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SILSBGE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1975 20 PAGES IN 3 SECTIONS — 10c PHI COPY
VOL. 57 - No. 4
Suspect Is
Arrested
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Receive $250 Bonuses
Silsbee School Trustees were nel, at a regular meeting of the!to review the textbook commit
to discuss the possibility of us- Board set for Wednesday eve- tee’s book list for the 1975-76
ing part of the $122,561 wind- ning (BEE presstime), Supt. term, Crawford said.
fall to provide pay bonuses of Weeks Crawford told the BEE. I -♦
up to $250 for District person- Supt. Crawford said that the'
“ H*S T‘" District had received $122,561'
0%m 1# from the State under the emer-
■ III# m gency finance measure approv-
al! W Ujflm N) ed by the Texas House and
m w Senate this year. “I will recom-
6 M M H mend to the Board that $76,-
M Cji|l 906.25 of the funding be applied
KB [IPf to give pay bonuses to 327 Dis-
wf ■ m ■ ”■ trict employees, and that the
■m !■ _ a remaining $45,654.75 be used in
mm — JE » — I — other critical areas,” Crawford
IV|m|A|ImI\ said Tuesday. The other areas,
"■■“toWi ■“■4m he said, were mostly mainten-
ance items as well as repairs tp
Silsbee’s City Council Tues- parking Jot? and to the Junior
day voted to buy street and High School field house,
road building materials for a Funds totalling $80 million
relatively firm bid price of weie made available to Texas
$6,139.00 (including f re ightjschool districts last month
when Gov. Dolph Briscoe sign
ed the emergency school fund-
ing act. The measure provides
payment to districts of between
$36-40 per average daily at'
tendance, based on the last se-
mester.
House, Bill 102 was sponsored
by State Representative Her-
man Adams'of Silsbee; a form-
er Silsbee High School Instruc-
tor; combined with Senate Bill
71, it made up the emergency
proposal package signed by the
Governor.
Other items on a rather rou-
tine agenda (hcluded discussion
of a tax' refund to Jasper Fed-
eral Savings and Loan Co. (con-
cerning a technical error); the
summer school program for
1975; and appointment of t h e
O’Neil Scholarship Committee,
the Equalization Board, and a
dellnguent tax attorney. Pasa-
dena attorney Dexter D. Joyner
now holds the position.
Also, the Board was expected
charges) and asked for legal
advice on terminating the em-
ployment of City Auditor Leroy
Daniels of Beaumont.
Bids for rock asphalt and
aggregate mix were received
frpm two San Antonio firms.
White’s Mines, who,bid $6.25
per ton and $5.00 per ton, re-
spectively, and from Uvalde
Rock Asphalt Co., with a rock
asphalt bid of $6 per ton and
an aggregate price of $4.10 per
ton. Council voted to accept
Uvalde’s low bid, as freight
charges were identical for each
firm—$3.91 per ton. Specifica-
tions asked prices for 280 tons
of rock asphalt and 420 tons of
aggregate. Also, the Uvalde bid
was guaranteed to remain firm
for 30 days after acceptance.
The low bid of Uvalde rep-
resents an increase of 50 cents
per ton over the 1973 price, City
Manager Ronald Htckerson told
the City Council.
Mayor Hays and members of
the Council expressed strong
disapproval of the performance
of Beaumont CPA Leroy Dan- |<
iels, employed last summer to
prepare the City’s annual out-
s'de audit, as required by City
Charter.
Mayor Hays said that after
Daniels had continued to delay
presentation of his report since
the first of the year, he had
promised that the audit would
be presented Tuesday night.
“We are required by Charter
to have an audit, and we do not
have an audit,” Hays said.
have been waiting six mon
tor it, and I. went an
from the City attorney on
situation, to see how we can
get out from under it,” he add-
ed. When it became apparent
that Daniels probably would
not appear, Councilwoman Mrs.
1. F. Eldredge said, “I guess he
knows it’s his last year.”
Also, City Manager Hicker-
son said that Dr. Jack Hopper,
the utility rate consultant the
council hired to study a rate Announces Condidocy
I
A Newton County man was
turned over to Hardin County
officials Sunday after he was
arrested by Silsbee Police on a
warrant charging him with auto!
theft, Silsbee Police Chief Bob
L. Ogden told the BEE.
Arrested by Officer Ronald
Barnes at Avenue J and South
14th Street here March 9 was
Johnny Traylor, 52, of Route 1,
Box 68, Wiergate. Traylor was
charged with theft of a 1965
Buick. After his arrest, the sus-
pect was arraigned before Jus
tice of the Peace Kyle Reeves,
who set no bond pending his
transfer to Newton County,
Chief Ogden said.
