The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1971 Page: 3 of 16
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MISS JANET JENKINS
Janet Jenkins,
Ronald Bourlon
To Marry Feb. 4
Mr. and. Mrs. Harrv Jenkins
of Silsbee announce the en-
gagement and approaching
marriage of their daughter, lion.
Miss Janet Jenkins, to Ronald
Jiourlon, son of Mr. and Mis.
Thomas Bourlon, also of this
city,
The wedding is planned for
Friday, Feb. 4, at 7 p. in. in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter Day Saints.
Friends and relatives are in-
vited through the press to at-
tend the wedding and rccep-
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Serious Crime Increases
But Rate Is Reduced
Serious crime in the United
Stales continued to increase
during the first nine months of
1971, Attorney General John N.
Mitchell, announced today, but
noted that it was the smallest
percentage increase in five
years.
According to the FBI's Uni-
form Crime Reports, the per-
centage of increase in serious
crimes in the January-Septem-
ber period in the past five-
years is as follows:
1971 over 1970: fi percent
1970 over 1969: 10 percent
1969 over 1968: 11 percent
1968 over 1967: 19 percent
1967 over 1966: 16 percent
The FBI tabulation of t h e
nation's reported offenses di
vides serious crime into two
categories: violent crimes,
which include murder, forcible
♦
Outdoors In Texas
Some of the best fishermen
in Texas have caught their big-
gest bass by casting in their
own backyard. “Practice” cast-
ing, I mean.
Learning to drop the lure ex-
actly where they want it . . . in
the center of the favorite hide-
away of the fish . . . comes
from practice, practice, prac-
tice.
There are numerous inveter-
ate, successful fishermen, who
spend hours just dry-casting,
practice-plugs into flower pots,
dishpans. water buckets, infla-
ted inner-tubes, old tires, and
what have you.
Naturally, they get lots of
kidding comments from the
neighbors who always want to
know “how’s fishing?” Never-
theless they keep on casting,
year after year . . . striving for
perfection. This dry casting
makes them better fishermen
nri there’s no doubt about
that.
In the first place, they learn
distance, how to control their
casts, various methods of cast-
ing. and how to use their equip-
ment properly. This is a most
important feature, because if
you don’t know your equip-
ment. you are likely to lose the
best fish you ever hooked.
Dry casting in the back yard
(or front) is very simple. There
are casting rings which can be
bought from most sporting
goods stores. Lacking these
some anglers use hula hoops or
plastic laundry baskets. Still
others try their hand at tossing
a practice plug into empty
flower pots or gallon cans. All
these make good tarkets.
Hours of practice are well
worth the time of any fisher-
man who wants to return from
an outing with a string of fish
instead of a long list of alibis.
For practice casting your
needs are simple, especially if
you have available as much as
50 feet of open range. Use the
same rod you use in fishing so
you may become thoroughly
familiar with it and what it
will do.
Type of equipment and the
weight of the line will deter-
mine how heavy a plastic plug
you. should use. It should be
either a 3/8 or 5/8 oz. In fact
it is well to have both and to
learn the effect of their differ-
ent weights. But, stick with one
until you have mastered it,
then acquaint yourself with the
other.
Your back yard is not the
place to try for distance. So,
work on accuracy. Learn first
of all to drop the lure into a
two-foot circle, some 15 to 20
feet away. When you’ve done
this long enough, try flipping
the plug into gallon cans. When
you've learned that don’t stop,
hist keep on practicing, im-
pVwmg your form and gradu-
Perhaps the major mistake
of all beginners is “thrusting”
the casting arm, swinging it
like a baseball bat. Correct
casting with proper equipment
calls for wrist motion.
An old standby formula is to
put a book under the casting
arm, holding the upper arm
firm against the book and cast-
ing with forearm and wrist
only. If you start this way,
casting will come easy and
'•oil’ll be doing it correctly. On
the other hand, if you learn to
cast by “throwing” the entire
arm, it's not only a very dif-
ficult habit to break but dan-
gerous to those in the boat or
around you.
