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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1963
Page
2
Lucky Harris of Buna chased a large bobcat for three miles through the river bottom at Evadale and shot it from a tree with a .22 rifle near the Magnolia Pump Station. The cat measured 36 inches from tail to tip. Harris said he killed another tomcat at about the same spot four months earlier.
Harley V. Ashley assistant district production superintendent for Sinclair Oil and Gas Co. marks 30 years with the firm on September 7. He began with Sinclair September 7, 1933 as a laborer at Drumright and held roles in Kiefer Henderson Nowata Drumright Oklahoma City Silsbee before returning to Drumright. Born in Yale Oklahoma he attended Oilton High School.
The Women of St John’s Episcopal Church meet tonight at 7 30 p m with Frank Grote as guest speaker. Plans for the annual chicken and spaghetti supper and Christmas bazaar will be made and chairmen appointed for various committees.
Mr and Mrs Ashley of 115 Cravens Drive Silsbee reside there with their daughter Donna Jean. The couple spent a year at Evanston University and completed a supervision course at the University of Oklahoma.
Austin reports a new law requiring children ages seven to sixteen to attend school 165 days yearly, raising the minimum days from 120. Parents face fines up to 25 dollars for repeated truancy after warnings, while districts enforce compliance amid migrant worker mobility and literacy concerns across Texas.
Silsbee and Bishop Byrne lineups tilt toward a tough road test for Shamrocks with Melvin Spell leaving the Tiger squad and Parks listed sick. Gerald Walker will quarterback the Shamrocks in Port Arthur as Kickoff nears at 7 30 with general admission seats at 1 dollar.
In the Upper Room devotion, a philodendron stretched across a room loses strength, but adding soil-filled nodules without cutting the vine revives it. The piece links supplementary feeding to plant life and urges daily prayer scripture and meditation for spiritual growth between Sundays and Easters. Our Father prayer asks forgiveness and daily bread to live as Christ.
W P Crockett writes from Winnie Texas dated September 7 1963 praising Silsbee readers for backing the Tigers. He notes he could not attend due to years of service and signs off as WRP Crockett.
Lions Club Region 3 of Texas District 28 1 announces October as membership retention and development month to recruit new members. Zone 5 meeting for Region 2 including Kountze Sour Lake Buna Silsbee will be at Blue Bonnet Club Room on Thursday Sept 19 at 7 30 p m with A P Walters of Buna as chair. scholarship payments sent to Wayne Nash.
Southwestern Bell opens a mobile telephone unit in Evadale to serve 250 customers while a permanent dial building is planned for next year. The trailer office sits east of Highway 105 and enables rapid service in growing areas and after disasters. Evadale customers receive new Crestwood 6 numbers.
Carolyn Sue Fuller of Silsbee High School and Nash Fuller were named scholarship recipients by the club this year. Nash attends Wharton County Junior College in Wharton Texas and Carolyn Sue will study at Lamar Tech in Beaumont. Guest speaker at the club meeting was Rev. Jordan McCall now a Presbyterian minister in Silsbee.
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