The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1978 Page: 2 of 32
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R. L. READ ______
HAROLD LEIGH __
MRS. LEONA WHITMAN
MRS. BILLIE ROSS_
EVELYN TUTT
RICHARD WEATHERSBY ............
MRS. BARBARA PARET___
HELEN RATLIFF and LOLA BURGESS
JAN READ ____
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
BILLIE JOE WILLIAMS
JAMES JOHNSON_
M. E. MINTON . .
JERRY STEVENS___
LINDA GEISENDORFF
Services Are Held For William Sirmons
Graveside services were held
for William Sirmons, 76, of
Silsbee, at 2 p.m. Monday at
Cunningham Cemetery. Rev.
Joe Knighton and Rev. Clyde
Hoke officiated.
He died at 1:45 a.m. Saturday
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3. PROLONGS LIFE
at Silsbee Doctors Hospital.
A native of Tyler County, he
had lived in Silsbee for 50 years
and was the owner of Sirmons
Grocery.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Myrtle Sirmons of Sils-
bee; a daughter, Mrs. Opalene
Crain of Silsbee; a son, Nor-
wood Lee Sirmons of Silsbee;
two brothers, Jesse and Bud
Sirmons, both of Silsbee; a
sister, Mrs. Ethel Lee Jones of
Liberty.
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HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndelt Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Editor and Publisher
__News Editor
Society and Personal Editor
—Subscriptions - Classifieds
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_Controller
Special Feature Writer
_ "Talk of the Town"
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AUSTIN—A preliminary
report by the Sunset Advi-
sory Commission staff has
recommended major reor-
ganization of the State Bar
of Texas.
The report concluded the
Bar should operate as a pri-
vate professional group rath-
er than a state agency.
iAIso recommended by
Sunset staffers is transfer of
the Bar headquarters, the
Texas Law Center near the
capitol, to the state and
placement under the Board
of Control for use by appel-
late courts and administra-
tive offices of the judiciary.
Other conclusions of the
tentative report:
—Bar restrictions qn law-
yer advertising are too tight.
—Complaints against err-
ing attorneys should be cen-
tralized rather than handled
by 40 local grievance com-
mittees which may be sub-
ject to “local bias and crony-
ism.”
—The Bar failed to seek
bids on office furniture, fund
depository, equipment rent-
al, printing and office space
lease.
—Specialization programs
for lawyers are too restric-
tive and limit competition.
—The Bar has tended to
oppose legislation making it
more accountable for its mo-
ney and easing restrictions
on getting into the profes-
sion.
“The major portion of the
State Bar’s efforts and re-
sources go to areas other
than those concerned with
the regulation of attorneys,"
the report stated.
All licensed lawyers now
must be members of the
State Bar of Texas. The Sun-
set Commission staff report
suggested licensing and dis-
cipline of lawyers should be
performed under direct su-
pervision of the State Su-
preme Court and an admini-
strative agency.
Poison Dinger
Cattlemen received warn-
ings not to allow herds to
graze in drought-stricken
pastures due to threat of
prussic acid poisoning there.
Texas Veterinary Medical
•Association cautioned that
300 cattle valued at $250,-
000 were lost to the poison—
a type of cyanide that occurs
in plants hard hit hy
drought.
Cattlemen also were
warned about milo fields
that failed to “make” due to
drought and about pastures
of Johnson grass, sudan or
common sorghums which
suffered from long-standing
dry conditions.
The association said rain
showers compounded the
problem.
Cattlemen were advised to
wait two or three weeks be-
fore letting cattle graze on
new growth and to let hay
lie at least five days after
cutting so the cyanide gas
can dissipate before baling.
Feeding of hay to cattle be-
fore they are released in new
pastures may dilute effect of
excessive amounts of prussic
acid, the association said.
Airports Aided
Texas Aeronautics Com-
mission approved airport aid
program grants for Alice and
Austin, and granted Metro-
flight Airlines’ request to sus-
pend its scheduled air service
to Greenville temporarily.
