Local Press Names Editorial Staff and Rates
The Silsbee local paper lists its second class mailing permit date April 10 1919 and publishes weekly at 410 Highway 96 Silsbee Texas with subscription rates of 350 per year in Hardin Jasper Tyler Jefferson counties and 4 00 outside those counties. It names the editors publishers and staff including David Read R L Read Tommy Read Leona Whitman Pat Richardson Harold Leigh Ruth Stirling James Johnson Charles Green and others.
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Silsbee
Texas
Highway 96
Hardin
Jasper
Tyler
Jefferson
David Read
R. L. Read
Tommy Read
MRS
Jefferson Counties
Silsbee Public School Week Menu September 21 25
The Silsbee Public Schools list weekly meals for September 21 to 25. Monday offers hot dogs with chili and sides. Tuesday features fried chicken and rice. Wednesday serves meat loaf with creamed potatoes. Thursday provides hamburgers with baked beans. Friday presents fried fish with cat sup and sides. Milk is included daily.
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Silsbee
New Cub Scouts Of Pack 199 Meet
New Cub Scouts of Pack 199 will meet Monday at 7:30 p m in Read Turrentine school cafeteria. This session is for new boys and parents only with dens formed for new Cub Scout age. Quincy Lee Beaumont scout executive will speak. C D Thompson will attend as cub scoutmaster. A den mother will explain duties. Pack reorganizing plans to follow. Sponsored by Read Turrentine School PTA.
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Read - Turrentine
Quincy Lee
Beaumont
C. D. Thompson
Read-Turrentine School Pta
Births for Shelly Diane and Samuel Wheeler Tobey IV
Hello World Mr and Mrs Milton McKinney of Galveston welcomed daughter Shelly Diane on Sept 14 at St Elizabeth Hospital Beaumont. Grandparents Mr and Mrs W J Jackson and Mrs Albert McKinney Sr of this city. Silsbee parents S W Tobey III welcomed son Samuel Wheeler Tobey IV on Sept 9. Melinda Ann born to Mr and Mrs A F E Anderson of Kountze Sept 10.
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Milton McKinney
Galveston
Shelly Diane
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Beaumont
W. J. Jackson
Albert McKinney Sr
City
S. W. Tobey III
Silsbee
Samuel Wheeler Tobey IV
Melinda Ann
A. FE. Anderson
Kountze
ABWA To Near Talks On Finance
Pine Burr Chapter ABWA will meet Monday at 7 30 p m in Silsbee Credit Co office. Frances Byrd will chair. Program Finance Business will be presented by N C Chatin of Silsbee Credit Co and B J Holman of General Finance Co Beaumont.
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Pine Burr Chapter
ABWA
Silsbee Credit Co
Frances Byrd
N. C. Chatin
B. J. Holman
General Finance Co
Beaumont
Miss Judith Dubose Joins Kappa Delta at SHSC
Miss Judith R Dubose attended rush week activities at Sam Houston State College in Huntsville and pledged Kappa Delta Sorority. She is a Silsbee High School 1964 graduate and the daughter of Mrs Connie Dubose.
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Judith R. Dubose
Sam Houston State College
Huntsville
Kappa Delta Sorority
Bee
Miss Dubose
Silsbee
Sam Houston
Connie Dubose
Silsbee High School
Interbasin diversions eyed in Texas water plans
Texas faces rising interest in interbasin diversions as officials note half the state’s water in the eastern one seventh. Three speakers at the Association of Western State Engineers in Austin will discuss the issue. Dallas advances Sabine River water to Lake Tawakoni and Houston plans Trinity water moves. the Bureau of Reclamation study could surface a 400 mile canal linking Sabine Neches basins to Gulf Coast needs. Governor Connally seeks faster planning despite budget limits.
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Austin
Texas
Association of Western State Engineers
Frank Raab
Oklahoma
David Hale
New Mexico
William Warne
California
Trinity Watershed
Dallas
Lake Tawakoni
Houston
Trinity River Authority
Trinity Water
Texans
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Sabine
Neches
Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
John Connally
Texas Water Commission
Bureau of Reclamation
Allstate Insurance Co
State Board of Insurance
Hunter McLean
National Association of Independent Insurers
General Revenue Fund
Robert S. Calvert
Calvert
Connally
Willie Bean Seeks Reappraisal Of Oil Property Values
Willie Bean writes to appraisal engineers Pritchard and Abbott, arguing Hardin County should adjust oil and gas property assessments. He notes past reductions on oil values and urges balancing by increasing oil values while decreasing local property values, contending production and income should drive valuations.
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Willie Bean
Apraisers
the Bee
Pritchard & Abbott
Tax Assessor Proposes 30% Oil Gas Increase and 20% Local Decrease
In Hardin County Texas Willie Bean the Tax Assessor-Collector urges the commissioners to raise oil and gas production appraisals to 130 percent and lower local property appraisals to 80 percent. He states adjustments will not lower total county values and asks the Board of Equalization to notify taxpayers whose values rise.
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Hardin County
Texas
Commissioners’ Court
Board of Equalization
Alarmed Reader Sends Texas Book On LBJ
A reader from Southeast Texas expresses alarm over Lyndon Baines Johnson as a presidential candidate. He mentions Lyndon Johnson, the Houston Post, and the book A Texan Looks at Lyndon, urging objective coverage. The letter also notes the region’s drought and longing for home.
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Xas
Harold Leigh
Ruth Stirling
Linotype
James Johnson
Charles Green
Cub Scouts
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Judith Dubose
Kappa Delta
Dodge
TSO
S. J. Rogers
N. Jay Rogers
Ssstate Orricart Econtact
Beaumont Village
11Th Street
FBI
Kennedy
Texas Education Agency
San Antonio
State Highway Commission
Padre Island National Seashore
Mexico City
Nueces
Noah Kennedy Jr
Rio Grande Valley
Commission
Mercedes
J. E. Peavy
Peavy
Upper Plains
Attorney General
Carr
Cameron
el Paso
Harris
Lubbock
Orange
Potter
Randall
Smith
Tarrant and
Webb
John C. White
Rio Grande
Truett Pritchard
W. Holcombe Blvd
Ed Pritchard
Fort Worth National Bank
Fort Worth
Commissioners’ Court of
Homer Garrison Jr
Department of Public Safety
Water District Board
Atty
Waggoner Carr
School Land Board
UT Bureau of Business Research
State Board For Hospitals and Special Schools
Ohio
Lyndon
David and
Bob
Houston Post
LBJ
Johnson
The
Hardin County Area Communities Schools
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