Little League
Registration Is
Extended To Mar. 15
Registration for the 1975 Lit-
tle League season has been ex-
tended for one day, this Satur-
day, March 15, to allow boys
who had not registered on
March 8-9 to do so, according
to player agent Luther Chris-
tian. Registration will be held
at the Little League park north
of Silsbee from 8 a. m. until 5
p. m. Boys wishing to play must
be accompanied by parent or
guardian, must bring a copy of
their birth certificate, and must
pay an equipment use fee of
$10.
Only boys who will be eight
years old by July 31, 1975, are
eligible for the Little League
program.
League board members and
other interested persons have
been invited to attend a meet
ing which will be held at 7
increase request submitted by
Houston Natural Gas Co., had
not yet completed his survey.
Reason for that delay, Hicker-
son said, was that HNG had not
completed preparation of rate
information requested by Dr.
Hopper.
Discussion arose concerning
the reduced allocations approv-
ed by Hardin County to fire de-
partments and libraries. Coun-
cilman C. E. Landolt Jr., an
outspoken critic of the CommiS'
sioners Court, said, “The Coun-
ty is completely undependable
and we should be careful how
we use money they offer us.”
He added that while the Court
could appropriate funds tor
“Te
MBS. JACQUELINE SIMS
Mrs. Jacqueline Sims
For Trustee, Place 2
Mrs. Jacqueline Sms is a
lifelong citizen of Silsbee. She
is a tax deputy in the Hardin
County Tax Assessor - Collec-
tor’s office.
Mrs. Sims is seeking the pO'
sitioh of a Place 2 for Silsbee
Independent School District.
She has stated her interest is
"Better Schools." “I have ex-
perience in problem solving and
will work for the interest of all
the people and children of this
district,” she said.
The School Board election is
set for
tlon, based on (fee history {
the situation.” Last year, t h
Commissioners promised th
Silsbee Public Library $1?,
but paid only $5,309, than
leted funds for fire depi
and libraries from the
budget. Then Oti Monday,
approved paying $800 to
seven volunteer fire dep
ments in the County (they
$},600 last year), while
Council had asked $$,400
the Silsbee Volunteers; and
proved payment of $5,00(
the Silsbee library Mid
each to Kountze aptf wour
Tfce Council hid requ<
$12,500 for the Silsbee libri
Bids for construction of/two
citider block double restroc
for the proposed City of Silsi
Park (1973 estimated total Cost
was $8,000) were ordered due
at City Hall no later than 5
p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, for
action at the Council meeting
that evening.
Hickerson reported that E. J.
Dietrich had accepted the
Council’s request that he serve
as judge for the April 1 City
election, and assured Council-
man John Fordinal that he
would look into what Fordinal
termed “drainage problems in
mpt addition.”
| /Approved as an emergency
; request to be paid from contin-
gency funds was the purchase
of a W-poutod-per-day capacity
chlorinator for the Avenue 1
ater treatment plant. Hicker-
i told the Council that the
[ unit had cratered last week
1$ now "inoperable.” Price
i were received from Eas-
ervlee Corp. of Lufkin,
(the low bid, which was
1); from A. G. Bailey
City, Sec. 1, Page 3)
Loan meeting room, Christian
added. Also, all fathers and
other interested men are invi-
ted to a work day at the p a r k
this Saturday, March 15.
Tentative opening date for
the 1975 League season is April
26.
Masons To Meet
ON THE GROUND APPRAISALS, a joint effort
of the Silsbee Independent School District and the
City of Silsbee, got underway last week in the
Kirby Reserve ana the East Silsbee Addition, and
SISD Chief Deputy Tax Assessor Ricky Kolls (at
right) estimated that the appraisal team had com-
pleted between 300 to 350 parcels as of Wednes-
■ «s il
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day. The plans calls for appraisal of all property in
the SISD, beginning with the joint effort between
City and District. Holding the tape in the fore-
ground is City appraiser Bill Zimmerman; in the
rear is tax helper Danny Crysel. Cost of the pro-
gram is supposed to be divided evenly between
the two governmental agencies.
Deadline for installing new
auto license plates on vehicles
is midnight, April 1, Tax Asses-
sor-Collector Fred Anders re-
minded Hardin County citizens
this week.
Anders, who is up and around
again following recent surgery,
said that effective March 24 no
checks will be accepted for auto
re-registration. Persons obtain-
ing new license plates will be
required to pay cash, he said.
Anders said that the reason this
rule has to be put into effect
Is that too many hot checks
have been received recently for
license plates.
