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SILSBEE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1957
NUMBER 44
Religious Census In City
A city wide religious census,^
sponsored under auspices of the
Silsbee Minister’s Fellowship will
be taken in Silsbee Sunday, Jan.
13, Dr. L. L. McCutcheon, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church,
said this week.
A number of Silsbee churches
are cooperating on the program
and efforts are being made to
contact all ministers in the city^
to invite them and their congre-
gations to take part in the pro-
gram.
Rev. Kent Newman, pastor of
Area Sportsmen
Gather For Confab
With Game Director
Area sportsmen were gathering
in Silsbee last night and today to
hear the results of the meeting
with Howard Dodgen, executive
secretary of the state Game and
Fish Commission held with direc-
tors of five local sporting organi-
zations Wednesday night at Cra-
ven’s hall in the First Methodist
church.
Mr. Dodgen, who was brought
here through the efforts of How-
ard Hargrove, president of East
Texas Wildlife Conservation As-
sociation, was scheduled to meet
with directors of local sporting
organizations last night and an
open meeting with the general
public is scheduled tonight at the
high school auditorium. Time is
7:30 p.m.
Game legislation and game war-
dens for this and other neighbor-
ing east Texas counties was
counted high on the agenda of the
meeting. With Mr. Dodgen were
Henry LeBlanc, game and fish
commission member from Port
Arthur, Game’ Warden Captain
Lewis Morris of Beaumont and
Dan Lay, game department biol-
ogist.
the First Christian Church is di-
recting the program and has been
making efforts to contact all min-
isters.
The census will be taken be-
tween 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday
afternoon. It is planned to visit
every home in Silsbee. Members
of the various cooperating con-
gregations will help on the cen-
sus and a meeting will be held at
the First Baptist church at 2 p.m.
to get the census underway.
Heretofore the censys has been
taken by individual churches, Rev.
McCutchen said. “This time we
are trying to get all the informa-
tion at one time for all the church-
es and it will be available to all
Silsbee churches and to churches
in the surrounding community”,
he said.
The town will be sectioned off
Hollis Paine Is Charged
With Setting Woods Fire
Near Silsbee Jan. 4
Felony charges of setting fire
to grass and timberland belonging
to another without his consent
were filed in Judge Louis. Seller’s
justice court here on Jan. 4
against Hollis Paine. Paine lives
west of Silsbee on Highway 418.
Paine’s bond was set at $500
and the case is now pending ac-
tion of the Hardin county grand
jury. Charges were filed by Billy
Eaves of the state forestry service
of Woodville.
Paine is charged with setting
fire to the woods off John’s Lake
road north of Silsbee on the morn-
ing in question He was arrested
after forest rangers were called
to the area to extinguish a blaze
there last Friday morning. Paine
reportedly said he was in the area
trapping or looking for a place to
set traps that same morning.
Mrs. T. J. Trotti is ill in the
home of her son,' W. Z. Trotti, in
Liberty. —
Two Pay DWI Fines
In County Court;
17 Arrests Reported
Two men paid fines for driving
while intoxicated in county court
during the latter half of Decem-
ber, records in Oeunty Judge
Fletcher Richardson’s office indi-
cated Monday.
Fred Burke was fined $50 and
costs and sentenced to three days
in jail on Dec. 17 after pleading
guilty to charges and Charlie
Jones was given a like penalty on
Dec. 28 for the same offense.
Office Deputy Dave Rountree
reported 17 persons had been
lodged in the county jail since
Jan. 1. Arrests included 12 drunks,
two traffic, one disturbing the
peace, one pickup for Clovis, New
Mexico, one game violation.
into certain areas with a minister
from some church in charge of
each section. “We would apprec-
iate cooperation from all citizens
of Silsbee in taking this census.
If you plan to be away from home
between the hours of two and
five Sunday, we would appreci-
ate it if you leave a note on the
door' telling us when you will be
back so that the census can be
completed as quickly as possible”,
Rev. McCutchen said.
Weeks Crawford To Head New
ToBiIake"HereS™yJ. H. Kirby Elementary School
Five Shotguns
Stolen From
Local Business
A burglar or burglars broke into
Fuller’s Sporting Goods and
Hardware Store on North Fifth
street sometime Tuesday night
and made off with five shotguns,
an assortment of sheath knives
and a leather billfold, authorities
were informed Wednesday morn-
ing by Owner Joe Fuller.
