The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1964 Page: 1 of 6
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PROPOSED JR. COLLEGE See Buzz Sow
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KOUNTZE, TEXAS
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VOLUME I, NUMBER 33
KOUNTZE, HARDIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1964
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Before the discussion gets
going concerning the proposed
Hardin County Junior College,
this writer would like to clear
the air. I believe I have an
open mind on the subject and
can be convinced :)f the plan's
jnerit. However, as thing stand
now, I must say that I am dis-
posed to be against the proposi-
tion.
I believe, however, that I
should state my misgivings at
the o u t - s e t so as t o give the
proponents the opportunity to
answer the questions in the peo-
ple's mind. We believe that
these are questions that must be
answered. We believe for this
project to be successful, there
must be an a 1 m o s t complete
agreement of the people of this
county.. The sentiment in this
county, if I read it correctly,
i s against the proposal. Of
course, my contacts and sound-
ings have mainly been in Sils-
bee.
But let's get this matter
straight from the start. Without
the support of the people in Sils-
bee, no plan for a county wide
Junior College can be a suc-
cess. And the people of Silsbee
are skeptical.
In fact, I believe the people
all over the county are dubious
about another taxing unit and
there must be a lot of convinc-
ing work done before they will
change. Just a few months ago
the Silsbee School District turn-
ed down a bond issue to build
school buildings that are much
needed. I believe that a ma-
jority of the people who voted
against these school bonds i n
Silsbee felt that the plans were
too elaborate and expensive.
There were other matters, o f
course, involved in the elec-
tion, but if the plans had been
more acceptable, I believe the
majority would have voted for
them.
But, if the school patrons in
Silsbee turned down needed high
and grade school bonds, just
think what they will do for a
Junior College Bond.
Remember the hostility that
arose to the idea of the Hospital
Districts. Silsbee has many prob-
lems that need to be solved.
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ENOUGH
8AR-B-QUE
FOR ALL
The Kountze Youth Riders
are having their annual Bar-B-
Que and ride at the Honey Is-
land Swimming Pool this Friday
night. Plates-are $1.00. Satur-
day morning the Riders will ride
back to Kountze.
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The Silsbee Tigers started their football practice Monday. They had some 80 boys to
turn out for the first day of practice. Pictured above are some of the boys working out.
TRAIL RIDERS PARADE
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Picture ABOVE is the site of much work which will terrninate in Kountze having its first Little
League Baseball park. Local citizens have already put much hard work on this needed project
and much more volunteer help and MONEY is needed.
ed Desert. Right out of Winslow
Arizona, they visited a meteo-
rite crate which was discover-
ed in 190 3. It is the world's
first proven meteorite crater. It
is 4, 150 feet from rim to rim,
three miles in circumference
and 570 feet deep.
A few days before their ar-
rival at the crater, a-two pas-
senger plane had crashed inside
the crater. From the top rim of
the crater, the plane looked
like a piece of tin.
Right out of Holbrook, Ariz-
ona, they visited the Petrified
Forest National Park.
AtFlagstiff they went up Mt.
Agassiz, thesecondhighest peak
in Arizona, on a ski ride. They
rode to the altitude of 11,300ft.
There they got out and looked
at the beautiful country below.
It was 60 degrees and very win-
Plenty of good food is being pre- dy on the top# David and Dan_
pared and there will be enough ny e n j o y e d it so much, they
for everyone. Be sure to buy a wanted to go back up again,
ticket from one of the Youth Rid- yQU come up on one while
Wilburn Holmes and family
went on their vacation last
week, and reported having a
good time.
They left Saturday morning,
August 8, and returned back
home Friday evening, August
14. They visited friends in San
Angelo, Texas, and then went
through New Mexico and Ariz-
ona. In Arizona, they went to
the Grand Canyon and the Paint-
ers and get in on the EATS.
THE PINE NEEDLE
EDITOR _____-------JAMES C. JENNINGS
PICTURE EDITOR________THOMAS BEAN
Published every Thursday at Kountze, Hardin County,
Texas, by The Pine Needle Publishing Company
P. o, BOX 127
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in the mountains, ride them.
