The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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MIWS STAND SMC!
HARDIN COUNTY’S
LARGEST CIRCULATION
Dobber Regulations
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PlNtNEEDLE
BULK RATE
U. S. POSTAGE
2 3/4 0 PAID
KOUNTZE, TEX.
PERMIT NO. 5
TELEPHONE NO.
CH 6-3979
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 12
KOUNTZE, HARDIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THUKbJJAY, MARCH 26, 1964
PHONE CH6-3979-
LIVESTOCK
SHOW
Court Refuses
Bean Again
Candidate Visits
Hardin County
THE STATE TOURNAMENT
They came.. they saw... and
they thump thumped the'.r way
to victory.. at least some did..
Old Gregory Gym was alive with
activity. Each team bought their
own- rooters (so to speak) with
decorated buses plastered with
slogans such as "Get ahead big
Red”. ."Win State"., and "All
the way with the blue and gray".
F.cf three days they screamed...
laughed.. cried... and in some
cases seemed to fall all to pieces
instantly... only to be bought
back to a form of stability with
a quick bucket by their own
team. Here's a goody... jhst as
the 4A championship game end-
ed there was chaos and yea even
bedlam as the Houston faixs
charging on to the floor... sud-
denly a teen-age girl fainted and
fell prostrate on the hardwood.
She lay unnoticed til someone
surmised that s he wasn't lying
there fora little body rest......
They fanned her and fed her a ..................... —
big R (0) C and a moon-pie be- Candidate Dan Sullivan brought his campaign for Congressman at
fore she made a gallant recovery.. ^-ar8e Hardin County Saturday with a hand shaking tour of Silsbee
also... during this great outburst an<^ Kountze, While in Kountze, he attended the Livestock andYouth
of unaltered emotions there was Pr°3ect Show,
The commissioner's court of Hardin County again-refused Tax
Assessor-collector W. T. Bean permission to employ three deputies
to replace those who have resigned in recent months at the meet-
ing of the court Monday morning.
' All of the deputies were de-
partment heads and successors for
the posts are badly- needed for the
efficiency of the office accord-
ing to Mr. Bean. The work of
the office is behind schedule due
to the shortage of personnel. One
post has been vacant since June
of 1963, one since September
of 1963 and once since Decem-
ber of 1963. Repeated requests
to the commissioner’s court at
previous meetings for employees
to fill these posts have been re-
jected or tabled.
Mr. Bean also requested sal-
ary adjustments for some of the
Tax office deputies. These funds
are available in the tax office
budget which was prepared by
County Judge Fletcher Richard-
son. The commissioner’s court
also refused this request.
DAN SULLIVAN
Easter
Editorial
Sally was only nine years old
and crippled from birth, but she
was a tonic for discourage spirits.
I visited her often, usualty lis-
tening as she recited verses she
had composed. She saw more
beauty gazing out of her bed-
room window than most of us
see talking or riding in the
country. Her winsome laughter
was contagious.
In many ways Sally was for-
tunate. Her parents were well-
to-do and could provide what-
ever care she needed. There are
thousands of others, however,
who can't be helped unless we
help by was of Annual Easter
Seal Appeal. They may laugh
and grow and become useful cit-
izens despite their handicaps if
we care and give.
Easter is the season for the re-
newal of life, a time of joy and
hope for all mankind. It is es-
pecially so for those 250, 000
crippled children who find care
and treatment because you and
[ care enough to support the
Easter Seal Appeal. Sally's blithe
spirit can be reproduced in thous-
ands of youngsters inspired by
hope and by loving care, and
you can help.
Harold B. Walker, D. D
a great deal of fraternization in
the form of kissin' and huggin'
and things of this nature.. I
heard a U, T. student mention
casually to his buddy... "I be-
lieve a stranger could do pretty
well with this groub especially
during this spontaneous sharing
of emotions." As far as your re-
porter knows at this time.. the
student did not make his
approach.....
Some come to the state meet
because they are home-towners
following their particular char-
gers. .. A great many spectators
are Austinites who watch the
£ame simply because they like
basketball and don't pick favor-
ites sometimes until the teams
hit the Loor... College coaches
watch the game with an eagle
eye hoping to pick up a prospect
who might help feather his own
rifest... and then there's always the
"Old Sorehead"...He's the one
who watches every game possi-
ble takin' a sack lunch so as not
to miss any of the action... a nd
occasionally leans back to a
crony and says "They just don't
play ball like we used to. "...
When if the truth were known...
his old "Bohunks Loggin' Camp"
Team of 1927 couldn't stay in
the same gym with the modern
day thumper.. even takin’ into
consideration "OLD BOHUNK"..
played til he was 25 or 30 years
old.
My summation please.......
