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Family Has Close Call
When fire Destroys Home
A home belonging to Lerner
Davis Sr., on Fresenius Road
about a half-mile outside the
Silsbee city limits, was totally
destroyed by fire early Satur-
day, and sent all of the occu-
pants to the hospital with
injuries as a result of the blaze.
The call came in at 8:26 a.m.
Saturday.
Eight month-old Latonia
Davis was admitted to Silsbee
Doctors Hospital overnight for
observation. She was released
Sunday.
Other members of the family,
Lerner Davis Sr., Lerner Davis
Jr., Jessie Davis and Cindy
Davis, were treated and re-
leased, according to a hospital
spokesperson.
Firemens' reports stated that
neighbors saw the home on fire
ana woke the family in time to
get away from the buring
home. An explosion was said to
be heard at the time, but
firemen investigating the blaze
could not find evidence of an
explosion.
Firefighters also answered a
call early Sunday morning at
the home of Brian Hawthorne.
This home was completely de-
stroyed, according to firemens’
reports, and an investigation
into the cause of the blaze is
continuing. The call came in at
12:55 a.m. Sunday.
The Silsbee Bee
VOLUME 68 - NUMBER 35 SILSBEE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2,1986
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Developmental Well
Staked V* Mile
NW Of Sour Lake
By A. Charles Lewis
A Sour l.ake based operator
has staked location for the No.
1 Four Winds, a developmental
well to be located one quarter
mile northwest of Sour Lake.
With projected total depth of
3,400 feet, the well will be
drilled in a six acre lease in
Hardin County’s Sour Lake
Field, Stephen Jackson Sur
vey. The operator is Four
Winds Oil & Gas
•••
Terra Resources of Houston
has hung the "dry hole" tag on
the No. 1 Maxine Merchant. It
w as a developmental well in the
Sour Lake Field. Hardin t’oun
ty. Drillsite was one mile
northwest of Sour I.ake.
Spudded August 5, the well
probed to a drv bottom at 2,121
feet
• ••
Pam Petroleum has tempo
rarily abandoned the No. 1
Phelan, a developmental well in
the Saratoga Field. The well
was spudded last Dec. 16, and
had been bottomed at 2,200
feet
Location is 1.3 miles north
east of Saratoga in Hardin
County’s James B. Reaves Sur
vey.
•••
Commercial shows of crude
oil have been reported at the
No 1 Grogan Minerals Co. in
liberty County’s Pelican Field.
Located four miles northeast of
Cleveland, the well had been
spudded early last January
with Triad Energy as the
operator It was reported to
have been perforated for pro
duct ion at a depth of about
9.200 feet
Full extent of production
potential was not divulged
• ••
A possible production inter
val has been perforated at the
No. 3 Able I>ease. a develop
mental venture of Marshall
Petroleum in Liberty County's
Hull Field Drillsite is 1.5 miles
northwest of Daisetta in the
Jesse Devore Survey.
Perforations were made at an
undisclosed interval. The well
has been bottomed at 2,924
feet
Silsbee Police
Report Arrests,
Investigations
Silsbee police arrested a local
woman last week on a theft by
check warrant for allegedly
writing a number of checks at
area businesses in August that
were returned to the business-
es because of insufficient funds,
according to Police Chief Den-
nis Allen.
Arrested on the charge of
criminal episode, theft by check
warrant was Sharon Anne
Nowlin. 30. P.0. Box 1412,
Silsbee. Justice of the Peace
Robert Ward set bond at
$2,500. Nowlin was fined $113
for a capias pro fine.
In unrelated action, two Sils-
bee residents were arrested on
charges of forgery Sept. 25
after investigation of a report
by Jim Tackett, owner of J & M
Supermarket, that someone
had forged and cashed a Social
Security check made payable to
George Rue for 1382.
