The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1986 Page: 3 of 26
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Buna Redbud Festival Parade
To Be At 10:30 A.M. Saturday
Jasper County Sheriff Au-
brey Cole and Buna blacksmith
Toby Parker are official wagon-
masters for a wagon train that
will lead the 14th annual Red-
bud Festival Parade Saturday,
March 8, at 10:80 a.m. in Buna.
The wagon train will carry
the 10 oldest Texas-born Buna
residents who are serving as
Parade Marshals. The three
oldest riders represent 294
years of living in Texas.
Jasper Lions' Good Guys and
Bad Guys will shoot it out on
Main Street before the parade.
This year's Redbud Festival
is an official Sesquicentennial
event and is being held in
cooperation with the South
Jasper County Sesquicenten-
nial committee, Mrs. Inez
Withers Hughes, chairman.
Texas Legends and Tradi-
tions" is the theme of the
parade featuring floats design-
ed to characterize the Texas
heritage. Fourteen floats are
expected to compete for the
sweepstakes ribbon and
1300.00 in prize money.
The Buna Chamber of Com-
merce, sponsor of the festival,
has selected Jerry and Jan
Clark of Buna to serve as
Redbud Royalty and to ride in
the parade with the traditional
Redbud robes and crowns.
The parade will feature many
bands including the Fort Polk
Army Band, El Mina Drum and
Bugle Corps of Galveston, the
Beaumont Community Band,
the Thomas Jefferson Red
Hussars and high school bands
from Port Neches, Hemphill,
Kirbyville and Buna.
R.T. Texadillo, the official
mascot of the Texas Sesquicen-
tennial will march in the parade
and visit the Redbud Fles
Market after the parade, R.T.
will be available to have his
picture taken with kids.
The all-day flea market, on
Buna School grounds, consists
of 100-plus booths featuring
arts and crafts and food.
So much live entertainment
is scheduled that three separ-
ate stage areas are necessary to
handle all the shows, according
to Buna pharmacist Marvin
Cousins, who coordinates the
flea market.
Jerrell Stanley's Last Chance
Band head the entertainment
list that includes the Country
Faire, the Anchormen of Tex
as, the Beaumont Community
Band, the Port Neches Groves
Indian Band and Drill Team.
Patsy's Twiriettes, and Buna
Barnstompers. The entertain-
ment runs from 11:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. with no admission
charge to the flea market.
Country Philosopher Bob
Murphey will be a guest at the
Buna Fire Department's bar be
cur in the elementary cafeteria.
Dr. Clyde Smith of the
Laporte I.S.D. will present his
show, “Davy Crockett and 01'
Betsy”, from the flea market
main stage. Dr. Smith’s show Is
Marriage licenses were
issued to 34 couples in the
county in the month of Febru-
ary, according to County Clerk
Gerladine Collins.
Those receiving licenses
were:
Steven Ray Templeton, 25.
and Brenda Gail Helton, 25.
Gregory Wells, 25, and Tine
Marie Bonin, 22.
James Dennis Strunk, 37,
and Martha E. Broussard, 39.
Lee Loy Strange, 52, and
Melba Louise Medley, 45.
Sheldon Thomas Stone, 38,
and Sandra Gail Williams, 30.
Arnold Ray Smith, 26, and
Lisa Gay Smith, 21.
Mark Howard Ryan, 21, and
Michelle Marie Tate. 19.
William David Reeves, 35,
and Vickie Lynn Reeves, 25.
Clarence Hayes Rea, 38, and
Patsy Smith Weems, 41.
Gerald Lynn Potts, 28. and
Deborah Ann Gieseke, 24.
Travis Wydale Moore. 18,
and Belinda Joyce Murphy, 17.
Stephen Paul Moeller, 21.
and Deborah Dianne Blanton,
20.
Karl Martin McCuistion, 19,
and Rhonda Marie Jones. 16.
Norris Ebb McGallion, 26,
and Cathy Ann patrick, 21.
Jimmie Estill McLean, 33.
and Phyllis Ellen Rich, 52.
Willis Wise McCoy. Jr., 47,
and Glona Janet Fawcett, 46.
Charles David LeBlanc, 25,
and Carmen Lorene Foster. 25.
Richard Scott Lowe. 21, and
Can Denise Dorsett, 21.
John F. Kirkendall. 43. and
Brenda Lamerle Olmos, 37.
Donald Ray Jones. 49. and
especially for kids.
The kids will also enjoy a
moon walk and other kiddie
attractions from the Bridge
City Lions Club.
The 30th annual Miss Buna
Pageant will begin at 7:00 p.m.
in the Buna High School gym. A
teen dance is set for the Buna
Lions Hall immediately follow-
ing the pageant.
Sonja Lee Vickers, 47.
Michael Wayne Hall, 20, and
Mary Elise Wright, 19.
Carl DeWayne Henry, 20,
and Carla Sue Palmer, 18.
Chuck Anthony Grant, 23,
and Carrie Ellen Turner, 22.
