The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1964 Page: 1 of 6
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HARDIN COUNTY’S
LARGEST CIRCULATION
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CH 6-3979
CIRCULATION 3,500
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 19
KOUNTZE, HARDIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1964
PHONE CH6-3979
COMMISSIONERS REFUSE BEAN AGAIN, AGAM & AGAIN
■MSW Him PMIIE Of PIOMfSS NORM CflHIY
TID-BITS
Did you hear'bout the little
boy who was absent from school
a few days? Upon his return the
teacher asked him where he had
been. The youngster replied,
"Well... A few nights ago we
heard a strange noise in the
chicken house.. Sopape jumped
up in his night gown... grabbed
the shotgun and just as he open-
ed the hen house door the old
dog nosed him and we been
pickin* chickens since then."
Having been raised around
the Jacks Branch and Kimball
Creek area I've always felt I
was fairly familiar with the ve-
getation therein. . For instance..
The bull nettle.. I know it has
the shape of a beautifully col-
ored shavin' brush.. I even know
the old Bull Nettle treatment
used by practically every coun-
try boy who ever had the dis-
comfort of steppin* on one. But
I had to come to Austin to find
out that this devastating little
piece of vegetation grows a nut
that is edible and yea even di -
licious.. (So they say) There is
a possibility that the Bull Net-
tle of the Austin area may be a
different specie than that found
in the Piney Woods Country. I
must check this out and I'll pass
on this information on to you in
the form of public serf vice...
It was about five years ago in
Colorado Springs that I learned
the method used by early day
swine raisers to "Pole Hawgs".
Course this method was used only
when there was a bad acorn
crop... and then only before th*.
acorns fell to the ground...
You've heard, I'm sure, The
Old Addage "If you don’t like
the weatherin Te xas... just wait
a while... It’ll change"... Did
you kiow thay say that in every
state in the union... and I also
heard it said in Canada. Strange
thing is... Everyone thinks it is
original for their own particular
locale. Course I hope this doesn't
upset anyone.. I’d hate to think
f had messed up someones day..
I’d like to end up this na ss
confusion by saying I hope in
some small way these public
service announcements or tid-
bits of information have been
beneficial to the Greek first and
also to the Gentiles. Adios night
fighters.
P. S. I'm writing a new song I
thing you might like. It’s anE -
gypytion type song titled "Oh
What A Bag Dad Had." To be
sung at anniversaries and especial
ly on Mother’s Day..._
Rrniness contraction continues to boom in Hardin County as pictures recently taken by the Pine
Needle Staffiindicate UPPER LEFT, New Kountze Courthouse. UPPER FIGHT, New east wing of County
hospital*MIDDLE LEFT, Ray's Food Town, Silsbee; MIDDLE RIGHT, Sparks Building, Silsbee, (tenants,
Standford's Appliances, Val Hickman Real Estate, Henry Donelson, Insurance, and Bryom Fabnc,
center), LOWER LEFT, Ivy's Grocery, Silsbee; LOWER RIGHT, Silsbee State Bank.
JIMMY PARKER
NOW JUDGE
Commissioners Courtroom.
Plans were made for a trail
ride to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Easley'a
There the riders will be fed a
hamburger and coke lunch and
swim in the pool. All members
planning on going please contact
Mrs. Clarence McNeally or Mrs.
Friday night 8th. of May. in the E. L. Gordy or Mr. Willy Alford.
Riders To
Meet
The Youth Riders met 7:30
SILSBEE SHRINE ASS’N
Silsbee Shrine Ass'n Regular
StatedMeeting Thursday, May 14,
7»30 p. m. Blue Bonnet Cafe.
Dinner will be served. Tfiis is
the last regular stated meeting
until September. All members
are requested to be present.
C. C. Bradshaw-President
Gov. John Conally Thursday
appointed James F. Parker Sr.,
of Kountze as associate justice
of the Ninth Court of Civil Ap-
peals there, filling the unexpired
term of the late Judge W. T.
McNeill.
Parker was nominated for the
post in the Democratic primary.
The governor had announced
earlier that he would appoint the
nominee to fill the unexpired
term.
McNeill was a candidate for
re-election in the primary when
he died Feb. 7.
Parker will begin the six-year
term to which he was elected
last week on Jar. 1.
Judge Parker will be sworn in
for the interim on Friday, May
15, at 10 a. m. in the Criminal
District Courtroom of the Jeffer-
son County Courthouse of Beau-
mont.
The oath of office will be ad-
ministered by the Hon. Clyde E.
Smith, associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Texas.
In Beaumont, Judge Parker
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HARDIN
COUNTY
IBOX-BY-BOX
ELECTION
RETURNS
IABSENTEE
SILSBEE
KOUNTZE
ICHANCE-LOEB
CANEY HEAD
I GKAYBURG
| SOUR LAKE
HONEY ISLAND
VILLAGE MILLS
SARATOGA
THICKET
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PLANK
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Rep.-At-Large
Six delegates were named by
the Hardin County Demo-
cratic Convention Saturday
night to attend the State Con-
vention Business included adop-
tion of five resolutions.
