The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1973 Page: 2 of 20
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THE SILSBEE BEE ”
Thursday, March 8, 1973
Silsbee, Texas
Section 1, Page 2
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Founded 1 $85
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT SILSBEE, TEXAS
Published every Thursday at 410 Highway 96, Silsbee,
• Texas 77656,
Subscription Rate: $4.00 per year in Hardin, Jasper, Tyler
Jefferson Counties; $5.00 per year outside these counties.
“Low Down”
FROM THE
Congressional
Record
By JOE CRUMP
EDITORIAL
Proposed East Texas Parkway Is Needed
(it Column /or Senders Who Haven’t Time to
Hevieio the Congressional Record Dotty)
A delegation of East Texans is scheduled to go
before the 'lexas Highway Commission in Austin on
Thursday morning to present the general outline
of a proposed regional highway to serve the grow-
ing population, diversified industries and expand-
ing outdoor recreational facilities of East Texas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
R. L. READ__
MRS. LEONA WHITMAN
LF.E KELLY_
MISS DORIS WOOLLEY
MRS. FERN McADAMS _
__Editor and Publisher
Society and Personal Editor
_Reporter-Photographer
_—________Secretary
..........................Secretary
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
HAROLD LEIGH_
MRS. JOHN S. BASYE
JAMES JOHNSON _
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Foreman-Operator
Linotype Operator
. Printer-Pressman
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St. John's To Hold
Series Of Weekly
Lenten Services
St. John's Episcopal Church
will hold a Lenten Evening Ser-
vice each Wednesday during
Lent beginning March 14 at
7:30 p.m. At each weekly ser-
vice that will be a guest prea-
cher. Coffee will be served fol-
lowing each service
Rev. Leighton K. Younger,
rector of St. John’s Episcopal
Church in La Porte, will be the
guest preacher for the first of
six weekly services.
Born in Brookshire, Texas,
Mr. Younger received a B.S,
degree from Texas University,
where he lettered in football as
a center for the Longhorns in
1953 and 1954. He received a
law degree from Texas U. Law
School in 1958 anc\ subsequent-
ly was employed as an attorney
for Humble Oil Co.
Following his decision to
study for the priesthood, he at-
tended the Seminary of the
Southwest in Austin where he Ruckett is president.
received a B.D. degree in 1964
and was appointed Vicar of
Grace Episcopal Church, Hou-
ston.
Mr. Younger has served a
four-year term as chairman of
the Youth Division, Department
of Christian Education, Dio-
cese of Texas, which included
the directorship of the annual
Episcopal Young Churchmen’s
Council. He has also had ex
tensive experience in the de-
signing and leadership of edu-
cational center courses and oth
er religious seminars.
Transportation
Group To Meet
The Ladies Auxiliary to the
United Transportation Union
Silsbee Lodge 945 will hold
their regular meeting Wednes-
day, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. ip
the First National Bank.
Reports and a social will fol-
low the business session. Spe-
cial guest will be Mrs. Jacque-
line Sims. Mrs. Katherine
SAYS SYNCORP ANSWER
TO ENERGY CRISIS
Rep. L. C. Wyman (N.H.)
. . The natural gas crisis is
well known and a future crisis
in the form of a domestic crude
oil shortage Is also acknowledg-
ed; yet no solution appears in
sight , . ,
“Few observers believe that
a price increase or even de
control of natural gas will re'
suit in ample new gas being
found; the preponderance of
opinion is that this will not be
the case and that, regardless of
the selling price, the shortage
of natural gas will continue ..
“What can the U.S. Govern
ment do to assure that the
country will be able to meet
its energy needs in the 1980’s
be greater utilization of its
large supplies of fossil fuels,
such as coal and shale oil?
Concern regarding possible
antitrust action has probably
kept oil companies from ma-
jor cooperative research ef-
forts . . .
“Clearly, the Government
should not be in the business
of making the country’s gaso-
line or natural gas
“An alternative merits seri-
is consideration. This would
involve the creation of a Gov-
ernment - sponsored, privately
owned synthetic fuels corpora-
tion which would provide a de-
sirable vehicle to serve the na-
tional interest in this area,
while maintaining a private en-
terprise approach . . .
“Creating a privately owned
but Government - sponsored
company has had a precedent
COMSAT,
CATIONS SATELLITE COR
PORATION . . .
“An interesting aspect and
parallel between COMSAT and
the proposed SYNTHETIC HY-
DROCARBON FUELS COR-
PORATION — abbreviated to
SYNCORP—is:
“COMSAT is privately own-
ed by included ownership by
regulated companies—for ex-
ample A.T.&T. It Is expectable
that some of the interstate
pipelines companies will invest
in SYNCORP . . .
