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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1955
Page
2
Silsbee defeated Saratoga 26 to 0 last Friday night in a slow game highlighted by long runs from Smyly and Self helmet grabbing by Hal Pin and a punt into a water hazard by Dourge. The week also included a plan for a governor speech in Jasper and a theft arrest in Silsbee.
Hardin County Texas orders stock law election in Precinct No 1 to decide if donkeys hogs sheep and goats may run at large. Polling places officers and ballot wording set. election date October 22 1945? 1954? and returns due within ten days after. Public notice to be printed in Silbee Bee.
September 1955 marks John Marshall Bicentennial Month honoring the fourth Chief Justice who shaped a government of law not of men. The Supreme Court acts as an umpire over federal power and individual rights, with Marbury vs Madison cited as a key early decision in 1803.
The passage recalls Marshall's assertion that Congress cannot override the Constitution and his broad reading of it to endure through ages. It highlights McCulloch v Maryland as establishing federal means for national ends and notes Marshall's role in expanding federal supremacy and protecting contracts, interstate commerce, and judicial review. It ends with tributes marking his bicentennial and the motto Equal Justice under Law at the Supreme Court.
William E. Townsley of Beaumont, a top University of Texas Law School graduate, accepts a post as counsel for the Brooks Subcommittee on Special Government Activities in Washington. He joins staff to investigate efficiency of large federal agencies. staff director is Vernon McDaniel. Townsley, from Newton County, charts a path from local schools to Lamar Junior College and North Texas State College, with Navy service and roles in Phi Alpha Delta and the Texas Law Review.
Mrs Charles Massey of 2033 Primrose and Marilyn, who earned a University of Texas degree, are noted for advancing into teaching at the French Elementary School.
Members of Methodist WSCS Circle One will leave next Tuesday morning for the Alabama Coushatti Indian reservation near Livingston. Those going should be at the church by 8 30 with picnic lunches. At the circle meeting Mrs W P Crockett, chairman, began a lesson series on Indians in the United States from the book Within Two Worlds by David Cory.
Mrs. Nellie Fuqua thanks friends for cards flowers prayers and kindness shown during her hospital stay.
The record states the applicant’s age and any prior work at a service station, along with a statement that they must be able to finance themselves.
A health claim states that a single day of using high potency iron and multiple vitamins builds blood strength and restores energy throughout the body. The passage suggests rapid systemic benefits from these nutritional elements.
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