Youth Charged In Cutting A Silsbee Boy
A 16 year old Silsbee juvenile is charged with assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly slashing Harold Owens, 19, with a pocket knife at the Keystone Club on November 12. Owens was treated for a four inch back wound at Silsbee Doctors Hospital and released. Police say Owens sought help at McDonald's Grocery on South Fifth Street.
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Silsbee
Hardin County
Bob L. Ogden
The
Bee
Harold Owens
Keystone Club
James Doane
Owens
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
McDonald's
South 1Ifth Street
Burglars Steal Tools From Santa Fe Railroad Truck
Police report a power chain saw two hard hats and a fire extinguisher stolen from a Santa Fe Railroad Co. truck in Silsbee. Officers say entry was gained by prying open a four foot door lock. thefts reported at 8 a.m. November 13 by special agent Carroll Cleere of Beaumont. truck parked near the roundhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe Railroad Co
Silsbee
James Fulgham
Carroll Cleere
Beaumont
Fulgham
Roundhouse
Revenue Sharing May Total 350000 for Hardin County and Silsbee
Hardin County and the City of Silsbee expect about 350 000 dollars in December and January as their share of revenue sharing funds under the Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972. Auditor Horace Moye spoke at a Houston seminar and outlined allocations, timing, and use restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County
Silsbee
Nixon
Horace Moye
Moye
Municipal Financial Officers’ Association of the United States
Houston
Commissioners Court
The
BEE
Texas
Lumberton OKs Bond Proposal 569 by Narrow Margin
Lumberton voters approved a $600000 school bond 365 for to 204 against on November 11, per Nelson, Lumberton Independent District superintendent. The measure backs a new primary school near the current high school on US 96.
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Lumberton OK
Lumberton
Nelson
Board of Trustees
US 96
Kountze Lions Put On Football Probation
The District 18-2A Executive Committee placed the Kountze Lions on football probation effective immediately through January 1, 1974 for an altercation after the Kountze Lumberton game in Kountze Navy. Lumberton Raiders received a warning for their part in the postgame incident.
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Kountze
Quarterbacks Re elect Officers in New Club Year
The Silsbee Quarterback club re elected Clayton Caraway as president Henry Earl Smith as vice president and Arthur Delaune as treasurer for the new club year. The group raised over 1800 dollars in the past year and donated the funds to the school for athletic department projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Clifton Caraway
Henry Earl Smith
Arthur Delaune
Burglary Suspect Surrenders After Long Manhunt
Larry Albert Huckaby of Beaumont surrendered to Hardin County officers at 7 a m Sunday on burglary charges. Authorities say the arrest may link to five Hardin County burglaries and others in Jefferson Liberty Harris Jasper Newton counties and in several Louisiana parishes. Guns and goods worth about 5000 were recovered with more items valued at around 10000. A second suspect remains at large.
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Larry Albert Huckaby
Beaumont
Hardin County Sheriff's
Billy Paine
Saratoga
Hardin County
Paine
Jefferson
Liberty
Harris
Jasper
Newton
Louisiana
Burglars Hit Hurricane Cafe and Jasper Junior High
Silsbee police report burglars struck Hurricane Cafe on Nov 11 and Jasper Junior High School on Nov 10 and Nov 13, stealing about 62 dollars and items belonging to Jasper High School football players. The break in to the junior high gym occurred through a window, with eyeglasses valued at 50 dollars and 12.68 dollars cash taken. A coin-operated machine at the junior high field house was damaged in a separate incident.
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Jasper
Silsbee
Mike Bradshaw
James Doane
John Costner
James Fulgham
Bevil Deckert
Fulgham
the Bee
Silsbee Bee editor Tommy Read dies at 38
Thomas David Read Jr. co owner and editor of The Silsbee Bee died unexpectedly at his Silsbee home. He was 38, survived by his wife Jacqueline and five children. An autopsy cited cardiac arrest. services were at First Methodist Church with burial in Resthaven Cemetery. Read helped run the 54 year old weekly paper and was active in Civil Air Patrol and local groups.
