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THE S LSBEE BEE
VOLUME 44
SILSBEE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1962
10c PER COPY
NUMBER 34
OVER PINE ISLAND BAYOU AND NECHES RIVER
BISHOP PAUL MARTIN
Methodists
To Consecrate
New Building
Ceremonies Planned For Opening
Of Two New Area Bridges Nov. 1
The First Methodist Church
of Silsbee will hold the conse-
cration service lor its new edu-
cational building on Saturday,
Oct. 27. This unit is the middle
step of a master plan which will
be completed when a sanctuary
unit will be built within the
next few years. The completed
plant will give the church ia-
cilities which will cost around
$400,000.
The unit to be consecrated
has 13,900 square feet which
contains complete classes for
children to 11 years old. Four-
teen rooms provide large class-
100ms which will give an op-
portunity for teachers to pro-
vide centers for worship, study,
and play for nursery, kinder-
garden, primary, and junior
boys apd girls. Adequate stor-
age cabinets, restrooms, and
such accomodations are special
features of ihis building. The
Sunday school literature is lo-
cated in this unit. Also included
is a large fellowship hall with
wood beams and paneling. A
spacious kitchen adjoins the |
Two fine new highway
bridges in the Silsbee vicinity
will be formally opened to traf-
lic next Thursday, Nov. 1, ac-
cording to information from
Lester Landgraf, resident engi-
neer for the Texas Highway
Department. One of the bridges
spans Pine Island Bayou on
Highway 96 between Silsbee
and Beaumont, and the other is
across the Neches River on
Highway 96 between Silsbee
and Evadale.
The Pine Island Bayou
bridge is a twin structure to
the existing bridge there, and
will extend the four-lane traf-
fic from Jefferson County into
Hardin County. It is another
At presstime last night.
County Judge Fletcher Rich-
ardson announced that Con-
gressman Jack Brooks would
be the principal speaker for
the bridge opening ceremon-
ies. Mr. Brooks recently re-
turned from Washington. D.
C. at the close of the 87th
Congress.
step in the construction of the
limited access highway that
will be further extended when
the section through Loeb in
Hardin County is begun early
next year.
The Neches River bridge,
east of Silsbee, is a much larg-
er structure, and has been un-
der construction for three
years. This construction job,
including the short sections of
highway on both sides, and the
approach bridges, cost approxi-
mately $1,111,772.57 to build.
Cost of the Pine Island Bavou
bridge and approaches was
$330,685.57.
The ceremonies celebrating
the opening of the bridges will
begin at Pine Island Bayou at
ALL ARE SAFE
Three Separate Searches
Find 4 Lost Area Hunters
The dense woods in East
Texas and four young hunteis
fellowship hall. A special tea- who were lost brou«ht anxious
moments to relatives and
ture of the hall is a large stage
which will give the church an
opportunity for religious drama.
This unit was completed at
a cost of $147,000 and was de-
signed by the architect, Daniel
Perkins of Baytown and built
by the construction firm cl
Foster Brothers in Port Arthur.
The building is air conditioned.
The first permanent unit of
the church’s master plan known
as the Cravens Hall building
will house the youth division
and prov ide a youth recreation
center. Until the sanctuary is
completed, some adult classes
will remain in this unit.
The official opening of the
building on Saturday will De
marked with special activities
which begin with an open
house from 1 until 6 p. m. Dur-
ing this lime everyone who de-
sires is invited to make an in-
(See Methodists, Page 5)
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Civil Defense to Conduct
Family Medical Course
Citizens Show
Determination In
Cuba Blockade
General reaction in Silsbee
to the announcement of a
blockade of Cuba by President
Kennedy has been favorable
There has also been an air of
anxiety and of tenseness in
awaiting the next move, but a
spirit of determination.
Most persons contacted be-
fore presstime have felt that
the United States had little- or
no alternative and that the ac-
| tion taken was required. A
number have said that they
feel neither Russia nor the
United States wants a shooting
war, but. if it takes bullets to
search ships going to Cuba they
should be used.
Silsbee citizens, like people
all over the world, have been
■attempting to keep abreast of
developments by getting every
word of news as it is released
by authorities on our deployed
iwarships and locations of Rus-
lan vessels enroute to Cuba.
j.i politics have been
i and tentaaad by faith
in the
appear determined 10 myTmiqte
the security of the Americas;*!
searchers in Hardin County last
weekend.
