendations, setting a date to canvass bond election returns on November 20, and bids on sale of a tractor and school buses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee Independent School District Board of Trustees
McMillan and Juncker
Beaumont
School Bond Vote Set For Tuesday Balloting Next Week
Absentee voting for the proposed 1.865 million dollar school bond ends Friday at 4 p.m. at the School Administration Office on Avenue H. Regular voting will be held Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The bond funds would air condition all district buildings and cover extensive repairs to plants aged over 40 years, including O’Neal Elementary and the eastern annex dating back to the 1900s.
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Avenue H
Sisd Board For Trustees
O'Neal Elementary
County approves tax on coin machines in the county
Hardin Commissioners approve an annual occupational tax on vending machines expected to raise about $3 000. Sheriff will tag machines until the $7 50 tax is paid and stamps applied after payment. The measure follows a request by Fred Anders the County Tax Assessor Collector.
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Hardin
Fred Anders
Charles Wilson
Damage suit filed against Hardin County deputies over alleged abuse
Alice and Bill Lamb of Hardin County sue Chief Deputy Sheriff Jesse Cartwright and former Deputy Don Merrill for 200000 alleging coercive jail stay and abuse after an incident at Totch Lounge on November 14, 1971. Suit filed November 12 in Beaumont Federal District Court and listed for Judge Joe Fisher. Cartwright on vacation. Merrill no longer employed.
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Alice
Bill Lamb
Hardin County
Jesse Cartwright
Don Merrill
Beaumont Federal District Court
Joe Fisher
DEE
Lambs’ Totch
Lamb
Cartwright
Sheriff's Office
Merrill
First Savings Association for Southeast Texas Charter Approved
The First Savings Association for Southeast Texas to be located in Silsbee received charter approval from State Savings and Loan Commissioner Sale Lewis on November 9. Final order is being drafted for signature. Clifton Caraway is president, Dr. Sam P Copeland VP, Lenox Hawthorne secretary treasurer, with Earl B. Stover as attorney and directors Blakey Locke Edward Carter Nelson Long Lewis White.
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Savings Association
Southeast Texas
Silsbee
Earl B. Stover
Blakey Locke
Edward Carter
Nelson Long
Lewis White
Tigers Open Cage Season Friday
Silsbee Tigers, the 1973 District 10-AAA cage champions, begin the 1973-74 season Friday November 16 at Houston Reagan after a Thursday scrimmage with Hardin-Jefferson. Coach Montgomery notes several starting spots still open but names Michael Dabney and James Simmons as likely standouts.
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Silshee’s Tigers
Houston Reagan
Bulldogs
Silsbee
Tigers
Hardin - Jefferson
SHS
Bengals
Orange Stark
Saumont Forest Park
Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson
Dan Montgomery
The
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Michael Dabney
James Simmons
Dabney
Simmons
Montgomery
Till Tap Nets 564 At Kountze Food Market
Two persons robbed a Kountze H and H Cash System store Monday afternoon escaping with 564 dollars. Sheriff Billy Paine says a man and a woman walked in about 2 pm on Nov 12 and had an attendant fetch Tabasco sauce before rifling the register and fleeing in a dark car with a light hood. Local police investigate. clerks note the cash loss and suspect pair.
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H&h Cash System
Kountze
Chance
Hardin County
Billy Paine
Paine
Jefferson County
Thomas Lew Os
Russell
40 year Masonic Award to L. P. Skinner at Silg bee Lodge
At the open meeting of Silg bee Lodge No 7 AF AM on Tuesday night November 20 at 7 30 PM Right Worshipful District Deputy Grand Master Alton F Stanley of Masonic District 26 A will present a 40 year Masonic Award to L P Skinner Public invited to attend under D L Cartrett W M ID L Webb secretary
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Silgbee Lodge No. 7
Alton EF. Stanley
Masonic District
L. P. Skinner
D. L. Cartrett
W.M. ID. L. Webb
School bond repairs listed in page advertisement
A complete listing of proposed repairs set out in the bond issue appears in a page advertisement by the school trustees on Page 6, Section 3 of this publication of the Bee.
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BEE
School building milestones and upcoming polling locations
The text notes milestones from 1949 to 1967 for Kirby Read-Tur rentine Robinson Elementary and a high school on US 96 East. It lists two polling places for Tuesday at Silsbee Fire Hall on Avenue ST and Wiley Mae Pentecostal Church for North County Caney Head residents. Absentee voting began Oct 31.
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Kirby
Read-Turrentine
Robinson
US 96
Silsbee Fire Hall
Avenue ST
North County
Caney Head
Wiley Mae Pentecostal Church
Silsbee High Memorial to Honor Three Students
The Silsbee High School Memorial fund accepts donations to buy a trophy case for the gym lobby. It honors three athletes Tommy Dunnigan Henry Butch Smith and Betty Ruth Mitchell with plaques. A committee representing administration coaching faculty student body and memorial fund plans next week. Contributions may be mailed to Silsbee High School Memorial Fund c/o Mrs Dixie Donelson.
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Silsbee High School
Silsbee High
Tommy Dunnigan
Henry “Butch” Smith
Betty Ruth Mitchell
Placques
Weeks Crawford
Ray MccGallion
Betty Mitchell
David Moss
Sharon McDonald
Cindy Smith
Dixie Donelson
Memorial Fund
Beaumont man jailed on attempted armed robbery charge
A Beaumont man, Terry Dale Leatherwood, 20, posted 1000 bond and was released from Hardin County Jail after being charged by Silsbee Police with attempted armed robbery in connection with an October attack on Silsbee druggist W. Davis Whitted. A second suspect remains at large.
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Beaumont
Hardin County
Silssbee
Silsbee
Terry Dale Leatherwood
SPD
Lamberton
Jesse Cartwright
God Mike Holzapfel
Justice of the Peace
B. L. Come
W. Davis Whitted
Silspee
Bob L. Ogden
The
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Volunteers Fight Two House Fires Near Silsbee and Lumberton
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department assisted Lumberton volunteers on November 10 to control two blazes. One brick home on Old Beaumont Highway belonging to Melvin Cole was destroyed. the other vacant house near Leading Dock Road north of Silsbee was also a total loss.
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Lumberton
Silsbee
Gilsbee
Russell Busby
KEE
Silsbee Volunter Fire Department
Melvin Cole
Busby
Beaumont
Alan
Leading Dock Road
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Fordinal
Silsbee Auto Co
Kitty Whittlesee
Continental
South Third Street
Gordon W Reynolds
Hawaii
Southwestern Life Insurance Co
Reynolds
Southwestern Life
North Seventh Street
County
HUD
Grayburg
Ed Johnson
Hugh Bevil Means
Emmett Lack
Lack
Regina Watt Creations
Son
Flaine Richard
Carla Dominguez
Peggy Short
Becky Fontenot
Terri Dean
OFPU
Jerry Galloway
Johny Lowe
Galloway
Wiltlook
Dan
Tiger
Silsbee Tiger
Don Mays
Kevin cClusky
John Stepnik
Harry da
Claude Lindsey
Masons
Silsbee High School Memorial Fund
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