The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1955 Page: 1 of 16
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IEE, TEXAS, THUR&DAY, MAY M, 1855
New Home Construction Passes
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$160,000 In Five Month Period
Hie 1954 industrial building b
the first five months of 1955 in the
Pony League
Double Header
Set Saturday
A double header, between the
Kountze Cardinals and VFW Dod-
gers in the first game and the
Buna Braves vs. the Kiwanis club
Giants in the second, is scheduled
for Saturday afternoon to launch
the 1955 Pony League baseball
season in Silsbee.
Game time is 2 p.m. at the high
school baseball stadium. Team
managers are, Link Skillern, V-
FW; H. L. Cook, Buna; Coach
Murdock,, Kountze; and Bill Sel-
lers, Kiwanis club.
A more complete game sched-
ule will be released next week,
Pony League President Pete Far-
mer promised.
Silsbee is still growing!
' ..... boom has carried over into
form of steadily mounting
home construction boom. ‘
Since Jan. 25 of this year new home construction has to-
taled $1644>50. Added to thisf
is another $14,518 in repairs
and additions to homes, and
$52,694 In new business and re-
lated construction. Source of this
information are 51 building per-
mits filed since Jan. 25 in the city
office.
Total amount of building either
completed or now in progress on
these building permits alone, and
inside Silsbee’s city limits, is
$232,164. This neither includes
home and industrial construction
outside the city limits proper, nor
projects begun prior to enforce-
ment of the building permit ordi-
nace. Chief among these will be
Sinclair’s new refinery northwest
of town, the new Episcopal
church, Silsbee Iron Works, res-
idential construction and the Bap-
tist church.
Some contractors have estimat-
ed that residential construction
total outside the city limits, but
in the metropolitan area, will
equal the amount inside the city
limits.
"I see no reason not to expect
the present high level of home
building to continue in and
around Silsbee for at least the
next 12 months”, one contractor
said. He also expects around 200
new homes to go up in that time.
Two subdivisions, being devel-
oped by W. C. Britton and N. A.
Cravens in the northeast section
of town, are ready to accomodate
new homes. Plat for one of these,
which lies just outside the north-
east city limits, was recorded with
the county clerk only last month.
There are also many home
building sites in Woodlea addition.
Permanent housing will be
needed for personnel of Sinclair’s
new refinery, fast coming along
on the Old Kountze road. About
10 new home owners must be ab-
sorbed when Silsbee Iron Works',
located in the old Kirby mill ma-
chine shops, gets into production.
New churches figure solidly in
Silsbee’s construction picture.
Some were started prior to pass-
age of the building permit ordi-
nance, but figure to be completed
in 1955.
There is the Baptist church,
around $350,000; Assembly of
God, $25,000; Presbyterian, $15,-
000; and St. John’s Episcopal, (an
Marvin Moore Memorial
Scholarship Established
By Legion Auxiliary
The Marvin Moore Memorial
Scholarship was established Wed-
nesday night by the Silsbee Am-
erican Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Her-
man Reynolds reported.
The sholarship will be awarded
to a Silsbee high school graduate
selected by the Auxiliary. The re-
cipient must be the son or daugh-
Silsbee Slugs
By David Read
As a general rule things out at
the Double R Ranch are pleasant
and serene, and people. visiting
out there can relax ami make use
of the facilities any way they like
The folks stopping by the Ranch
from time to time have been the
kind one appreciates spending |
pleasant hours with.
But during the past two or j
three months there have been
some of the other kind of visitors, j
who stealthily crawl through the
fence at the back side, and in the
darkest hours of the night slip up
to the barn and steal the various
kinds of property we have ac-
cumulated out there.
Since the first of this year they
have made away with almost ,500
ter of a veteran, she said. • gallons of gasoline that was ston'd
Money for the scholarship will j ^*e. ^ out Ihvre to supply
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come from th« Welfare and Re-
habilitation fumt of the organiza-
tion, Mrs. Reynolds said, pointing
out that a surplus has grown in
that fund in recent years.