Two Silsbee boys, Glen Sims,
16, and his brother James, 14,
did not get out of the woods
until about 11:30 Saturday
night after they became separ-
ated from their uncle, Ellis
Shuptrine, and darkness over-
took them before they were
able to find their way.
Shuptrine and the two Sims
boys were hunting west of Sils-
bee off Highway 327 in the
Village Creek bottom. About
dark Shuptrine sent word out
by Doyce Cartreet that he and
the boys had become separated
and that he was going to stay-
in the area and search.
Later in the night Doyce and
his lather, Lee Cartreet, located
Glen and James, who told them
they were not exactly lost but
as it was dark and they had
no light travel was difficult. It
was a cold rainy evening too.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sims of Sils-
bee are their parents.
In the Loeb area east of the
r
A Medical Self Help train
ing program will begin. Monday
night, Rev. Grant Herbst, civil
defense director, has announc-
ed.
The title is sell' explanatory
r.nd is an effort to train the
people for self preservation in
the event of an emergency
v-hich would bring about seri-
ous shortage of professional
help.
This is a 16-hour course and
is authorized by the National
Civil Defense program. There
is no charge and those Clini-
cian vcss<
ter
Stiff Fines, Jail
Terms Handed Out
In County Court
Stiff fines and jail terms were
handed out by County Judge
Fletcher Richardson last week
in county court.
C. L. Johnson was lined $100
and costs on Wednesday, Oct.
17 for making serious threats
to another person.
On Monday, Oct. 22, Roland
Irvin pleaded guilty to an ag-
gravated assault charge and was
lined $25 and court costs. On
the same day, Raymond Har-
rington was fined $25 and costs
for driving while license was
suspended.
Two men pleaded guilty to
pprate charges of driving
(See Stiff Fines, Page 5) ,
pleting the course will be is-
sued certificates.
The course will be taught for
both white and Negro citizens.
Meetings will be held Monday-
through Thursday nights from
6:30 p. m. until 10 p. in. with
the last session being held Nov.
5 at 6:30 p. m. for a two hour
session.
Classes will meet at Silsbee
High School with Charles
Stephens and Phillip Allen as
instructors.
Hilliard Lewis will bo in-
structor for Negro citizens and
they will meet in Frank Robin-
son School.
Rev. Herbst urged that at
least one member of each fam-
ily in Ihc community attend
the course. Persons may regis-
ter in advance with Weeks
Crawtord or Frank Rudisaille,
or there will be someone on
hand one hour before the open-
ing session at each place to
register those attending.
Glenacres Addition a Mr.
Lowe, 22, was not out of the
woods at dark Saturday and a
search was instituted. Hardin
County Deputy Sherifl Ira
Moore said that Mr. Lowe was
located about 11:30 Saturday-
night by George Brown, who
lives in that area.
Deputy Moore also directed
a Sunday night search at Voth
in the Pine island Bayou area
lor 15-year-old Wendell Smith,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
H. Smith of Beaumont.
Young Smith necamc separ-
ated from his father and a
friend. Bill Olson, Sunday
afternoon. A search began
about 8 p. m. in which about
50 volunteers joined. Smith
spent the night in the woods
and about 7:30 Monday morn-
ing contacted two searchers,
Joe Baker and J. C. Guilliord,
and they returned to a fishing
camp at 8:30 a. m. after a 14-
hour search.
Fire Departments, peace of-
ficers and volunteers joined in
the searches.
10 o’clock next Thursday when
county judges and other offi-
cials of Hardin and Jefferson
counties, together with cham-
ber of commerce dignitaries
and others, will participate in
a ribbon-cutting program. The
caravan will then leave that
point and travel to the Neches
River bridge at 11 a. m. where
a similar ceremony will be
held with Jasper county offi-
cials taking part. A short pro-
gram will be held at that time,
with short talks being given by
some of the prominent partici-
pants.
Besides county and city offi-
cials and chamber of commerce
representatives, it is expected
that W. E. Simmons, district
highway engineer from Beau-
mont, will be on hand for the
ceremonies. The Evadale High
band will furnish music for the
occasion, and light refresh-
ments will be available at the
bridge site.