To avoid standing in line and
delays in obtaining plates, An-
ders urged owners to re-regis-
ter their vehicles as soon as
they are able to. He said re-
registrations have been coming
in slowly this year and he ex-
. * pects a rush the last few days
III that will create unavoidable de-
lays.
A called communication of
Silsbee Lodge No. 927 A.F. &
A.M. will be held Friday night,
March 14, at 7:30 p.m. for work
in the F. C. degree at the Ma-
sonic Temple on 150 West Ave-
nue H.
All Fellowcraft and Master
Masons are invited to attend.
April 4 Docket Call Lists 74 Civil Cases
A Civil Docket call will be will preside.
held in 88th District Court on
Friday. April 4, to consider set-
ting of 74 civil cases for dls-
Ing the weeks of May
5, 12, 19, and 27, District Clerk
Mrs. Aline Harper announced
this week.
In addition, the Clerk releas-
ed a docket setting of 46 tax
cases which will be heard -dur-
ing the week of June 2. 88th
District Judge Clyde Smith rlson Cain
The civil cases to be called
for docketing April 4 are the
following: ” A ?
Henry Thurston vs. George
Burge et al
Annie Ard McGallion et al vs.
Oscar McGallion et ux
JoShUa Dock Ray et ux vs.
Dinzel Ray Stuart et al
Elbert D. King and Gwendo-
lyn Deloris King vs. Joann Har-
In Re: David Lyn Jordan and
James Henry Jordan
Harold Holland vs. John Da-
vid Haggerman et al
Arthur Ola Dearmon vs.
Ruby Gordon
Ruby Gordon vs. Arthur Ola
Dearmon
Paul Allen vs. Cherokee Lbr.
Co., Inc.
Dla-Log Co., et al
Vemora Reynolds Hampton
et al vs. R. C. Williams «t Ux,
et al ■ ■ _■
Raymond Eddins vs. Insur-
ance Co. of No. Amer.
Doris Miller vs. Missouri Pa-
cific RR Co.
L. M. Corson et ux vs. Chrys-
Jerry Harrison et al vs. G W lcr Motor Corp., et al
Marine, Inc.
Mrs. Horace Feagin et al vs.
Commissioners Draw On Revenue
Sharing For Libraries, Fire Depts.
Mrs. CoriM Gilder
It Candidate For
School Board Ploct I
Mjs. Corine Gilder, a deputy
clerk for the Hardin County
Clerk’s office, and a life long
Hardin County resident, is
seeking the position of Place 1
for the Silsbee Independent
s<-in mi District Board of Trus-
tCCSt ■ * ’ v •«_• . ■
Mrs. Gilder stated, “I am the
people’s candidate, and I will
work for the interest of all citi-
zens, and every child in the
school district."
"There is much to be don*
and many problems to be solv-
ed, anil I feel I am qualified to
help solve these problems.
“I want the best for all 6f
our children, citizens, and tax-
payers, and I am for progress
and more consideration for our
teachers," she stated.
A Monday session of the Har-
din County Commissioners
Court went smoothly for the
most part, although Commis-
sioners Hugh Bevil Means and
Howard Barrington briefly
locked horns over attorney fees.
Means told John Blair, repre-
senting the County’s bonding
firm, to delay paying $1,000
representing a Federal District
Court judgment against two
former Sheriff’s Deputies, be-
cause he had heard the decision
might be appealed.. “As far as
*m concerned, John, don’t pay
it,” he said. ■■
The sum was assessed against
former Deputies Don Merrill
and Jesse Cartwright, who were
defendants in a lawsuit filed by
former County residents Alice
Bill Lamb. The Lamb’s
t asked for $200,000 in dam-
allegedly resulting from
ilr arrest by Merrill and
wright in 1971. In a memo-
l opinion dated Feb. 28,
deral Judge Joe Fisher
Mrs. Lamb $1,000 and
be felt she had “suffered
ion and embarrassment
addition to being deprived of
Aik federal Constitutional
rights” when the deputies ar-
rested her on Nov. 12. A judge-
ment reflecting that opinion is
expected soon.
Means said he was in favor
of appealing the decision, as he
had heard attorney Bob Keith
had plans to do. “I understand
the attorney wants to appeal,”
Means said. “If these people
get this tor being arrested il-
legally, you’ll get the law’s
hands tied more than they are.”
Means said that he felt people
were being arrested illegally
every day, arid that the decision
would set a precedent.
Blair agreed: “If these folks
were entitled to $1,000, then
everybody that’s arrested will
iff.
