Silsbee Tigers host Jasper in East Zone shootout
Silsbee must stop Oliver Hadnot of Jasper and hand the Dogs their first zone loss at Kirby Memorial Stadium. Jasper rides a 3-0 league mark while Silsbee suffers injuries to key players including Derrek Shelton and Ronald Robertson as both teams prepare for Friday night clash.
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Silshee Tigers
Jasper
Oliver Hadnot
Bulldogs
Kirby Memorial Stadium
Dogs
Orange Stark
Tigers
South Park Greenies
Silsbee
Bengals
Fleet
Artie Shankle
Tommy Golden
Norris Green
Robert Arline
Greenies
William Graham
Ray McGallion
The
Ronald W. Robertson
George Thomas
Derrek Shelton
Wayne Riley
the Bee
Shelton
Riley
South Park
Hadnots
Oliver
James
Paul Smith
R. E. Davis
Ben
Nis Keller
Bridge City
Stark
James Hadnot
Curtis Cooper
Bridge City Cardinals
Liberty
UPI
Associated Press State
Silsbee Tigers
Oliver Lewis
TE Dewight Fobbs
Ronald D. Robertson
Lynn Robinson
Jerry Fontaine
Don Muckleroy
Roger Boswell
Noseman
Pete Priest
Frankie Spearman
Doug Shankle
David Jones
Lynn Robertson
Jimmy Rawls
Allen Sanford
Jasper Bulldogs
Local Man Loses 1400 In Pigeon Drop Swindle
A Silsbee businessman fell victim to a pigeon drop on Oct 15 when two men lured him into guarding supposed insurance money. The con men, described as two black men aged about 23 and 30, disappeared with the 1400 after a ride to Roosevelt Drive. Police seek the suspects.
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Silsbee
The
BEE
T. R. Robinson
Ronald Barnes
Roosevelt Drive
Avenue D
North Ninth Street
Two Houston Men Get 20 Years For Silsbee Store Burglaries
Houston brothers James Henderson Jr. and Billy Ray Henderson pleaded guilty in 88th District Court to burglarizing Britton-Cravens Lumber Co. in Silsbee and Kountze Western Auto Store this summer. They received concurrent 20-year sentences from Judge Clyde E. Smith Jr. The men admitted stealing guns from the Silsbee hardware store on June 6 and were captured June 10 after a Kountze police chase.
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Houston
Britton-Cravens Lumber Co
Silsbee and
Kountze Western Auto
Clyde E. Smith Jr
Aline Harper
James Henderson Jr
Billy Ray Henderson
Francis Williams
R. S. Coe
Cecil Tebbs
Silsbee Hardware
Kountze
Ed Thedford
Thedford
Thieves Enter Home Through Window to Take Radio
Silsbee police report a burglary at 405 South 11th Street after a window was raised and a Zenith radio valued at $42.50 was stolen. Officer T R Robinson investigated and could not determine the radio's serial number.
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Zenith
Silsbee
BBE
T. R. Robinson
Cora Lee McGuire
South 11Th Street
Robinson
Arline Found Guilty of Murder in Drake Slaying
Hardin County jury convicts Lemuel Arline Jr. of shooting grocery owner Y. D. Drake in the back after being refused service on August 9. The panel imposes a life sentence and sets sentencing for a later date. Prosecution led by R. S. Coe and Cecil Tebbs. defense by Kenneth Furlow.
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Hardin County
Lemuel Arline Jr
Aline Harper
Arline
Kountze
Y. D. Drake
Drake
88Th District Court
Clyde E. Smith Jr
Lumberton
Kenneth Furlow
R. S. Coe
Cecil Tebbs
3A Rankings Spark Silsbee Jasper Battle Over 10th Place
Silsbee and Jasper vie for 10th in the AP and UP I ratings as Cuero leads 3A polls. AP places Silsbee tied with Gainesville while UP I excludes Silsbee, tying Jasper with Columbia for bottom spots.
