The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1956 Page: 1 of 16
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THE SILSBEE BEE
VOLUME 38
SILSBEE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 4956
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$4.00 per year outside county
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County
NUMBER 11
Paving May Start Today On
South Portion Highway 96
~ “The end is in sight” a spokesman at the local highway resident
engineer's office said Wednesday morning. Speaking of widening and
paving on Highway 96 S, Resident Engineer R.‘ B. Terry indicated that
work on the project might be completed by June 15 or before, de-
pending on the usuul elemental conditions, traffic, etc.
A primer coat has been put down on that section of the road from
Kountze Highway (327) to the south end of the project onvBeaumont
highway. Paving of this portion of the road should be underway by
today or tomorrow, he said. «
Priming operations on the north half of the project, oy that section
from Kountze highway north to the tracks, should begin the first of
next week. Primer coat needs about 3 to five days to cure before pav-
ing can be added, he said.
Contractors Trotti and Thompson are still ahead of the original
120-work-day schedule ailoted when the contract was issued.
H.F. Fuller, Heart Attack
Victim, Is Buried Saturday
Funeral services were held Sat-4>
urday morning at 10 from the
First Baptist church of Silsbee for
Herman- Felix Fuller, 81, promi-
nent local business man who died
Thursday oi a sudden heart attack.
Mr. Fuller, who was well know n
in the Silsbee area, was a retired
Magnolia consignee and owned
business property here in Silsbee,
including the three-unit building
on north fifth street which houses
Morris Pharmacy and Ensign
Pony League Play
Begins With Double
Header On June 2.
The Kountze Cardinals aryd Ki-
wanis Giants will start Silsbee’s
four team Pony League off for the
season Saturday June 2 at 0;3O
p.m, on the high school diamond.
Fiyil game of a double header,
this one will be followed by the
VFW Dodgers and Buna Braves.
A complete schedule for Pony
League will be run in next week's
Bee.
clinic, and Maida's Dress ‘Shop
downtown. He also owned prop-
erty in Newtpn.
Rev. R, E. Barclay, pastor of
the First Baptist church, officiated
at services Saturday, assisted by
Rev. Bruce Power, pastor of the
First Methodist church. Burial
was in Newton cemetery under di-
rection of Fanner Funeral home.
Mr. Fuller was a native of New-
ton and was. in the grocery busi-
ness while there. He moved to
Silsbee about 10 years ago. He was
a member of the Rainbow Mason-
ic lodge of Newton.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Maida Fuller and two sons, Joe
and Billy, all of Silsbee; two
daughters, Mrs. David Boyd of
Beaumont and Mrs. R. N. Walker
of Houston, a brother, H. H. Ful-
ler of Newton; three sisters, Mrs.
W. H. Kennedy and Mrs. W. 1.
Mattox, both of Newton and Mrs.
C. P. Walker of DeQuincy, La,
seven grandchildren and one
gre^t-grandchild.
Pallbearers were Bobby Parks,
Barney McMahon, F. H. Emshoff,
Loral Vaught, W. L. Campbell, T.
B. McMahon, A. E. Johnson and
F. B. Durdin
Golf Club Winds Up With
116 Members After Opening
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Catalytic Unit^
At Sinclair Plant
Nearing Completion
Work on a new catalytic crack-
ing unit at Sinclair refinery in the
Binns area on Farm Road 418 will
not be complete for several weeks,
John Breaker, owner of the unit,
said Wednesday.
The unit, which has been un-
der construction for the past three
months, will upgrade gasoline
from the refinery, giving It higher
octane. It will have a capacity of
around 700 barrels per day, Mr.
Breaker said, but will probably
process slightly under that when
complete.
Reliable sources here this week
had it that the unit would cost in
the neighborhood of $2 million but
when asked what the unit would
cost, the owner said that at this
point he was not ready to release
cost figures.
One source reported that bids
on nearly $500,000 worth of pipe
and fittings had been asked for in
connection with the unit
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Mr. and Mrs. F. D Johnson and
children, Carolyn and Richard,
visited Sunday in Jasper with J.
M. Wright.
| The members of Silsbee Golf
and Country Club, 118 strong as
of last Sunday, settled down this
week to enjoy play on their golf
course.