The commission cleared a
$75,000 grant to Austin for
airport entrance roads and
parking and $50,000 to Alice
to acquire land.
The cily of Mineola re-
quested cancellation of a
grant to build a new airport
because officials were un-
able to acquire necessary
matching funds.
Metroflight said the
Greenville stop did not gen-
erate enough money to sup-
port continued service; —/ (
Courts Speak 1
In a setback for South-
western Bell Telephone
Company’s rate increase re-
quest, Texas Supreme Court
backed the Public Utility
Commission's system of tele-
phone and electric charge
setting.
Adult sons and daughters
are not entitled to share in
civil service retirement bene-
fits earned hy their father’s
second wife, the Supreme
Court concluded.
The Third Court of Civil
Appeals turned down an al-
legation that trustees of a
school district in Bell Coun-
ty “bribed” voters over 65
by ' granting homestead
exemptions before a bond
election.
The state has no right to
appeal an order temporarily
commiting a person to a
mental hospital, the Third
Court of Civil Appeals said.
Upholding an intermedi-
ate court, the State Supreme
Court left standing an order
reversing a $1 million in-
vasion of privacy judgment
for fired Southwestern Bell
official James H. Ashley
who claimed the company
tapped his telephone.
Yantis Writes Governor
On the eve of his consid-
eration of confirmation hy
the State Senate, Hugh C.
Yantis, Jr. in a letter to Gov.
Briscoe, included excerpts
from a random selection of
the more than 100 letters of
support received during the
past few months.
Yantis, who was appoint-
ed chairman of the State
Board of Insurance by Gov.
Briscoe almost one year ago,
pointed out that during his
tenure insurance industry re-
quests for rate increases
totaled $319 million, while
the SBI granted increases
totaling $33.1 million—a
difference of $285.9 million.
As background informa-
tion, Yantis said “this is $45
million more in dollars than
was ’saved’ by the Public
Utility Commission when it
lowered the Southwestern
Bell Telephone request from
$298.3 million.
Short Snorts
Applications for permits
to drill oil and gas tests in
the state totalled 10,641 for
the first half of 1978, com-
pared with a decline from
12,364 during the same pe-
riod last year.
Texas Farmworkers Union
staged a hunger strike at the
capitol after Gov. Dolph
Briscoe turned down their
request to call on the spe-
cial legislative session to give
farm workers collective bar-
gaining rights.
A district court disbarred
Ramsey Ramior Muniz,
twice a Raza Unida Party
candidate for governor, as a
result of marijuana convic-
tions for which he is serving
prison time.
A $2.2 million capital im-
provements public transpor-
tation program for Laredo
has been certified for federal
approval by the State High-
way and Public Transporta-
tion Commission.
Maurice Beckham of Aus-
tin will head the Department
of Public Safety Inspection
and Planning Division Den-
nis R. Vickery of Laredo
will be commander of the
South Texas Border Stepped-
up Enforcement Program
combatting drug smuggling.
Independent bankers
charged in a federal court
lawsuit federal credit unions
in Texas are illegally per-
forming a banking function.
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FROM THE '
Congressional .......m
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By JOE CRUMP
(A Column /or Readert Who Haven't Time to
Review the Congreitional Record Daily)
Silsbee Citizens Berated
For Using County Dumps
Editor:
Today my son (18), my
daughter (11) and I made a trip
to the County Dump and had a
most unpleasant experience,. in
fact we were treated like trash.
The manager told us in no
uncertain words that we were
dumping in the wrong place and
that it was on account of people
like us that the dump was in
such bad shape.
Then he started to take down
our license number and said we
would be called back to move
the junk (three iawnmowers
and <me box of papers). Then he
charged us $1.50 and when I
told him that I read in the paper
that we were no to be charged
for family garbage, he said the
paper had everything all mixed
up and did not know what they
were talking about. The com-
missioners had nothing at all to
do with the dump anymore. He
was the authority now,
I can understand now why
people just dump their refuse in
the woods. Who would want to
go through such a hassle. We
took our trash back home with
us. 1 am very sorry that Hardin
County does not provide us
with a place to dump our
garbage without being verbally
attacked. Please, inform us
readers again of the current
dumping prices and regula-
tions.
