Silsbee Garden Club Pushes Bluebonnet Planting Drive
The Silsbee Garden Club launches a Bluebonnet planting drive distributing 100 pounds of seed. Seed packets with planting instructions available Thursday and Friday at the chamber office, banks, and 5-C Ranch Supply in Kountze. The club and co sponsors coordinate planting at local hospitals and schools. Lime treatment advised before sowing to improve germination in Southeast Texas soils.
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Silshee Garden Club
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
Silsbee State Bank
Neghes National Bank
Kountze
South Hampton Co
Astex, Inc
KAS
Kirby Lumber
Orp
A&p Food
Silsbee
Clu
Silsbee High School
Silsbee Garden Club
Silsbee Dectors
Silsbee Convalescent Center
Texas
Silsbee Chamber plans Christmas holiday closings
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce directors meet with Jack Hedge presiding as Christmas and New Year’s Days fall on Saturday. Banks and utilities may close on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve with each business to set its own hours. A nominating committee was formed to select five directors for three year terms. The January meeting will review the slate. Decorations committee reports $580 toward new street decor and plans for 17 total strands on Silsbee streets with two additional strands to be placed on Fifth Street if poles allow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Hedge
Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
Silsbee State Bank
Hedge
Chamber of Commerce
Silsbee
Lenox Hawthorne
Ross Eppes
Lester Landgraf
Chamber
Art Cawthon
Horace Whittington
Ross Iles
Fifth Street
City Council and Kirby Officials To Meet Tonight
Silsbee city council calls a 7 p m special meeting to renegotiate sewer treatment with Kirby Lumber Corp Kirby officials invited to attend The meeting, moved from Nov 18, comes after City Manager Ronald Hickerson reported that the sewer facility cannot handle Kirby industrial waste and asked that any new agreement exclude such waste from treatment.
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Silsbee
Kirby Lumber Corp
Kirby
Ronald Hickerson
Silsbee Fire Dept offers free home hazard inspections
Silsbee residents may invite inspection teams to view homes or businesses for fire hazard reports, according to Silsbee Volunteer Fire Department lieutenant David Miller. Inspections are free of charge and can be arranged by contacting Fire Chief Russell Busby at 385-2361.
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Silsbee
Volunteer Fire Department
David Miller
Russell Busby
Miller
Silsbee Students Place In NCTE Writing Contest
Silsbee High School seniors Richard Tim Atmar and Helen Richardson earned national recognition in the National Council of Teachers of English annual Achievement Awards Program. About 7,000 juniors participated, 850 finalists were chosen from 600 schools. Atmar won a national writing contest, Richardson was a runner up. SHS received certificates of merit and the English department earned a merit certificate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Richardson
Richard Atmar
Silsbee High School
Lee Flowers
National Council of Teachers of English
Helen
Richard
NCTE
Richard Tim Atmar
Silsbee
National Council Ofeacers of English
Atmar
Miss Richardson
Silsbeegh
Len
SHS
Ominees
Eugene Wright
North Texas State University English Department
District of Columbia
Robert F. Hogan
Weeks Crawford
Phillip Atmar
Landolt Lane
Fletcher Richardson
Duridin Drive
Trustees Await Wage Directives As Freeze Ends
Trustees at Silsbee Independent School District await word from the Presidential Pay Board after the 90 day wage freeze ended. Supt Don L Hough said the board expects guidance on temporary supplements for new as well as returning staff. The district audit by Leonard Juncker recommended changes and help in some areas. The board approved exchanging $60000 of pledged securities for unpledged securities with Neches National Bank and approved several resignations and new hires. October enrollment stood at 3820 with 94.2 percent attendance and cafeterias posted a 19837.46 deficit. The board also authorized reprimands for staff who missed the in service day except for illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Silsbee Independent School
Don L. Hough
The
BEE
Hough
Leonard Juncker
Walter Juncker
Beaumont
Juncker
Neches National Bank of Silsbee
SISD
Naomi Tullis
Kirby
Ruth Russell
Kirby Aide
Susie Horka
Nellie Rae Chimney
Earnest Lee Irvin
Lenora Dell Richey
Port Arthur
Grand Jury Indicts Five in Hardin County Session
At the October Term session held November 15, Hardin County Grand Jury returned five true bills among 23 cases. Four cases were sent to juvenile court and 10 to County Court. Indictments include Gene O. Carter theft. Millard James Payne theft. Jerry Angelle assault with intent to murder. Bobby Norman possession of drugs. and one theft indictment still at large.
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Hardin County Grand Jury
Gene O. Carter
Silsbee
Millard James Payne
Saratoga
Jerry Angelle
Bobby Norman
Billy Paine
Aline Harper
Henry Winters
Woodville
Gerald Fitzpatrick
Lamar White
Tigers Chiefs Square Off In District Playoff Friday
Silsbee Tigers, district West Zone champions, meet West Orange Chiefs, East Zone leaders, in a high stakes 11-AAA playoff. Stats highlight WO’s top scorer and tight defense, while Silsbee counters with a strong all around attack led by QB Subba McGallion and backs Hunter and Smith.