Last Sunday was formal open-
ing of the club course and nearly
500 people from Silsbee, Buna,
Kountze, Port Arthur and other
surrounding towns came out to
look things over and eat a free
barbecue' dinner.
Head count on attendance was
pinned down by Conley Bradshaw,
chairman of the barbecue commit-
tee. “We had 500 plates and by
the time everybody was fed, we
had only a very small handful left
over”, he said.
Membership in the club exceed-
ed fondest expectations when tally
was made Sunday evening, Frank
McClanahan, club president said.
- “We had wanted 100 members
to fill our charter. However, since
about 38 came in last week; rough-
ly 25 of them Sunday, the board of
directors voted Monday night to
amend the charter to make the en-
tire 116 first members charter
members”, he said.
Enough money was brought in
increased memberships to pay
loans on the pro shop and some
left over, he added.
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Sheriff's Office
Reports 20 Arrests,
One Culling Scrape
A total of 20 arrests for the past
week was reported by Dave Roun-
tree, office deputy, at the county
jail in Kountze this week.
One charge of aggravated assault
was fill'd, against L. B. Groves,
25, Kountze Negro. Groves was
charged with cutting J. W. Boykin,
22, also colored, in a Friday night
scrape at the county seat. Boykin
was released from Hardin county
hospital Saturday, Mr. Rountree
said.
Other offenses against the
peace and dignity of the state in-
cluded four traffic, three disturb-
ing the peace, one DWI, one drunk
in car, one runaway picked up,
and the rest drunk.
The runaway, Esther Lilly Dav-
is, 14-year-old colored girl of
Houston, was arrested in Silsbee
by Deputy Sheriff Ira Moore. She
was taken back to Houston Sun-
day by her parents.
VFW To Sell
Poppies For
Three
Members of Silsbee VFW, How-
ard Clinefelter Post, and Ladies
Auxiliary to the VFW will conduct
their annual Buddy Poppy sale in
Silsbee Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday of this week.
The two organizations will at-
tempt to sell 2500 of the poppies,
Committeemen Bill Hulin, Stanley
Lindsey, and Grady James said.
Tables will be placed at Mini-
max store, downtown in front of
Birdwell’s, at Earnest store and
Young’s store all day Saturday,
Commander Hulin reported.
On Thursday and Friday, a (cam
of VFW and Auxiliary members
is scheduled to visit Kirby saw
mill with poppies. Buddy Poppies
are sold annually in commcmora
tion of Memorial Day which is
Wednesday, May 30.
In view of Memorial Day and in
recognition of the work done by
the two organizations, Mayor H.
M. Jones has issued the following
proclamation:
Proclamation
WHEREAS Wednesday, May 30
is Memorial Day, the day on which
wc pay tribute to all veterans of
all wars In which the United States
of America has been involved,
recognizing the sacrifices of the
living as well as the dead, and;
WHEREAS Silsbee veterans are
working together to preserve the
memory of those dead And to aid
the injured living, some of Whom
are patients in veterans hospitals,
with the sale of “Buddy Popples”
on Thursday, Friday, and Satur-
day, May 24, 25, and 26, 1956;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLV-
ED: that those days, May 24, 25,
and 26, be designated “BUDDY
POPPY DAYS” in Silsbee, and ev-
ery citizen is urged not only to
commend these men and women
for their work, but to take part,
and to wear a Buddy Poppy for
each of those days.
Signed:
H. M. JONES,
Mayor of Silsbee N
(Seal)
(Attest)
Silsh! .Sl^s ‘55-56' School Year Ends With
Awards Program Wednesday
By David Read
The editor was privileged last
week to renew his acquaintance
with a group of teen-age Silsbee
folks, and from that experience
has come a feeling of confidence
and satisfaction that. the future
is safe in the hands of this group
of citizens of tomorrow'. The oc-
casion was the week end beach
party of the Silsbee High School
Chapter of the National Honor So-
ciety, a group of high school
juniors and seniors who must
qualify under the most rigid re-
quirements for membership in the
Society. Tnis writer was invited
to help chaperone the group.
It had been several years since
we had been intimately associated
with a group of teen-agers, and at
first the responsibility did not ex-
actly appeal to us. We had been
led to believe, from some news
stories and some experiences, that
teen-agers were a wild and un-
ruly gang, interested only in van-
dalism and destruction. Naturally,
I we entered into the re jponsibdity
I with feelings of trepidation and
fear.
