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The Silsbee bee
VOLUME 66-NUMBER 34 SILSBEE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1984 26 PAGES IN 3 SECTIONS
Lumberton Man Charged
With Beaumont Murder
Tax On Newspapers
To Become Effective
On October 2
New taxes voted by the State
Legislature have added the
4-1/8 percent state sales tax to
newspaper subscriptions and
sales beginning October 2. This
tax applies to single copies of
the Bee purchased in stores and
at the Biee office, as well as to
annual subscriptions.
Retailers are required to pay
the tax on newspapers that are
re-sold. As we interpret it in
city limits where cities have
added one cent of the sales tax,
the amount will be 5-1/8 per-
cent.
Here is a breakdown of the
provisions of the first major tax
bill in 13 years:
GENERAL SALES TAX: Up
1/8 percent to 4-and-l/8 cents.
Also added for taxation are
cigarettes, snuff, cable TV,
auto parking and storage, food
vending machines, newspaper
and magazine subscriptions,
laundry and dry cleaning, com-
puter software, lawn fer-
tilizers, amusement admissions
(including bowling and movies),
massage parlors, Turkish
baths, escort services, non-
automotive repairs (refriger-
ators, computers, etc.), roc-
kets, missiles and flight simu-
lators.
GASOLINE AND OTHER
FUELS: Doubles to 10 cents a
gallon.
CIGARETTES: Up 2 cents per
pack over the next two years.
MOTOR VEHICLE REGIS-
TRATIONS: Up $25 over three
years; fees will now be based on
vehicle age.
MOTOR VEHICLE SALES
AND RENTAL: Jumped from
4 to 5 percent.
ALCOHOL: Up 20 percent.
Council Approves City
Budget Of *2,745,847
The Silsbee City Council
approved the 1984-85 budget
Tuesday night which totals
$2,745,847.
This includes 12.4 percent for
capital outlay items such as
maintaining a street improve-
ment program, miscellaneous
fire apparatus, three police
cars, an earth excavator, a
street sweeper, drainage im-
provements, and the sewer
construction program.
The personnel benefits pack-
age has been increased from
Board Provides Alternative Sites
For Students Who Are Disciplined
A controversial section of
Chapter 72, dealing with stu-
dent disicipline, was approved
by the Silsbee Independent
School District Board of Trus-
tees in a special called meeting
Monday.
Basically, the bill provides
for alternative education sites
for those students who need
discipline:y action. These sites
must be provided for and made
available to the student before
the student may be expelled,
according to the new law.
The one exception to this rule
as outlined by the board, is a
student who has assaulted a
teacher or other individual
student on school property may
be removed immediately from
class and expelled without re-
sorting to an alternative edu-
cation program if the board
determines that the student’s
continued presence in the class
presents a clear and continuing
HOTFI MOTET'ifnT-rcpnt da"«er °f P^*61 ha™ t0 the
HOTEL-MOTEL. Up 1 percent individuals involved.
It has also been determined
to 4 percent.
AMUSEMENT MACHINES
REGISTRATION: (Pinball and
video games) from $15 to $30.
OUT-OF-STATE-TUITION;
From present $40 to $53 per
credit hour over two years.
FOREIGN STUDENT TUI-
TION: From presnt $40 to $79
per credit hour over two years.
CORPORATE FRANCHIES:
Up 23 percent.
Kountze Man Charged
With Unauthorized Use
Of Motor Vehicle
Silsbee police officers re-
covered a stolen vehicle with a
California license plate in last
week’s police reports.
While checking a vehicle with
a California license plate, Of-
ficer Billy Davenport learned
that the vehicle had been
reported stolen from Ingle-
wood, California.
Arrested was Eric Ballard,
18, P.O. box 365, Kountze. He
was taken befor Justice of the
Peace Robert Ward’s court,
who set bond at $2,500 on a
charge of unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle. He was also
taken before City Judge Frank
Grote’s court and fined $100 for
no driver’s license.
Assisting officer Davenport
in making the arrest were
officer Jimmy Womack, Major
William Gilley and Chief Dennis
Allen.
Alma Mansfield, manager of
Pinewood Inn, reported some-
one had taken two bath towels,
a washcloth, and two blankets
from a room. Value of the
missing items was $30.