Officer Jimmy Womack ar-
rested Shirley Renfro, 40, 770
S. 14th St., and Ronald Dean
Pryor, 39, P.0. Box 411, on the
charges of forgery. Justice of
the Peace Sid Johnson set bond
for each at $1,500.
Arrested on a Jasper County
theft by check warrant and
Orange County issuance of bad
check warrants was John Gark
Burrell III, 23. P.O. Box 336,
Evadale. Judge Ward set a
1500 bond on the charge of theft
by check and $200 bonds for
each of two charges of issuance
of a bad check
Officers arrested Gregory
Bernard White, 18, 2027 Dear
mon St., Silsbee, on a simple
assault warrant. He posted a
cash bond of $90
Also arrested on simple as
Sm Pollc* I P*S*S)
County Rejects Construction
Bids On Mill Creek Bridge
Search Dog Helps Control
Drug Problem At Schools
The big dog pads down the
halls of Silsbee High School
looking out of place, but seem
ing not to realize it. He looks
unconcerned until he and his
handler reach the lockers,
where his leash is taken off.
Then his work begins
Argo, the drug sniffing dog
of the Silsbee Police Depart
ment, comes alive His tail goes
up and he begins to sniff at a
row of lockers, with encourage
ment and orders to "Check it I
coming frequently from his
handler, Maj William Gilley
Argo combs the rows of
lockers until he gets to the
locker that another officer haa
planted a "find" in The dog
stops, seems to sniff harder
than ever then starts pawing at
the locker excitedly t
Gilley opens'the locker and
Argo drags out the package of
planted marijuana, which he
drops quickly so he can get hi*
reward The reward for hia
work is a plain tennis ball for
him to chew on, which he does
with a wagging tail.
Argo is usually brought un-
announced to Silsbee schools 20
to 30 times during a school
year. The only campus Argo
has not visited is Robinson
Elementary.
Both Gilley and high school
principal Bluford Hicks agree
that just having Argo on cam-
pus has helped lessen the drug
problems in the Silsbee district.
“I think having a dog out
here is a considerable de-
terrent,’’ Hicks says, adding
that when school administra-
tors receive a tip and find that
someone has drugs, the drugs
are usually found on the person
rather than in a locker because
students know their lockers
will be searched.
Tm not aaying (a drug
problem) doesn’t exist out here
because it does, but I think it
would exist even more without
the deterrent of s dog,” Hicks
said.
"I don't think w# have near
tbs drug problem of a school
district that doesn't use a dog,"
GlUey said.
Alter the lockers are search-
ed, Argo and Gilley pauas at
the intersection of two halls
where passersby can see them.
Gilley says it doesn’t take but
one person to spread the news
"It's all over school right
nowhe says
The knowledge that Argo
will be brought into the school
without notice is an important
part of the dog's effectiveness
"They don't know when
were coming with the dog,"
says Sgt. Tommy Bartosh, who
is assisting Gilley on this check
of the high school. "They're not
going to leave idrugs) laying
around ”
Argo, a four year old Ger
man Shepherd registered as
SlUbaO Prid.. jaiurnl lb. 8iW-
bee force two years ago after an
eighth month training per
lod and eight weeks of training
with Gilley.
The dog is used to search
school property, including
parking Iota, for drugs. He
takes part in narcotics search
warrants and can search ve-
hicles for hidden drugs.
.Argo's mayor find to date was
about 14 ounces of marijuana
while running a search warrant
about a year ago, Gilley said.
The only place Argo is work
ed off a leash is at the schoola.
When working the lockers,
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AROOIOCATIS • package marijuana hMdon by •»
♦leers In • locker at the
handler, Me|. Wllllem 0
dog Indicated Held drugs.
Hfionday oHar HU
aganad the locker the
Commissioners voted Tues-
day to reject all bids received
for the proposed replacement of
a Precinct 2 bridge after tabling
the matter Sept. 25.