Means suggested that attor-
ney Keith be allowed to appeal
the case, but Comm. Barrington
violently disagreed, saying that
Keith’s rates are “phenomenal
and prohibitive." He said that
he had never voted to hire
Keith in the part, and stated, “I
believe we could hire the big-
gest firm In Houston cheaper
Means took exception to
Barrington’s statement about
never voting to hire Keith. He
argued that Barrington had vo-
ted to hire the attorney to rep-
resent the County in the 1971
redisricting suit. “I’d like to
ask the Clerk to get the minutes
to see who voted to hire Bob
Keith," Means said. Barrington
the Atjantic-Richfield tax case.
Finally, Blair suggested that
the Court hold an executive
session With attorney Keith to
determine the County’s possible
liability in the case. Also, Dis-
trict Attorney Stanley Coe com-
mented, “I suggest the Court
ask about fees in advance.
There’s no use in getting a bill
that startles you. Ask Keith
admitted he may have voted to how much an appeal wouid
hire Keith that time, but he
said he did it after the Court
already had employed him for
ABSENTEE VOTING
DATES SET IN CITY,
SCHOOL ELECTIONS
Absentee balloting in the
April 5 Silsbee Independent
School District is set to begin
on Mdnday, March 17; While
absentee voting In the April 1
City Council election began
on March 12.
The voting period in the
school election extends until
he added that the location of
the fire — whether inside or
outside corporate limits — was
not the question.
The BEE talked with Blair
after he left the Courtroom,
Blair read an opinion letter
submitted to the Silsbee City
Council by City Attorney Rog-
er Ratliff, which stated that
the Silsbee taxpayers would be
subsidizing the County if the
Silsbee Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment were to continue to fight
fires outside the City Limits in
“There is good reason to believe the absence of a contract with
if this is paid others (arrested);he County. Blair said that he
would assume they could be agreed with Ratliff’s contention
paid.”. „,, . , r . I that “the City may be subject
Blair also advised the Court to a class action suit to enjoin
cost.”
Coe also stated he felt the
case could set a precedent,
Allen J. Scott vs. Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe
Louise Rook vs. John Bruce
Hillin Sc Billy
David Kellebrew vs. Walter
Gore
Herman Doucette vs. Gulf
Atlantic Life Ins. Co.
First Nat’l Bank of Silsbee
vs. Chrysler Marine of Bmt.,
et al
Mrs. Ethel W. Price vs, Han
over Ins. Co.
Jerry Wayne Reeves vs. H. A.
Kennedy
John J. Schreck vs. John
DeLoach
Thomas W. Cartwright vs
F. B. James
C. E. Guedry et ux vs. Buf-
falo Bayou, Brazos and Colo-
rado Rw. Co., et al
Norris E. Green vs. Atchison,
that it was his opinion that in-
surance policies carried by cit-
ies on their volunteer fire de-
partments would protect fire-
men operating city equipment,
whether or not the fire being
fought was located in or out-
side a city’s corporate limits.
That question has been raised
by the Silsbee City Council,
who feel that the City could be
liable for suit if their Volun-
a ws satiEas* yrs
wS. TS »•«. tl* Count,,
school administration office, Silsbee Commissioner Rex
957 North Fifth Street, with
Mrs. Doris Lsngton, or at the
school tax office at 215 West
Avenue H, with Mrs. Elaine
Gorg. In the City races, ab-
sentee voting will be carried
out at City Hall, 250 Ernest
Avenue. ■
omaaaaamamnswwwmi
Moore asked Blair ff the City’s
insurance coverage would ex-
tend to firemen who travel to
fires in private vehicles. Blair
said that in such cases, coverage
would be determined by indi-
vidual auto policies. “There
would be some grounds for the
County to deny coverage” in
such a case, Blair opined. But
Lumberton School Board
Contest Is Set For April 5
In the April 5 trustee election
for the Lumberton Independent
School District, Place I incum
bent Alvin Courts is challenged
by Homer Brodeur, head of the
claims department for Contin-
ental Ins. Co., Beaumont; and
Tony Colletti, Lumberton real
estate broker. i. .
M. D. Moore, incumbent in
Place 2, faces Bennie Marberry,
a Texas Highway Dept, em-
ployee, and Bill Hammock,
owner of Hammock Garage of
Lumberton.
Absentee voting scheduled vote7H7saidhe’felT'all fire de
it from fighting such fires out-
side its corporate limits” if a
fire-fighting contract with
County is not in effect.
But in an earlier action,
Court had voted unanimoi
to renew contracts with
seven volunteer fire depi
ments in Hardin County and
pay them $800 each tor fightii
fires in 1975. That returned
fee to the 1973 level; last y-
the Court approved paying each
department $1,600. No fire de-
partment funds were budgeted Eli:,
for 1974-75; nor for supporting ■•*»*
the County’s three public
braries.