Mr. Fuller discovered the theft
when he opened the store Wed-
nesday morning. A window was
broken in the rear of the build-
ing where entry was gained. Ap-
parently the thief made his way
out the front door since the back
door of the building was secured
by a padlock.
Officers looked for fingerprints
but found none as the burglar
was wearing gloves, they said.
Mr. Fuller said the stolen items
were worth “$400 or $500.”
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Weaver and
family of Carthage visited Sunday
in the home of his sister and fam-
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Almond.
Judge Orders Instructed
Verdict In Civil Rights Case
An instructed verdict in favor
of the defendants was ordered in
U. S. District court in Beaumont
Wednesday by Judge Lamar Cecil
in a civil rights case involving the
Hardin county commissioners,
county sheriff and members of the
county hospital board.
Helen Simmons, LaMarque Ne-
gro woman, brought the suit
against County Judge Fletcher
Richardson, Sheriff William Whit-
aker, L. C. Kirk of Kountze, for-
mer deputy; B. P. Dockery, for-
mer Kirby Lumber employee;
Commissioners Frank S. Payne,
E. E. Cotten and Thomas Burch
and former commissioner O. O.
Overstreet and hospital board
members J. W. Oldham, R. S. Coe,
and George Dipon.
She sought to regain a $1184.55
hospital bill and damages totaling
$10,000 from the defendants.
The plaintiff contended that she
was unlawfully arrested in Hardin
county July 28, 1854 as part of a
plan to force her to pay $1164.55
to the Hardin county hospital on
a debt alleged due the hospital by
Claudia Mae Ford.
She contended that she had no
moral or legal obligation to pay
the bill.
She testified Tuesday that Sher-
iff Whitaker and Deputy Kirk
were present in offices of Kirby
Lumber Corp. at Honey Island
July 28, 1954 when she received
a $3000 insurance check as bene-
ficiary on a policy carried by the
lumber company on her father,
Charlie Bogany.
She testified Sheriff Whitaker
told her he would “hold the
check and hold me if I didn’t pay
the bill”.
She continued that she went to
the hospital where she paid the
bill, not of her own free will, but
because she wax “afraid”.
Earlier, Sheriff Whitaker testi-
fied that he had not told the
woman she was under obligation
to pay the bill and had never
threatened to arrest her. He also
said he was In a different part of
(See Judge Orders, Page 8, Sec. 1)
Kountie Votes Wet
In Local Option
Election January 5
A majority of voters in precinct
one, covering Kountze, Village
Mills and Plank voted wet in last
Saturday’s local option election to
keep legal the sale of alcoholic
beverages in that area of Hardin
county.
Balloting was 644 to 433 in fa-
vor of the wets, a count of votes
revealed. Kountze was the big
factor in swinging the election
where 572 voted wet and 230 dry.
In Village Mills opinion was even-
ly divided with a 49 to*49 vote,
and 'Plank, the only box to vote
dry, went 23 for the sale of alco-
holic beverages and 44 against.
At present, Saratoga, Batson
and Honey Island are dry with
the remaineder of the county wet
Dogwood District
Studies 1957 Trinity
Neches Council Program
The Dogwood district committee
of the Trinity-Neches Council,
Boy Scouts of America, at it's
January meeting Monday, Jan. 7
in Kountze, studied the 1957 pro-
gram which it will put into oper-
ation in Tyler and Hardin coun-
ties.
Included are camporees, expo-
sition shows, ud other activities
which no one^cout unit could
provide for itself.
Institutional representatives
present were: A. E. Johnson and
Cecil Cobble representing the
Silsbee Lions Club, Gerald May-
nard representing the First Bap-
tist Church of Woodville, Rev,
Robert Gilpin representing
Kountze Methodist Church, J. W.
Johnson and Earl Wills represent-
ing the Methodist Men's Qlub,
First Methodist Church of Silsbee.
Members at large present were:
W. G. Birdwell, Harold Peck, and
V. Ripkoffski.
W. G. Birdwell presided
and received the reports from the
operating committees.
The February meeting will be
held Monday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 in the
office of A. L. Bevil at Kountze.
September 1956
Silsbee Bees Worth
$1.00 Per Copy
Stop! Den't throw away those
old copies of the Hoc—they
may be worth money!
When our bindery depart-
ment started to bind last year’s
Silsbee Bee into our permanent
record and reference books, we
learned that we, are missing
the copies for the entire month
of September, 1956.