A* it turned out, our fears were
■groundless, und the trip turned
out to te a most pleasant one front
’ which we expect to have lasting
benefits. We found the boys and
girls most cooperative, serious
with their responsibilities, and
capable of handling any situation
that developed. We have never
been out with u nicer bunch of
people.
Of course there was no lack of
energy and exhuberance among
the group. We had hardly hit the
beach and found our cabin before
the irresistable attraction of ihc
Methodist Board
Elects Officers
Bert Durdin, assistant Silsbee
postmaster, was reelected chair-
man of the bodrd of stewards of
the First Methodist church at a
meeting held Monday night. Mr.
Durdin, an outstanding Methodist
layman in this area, is beginning
his sixth year as chairman of the
board.
Cecil Cobble, cashier at Silsbee
State Bank, who has been secre-
tary and treasurer of the board
for the past 21 years, with the ex-
ception of about four yean dur-
ing which be served in the army
in world war II, was re-elected
David Read, co-publisher of The
chairman!*0’ *** mtected vk*'
One new officer, a secretary,
ss elected this time to relieve the
easurer of the burden of two
bs. Earl Wills, attorney, was
named to this post
Is adopted a
of $28,033.0o,
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of the 1906
The board had |
Charges Are Filed
Alter Child Is
Struck By Auto
Charges of driving without an
operator’s" license were filed here
Tuesday against Dalton Griffin,
21, of Kountze, following an acci-
dent which resulted in the injury
of Jtx’y Carpenter, 3, son of Mr,
and Mrs, Russell Carpenter, 310
Pecan street. Griffin was fined
and costs Wednesday morning in
Justice 'Louis Sellers’ Court.
The accident, which occured in
the 500 block of S Third street,
was practically unavoidable, wit-
nesses said, as the little boy ctunc
from behind a parked vehicle and
into the side of Griffin’s car.
Griffin had had an Operator's li-
cense, but it was expired, Sheriff
Whit Whitaker who investigated
the accident, said. Sheriff Whita-
ker carried the child to Hotel Diou
in Beaumont Tuesday night.
The boy was reported suffering
front a broken left leg, and head
injuries. Joey, his mother und sis-
ter, were Visiting a friend's home
shortly before the accident. He was
, , , on the way across the street with
gulf claimed their attention. There j his sister, when, according to re-
was a little matter of further in-1 port8i ht, startl.d back acroas ,ho
itiation activities as some of the street, despite the cries of his sis-
ter and other witnesses and dashed
, The 1955-56 school year for Silsbee was slowly drawing
to an end this week with final examinations for the top three
grades in high school set for Friday and Monday. Seniors have
had their cuxarns and are now rehearsing for baccalaureate and
commencement exercises.
Dr. Harmon Lowmun, widely known educator and presi-
------------——s'dont of Sam Houston1 State
(Teacherscollege in Huntsville,
i will be here Tuesday night to
speak at commencement exercises
in the senior high auditorium.
Exercises begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday of next week will be
a regular class day at school. Stu-
dents will check in books and at-
tend to other school closing details.
Silsbee j Following the commencement pro-
gram Tuesday night, an awards
program will be held Wednesday
morning.
Four scholarship awards will be
made to senior boy and girl grad-
uates as part of the awards pro- 1
gram. They are, Lions Cluo Mack
Williams Scholarship: Teachers
Scholarship, American Legion
Auxiliary .Scholarship, and y new
one this year, the KirtB-Co club
scholarship,
The Ku li t o club, an .organi-
zation of office employees at Kir-
by Lumber company, has named j
School Board
Hires Six New
Teachers Monday
Six new teachers were hired for
the reining year in the
school system by the school board
in special session Monday after-
noon.
They included two coaches,
two junior high school teachers
and two elementary teachers.