The libraries also received
funding Monday; but far less
than they had asked for. Comm.
Barrington made a motion on
both libraries and fire depart
ments: He asked that thesils-
bee Public Library receive
$5,000 for 1975, and that the
Sour Lake and Kountze librar-
ies receive $2,500 each. Comm.
J. L. Loftin seconded, and the
vote was unanimous. The funds
come from portions of Revenue
Sharing Entitlement V. County
Auditor Horace Moye said
about $26,000 of that had been
allocated. The RS check for En-
titlement 5 is due around the
first of April.
Comm. Moore qualified his
m
SS Ob King Seeks Place
11 3 April 1 Silsbee
Trustee Election
March 17 to April 1 at the tax narim#mts needed monev bui
office on the Middle School STe allSot. sSd t
campus from 7' a.nrt.-5 p.m The made «accopding to the area in
tegular election will be held at
gular election will be held at
the Middle School, April 5,
from 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
immm
which they serve.” He added,
(See County, Sec. 1, Page 6)
Ellis W, King, a long-time
employee of the Santa Fe Rail
road, has announced his candi-
dacy for Place Three on the
Silsbee Independent School
District Board of Trustees, sub-
ject to an April 5 election.
King is a member of the New
Bethel Baptist Church and is
chairman of the Board of Trus-
tees. In his announcement, King
stated, “I am an experienced
leader and have an interest in
every citizen and child in Sils-______
bee. A vote for me will be § Dougias Young
vote for success and progress in
the Silsbee Independent School
system." -. i-s ■;;
The candidate added that he
would “See that your tax dollar
is spent in the best interest of
al) of our people to insure that
our schools will be the best
anywhere."
Topeka and Santa Fe Rw. Co.
Edgar L. Brookins Jr. et al vs.
Champion International
* 'SJrtflba ITSWWart « al vs.
Howard J. Stengler
Joseph Gary Johnson et ux
vs. Wattsco Contractors et al
Judy Roschek vs. J. E. Farm-
er
John L. Grimsley vs. Justin
Huckaby
Ira Weldon Kelley et ux vs.
Sue Ferguson
Juanita H. Owens et al vs.
Employers Mutual Liability Ins.
Co. of Wisconsin
Texas Emp. Ins. Aas’n vs.
Marie Maze
Evelyn Jean King et vir vs.
Leon Edward Easterling Jr.
Texas Emp. Ins. Ass’n vs. De-
loris Brown
Eddie Cannon vs. Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Rw. Co.
Wilmer Loyce Rose vs. Ford
Motor Co.
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. vs.
Kathryn G. Clark et al
Mathew Bolton vs. Bush
Manufacturing Co.
Harvell French LoBue vs.
James Burl Eason
Clarence Huckaby et al vs.
Wlnford Birdwell
Connie Patterson vs. Harvey
Harrell
Texas Emp. Ins. Ass'n vs.
Bobbie Nell Brown
Clinton Neidigk et ux vs.
Robert R. Richardson
In Re: Michael Carl Joseph
Longenberger and Michelle De-
nise Longenberger
Opal Parson et vir vs. Fred
erron, dba Silsbee Packing
Co.
Mark David Stout vs. Bobby
Leroy Taylor Jr.
Patricia Gore et vir vs. Gloria
Brooks
Peoples State Bank of Koun-
vs. Ranger Ins. Co.
Roger D. Davis et ux vs. R. T.
:«r timber Co.
ir Dale Knighton et ux
Marcus N. Roberte;/ ,,,.-
*. Daugherty et al vs.
,yne Clark Anderson
Keith Mitchell vs.
Arthur Hernandez et al
United Forest Products, Inc.
vs. Bayshore Constructors, Inc.
Watkins Products, Inc. vs.
Naomi Lee et al
P, L. Woodward vs. Doyle
G. Gilbert
Leon Crum vs. Don Robinson
John Leroy Bass, et ux, et al
vs. Robert Clayton Hooks
Hazel Luman vs. Norman L.
Bullock
Texas Employers’ Ins. Ass’n
vs. Everett R. Litchfield
Texas Employers’ Ins. Ass’n
vs. Verna M. Young
Philip Lucas et' al vg. D. T,'
Sharp
Vera A. Shaw vs. Key Life
Ins. Co. of So. Carolina
Lorene Cunningham vs. Tex-
as Employers’ Ins. Ass’n ***
Erma D. McKeever vs. J
~ tote....
George Crain vs. Anita
let
Gwendolyn, Ann
vs. Missouri;
i,;. J
Charlie
Carlin Wa
(Houston
(See Docket,
Iff.
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