Ann said, "They are very scary
when you come back down, but
you will never forget them. ”
They finished their trip by
stoping back bySix Flags in
Dallas.
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The “time machine” can show
the night sky as it looked over
Bethlehem to Joseph and Mary
or how it will appear to future
spacemen.
The planetarium presents
three shows a week for the gen-
eral public, two on Sunday after-
noon and one Thursday night.
Each lasts 40 minutes.
(This column distributed
weekly by the East Texas Tour-
ist Assn., Nacogdoches, Texas.)
4-H DRESS REVUE
The District XI 4-H Dress
Revue was held at the Caravan
Motor Hotel in Bay C i ty, on
August 12-13 with over two
hundred persons attending.
Myra Butler, Chance-Loeb 4-
H’er, and Shirley Glaze, Pine
Ridge 4-H’er, represented Har-
din County. Each girl received
a red ribbon on her contest gar-
ment and record at the district
event. Myra competed in the
senior division , and Shirley was
a junior division participant.
A well planned program was
presented on both dates. On
August 12, the 4-H club girls
from the 19 counties in Exten-
sion District XI modeled their
garments for the buffet dinner
in the hotel dining room. A
local Bay City merchant dis-
cussed Clothing Accessories for
the fall wardrobe at the open-
ing session on August 13. Aus-
tin County 4-H'ers were in
charge of the educational pro-
gram and entertainment. "
The Aftdrnoon 4-H Dress Re-
vue setting was "East Meets
West in 4-H Fashions. " It was
held in the hotel ballroom.
Each contestant at the district
show had been a County win-
ner, and modeled the garment
she had made in her 4-H work.
Escorts for the event were 4-H
boys from Brazoria, Matagor-
da and Washington Counties.
Parents of the contestants
from Hardin County are Mr.
and Mrs. I. M. Butler of Chance
Loeb and Mr. and Mrs. George
YOUTH
RIDERS
PARADE
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SILSBEE
Shown above are two sections of the youth trail riders that took part in the Youth Ro-
deo Parade in Silsbee, Saturday. Mr. Wiley Alford won the Shetland pony Saturday
night.
Glazepf Pine Ridge. MissDor-
thy Taylor, CountyHome De-
monstration Agent, accomp-
anied the girls to Bay City.
SOMETHING
TO SELL?
GIVE THE
Editor’s note; The Village
Creek Philosopher on his John-
son grass farm on Village creek
apparently is trying to get his
mind off the summer turmoil,
his letter this week indicates.
Trying to get my mind off of
hot weather, politics and riots,
I was scanning the inside or
riot-free pages of a newspaper
last night and ran across an item
that has so many possibilities it
should have made the front page.
According to it, there’s a show
at the New York World’s Fair
which is about busted financially
despite the fact it’s supposed to
be very good, so the owners tried
a new gimmick. Instead of selling
tickets before the show, they
waited till afterwards. They just
threw open the doors and invited
the tourists in, with the under-
standing if they liked the show
they could pay as they went out.
If they didn’t like it, they didn’t
have to pay. The first trial was
a success.
Since I don’t have time to keep
up with the 132 nations on earth
and two national political con-
ventions and still keep up with
the entertainment world, I don’t
know how this is working out, but
that’s beside the point. It’s the
unbelievable possibilities it
opens up that counts.
For example-, take taxes. Why
can’t the governments, from local
through state to Washington, use
this system? At the end of the
year they could all say, well, how
much government you figure
you’ve gotten this year? And if
you find everything has been
satisfactory and agreeable, you
write out a check for what you
think it’s worth.
Any unit of government that
failed to put on a good show,
well, I guess it’d just have to
close.
It might even work with news-
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AT BEAUMONT the other night,
newscaster Clyde Butter ran
through the 6 o’clock news man-
fully trying to keep a straight face
whole a fly crawled all over it.
He made it to the commercial.
The commercial advertised a
fly spray with an illustration of
how it was certain death to flies.
Back came Butter, and back
came the fly. This time the fly
started at his widow’s peak and
crawled slowly down one side of
his face while Butter obviously
ignored it before all his viewers.
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Jennings, James C. The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1964, newspaper, August 20, 1964; Kountze, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth847477/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar University.