Junior high school football coach
and boys physical education in-
structor will be Charles E Me*
Landless, graduate of Texas Ag-
ricultural and.Mechanical Colic,; ■
at College Station. Mi Mcl'und-
less lists Dallas as his home town
Jimmy Joe Hand, who hails
the grant the John Henry Kirby
new members were dunked
clothes and all—-by the older
members of the group. There was
a great deal of swimming and rid
ing inflated inner tubes, and ling
walks of exploration along the
beach during one of which a whole
cocoanut, which had lloatcd
ashore from some unknowu tropi-
cal isle, was found and »hc husk
removed. A bright moon added to
the beauty of the evening, and it
was late before the cabin claimed
them all. In fact, there was so
much to talk about and so much
interesting activity—such as pil-
low fights and sand in beds and
so forth—that the hour 8nd a half
of sleep we had Friday night
seemed adequate at the time.
Even after the strenuous exercise
of Friday afternoon and night, the
bunch was up early Saturday to
begin all over again. There .vas
more swimming, more long long
walks along the beach, and a iiltlc
fishing in the surf. Then some of
the boys decided that a hundred
foot seine would be fun, so one
was obtained, and from the wuier
came fish and shrimp arid crabs,
all of which were cleaned and pre-
pared for a beach party that night.
In spite of warnings, there began
to appear a tinge of pink on lender
skins, and suntan lotion was gen-
erously applied to burned spots.
The tempo of things slowed down
as the strain began to show during
the day, and by Saturday night,
after the beach party, everyone
began preparing for bed early.
And so it was that about 9:30
Saturday night as we were sitting
in the cabin with heavy eyelids
we began to think of a good night's
sleep. Little did we think that this
was only wishful thinking. All of
a sudden someone suggested a
ferry boat ride, and before we
knew what had happened we
found ourselves on the way to
Bolivar with 19 boys and girls.
Helping to transport and corral
the group were Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Millan and Archie Murpbey, who
had also Joined the party.
The 50 mile drive to Bolivar and
back, the ferry boat ride, the songs
we sang, the poems we made up,
and the fun we had all contributed
to prompt retiring when we final-
ly did return to the cabin, and the
trip was almost over.
It was a memorable trip for this
writer. We found this group of
boys and girls to be just as inter-
ested in serious thoughts as they
ere in the natural toen-afJlK.
pulses. What had started out in
our mind aa a chore turned into
a very pleasant “xperleuee, and
with these boys and girls assum-
ing places of leadership in the af-
fairs of their city and country, we
have oo fear but that the world
will be in safe hands.
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B&PW Social Tonight
Club .III to held tod.,. ..
A'iWsri*
into the path of the car.
He was carried to Ensign Clinic
in a Farmer Ambulance for trent-
ment before being removed to Ho-
tel Dieu.
Waldo Mathews
Wins District
Championship
Waldo-Mathews bent Chester
colored High School 5-0 to cop the
district baseball championship
here Saturday afternoon at Pan-
ther stadium.
Murdcll Carmona, an amazing
right hander, struck out 17 Bull-
dogs to fashion his second no hit-
ter of the season to gain the vic-
tory. His previous no hitter was
a 12-0 win against Scott High
School of Woodvllle.
In seven outings the Panther ace
has four shut outs, struck out 60
would-be hitters in accomplishing
his 6-1 record for the season. Only
triple A Charlton-Pollard high
school of Beaumont, was able to
gain a win over Coach Polk and
his crew in intmcholastic league
competition.
Seniors lost to the Punther’s
baseball team via graduation are,
Henry C. Blackmon, Jr., George
Grubbs, Tommy L. Whittle, Cecil
Conner and Murdcll Carmenar.
from Gioeslicck, will be assistant memorial scholarship- and it wilt
junior high coach niui will teach
social science in junior high school,
A graduate of Sam Houston Slate
Teachers college, h.- comes here
from China, Texas where* he as-
sisted on the coaching staff last
year.
Huey A. Owings of Port Arthur,
graduate ot Lamar Tech in Beau-
mont, will leach 7th grade social
studies.
Mrs. Ruby Rachel Perdue of
Beaumont, another alumnus ot
Lamar Tech will leach 6th grade
English.
Mrs. Hannah C. Robinson, a res-
ident of Silsbee for the past year
be a four year award.
In addition to this, a host of
other awards will be presented
various senior students at the
awards program.
Following the awards program,
students will meet an abbreviated
schedule to pick up report cards,
Mr. Watts said. This will close out
the 1955-56 school year.
Commencement exercises at the
junior high school will Ire Monday
May 28 at 7:39 p.m.
