The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1988 Page: 1 of 50
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XOLUME 69-NUMBER 50 SILSBEE, TEX AS 77656, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14.1988 18 PAGES IN 2 SECTIONS
Sheriff Alerts Residents
On Phony Inspections
The Hardin County Sheriffs
Department issued a warning
to county residents to be wary
of persons claiming to be septic
tank inspectors.
The department said that
persons claiming to be septic
tank inspectors will go to a
residence and claim they must
inspect the tanks. Once they
get the lids off, the phony
inspectors tell the homeowners
it will cost $50 to complete the
job.
Residents should also be
cautious about persons asking
to paint tin roofs,-the depart-
ment warned. Some painters
paint only the portion of roof
AT CITY TREATMENT PLANTS
Water Commission Director Recommends
$7,180 Penalty For Sewage Violations
The executive director of the
Texas Water Commission has
recommended that the commis-
sion make the city of Silsbee
pay a penalty because of vio-
lations found by the commission
at the city’s two sewage treat-
ment plants.
Bill Colbert, director of the
commission’s office of public
information, said Executive
mended to the commission Jan.
violations cited in the plants in
February 1987 and December
1986.
t The city was mailed a notice
of the recommendation and has
that is visible from the ground « Director ^ Mnke recom.
and use substandard paints,
then charge exorbitant prices
for the work, according to a
Sheriffs Department spokes-
man.
Persons encountering such
problems should call the sher-
iffs department in Kountze.
District Court Hears
Two Guilty Pleas,
Revokes Probation
Two persons pleaded guilty
to separate charges in the 356th
district court Jan. 5, while
another person was sentenced
to prison after his probation
was revoked Jan. 7, according
to the records of District At-
torney R.F. "Bo" Horka and
District Judge Britt Plunk.
Milton Arnold Oliver, 49, Rt.
1, Box 165, Indian Springs,-
pleaded guilty to a misde-
meanor charge reduced from a
charge of unlawful possession
of a firearm by a felon. He was
fined $850, plus court costs.
Althea Jenkins Bordelon, 31,
(*•• PImi See. 1, Page 10)
20 days after receipt of the
letter to notify the commission
if it plans to contest the
recommendation, Colbert said.
If the city does contest the
recommendation, the com-
mission should consider
whether to enforce the penalty
at a 2 p.m. Feb. 3 hearing in
Austin. If the city chooses to
contest the recommendation
and has notified the commission
within the 20-day time limit, it
4 that Silsbee be made to pay a can on Feb. 3 request a public
penalty of $7,180, based on hearing to present its case, he
said.
If the commission decides to
enforce the penalty, an enforce-
ment order will be issued for a
period of three years, during
which the city must correct
problems in the plants, Colbert
said. Stipulated penalties
would be assessed if the city
missed work deadlines laid cut
in a schedule by the commis-
sion.
The city was notified in a
May 21,1987, letter that formal
enforcement action had been
initiated by Beinke's staff be-
cause of violations found in the
city’s sewage treatment plants.
The violations, as stated in the
letter, were found in certain
grab sample limits during rain-
fall events; unauthorized dis-
charges from the collection
system; and numerous, self-
reported violations of certain
permit limits
The letter said that enforce-
ment options available to the
commi -ion include enforce-
ment orders and administrative
penalti s of up to $10,000 per
day or referral to the attorney
genet Ts office for litigation.
City council voted in Decem-
ber to authorize the city's
engjper to proceed with plans
anaspecifications for improve-
ments to be made to the city’s
south sewage plant if the
proposed modifications were
acceptable to the Texas Water
Commission. A preliminary re-
port presented to council mem-
bers in an October meeting set
the estimated costs of reno-
Trustees Accept Performance Report;
Extend Supt. Muckleroy’s Contract
Silsbee Independent School
District trustees accepted the
district’s 1986-87 performance
report and extended the dis-
trict superintendent’s contract
for one year in a regular
meeting Tuesday night.
Board president Bob Herbst
said the annual, state-man-
dated performance report gives
a comprehensive picture of the
district's performance. The re-
port includes information on
such topics as test scores,
curriculum, organization, fi-
nances, community involve-
ment and Texas Education
Agency figures.
Copies of the report will be
available to the public at the
administration building, school
libraries, the public library and
the Chamber of Commerce.
After an executive session,
trustees voted to extend Supt.