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Silsbee
Jasper
Associated Press
Gainesville
United Press International
Columbia
Jasper and
Gainesville and Silsbee
Court to Meet Friday Over Hardin Probation Fees
Hardin County Commissioners will meet with Deep East Texas Regional Probation Director Jimmy Knierim on Friday Oct 24 to discuss the final installment of the county’s DETRPD membership fees. The county plans to leave the department Jan 1 1976 after paying the remaining balance of 8579.80.
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Hardin County
Deep East Texas Regional
Jimmy Knierim
Hardin
Horace Moye
Moye
Knierim
Kountze
Evadale Man Sues Bell Oil for $1 Million
Robert J. Goins files a federal suit in Beaumont seeking 750000 in compensatory damages after alleging two Bell Oil Co truck drivers nearly hit him and then assaulted him with a claw hammer in Lumberton. The case names Bell Oil Co and two Bell employees.
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Evadale
Bell Oil Co
Lumberton
Bell
Robert J. Goins
U.S. District Court
Beaumont
Silsbee Man Held on Hot Check Charges
Charles Moore 29 of Silsbee placed in custody by Sheriff Deputy Michael Holzapfel for hot check offenses. Charges include two $10.00 and $10.10 checks to Harold's Supermarket on Oct. 4 and Oct. 10 signed by Moore and Jimmy Langston. A $20 check to Fred's Package Store dated Sept. 27 and a probation hold for five years for writing worthless checks were cited.
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Charles Moore
Silsbee
Harding County Probation Department
Mike Holzapfel
Moore
Harold
Jimmy Langston
Big Lake
Texas
Fred
Holzapfel
The
BEE
Hearing Today on Permanent OCAW Injunction
A hearing on a permanent injunction suit brought by South Hampton Co. of Silsbee against OCAW Local 4592 and several members is set for 9 30 a m in the 88th District Court in Kountze. The company seeks to bar striking members from interfering with employees and customers following a Sept. 11 strike at the FM 418 plant and the Loading Dock Road terminal.
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OCAW
South Hampton Co
Silsbee
Kountze
International
88Th District
Clyde E. Smith Jr
South Hampton
Theft of 23 library books reported in Silsbee
Silsbee Police report the theft of 23 books valued at 221.60 from the Silsbee Public Library. Librarian Marguerite Horka said a woman with a Silsbee address applied for a library card April 22 1975 and checked out 23 books from cooking to juvenile stories through April 26. none returned as police investigate.
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Silsbee
Silsbee Public Library
Joe Bob Alexander
Marguerite Horka
Third Annual Silsbee Tennis Tourney Set For Saturday
The Silsbee Jaycees host their Third Annual Tennis Tournament starting Saturday Oct 25 at 8 am.Competitors from Silsbee Kountze Lumberton Woodville Warren Houston Buna Port Neches Beaumont enter nine events with top seeds including John Crabtree of Buna and Phyllis Head of Houston.
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Silsbee Jaycees
Silsbee
City Park Court
South 9Th Street
Keuntze
First Baptist Church
Kountze
James Sims
Bob Burgess
Lumberton
Woodville
Warren
Houston
Buna
Port Neches
Beaumont
Ron Scarborough
Kerry Armstrong
Charles Watts
John Crabtree
Phyllis Head
Jerry McKinney
Tina
9Th Street
A.m
Kountze H.S
A. Coleman
T. Collins
G. Cruise
T. Daniels
T. Dougher
C. Melandes
E. Findley
K. Armstrong
D. Hughes
R. Bailey
B. Horka
R. Hardy
R. Ratliff
Silsbee J.H
D. Tennison
J. Jones
P. Roy
J. McGaffey
D. L. Davis
B. Tarver
D. Fruit
Silsbee JH
W. Zimmerman
Co. W. Smith
E. Bean
E. Dominguez
D. Bean
D. Modisette
J. Crabtree
D. Flowers
J. McKinney
R. Grote
H.S
J. Gates
S. Peebles
T. Pace
R. Dale
H. Ratliff
F. Henley
Ijilsbee J.H
P. Head
Findley
Hairgrove
Spencer
Freeman
Tolbert
Gates
Ratliff
J.H -B. Hardy
J. Johnson
Ibye
Juveniles Charged With Auto Theft and Burglary
Juve nd e s aged 14 and 15 from Buna and New Caney were arrested between Kirbyville and Buna on Tuesday. They face charges of an Oct 22 auto theft in Kountze and a burglary as Sheriff Billy Paine said. The suspects were taken into custody by Jasper County deputies and later transferred to Hardin County for hearings. The 1965 Dodge two door hardtop was recovered along with $186.76 in cash and a separate $299.02 from MecKusker Fina Station.