The scholarship will probably be
for $100, she said
Marvel Ann Moore, daughter of
Mrs Syble Moore and the late
Marvin Moore, will present the
scholarship at an assembly pro-
gram Friday morning Mrs. Wini-
fred Bryant, president of the
auxiliary, will introduce Marvel
Ann
Largest Class In History To
Graduate At Junior High
Tonight, the largest junior high school class by far in
Silsbee will receive their junior high diplomas. A total of 168
students, 35 more than ever before, will write finis to one
phase of their public education, and next fall, begin the last,
Ed C. Nash, principal, said.
Graduation ceremonies will begin at the junior high
school auditorium at 7:45 p.m.*!>~_ ~
Services Held Monday
At 3 P. M. For Pete
Sheffield, Died Saturday
when Mrs. Mary Bertram
plays the Processional, the
“Flag of Freedom March”.
Rev. R. E Barclay, pastor of j
Silsbee’s First Baptist church will
give the invocation.
Theme of the entire program
will be laid along patriotic lines
and students from both the junior
high and senior high schools will
take part.
Mitchell Parish will sing “I
Hear America Singing" as the
first number on the program. The
salutatory address will be deliv-
ered by Salutatorian Danna
Holmes. The class poem will be
Last rites were held from the
Silsbee Church of Christ Monday
afternoon at 2 p m for Pete Shef-
field, 56, who died alwut 6:40 p.m.
Saturday.
the big it'd tractor. Not only did
they break the lock and drain the
tank, but they took an empty gas-
oline drum front the barn to
transport the fuel in. There were
two tires mounted on automobile
wheels that belonged to our
friend. Jack Callan—they took
them to*). They also took an army
tent, four good lariats, a case of
lubricating oil, two inner lubes, a
wire stretcher, several five gallon
cans, and miscellaneous stuff, all
of which cost several hundred
dollars and was necessary to our
operations out there
These thieves apparently use a
lot of gasoline in their operations,
and no doubt find a market for
the items they h a v e no use for.
And while they are making these
depredations on the Double R,
they are very likly helping them-
selves to t h e property of other
people throughout the county. We
have no idea who the hoodlums
might be—whether grown men or
teen-agers—but we do know that
they are not going to stop with
looting the Double R They will
be emboldened by their success
out there, and will soon try more
lucrative places, like a store or a
service station or maybe a bank.
They very carefully plan raids on
our barn, and never drive their
cars in the gates. They stop on the
back road, walk to the farthest
corner of the place, and walk
through the little grove of pine
trees tu the barn. There they fill
their cans or drums with gasoline,
pick up whatever else they can
carry, and go back to the corner.
There they load up the car and
with lights turned off, they go
their way.
It is not easy for amateurs to
dispose of Jhal much of a variety
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Silsbee"* first summer youth
get underway Monday, June 6,
registration, the program is assured
tion, Director Jack Heatherington rt
“We made up a few over 3001
already used them all", hef1
said.
Mr. Hetherington stressed,
however, that registration U not a
must to take part in the program.
“Just come on down to the high
school campus the morning of
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artist’s drawing runs on this page) ! lowing rendition of the class song, j cemetery with the Silsbee Mason
$15,000. ! “America the Beautiful”, by Ka- j ie lodge in charge of graveside
As always,#the future is con- therine Lee Bates.
Don L Hough, superintendent
of schools, will introduce Speaker
Kenneth Parker. Parker is presi- ;
Mr. Sheffield was stricken
about 4:30 or 5 p.m. Saturday in
downtown Silsbee After treat-
ment at a local clinic, he was tak-
en to a Beaumont hospital and
died shortly after arriving there, ‘ ’ ,'f. h"U so'™T knowing
according to information from j ■'<jnu‘lhlnK about it We believe
Fanner Funeral home. thu’ M,m0
1 seen some of the items —a gasoline
Burial was at Frank's Branch drum hidden out, nr a quantity of
extra oil, or some lariats or tires—
jecture. But Silsbee’s present re-
mains — steady, substantial
growth.
services Rev Murphy McNeil of-
ficiated at services at the church.
Pallbearers were from the lodge
Mr. Sheffield is survived by his
Two Assessed Penalties
In County Court For
DWI, Assault
Two persons were fined in
county court during the past week
according to records in County
Judge Fletcher Richardson’s of-
fice. Lindy Bell Wyatt was fined
$50 and costs on DWI charges and
Franklin Glover was sentenced to
30 days in jail and fined court
costs on charges of aggravated
assault.
Both men were tried May 17.