H.C. Muckleroy's contract for
one year. Assistant Supt. Har-
old Gardner said Muckleroy is
in the first year of a three-year
contract, but after discussion
trustees decided to extend the
contract an additional year.
Board members voted to
approve an $86,050 bid from
Interstate Distributors of
Beaumont for food service
equipment for the district's
new elementary school on the
condition that the bid is ap-
proved by the school's archi-
tect. The contingency was in-
cluded because the district
Nine New Members Are Named
To County Grievance Committee
Hardin County commission-
ers chose nine new members
for the county’s grievance
committee and voted on dir-
ectors for its five fire districts
in a meeting Monday.
Commissioners first elected
to have the 1988 grievance
committee chosen from a list of
former grand jury members as
it was in 1987. The committee
may be made up of pnly
former grand jurors who serv-
ed the past year or may consist
of three grand jury members
and six elected officials.
Names were drawn at rand-
om from the list of 1987 grand
jurors, with two alternates
chosen in the event someone
chooses not to serve.
Chosen for the committee
were,from Silsbee, J.A. Rod-
riguez, Christopher Ekfredge,
Glenn Stutts, Ingrid Bumstead,
Tommy Botts and Tony Run-
nels (alternate); from Sour
Lake, B.J. Tucker, C.T. Wilson
and Pat Morris (alternate); and
from Kountze, Carl Richardson
and Jack Darden.
County officials who are
, unhappy with their salaries in a
proposed county budget can
request a hearing before the
grievance committee to present
their case. If committee mem-
bers agree uilinimously. the
raise being asked for is grant-
ed. If the agreement is not
unanimous, but a majority
agree that the raise should be
given, commissioners are ob-
ligated to review the raise
request again.
In 1965, the committee,
which then consisted of six
elected officials and three form-
er grand jurors, unanimously
agreed on raises for 16 county
officials.
In other action, commission-
ers appointed directors of the
county's fire districts for
1988-89. The appointments
were made on the basis of
recommendations made by the
Athletic Booster Club
The Tiger Athletic Booster
Club will meet Monday, Janu-
ary 18, at 7 p.m. in the high
school science building. Plans
for the Varsity Athletic Ban
quet, which will be held on
April 18, will be discussed.
commissioner in whose precinct
each fire district was located.
In Lumberton's Fire District
1, the court voted to appoint
Gerald R. Williamson and Pete
TresW as directors. They re-
appointed Jianna Evans as a
director.
For Fire District 2 in Silsbee,
the court appointed Edward G.
Grubbs and Jim H. Gilley. In
Fire District 3 in Saratoga,
commissioners reappointed
Herman Hart and Thomas
Anderson as directors.
In Batson's Fire District 4,
the court appointed Isaac Han-
cock, Tom Warner, Ernie
Enloe and Randall Hashaw as
directors. In Fire District 5 in
Sour Lake, the court appointed
Wayne Lusk, Carl Martin and
Dale Conners.
Commissioners gave County
Judge M.R. "Pete” McKinney
permission to apply to the
Jefferson and Hardin Counties
Emergency Food and Shelter
Program for federal emergency
funds in the event that the
Kountze Christian Loving Care
Center is not allowed to apply
for the funds.
McKinney said that area care
centers apply for the funds to
supply emergency food and
shelter to area residents, but
that the Kountze center has
only recently received its non-
profit designation and may not
be able to apply for the funds.
The county will submit a dug!
application with the Kountze''
center for the funds so that
citizens of Kountze and sur-
rounding areas will not be
without emergency funds if the
new center's application is re-
fused, he said.
If the center's application is
refused and the county receives
the funds, center personnel will
conduct the emergency pro-
gram, while the county’s only
role will be to dispense the
money, McKinney said.
The court also authorized
McKinney to apply for about
$7,000 in emergency funds from
the Texas Department of Hu-
man Services under the
EN/TERP grant. McKinney
said the county has received
money through the grant for
about two years for emergency
items such as clothing.
Commissioners authorized
Precinct 2 Commissioner John
Golden to post notices that the
county intends to abandon a
portion of the Lester Caraway
Road that crosses Temple-
Eastex Inc. land.
Golden said the road has not
been maintained for a number
of years and residents have
used its lengtji as an un-
authorized garbage dump.