We need two copies of each
week in September of 1956 and
will pay $1 each for the first
two complete copies of each
week in that month that we re-
ceive. Dates are Sept 6, Sept.
13, Sept 20 and Sept 27
If you have a copy of the
Bee for either of these dates,
please bring it by the Bee of-
fice. The first two brought in
for each week will bring their
owners $1 each.
Parent-Teacher
Association To
Meet Tuesday Night
The Parent-Teacher Association
will have their regular meeting
Tuesday night, Jan. 15, at 7:30
p.m. in the Junior High School
auditorium.
The theme of the program will
be “We the People Invest in Edu-
cation”, according to Mrs. I. V.
McWhorter, program chairman.
The Dixielanders under the di-
rection of M. L. Winger will take
part on the program.
Mrs. C. R. Baker, president, In
vites the members to attend.
Local Fire Protection Inadequate
State Insurance Commission Says
A new water well and increased*
i
water mains in Silsbee are badly
needed for adequate fire protec-
tion, the Fire Insurance Division
of the state board of ineurance
- commissioners informed the City
of Silsbee this week.
A lengthy letter over the sig-
nature of George Hawley, chief
dated Jan. 2, was re-
lining a long list of inadequacies
found by department inspectors
on a recent trip to Silsbee.
In addition to the new water
tank, and
crit-
icized pumping capacity of the
engineer, dated Jan. 2, was re- two older tire trucks the fire de-
ceived by the dty this week out- pertinent uses, called for a full
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Dimes Drive Move? Along
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As Shriners Collect $551.23
The 1957 March of Dimas cam-f
moved along
WObob that to date.
Chairman Ma
date, $1288.48
been ooHtrM in the dty.
J!ins t? SU&SS&S SA2
$9>f
* total
collected thus far, Mr. Wilson re-
ported.
thooe company employees
a benefit for die
the county, $1000.46 hm haw benefit the March of Dimas drive.
sand
eake, cookies, coffee ««t
from the
10 p.m. The
to visit during
1 donations will
of Dimas d
• boors and all dona
time, 24-hour-a-day paid fireman,
urged that garages be built for
two of the fire trucks, preferably
south of the tracks, and called for
adoption by the city council of
building code and electrical code
and for passage of a fire marshal's
ordinance and for an .arson re-
ward ordinance.
William Pennington, dty man-
ager, said that some'of the items
were being taken care of as quick-
ly as possible- With reference to
the water well and tank he said,
“Of course, we have new water
mains, storage and a water well
in our current expansion proposal.
But we ate just not in a position
right now to do anything Immed-
iately in view of the great cost of
such I project.
“We are nUfifng our plans and
just as soon as wt are in a posi-
tion to do something, we will. The
present water system, which is
nearly 80 years old, was built for
a dty of 8000 and we have now
jumped to nearly 1000 people.”
He stated that the neeeaaary or-
nanees w o u 1 d y probably be
gamed by the dty council as soon
as they could be studied and
up. On the
group meets the set
electrical codes, ha stated that the Tuesday night in each month,
city charter calls for such codes
and that a planning commission,
also called for in the charter, will
have to be appointed to work out
these codes, along with a plumb-
ing code of some kind.
Mr. Hawley’s letter points out
that “quite an Increase in now in
order in your key rate so these
recommendations should be
studied carefully and complied
with as soon as ppfsible".
The “key rate” is one basis used
by insurance companies for set-
ting focal fire insurance feet in
incorporated cities.
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Mrs. George Wright
Named President Of
Firemen’s Auxiliary
The Firemen’s Auxiliary met
Tuesday night at the Service Cafe
for a social and business meeting.
Mm. Emil Slavik, president,
presided over the business meet-
ing. The following officers were
installed for the new year: Mrs.
George Wright, president; Mrs.
tty, vice president;
Parks, secretary, end
n Welters,
TWe
Paul McClinton
Describes Scenes
In Washington, D. C.
Paul McClinton, erstwhile em-
ployee of the Silsbee Bee, who
was appointed a Page in the
United State Congress by Hon
Jack Brooks, took time off from
his busy schedule this week to
write us a short letter We believe
it will be interesting to our read-
ers, so we are printing it here:
"Dear Mr. Read: I have en-
closed a copy of the President's
speech and a list of all the Con-
gressmen. As soon as possible 1
am going to send you a little book
with all the pictures of the Sena-
tors and Representatives in it. I
will be huppy to send you any
more information that 1 can ob-
tain. 1 plan to write you a longer
letter soon, but here are some de-
tils:
"To top it all off, I got to see
the joint session of Congress, All
the Congressmen, Senators, Su-
preme Court members, Ambassa-
dors from foreign countries, the
Vice-President, and the President
It was really a wonderful sight. To
see the President come in sort of
took my breath. I was within 20
feet of him and watched the whole
speech.