In my light-wei^it opinion.. .The
state basketball tournament held
in Austin each year during the
first week of March is one of the
athletic highlights of the year in
the state of Texas and a great
deal of credit should be given to
Dr. Rhea Williams and all the
officials of the interscholast i c
league for their indulgence in a
responsibility far greater than I
would want to tackle.. by the way.
This Old Sorehead will be there
again next year if nothing don't
slip and come untied (to use an
old Southern Term)
Dan Sullivan, 33-year-old An-
drews attorney and former dis-
trict attorney for three West Tex-
as Counties, has announced that
he will , seek the office of Con-
gressman-at-Large in the Demo-
cratic primary May 2.
A former manager of U. S. Sen.
Ralph Yarborough’s Austin of-
fice, Sullivan is a lifelong Demo-
crat and outspoken supporter of
progressive Democratic legisla-
tion of the Kennedy and Johnson
administrations.
In making his announcement,
Sullivan declared that the present
Congressman-at-Large, Joe Pool
of Dallas, “deceived the Demo-
cratic voters of Texas two years
ago into believing that he was a
Democratic, spent two years
trying to convince the rich Re-
publicans in Dallas that he is
really a Republican, but he has
deceived nobody into thinking
that he is really a congressman.”
Sullivan charged that “maybe
Joe should file in the Republican
primary and spend his days
matching voting records with
Republicans Bruce Alger of Dal-
las and Ed Foreman of Odessa
instead of playing fast and loose
with the loyal Democrats across
this great state.”
The Andrews lawyer, who led
the West Texas campaign here
for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in
1960, had blunt words for Bob
Baker of Houston, the only other
announced candidate for Con-
gressman-at-Large.
“I was a Kennedv-Johnson
Democrat a long time, before
Nov. 22,”' Sullivan declared.
“I have supported the Demo-
cratic Party since Harry Tru-
man. This Bob Baker is1 a John-
ny-come-lately or should I say a
Johnson-come-lately? ”
Sullivan said at his law office
here that he is “100 percent for
the tax cut, no ifs, ands, or huts
about it.” He said that he is very
much opposed to taking away the
exemption presently allowed for
interest payments saying that
“allowing interest payments as
deduction for income tax purpos-
es encourages folks to buy
homes and helps the economy of
the state.”
“The only issue in the cam-
paign ahead when all is said and
done,” Sullivan declared, “is
which candidate will support
most effectively the progressive
legislation proposed by President
Kennedy and adopted by Presi-
dent Johnson.”
He said he hoped that a “coun-
try lawyer from West Texas
could win an election without
hundreds of thousands of dollars
from Dallas and Houston.” Sulli-
van said that “it doesn’t make
sense to spend a big wad of
money to get elected to ah office
that pays $22,500 a year and that,
in all likelihood, will last only two
years before the state is redis-
tricted.”
“Anyone who spends tons of
money is going to be indebted to
someone besides the people,” he
said.
“I can’t afford an expensive
campaign headquarters in Austin
with hired help and expensive
advertising,” Sullivan said. “I
clan to operate out of my law of-
fice, and run my campaign be-
tween talking to clients and try-
ing cases. I still have the pro-
blem of bringing home the bacon
to my wife, Barbara, and our]
baby. Julie.” .
Sullivan quipped that “it must
take a certain amount of insan-
ity to run for office without so
much as a quarter for campaign
expenses.”
He was born in Bellville, Tex.
in 1930, attended public schools
there and in Houston and gradu-
ated from the University of Tex-
as Law School in 1956. He prac-
ticed law in Odessa before mov-
ing to Andrews in 1957.
Elected district attorney in
1960, Sullivan served in that post
and practiced law here until he
joined Sen. Yarborough in July,
1963. He returned to Andrews
Dec. 12 to practice law.
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WORK ON COUNTY HOSPITAL PROGRESS-- Workmen are shown ABOVE laying brick on the South
Section of the New Edition to the Hospital that is currently being constructed. When the newaddition
are completed this will provide Hardin Memorial Hospital with much needed space in which it can
better serve its every increasing amounts of patients.
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ABOVE pictured in the parade that opened the Livestock Show
are the Kountze Mayor, Pat Pace, and George Christian, President
of Peoples State Bank. (Pine Needle Staff Photo)
SHOWN ABOVE --Reserve Champion bought by Mrs. Clark Allen
from Tommy Shane for $1. 00 lb., $570 .00.
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SUCCESS
Terry Balia Shows
Grand Champion
Steer
JlKIflPPpl.......
GRAND CHAMPION.- - Bought by Mr. Johnny Zummo from Terry
Balia for $783.00.