The strip the county intends
to abandon runs from just past
the Lester Caraway home to a
site ICiO feet from where the
road meets the Old Spurger
Highway. Temple-Eastex will
put up gates on the road and
will also maintain the additional
100 feet between its land and
the highway, Golden said.
Anyone wishing to protest
the action should attend the
Feb. 8 commissioners meeting,
McKinney said.
The court agreed to enter
into a maintenance agreement
with Beaumont Telephone and
Equipment for telephones in
the courthouse annex. The
maintenance agreement will
cost the county $528 for one
year.
Commissioners voted to ad*
vertise for bids for a county
depository for 1988, with bids
to be opened at the Feb. 22
meeting.
The court authorized Golden
to hire a truck driver to replace
an employee. Commissioners
also voted to allow H.A. Hooks
to replace a WIC program
employee.
BEING SWORN IN AS members of tho Hardin County Appraisal District Board of
Directors aro, from loft, Gohrig Brown, Harold Boon, County Judge AA.R. Poto
McKinney, County Tax Assessor-Collector Jeanette McCreight ond Robert B.
Hornbuckle. District Judge Britt Plunk swore tho new directors In on Jan. 7. Bean
Is the only member who has served on the board In the past.
received only one bid on the
equipment, which includes such
items as sinks, stoves, ovens
and a cooler/freezer.
Trustees voted to hire Kathy
Brock as a compensatory edu-
cation math teacher at the high
school for the remainder of the
school year. Gardner said
Brock is being hired with state
compensatory education funds
to supplement the math depart-
ment because of concern about
the high school math scores on
the TEAMS exit test.
The board also voted to hire-
Kirsten Phillips for the dis-
trict's accounting department.
In reports to the board,
Muckleroy said the district's
new elementary school should
be completed March 15. Com-
pletion had been slated for this
past December.
Police Charge
Local Man With
Aggravated Assault
Silsbee police arrested a local
man on a charge of aggravated
assault with a deadly weapon
Jan. 7 after he reportedly shot
at another man, according to
Police Chief Dennis Allen.
Officers arrested Johnny Ray
Foster, 33,800 E. Ave. H. after
Bryan K. Gardner of Silsbee
reported Foster fired a shot at
him from a .22-caliber rifle
during an argument.
Justice of the Peace Robert
Ward set bond for Foster at
$2,500. Working the case were
Allen, Sgt. Henry Robbins and
Officer Bobby Watson.
In unrelated action, officers
arrested three Beaumont resi-
dents on charges of theft and
possession of narcotic para-
phernalia Sunday after receiv-
ing reports thertbree had been
shoplifting in city stores, Allen
said.
Police received information
that the two men and one
woman had been seen shoplift-
ing at KingSaver Warehouse
Foods and later at the Family
Dollar Store, Allen said. After
their arrest, three cartons of
cigarettes and three sets of
sheets were recovered from
their vehicle during inventory,
along with a type of pipe used
to smoke controlled substances.
Arrested were Jody Lee
Fontenot, 27, 3980 Estelle St.;
Orvis Granger Jr., 29, 5165
Parkview Dr.; and Sarah Con-
way, 29, 4215 W. Procter. All
three pleaded guilty to Judge
Warid on a charge of possession
of narcotic paraphernalia and
were fined $213 each. .
Ward set two $500 bonds'*
each for Fontenot and Conway
\ on the charges of theft. He set
bond on Granger's two charges
of theft at $1,000 for each
charge, Allen, Officer Paul
Darks and Officer Mike Lang
* ley investigated the case.
Arrested on a charge of
making an alcoholic beverage
available to a minor were Mark
Kane Dorsett, 22, 12907
lS«« relic* Sec. 1, Pay* 10)
Grand Jury Indicts Silsbee
Woman On Charge Of Murder
vation at the southern plant at
$434,802. A preliminary report
on the northern plant recom-
mended the city construct a
new 250,000-gallon per day
wastewater treatment plant to
replace the present facility,
which would be converted and
used as a component part of the
new plant. The cost of the
change was estimated at $962,-
909.
City manager Ronald Hicker-
son said at the October meeting
that he planned to ask the
Texas Water Commission for a
period of time in which to
evaluate the north plant since
the city had finished making
smoke tests and repairing lines
in the area served by the plant,
which would cut down the
amount of infiltration into the
sewer lines. Since the infiltra-
tion would be lessened, Hicker-
son said the city needed a
period of time to get a realistic
view of the problem at the plant
after the completion of the
tests.
