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CHARLES DEIR (with hose) and neighbor, MARVIN WILLIS, cool down a shed
used to store ceramic tile behind the Deir home on FM 92 after a rap-
idly spreading woods fire destroyed the shed and threatened the Good Shep-
herd Baptist Church and a number of homes on Saturday, Jan. 31. The blaze ap-
parently started when high winds sent a trash fire out of control near the old
.Spurger Highway at about 1 p. m.
DOlins, Texrs 75235
The Silsbee Bee
VOLUME 51
SILSBEE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1970
10c PER COPY
NUMBER 50
Lumberton To Vote On $889,000
School Bond Propositions Saturday
A referendum set for Satur-
day,, Feb. 7, will decide the fate
of a proposed $889,000, three-
part school bond issue for the
Lumberton Independent School
District. The election, called
the week of Jan. 11, will be
held in the Lumberton Elemen-
tary School Cafeteria.
Proposition One of the three-
headed proposal calls for con-
struction of a $557,000 Junior
Three Wrecks Are
Recorded By DPS
Officers In Area
Highway Patrolman Truman
Dougharty reported three
wrecks at week’s end, one on
Jan. 28 and two on Jan. 29
At 6:30 p. m. on Wednesday,
Jan. 28, Billy Ray Dykes, 22,
of Longview, ran off the road-
way while traveling south on
US 69, .6 miles south of Koun-
t/.e and jumped the Cypress
Crock bridge. His 1969 Chevro-
let was destroyed, sustaining
an estimated $1,800 damages
Dykes was treated and releasee1
from St. Elizabeth Hospital, of-
ficials there said.
Robert Lee Flowers, 18, of
Kountze, reportedly suffered a
broken arm on Jan. 29 when
his 1965 Ford struck a light
pole at the Kountze - Silsbee
“Y," 1.3 miles south of Koun-
tze at 1:30 p. m. Dougharty
said that Flowers was traveling
south on US 69 when he ap-
parently lost control of the au-
to and drove hcadon into the
pole, breaking it in two.
Flowers was admitted to
Baptist Hospital ih Beaumont
where his condition was re-
ported as fair on Friday, Jan.
30.
A two-car collision 114 sjiles
east of Silsbee on Highway 327
at 4:15 p. m. Jan. 29, slightly
injured a Beaumont man and
caused a total of $800 damage
to the two vehicles
high school unit with a capa-iseventh and eighth grades,
city of 450 students. This would! Trustees explained that thr
include students in the sixth,inew unit is needed to relieve
PARADE AT 10 A. M. SATURDAY
'Miss Silsbee' Is
To Be Crowned
Contestants for “Miss Silsbee Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and
1970” will participate in a pa-
rade in their honor set to be-
gin at 10 a. m. on Saturday,
Feb. 7 in downtown Silsbee.
Billy Paine is parade marshal
and Representative Don Adams
is a special guest for the event.
Parade chairman D a g m a
Rudisaile said that the parade
! will also feature 11 out-of-
town duchesses, the Silsbee
Shriners, the Silsbee Trail Rid-
ers, and several groups of local
DISASTER AVERTED — Texas Forest Service fire-lane plows, shown above,
three fire trucks from Silsbee and Kountze, and grading equipment from Pre-
cinct 1 battled more than three hours Thursday afternoon of last week to contain
a raging woods fire that threatened dozens of homes and farms near FM 1122 and
the Country Club Road. Winds gusting to more than 30 miles per hour spread the
trash fire rapidly.
Wind-Fanned Fires Costly
In Building, Timber Losses
Trash burning and high reported to the Volunteers at [Forest Service fire lane ma-
._________ winds were responsible for! 1:45 p. m. on Thursday, Jan.lchiries .and, several men; and r
Dougharty said that a 1966 two rapidly spreading forest ’29. The blaze started when a large number of citizens fought
Chevrolet pickup driven by
Benjamin Strawn of Port Ar-
thur sideswiped a 1960 Desoto
driven by James Arnold of
(See 3 Wrecks, Sec. 1, Page 2)
fires and thiee smaller grass
fires reported to the Silsbee
Volunteer Fire Department
over a three-day period.