"I also saw all jhe Important
Senators. The Capitol as a rule is
open to anyone, but today there
were more policemen than there
were visitors. As a safety measure,
they even changed links on the
cloak room door just before the
president came in. Everyone had
to show his card stating that he
was an employee, to go anywhere.
I saw them elect Sam Rayburn
Speaker of the House on the 3rd.
“Everybody is really treating
me wonderful up here. Mr. Brooks
is real nice to me He speaks and
takes up a little time with me
when he secs me. 1 sure do like it
up here. Several of the boys want
to go home, und one is leaving to-
day. I told them the only way they
could get me home is to send me.
I saw Lyndon Johnson at a dis-
tance in Congress, and I had a
little talk with Martin Dies.
“Governor Price Daniel stood
right next to me for a while dur-
ing the joint session. I am going
to a reception in the Senate Cau-
cus room with the staff. It is a
reception for ail the Texans up
here for the session.
“You were right about one
thing—it sure gets cold up here.
It has snowed twice, but it has
melted quickly. 1 have my long
handles on.
“I really have landed a swell
job. I work on the phones on the
Democratic side. I don’t have to
run any errands. 1 just answer the
phone and write down what the
page la to do and where he is to
go.
“Tell everyone hello for me.
.Tell Mrs. Read I am going to
write her a detailed report about
the whole set-up. I will know
plenty about school. I sure do like
it up here and thanks a million for
putting me up here.”
\ Paul McClinton
Board'Will Call New Bond
Vote On Building Program
Weeks Crawford, eighth grade social sciences teacher in
Silsbee junior high school, was named principal of John Henry
Kirby Elementary school at a Monday night session of the
Silsbee Independent School District/x>ard of trustees.
Mr. Crawford's duties will begin when the building, now
under construction north of 4“
town, is occupied.
Ground Observers To
Meet On January 20
Thera will be a Ground Observ
er meeting Jaa 18 at the Junior,
High School auditorium at 7:30
pan. and there will also be an.
alert on Jan. 20. *
All volunteer workers are in-
vited to be praaant, according to
Fat Moody, chief observer of the
local group.
A graduate of Stephen F.
Austin state college with nn M A
degree and a B. S. degree, Mr
Crawford is now In his seventh
year in the local school system.
Mrs W K. Sheffield, present
principal of Silsbee elementary
school, will be principal of Read-
Turrontine elementary school on
the south side of town when that
building is completed.
Board members heard an ex-
planation from Supt Don Hough
on the status of the current build-
ing program and the funds avail-
able to complete It
Mi Hough pointed out again
that with present funds there will
not be enough money to complete
the program as originally planned
At present, there is an option in
the contract with Herman Weber
which would allow the board to
cancel out the gymnasium at the
high school Approximately $150,-
000 more will bo needed to build
the gymnasium.
The board will rail another
ImiixI election, probably in March,"
so that funds for the gymnasium
can he put to a vote of the people.
A special session of the board In
late January has been tentlvely
set so that the election can be or-
dered
Mr Hough explained that since
any bond election that is pussed
would Invalidate any unsold
bonds the district might have, that
the election would l>e for $650,000
since approximately $500,000 of
the current issue remain unsold
However, Fiscal Agent Harris
Finder has hern instructed to of
fer $300,000 in bonds to the state
board of'education at its January
meeting. Should the board pur
chase these bonds, then the March
bond election would be for only
$350,000 to accomplish the rest
of the building program needs.
The hoard indicated that Senate
Bill 216 would be invoked if the
new election passes, in order to
retire the bonds. Senate Bill 216
provides that school districts can
vote a tax levy .over the $1 SO con-
stitutional lirnlla to retire bonds
Mr. Hough said that he though a
$15e tax per $100 valuation would
retire the bonds adequately, leav-
ing the basic tax for maintenance
of the school district, He said this
would be necessary as with com-
pletion of the new school build-
ings, it will be necessary to hire
additional teachers, over what the
state allows for average daily at-
tendance and that the school dis-
trict would have to absorb salary
expenses here.
