Auto plow damages City Hall injuring three workers
Three city employees Omarine Humble Louise Barnes and Sue Dougharty were treated for minor injuries after a car backed into City Hall and the Water Department office in Silsbee at 8 30 am Wednesday Nov 19. Barnes was kept for observation with a bruised knee while Humble and Dougharty were released.
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Silsbee Doctors Hospital
City Hall
Water Department
Omarine Humble
Louise Barnes
Sue Dougharty
Humble
Dougharty
Ronald Hickerson
Cesar Dominguez
Dominguez
Seven Indicted By Grand Jury In Hardin County
Seven true bills were returned by the Hardin County Grand Jury on Monday November 17 including Harvey N Hanks 20 of Silsbee and Woodville indicted for murder with malice in the October 29 death of Harold Adams Jr three year old son of Mrs Joyce M Adams Also indicted were John Henry Webb 26 of Kountze for alleged November 5 rape of a two year old girl awaiting psychiatric examination Leroy Dolly Sr 25 of Kountze accused of fondling a four year old girl and Charles Robert Moseley charged in theft with one suspect at large A second theft indictment and a DWI second offense against Larouse Angelle were also noted No arrest had been reported in an abandonment of a child case by press time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey N. Hanks
Silsbee and
Woodville
Hardin County Grand Jury
Harold Adams Jr
Joyce M. Adams
Hanks
John Henry Webb
Kountze
H. A. Coe
Leroy Dolly Sr
Hardin County
Charles Robert Moseley
Dwi
Larouse Angelle
Two Area Women Charged With Beaumont Robbery
Linda Chiuminetta 27 of Silsbee and Sharon Grace Inman 21 of Call were charged with robbery by firearms in Beaumont. They allegedly robbed Delmo Forsythe 41 of Orange at gunpoint early Nov 13, taking $20 after luring him from a lounge to Langham Street. Each face a $5,000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linda Chiuminetta
Silsbee
Sharon Grace Inman
Call
Court of Justice of the Peace
Paul McNeill
Beaumont
Delmo Douglas Forsythe
Orange
Forsythe
Langham
Flanagan Returns Home After Open Heart Surgery
Robert Wayne Flanagan came home Thursday after undergoing open heart surgery at St. Luke's Hospital Houston. It was his second such operation, first done when he was seven. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W E Flanagan and a student at Silsbee High School. He will resume school Monday with restricted activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Wayne Flanagan
St. Luke’s Hospital
Houston
W. E. Flanagan
Silsbee High School
J. L. Hare Dies In Two Car Crash
Seventeen year old Jimmy Lee Hare of Silsbee died from injuries after a two car crash on Cook's Lake Road 1.1 miles north of Beaumont at about 7:00 am Wednesday. Richard Lloyd Poe of Beaumont was treated for chest injuries and facial cuts. Hare’s passenger Glenda Verrett of Beaumont also injured. Funeral services pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Lee Hare
E. L. Hare
Silsbee
Chance-Loeb
Beaumont
Cook’s Lake Road
Bobby Franklin
Hare
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Franklin
Richard Lloyd Poe
Poe
Baptist Hospital
Glenda Verrett
Kelley-Hixson Funeral Home
Silsbee to build new post office on Hopkins property
Postmaster General announces Silsbee will place a modern 9,086 square foot post office at the Hopkins property at West Avenue P and Highway 96 South. The site, owned by Mrs. Ethel Newton Hopkins, will be leased to the Post Office Department with bids invited soon.
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Silsbee
Hopkins
West Avenue P
Highway 96 South
Winton M. Blount
Sils
Post Office Department
Conley C. Bradshaw
the Bee
City Seeks State Aid In Traffic Light Hookup
City officials seek state aid to install a traffic signal at the Dardin Drive and US 96 South intersection. The Highway Department policy change now allows aid for towns up to 15 000, potentially including Silsbee, but surveys await completion of ongoing Dardin Drive work. City meetings were moved from Tuesday Nov 24 to Wednesday Nov 26.
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Dardin Drive
Aia City Council
Coun
Cil
Ronald Hickerson
Highway Department
Hickerson
Silsbee
Durdin Drive
Ferrell
O'Neil
Gulf States Utilities Co
the Bee
Evadale Approves $1 Million School Bond and More
Evadale voters pass a $1 million bond for a new high school complex with 93 yes and 33 no, plus a maintenance tax measure approved 83 to 39. Non taxpayers approve both propositions 11 to 0 and 10 to 0. Bids for the initial $400,000 bond will be advertised in January 1970 with construction possibly starting by March 1970.
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Evadale
Evadale Independent
Board of Education
Ed Nash
Augie Saxe
Nash
Saxe
Beaumont
Pitts, Phelps, White and Saxe
Texans Conrade and Bean Step Onto Moon Surface
At 5 45 am on Wednesday November 19 US astronauts Charles Conrad Jr and Alan L Bean became the second pair to walk on the Moon joining Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr The two men landed at site 7 in the Ocean of Storms near Surveyor III and prepared to deploy instruments and collect lunar samples while Richard Gordon orbited aboard Yankee Clipper and Intrepid prepared for their return with parts of Surveyor II.