These two bridges will great-
ly aid in speeding the traffic
over Highway 96 in both direc-
tions from Silsbee. and the
Neches River bridge will elim-
inate one of the real bottle-
necks by getting rid of the
present long and hazardous
bridge between here and Eva-
dale.
These two projects are fore-
runners of further highway im-
provements scheduled for the
immediate future. Besides the
Loeb stretch of highway which
will be started early next year,
(See Ceremonies, Page 5)
ELIZABETH ANN KENNEDY beams with joy and
surprise as Darrel D. Shine, president of the Sils-
bee ex-students assocation, hands her the queen’s
bouquet at the homecoming game last Friday
night. Miss Kennedy was elected as queen of the
1962 homecomng celebration last week but the
queen’s identity was not revealed until halftime
ceremonies of the Silsbee-Jasper contest. She is a
senior student at Silsbee High School and was se-
lected over 11 other girls for the honor. Her escort
was A. R. Hardison, on the right.
Richard Weathersby
To Head Ex-Students
Honored at Rice
Richard Weathersby
elected president of Silsbee Ex-
Sudents Association at the gen-
eral assembly of alumni h;ld
in Silsbee High School audi-
torium Saturday afternoon. Re*
tiring president is D. D. Shine.
New officers took over at a
meeting Tuesday night.
Approximately 600 former
Silsbee students attended the
Homecoming assembly pro-
gram.
Other officers elected were:
Marvin Brown, vice president,
and Mrs. Robert Collier, secre-
tary and treasurer.
Mrs. Fannie Raimer, who at-
tended school in Silsbee in
1900, was recognized as the
oldest former student present,
and Mrs. Thena Mae Votaw of
South Africa was recognized as
the ex-student having traveled
the greatest distance to attend.
Several thousand persons
witnessed the parade through
downtown Silsbee Saturday
morning.
Floats winning places in the
homecoming parade Saturday
morning were Future Teachers,
w a s| Elizabeth Ann Kennedy,
senior student, was crowned
Queen of 1962 Homecoming
during halftime activities at
the Silsbee - Jasper football
game last Friday night. Her
name was announced to the
4500 fans by D. D. Shine. She
was given a bouquet from the
Ex - Students Association and
rode on the queen’s float dur-
ing the parade Saturday morn-
ing. Her escort for the presen-
tation ceremonies Friday night
was A. R. Hardison.
Aside from the football
game, probably the biggest
fourth.
The classes of 1939-40 wor.
first place in the car float divi-
sion. The class of 1947 won
second and the class of 1949
won third.
Bicycle Theft Ring
Broken; Nine
Are Recovered
Nine Negro juveniles were
arrested this week and nine bi-
cycles they had stolen were re-
covered, according to informa-
tion from Deputy Sheriff Ira
Moore of Silsbee. The boys
were arraigned before H. A.
Coe, as judge of the juvenile
court, and the boys were all i Roberts of Buna,
given probationary sentences, Miss Holmes also recently
Mr. Moore said. represented Rice at the Annual
The recovery of (he bicycles Football Festival at Berkeley,
was so promptly executed that 'Calif., where others in the
one was returned to the owner competition for queen named
before he knew it was stolen. |hcr “Miss Congeniality.”
MISS DANNA HOLMES
Miss Danna Holmes, 21
senior student from Silsbee was
crowned Homecoming Queen at
Rice University Oct. 13 at half-
time ceremonies during the
Rice-Oregon football game.
Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer, presi-
dent of Rice, placed the crown
on Miss Holmes’ head. She is
the daughter of Mrs. Glen
27 Are Booked At
County Jail Over
Last Weekend
Seven Negro boys, ail juve-
niles, have been booked into
the county jail for Iheft ac-
cording to office deputy Dave
Rountree. Ira Moore, deputy
sherift lor the Silsbee area, ar
rested the boys Tuesday after
an investigation showed thiv
might be involved in an out-
break ol bicycle stealing.
Rountree reported 20 other
people brought into the jail foi
holding over the weekend.
Charges of drunk and disorder-
ly topped the arrest list, as usu-
al, with 12 offenders. Four per-
sons wi re booked for di iving
while intoxicated; two for ag-
gravated assault; one for child
dessertion and one for being
drunk in car.
single attraction of homecom-
ing was the parade Saturday.