There were 22 arrests during
the week, Dave Rountree, office
deputy at the county jail in
Kountze-.said. %frere were 11
drunk arrests, three panhandling,
two affrays, and one each for
child desertion, drunk in car,
driving while intoxicated, and in-
sanity.
dent of the junior high school stu-1 W1ft., Mrs Edna Sheffield of Sils-
1 dent body. ' i>ee, one daughter, Mrs. Ruth Mi 1 -
j Carolyn Baker, who led all ler of Shreveport, I.a and o n <
| other members of her class for son, William Henry Sheffield of
scholastic honors, will give the El Toro Marine Base, California,
valedictory address. Presentation Also surviving are three bmth-
of diplomas will be handled by jers, ix.t. of Beaumont, Allen of
Pat White, president of the high|jasper aruj Doug o{ Livingston;
school student body and highest
ranking boy in this year’s senior
graduating class.
A high point of the commence-
ment program will be presenta-
tion of the annual American Le-
gion awards to an outstanding boy
and girl in the fields of citizenship
and character. Alf Fullingim,
member of the Silsbee American
Legion post, will make this pre-
sentation.
Rev. M. F. McNeil, pastor of the
Silsbee Church of Christ, will ren-
der the benediction followed by
the recessional, “Community
Grand March”, played by Mrs.
Bertram.
and four sisters, Mrs. Jim Light-
foot of Woodville, and Mrs. Ed
Hawthorne, Mrs. Rannie Guynes,
and Mrs. Lucy Y-Barbo, all of
Silsbee
Arrangements were in charge of
Farmer Funeral home.
and can perhaps shed a
light on the thievery. We believe
that there are enough people who
would like to put a stop to that
kind of activity to let us know if
they have seen anything suspici-
ous lately. And they may be sure
that any information they give us
about it will be sincerely apprec-
iated and then identity kept con-
fidential.
Of course the hoodlums who
steal from other people sooner or
later make u mistake and are
caught We believe those who
Mrs. Stella Cook. Silsbee ele-
mentary school teacher, la re-
tiring at the end of the present
school term. Mrs. Cook was
honored with a tea last Wednes-
day, May IS, at the home of
Mrs. W. 11. Holland. Teachers
of the Silsbee elementary, Jun-
ior high school, and senior high
school attended.
She has tanght for 37 years.
County Pays
$20,000 For
Dulaney Land
Hardin county commissioners
signified that they realize the high
value of Silsbee business property
Monday when they voted to pay
John Dulaney $20,000 for right
of-way over his property almost
immediately south of the railroad
tracks on Highway 06.
In addition to the purchase fig-
ure. the county is to move im-
provements located on the prop-
erty at county expense. This in-
cludes John’s Service Station and
grease rack, Langhammer Pack-
age Store, Joe Register’s Bakery,
and Mr. Dulaney's residence.
Only two more pieces of right-
of-way remain to be acquired for
widening of the highway in Sils-
bee, Commissioner Frank Payne
told the Bee Monday night. That
Is the Landolt Service Station
property and a strip In front of the
J. D. Brumley home south of Dairy
Queen on Highway 96 Negotia-
tions are proceeding favoravbly
for acquisition of this, property, j
heindieated.
County Attorney Herman Rey-
little* (nolds was authorized by the com-
missioners to employ any legal as
New Judicial
District Set
For County
Hardin and Tyler counties will
comprise a new and separate ju-
dicial district as soon as Governor
Allan Shivers signs a bill recently
passed by the legislature, Judge
H. A. Coe, Sr., of Kountae, said
Wednesday night.
"I understand that the bill was
lutssed through the senate Tues-
day, and that the bill Is now on
the governor’s desk”, Judge Coe
said. "As soon as he signs it, and
I have been led to believe that he
will, then we will have our own
two-county Judicial district."
It will be numbered the 88th
judicial district, with Coe as judge.
At present, Chambers, Liberty,
Hardin, and Tyler counties make
up the combined 88th and 75th
judicial district.
Everett Cain of Liberty is dis-
trict attorney and Judge Coe and
Judge P, C. Mathews of Liberty
are Judges, dividing the docket be
tween them.
When the two districts are div-
ided, Judge Mathews and Mr.
