The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Page: 2 of 28
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A Grain of Salt ••• By Danny Reneau
Not long before I came to
Silsbee in 1990, a school stood on
the lot across the street from the
Bee office where Wachovia Bank
and Brookshire Bros, now stand.
At the time, the property directly
across the street from the newspa-
per office was a vacant savings
and loan and the property directly
to the north of the Bee office was
a vacant slab of concrete.
In those days there was more
dirt around the office than build-
ings.
Then Eckerds purchased the old
savings and loan, tore it down and
built their new store.
A short time later Marjorie
Eldredge put together a building
project that now houses ETEX
Credit and Post Mart directly to
the north.
Within a few years, Brookshire
Bros, relocated from the north
part of town on Hwy. 418 to the
vacant lot where the old school
had been. Our neighborhood
changed considerably.
Since that time, Eckerds sold to
CVS and they moved to a new
location to the south. The Eckerds
building is vacant once again.
The Silsbee Bee building has
seen a lot of changes.
Structurally it was designed to
be a newspaper. Tommy and
Bobby Read built the building in
the 1940s and it has massive con-
crete interior walls, and brick and
cement block exterior walls.
The building had steel and con-
crete in the roof strong enough to
hold an overhead hoist that was
used to pick up large rolls of paper.
Windows were at a minimum.
In many ways, it is one of the
stronger buildings in town.
Oh, it has its problems. In those
days newspapers were produced
with massive chunks of iron and
steel. Now they are produced on
computers. Have you ever tried to
string an Internet cable around a
building like this? The electrical
system was set up to power print-
ing presses, Linotypes, and all
types of printing equipment.
Over the years, the lighting was
changed, the ceiling was lowered,
the office supply store disap-
peared.
The building was built near the
street. It has plenty of space for
parking, but it is all behind the
building. I am not sure why this
happened. Maybe it was because
the road moved.
The building has worked well
to house one of the most consis-
tent businesses in this community.
While many businesses have
changed hands repeatedly The
Bee has had just two sets of own-
ers in the past 75 years or so.
Last week, the old filling sta-
tion on the south end of the block
was demolished. In the near
future, we look for all the build-
ings on the block to meet the
same fate.
It will be hard to see the change
in the landscape.
However, at the time these
buildings were built, a group of
people who built the Blue Bonnet,
The Bee, the filling station and
the building that houses Fred’s
Liquors had a vision for the
future.
It is fair to say that the vision
has been fulfilled, many times.
ALONG OTHER LINES ... I
hear all the time how Michael
Jordan was the greatest basketball
player who ever lived. I never
believed that for a minute. I can
barely remember the days in the
NBA of Bill Russell and Wilt
Chamberlin. There is no question
in my mind who is the greatest.
Yesterday I heard an interesting
set of statistics.
If you take the top five players
who ever scored 50 points in a
game, players 2 through 5 —
which include Michael Jordan,
Kobe Bryant, Elgin Baylor and
one other player — have, as a
group, hit for 50 points 78 times.
Wilt Chamberlin scored 50 points
118 times by himself.
This week Bryant became the
second person to ever score 50
points two games in a row.
Chamberlin did it something like
14 or 15 times.
Russell won nine NBA champi-
onships in a row. These days, two
consecutive championships has
people calling a team a dynasty.
Today a powerhouse champi-
onship team is one that has two
great players. When those two
great players were playing, there
were not so many teams and
teams were loaded with three or
four great players.
Chamberlin was so good that
teams would trade for him and
trade basically their whole team.
He never got to play on a great
team except for the time near the
end of his career when he was in
Los Angeles playing with the
likes of Elgin Baylor, Jerry West,
Pat Riley and others.
Russell basically played with a
great team throughout his career.
March Madness and the NBA
playoffs are the most exciting
time of the college and profes-
sional seasons. This is about the
only time I ever watch them on
TV.
This Week in History: March 28, 2007
News items taken from the
archives of The Silsbee Bee:
5 Years Ago
The Kountze Police
Department moves into the old
post office building. Just three
years later, a possible tornado,
spawned by Hurricane Rita,
destroyed the building, sending
the police department scram-
bling for a new location. In late
2006, the department located
what once was the city’s public
library.
That same year, the Silsbee
High School girls track team
takes the championship of the
Tigers’ home track meet, led by
two relay team victories.
10 Years Ago
The Arnolds family was hon-
ored as The Cottage restaurant
was named the Business of the
Year by the Silsbee Chamber of
Commerce.
Also that year, the “Welcome
to Silsbee” sign, located at the
south end of the city at Hwy.
96S, was completed after a year
of work by a commitee of local
citizens.
25 Years Ago
Plans for an intersection proj-
ect at Hwys. 92 and 1122 are
expected to cost $21,600. The
project calls for a traffic light to
help alleviate traffic problems at
the intersection, located three
miles north of Silsbee.
In other news, former Hardin
County Clerk Clarence
McNeeley begins serving a two-
year sentence for his conviction
on a 1980 mail fraud charge.
50 Years Ago
H.C. Bailes and Val Hickman
apply for a license to operate a
radio station in Silsbee. The sta-
tion was expected to be on the air
by the summer of 1957.
Also that week, a full-page ad
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EDITORIAL STAFF -
DANNY RENEAU ...
GERRY DICKERT...
GLENDA VERRETT.
JAN RENEAU..........
LEAH WILLIAMS......
DEBBIE GORDON
BRENT GUIDRY......
SHARON STOREY..
.......Publisher
.............Editor
........Reporter
.....Ad Director
........Ad Sales
..Bookkeeping
Photographer
..Composition
touted the benefits of a bond
issue for the Chance-Loeb
Consolidate Independent School
District. The bond would build a
$200,000 school for students in
what is now Lumberton.
At the Pines Theater, “The
Halls of Montezuma” with
Richard Widmark is playing,
along with “The Incredible
Shrinking Man” with Grant
Williams.
A pound of coffee at the Big
Star Cash Food Store costs 89
cents a pound.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
In the Bible it says “faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.” Last
Saturday morning as I stood on
the parking lot of the Silsbee
Public Library, that hope became
a vision and the vision a reality.
I stood there holding my 3-
year-old grandson, Garrett, and
though, “You don’t even know it
yet, but your great-grandmother
LIBRARY.
down the back stretch. By the
time the expansion project is
complete the group will have
raised in excess of $600,000.
Mclnnis Constmction will be
doing the work on the project. At
the present time, in excess of
$500,000 has been raised. The
plan is to use those funds and
Marilyn “Mimi” Georgas was a
visionary for this library.”
She worked along with many
others with great enthusiasm and
had the faith that it would one
day be a center of learning that
housed something she held very
dear to her heart — books.
She loved books and sharing
the knowledge they held within
their pages with anyone willing
to listen. Marilyn passed away
last August and never saw the
hope that enough money will be
raised to finish the project. In the
event that the group is not able
to raise the entire amount of
money needed, then some items
will be left incomplete for work
at a later date.
The groundbreaking was cele-
brated by many who have
final fmit of her labor. As with
many people who get great things
done, her tme reward was not in
getting it done, but in the enjoy-
ment of countless others who
appreciate the benefits of a won-
derful library.
It was a step forward for our
city and I say thank you.
Linda Georgas
Silsbee
From Section 1, Page 1
worked at the library over the
years as volunteers, part-time
workers and full time workers.
Others present included repre-
sentatives for the Friends of the
Library, the Silsbee Women’s
Club, the city council, Mclnnis
Constmction and people who
just care about the Library.
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