The most extensive fire was
12,000 Register To
Vote In Hardin County
Approximately 12.000
sons in Hardin County
registered to vote Jhis year ac-
cording to the closest estimate
that could be made Wednesday
afternoon by County Tax As-
sessor-Collector Fred Anders.
“We are working as fast as
we can to get the list of voters
counted and ready but it is a
big job. A list of all the voters
who have registered must be
typed, then sorted into pre-
cincts, next broken down into
alphabetical order in precincts.
After, that a certification roll
must be typed for the County
Clerk and to the State. Next
we must make about 50 copies
so that each precinct and poli-
tical subdivision can have one.
All of this will probably take
us until the last of the month,"
Anders told the Bee Wednes-
day.
“We may register as many as
13,000 this year but at the pres-
ent time it doesn’t look like
we’ll reach that number," An-
pcr-| that Hardin County has ap-
have proximately 15,000 persons eli-
gible to register.
Last year only 9,200 regis-
tered to vote in the county, but
in 1968, which was a big elec-
tion year, 13,200 persons quali-
fied.
Aulo (Hales Go On
Sale Here Feb. 16
1970 auto license places will
be available to the public as of
Monday, Feb. 16, Hardin Coun-
ty Tax Assessor-Collector Fred
Anders announced Feb. 3.
"Plates will be available on
the 16th at Silsbee Auto Co.
in Silsbee, at Nellie’s Gift Shop
in Sour Lake, and of course, at
my office in the Courthouse,"
Anders said.
Beginning March 1, plates
may be obtained at the Lum-
berton Post Office and at Teel’s
ders said, though he pointed out Garage in Saratoga.
Headon Crash Kills 2;
Injures 3 At Evadale
A head-on auto crash killed 'Chevrolet occupied only by
'Moss, was headed east on the
two Vidor brothers, Randy
Tucker, 6, and Alvin Ray Tuck-
er, 16; and injured three other
young people at 4 p. m., Thurs-
day, Jan. 29, about two miles
east of Evadale on the Lake-
view Road.
Ronnie Dale Moss, 19, of
Evadale, driver of a 1961
Chevrolet and John Robert
Jones, 16, of Vidor, driver of a
I960 Falcon pickup, were taken
to St. Elizabeth Hospital in
Beaumont by Farmer ambu-
lance and later released, but
Donnie Jones, 16, was listed in
fair condition with a punctured
lung at St. Elizabeth’s on Jan.
30.
Randy Tucker was dead at
the scene and his brother Al-
vin was dead on arrival at St.
Elizabeth at 4:45 p. m.
Jasper County Deputy Sher-
iff Bruce Gtavii laid that the Vidor,
Lakeview Road and that the
Falcon, driven by John Jonos,
was traveling west at the time
of the accident. Both autos
were heavily damaged on the
off-driver side. The Tucker
brothers and Donate Jones
were passengers in the Falcon.
The autos met on the east-
bound shoulder of the road,
Gravis said.
Funeral services' for Randy
and Alvin Ray Tucker were
held at 11 a. m. on Saturday.
Jan. 31 at the Vidor Memoria’
Funeral Home Chapel. Burial
was in Restlawn Memorial
Park in Vidor. . i
The brothers are survived by
their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
ft. A. Tucker; a sister, Wanda;
grandmother, Mrs. Viola Mat-
thews; and grandparents Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Tucker, all of
trash fire north ol FM. 1122
was fanned by winds gusting
over 30 miles per hour. Flames
destroyed a small vacant house
north of the farm road and
quickly Jumped the highway to
the Double R Ranch, and
then spread south to hum over
an estimated 150 acres of land.
Two fire trucks and about
15 men from the Silsbee FD
were joined by three fire-lane
plows and 10 men from the
Texas Forest Service, as well as
a fire truck and four men
from the Kountze FD and
equipment from Silsbee Pet. 1.
The blaze was finally brought
under control by about. 5 g frw
but in the meantime the Silsbee
unit had been called to three
other fires.