Alan Todd Graham, 22, and
Topnie Carol Smira, 17.
Walter D. Gore, Jr. 29, and
Kimberly Kay Caraway, 22.
Emmette Jos. Du vail, 38,
and Kathleen Lillian Fish. 20.
Steve Burdett Champion. 40,
and Mary Alice Killian, 39.
Randall P. Chambliss, 20,
and Patricia Ann Cravy, 19.
Robert Duncan Copley. 59,
and Patricia Carol Herman, 38.
Kenneth Glenn Bagiey, 43,
and Le Ann LeBlanc. 27.
Joseph Boyd Buffington, 29.
and Vicki Hughes, 24.
Thomas Grant Alleman, 54,
and Carol Lee Ashley, 42.
Ricky Lynn Anderson, 21,
and Nancy Louise Kunk, 19.
Mark Wade Alston. 23. and
Angela Chavez, 17.
Xi Kappa Nu
Xi Kappa Nu met February
24 in the home of Patricia
Hooks Plans were made for the
Chapter to participate in the
area Pine Festival. A booth was
rented to have a game for
children and balloons. A social
was planned to celebrate St
Patrick's Day on March 17 at a
restaurant in Beaumont
The program for the evening
was given by guest speaker
Ijemoine Hooks on the basics of
arranging flowers.
Refreshments were served
by hostess Patricia Hooks.
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Professor Reports Stereotype
Of Unwed Mother Changing
SHARON VINSON
Sharon Vinson
Advances In Feb. 28
Talent Competition
Sharon Vinson participated
in the Omega Si Phi Talent
Hunt at the West Brook High
School in Beaumont on Febru-
ary 28.
She competed against other
area high school students. Her
drama performance of the Ne-
gro Mother, by Langston
Hughes, won her first place in
the competition. She will now
advance to the semifinals in
Fort Worth on March 22.
Sharon is a senior at Silsbee
High School. She enjoys public
speaking and plana to pursue a
career in mass communications
at the University of Houston.
She is the daughter of Mrs.
Emma Vinson. Abraham Miles
is responsible for having enter-
ed her in the competition, and
her coach is Mrs. B.B. Simieou.
When a woman passes a group
of young men in the streets of
Mexico, Argentina or Spain, she
it likely to hear a colorful and
passionate description of her
good looks.
In the Journal of Latin Amer-
ican Lore, graduate student
Marcelo M Suarez-Orozco and
Professor Alan Dundes of the
University of California, Berke-
ley describe the cultural role of
piropos—poetic verses about a
woman's beauty or sex appeal
that range from the crude to the
poignant.
Piropos, they write, express a
widespread view held by Latin
men and women are either pure
and untouchable or earthly and
dangerous.
Want Ms Get Results
(FORT WORTH, TX)- The
■Ureotype of the unwed moth-
er is changing, according to a
researcher at Texas Christian
University.
More middle class, educated,
older women are making deci-
sions to be single mothers, said
Charlene Urwin, assistant pro-
fessor of social work at TCU
whose doctoral dissertation
deals with single mothers.
“I wanted to look at their
decision-making process-who
was important to them and
what factors influenced the
decision to have the child," she
said.
Urwin interviewed 22 women
who had been single at the time
their children were born. Inten-
tionally, she did not interview
people who were getting finan-
cial or professional help be-
cause she “did not want to
reinforce the stereotype of the
unwed mother as poor or
having emotional problems.”
Although most of the women
had younger children, the stu
dy included some women whose
children were born almost 20
years ago. Older mothers felt
the stigma much more; they did
not have the alternative deci-
sions of the younger mothers
and were less sure what to tell
their children. Their decisions
were more painful to make.
“At one time, people did not
know other single-parent famil-
ies," Urwin noted. “Now they
do. It’s a much different dyna-
mic. Although times are easier
now and single parenthood is
more common, ii appears to be
harder to be pregnant and
single than to be a single
parent."
Women in the study showed
strong feelings for family and
Candidate Visits
At Crawfish Boil
W.L. Pate Jr., candidate for
State Representative, District
20, visited with about 150
residents of the area at a
crawfish boil at Silsbee Country
Club on Feb. 28.
Other campaign appearances
for Pate will be at a Lumberton
PTA Tasters Tea March 7, and
the Redbud Festival in Buna on
March 8.
home, said Urwin. TTieir ages
and sense of readiness were
important factors in their deci-
sions. They were established in
their careers. In feet, the
median income was 916.800,
which was s high figure for
female heads of households
during 1982-83, when the study
was conducted.
While most felt positive a-
bout their partners, they didn't
feel permanent about one man;
yet they still wanted to have a
family. They saw those deci-
sions as separate.
“A lot of women talked about
the need for a support system
whether it was family, friends
or co workers," the TCU sociol-
ogist explained. “While their
decisions were largely indepen-
dent ones, they benefited from
knowing 'others would be sup-
portive. Friends and siblings
seemed most helpful to them.”
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