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U. S
Charles Conrad Jr
Alan L. Bean
Niel Armstrong
Edwin Aldrin Jr
Conrad
Bean
Richard Gordon
Moon
Silsbee Chamber seeks support for road bond election
The Silsbee Chamber of Commerce plans intensified drive for a road bond election. Directors met at Silsbee State Bank and urged attendance at Commissioners Court on Nov 24 to receive petition packets. The group will push for right of way to enable future road construction and warned county funds depend on timely action.
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Silsbee Chamber of Commerce
Silsbee State Bank
Lenox Hawthorne
Commissioner's Court
Hawthorne
Hardin County
Jimmy Jeffrey
Retail Merchants Committee
Alleged Burglar Caught Minutes After Theft in Silsbee
At 8 39 am Tuesday November 18 a man entered Ronnie Capellar State Gas and Quick service sta tion on Fifth Street and Earnest Avenue took $55 from a cash register. Jesse Lee Isaac 25 of Silsbee was questioned by Detective Morry Cole and charged with felony theft after a brief hold at the Hardin County Jail with a $2500 bond. He had been released from Angola State Penitentiary Louisiana recently and was arrested by Patrolman M D Merrill at Ninth Street and Avenue J.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronnie Capellar
State Gas and Qi
Fifth Street
Earnest Avenue
Jesse Lee Isaac
Silsbee
Morry Cole
Isaac
Justice of the Peace Res
O'Bannion's No 6 Lumberton Burglarized
O'Bannion's No 6 Lumberton grocery store was burglarized on Tuesday November 11 with entry by breaking the front door lock. Manager Mrs Rosalee Page said thieves took change cigarettes and other items. the break was discovered on Wednesday November 12. An investigation was conducted by Lamerton Constable E Ricks and Hardin County Deputy Sheriff Dale Smith.
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O'bannion’s
Lumberton
O’bannion
Rosalee Page
Page
Lamerton
E Ricks
Hardin County
Dale Smith
Justice of Peace Fines Six Hunters
Bay town man Charles H. Jackson fined 110 by Silsbee Justice Rex Moore for killing a spike on Sunday November 9. Hart and Clogston picked him up. Moore also fined five Beaumont youths 35 each for trespassing to hunt on lease.
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Charles H. Jackson
Baytown
Silsbee Justice of the Peace
Rex Moore
Jackson
Texas
Gordon Hart
R. H Clogston
Moore
Beaumont
Three Injured In Two Car Crash South Of Silsbee
Three people were injured in a two car collision two miles south of Silsbee on US 96 at 10:45 p m Friday Nov 14. Dennis Earl Lyendecker 20 of Lumberton drove a 1967 Datsun that crossed the center line striking Patrick M Frank 20 of Beaumont in a 1963 Plymouth. Glenda Jackson 20 of Silsbee a passenger in Franks car also injured. All were taken to Silsbee Doctors Hospital. Jackson and Frank released Sunday Nov 16, Lyendecker remained hospitalized as of Wednesday Nov 19.
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Silsbee
N. W Barrow
Truman Dougharty
Dennis Earl Lyendecker
Lumberton
Patrick M. Frank
Beaumont
Frank
Glenda Jackson
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
Miss Jackson
Lyendecker
E.ricks
Dennis Earl
Lvendecker
Doctors Hospital
N. W. Barrow
Nine Street Fires Damaged Home and Bus Barn
Two West Ninth Street fires last week damaged a private apartment and destroyed an abandoned bus barn. Fire Chief John Busby said a hot water heater sparked the Nov 12 kitchen blaze at 440 West Ninth, near Curtis Jackson, with damage estimated at 1500 to 1800 dollars. The second fire on Nov 15 destroyed the century-old sheet metal bus barn next to the Jackson home after a grass fire spread into the structure.
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West 9Th Street
Ninth Street
John Busby
Curtis Jackson
Busby
Jackson
Esdmond Burks
Silsbee
Optimist Club to Repair Toys for Christmas Drive
The Optimist Club will repair toys for donation to Toys For Toys for underprivileged children this Christmas. Call Val Hickman or Harvey Ashcraft to donate toys. repairs will be made regardless of condition.
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Optimist Club
Cal Val Hickman
Harvey Ashcraft
Ashcratt
Senate Confirms J Keith Gary as U S Marshal in Area
The Senate committee approved President Nixon’s nominee J Keith Gary of Lumberton to be U S Marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. Gary, a solicitor with Mayer Insurance Co in Beaumont, led the Nixon campaign in Hardin County and was recommended by Sen John Tower. The Eastern District spans from the gulf to the Oklahoma line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Senate
Nixon
J. Keith Gary
Lumberton
Texas
Gary
Mayer Insurance Co
Beaumont
John Tower Gary
Hardin County
Senate
Gulf
Oklahoma
Murder Charge Filed In Death Of Harold Adams
Harvey N. Hanks, 20, of Silsbee, faces a murder charge in Hardin County for the October 29 death of three year old Harold Lazar Adams. Hanks, jailed on a $10,000 bond, says the child was struck by a door after a fall the day before. An autopsy found death from extensive subdural hemorrhage due to a blow to the forehead. The case involved Texas Rangers and was pending in Kountze Justice Court. The boy was buried in Kountze on November 2.
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Hardin County
Dale Smith
Hanks
Hanks Wa
Silsbee Doctors Hospital
Terry Smith
Silsbee
Smith
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Beaumont
Beaumont Justice of the Peace
J. Paul McNeill
William E. Hogg
McNeill
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J.D. Donalson
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