The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1982 Page: 9 of 36
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THE SILSBEE BEE
SILSBEE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1982, SECTION 2, PAGE 1
New Silsbee Area Code To Be
409 Beginning IniMarch 1983
Silsbee and 180 other South- available 713 telephone num- relations in Beaumont. The change in the
American Cancer Society
AMBU/CP M. D. Anderson Hospital
and Tumor Institute
AMERICAN HEART DRIVE - Georg* Doy*n, (left)
president of the Hardin County Chapter, is co-
ordinating the fund raising campaign for February
with this year's Residential Chairman, Lois Grote, and
Business Chairman, Harold Westmoreland.
Business Heart Drive
To Begin On Feb. 15
east Texas cities will have a
new area code telephone num-
ber beginning March, 1983,
according to Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company officials.
The new area code, 409, is
needed because of the un-
precedented growth in the
Southeast Texas area, particu-
larly around Houston.
“Our forecasts tell us that
unless we add this new code, all
bers will be exhausted by
1984,” said Gary Pircher, local
manager for the company.
In other words, the three
digit prefix in telephone num-
bers (385 in Silsbee) can be
"used only once within each area
code section. The Southeast
Texas area is requiring new
prefixes at the rate of about 35
a year, according to James L.
Lydon, staff manager for public
area code
That rate compares to the will not affect long distance
rest of the nation which uses ratesvor the local seven-digit
new prefixes at the rate of
between one and five a year,
Lydon said.
number for individual tele-
phone customers.
For three months following
Nearly 400,000 customers the conversion, a caller/dialing
will be seized by the new area 713 and then a number located
code. Houston and several in the 409 area code will be
Houston area cities will remain automatically transferred to
in a 713 area code section,
which will be surrounded by
the new 409 section.
The Hean Association in
Silsbee will kick off the 1982
business fund-raising campaign
with a coffee at the First
National Bank on Tuesday,
Feb. 16 at 7:30 a.m. for
volunteer workers and other
interested persons.
Harold Westmorland, busi-
ness chairman of this years
campaign, and his volunteers
will be contacting area busi-
nesses asking for contributions
in support of the Heart Drive.
“I want to urge area busi-
nesses to generously support
the Heart cause because it is in
everyone’s economic interest to
reduce loss of productivity due
to heart disease and stroke,”
Westmoreland said.
Nearly one million Ameri-
cans died last year from heart
attack or stroke and about
200,000 of them were men and
women between the ages of 35
and 64 - the age bracket pf
industry's most productive
work force. “Your contribu-
tions will help in research and
public education," stated
George Doyen, president of the
Hardin County Chapter of the
American Heart Association.
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the 409 area.
After that three-month
period, telephone company
operators will intercept the
calls and instruct the customers
to use the new 409 area code.
The operators will intercept the
calls for an additional nine,
months.
"We feel a change of this
magnitude will significantly
affect our customers,” Pircher
said. “That’srwhy we’re making
the announcement more than
one year in advance. This will
provide our residence cus-
tomers time to notify friends
and relatives of the flew area
code and our business custo-
mers an opportunity to plan for
changes needed on any forms,
stationery or advertising after
March. 1983.
The changes in the area code
will be marked on maps located
in telephone directories
throughout the country.
Information about the area
code changes and a map of the
boundaries of each of the new
sections will be sent to custo-
mers with their next telephone
bill, Pircher said.
Question: Why is it so diffi-
cult for some people to quit
smoking?
A N SW E R line: Smoking pro-
vides powerful and immedi-
ate satisfactions for some
individuals-pharmacological,
emotional, and social. The
addictive agent in tobacco is
nicotine, which may act on
various parts of the brain as a
stimulant, depressant, or tran-
quilizer, depending on the
dosage. All tobacco-smoking
damage seems to be dose-
related: to the age at which
the smoker started; the num-
ber of cigarettes, pipes, or
cigars smoked per day; the
duration of smoking; whether
or not the smoker inhales;
how much of the cigarette
(or pipe or cigar) is smoked;
the tar and nicotine content,
of the smoke. Thus any
diminution or change in any
of these variable elements
will affect the smoker’s risk
of damage.". Quit ting entirely
will reduce mks progressively
over a pehod .of time, if
permanent tipsue damage has
not alrsady'occurred in one’s
lung£/ Quitting is a long-term
learning process that involves
much unconscious, construc-
tive, and painful conflict aris-
ing from physical and psych-
ological withdrawal. One can
stop smoking if the problem
of addiction-is recognized and
suitable alternatives and in-
volvements can be found.
Fundamental to success in
quitting, however, is a deep-
seated desire to overcome the
habit.
Question: Is there a safe level
for human exposure to can-
cer-causing substances?
ANSWERIins: As far as is
known there is no safe thresh-
old for any cancer-causing
substance. Although the
frequency of tumor forma-
tion declines as dosage drops,
the risk of malignancv?may
not disappear until theioosage
is zero. While high dosage is
often used in tests, this does
not mean that only high
doses of cancer-causing sub-
stances cause cancer. The
assumption is that low doses
cause cancer at proportion-
ately lower rates, Asbestos
brought home on the cloth-
ing of asbestos workers for
example, has bqen related to
fatal cancers among members-
of the workers’ families.
