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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1968
Page
3
Buna residents report births at St Elizabeth Beaumont and Buna area family notes. The Buna Independent School District adopts 1968-69 budget with 797,951 planned expenditures and 614,601 expected revenues, debt service 60,450, and a 1.77 total tax rate.
Miss Darlene Frances Strother and Walter Rowan Jordan married August 17 at Victory Bible Baptist Church with Rev. Sam Purkhiser officiating. Parents are Crockett Strother of Victor and Charlie T. Jordan of Silsbee. Mrs. Jordan is Victor High School graduate. Mr. Jordan works for Goodyear.
Weekend admissions list residents from Buna Kirbyville Call Roganville Silsbee Livingston Shepherd Moscow Houston Duncanville and Corigan with several discharges. Social items cover a pink and blue shower for Mrs Melvin Ellison Labor Day guests Dr M E Brown and other visitors from Corpus Christi HemisFair and Kingfisher Oklahoma.
Hardin County reports $111 621 in savings bond sales through July 1968, 66 percent of the $170 000 goal. National seven month sales total $2 996 million. July sales rise 11 percent from 1967. Federal law now bars hiring discrimination against workers aged 40 to 65.
K. E. Antone, vice president of the Texas Real Feature Association, will speak at the Deep East Texas Board of Realtors meeting at the Swann Hotel in Jasper on Monday September 5. Antone owns Main Street Realty Co. in Houston and is a lawyer with long service to TREA. The Jasper Buna group includes Hardin Jasper Newton and Tyler counties. Mrs. Lillie Walters of Buna presides.
The Youth of the Lumberton Pentecostal Church sponsor a public shrimp gumbo supper in the church fellowship hall from 4 to 8 p m. Tickets available at the door. Rev. E W Stanley is the church pastor.
About 60 million people face yaws worldwide with UNICEF supplying penicillin to treat each child. The program targets major regions where the disease is prevalent and seeks to reduce disability from this crippling ailment.
The regular quarterly safety meeting of the Santa Fe in Silsbee will be held Sept. 5 in the meeting room at the Storehouse beginning at 8 a.m. today. Special talks will be given by Conductor O D Hamilton and Roy Samuels, section 1 laborer, according to W B Miller of Temple.
Xi Kappa Nu chapter met Aug. 26 in the home of Mrs. Sydney Miller with 10 members present. Mrs. Horace Whittington led the program The Art of being a Woman. Plans were made to attend a Beaumont area convention in October. Socials included a covered dish supper at the Barnes home, an ice cream social at the Courtney residence, and a hamburger cookout at the Jones home. The next meeting is set for Sept. 9 at the home of Mrs. JoAnn LaToof with Mrs. B. D. Van Winkle in charge.
Buna announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of Cassie Jean Reeves to Jimmy Howard Hargrove. Plans set for September 14 at 7 30 p m in the First Baptist Church Buna with both families listed.
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