TIPS FOR OUTDOORSMF^N
Another very effective meth-
od is flip casting. Here you
noint the rod tip straight out.
instead of up. Use the same mo-
tion. except in reverse, for re-
leasing the plug. In convention-
al casting the lure is released
on the downward motion. In
flip casting it is released on the
upward motion. This permits
you to shoot the plug pretty
much on a line and only slight-
ly above the water, back up
under low hanging limbs and
branches.
Save this for last, for it’s
tricky. But, don’t let anyone
tell you that flip casting is for
exhibition purposes only. It can
be most effective in brushy
water and many times will ac-
count for more fish in the boat
than the one-mcthod-caster can
deliver.
However, regardless of the
method, cast, cast and cast
some more until you have
achieved perfection.
rape, robbery and aggravated
assault; and property crimes,
which include burglary, lar-
•eny $50 and over and auto
theft.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov-
er noted that-violent crimes in-
creased as a group by 10 per-
cent in the first nine months of
1971, compared to the same
period of 1970. Property crimes
increased by 6 percent as a
group during the same period,
he said.
Mr. Mitchell said that the
number of crimes actually de-
creased in the nine month
period in 52 of the 156 major
cities with populations of over
100,00(1. For the same period in
1970, 23 cities recorded a re-
duction in serious offenses.
The number of serious crimes
committed in the nation’s capi-
tal also continued to decline,
he said, noting a 14 percent re-
duction in this reporting peri-
od compared to a 2 percent in-
crease in the like period a year
ago. Violent crimes in the Dis-
trict decreased by 2 percent and
property crimes were down 18
percent for the first nine
months of 1971, according to
the FBI report.
Crime in the suburban areas
saw an overall increase of 11
percent in the January-Septem-
ber period, compared to a 14
percent increase for the same
period in 1970 over 1969. Rural
crime increased 6 percent this
reporting period, compared
with a 9 percent increase in
the like period a year ago.
THE SILSBEE BEE
Thursday, December 30, 1971
Silsbee, Texas
Section 1, Page 3
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THE SINGING CHRISTIANS
North Hardin To
Hold Special New
Year's Eve Service
The North Hardin Baptist
Church will hold a special New
Year’s Eve night service Dec.
31 beginning at 8 p. m. The
church is located on Highway
96 10 miles north of Silsbee.
Rev. Cecil Thompson and his
family of Dallas will also be|be .served, according to Rev.
present, and refreshments will’R. J. Simpson, pastor.
ally increasing distance.
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OVER 40?
Over 40? Remember to ask
your doctor about a procto as
part of a regular health check-
up. According to the American
Cancer Society, it’s Vour small-
est move against a form of can-
cer that is most common among
both men and women.
Debra (Jutland
And Danny Riley
Announce Plans
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Oulland
Sr. of Silsbee announce the en-
gagement of their' daughter,
Mi*: Debra Outland. to Danny
Riley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mar-
vin Riley of Kountze.
An early summer wedding is
planned.
The bride-elect will gradu-
ate from Silsbee High School
m May of 1972 and the pros-
pective bridegroom will gradu-
ate from Kountze High School.
Pensioners 72 years old and
older on Veterans Administra-
tion rolls during two conseeu-
Bridal Gowns
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END-OF-YEAR
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BEAUMONT, TEXAS 832-1775
10 a. m. to 5 p. m. — Tuesday to 8:30
COOKING GAME
Game meat adds variety to
meals and is high in nutritive
value, report Extension home
economics specialists. The meat
is an excellent source of high-
quality proteins, fats, minerals,
iron, copper, phosphorus and B
vitamins.
Fresh and properly handled
game meat can be made tender
and palatable when cooked by
dry or moist heat. But the suc-
cess of cooked game is deter-
mined before the animal is
brought home. If a hunter pro-
perly cares for the game after
it is killed, the homemaker can
prepare a savory and nutritious
meal.
Beaumont Players
To Hold Tryouts
For 'Grass Harp'
W. Patrick Harrigan an-
nounces that tryouts are being
held Monday and Tuesday, Jan.
3 and 4 at 7 p. m., at the Little
Theatre at Fair Park for Beau-
mont Community Players next
production, "The Grass Harp.”