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CHECK BEING PRESENTED--To Alfred Carter a $25. OOcheckwas
presented by Herb Williams from Olin Chemical Company to start
the land and permanent Building Rind Erive.
Young Bella’s steer, weigh-
ing 580 pounds, was bought by
John Zummo of Zummo Pack-
ling Co., Beaumont, for $1.75 per
|pound, or $783.
The reserve champion steer,
[owned by Tommy Shgne of
jKountze, was purchased by
[Mrs. Clark Allen of Alen-Peevy
[Lumber Co., Kountze, for $570.
The steer weighed 570 pounds
I and sold for $1 per pound.
The third place steer, weigh-
ing 500 pounds, brought 60 cents
[per pound and was purchased
I by Herbert Moore of Moore’s
[Supermarket, Kountze, for $300.
Trevor Pindor of the Kountze
|FFA chapter owned the* steer.
Grand champion fat barrow
[hog was owned by Aller
[Hodge, Kountze. The hog wat
[bought by Pritchard and Ab-
Ibott, evaluation engineers ol
iHouston, for $205. The hog
[weighed 205 pounds and broughi
|$1 per pound.
Reserve champion barrow
| was a hog owned by James
O'Neal weighing 230 pounds
land selling for 60 cents per
mound. Herbert Williams of Wil-
lliams Farm Supply of Kountze
[purchased the barrow for $138.
Jack Castle owned the third
[place barrow, a hog weighing
1220 pounds that sold for
cents per pound. George Kirk
I Patrick Jr. of Kountze bought
[the barrow for $110.
Other buyers were Trunkline
I Gas Co., W. G. Birdwell, La-
jrilar Hargrove, D. W. Richard
son, J. V.‘Overstreet, Peoples’
State Bank and John Blair,
all of Kountze, and' Mae’s Dis-
| count Center of Beaumont.
Charlie Schmucker of Beau-
Imnnt. was auctioneer.
Wheeler
Issues
Statement
All Hardin County was sur-
prised and pleased with the way
the Kountze Future Farmers put
on their first Annual Livestock
and Youth Project Show. From
the opening parade Friday after-
noon- to the final auction Sat-
urday night the local future far-
mers and future homemakers
put on a show that pleased every-
one.
James Kelley, agricultural
teacher and general chairman
of the show reports Terry Balia,
won first place with his grand
champion Angus calf in the
steer division. Tommy Shane
won second place and took re-
serve champion title for his An-
gus calf, while Trevor Pinder
was awarded third with^his An-
gus calf.
Other places in the steer di-
vision were as follows;
Fourth place, William Cassel,
with a Hereford; fifth place,
Harry Williams, with his Angus;
sixth place, Lawrence Gordy,
Hereford; seventh place, Mike
McNeely, Angus; eighth place,
Ronnie Chessher, Herefordjnin-
th, Tommy Cole, Angus; toi th,
Maurice Lovelady, Angus; ele-
venth, Keith Stephenson, Here-
ford; twelfth, Charles Mocre,
Hereford.
In the breeding bulls division,
Tommy Cole was first with his
champion AngusjHarry Williams,
second, with his Reserve champ-
ion Angus; third place; third
place Mike McNeely, with a
Brahma.
The breeding heifers division
was won by Mike McNeely, who
had both champion and reserve
champion Angus heifers, also
(Continued on page 3)
I would like to take this op-
portunity to ask the voters of the
Kountze School District for your
vote and support in the April 4
election.
I received my education here
and have three children now in
school, so therefore I have an in-
terest in our school. I can look
back and see the many advances
our school has made and feel
sure that there is room for more.
I feel that we can better our
school and yet stay within our bud-
get, but this can only be done
when every board member has
the schools affairs at heart.
The only way the school board
can know what you expect of
them and want is for everyone to
voice their opinion, this you can
do by going to the poles and vo-
ting.
RAYMOND WHEELER
PICK-UP STATIONS
KOUNTZE
Boyd's Cafe
Central Garage
Drake's Drive In
Kountze Hardware
Kountze Pharmacy
Marshall's Grocery
Mary's Cafe
Moore's Super Mkt
Phillip's 66 Station
Pine Needle
Smith's Super Value
lop Half Drive In
Wheeler’s Drive In
William's Farm & Home
Williford’s Grocery
HONEY ISLAND
Grand Grocery
SILSBEE
Andy's Drive In
City News Stand
DeHart's Grocery
Ivy's Grocery
Min-I-Max
Nifty Drive In
Pat’s Drive In
Ray's Food Town
Silsbee Print and Copy Shop
Orockett-Gilchriest
CHANCE-LOEB
B & C Drive In
Burge Drive In
Cochran's Grocery
Jeffcoat's Feed Store
Jeffcoat's Ser. Station
Milner's Gro.
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