People lined both sides of the
route from Busby and Sons
garage all the way through
town to the high school. War-
ren Bower, 1962 vice presi -
dent of the Ex-Students group
was parade chairman.
Outgoing president Darrell
Shine told this reporter that
the success of a celebration of
this size requires the coopera-
tion of everyone involved. He
and his committees expressed
their appreciation to all who
helped with homecoming.
Youth to Trick Or Treat
For UN Children’s Fund
Wednesday night, Oct. 31,
the youth of Silsbee will devote
their Halloween fun to a con-
structive purpose by trick or
treating for UNICEF, the Uni-
ted Nations Children’s Fund.
The Woman’s Society of
first PoivclnL «»ennd- Queen’s The Woman’s Society of Rev. R. Eugene Jontc, pastor,
float’ Unrd and TnduMri^l AUs Christian Service of the Fmtt-invites all youth in the com-
._____' Methodist Church is sponsoring rnunity in the age range speci-
Mcthodist Church is sponsoring
the local phase of the program
and is being joined by the First
Presbyterian Church.
Juniors and members of the
Junior High Department, which
includes grades 4 through 9,
from both churches will meet
at Craven’s Hall at 5 p. m. The
youths will receive stickers and
tags to properly identify them
and will be assigned to cars
driven by an adult chaperon.
Collection hours will be from
5 to 6:30 p. m. Following 'he
collection, a penny county party
will be held in Craven’s Hall.
Refreshments will be served.
Last Fall, about three million
American boys and girls in
sonic 11,000 communities trick
or treated for UNICEF and
raised $2 million. Mrs. Doyle
McKeown, general chairman,
said that she hopes the uro-
gram is even more successlul
this year.
She stated, “For one dollar,
UNICEF supplies 17 hungry
children with a daily glass of
milk for a month. One dollar
can also mean the vaccine to
protect 100 children from tu-
berculosis, or the insecticides
to protect eight children from
malaria for a year.”
The WSCS committees are
composed of Mrs. Harry Holt
and Mrs. Fletcher Richardson,
transportation, and Mrs. W. C.
McNeil and Mrs. C. E. Rich-
mond, refreshments.
Rev. R. Eugene Jontc, pastor,
fied to participate in the pro-
gram.
Tigers Sputter Over Jasper 35-7;
Travel to Vidor Friday For Next Test
NO WAY OUT remained for Jasper halfback Robert Tatum as he faced a solid
te of Tiger defenders the third quarter of last week’s Homecoming game,
iding the parade of SUabee players moments before Tatum was run out of
nds are Wavne Hash, No. 56l Buddy Upshaw, No. 66; Ronnie Conner, No.
and Nelson Tcnnisou, No. 68. This play, the longest gain made by Jasper
during the contest, was good for 15 yards. The mighty Tiger defense held an
to only 56 yards on the ground.
Probably the only real sur-lon the scoreboard for six min-
prise for hometown fans utlutcs and 30 seconds of the first
last Friday’s football game was half.
that the Tigers trailed Jasper | The Bulldogs’ lone tally, and
only the second against Silsbee
all jear, came in the first quar-
ter with three seconds remain-
ing. The Tigcr/s had been forced
into a punting situation on
fourth down on their 20-vard
line. A had pass from center .<>
kicker Gerald Walker resulted
in the Bulldogs taking over on
the Silsbee lour. An over -
anxious Tiger defense was p -n-
lizcd hall the distance to the
goal, the two yard line, i«>r
off-side. Jasper quarterback
Philip Bennington powered
across the goal on the next
play.
Other than the score from
the Tiger miscue, the Bulldogs
were confined to their own end
of the field for the remainder
9 of the game. Silsbee defenders,
led by the bone-rattling tackles
of Robert Parks, Jerry Lindsey,
Wayne Nash. Henry Holland,
Buddy Upshaw and Nelson
Tcnnison, allowed only 56
yards on the ground and 56
yards through the air. Paul
Johnson. James Dominy and
Johnny Cones each managed to
intercept a Jasper pass to stop
drives almost before they could
start.
Tigers crossed the double
stripe in every period except
the fourth, once on a 35-y;:rd
run after a pass interception by
Cones in the Ihird quarter.
