The Pine Needle (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. [50], Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1967 Page: 1 of 8
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Second Class Postage Paid at Silsbee, Texas 77656
VOLUME IV, NUMBER XLVV
SILSBEE, HARDIN COUNTY, TEXAS
News Stand Price 5 Cents
DECEMBER 14, 1967
5l« IkiCKET
12 OUT OF 24
by GERALDINE WATSON
Now that the last T. O. S. bir-
der has straggled home, we can
get back to Ben Cooper and his
recollections of East Texas saw-
mill days. This series was al-
ready in preparation when Joe
Combs* articles on the sawmills
was published, which indicates
our minds must be closely attun-
ed.
Lumbering up until the 1860's,
depended on logs floated down
the Neches and Sabine rivers to
the big mills at Beaumont and
Orange, but by the turn of the
century, railroads had opened
up the interior and everybody
who had any capitol was putting
up a sawmill and trunk line to
the nearest railroad. A company
would build a fairly good narrow-
guage railroad called a tram to
the end of its holdings. It was
builtuphigh and gullies and low
places filled in with dirt, but
the spur tracks which fanned out
into die woods wore laid on bare
ground. The employees who built
and maintained these tracks were
called the snipe crew, or snipers,
and were made up whenever pos-
sible of immigrant Irishmen.
Their only tools were shovels and
wheelbarrows. Ben Cooper's first
job was in 1887 on the snipe
crew at Warren making $1.00 a
day- and glad to get it. The
boss of the woods crew was
called "bull-of-the-woods".
Loggers began at the outside
of their holdings, cutting in to-
ward the mill. If the area being
logged was too far from town for
the woods crew to go back and
forth, a camp was set up and the
men stayed until it was cut out.
Some of these, such as Camp
Ruby in Polk County, became
permanent settlements and still
exist. Wa Iking through the woods,
one often comes upon these old
tram roads - some of them with
large trees growing in the mid-
dle to show how long ago they
were abandoned.
Trees were cut and the logs
pulled to the spur by oxen until
a cumbersome device called a
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SILSBEE DOMINATES 9-AAA
COACHES' ALL-STARS
Claude Tarver
Carroll Curtis
All-District 9-AAA
OFFENSE
Name—School Pos. Class
Ralph Davenport, Silsbee ........................ E Sr.
Cullen Wells, Liberty ................. E Sr.
Pete Martines, Forest Park................. T Sr.
Mike Bishop, Bridge City ................... T Sr.
Carroll Curtis, Silsbee ............................ T Sr.
Larry Huckaby, Bridge City ................ G Sr.
Billy Fontenot, Forest Park ............. G Sr.
Winston Gillies, Silsbee ......................... G Sr.
Charles Powell, Silsbee .......................... C Sr.
Deryl McGallion, Silsbee ..... QB So.
Mike McElHaney, Bridge City ................... RB Jr.
Nathan Broussard, Silsbee ...................... KB Sr.
Glenn Cooper, Silsbee .......... RB Sr.
DEFENSE
Chuck Zeller, Silsbee ........ Front Sr.
Gary Wood, Silsbee ...... Front Jr.
Joe McReynolds, Forest Park . ............... Front Jr.
Newton Hopkins, Silsbee ..... Front Sr.
Pete Martines, Forest Park .................. Front Sr.
Mike Bishop, Bridge City ......... LB Sr.
Harry Delano, West Orange .................... LB Sr.
Percy Whitmire, Cleveland ........ HB Sr.
Gary Bryant, Silsbee .........................• HB Sr.
Claude Tarver, Silsbee ......................... HB Sr.
Mike McElhaney, Bridge City ....... HB Jr.