Precinct 1 Commissioner
Andrew Redkey made the mo-
tion to reject the bids, saying
he would like to see the county
advertise again for more speci-
fic bids for the brjdge, which is
over Mill Creek on Goins Road.
Precinct 3 Commissioner
Ronnie Douglas agreed that the
range in bids was too wide and
said he “would feel more com-
fortable" with more specific
bids.
“It's kind of like bidding
between an airplane and a
train,” Douglas said.
County Judge M.R. “Pete"
McKinney, who seconded Red-
key's motion to reject the bids,
said the bids ranged from
all concrete structures to struc-
tures containing culverts.
McKinney said he preferred
concrete bridges with un-
impeded water flow, but the
price in the bid for such a
structure jumped almost 50
percent a foot from the bid
received on another bridge in
the county
He said he objects to putting
culverts in the bridge because
of the ease with which they are
blocked by debris, though the
county may have to resort to
culverts because of the price of
concrete structures.
If culverts are used. McKin-
ney said, it is possible that
county crews could install them
and save money on the project.
He said he believes the
county can get a better struc
ture for its money than was
presented in the bids received.
Another problem with the
bridge is the possibility the
road it is on may not belong to
the county, he said. A resident
is claiming the land as his and
has said he will fence the
property.
McKinney said he is going to
have County Attorney Bevil
Wright check into the matter.
Commissioners opened the
bids in a regular meeting Sept.
22. They voted 4-0 Tuesday to
reject all four bids, with Pre
einct 4 Commissioner J.D.
Brown abstaining from the
vote
Precinct 2 Commissioner
James McGallion said he was to
blame for the lack of compat
ability of the bids because he
did not specify which type of
bridge contractors should bid
on.
McGallion said the bridge is
falling in and he lufy ask for*
authorization to make an emer
gency purchase of culverts.
In other action, com
missioners voted to renew two
notes with the First National
Bank of Silsbee. The first,
which was renewed for $51,123,
is for the principal still owed on
construction costs of the hangar
at Hawthorne Field. The se-
cond, for $11,587, is the cost
remaining for the construction
of the Precinct 3 commission
er’s office in Sour Lake.
McKinney said law prohibits
counties from entering con
County To Receive
*58,095 As Payment
In Lieu Of Taxes
WASHINGTON Texas
counties will share $1.2 million
as part of the federal govern
ment's "Payments In Lieu of
Taxes" program, U.S. Sen. Phil
Gramm haa announced.
Hardin County will receive
$58,096, Gramm said.
The funds, administered by
the U.S. Department of Inter
ior's Bureau of Land Manage
ment, are to help compensate
counties for the absence of tax
revenue due to the tax-exempt
status of federally owned land
within their boundaries.
Gramm said the program was
authoriaed by Congress. It
recognises that counties with
large tracts of federal lands
national forests, national parka,
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tracts for more than one fiscal
year, so loans must be renewed
annually.
The court voted to pay
$103,028 in Community De-
velopment Block Grant funds to
Allco Inc. and Garrod and
Dartez Inc. for construction
and engineering work done on
the Silsbee, Kountze and Sour
Lake water improvement pro-
ject.
Retiring County Auditor
Veraie Flowers gave the invo-
cation at her last commission-
ers court meeting as auditor.
In court action Sept. 25,
commissioners named Bernice
Powell, Gyde See, May Tillery
and R.T. Milner to the South-
east Tezaa Aging Committee.
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PAT HfNRY (?•) and Raffle Lloyd (t) team up to try to stop Nawton running bock
Frod Klnobrow In last Friday’s game at Kirby Stadium. Nawton won the gam# 21-
0. Silsbee will travel to Port Arthur on Friday to taco the Lincoln Bumblabaat to
start 11 -AAAA disrtict play.
Tigers Open District Play
Against Lincoln Friday
Silsbee head coach Charlie
Woodard has a lot of adjectives
in describing the 8-8,225-pound
quarterback of the Port Arthur
Lincoln Bumblebees Bryan Sal-
lier.
