Citywide Cleanup Campaign Scheduled Across Silsbee
The Silstee Chamber of Commerce plans a citywide cleanup from November 28 to December 5 with trucks collecting trash on November 29. Crew routing runs south of the Santa Fe tracks on November 29 30 and north on December 1 2. The effort precedes Santa Fe Industrial Day on December 6 and aims to present a clean city for visiting guests.
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Silstee Chamber of Commerce
Santa Fe
Chamber of Commerce
Silsbee
Woodlea water sewer plan passes council review and figures
Silsbee council debate on Woodlea facilities ends with an $89 243 05 cost figure after outside engineer from Hale and Associates supports realty firm estimates. Councilman Hargrove insisted on value received while Slaydon backed the figures. Love's later estimate set the price.
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Burl Slaydon
Slaydon
East Texas Pulp and Paper
Neyland
Landolt
Mr. Slaydon
BJ Hopkins
Hargrove
Silsbee
C. E. Cole
Paper Company
Love
Woodlea
Jones
Council
Evadale Realty Company
Pulp And Sulphite Workers Win Paper Mill Election
The Pulp and Sulphite Workers AF of L won representation for East Texas Pulp and Paper Company employees by an 18 vote margin. Final tally Pulp and Sulphite 145, Papermakers 127. run off overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
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American Federation of Labor
East Texas Pulp and Paper Company
AF of L
Pulp and Sulphite Workers
Papermakers of America
Papermakers
National Labor Relations Board
Eastex
NRLB
Catholic Ladies To Serve Ham Dinner Sunday
The All Souls Ladies of the Catholic Church will serve a ham dinner in the hall on Sunday from 11 30 a m until 2 30 p m in the afternoon.
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The
All Soul’s Ladies of the Catholic Church
Production Staff Named For Junior Play The Curious Savage
Silsbee High School dramatics head L Duane Newell announces the junior play staff for The Curious Savage. Bruce Collier is stage manager with Evelyn Moore as assistant director and Joel Thompson lighting. John Patrick, author of The Curious Savage, is noted for The Hasty Heart and Teahouse of the August Moon.
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L. Duane Newell
Silsbee High School
Bruce Collier
Evelyn Moore
Joel Thompson
Marie Long
Jessie Lee Hall
Jack Gore
Bill Shepherd
Wanda Parks
Virginia Gollier
Beverly Rose
Gwen Ehrensberger
Glenda Quisenberry
Frances Million
Kay Boyett
Glenn Darby
Betty Simmons
Laura Ann McDonald
Mr. Newell
Pierce Hall
Kenneth B. Fouts
Ida Lewis
Elizabeth Williams
Evelyn Allen
Janie Hough
John Patrick
Broadway
Charles Dickens
New York
Masons To Confer Degrees Friday Night
Silsbee Lodge 927 will meet at the Masonic Hall Friday night at 7 for entered apprentice and fellowship degree work. Next Monday at 7 30 the lodge schedules Master’s degree work.
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Masonic Hall
Silsbee Lodge
White House Education Conference invites Silsbee writer
A Silsbee columnist receives a formal notice naming 67 Texas delegates to the White House Conference on Education in Washington from November 28 to December 1. The piece details the conference aims, Roy Larsen’s role, and the writer’s plans to travel with colleagues. A side note previews a West Texas hunting trip and reflections on hunting season’s mood.
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White House
Washington, D. C
Texas Conference On Education
Washington
Capitol City
County Commissioners Plan Area Junket To Inspect Courthouses
County commissioners Rocky Richardson E Cotten and Frank Payne with County Judge Fletcher Richardson will tour new courthouse buildings in Texas as they study options for Hardin county. They may visit Bryan Hempstead Edna Lufkin and Houston and discuss a possible bond issue and new or remodeled facilities including a proposed four story jail wing and annex with costs around 1 4 million dollars.
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Rocky Richardson
E. E. Cotten
Frank Payne
Fletcher Richardson
Texas
Bryan
Hempstead
Edna
Lufkin
Houston
Hardin County Commissioner's Court
Hardin County
Dickson, Dickson and Associates
Beaumont
Dickson
Commissioner's Court
Tom Burch
Sour Lake
Bryan and
Richardson
Silsbee
Silsbee School Board Votes December January Holidays
Silsbee schools will close Tuesday December 6 and Monday January 2 for Santa Fe Industrial Day events and Raffa dignitaries in the school cafeteria. The days will be made up at year end. Enrollment totals and attendance were reported by Supt. Don L. Hough.
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Santa Fe
Silsbee
Don L. Hough
Board of Trustees
Waldo Mathews Colored School
Gulf States Utilities
Houston Natural Gas
Hardin County Court Debates Courthouse Plans and Gas Line Work
Commissioners spent major time weighing pros and cons of a new Hardin county courthouse facility. They opened bids to remove a county funded gas line relocation near Village Creek bridge but took no action yet. Dudley Keith defended hospital procedures after an incident with a Black patient brought by ambulance from Batson. Keith and commissioners supported hospital administration and rules. Judge Richardson asked for nominees to a three member veteran land board loan appraisal panel to serve without pay.
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Hardin County
The
Bee
Village Creek
Kountze
Richardson
Dudley Keith
Hardin County Hospital
Liberty
Batson
Keith
Tom Bureh
Hichardson
Veteran Land Board
Double Wrecks In Loeb Occur In Same Spot Seven Hours Apart
Two Saturday wrecks near McNeely's cafe and a new Loeb grocery, about seven hours apart, shared identical causes and locations. Both cars pulled into the highway for a U turn and struck oncoming traffic, with similar damage around four vehicles totaling about 250 dollars each. Charges of improper starting from a parked position were filed against Joseph E. Fisette and Mrs. Willie Poe Thompson.
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Loeb
C. S. Sherrill
Sherrill
McNeely’s
Joseph E. Fisette
Nederland
Townsend Milk Company
Willie Poe
Silsbee Boat Club Auxiliary Meeting Notes
The Silsbee Boat and Sporting Club Auxiliary met at Mrs. Jewel Hare home on November 3 with 18 members and one new member. Mrs. Rut Winger was initiated. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Maxine Hare home on November 17 at 7 30 p.m.
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Silsbee Boat and Sporting Club
Jewel Hare
Rut Winger
Maxine Hare
Mr. Farmer Recuperating After Beaumont Surgery
R. S. Farmer owner of Farmer Funeral Home in Silsbee rested comfortably this week after surgery in Beaumont for a stomach obstruction. He was in St. Therese Hospital and visitors could be allowed after today, according to family.
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R. S. Farmer
Farmer Funeral Home
Silsbee
Beaumont
Farmer
St. Therese Hospital
First Local Men Report Deer Kills In 1955 Texas Season
Bert Willes of Colliers Newsstand and Asa Grant reported the first deer kills of the 1955 Texas big game season. Willes shot a nine pointer around 7 20 a m after a two hour search from a tree stand on the Hardin County Wildlife Association Preserve southeast of Silsbee using a 30 30 rifle. Grant followed with a second buck an eight pointer near Lufkin while in a tree using a 30 30 rifle.
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Bob
John K. Bower
Big Bend
Texas
Diablo Mountains
Bert Willes
Asa Grant
Bee
Colliers Newsstand
Hardin County Wildlife Association
Silsbee
Lufkin
Grant
Mr. Clan
Santa Fe Railroad
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Martha McMurray
Betty Rose Moore
Barbara Hartman
Laverne Hanley
Maxine Fomby
L. M. Olson
Kelley Fogg
David Read
Silsbee Boat Club
Mr. Farmer
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