Three European
Students Enroll
In School Here
Three new students enrolled at
Silsbee elementary school this
week P'or them, it will Ix-gin not
only a new school, hut a new way
of life, with a new concept of liv-
ing
They are Edward Nowak, 10,
his brother Jerry, 6, and Aneiln
Chytry, 6. Aneila and Jerry en-
tered the first grade and Edward
the third
The two boys are Polish and
Aneila comes from Germany
Their families, part of the thou-
sands of displaced persons in Eu-
rope, have moved to Texas and
their fathers will t>e employed it
the sand pit on the old Beaumont
highway by Operator J W Barry
who enrolled the children If
school Tuesday morning himself
Be said they hud been in the
United States only about a month
Firemen Answer*Four
Alarms Since Jan. 1
Silsbee volunleer firemen have
answered four fire alarms and one
alarm to search for a man lost In
the woods since Jan 1, Chief John
Bushy said Wednesday.
He received a call at 3 a m
Wednesday morning that a man
was lost in the woods near Peach
Tree Point north of Evadale. Fire-
men went out at daybreak Wed-
nesday morning, but the musing
man, Marvin Nettles of Beaumont
came out of the woods before fire-
men started searching Mr. Net-
tles, who became lost while squir-
rel hunting, said he built two big
fires and slept between them dur-
ing the night.
On Jan. 1 firemen answered a
call to the Joe Jefferson home at
172 Pine street in Silsbee where
about $JJ50 worth of damage was
done to a room at the Jefferson
residence. The call cam* at 12:05
p.m.
Fire destroyed the Benny Had-
not rent house in Red |'ut at 7:30
p.m. Jan. 4. The building was out-
side the dty limits. /
A grass fire at 11 am Jan. •
sent firemen out to the W. C. Roy
place about six miles northwest on
highway 416 and a second grass
and woods fire on Farm Road 1122
st 12:40 the same day sent fira-
mcA out a Second time.
Little League Meeting
Set For Friday Night
Plans for the coming season will
be the principal topic of discussion
at a meeting of Silsbee Little
league workers to he held Friday
night at 7 o’clock at Hardin Coun-
ty Savings and I/ian office.
The meeting is open to every-
one interested in the Little la-ague
program. President Sam C'etnig-
lia said. He said that a number of
important matters will be dis-
cussed by the officers, directors
and manager*.
Information to complete the
1057 Little league franchise with
the national association will be
discussed at the meeting.
“A number' of players have not
yet turned in their uniforms from
last season and I want to urgent-
ly ask that mothers of last season's
players make a careful check to
see that their boy's uniform has
been turned in These uniforms
should be turned in to team man-
agers so that they can be cleaned
and readied for issue this season,”
Mr Cerniglia said
Tec. Sgt and Mr*. Joe Knupple
and children left last week to take
up new assignments at Lowry
Air Force Baae in Denver, Colora-
do after spending three weeks
visiting in the home of his parents,
Hr. and Mrs. Joe Knupple. Their
last assignment was at Park Air
Force Base in California.
Membership Drive
Of County C of C To
Start In Silsbee Friday
Silsbee Attorney Carey Will-
iamson has been elected first vice- ^
president o f Greater Hardin
County Chamber of Commerce it
was reported this week
Mr Williamson was also named
area director of membership for
the Silsbee area at a recent meet-
ing of the organization. He said
that a membership' drive in Sils-
bee #nd the Silsbee area would
get underway, probably .on Fri-
day of this week So far, all other
areas of the county are well rep-
resented in the group and this
will be the first organized move
to bring in Silsbee members
B. E. Rea, county agricultural
agent was named vlce-presid*- t
in charge of countywide agricul-
ture committees at .he meeting
of the county C of C.
Mrs. C. E. Richmond
Elected President Of
Silsbee Garden Club
The Silsbee Garden Club met
Tuesday afternoon in the home of
Mrs. B. A. McMahon with Mrs.
John Martin at cohostess.
Mrs. L. P. Skinner and Mrs.
Earl Stover had charge of the pro-
gram ^Garden Lighting”.
Mrs. L. O. Turrentine, presi-
dent, presided over the business
meeting.
The following officer* were
elected for the coming year: Mr*.
C. E. Richmond, president; Mrs. J.
D Thompson, first vice president;
Mrs. J. D. Moore, second vice
president; Mr*. B. A, McMahon,
third vice president; Mrs. W. C.
McNeil, treasurer; Mrs. A, L.
Tucker, secretary and Mrs. W* t.
Armstrong, .parliamentarian.
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