"He's big, he throws the ball
a long way, he scrambles, he’s
hard to bring down,” Woodard
said.
Woodard and the rest of the
Silsbee Tigers will get a first-
hand report on Sallier and the
rest of the Bumblebees this
Friday when they travel to
Port Arthur for the first dis-
trict 11-AAAA game of the
season.
“We have got a challenge this
week," Woodard said. "But we
are anticipating our players will
get after it. Lincoln has proven
they can be beat."
In fact, Lincoln brings a 1-2
record into the contest, but
they have lost to 5 A powers
West Brook and Beaumont
Central before winning their
first game against Houston
Jones. While the Tigers were
losing 21 0 to Newton, Lincoln
was enjoying the night off with
an open date.
Woodard has more adjectives
ready to describe the Lincoln
defense.
‘They have tremendous
size," Woodard said. “Especial-
ly in the defensive line."
The left end weighs in at 222
pounds, the left tackle is 289,
and the nose guard is 234
pounds.
The Tigers problems, mean-
while, continue to mount. Out
for the season with knee sur-
gery is Bobby Gore, and still no
word yet on when Chris Barnes
can return. Barnes has been out
since the first scrimmage with
an ankle injury.
As of right now, fans can
expect to see Reggie Lloyd in at
quarterback Friday against
Lincoln. Uoyd replaced starter
Jerry McCain midway into the
second period last Friday
against Newton, and drove the
Tigers to the one yard line as
time ran out in the half.
"We’ll just have to strike
against Lincoln where they
least expect it," Woodard said.
“We’ve had good workouts all
week, and it’s just a matter of
execution."
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Friday at Port Arthur’s Me-
morial Stadium, adjacent to
Thomas Jefferson High School.
32 Of 76 Most Wanted
Fugitives Now In Custody
AUSTIN, Texas-Governor
Mark White announced Friday
that three more Texas Most
Wanted fugitives are now in
custody.
The arrests of James Neil
Hartman, Steve Coleman and
Roberto Trevino bring to 32 the
number of fugitives who have
been featured on the Texas
Most Wanted list who are now
in custody. A total of 76
fugitives have made the list.
Governor White said he was
informed that Hartman, 33,
turned himself in to the Mans-
field Police Department on
Thursday. Hartman was want
ed for Failure to Render Aid
and Unlawful Flight to Avoid
Prosecution.
The failure to render aid
charge stems from a May 23,
1986, freak traffic accident in
which Mansfield Police Officer
Danny Cordes was struck and
killed. Police reports show that
a U-Haul trailer broke away
from the truck that was towing
it and struck Officer Cordes
head-on. The driver of the
truck fled the scene. Hartman
waa identified by witnesses as
being the driver of the vehicle.
Coleman. 36. waa wanted in
Hood County on warrants
charging him with Delivery of a
Controlled Substance. He was
also sought on warrants chirg
ing him with felony theft snd
misdemeanor theft.
Governor White aaid Cole
man was apprehended Tuesday
in Tucson, Arizona.
Trevino was arrested recent-
ly by Hidalgo County authori-
ties after spending almost a
year on the run from the law
after escaping last August from
the Starr County jail. Officials
say Trevino, 22, was about to
be transferred to the Texas
Department of Corrections to
begin serving a three-year pri-
son sentence for Burglary of a
Habitation. He was one of three
prisoners who allegedly over-
powered a guard and escaped.
The other two escapees, Ale-
jandro Castillo, 30, and Ricardo
Gonzalez. 24, were captured
earlier.
“We are delighted with the
success of our Texas Most
Wanted program,” Governor
White said.
He noted that two more
fugitives were caught earlier
this month in Arizona. Cledus
Clark Weatherford, 45, who
was sought by police depart-’
ments throughout East Texas
and Oklahoma for the past six
years, waa arrested September
3 in Phoenix. And Roger V.