Outstanding Offensive Lineman—Ralph Davenport, Silsbee
Outstanding Offensive Back—Mike McElhaney, Bridge City
Outstanding Defensive Lineman—Chuck Zeller, Silsbee
Outstanding Defensive Halfback—Gary Bryant, Silsbee
Coach of the Year—Ray McGallion, Silsbee
SECOND TEAM
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OFFENSE
Ends
Bob 'Burt. Bridge City
D«yid Odom, Forest Parle
Tackles
Gary Wood, Silsbee
Guards
Pete Martines, Forest Park
James Gordon, West Oranga
Center
Joe McReynolds, Forest Park
Quarterback
Dan Carter, Liberty
Running Backs
Randy Wallace, Silsbee
George Charles, Cleveland
Steve Berkley, Forest Park
Jimmy Smith, West Orange
Bill Thibodeaux, Forest Park
DEFENSE
Front
'Randy Alford, Bridge City
James Smart, Silsbee
Bill Free, West Orange
'Phillip Deleon, West Oranga
Jerry Molley, West Orange
Linebackers
Richard Gainer, Silsbee
Billy Weibold, Forest Park
Halfbacks
Harlan Deem, 'Forest Park
Billy Stout, Liberty
Mike McElhaney, Bridge City
Allen 'Middlebrooks. Bridge City
'Mike Hyland, Bridge City
Newton Hopkins
The Silsbee football team dom-
inated the 9-AAA District Co-
ache’s All-District team. The
Tigers placed 12 men on the 24
member all-star team.
The Beaumont Enterprise poll-
ed the District Coaches in a spe-
cial vote. Senior end Ralph Da-
venport was a unanimous choice
on the offensive team. Tiger
halfback Gary Bryant and tackle
Chuck Zeller were unanimous
choices for the defensive unit.
Davenport was selected the out-
standing offensive lineman and
Zeller was selected as the best
defensive lineman in the District.
Silsbee’s Bryant was selected best
defensive back. Silsbee Coach
Ray McGallion was selected as
the league's outstanding coach.
KOUNTZE LIONS LOSE SEMI-FINALS
Ralph Davenport
The Kountze Lion's campaign
to go all the way in 1967 was de-
railed at College Station last Sa-
turday night by the San Antonio
FOR TEXAS-
Randolph Ro-Hawk team 14-7 .
The Kountze offense never really
had, a chance to get rolling. The
heavier Randolph team controll-
ed the ball most of the game and
kept the Kountze offensive team
off the field most of the night.
Kountze's All-State half back
candidate Gordon Gilder set a
new high school record for most
touchdowns in one season by sc-
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SUIT FILED AGAINST
WILDLIFE ASS 'N.
This Monday a suit was filed
in the Tyler County District Court
involving several questions of
widespread discussion in both Ty-
ler and Hardin Counties. The
Jasper, Newton, Hardin, and Ty-
ler County Dog and Wildlife Pro-
tective Association is joined with
25 individuals as Plaintiffs in the
suit against the Eastex Wildlife
Association and seven other De-
fendants.
The questions raised in the suit
concern the rights of the public
and the rights of Eastex Wildlife
Associationofficialsand employ-
ees upon land between Spurger in
Tyler County and Silsbee in Har-
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NEW VOTING MACHINESAPPROVED
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Two weeks ago the Secretary
of the State of Texas certified e-
lectronic voting machines for use
in the Texas elections. This ac- ^
tion means that Hardin County
can conduct its elections in 1968
on voting machines if the Hardin
County Commissioners Court will
agree. VAJ11
The Pine Needle has urged the
use of voting machines ever since
it began publication. We believe
it will give the people more con- 1
fidence in the elections and the Vf
elected officials. There will be x
a savings in cost now that the
Secretary of State has O. Ked the ^ \V^>
electronic voting machines that % ^ +
‘can be used with the new IBM e- , ^ *
^5 quipment in the tax office.
- V The new machines cost approx-
imately $185. 00 or $225.00 with
the table-booth set-up each. Ap-
proximately 50 machines will be
needed for Hardin County elec-
tions. This will cost approxima-
tely $11,250.00 in contrast to
$30,000 needed for the old lever
type voting machines. The use of
the machines will cut down the
y**" , number of poll workers required
to hold elections since there will
be no need for tally clerks to
count the election ballots.
The IBM Votomatic voting
machines can be purchased on a
5 year basis at 4°Jo interest. This
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Barrington, Peggy. The Pine Needle (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. [50], Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1967, newspaper, December 14, 1967; Silsbee , Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth662607/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.