Parks. Paul Johnson circled thing extra when they tangle
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STATISTICS
Jasper
lb
first downs
6
1 ci 2
fumbles lost
1 of 1
105
penalties
43
? lor 33
punts, average/
b for 35
1 of 3
pas*#'* completed
6 ol 20
3 passes intercepted
by 1
17
yard* passing
yards rushing
M
33b
3b
353
total offense
112
Score Bt Quarters
Silsbee
b jh
13 lb 3 3
Jo! PCI
7 0
0 0 7
Only
four minute;
deep in
the game, Reggie Madison, who
has improved steadily at the
halfback slot, topped off a 62-
yard drive after the Tigers
took the opening kickoff for the
fiist score. Johnny Upshaw
starred for the home team in
the second quarter by making
two touchdowns only three
minutes apart. The last was a
26-yard run through left tackle
with the aid of beautiful down-
field blocking by Johnson and
right end for two points after
both scores. Johnson, playing
the deep man for a Jasper punt,
had a 46-yard run and touch-
down nullified by a clipping
penalty midway through 'he
second period.
Carroll “PeeWee” Roy fin-
ished up the scoring for the
Tigers when he oroke through
the Bulldog line late in ine
third quarter for a 53-yard
clash to 1he goal line. He liter-
ally outran the last man be-
tween him and the touchdown
The run gave him top honors
in individual rushing foY the
night with 32 yards on seven
carries.
Final score was Silsbee 35,
Jasper 7.
Almost every member on the
Tiger team saw action against
Jasper and all came through
ready to go against a winless
Vidor Pirate squad tomorrow
night.
The game, scheduled for
7:30 in Vidor, should pose no
threat to the Tiger record.
However, from past records of
this scries, the Pirates usually
seem to come up with some*
with Silsbee.
Tiger head coach Ray Me-
Gallion reports his squad in
top condition lor the contest
but would not predict the final
outcome.
Vidor and Silsbee hav e play-
ed two games with common
(See Tigers, Page 5)
Press Women
Tour Kirby Mill
Friday Afternoon
Eighteen members of . the
Texas Women’s rress Associ-
ation, including Mrs Louise
Hill of Silsbee. toured the Kir-
by mill last Friday afternoon.
The press women were in
Beaumont attending tee state
convention of their association.
Later in the evening a cock-
tail party was given in their
honor at the King Edward Ho-
tel in Beaumont by Kirby and
East Texas Pulp and Paper
Company, according to W H.
Lawson, Kirby plant engineer.
5420 Local Persons
Take Type III Polio
Vaccine Sunday
Silsbee’s second oral polio
vaccine clinic last Sunday af-
ternoon irmoculated 5420 per-
sons. Dr. Wade M. Parker,
county drive chairman, said
this week. In Kountzc 2164
persons received the thiee
drops of Sabin vaccine on sug-
ar cubes.
In both cities the number of
persons getting the type III
vaccine was considerably low-
er than those who received the
type I six weeks ago. This was
credited to less enthusiasm by
citizens probably caused in
part by the controversy over
whether or not type III should
be taken by persons over 40.
Dr. Sabin, discoverer of the
vaccine, and many imminent
nodical authorities had declar-
ed it sale and recommended its
use, but some did not comply.
A makeup clinic for persons
who missed the Sunday clinic
was scheduled to be held in the
courthouse in Kountze last
night.
The third and final vaccine
in the series, type II, will be
administered throughout the
county on Dec. 2. There has
been no controversy of any
kind over the type II serum
and it. is recommended for all.
Dr. Parker said, as he again
expressed his appreciation to
the fine response of citiams
and to the many volunteers
who helped.
For persons who missed the
makeup clinic in Kountze last
night the scrum is available Vt
most local doctors’ offices.
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Hello World.,
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Mr. and Mrs. Chariest Mc-
Clain of Dayton are
cuts of a son, Vaughn
born Oct 19. Mr. and
G. Jordan of this city
maternal grandparents, j 4 '
Born in Hardin Memorial
Hospital in Kountsr:
Phjllis Ann, a daughter, teas
born to Mr. and Mrs. L.
Martin of Buna Oct. IP. |
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Medal-
lion of Silsbee are die parents
of a daughter, Tprnnry
Oct. 21. jT
C
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XI
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_ % daughter,
was born Oct. 21 to Mr. and
Mrs. Doyle King of Silsbee-
Carolyn Lynne, a daughter,
was born Oct. 15 te Mr. and
(See Hello World, Pag* M
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