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VOLUME 65 - NUMBER 38 SlLSBEE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27,1983 24 PAGE IN 2 SECTIONS
Action Expected Friday On Bids
For Vote Building In Precinct 2
County Commissioners Mon-
day authorized a Waco attorney
to petition the U.S. Justice
Department for acceptance of a
temporary voter precinct 2
polling place for the Nov. 8
general election, and to petition
for acceptance of a permanent
site for the polling place. The
commissioners also opened bids
on portable buildings for the
permanent site.
Mike Morrison, who worked
with the county on redistricting
in 1982 was authorized to seek
acceptance of by the Justice
Department of temporary poll-
ing place near the O'Bannion's
convience store at Farm Road
92 and Farm Road 1122 for use
Nov. 8.
The commissioners also
authorized Morrison to petition
for acceptance of the Silsbee
Little League Park to be used
as the polling site in future
elections.
The county received bids
from four parties interested in
selling them a portable building
for use during future elections.
Jones Boys Inc. of Beaumont
offered a $17,750 proposal;
T&M Construction of Silsbee,
offered three proposals ranging
from $9,471 to $10,222; Coastal
Portable Building Co. of Wood
ville proposed an $11,288 build-
ing; and Cecil Phillips of Silsbee
proposed a building for $6,500.
County Judge M.R. “Pete"
McKinney said that the county
will be looking at an additional
$1,500 to $2,000 to set the
building up at the site.
The commissioners tabled
acceptance or rejection of the
bids until 10 a.m. Friday.
Due to concern for safety
because of parking problems
the county has been looking for
a permanent site for the voter
precinct 2 polls for about two
years. The commissioners
authorized entering into a lease
with Silsbee Little League
Sept. 30 for the county to use
the Little League Park as a
permanent site. However, com-
missioners were faced with not
being able to legally go through
the bid process, purchase a
building, and have it set up at
the site prior to the Nov. 8
election. So, the office space
just north of the O’Bannion's
store was rented.
In other business, com-
missioners voted to allow Pre-
cinct 3 Commissioner Herb
Williams to sell a 118-B Gallion
road maintainer to Precinct 4.
Williams said he and Precinct 4
Commissioner J.D. Brown had
agreed that the maintainer
would be sold for $3,000.
The commissiones court gave
Precinct 1 Commissioner An-
drew Redkey permission to
make an emergency purchase
of parts for a road maintainer.
Redkey said he had not been
Stover To Sentence
Michael R. Lewis Jr.
On November 21
Eighty-eighth District Judge
Earl B. Stover Jr. is scheduled
to pass sentence Nov. 21 on
Michael Ray Lewis Sr., 27,
following a murder conviction
Oct. 20 in the death of his wife.
The jury deliberated for less
than two hours before finding
Lewis guilty. Lewis was
charged with shooting his wife
Debra, who was 25 at the time,
during an argument Aug. 29,
1981 in their home at 680 East
Avenue H., Silsbee.
Mrs. Lewis died of a .38
caliber bullet wound to the
forehead, according to investi-
gators.
District Attorney R.F. “Bo”
Horka, who prosecuted the
case, called on three witnesses.
Silsbee Police Chief Dennis
Allen and Major William Gilley
testified concerning the investi-
gation and to statements made
by Lewis. Horka also called the
dead woman's, mother to the
stand, who testified as to
previous domestice disurbances
between the couple.
Defense attorney Houston
Thompson called Lewis to the
witness stand, and Lewis’
mother. The defense requested
that the judge sentence the
defendant if found guilty,
rather than the jury.
able to receive an estimate as to
the exact cost of the repairs,
but that he was told it would be
about $2,500.
The commissioners author-
ized the payment of a $77
electric bill and a $50 butane
bill for a 59-year-old Silsbee
woman. The woman said she is
behind on her payments be-
cause of illness, and is living on
Social Security payments of
about $300 per month. She
lived alone, the woman said,
and there was “not a soul to
help her."
The court authorized the
county judge to advertise for
bids on various types of in-
surance, including group life
and hospitalization, auto lia-
bility, fire and extended cover-
age for a building at the
airport, dental, law enforce-
Silsbee's planning consultant
David J. Waxman told the city
council Tuesday that unless
they objected he would amend
the city’s application for
$375,000 in Community
Development Block Grants pro-
posed for street improvements
to request $181,789.
While he had no official word
on the status of the application,
Waxman, said he had been told
amending the application
“would be a good idea."