“When COMSAT went pub-
lic, it attracted great attention
as a futures company. This
would certainly also be the
case for SYNCORP, which
should be able to raise more
money than COMSAT in view
of the scope of its charter . .
“I am today, therefore in'
troducing a bill to create a
Government - chartered Corpo-
ration with Federal participa'
tion to develop commercially
feasible processes for the con-
version of coal to oil and gas
and a resolution authorizing the
office of Emergency Prepared-
ness to contract for the execu-
tion of a study to determine the
feasibility of creating a SYN-
THETIC HYDROCARBON FU-
ELS CORPORATION (SYN-
CORP) as proposed in my bill
(H.R. 220) . .
CRUMP’S GRASS
ROOT COMMENT
With the price of gasoline,
tractor fuel and Home heating
fuels soaring, and future sup-
plies in doubt, the public is in
a mood to entertain some gov-
COMMUNI- ernment action.
Bayou Din Golf Tourney
Scheduled For Weekend
SPECIAL SPECIAL
SAVE$ SAVE$
4’ x 8’ x 7/16
HARDBOARD $2.87
Vz" REJECT YELLOW PINE
PLYWOOD ea. $4.25
4’x 8 ; 4’x 10’; 4’x 12’ Per Square Foot
Cabinet Topping 25c
Britton-Cravens
Lumber Company
WE SERVE TO
Silsbee, 385-3758 —
SERVE AGAIN”
Beaumont, 755-4183
Beaumont’s Bayou Din Coun-
try Club will hold its annual
Member - Guest Tournament
this weekend, March 10-11,
with two new cars to be dis-
played as prizes.
If the tourney is rained out
Friday and Saturday it will be
held two weeks from this Week-
end, on March 23 and 24, Ar-
nold Gregory, tourney chair-
man said.
The cars, both fully equipped
1973 Oldsmobile Cutlasses, will
be offered as rewards in the
hole-in-one contest. The Cut-
lasses, Will be parkpd at the
7th and 11th greens' (par 3’s)
during Sunday’s play and the
first golfer scoring a hole-in-
one at, either of the holes will
drive home in a hew ear.
Golfers must play 18 holes
of golf Saturday to be eligible
to win a car on Sunday.
The field will be limited to
the first 100 two-man teams.
Each member may invite three
guests, comprising three two-
man entries. All teams will be
flighted according to the low-
Thomas Harris Jr. *
Is Track Coach
At Charlton Pollard
Thomas Harris Jr., son of
Rev. and Mrs. T. J. Harris Sr.
of Silsbee, will bring his Char-
lton Pollard track team to Sils-
bee to compete in the Silsbee
Tiger Relays, Saturday, March
10. f
Harris, a 1961 graduate of
Waldo Mathews High School, is
also a graduate of Prairie View
A&M College. While Harris has
ties in Silsbee his aim Saturday
will be to carry the victory back
to Charlton Pollard School.
Harris is married and is fa-
ther of two children.
Only as a signal of distress
may the American flag be
flown upside down.
est handicap player, with the
best ball score counted on each
hole.
A number of Silsbee golfers
have indicated they will enter
the tourney, Gregory said.
All flights will use full han-
dicap, with one exception: a
special flight will be open to
all players having 18 and over
handicaps. There will be a
“Nearest To The Hole’’ contest
both days on all par threes,
and coffee and donuts will be
served at the Clubhouse to all
participants at 7:30 a.m. both
days. Free refreshments will be
served on the course, along
with barbecued links from 12
noon until 1 p.m.
Tee-off time will be at 8
a.m, and 12:30 p.m. each day.
SHS Tennis Team
To Inter H-J Meet
High School tennis action gets
underway tomorrow (Friday)
at 8 a.m. when four Silsbee
students compete at the Har-
din - Jefferson tennis meet,
Coach Wayne Riley told the
BEE.
Carol Paret is entered in
girls’ singles; Doyle Bean in
boys’ singles, while Bob and
Jack Read will compete in dou-
bles play.
ABWA Pageant To
Be Held April 14
In keeping with the American
Business Women’s Association’s
theme, “Education,” plans are
under way for the Miss Sils-
bee Pageant to be held April
14.
“This event held each year
to provide scholarships for de-
serving young ladies to further
their educations, will carry
the theme, “April Showers,’
Jeanette Lovelady, publicity
chairman said.
The group will seek the designation of a four-
lane East Texas Parkway from the Oklahoma bor-
der to the Texas Gulf Coast, following present high-
ways but unifying the route under a single high-
way designation that would include parts of US
259, SH 149, US 59 and US 96.