Baccalaureate for the senior
class will be staged Sunday night
at 7:30 p.m. at the senior high
school auditorium. Rev. Frank
will teach the 4th grade.. She is a Dorermr , pastor of St. John's Kpis-
graduate of Ashville Teachers
College in North Carolina and
came to Silsbee from • Pasadena
where she taught several years.
Mrs. Charlotte Fay Hand,
SHSTC graduate, will teach 3rd
grade. Mrs. Rand, a gradual; of
Silsbee high school, is the former
Charlotte Fay Caraway.
Deep East Texas
Singers To Meet
Sunday In Woodvllle
"The Deep East Texas Singing
convention will be held Satuhlay
night and all day Sunday nt the
First Assembly of God church in
Woodvllle, Fred Anders, chairman,
said today.
"Wc nre expecting many singer.*
and quartets und hope that every-
one will try to be with us to make
this one of the most outstanding
Deep East Singings we’ve ever
had,”, Mr. Anders, who is from
Silsbee, said.
A basket lunch will be served
at noon Sunday,
Kountze Leads Lillie League With
Three Wins, Gulf vs. Buna Tonight
The Kountze Red Sox slipped
into an early lead In the Silsbee
Little League race this week when
they posted their third win in as
jmaity starts with a 6 to 4 victory
over Buna’s Yankees last Thurs-
day night.
This week top, was marked by
the first home run of the season.
James Moore, catcher for the Fire
Department Indians slapped one
ovsr the fence Monday night.
His four-bagger was just about
all for the Indians though, for with
the man on base when he hit his
fourth inning homer, two runs was
all the Firemen could do while the
Crockett and Gilchriest White Sox
batsmen garnered eight runs and
the win.
Friday night. Fire Department
shut out Silsbee Dry Goods Ath-
letics 8-0. Tuesday night of this
week, the Athletics absorbed a 7-3
defeat at the hands of the Red Sox
Tonight, Thursday, the Gulf
Oilers and Buna Yankees meet at
7 p.m. (Games start at 7 pm dur-
ing the week and at 6:30 on
ruble header night, Saturday).
Friday night, May 25, It’s Fire
vs.
Crockett and Gilchriest squaring
off in the nightcap.
Next Monday night Fire Depart-
ment and Buna tangle, followed by
Kountze vs. Gulf Oilers on Tues-
day. Thursday, May 31, will see
Crockett and Gilchriest vs. Sils-
bee Dry Goods.
League standings so far:
Team W L
Kountze 3 0
Crockett & Gilchriest 2 1
Fire Department 2 1
Buna 1 1
Gulf 0 2
Silsbee Dry Goods 0 3
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copal church of Silsbee will deliv-
er the baccalaureate address.
Commencement for Waldo-
Mathcws seniors will be held
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Waldo-Mathews auditorium.
On Monday, June 4, members of
the senior class will leave m u
four day trip ,to Bandera, Texas
for their annual outing. It is
planned that the group return
Thursday evening, June 7.
Disturbing The Peace
Charge Filed After
Peeping Incident
Charges of disun iting the peace
were lodged in Justice court here
last week against G. A, Stutts of
Silsbee. He was fined $50 and
costs by J. P. Louis Sellers.
Stutts was accosted by Maurice
Hobbf -jind Jack Hcthefington llic
nighi of May 15 in Woodl a addi-
tion, allegedly peering in the win-
dow of a house. Both Mr. Hobos
and Mr. Hclhcnngton live in
Wood leu und it wus Mr. Hobbs
who first discovered the man.
Stutts told Judge Sellers that
he had seen sparks from a :rans-
former m ar the house and stopped
his car to investigate. Disturbing
the peace charges were filed by
Grady Tarver, Silsbee police of-
ficer. i
Silsbee Banker
Returns From State
Convention in Dallas
E. M. Wilson, Jr., executive vice-
president of Silsbee State Bank,
and Mrs. Wilson, returned last
week end from Dallas where they
attended the annual convention of
the Texas Bankers Association. As
chairman of the First District of
the Bankers Association, Mr. Wil-
son had a prominent part in toe
affairs of the meeting, add he re-
ported a very interesting program
vw yvi iwi m r*
000 (during the three-day meet.
Chance School
Independent
Chance school pa
rrsrs
I Patrons To Vole On
Status Saturday, Jutt 9
be called to vote on a bond in
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