The governor was scheduled
to announce Community Block
Grant awards Oct. 17. How
ever, that announcement has
been rescheduled to Oct. 27,
and Waxman said it may be
delayed further.
The state is administering
the federal community
Development Block program
this year, and awards are to be
distributed based on a number
of state reviews. The initial
review was done on a regional
level, and applications from
Hardin, Jefferson and Orange
Counties were ranked by the
South East Texas Regional
Community Development Block
Grant Review Committee. Four
representatives of each county
were appointed by the gover-
nor to that committee.
The city’s project of paving
and drainage improvements on
12 streets was ranked second
for project money which would
amount to $181,789 of the
money budgeted for the area.
Silsbee was also ranked third
for jobs bill money, which
would mean about $171,000 in
addition to the $181,789.
However, Barbara Burton of
the Texas Department of Corn-
unity Affairs, told city re-
presentatives that the city
could not receive funds under
both categories, but she could
not give an explanation as to
why.
The city has sought an
explanation, and aditional fund-
ing wither through jobs bill
money or discretionary money
which the governor is allowed
to distribute.
But the city has not received
an answer on the request, and
Waxman said that is part of the
reason that the application is
bein amended. “If you never
get an answer, you assume that
your answer is no,” he said
after the meeting.
Waxman also said that the
state will be made aware that
the council realizes it cannot do
all the projects originally pro-
posed in the aapplication with
the lesser funding, and the
council will set priorities in the
future based on what can be
done for the least cost.
Waxman would not say
i(See Grant Sac. 1, Pago 12)
Silsbee Police
Report Arrests
Silsbee police reported
arresting an Anahuac woman
in an investigation into a forged
check reported drawn on an
account at a Silsbee bank.
According to police reports,
Silsbee State Bank reported
Oct. 13 that a $30 check was
forged on the account of
Clarence N. Verrett of Spur-
ger, and the check was passed
Sept. 27 at Tom's Market of
Spurger.
Silsbee State Bank covered
the check, and became the
injured party, said Police Chief
Dennis Allen, so police entered
the investigation.
Officer David Lusk investi-
gated the case, according to
reports, and requested Justice
of the Peace Robert Ward to
issue a warrant.
Clara Isabell LaCombe, 39,
Rt. 2, Box 81, Anahuac, was
arrested Sunday, and charged
with passing a forged instru-
ment. Justice of the Peace Cecil
Overstreet arraigned the
woman and set bond at $2,500,
reports say.
Five people were arrested on
marijuana charges after a
traffic stop Sunday. Officer
Dexter Viator smelled what he
suspected was marijuana
smoke, reports say, and a
substance believed to be mari-
juana was found upon a check of
the vehicle.
Jessie Christovez Cabrera,
25, 4405 N. Alvarro, Victoria;
John Palomarez, 25, P.O. Box
210, Goliad; Clifford Graves
(Saa Police Sec. 1. Page 12)
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ment professional liability, and
workman’s compensation. Mc-
Kinney said most of the coun-
ty’s coverage expires Jan. 1,
and that he would like to see
bids opened and accepted in
December.
Commissioners accepted a
deed to a road leading into the
Fuller subdivision in precinct 2.
Precinct 2 Commissioner James
McGallion said indications are
the road was accepted as a
county road years ago.
The commissioners also
authorized County Clerk Ger-
aldine Collins to advertise for
bids to have record books in her
office and in the county sur-
veyor's office rebound.
The court also authorized
Extension Service trips as
presented by Extension Agent
Larry Allen.
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THE DOTTED AREAS on the mop show 1,160 acres proposed for annexation to the
City of Silsbee.
Public Hearing Scheduled On
Annexation Of 1160 Acres
The Silsbee City Council has
scheduled public hearings for 7
p.m. Nov. 7 and 14 to discuss
annexation of 1,160 acres in two
areas south and east of the
present city limits.
Area one would be 611 acres
south of the city and would
stretch slightly south of the
overpass of Loop 498 over U.S.
% bypass and would run about
300 feet south of U.S. 96 to the
present city limits on the
bypass.
Area two would consist of
546 acres and would take in the
U.S. 96 bypass over the Old
Evadale Highway. It would
include an area 300 feet east of
the U.S. 96 by pass and run
south to where the present city
limits crosses the bypass.
These areas are about tne
same as two areas the Planning
and Zoning Commission held a
public hearing on Feb. 1,
during which about 50 people
turned out to protest. Follow-
ing that meeting the commis-
sion voted to recommend only a
fraction of the areas under
"Chemical People" Town Meeting
To Be Held Here Wednesday
Lea Perlitz, of Neyland
Road, Silsbee, has been named
coordinator for the Silsbee area
Chemical People Town Meet-
ing, to be held at 6:15 p.m.