At 3:30 p. m., five volunteers
and one truck answered a fire
call to extinguish a grass fire
on South -4th Street behind
Silsbee Auto Co.; and two
trucks and 10 men went from
that fire to another trash blaze
on the Watts Road at 4 p. m.
The Watts blaze was con-
trolled quickly, and the Volun-
teers were then called to the
Grady Tarver farm 10 miles
north of Silsbee near FM 92,
where another trash fire had
set off a woods blaze. Fire
Chief John Busby said that sev-
eral men were recalled to thr
Watts Road fire at 9:30 p. m.
when embers rekindled.
A similar fire at 1 p. m. on
Saturday, Jan. 31 threatened ;
number of homes and the Goor
Shepherd Baptist Church on
FM 92 when a trash blaze 'was
whipped out of control by higl
winds and spread from the
Old Spurger Highway north o
Silsbee to the eastern shoulder
of FM 92. Two Silsbee fire
units and 15 volunteers; three
Howard Barringlon
Seeks Second Term
As Commissioner
Howard Barrington of
Kountze has announced that he
will be a candidate for re-elec-
tion to the office of Commis-
sioner, Precinct 2 (Kountze-.
Lumberton).
In asking the voters for r
second term Barrington pointed
to previous campaign promises
that he made in the last elec-
tion which he says he kept.
Among .these were: That he
would listen to grievances and
try to help solve them; that he
would give school bus roads
first priority, with church and
cemetery roads coming next;
That he has bought more new
equipment which is paid for
(See Barrington, Sec. 1, Pg. 2)
for nearly three hours to con-
tain the blaze.
A storage shed behind the
(See Wind, Sec. 1, Page 2)
C. R. Baker Is
Candidate For
School Board
Clifford R. Baker of Silsbee,
purchasing agent for Eastex,
(nc., has announced his candi-
dacy for Place 3 on the Board
of Trustees for the Silsbee In-
lependent School District, sub-
iect to an April 4 trustee elec-
tion, Supt. Don L. Hough re-
)orted Feb. 3.
Baker end'd 12 years serv-
ice with the Silsbee School
Board in April 1968. Durinf
that time, he served as presi-
dent and vice president for the
Board.
Place 3 incumbent is Dr.
(See Baker, Sec. 1, Page 2)
J. M. Bowman
Asks Re-Election
As Lumberton JP
Judge J. M. Bowman,
Jus-
LAFAYETTE PATTILLO
Lafayette Paitillo
To Seek Office
OT County Clerk
Lafayette (Fate) Pattillo of
Honey Island has announced
that he is a candidate for the
office of County Clerk of Har-
din County. (
A member of the pioneer
W. L. Brackln family which
'ettied here about the middle
of the 19th century, he was
born and reared at West Nona,
a community between Kountze
and Honey Island and now re-
lides on vhe homestead where
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
Pattillo, settled when they mar-
ded about 1898.
He is a graduate of Kountze
High School, Farmers Business
College, and has taken several
vocational courses at Lee Col-
lege in Baytown including in-
come tax work, an occupation
he now performs at his home.
He was employed for a number
of years by a major oil com-
pany and served in clerical and
accounting duties.
Mr. and Mrs. Pattillo have
two children, both of whom
have been school teachers and
presently reside with, their
families at Seguin.He is an ac-
tive church worker, presently
in the First Baptist Church of
Kountze.
In asking the vote and sup-
port of the voters of Hardin
Coupty Pattillo said, "If elect-
ed to the office of County
Clerk I promise fair and cour-
(See Pattillo, Sec. 1, Page 2)
» ■ ■
tice of Peace of Precinct 2, has
announced as candidate for re-
election to that office. He ha?
held this office since the early
part of 1957.
Bowman and his wife
Gladys, have been residents of
the Lumberton area for over
20 years. They have one son,
who is married and lives in
Kountze with his wife and
daughter.
He stated that if re-elected,
his office and home will, as in
the past, be open day or night
to offer assistance in any way
that he can to all of the people
of the community. He takes
this means of expressing his
thanks and appreciation t o
them for their loyalty and sup-
port in the past.