Question: Is retinoblastoma
the same thing as “pearly-eye
disease”? Is it cancer?
ANSWER line: Retinoblast-
oma is an eye cancer of very
young children, usually be-
fore the age of four. The
child’s pupil widens and a
pearly glint appears, indicat-
ing a tumor. If the disease is
discovered in its very early
stages, radiotherapy is usually
the treatment, although in
advanced cases surgery or
combined chemotherapy may
be used.
Do you have further ques-
tions? Call your local unit
of the American Cancer
Society or call M. D. An-
derson Hospital & Tumor
Institute's Cancer Informa-
tion Service, 1-800-392-
2040 toll-free in Texas,
792-3245 in the Houston
area.
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fhy not let me design your wedding?
One to always remember.
Very unique flower arrangements in beautiful
containers.
Everything f br your wedding
Call 385-7918
Saunas
Finland has as many saunas
as cars—more than a million
for a population of almost 5
million, National Geographic
reports.
Texas Tdiifism Was Up Congratulations
16.3 Percent During 1981
AUSTIN- More visitors than
ever before took advantage of
travel services offered by Tex-
A Family
Weekend in
Houston for Just
$29aNight*
< (up to 4 persons)
Bring the family and be our
guest for a wonderful weekend in
Houston. Everyone will love our
fine restaurants, exciting live Las
Vegas-style entertainment in our
clubs, and free in-room movies.
ITS RODEO TIME!
Don’t Miss the 50th Annual
Houston Livestock Show
& Rodeo
Feb. 24-March 7
in the Astrodome
With our special $29 deluxe room
rate at five convenient locations,
you can really enjoy all Houston
has to offer!
Be sure to call for advance
reservations at one of the partici-
pating Ramada Inns listed below.
The special $29 rate is good any
Friday, Saturday or Sunday night.
Call the hotel of your choice
collect or call toll free
1-800-228-2828 - ask for the
Family Fun Rate.
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We’re changing right before your eyes.
Houston West Houston North Houston Northwest Crossing
1-10, Antoine exit I-45 at Crosstimbers Hwy. 290 at Pinemont
(713)682-1611 (713)695-6011 (713)462-9977
Houston Southwest/Sharpstown Houston Greenway Plaza
Southwest Fwy. at Bellaire Blvd. Southwest Fwy. at Buffalo Speedway
(713)771-0641 (713)528-6161
•There are no catches!
as State Tourist Bureaus in
1981.
Operated by the State De-
partment of Highways and
Public Transportation, most of
the 12 bureaus are at highway
entrances to Texas. They serve
travelers with information,
routings, suggestions for itiner-
aries, and help with travel-
related questions about Texas
and its attractions.
The record number of 2,652,-
579 visitor served during 1981
was 16.3 percent more than the
previous-year total. An addi-
tional 265,136 inquiries for
tourist information were re-
ceived and processed last year.
Visitors to the bureaus re-
ceived some 6.3 million pieces
of travel literature of which
almost 1,725,000 were publi-
cations of the highway depart-
ment. The single most popular
publication was the Official
Highway Travel Map, with
603,100 distributed.
The private sector of Texas
tourism - local chambers of
commerce, commercial attrac-
tions and other tourist-related
entities - provided an additionl
4.6 million free, colorful bro-
chures.
But even with all that
material, it was impossible to
answer all the questions posed
to’ travel counselors at the
bureaus. They were unable to
help the man who wanted to
locate the Oogla-Oogla River so
he could float down it from
Houston to the Gulf of Mexico.
Nor could they help the guest
who wanted a Texas guidebook
in Latin, or the visitor in
Langtry who insisted on speak-
ing to Judge Roy Bean about
commodity benefits, or the
traveler who requested infor-
mation about the beaches in
Dallas.
Tom Taylor, director of the
highway department’s Travel
& Information Division that
oversees the tourist bureaus,
said, “Before the year started,
we were confident our services
would attract an increased
number of visitors. There were
uncertainties asjve approached
1981, but our confidence in the
tourist industry was justified
by the record-setting number
of visitors we served last year.
"We are appnfaching the
1982 season with the same
confidence,” Taylor added,
"and we remain hopeful that
1982 also will be a banner year
for Texas tourism.”
Best Wishes
Lenox
Hawthorne
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from HISTORY’S SCRAPBOOK
DA1ES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
February 11,1812 - Massachusetts, under Gov. Elbridge Gerky,
redraws senatorial district boundaries tg ensure Republican
election victories in 1 st example of ‘‘gerrymandering. ’’
February 12, 1878 - Baseball catcher’s mask patented by F.W.
Thayer.
February 13, 1793 - Electoral college elects President George
Washington for 2nd term.
February 14, 1969 - Mariner 6 space satellite launched on flight
to Mars.
February 15, 1958 - Blizzard strikes northeastern United States,
killing 171.® \
February 16, 1868 - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
organized.
February 17, 1855 - Congress authorizes construction of tele-
graph line from Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean.
Today, Feb. 11th, he completes
36 years of dedicated service to
this firm and the community.
It ha? been our pleasure to have known and worked with
him throughout the years and we look forward to a con-
f tinuing association.
The Staff and Employees of
Silsbee Auto Co..
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