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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1957
Page
1
Engineers urge a 766000 bond to fund new sewer lines and a modern treatment plant plus water distribution upgrades. The plan includes Woodrow area lines, northeast side trunklines, and parallel water lines with no tax or rate increase to fund the issue.
The special gifts committee for the Boy Scouts fund drive will hold a 7 a.m. breakfast on October 1 at the Bluebonnet Cafe led by chairman Robert Neyland. Silsbee members include Simmons McClanahan Roy Jeffery Williamson Thacker Donalson Har grove Rudisaille. Art Warnick will represent East Tex Pulp and Paper Co. after the meeting the panel will canvass local business and professionals for contributions.
Kiwanis Club of Silsbee announces a Peanut Sale on Kid's Day Saturday September 28 to raise funds for local youth activities. All proceeds stay in town and support community youth programs per president Jimmy Jeffrey.
The Pythian Sisters and Knights of Pythias announce an open house Monday at 8 p.m. at the Community Hall featuring a benefit cake and coffee. Proceeds support the charitable work of the Pythian sisters.
Mr and Mrs G J Wood attended a church homecoming at Ebenezer Church in Tyler County near Woodville. The all day event featured a basket lunch served at noon.
Silsbee volunteers announce a poster contest for National Fire Prevention Week October 6 to 12. Prizes total 100 dollars across Read Turrentine John Henry Kirby Junior high Waldo Mathews and Frank Robinson elementary schools with 10 7 and 3 dollar prizes per campus.
Hardin county commissioners clashed with Texas Company over lowering a pipeline on Farm Road 1293 near Honey Island. Judge Fletcher Richardson said the company sought advance payment. the county has previously balked at pipeline cost in right of way. Dick Mize Motor Company of Sour Lake won the bid for a county dump truck at 2795 with trade. Sour Lake Motor Company was second at 3295. Two bids only. The court approved use of the courthouse site by Assembly of God for a three week tent revival starting Oct 6.
The 1958 Boy Scout finance drive in Silsbee will begin October 8 with Alf Fullingim as chairman. Heads named include Weeks Crawford as special gifts chairman and Don Hough as arrangements chairman. Majors include Paul Georges and Rayford Birdwell. captains lead groups Wallace Wright Farmer Birdwell Hopkins and others.
Silsbee Tigers travel to Port Arthur to meet Port Acres in their second football contest of the season. Coach Maurice Hobbs reports all players are fit after a two week layoff and welcomes several new squad members boosting numbers over 30. Kickoff is 7 30 at Yellowjacket Stadium near Beaumont and Nederland.
Miss Janis Shepherd selected by the Chamber of Commerce to represent Silsbee at Port Arthur's Cav-Oil-Cade celebration October 17 to 20. She is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Shepherd and secretary to Congressman Jack Brooks. She will attend multiple events and ride in the October 19 parade in Port Arthur.
In county court at law Judge Fletcher Richardson heard two DWI cases and one hot check case. Forrest Bussey of Silsbee and Horace Downs of Alto pleaded guilty to DWI and were fined $50 plus costs and given three days in jail. W. W. Hall paid $1 and costs for hot checks and restitution. Deputy Dale Smith reported 16 arrests for the week. The J and H drive in in Silsbee was burglarized in the early hours. burglars took change from a juke box and chickens and lard.
Jake Smyth editor of the Liberty Vindicator will be the Kiwanis Club speaker next Wednesday for National Newspaper Week observance. He serves as vice president of the Texas Press Association and past president of the Gulf Coast Press Association. Smyth, a Hardin county native born in Kountze, built a noted career in West Texas beforeLiberty.
Norwood Lee Sirmons Jr. a sixth grader and son of Mr and Mrs N L Sirmons Sr brought a horned toad to the Bee office for identification. The West Texas native was found in Jim Cravy's pasture and is noted as a not too common local sight.
A columnist recalls receiving The Chinese World from San Francisco and muses on Chinatown’s sights and foods while noting fall hunting season safety. The piece contrasts Chinese immersion with hometown memories and ends with a longing for outdoor camp life.
A Waldo Mathews high school quarrel turned deadly when W L Samuels shot his sweetheart Effie Lee Smith, 17, four times. Effie Lee, wounded in the neck abdomen back and forehead, is recovering after surgery. Samuels remained jailed on assault with intent to murder. he had purchased a snub nosed .22 revolver in Beaumont last Saturday.
Lillian Whitman will be installed as worthy advisor of the Order of Rainbow for Girls, with new officers named for the term. The public ceremony occurs Saturday at 7 30 PM in the Masonic Temple, with Rev R E Barclay and several officers in attendance.
East Texas Wildlife Conservation Association led by Howard Hargrove plans a 7:30 p.m. meeting on Tuesday October 1 at H and H Dry Goods to discuss the coming hunting season. Topics include leaving the squirrel season closed until November 1 limiting the daily bag to five squirrels and closing the deer season.
Camp Fire Girls of Silsbee and sponsors along with mothers and assistant leaders will join Port Arthur Council for an overnight camping leaders training session at Camp Waluta Friday night. Attendees are asked to call Mrs I V McWhorter.
Ground Observer Corps Civil Defense sponsors a meeting in Silsbee tonight at 7 30 in the junior high auditorium. A film on ground observer work will be shown and locals are invited. Mrs Billie Holmes notes Silsbee once had a post with a pressbox telephone at Kirby Stadium but interest waned risking loss of both post and line. The corps aids national defense and hurricane warnings for storm areas.
Sixteen members gathered Tuesday at the Silsbee Country Club to play golf and bridge. A noon sack lunch was served. Barbara Lee won first high score in bridge and O C. Seely won second. Bruce Watts Jr. won first in the blind bogie tournament and Mancil Spillar won second. Each Tuesday is Ladies Day at the Country Club.
Mrs Herrman Reynolds and her daughter Ricky spent the weekend with her sister Beulah Bryant in Austin. Bryant attends Texas University as a student.
Charles D. Redmond son of Mr and Mrs O L Redmond of Silsbee completed Recruit Training at the Naval Training Center San Diego on September 13 and is home on leave visiting his parents.
Rev J W Joiner pastor of the Good Shepherd Baptist Church with G F E Hanks and H R Fisher attended the first brotherhood national convention in Oklahoma City on Sept 18 and 19. About 8000 men gathered with 44 of 48 states represented and Texas sending the largest delegation.
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