Cain will remain as judge and dis-
trict attorney of the 75th district
and Governor Shivers will appoint
a district attorney for the 88th dis-
trict.
The appointed district attorney
will serve until the next election,
Judge Coe said.
"I am naturally very pleased
with the new set-up", Judge Coe
said. “It will save a lot of travel
and of course save the state ex-
l>ense money for such travel."
formed 1
IIJL,,. of early
enthusiastic reeep-
early this week.
>n forms and have
you" be te*
is o* th*
mube*l|p
school during the school year and
is taking over this program dvr-
tug the summer months. Re teas
head basketball coach during the
past season and was B-team coach
of the football squad.
Ml bays and girls from about
the foprth grade on through Ugh
school age are eligible to partici-
pate in the summer sports dto-
gram. The recreation periods will
be mornings only, from 8 a m. un-
til 12 noon.
Ail playground equipment will
be furnished by the school, which
is sponsoring the program. Only
personal items such si clothing,
shoes, gloves and the like must be
furnished by the children.
The director pointed out that
children will be asperated Into age
groups so that uniformity of size
can ba achieved.
Also, girls and bon wlU ba sep-
arated. and girls will not partici-
pate in the rougher sports.
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variety of re-
iren of all age
Buna Yankees
(onlinue To Hold
Little League Lead
Second-place Gulf Oilers face
the cellar-dwelling Fire Depart-
sistanee tie might deem necessary j m<*nt Indians af Little League park
in some much more definite way
But if they can be apprehended
now, it will save other property
owners similar losses.
for prosecution and/or appeal of
any and ail right-of-way condem-
nation suits that might arise in the
future.
They also recommended to the
county that in the event that Ins
motion for a new trial in tin- cause
of the State of Texas vs. Ingrain
Pace et al be overruled that he ap-
peal the ease to the court of civil
appeals.
Last week in Judge Fletcher
ranch 5 bcrauffiSf
Silsbee And Liberty Open American
Legion Baseball Season Here Friday
American Legion baseball gets
underway in Silsbee tomorrow
afternoon at 5 p.m, at the high
school park, when Liberty’s Am-
erican Legion team comes here to
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play Silsbee.
A strong district for this section
of Area 3 seems in the offing this
year with Port Arthur, South
Park of Beaumont, Beaumont
High, Orange, Mid-County, Lib-
erty, and Silsbee all vying for
district honors.
Jirn A Smith is manager of the
local squad. He is assisted by
Burke Hargrove and Link Skill-
ern District play begins June 3.
Boys interested in playing Am-
erican Legion baseball in Silsbee
should report to the high school
diamond afternoons at 4 o’clock,
Mr. Hargrove said. To be eligible
to play, a boy cannot be 17 year*
of age before Sept. 1 of this year,
he added. ,
Boys out for the team so far
are Jerry Jones, Norman Reddell,
Ray Fuqua, Larry Hargrove,
Tommy Chilldress, Frcnchie Dar-
by, Kenneth Hutto, Johnny Cer-
neglia, Charlie Oglesbee, Orville
Huff, Buck Smith, Billy Dan Van
Winkle, and Leo Paine.
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Worihey Company Adds
New UphoUtry Man
,
Omer Hearn of Greenville,
South Carolina has recently bean
employed by Wortbey Glass and
Company in their upbols-
Sherman
nounced thi
Mr. Hearn, who has had $3
yean experience in furniture up-
holstering, plans to move to Sils-
bee with his Wife and two daugh-
ter* as toon as suitable living
quartan an located.
decided in favor of the Pace Inter-
ests to the tune of $2500 in a con-
demnation suit tried in that court.
A board of condemnation had pre-
viously awaided the plaintiffs $174
for the property which they ap-,
pealed. Plaintiffs were asking
$4500.00 The property is at the
intersection of two highways, in
Kountze.
Commissioners, not willing to
pay the $2500 awarded in the
ceunty court suit, instructed the
county attorney to contest that de-
cision.
Meter Collections Total
$778 For Four Weeks
Parking meter collections for
the last four week* total $778 72,
Bill Pennington, city comptroller
said Wednesday. A total of 756
overtime parking tickets have
been issued since nSeters were in-
stalled, and $296 in fine# have
been collected so far during the
month of May alone, he said.
Meter collections, exclusive of
tines, arc averaging about $195
weekly. There are 206 meters in
operation.