The city has applied for a
$300,000 grant to help pay for
part of the repairs on the
southern plant.
Hickerson and City Attorney
Roger Ratliff said no decision
has been made yet on whether
the city will contest Beinke’s
recommendation. City Council
met in executive session Mon-
day night to discuss the com-
mission, but no action was
taken.
In other city council action
Monday, council voted to
change the zoning on a city lot
from multiple family dwelling
district to mobile home dwell-
ing district at the request of
property owner Thomas Tyler.
Council had denied the same
request in November, though
the city's Planning and Zoning
Commission recommended the
change be made. Tyler's M.L.
King Drive property adjoins
property already zoned to per-
mit mobile homes.
Tyler asked the council in
December to reconsider his
request, but because the ordi-
nance to be changed was not on
the agenda discussion was de-
layed until Monday's meeting.
Councilwoman Helen Larsh,
who made the motion to grant
the request, said she had
spoken at length with Tyler and
had decided to change her mind
and vote to rezone the lot.
Councilwoman Lenda Blount
said she still opposed the
change and believed that the
council would be asked to
rezone other property if Tyler’s
request was granted.
Councilman Thomas LaToof
seconded Larsh's motion to
rezone the lot and council voted
3-2 to change the zoning with
Blount and Councilman David
Shows dissenting. Councilman
Marvin Littlepage was not pre-
sent. Council must vote again
on the change at its second
reading.
The Hardin County grand
jury indicted a Silsbee woman
Tuesday on a charge of murder
for allegedly stabbing a Silsbee
man to death in December,
according to the records of
District Attorney R.F. "Bo”
Horka.
Letisha Monique Sapp, 22,
Prince Hall Villa, No. 46, was
indicted on a charge that she
murdered Raymond B. Jack-
son, 42, Dec. 23 with a knife.
Sapp allegedly stabbed Jack-
son in the chest during an
argument at her residence,
reports show.
Others indicted by the grand
jury were:
Jimmy Mark Spell, 19, 1055
N. Railroad, Silsbee, on a
charge of aggravated robbery
in connection with a Nov. 29
robbery at the L & M Grocery
near tie Hardin-Tyler county
line in which a man was shot.
Reports show that the store"
clerk shot a man who entered
the store with a sawed-off
shotgun at approximately 9
p.m. and demanded money.
The man later died in a Beau-
mont hospital. Spell and a third
man, Welton Gene Sangwin,
were later arrested in connec-
tion with the robbery.
Welton Gene Sangwin, 19,
113 Burns St., Silsbee, on a „ . , ,,
Rodgers by the head and
threatened her with a knife.
She struggled with him, leav-
ing the house in the process,
then broke free and returned to
the house and locked the door.
Hooks is reported to have cut
her dog’s throat before leaving
the premises.
Toney Ray Pegg, 28 Barlow
Lake, Dam B, on a charge of
felony driving while intoxicated
Nov. 25.,
Wiley Franklin Myers, 47,
119 Dogwood Lane, Lumber-
ton, on a charge of delivery of a
controlled substance. Myers al-
legedly delivered diazepam
(valium), less than 28 grams, to
an undercover officer Nov. 9.
Clark Dale Shutter, 26, Rt. 9,
Box 385, Sour Lake, on a
charge of felon in possession of
a firearm. Shutter reportedly
had a .22-caliber rifle in his
possession Nov. 23.
Timothy Charles Raffield, 33,
P.0. Box 364, Hackberry, La.,
on a charge of criminal non-
support Nov. 1, 1986.
Britt Dale Horn, 33, Star Rt.
2, Box 61, Silsbee, on a charge
of burglary of a habitation for a
Dec. 8 burglary at the resi-
dence of Tammy Shaw of
Silsbee.
James Charles Stuart, 30,
Colonial Inn, Silsbee, on a
charge of aggravated assault
Nov. 24. Sangwin allegedly
entered the L & M Grocery
about 9:40 p.m. with a sawed-
off shotgun and took approxi-
mately $400.
Billy Ray Hooks, 34, P.O.
Box 1473, Silsbee on a charge of
aggravated assault Dec. 6.
Hooks reportedly went to the
home of Kathleen Rodgers of
Silsbee and asked to use the
'4$jephone because he had a flat
tire. Once inside the home, he
is alleged to have grabbed
with a knife.