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Tigers
Chiefs
Silsbee Tigers
West Orange Chiefs
West Orange
Silsree
Shellac
Silsbee
Subba McGallion
James Hunter
Butch Smith
Charles
Mighty
Tiger
McGallion
Wharton and
Hitchcock
Silsbee Ministers Sponsor Community Thanksgiving Service
The Silsbee Ministers Fellowship hosts a community Thanksgiving service at First Baptist Church on Highway 96 South Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Rev. F.C. Drake of Evergreen Assembly will speak. the public is invited.
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Silsbee Ministers Fellowship
First Baptist
West Orange-Silsbee ticket sale details for Friday game
Tickets go on sale at 8 a m today at the Silsbee Schools Administration Office on Avenue H. 2600 reserve seats available. Sales run 8 a m to 4 p m today and 8 a m to 2 30 p m Friday. Game at West Orange Cove Stadium 7 30 p m Friday night.
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West Orange-Silsbee
Silsbee Schools Administration
Avenue H
West Orange Cove
West Orange
Evadale
Buna- Mauriceville
Mauriceville
Cove Stadium
Texas Class 3A showdown at West Orange Cove Stadium
The Friday night clash at West Orange Cove Stadium features Silsbee and Working in a second meeting of the season. Silsbee dominated the first game with a 38-0 victory and remains ranked number one in Texas class 3-A football after seven weeks.
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West Orange Cove Stadium
Silsbee
Tigers
Texas
York Samuel Acquitted of 1970 Murder Charge
York Samuel, 66, of Kountze was found not guilty of the December 28, 1970 pistol slaying of Edward Watson, a two day trial in 88th District Court ending at 2:30 p.m. Foreman John Osh a delivered the verdict. Grady Trimble represented Samuel with prosecutors Stanley Coe and Dwayne Overstreet presenting the State's case.
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York Samuel
Kountze
88Th District
John “Osha
H. A. Coe
Samuel
Edward Watson
Grady Trimble
Stanley Coe
Dwayne Overstreet
Raiders End Season With 14-13 Win Over Bucs
Lumberton Raiders clinched fourth place in District 22-2A after beating East Chambers 14-13 last Friday night. Larry O Neill scored the first TD, Donnie Garrison added the PAT, and Jesse Furlough produced a late go ahead score as the defense sealed the victory.
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East Chambers
Harold Pollard
Lumberton Raiders
Donnie Garrison
Raiders
Bucccaneers
Lumberton
Larry O'Neill
Garrison
Bucs
Jesse Furlough
Sec
Ond Lumberton
Raider
Lamberton
VA Claims Officer To Visit Friday At Neches National Bank
Arthur G. Lundine a certified claims officer from Beaumont will be at Neches National Bank Friday November 19 from 9 a m to 3 p m to aid veterans or widows with claims issues and to assist with completing the yearly questionnaire.
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Arthur G. Lundine
Beaumont
Neches National Bank
Sheriff's Department Reports Assault Burglary and Theft
Hardin County deputies investigated cases of assault with intent to murder burglary and theft involving Lumberton and Kountze residents. James Singletary, 59, treated and released for facial cuts. Clarence Williams, Livingston, charged after a club incident near Votan. Robert Blackburn 17 released on bond after theft charge. Gun thefts from Bobby Henderson home and truck in Kountze reported. Suspect details include a 6 horsepower engine and firearms, with juvenile custody arranged.
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Lumberton
Con
Hardin County Sheriff's Section
Don Merrill
Claude Lindsey
Merrill
James M. Singletary
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Clarence Murphy Williams
Livingston
Votan
Williams
Billy Painel
Truett Bennett
Liquor Control Board
Lumberton Reign Penool
Blackburn
Kountze
Bobby Henderson
Navy
Lindsey
Henderson
Angleton visitors stay with Barelays over weekend
Mrs. J. R. Badger and her daughter Bedie of Angleton spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Barelay Jr. and family, sharing time in their home.
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J. H. Richardson
Port Neches
Bryan Mays
J. R. Badger
Daugher, Bedie
Angleton
W. A. Barelay Jr
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SVFD
Paine
Leslie Lane Rushing
Jefferson County
Charles Austin
Butch Campbell
Ray McGallion
Bubba McGallion
Mike Cross
Pete Landgraf
Grant Dean
Larry Gardner
Ricky Price
Ronnie Calvert
Charles Carter
Bobby Westbrook
William Walters
Tony Calhoun Charles Stanley Rim Armour
Tommy Dunnigan
Gerald Skinner
Curtis L. Smith
Bobby Woodard
Jesse Davis
Calvin Fobbs
BIG D
Charles Stanley
Ward
Lumberton E. C
Lilsbee
Enterprise
Sheriff's Department
Jim Stinson
Merril
Robert Blackburn
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