Truman Capote’s poignanl
drama is a fable about a band
of convivial souls who flee
from ugly reality by hiding in
a treehouse. The gentle come-
dy nostalgically romanticizes
an adolescent boy’s life with
his maiden aunts in a drowsy
Southern crossroads hamlet as
recollected by the lad.
The cast calls for eight wo-
men and 10 men. Prominent
roles are those of Dolly and
Verona Talbo, two spinster sis-
ters in their 50’s, Catherine
5 Creek, a negress friend who
K pretends to be Indian, 50’s, Col-
lin Talbo, 15-ycar old nephew
of Dolly and Vercna and Judge
Charlie Cool, 60’s. There is also
a role for a 16 - year old girl.
The other men and women
roles can be filled by those in
ages from 20 to 50 or 60.
Anyone interested in reading
for these parts is invited to
come to the theatre. “The cast
will be chosen from open try-
outs,” Harrigan stressed.
Perry Riley will direct. Any-
one interested in any phase of
community theatre is invited
to attend auditions, and may
contact Mrs. J. Earl Brick-
house, 5355 Oriole Street,
Beaumont, 892-6103.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of BUI Jones
gratefully acknowledges your
kind expression of sympathy,
cards, flowers, food and all
acts of kindness during our
loss;
Mrs. Jimmie Jones (wife)
Mrs. N. C. Crain
(daughter)
and Grandchildren
Naturalized citizens of the
United States are entitled to all
privileges except that of be-
coming president.
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To go South In Texas you go North.
Back in 1836, in the same year Texas was
birth-agonizing, tiny Jefferson was founded
on Cypress Bayou, smack on Trammel's
Trace in the far northeast corner of the re-
public and smack in the path of thousands
of settlers pouring Into the new land. The
town mushroomed into prominence and pros-
perity and soon became the largest city in
Texas and port second only to Galveston.
Sternwheelers from the nation’s rivers made
their way up Cypress Bayou to this immense-
ly rich 'jumping off place’ on the Texas
frontier. Materials and supplies tunneled to,
and produce returned from many towns, vil-
lages and farms in the area prospered Jeff-
erson tremendously. Life became opulent and
the city attracted the great, the grand and
the rich from across the nation. Plantations
sprang up, classically splendid. The city it-
self was a showplace of traditional Southern
grace and charm with a social whirl rivaling
even that of New Orleans! Jefferson, it
seemed, was in.
Then tragedy struck. Decades of steamboat
prosperity would never end, thought the city
fathers, and they denied Jay Gould the right
to run his T & P tracks through the middle
of town. In anger, he cursed Jefferson and
moved his railroad farther south. Curiously,
a short time later a natural dam on the Red
River broke, dropping the water of Cypress
Bayou to an unnavigable level. Suddenly,
Jefferson was no longer a port. The city with-
ered.
Three-quarters of a century later, however,
the Williamsburg of Texas is very much alive
. . alive with the zeal and determination to
restore Jefferson to the image of its former
glory. Bit by bit and one by one, old proper-
ties and graceful mansions are being bought
and returned to their ante-bellum splendor
for an ever swelling tide of tourists and
Texans to o-o-oh and ogle. And standing
front and center of an imposing list of over
fifty such restorations, is the Jefferson His-
torical Society Museum. This beautifully ren-
ovated structure, once the old Federal Build-
ing, has been rated one of the nation’s fine
museums and takes its place among notable
showplaces for Texas Heritage. Four floors
of exhibits display thousands of articles, doc-
uments, paintings and antiques of a bygone
era. Just across the courtyard from the fabu-
lous Excelsior House, the museum is open
daily.
Get lost, Texan. In quiet, shady Jefferson,
snuggled between mossy, mysterious Caddo
Lake and gorgeous new Lake O' the Pines,
way up in the beautiful piney woods of north
Texas in the South. As much Dixie as Texas
and mighty proud of both!
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Read, Tommy. The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1971, newspaper, December 30, 1971; Silsbee, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth791337/m1/3/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Silsbee Public Library.