The Highway Commission will be asked to
consider evidence, with much of which it already
is familiar, showing that growing population in the
eastern border region is accompanied by major in-
dustrial and recreational development in cities and
. communities along the route — all of which is creat-
ing a congested flow of traffic, much of it heavy
vehicles.
The delegation will be headed by W. C. Hebert,
of Carthage, president of the East Texas Parkway
Association. The group will include city and county
officials, industrialists, financial leaders and a
cross-section of businessmen from the counties
along the proposed route.
For some time there has been increasing need
for a more adequate designation that would link
the industrialized eastern Oklahoma and Northeast
Texas region with the major industrial Gulf Coast
triangle of Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange. There
is a large flow of raw materials and semi-finished
products in both directions along this north-south
route, partly because there is no direct, through
railroad.
Lone Star Steel Company and numerous other
related industrial plants in the Daingerfield-Lone
Star-Hughes Springs sector, together with Lake O’
The Pines and its recreational attractions, continue
to increase the number of heavy trucks and other
vehicles on US 259.
The Longview area with its many large in-
dustrial plants, Lake Cherokee and other recreation-
al facilities, the Knox Lee power plant and the
generating plant and reservoir at Tatum, Gregg
County regional airport, plus other industrial and
commercial development south of the Sabine River,
contribute a growing volume of traffic movement
on SH 149.
The Carthage area, where a large lumber mill
is under construction, other industrial plants are
expanding and Lake Murvaul is an attraction, pro-
vides a buildup of vehicular transportation on high-
ways US 59 and SH 149.
The section of US 59 between Carthage and
Tenaha absorbs traffic from SH 149, and the two
loads combined often are extremely heavy. At
Tenaha, where a Rite-Care poultry plant and other
industries are operating, the trucker or traveler
can turn off on US 59 to Houston or proceed on US
96 to Sam Rayburn Reservoir, Toledo Bend Reser-
voir and on to Beaumont, Orange and Port Arthur
Small sections of US 259 on the proposed East
Texas Parkway route already have been four-laned
north of Longview and for several miles through
Longview on SH 149. The section of US 59 from
Carthage to Tenaha is programmed for four-lane
construction, and segments of US 96 in the Jasper
and Silsbee areas have been or are in process of
being widened to four-lane traffic.
Continued growth of the cities and counties
along the proposed parkway route, both from the
standpoint of industry and recreation, call for the
building of this regional highway. Already the
traffic loads on the four highways involved —
iron and steel, logging and lumber, machinery,
livestock and poultry trucks, trailers and campers;
boat trailers and other vehicles — are of such densi-
ty as to warrant an immediate full consideration
of designating and improving the new highway.
DeWitt C. Greer, during his tenure as chairman
of the Highway Commission, expressed keen in-
terest in a plan similar to that to be submitted by
the East Texas Parkway Association on Thursday.
i We here in East Texas are confident that Char-
ley Simons, present chairman of the commission and
a man of keen vision and courage, and his colleagues
will lend their support to this project by placing it
on a high priority as one of the key traffic hand-
ling and dispersal north-south routes in heavily
populated eastern Texas.
— The Longview Daily News
GO FORWARD
WITH
EAVES
FOR
MAYOR
“Procrastination is a THIEF of time.”
We must find a feasible solution for the traffic
snarl, without hurting the downtown business dis-
trict.
One of my major INTERESTS involves today’s
youth. I feel that the youth in this town need a fair
shake, “the strong must aid the weak,” the adults
must guide the youth. One day the children we have
raised and BESTOWED our beliefs and knowledge
in .will be PRACTICING what we taught them for
their own well being and for the others.
writ re. pm. Adv.)
See The Beautiful Homes In
CARRIAGE LANE ESTATES
Come by and inspect the beautiful all-
electric Cold Medallion homes in this
convenient restricted subdivision near
Silsbee High School, Carriage Lane
Estates.
95%
Financing
Available
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PBJ Junior Petites — Sixes 5-11
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LADIES' SHORTS SETS $6.00
Ladies’ — Sizes 8-20
PANT SUITS $26.00 to $42.00
Girls’ — Sizes 2-6x
SHORTS & PLAY SUITS $2-$8.99
Sizes 2-6x
GIRLS' DRESSES $4.00-$7.99
Regular 16.00
LADIES' DRESSES
Regular 18.00
LADIES' DRESSES
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Regular 26.00
LADIES' DRESSES sale $16.88
Men’s Long Sleeve
KNIT SHIRTS
Men’s Van Heusen & Campus Short Sleeve Dress &
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Values to 13.00
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Men’s Spring Polyester
KNIT SUITS $69.00-$80.00
Men’s Soring Polyester Knit
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Bovs’ Short Sleeve
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Read, R. L. The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1973, newspaper, March 8, 1973; Silsbee, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth789234/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Silsbee Public Library.