Morgan, 47, described by in-
vestigators as a “master con
man”, waa captured in late
August in Scottsdale.
“We now have 42 per cent of
our Texas Most Wanted list in
custody and that definitely
makes our state a little safer,“
(leePepWI etlet. 1. Pape I)
Blowout Blamed For
Accident Saturday
At Lumberton
A Lumberton wreck kept
two emergency medical ser-
vices and the Lumberton Fire
Department busy Saturday af-
ter a tire blew out on a camper
van, causing it to swerve to
the wrong side of the road and
hit twq vehicles, according to
Lumberton Police officer Keith
D. Chaney.
Cheney said the 3:10 p.m.
blowout on the southbound
van, which was driven by
72-year-old James H. Clifton of
Beaumont, caused the van to
swerve and hit a car stopped in
the turning lane in the 2000
block of Highway 96. Minor
damage waa done to the car,
which waa driven by Marilyn
Parks of Lumberton.
The van then entered the
northbound lane and struck a
vehicle driven by Donna Lind-
sey, 37, of Kountze, almost
head-on, Cheney said. Lind-
sey's daughters, Stephanie, 10,
and Felicia, 18, were in the
vehicle.
The Lumberton Volunteer
Fire Department used mechan-
ical equipment to free Clifton
from the van. The Silabee
Emergency Medical Service
took him to St. Elizabeth
Hospital.
The Lumberton Emergency
Medical Service took Lindsey
and her daughters to the same
hospital.
A hospital spokeswoman said
all four were treated and re-
leased. Cheney said the acci-
dent is still under investigation.
11 Persons Enter
Guilty Pleas In
356th District Court
- Eleven guilty pleas have
been heard in the 356th district
court in the last few weeks,
according to the offices of
District Judge Britt Plunk and
District Attorney R.F. “Bo”
Horka.
Lanis Ray Cebb, 44, Rt. 1,
Box 1730, Hemphill, pleaded
guilty to a Charge of unlawful
possession of a firearm by a
felon. He was placed on a
10-year sentence suspended
over 10 years probation and
ordered to pay a $1,500 fine and
$862 in restitution and court
costs.
Betty Glenn,.age unknown,
P.O. Box 1931, Kountze, plead-
ed guilty to a charge of delivery
of a controlled substance. She
was placed on four years un-
adjudicated probation and or-
dered to pay a $1,000 fine, plus
court costs.
Norman Lee Warden Jr., 43,
P.O. Box 777, Kountze, pleaded
guilty to a charge of mis
demeanor theft reduced from a
charge of unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle. Plunk placed
him on six months unadjudi-
cated probation and fined him
$100 and court costs.
Jeffery Craig Buckley, 17,
Rt. 6, Box 272, Silsbee, pleaded
guilty to a charge of misde-
meanor possession of a control-
led substance reduced from a
charge of possession of a con-
trolled substance. He was
placed on one year unadjudi
cated probation and ordered to
pay a $1,000 fine and court
costs.
Daniel Carson McMichael,
21, P.O. Box 394, Saratoga,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
misdemeanor theft reduced
from a charge of burglary of a
building The judge placed him
on one year unadjudicated pro-
bation and fined him $500, plua
court costs.
David Jefferson McMichael,
19, P.O. Box 394, Saratoga,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
misdemeanor theft reduced
from a charge of burglary of a
building. He was placed on one
year unadjudicated probation
and ordered to pay a $500 fine
and court costs.
Kenneth Alan Martin, 21, Rt.
S, Box 1202, Kountze. pleaded
guilty to a charge of burglary of
a habitation. He waa placed on
five years unadjudicated pro-
bation and ordered to pay a
$1,100 fine, court coets and
$318 restitution.
Danny Lee Biddle, 17. Rt. 6,
Box 79, Silabee, pleaded guilty
to a charge of poaaasslon of •
controlled substance Ha was
placed on three yean unadjudi
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