The six delegates are David
Read, Silsbee, chairman; Has-
kell Wilson, Village Mills; Tom
Burch, Sour Lake; Curtis Dav-
is, Kountze; Earl Stover, Sils-
bee, and Mrs. Betty Ann Mit-
chell of Silsbee.
Alternates Named
Alternates named were Mrs.
Sherman Worthey, Henry M.
Donelson Jr. and Paul Georgas
of Silsbee; D. A. Gibson, Chance
Loeb; Chancy Flynn, Village
Mills, and Frank Carpenter,
Sour Lake.
Read was elected permanent
and Mrs. Mitchell, permanent
secretary.
Resolutions Adopted
Resolution were expression of
deep sorrow over the loss of
President John F. Kennedy, re-
peal of the pdll tax, and a call
to the State Legislature for a
fair-rate-of-interest loan regula-
tory law and a strict code
of ethics with punitive teeth in
it,” for elected officials.
Delegates were instructed to
work for adoption of similar
resolutions at the State Conven-
gion.
Connally Support Given
They further resolved to en-
courage the Texas delegation to
the Democratic National Con-
vention to work under the chair-
manship of Gov. John B. Con-
nally to secure the nomination
of Lyndon B. Johnson as nomi-
nee of the Democratic party for
the presidency.
Also to instruct delegates to
support Connally and his pro-
gram of progress for Texas the
(Continued on page 3)
Com. Ag.
MORE WINNERS
DEFEAT CLIQUE
E. RICKS HOUSTON FIELDS
E. Ricks was elected constables
for the Chance-Loeb constable
Pr ecinct in the recent Democra-
tic Primary. This was another
defeat for the Hardin County
Clique as he beat the Commis-
sioner’s Court appointee, Walter
Baer 511 to 307.
Rickshas long been a thorn in
the side of the Sheriff's depart-
ment and the Commissioner’s
Court. He was the man respon-
sible for the arrest of 35 chicken
fighters in 1961. His arrest led
to fines totaling $1710.00 which
is the largest amount of finesi for
a single transaction in Kountze
history. These fines came after
an attempt had been made to
bribe officer Ricks.
Ricks used a radio on the Sheriff
department's frequency at the
time of the arrest. This radio
was taken away from him im-
mediately after he refused the
Houston Fields of Saratoga is.
in a run-off election with E. E.
Cotton, the incumbent. Fields
received 205 votes to 297 forCot-
ton. The other 3 candidates re-
ceived 433 votes.
R.A.MORGAN
RITES
Robert Allen Morgan, 45, died
at 1a.m. Thursday at. Hardin
Memorial Hospital in Kountze
after a long illness.
Morgan was a resident of Sara-
toga for five years. Before living
in Saratoga he lived in Kountze.
He was a barber.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p.m. Friday at the Pace-
Wells Fune ralHomein Kountze.
Rev. C. E. Ramby officiated.
He is a pastor of the First Assem-
bly of God Church in Saratoga.
Burial was in Old Hardin Ceme-
If there was anyone in Hardin
County that thought that County
Judge Fletcher Richardson and the
Commissioners were going to read
the election returnsand permit
Willie Bean to run the Tax Office,
this hope was dashed Monday.
The Court had promised to act
on Bean's request for permanent
employes after May 1st. Instead
they handed down an order re-
quiring the Tax Assessor to sub-
mit all requests for requisitions
to be submitted 5 days in advance
of the meeting.
When Bean renewechis request
for 3 permanent employees, they
turned him down because he had
not notified them by mail. This
in spite of the fact that he has
been making the same request
for six months.
Allcf the Commissioners join-
ed in this order.
A check of other County Court-
houses in Texas failed to uncov-
er a single county with such a
rule. No other department here
has had to observe such a rule
before.
All of Bean’s request were pro-
vided for in the Annual budget
approved by this same Commis-
sioners Court.
tery in Kountze.
Survivors include his wife,
Jeanette Morgan of Saratoga;
three aunts, Mrs. Rachel White,
Kountze, Mrs. Mayme Hill, Cor-
rigan, and Mrs. Eva Sims, Hous-
ton; and two uncles, Mr. John
Smith, Kountze, and J. F. Mor-
gan, Glendale, California.
:.Pallbearers were Charles Rdm-
by, Stanley Sellers, Yullessjeans,
Charles Ira Flowers, Ennie Sims,
George Lisk, Willie Bean, and
Fred Anders.
Arrangements were under the
direction of the Pace- Wells
Funeral Home.
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Thompson, Houston. The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1964, newspaper, May 14, 1964; Kountze, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth847639/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar University.