November 2 at the Middle
School auditorium, Silsbee.
The Chemical People is a
major community outreach ef-
fort against school age and
alcohol abuse currently being
organized throughout the na-
tion.
Town meetings are being
planned for November 2 all
across the U.S.
Participants will view the
first of two nationwide tele-
casts about school-age drug and
alcohol abuse, and then discuss
the problem in their com-
munity. The aim of each
meeting is to establish a
permanent task force that will
take continuing action against
the problem.
Other Silsbee-area commit-
tee members are: Ingrid Bum-
stead (PTA); Diane Keith
(Community Education); Rev.
(See Meeting Sec. 1, Page 12)
consideration to the council.
However, the council sent
that recommendation back to
the commission because of its
size. The latest recommenda-
tion of the Planning and Zoning
Commission was offered to the
council in a letter dated July 8.
In that letter the commission
recommended three areas.
Area one was 43 acres south of
the present city limits. Area
two was 330 acres in the area of
the Old Evadale Highway and
U.S. 96 bypass, and Area three
was 40 acres in the area known
as Red Cut.
The areas the council has
called public hearings on are an
expansion of that recommenda-
tion.
Between 100 and 200 homes
would be included if the areas
are annexed.
Hardin County Grand Jury
Returns IndictmentsOct 18
The Hardin County Grand
Jury on Oct. 18 indicted
Richard Jewell McGee Jr., 19,
on a charge of capitol murder
stemming from the death of
William Pascal Crosby.
Crosby’s body was found
Sept. 27 underneath some
bushes behind a rent house he
owned on Vaughn Street in
Kountze, according to files in
District Attorney R.F. “Bo"
Horka’s office. Investigators
believe Crosby was bludgeoned
to death Sept. 26, and that
about $600 or $700 and his car
were stolen.
McGee, of P. O. Box 1810,
Kountze, was arrested Sept. 26
near Woodville after police
chased a car believed to belong
to Crosby, and found aban-
doned on a dirt road.
In other indictments, Robert
D. Ferguson, 22, Box 9609,
Beaumont, was indicted on a
charge of theft. The charge
stems from the theft of cur-
rency May 2 from Karl Hort-
ness, according to the indict-
ment on file in Horka’s office.
Robert Storey, 23, P.O. Box
451, Saratoga, was indicted on
a charge of burglary of a
habitation stemming from a
breakin at the home of David
Ballard, June 15. The indict-
ment also charges that Storey
is an habitual offender, having
been convicted of a burglary
charge-July 20 in 88th District
Court.
Allen Wayne Humble, 23,
P.O. Box 22, Daisetta, and
Daniel W. Baldridge, 17, Rt. 1,
Box 185, Batson, were each
indicted ona charge of burglary
of a building stemming from a
breakin July 11 at a building
belonging to Mike Porter.
Debora Pauline Fickle, 28,
709 Keith Road, Lumberton,
was indicted on a charge of
aggravated assault on a peace
officer. 'She is charged with
assaulting Texas Highway
Patrolman Bobby Franklin July
22.
Jimmy Garza Polanco, 1300
Woodworth, Port Arthur, was
indicted on a charge of theft of
currency May 17 from Betty
Cotten.
John Birk Cope, 51, of
Lumberton, was indicted on a
charge of theft of currency
belonging to Ray Betourne
Aug. 15.
Clyde Alan McAfee, 34, of
Wildwood, was indicted on a
charge of theft. The charge
stems from the theft of 264
empty 65-gallon drums Aug. 2
belonging to Arco, according to
files, and the victim is listed as
Henry Moore, an Arco em-
ployee.
Glen Foreman, age unknown,
Rt. 2, Box 698, Warren, was
indicted on a charge of theft of
services. The indictment
alledges that Charlotte Riedin
ger Lancaster was not paid for
labor as a welder’s helper May
18, 1982.
Four cases were passed, and
one case was no billed during
the session.
Five Are Arrested In
2 Separate Drug Incidents
Five people were arrested on
drug charges in two separate
incidents reported by sheriffs
office investigators during the
past week.
According to a report by
Sheriffs Deputy Arthur Guy,
he and Officer James Carrico
were on patrol on U.S. 96 east
of Silsbee Saturday, when they
spotted a suspicious car parked
in a wooded area. As the
officers approached, Guy’s re-
port says, the officers saw a
clear plastic bag thrown from
the car.