To all of the people in Pre-
cinct 2, Bowman'offered the
assurance that: he will .give the
same fair and impartial treat-
ment on any matter that might
be broqght him thgt he has, al
ways given \n the past,
earnestly asked the \h)te and
support of all.
He stated that he would try
very hard to see each one per-
sonally before election.
Blue Birds.
“Any group or political can-
didate who wants to participate
in the parade may see me or
Diane Spurlock for details,”
Miss Rudisaile said.
The parade will be a pre-
liminary to the 12th annual
Miss Silsbee Pageant to be held
at 7:30 p. m., Feb. 7, in the
Silsbee Junior High auditori-
um. This event is sponsored
each year by the Pine Burr
Chapter of the American Busi-
ness Women’s Association.
Contestants lor tne Miss Siis4
bee Crown are Carol Sue Da-
vid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. C. David; Helen Catherine
Fullingim, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alf Fullingim; Sharion
Louise Hawthorne, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Don Lx Haw-
thorne; Veda Ann Hays, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James L.
Hays; Kathy May McCarney,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. P.
(See Miss Silsbee, Sec. 1, Pg. 2)
FBI Arrests Three
Toung Kidnappers
Al Lumberton
Three Lansing, Mich., men
were arrested last week by
Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion agents in Lumberton on
charges of kidnapping and
transporting a stolen automo-
bile across state lines.
Arrested by the four FBI
agents from Beaumont were
William Everett Friedlieb, 18,
Barry Stuberry, 21, and David
William Colosky, 18. They were
(See Kidnapping, Sec. 1, Pg. 2)
Two Aulo Accessory
Thefts Reported To
Silsbee Police
overcrowding in both the high
school and elementary campus-
es. Supt. Nelson Eichman said,
“There are how 500 students
housed in the high school unit,
with classes being conducted in
the cafeteria, in the library,
and on the stage." The propos-
ed building would be located
south of the present high school
so that existing cafeteria and
gym facilities can be used by
students of both buildings,
Eichman added.
Proposition Two is for a
$165,000 technical vocations
building. Eichman explained
“. . . in order to meet the needs
of all the children in this com-
munity, we must provide a cur-
riculum which will be advan-
tageous to those students wHose
interests lie in technical and
vocational fields.”
Proposition Three would pro-
vide a band hall and athletic
field house at an estimated
cost of $147,000, to house the
growing band and athletic pro-
grams.
Hit-Run Driver
Is Fined $60
\
A Beaumont man charged
with leaving the scene of an ac-
cident on Jan. 25 has been lo-
cated by the DPS and fined in
Silsbee, Highway Patrolman
Truman Dougharty reported
Jan. 30.
Dougharty said that Paul
Harrison, 51, was fined a total
of $60 on charges of failure to
stop and render aid and failure
to yield right-of-way in the
court of Silsbee Justice of the
Peace Rex Moore on Jan. 29.
The accident occurred two
! miles north of Beaumont on
Sunday, Jan. 25, when a blue
1964 Ford driven by Harrison
came through a stop intersec
tion at US 96 and Mitchell
Road, and was hit from the
rear by a 1970 Chevrolet pick-
C. E. (JACK) SIMMONS
(. E. Simmons Is
Candidate For
County Sheriff
C. E. (Jack) Simmons of
Silsbee paid his filing fee and
announced Monday that he
would be a candidate for Sher-
iff of Hardin County.
Simmons, who was born in
Orange County 52 years ago,
attended Vidor and Beaumont
schools and has lived in Silsbee
for the past 19 years. A home-
owner, a Baptist and a veteran
of World War II, Simmons is
the father of seven children, all
of whom except the youngest
have attended school in Silsbee.
Simmons is now employed as
a process operator with Neches
Butane Products Co. of Port
Neches. He has been with the
firm for 26 years.
“I will conduct your sheriff’s
office in a respectful, orderly,
dignified and businesslike man-
ner. It is my intent to keep the
office above reproach. I will
cooperate with all law ■ nforce-
ment agencies as w'ell as all
other county, district and state
offices. I am obligated to the
people only. First, I solicit the
people’s vote and support; then
thfs cooperation of the above
agencies and offices. I have a
special interest in youth and in
up driven by Wilson J. Millerjthe past have worked with
of New Iberia, Dougharty said.jyouth programs in the county,”
Harrison then reportedly fled Simmons said in announcing
the scene. 'for the office.