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Buna
New Caney
Kirbyville
Kountze
Hardin County
Billy Paine
Jasper County
Bobby Choate
Wesley Felts
Paine
Robert McDaniels
Texas
George Roberts
MecKusker Fina
Iris McKusker
McDaniels
Silsbee Man Receives 30 Month Prison Term
James William Price 32 of Silsbee was sentenced to 30 months in Huntsville State Prison after pleading guilty in 172nd District Court Beaumont to attempted burglary. Price admitted October 15 breaking a window at the Yellow Freight System office in Beaumont on December 21, 1974.
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Silshee
Texas
Huntsville
172Nd
Beaumont
James William Price
Yellow Freight System
Kenneth Gore Home Destroyed by Monday Fire
The Kenneth Gore residence about 12 miles north of Silsbee on Old Spurger Highway burned Monday afternoon. Fire Chief Russell Busby said the couple slept through the blaze as neighbors moved out some belongings. damage was limited to insulation sparked by a heated copper tube.
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Kenneth Gore
Silsbee
Spurger Highway
Russell Busby
The
BEE
Gore
SVFD
Spurger
Pauline Yarbrough
Busby
Grand Jury Indicts Six in Hardin County First Meeting
The October term Grand Jury returned six indictments and four no bills. Sue Gertley Edmondson and Hollis Edmondson of Silsbee face burglary charges in the Annie Mae Hardage home case. Samuel Cuyler Dodson of Silsbee is indicted for involuntary manslaughter in the Sept. 24 crash that killed Heber Andrew Crosby of Woodville. Also indicted are Elton Hollingsworth of Warren Waldo Price Cowan of Silsbee and Leslie Everett Pippin of Evadale for drunken driving second offense. No-billed counts include possession of stolen property bigamy and forgery. names will be released later.
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Hardin County Grand Jury
R. S. Coe
Sue Gerstley Edmondson
Hollis Edmondson
Silsbee
Annie Mae Hardage
Sour Lake
Samuel Cuyler Dodson
Dodson
Heber Andrew Crosby
Woodville
Elton Hollingsworth
Warren
Waldo Price Cowan
Leslie Everett Pippin
Evadale
Stanley Coe
Grand Jury
Vandals Fire Shotgun Blasts into Parked Truck
Motoring vandals fired four shotgun blasts into a truck owned by B. J. Kilpatrick of Silsbee on October 15. Silsbee Police report the incident and note further details appear in Vandals, Sec. 1, Page 6.
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B. J. Kilpatrick
Silsbee
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Richard Avery
Jasper Fun
Wilmer Johnson
Jimmy Harris
Andy Golden
Marshall Cooper
Steve Green
Bobby Garmon
Ty Quick
Ted Sparks
Tony Brasher
Mike Hancock
Bobby Gorman
Danny Smith
Anthony Williams
Jose Wilkins
David Scott
Felix Calloway
Cuero
Panthers
Brownwood
Seminole
Pecos
Brazosport
San Angelo Lakeview
Gregory -Portland
Uvalde
Liberty Eylau
Navasota
Gregory
Portland
San Angelo
Lakeview
Bell Oil
Silsbee Volunteer
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