Charlie Joseph Maxwell, 32,
4725 Old Galveston Road,
Houston, on two charges of
forgery. He reportedly passed
a $196.45 forged check at Mr.
B’s Mini Mart in Kountze and a
$197.67 forged check at Jean’s
Drive In in Kountze during
December.
The grand' jury no-billed
Michael James Jones, 28, Rt. 2,
Box 640, Kountze, on a charge
of indecency with a child.
Newly Adopted
Textbooks May Be
Examined Saturday
Publishers will present new-
ly adopted state textbooks to
teachers, administrators and
other interested persons from
8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Saturday
at the West Brook Ninth Grade
Center, 3443 Fannett Road,
Beaumont.
Subjects to be covered for
various grade levels at the
presentation are spelling; social
studies systems; social studies
-English/Spanish; reading im-
provement; introductory spee-
ch communication/speech; eco-
nomics, vocal musk/choral mu-
HOWARD FLOWERS
Grand Lodge To Howard Flowers
Level Cornerstone AnnouncesCandidacy
Of Masonic Temple For Commissioner
Graham H. Ghildress, grand
master of the Grand Lodge of
Texas, A.F. & A.M., will pre-
side” over ceremonies of the
laying the cornerstone of the
new temple for Silsbee Masonic
Lodge No. 927, A.F. A) A.M.
Howard Flowers of Honey
Island has announced his candi-
dacy for the office of Precinct 3
commissioner.
The Iffoloog Hardin County
resident is a graduate of Koun-
tze High School and is present-
ly working as a district super-
Saturday. January 16, at 2:30 ^^tol Lt^rise
p.m
The new temple is located on
the corner of North 6th Street
and Avenue G.
Masons, their families and
friends have been invited.
Construction of the 4400
square feet building began in
September. The exterior is
complete, and the interior,
which is being completed by the
members, of the Lodge should
be finished in early March.
The single story building wfil
replace the two story building
on Ave. H, which was built in
1933.
C.W. Lawrence is-master of
the Lodge.
Floweri *nd his wife. Ruthie,
have twoihildrwua, Michelle and
Corey. They are members of
the Honey Island Assembly of
God Chinch. .
The candidite uki fmwould
dedicate aH of hu/flme to the
office if electee 'and has ex-
perience managing money and
people. He said he would work
to use hard-earned tax dollars
the bast way possible,
will do my best for the
of Hardin Count
said. “The peopl
the most important and I
like the chance to make Hardin
County a better place to work
and to live in.”
“I will
people i
Flower**
sic; and physical science.
Also covered will be intro-
duction to physical science;
business communications; busi-
ness law; analytic geometry;
elementary analysis; proba-
bility statistics; business math;
Spanish as a second language;
and kindergarten systems.
Sample copies of the 1988
adopted textbooks are available
for examination at the Region V
Education Service Center, 2295
Delaware St., Beaumont. They
can be examined at the center
or checked out for a five-day
period.
Persons wishing more infor-
mation about the textbooks can
contact Deeann Cisco at the
Region V Education Service
Center.
PTA Executive Board
Hears Reports On
Annual Fund Raiser
The comjlbtion of the PTA’s
annual fund raiser was the main
topic of the Executive Board at
the monthly meeting held Jan-
uary 7. Ann Leggington read a
letter from Fred Miller, Read
School principal, thanking the
PTA for the time and effort put
forth by the members during
the Book Fair.
Pam Runnels reported that a
considerable amount of money
had not been returned by
students and parents and dif-
ferent ways to inform the
parents and collect this money
were discussed. Principal Fred
Miller and High School repre-
sentative Judy Grissom also
offered suggestions.
Lea Perlitz told of plans of
the Concerned Parents' Com
mittee for the coming months.
Lanel Botts reported that the
dance held at the Silsbee High
School at New Year’s Eve had
been successful.
Jan McKinney, president, re-
minded the membera of leader-
ship workshops takingplace on
January 16 and January 28 at
Huntsville and Victoria. She
also read a letter from Martha
Courtney, Robinson Element-
ary principal, requesting mem-
bers to participate in the “La-
bels for Education” sponsored
by several soup companies. Her
letter requested community
members to become involved in
saving Campbell Soup labels in
order to receive free athletic
equipment for the school's edu-
cation curriculum. This project
($MFTA$ec.1.Pe«el0)
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