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Meeting Slated Friday
To Discuss Adult Softball
Or Hardball League Here
A meeting to discuss organiza-
tion of either a city hardball or
softball league for adults will be
held at 7:30 Friday night at Sel-
ler’s Magnolia station, Bill Fuller,
organizer, said this week.
He urged anyone interested in
in organizing
to be pre-
Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Duchent and
children, Susan and Linda, from
Hayward, California am visiting
in the home of his sister, Mr. and
Hrs. Frank Sweet and familY.
tonight (Thursday) ns the third
week of Little league baseball gets
underway.
Gulf has scored two victories
against one loss in three starts,
while the Indians, willi six games
behind them, have dropped four
while winning two.
Tomorrow night will see Crock-
ett A Gilchriest White Sox paired
against the Indians. The White
Sox are currently in third place
with a 3-1-1 record.
Saturday night’s double-header
will feature the Buna Yankees and
Kountze Red Sox in the opener,
and Silsbee Dry Goods Athletics
against the Oilers in the second
game.
I-ast Friday, Buna topped the
Indians 15 to 10. In Saturday's
twin bill, the Red Sox swamped
the Athletic* in a 14-3 runaway
while the White Sox nudged the
Gulf Oilers with a more closely
contested, 7-4 battle.
Crocket A Gilchriest added an-
other win Monday night in a hard
fought 2 to 1 decision over
Kountze,, one of the most cloddy
played Little League contests so
far this season.
The Yankees widened their lead
on Tuesday night with a 10 to 5
win over Silsbee Dry Goods Ath-
letics.
Next week, Buna and Crockett
it Gilchriest will pair off Tuesday
night in a test of strength. Crock-
ett 8i Gilchriest will have come
Closer so far to- stopping the Yank-
ees than any, since they came out
with a 7-7 tie in their first meet-
ing.
On Monday night, Fire Depart-
ment and Silsbee Dry Goods will
play, and on Thursday, Kountze
Red Sox will take on the Oilers.
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The program promises to ba
loaded with a
creation for all children
groups. There will be basketball,
tennis, vollybsU, football, softball,
badminton! horse eboee, tumbling,
and even shuffleboard.
it can
ingtaRiRii^
menu except those of good con-
duct end fair play.
A child taking part in the
course la not required to attend
every day. He can, if he wishes,
play two days of a week, of one
day, or every day, or part of a
day, iuat whatever he and his
parents think he should have, Mr.
Hetherington said.
Each Mission will be broken up
Into periods directed to play and
Instruction in certain of the
* ports, so that participants will
not become "burned out" on any
one phase of the program.
Preference* have been asked
for on *aCh of the sports listed to
facilitatte actual play once the
program gets underway. The pro-
gram is scheduled to run for six
weeks, or until approximately the
last week in July,
So far, Coach Hetherington has
direction of the program all to
himself and he stressed that
any adult or older high school
youths who are Interested in the
directing side of the recreation
program arc encouraged to con-
tact him.
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Silsbee Golf Course
Nearing Completion
With half the greens seeded at
Silsbee Golf Course and Country
club, fairway seeding underway,
a new water well, and- most of the
other big hurdles behind them,
members of the club are finding
it hard to retain their already
highly-pitched enthusiasm.
Work on the course has come
along at a rapid pace. Several
members have been pitching in on
weekends and in off houra dew-
ing fairways, topping and seeding
and In countless other tasks as-
sociated with getting the new
course ready.
New memberships have been
keeping pace with course progress
too, Frank McClanahan, club
president, declares gleefully. To
date there are 45 members in the
country club. TenaUve plans are
to close the charter at 50 or te)
members. This would not m»fo
cloaed membership though, he
said, a* new members would still
be taken in. ,
Should green-seeding bi com-
pleted this weekend as expected,
then it is not impossible that ‘
on the course could begin ‘
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A 265-foot-deep water well has
been completed at the course and
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Sils. Dry Gds. Athletics 1 3 0
Kountze Red Sox 2 4 0
Fire Dept. Indians 14 0
Batting Averages
Sims, Red Sox, .583.
May, Yankees, JMNL
Standi, Yankees, .MM.
Strozier, White Sox, .500.
Ashcraft, Indians. .500.
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Oiler, .438.
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