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Thomas David Read Jr
The
Silsbee Bee
Silsbee
First Methodist Church
R. Eugene Jonte
Resthaven Cemetery
Beaumont
Read
Justice of the Peace
Benny L. Como
Bee
SMU
Sam Houston State University
Explorer Post 201
Civil Air Patrol
Hardin County Wildlife Association
Jacqueline Read
Bob
Jack
Paul Read
Phyllis Biggs
Austin
Jan Read
Helen Read
George P. Kirkpatrick Jr
Phillip Allen
Joe Peacock
Jerry
County Votes To Participate In Regional Alcoholism Program
Hardin County commissioners approve in kind participation in two alcoholism rehabilitation programs offered by the Deep East Texas Development Council. The vote on November 13 tabled from October 24 saw opposing ballots from Kerr and Means, while Sheriff Paine pressed for teletype access to improve law enforcement links with Orange and Jefferson counties. The plan includes space for court classes and a referral program to a therapy center near Ben Weir, avoiding Rusk State Mental Hospital, with no monetary cost to the county. Additionally, a separate land-logging motion passed, returning roads near Wotaw to Kirby Lumber Corp, despite Barrington’s objection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Caraway
Emmett Lack
Howard Barrington
Hardin County
Deep East Texas Development Council
Commissioners Court
Caraway
Bob Kerr
Hugh Bevil Means
Kerr
Billy Paine
DETDC
13- County Regional Planning Commission
Qicksand Villiage
Ben Weir
Rusk State Mental Hospital
Silsbee
Jim McDermott
David Waxman
Paine
Orange and Jefferson Counties
Orange-Jefferson County
Orange-Beaumont-Port Arthur
Means
Wotaw
Kirby Lumber Corp
Kirby
Barrington
Silsbee annexes 849 acres and approves GSU rate hike
The Silsbee City Council unanimously annexed about 849 acres west and south of town, adding residents to city garbage service by December 1. They also authorized Gulf States Utilities eight and a half percent rate increase after earlier rejection. Council studied legal feasibility of a district annexation along US 96. One public hearing was held September 12 amid local objections.
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Silsbee
Gulf State
Thursday Night —Company
Planning and Zoning Commission
Ronald Hickerson
Silsbee Bee
Hickerson
W. D. Creek
Seth
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
James L. Hays
Hays
John Fordinal
Gulf States Utilities Co
Duane Beck
Electric Company
GSU
Community Thanksgiving Service Coordinated by Silsbee Ministers
The Silsbee Ministers Fellowship will hold a community Thanksgiving service on Tuesday at 7 30 p m in First United Methodist Church. Music director Roy Bean organist Jay Collier and a large list of participating pastors lead a full program ending with a benediction by Rev J A Hendrix. The community choir will gather at 7 p m for rehearsal.
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Silsbee Ministers Fellowship
First United Methodist Church
Roy Bean
Jay Collier
Don Sheffield
St.ohn’s Episcopal Church
A. C. Johnson
St. Beulah Baptist Church
F. C. Drake
Evergreen Asembly of God Church
R. E. Barclay
First Baptist Church
Randolph W. Frye
L. E Davis
St. Vincent’s United Methodist Church
Lester Sensat
Good Shepherd Baptist Church
James Stephenson
Wiley Mae Pentecostal Church
T. W. Washington
Church of God In Christ
R. E. Jonte
Buna Man Walter Hester Jr Charged With Forged Prescription
Walter Hester Jr 47 of Buna posted 2500 bond after a Silsbee police report on a forged prescription. He was arrested by Patrolman James Fulgham on a warrant accusing him of passing a forged prescription at Savon Drug Store in Silsbee on October 5. He appeared before Justice Rex Moore for arraignment.
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Walter Hester Jr
Buna
Silsbee
Hester
James Fulgham
Savon Drug
Justice of the Peace
Rex Moore
Trustees to hear audit and air conditioning survey
Silsbee Independent School District trustees will receive the outside audit for 1972 73 and an air cooling feasibility study at a Nov 29 called meeting Walter Juncker and Associates of Beaumont conducted the audit and Ingram and Associates prepared the cost study to evaluate cooling all classrooms east of the district campus. The board also discussed parking lot repairs with the city of Silsbee and fired a tentative move to hire a Beaumont tax firm for district appraisals.
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Walter Juncker and Associates
Beaumont
Silsbee Independent
Sisd Board of Trustees
George Ingram
Beaumont Architects
Ingram and Associates
Air Concht
O'Neil
Bruce Watts
Furtire
Trict
Don L. Hough
City of
Silsbee
Watts
ISISD
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Kountze Lions
Jr. High
Tommy Read
Tommy
Kirby's
Southwestern Timber Company
Neches River
Council
Silsbee Tigers
Butch Smith
George Bridges
Smith
Tigers
Bobby Joe Westbrook
Bubba McGallion
Sam Bowie
Hickory Grove Baptist Church
J. A. Hendrix
First Assembly of God Church
Buna Man
Read-Turrentine
Susie Horka
Lela Arnold
Llewellyn le Doux
Debra Lane
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