This is to inform you
Cordially,
Rita I. Jacks
119 Sessums Rd.
Silsbee, Texas
METRIC SYSTEM
HERETO STAY
REPRESENTATIVE RO-
BERT McCLORY (Dl.)“...The
emotions which are being ex-
pressed regarding our Nation's
conversion to the metric sys
tem of weights and measures
should subside- as we face this
issue fairly and squarely.
“As the only remaining indust
rialized nation which has not
officaUy undertaken a program
of conversion to the metric
system...we should reflect on
an article in the current issue of
American Way. (Excerpts from
the article follow): •
Relax, Go Metric
(By Bob Nadler)
Do you break out in s cold
sweat when you pick up a can of
tomato juice and discover it
contains 1.36 liters, or heft a
box of corn flakes and learn
that there are 227 grams of
crunchies inside? Your fears
are unfounded. You need not
worry over the fact that
eventually the old familiar
quantity designations will dis-
appear from the labels you
know and love.
Before I give you some quick
and easy ways to get a feeling
for the common units employed
in the metric system, let me
remind you that this country is
the last major holdout against
it. Even the English gave up on
the hopeless English system
and opted for metrification a
few years ago. They all thought
they'd have a terrible time of it
too. but once the change was
made the grumbling quickly
died down, and it was soon
business as usual.
The largest share of the blame
lies with the experts who have
tried to sell it to you. They have
scared you half to death with
unneeded complications.
Getting back to the grocery
store for a moment, the only
thing you must remember
about fluid measurement is that
a quart is about equal to a liter.
Liters are the basic metric unit
of volume. Obviously, if four
quarts make a gallon, so do four
liters in our offhand system (to
be precise a liter equal* 1.0567
quarts). Liters are convenient-
ly broken into 1,000 parts called
milliliters (mi) or cubic centi-
meters Icc), both of which are
exactly the same. You undoubt-
edly know there are two pints
in a quart, so there are
obviously about GOO mi in a
pint, 250 mi in a cup (oae-katf
pint), etc.
Relax and go metric with the
rest of us.
CRUMPS GRASS
ROOTS COMMENT
like the man said. “It’s as
clear as mud.” If it were put to
a vote. Americans would un-
doubtedly vote to continue the
English system of measure
ments.
Sea Not Dead
Despite its name, the Dead Sea
is not a sea — but a lake which is
land-locked
Services Are Held
On Tuesday For
Mrs. Geisendorff
Funeral services for Mrs.
Elsie Geisendorff, 71, were
held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in
Farmer Funeral Chapel. Ste-
ven Hurst, Church of Christ
minister, officiated. Burial waa
in Resthaven Cemetery.
Mrs. Geisendorff died Sunday
at 8 p.m. in the Silsbee Doctors
Hospital.
A native of Tyler County, she
has resided in Silsbee for the
past 35 yean.
Survivors include her hue
band, Barney Geisendorff of
Silabee; one son. B. G. Geisen-
dorff of Silsbee. and one
brother, Lester Pogue. Hous-
ton.
Rites Are Held For
James Qeo Lowe, 43
Funeral service* lor Jamea
Cleo Lowe. 43, of Saratoga
were held at 2 p.m. Friday at
Pace Funeral Home with burial
in Bluewater Cemetery.
He died at 11:06 p.m. Wad
nesday at St. Elisabeth Hospi-
tal in Beaumont.
A native of Silabee, he had
lived in Saratoga for five yean
and waa etnptofed by an oil
field tool company.
Local survivors include a
brother, Leon Lowe of Silabee.
CARD OF THANKS
I would like to thank every-
one for the lovely flower*, gifts,
telephone calls, visits, cards,
and moat of all for your prayer*
during my recent hoepiUl stay
and convalescence at home. A
special thank you to Rev. P. C.
Mitchell and the St. John
Baptist Church. May God richly
bless each of you.
Vera McKeithen
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offer a number of savings plans to choose from,
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