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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1974
Page
2
The notice lists staff positions and names including editor publisher society and personal editor reporter photographer secretary and department foreman operator printer and other key roles. Names shown include Leona Whitman Lee Kelly Doris Woolley Harold Leigh Mrs John S Balyin James Johnson Billy Jo Williams.
The Missouri and New York senators introduced a bill to keep seatbelt interlock buzzer systems optional for new cars while requiring manufacturers to offer the devices. An amendment was adopted making buzzers and interlocks optional, drawing wide cross party attention and mail. A New York physician asked for the culprits behind federal mandate, while noting personal belief in voluntary seatbelt use and government restraint.
July 31 1973 advance notice mentions a Congressional Record entry titled Low Down that warned of a new interlock buzzer ruling. The measure aims to force buckling by drivers, highlighting increasing vehicle safety requirements.
Mr and Mrs J L Seal express gratitude to Rea Ana Police Department for watching their property from Aug 10 to Aug 20 while they vacationed. They returned to find everything intact and extend thanks and blessings to all officers.
The Beaumont YWCA will hold a Jobs For Women conference at 9 am on Saturday September 7 at 660 Calder Street. Guest speaker is Dallas State Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson. Coordinator Mrs Wana Eckenhofer says the event will highlight women's skills and job market challenges and urge employers to consider female applicants.
A 15 page GSA booklet titled Someone Close Drinks Too Much offers guidance for about 36 million potential helpers. It urges calm, honesty, and nonpunitive actions, explains alcoholism as an illness, and lists concrete steps to support a troubled drinker without enabling relapse. The booklet costs 35 cents from Consumer Information, Pueblo, Colorado.
The Silsbee F F A entered several projects in the Hardin County Youth Fair with participants for steers including Jimmy Wilkerson Jerry Wilkerson James Prince William Gore Randy Gore Pete Nichols and Pat Exline Bantams shown by Ronnie Gore. Sunday Sept 8 has been set as a work day at the Kountze F F A fairgrounds. The F F A and Athletic Department will sell football programs before all home games as a fund raising effort for Hardin County Youth Fair held Saturday Sept 14.
Lunetta McMahon 85 died in a Newton hospital at 10 p.m. Monday after lifelong residence in Newton. Services were held Sept 4 at First United Methodist Church with Rev. Roy Harrell and Rev. Bob Sneed. Burial followed in Newton City Cemetery. Survived by son Steve McMahon of Lumberton.
City Council of Silsbee schedules a public hearing in City Hall on Tuesday September 24 1974 at 6 30 p m regarding zoning change for Lots 1 5 Block 20 and Lots 1 9 Block 24 Town of Silsbee Addition from R 3 Multiple Family District to C 2 Community Business District Mayor James L Hays announces the session with City Secretary Edna E Brown witnessing.
The Zoning Board of Adjustments and Appeals will hold a public hearing on Monday September 16 1974 at 7 00 PM in the Council Chambers City Hall.
The Beaumont Texas Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints will hold its quarterly conference Sunday September 8 at 10 a.m. in the Port Neches Groves High School Auditorium. Elder David B Haight visiting general authority will attend per Bishop Richard Worley.
The Old Timers Committee will meet this afternoon at 4 p.m. in the Silsbee State Bank for a planning session. President Virgil Caraway invites all interested persons to attend.
Mr and Mrs John Sole and their son Mike of Escondido California visit Mr and Mrs L E Martin in Pryor Oklahoma. Also present is Mrs Kathy Wilson of Pryor Oklahoma during the stay.
Linda Smith, a Pilgrim House Restaurant waitress in Kountze, found two 100 dollar bills and a 50 dollar bill under a table on August 26. She returned the money to owner Joe Blair, who located the rightful owner Odell Medlock of Mulberry Arkansas. Medlock retrieved the funds and gave Mrs Smith 25 dollars as a reward. Smith is married to Texas DPS Patrolman Danny Smith of Silsbee.
Local butcher shop Gore's Smokehouse launches with sale items including ham roast pan sausage at 99 cents per pound and smoked bacon at 1.09 per pound. Pork bones hoghead cheese backbone and pork ribs also advertised in the ad.
Birth notices list daughters born Aug 28 to Mr. and Mrs. James Lauvergne in Women's and Children's Hospital. Aug 29 to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel James in St Elizabeth Hospital. Aug 30 son to Mr. and Mrs. C A Littlepage in Womens and Children's Hospital. Aug 25 David Asher to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Diamant of Freehold New Jersey. Aug 30 Janice Demce to Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Jones of Silsbee. Sept 1 Heather Dawn to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Louis Morgan of Silsbee. Sept 3 Allah Muhammad Ali to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Williams of Silsbee. Grandparents named for several births include Mr. and Mrs. Clemens Steinbrickner, Beaumont. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pyron, A.
John H. Robinson, 75, longtime Beaumont resident and retired machinist for Magnolia Refinery and Kirby Lumber, died early Monday. Funeral services were held Sept. 3 at Magnolia Cemetery, officiated by Rev. Eugene Jonte. he had no immediate survivors, but was survived by a brother-in-law, a niece, and a nephew living in nearby towns.
All mothers of children at Robinson Kindergarten are invited to a reception on Tuesday September 10 at 1 30 p m in the school cafeteria. The event aims to help mothers meet teachers and become better acquainted with the year’s program and activities.
Sheriff Billy Paine announced Mike Holzapfel of Kountze will become Hardin County Chief Deputy Sheriff effective September 1. Holzapfel replaces Jesse Cartwright who resigns August 31 to pursue other work. Holzapfel previously served as a police officer in Silsbee Bridge City and Port Arthur.
Funeral services for Bruce Moore of Silsbee were conducted by Rev. Van Lowe at the Friendship Baptist Church. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery. Moore, an engineer for Santa Fe Railroad, is survived by his wife Cynthia Ann Moore, two sons, his parents, four sisters, two brothers, and grandmother Tommie Bozeman. Pallbearers named: Dennis Raschall, Darwin Bailey, Emery Reeves, Lynn Hargroves, C W Lawrence, Doyle Haley.
Weekly meal plan for Silsbee schools lists daily options from Monday to Friday. Menu includes varied entrees such as chicken and dressing Salisbury steak burritos fish and barbecue with sides and dessert, served with milk and rolls.
Mrs. Hallie Jones aged 86 of 1600 18th St died at 12 10 p m Aug 23 in St Marys Hospital after a sudden illness. A former resident of Silsbee she had lived in Port Arthur since 1947. Funeral services were held at Clayton Thompson Funeral Home at 1 30 p m Sunday with graveside rites at Resthaven Cemetery in Silsbee. She leaves step mother Kitty Olden of Beaumont a son J T Jones of Port Arthur a daughter Kathryn Skrehot of Liberty and four sisters Ola West Ione Hester Mrs Charles Yeary and Louise Ludestorf.
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