29 Candidates To
Be On May Ballot
Twenty-nine candidates for,Billy E. Paine of Silsbee, a for-
15 county, state, and Federal ™er deputy^ sheriff; Edward L.
eratic Primary by the Feb. 2;Simmons of Silsbee, a process
Two cases of auto accessory
theft were reported to Silsbee
police on Jan. 30 and Feb. 1.
On Friday, Jan. 30, Kirk^ng deadline, Hardin Countyjoperator.
Droddy of Silsbee reported that pemocrayc committee chair- County Clerk Clarence Me-
rcian Herman Adams Jr. an- Neely of Kountze is opposed in
nounced Feb. 4. his bid for reelection by La-
Unopposed in the primary |a> ette Pattillo, also of Koun-
thieves had gained entrance to
his auto while it was parked at
Silsbee High School and taken
about $200 worth of goods in-
cluding a 8-track tape player
tape box, 17 tape cassettes.
and one speaker. The complaint
was investigated by Patrolman
Ed Thedford.
J. D. Haynes of 1125 Gerson
Silsbee, reported to police on
Sunday, Feb. 1, that an 8:25 x
15 whitewall tire, valued at $35
|had been taken from his 1969
He Ford pickup sometime during
Saturday night or early Sun-
day morning.
Both cases were being inves-
tigated by Silsbee police as of
Monday, Feb. 2.
are U. S. Rep. John Dowdy:
Don Adams, District 7 State
Representative; Ca
state board of education mem-
ber; Nlrs. Aline Harper, 88th
District Clerk; Neal House,
County School Superintendent
C. A. Kimball of Kountze, Pet
1 Justice of the Peace; and
Democratic committee chair-
Adams.
Three. candidates oppose in-
terim Sheriff Tom Easley, whe
is running to fill two remain:
ing years of the late Henry
Overstreet’s term. They are
tze.
To win a second term as
County Judge, incumbent Lack
will have to defeat Cecil H.
Cain of Kountze, an insurance
man and former DPS officer.
Filed for the office of County
Treasurer are incumbent Clyde
Haynes of Silsbee and Charles
H. Newsom, Kountze business-
man.
Howard Barrington, Commis-
sioner of Pet. 2 (Kountze,
Lumberton, Honey Island,
Plank, Village Mills) is oppos-
ed by Reuben M. Martin of
Lumberton, Oscar "Red” Ad-
ams, also of Lumberton; and
Jay H. McNecly of Kountze, a
former Orange ounty Commis-
sioner.
Precinct 4 Commission in-
cumbent Tom Burch of Sour
Lake is opposed by Bob Kerr,
also of Sour Lake.
In the Justice precincts, Sils-
bee J. P. Rex Moore, incum-
bent, is opposed, by Mrs. Eve
Havens of Silsbee; incumbent
J. M. Bowman and Ray Martin
will vie for the Precihct 2
(Lumberton) Justice post; and
Precinct 4 incumbent Vernon
S. Westbrook is opposed bv
Charlie Lambert.
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GRADUATING TIGER QUARTERBACK Deryl Ray McGallion signs a letter of
intent for the University of Houston Cougars on Monday, Feb. 2. Looking on are
his father, Silsbee High School Athletic Director Ray McGallion and Mrs.
McGallion (both seated), UH Head Coach Bill Yeoman, right, and Cougar defen-
sive line coach, Ben Hurt. Deryl Ray, a powerful entity in both offensive and
defensive play in his last/eason for Silsbee, was named to an all-American
team picked'by a national magazine last fall. He will don the Crimson jersey of
the Cougars next September.
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Bob G. Agnew Is
Candidate For
Lumberton Trustee
Bob G. Agnew, 33-year-
Lumberton resident, an nouni
this week that he will be a ci
didate for Place 3, Lumbe
School Board of Trustees
Married and the father
five children, he has
home at 8045 Laurie
Lumberton for “
years and is e
ity Sales in ]
A member
church a
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