The bag contained a green
leafy substance the deputy
believed to be marijuana. Guy
then looked in the car, the
report says, to check for
weapons and saw a brown
(x>ttle with pills believed to be a
dangerous drug.
John Douglas Starke, 22,
P.O. Box 154, Fred; Belenda
^dams Colvin, 19, P.O. Box
502, Silsbee, and Debra Elkins,
Hampshire, 23, St. Rt. 1, Box
1135, Silsbee, were arrested on
charges of possession of less
than two ounces of marijuana,
possession of a dangerous drug,
and possession of narcotics
paraphernalia, according to
county jail cards.
Justice of the Peace Bennie
Como set bond on Starke at
$3,000 on the possession of
marijuana and possession of
dangerous drugs charges, and
he was assessed a $100 fine on
the possession of narcotics
paraphernalia charge, the coun
ty jail card shows.
Judge Como set bond on
Colvin and Hampshire, the jail
cards say, at $1,700.
Sheriffs Deputy Randy Mar
tin reported that when he
stopped a car which was
northbound on U.S. 96 through
Lumberton Friday he noticed a
green leafy substance in the
ashtray of the car.
Martin Craig McBryde, 20,
Box 9006, Beaumont, and Gra
dy Paul Thompson, 22, Rt. 2,
Box 480 A., Lumberton, were
each arrested on a charge of
possession of less than two
ounces of marijuana. Justice of
the Peace Sid Johnson set bond
at $500 each, according to
county jail cards.
In other sheriffs office re
ports, Jan’s Other Mill on Hwy.
327, Silsbee, was reported
broken into Oct. 18.
The burglars broke into a
cigarette machine, a juke box,
two pool tables, and took 10
cases of beer, causing a total
loss of about $240.
Vivian Bishop of Str. Rt. 2,
Silsbee, reported that her home
near the Hardin and Tyler
County line was broken into
Oct. 16.
A telephone and 12 gauge
shotgun valued at $150 were
reported taken, and sheriffs
office investigators are looking
for a suspect in the case.
Tigers Meet Cardinals In
Bridge City Friday Night
Although they no longer
command their own destiny,
Head Coach Lidqey Thompson
says don’t count the Silsbee
SILSBEE DEFENDERS PURSUE Jospar quarterback Alan Hafford as he executes an option play during Friday night's
action. The number three state ranked Jasper Bulldogs overpowered the Tigers 24-0 in a District 9-4A East Zone
contest. Diving after Hafford is Ron Luna, while Kevin Calhoun (56) and L.C. Busby (76) give pursuit.
water**
Tigers out of the playoffs yet.
The Tigers lost to the
domineering Jasper Bulldogs
Friday 24-0, which clinched a
playoff spot for Jasper, and
gave Lincoln and Little Cy-
press-Mauriceville a shot at
second place. But if LCM loses
to Jasper this Friday, and loses
or ties Bridge City in the final
game of the season the Tigers
can still make the playoffs
provided they win their last
two games.
“We’ve got a pretty good
group of young men,” said
Thompson, "and they’re going
to keep playing to the best of
their ability."
“If Little Cypress-Maurice-
ville were to lose, and we lost
one of our games, we would be
very embarrassed."
The Tigers will be facing one
of the largest defensive units in
District 9-4A’s East Zone at
7:30 Friday night when they
take on the Cardinals at Bridge
City.
The Cardinals also have some
good running backs, as do most
teams in the district this
season, and the Cardinals are
blessed with size on their
offensive line. So, although
they have only beaten Lumber-
ton in zone competition they
could be rough. In fact Silsbee
has to hope the Cardinals are
rough enough to beat LC-M in
two weeks.
The Tigers will probably be
without their speedster tail
back, Ricky Price. Price bruis-
ed a shoulder in the second
quarter of the Jasper game.
Thompson said as of Tuesday
morning Price appears to be
“along way from being ready.”
The coach expects to know
for sure by Thursday what
Price’s status will be.
Fortunately for the Tigers
they have some depth in their
backfield, and Gerald Maze,
who has already proven he is
capable, will probably be start-
ing at the tailback slot.
Phil Green is expected to
start at quarterback again this
week, as he did last week.
Thompson said Green gives the
Tigers a little more mobility in
that position. Silsbee has had
some problems throwing the
ball all season, Thompson said,
and they are continuing to work
on ironing those out.
If Jasper wins all its zone
games to takeUirst place, and
LC-M, Lincoln and the Tigers
(See Tigers Sec. 1, Page 12)
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