Officer Kenny Davenport ar-
rested Patrick Sean Miller, 19,
Buddy's Trailer Park, Lumber-
ton, who was taken before
Justice of the Peace Robert
Ward’s court who set bond at
$500. Also arrested was Rita
Felipa Rodriguez, 28, P.O. Box
158, Kountze. She was taken
before Justice of the Peace
Robert Ward’s court who set
bond at $500. Both were charg-
ed with theft.
Officers arrested Raymond
Lee Adaway, 28, 146 Caraway,
Silsbee. He was taken before
Justice of the Peace Robert
Ward’s court who set bond at
$600 on a charge of driving
while license suspended.
Joseph Glen Guidry, 21, 290
Massey Lake Road, Silsbee,
was arrested on a charge of
driving while license suspend-
ed. He was taken before Justice
of the Peace Cecil Overstreet’s
court, who set bond at $500.
Officers arrested John Law-
rence McCarty, 26, Rt. 6, Box
(So# Mica Sac. !, *«•«•*)
been placed in an alternative
education program, has con-
tinued to cause trouble, then
the student may be expelled,
also according to the new law.
Four Inch Rain
Sunday Floods Streets
A heavy thunderstorm which
began around 2:45 Sunday af
ternoon dumped four inches of
rain on Silsbee between that
time and Monday morning.
Most of the rain fell Sunday
afternoon in about an hour,
causing substantial street
flooding in some areas, though
damage was believed to have
been slight. Runoff of the rain
caused water to flow across
Highway 92 in two places about
two miles north of Silsbee, and
drainage ditches in the city
overflowed.
A student may be expelled,
however, only after all other
means of alternative education
possibilities have been exhaust
ed.
In other action, the school
board approved school related
trips, with exceptions made by
Weeks Crawford, school super-
intendent.
The board hired Dayle Gard
ner as a teacher at the high
school, and the following as
aides: Jeannie Clingaman and
Mary Dell Rogers, Read-
Turrentine; Alteha Cox, Junior
High, and Patricia Day and Kay
Herrin at Kirby.
The board noted that it is
most unusual to have so many
qualified degreed people in
such positions.
The board also went into
executive session to discuss
legal council for personnel, but
no action was taken.
five percent of the gross salary
to seven percent, and $18,000
per year will be contributed to
the total cost of employee
health care insurance.
City Manager Ron Hickerson
has been given a raise of $453 a
month based on an increase in
duties performed. He was the
only city employee to get a
raise.
In other action, the council
approved the dollar increase foy
basic cable television service on
the second reading, and ex-
tended the deadline for opening
of bids for insurance coverage
for the city since no local
companies submitted bids.
The council also:
‘Approved a tax levy for
1984-85, to support the new
budget.
‘Approved a plan for appro-
priation of monies to defray all
expenses for the budget.
‘Approved the retirement
changes plan increase from five
percent to seven percent.
‘Approved renewing and ex-
tending the loan on garbage
containers.
‘Approved renewing the
loan on the Xerox copy mach-
ine.
The council also went into
executive session on the liti-
gation suit involving the re-
districting plan, but no action
was taken.
Tom Lubbert To
Explain Status Of
Timber Slough Area
Tom Lubbert of the National
Parks and Reserves of Beau-
mont will meet with concerned
people at E&O Grocery Satur-
day at 3 p.m. to discuss the
rights and priviledges of the
people concerning the Big
Thicket National Reserve.
Lubbert will answer ques-
tions about the Big Thicket
National Reserve including an
area of the Neches River near
Timber Slough.
E&O Grocery is located on
the Old Spurger Highway.
Child Learning
Workshop Planned
At Kountze School
Workshops will begin in Oc-
tober to privide information
concerning child-learning pro-
cesses, methods of building
language and reading skills and
parenting skills, sponsored by
the Kountze Independent Sch-
ool District. The topics of
consideration in the parent
skills area will include single
parenting, step-parenting and
the special needs of parents and
families of handicapped child
ren.
A Parent discussion-support
group, in a three-part series
will be held Oct. 12, 19 & 26
from 1 until 3 p.m. Janice
Foreman and Janelle Cochran
of Orange will be in charge of
the program. Parent reactions,
grief and acceptance and be-
havior management will be
(&•« Workshop Sac. 1, Pag# 3)
Beaumont police officers and
Texas Ranger Haskell Taylor
reportedly arrested Timothy
Francis Kime, 36, of Kingston
Trailer Park, Lumberton, Mon-
day and charged him with
stabbing to death Pui-Suen
Tschang, Sept. 12 in a vacant
house in Beaumont.
Kime was arrested and char-
ged with the murder in the 3900
block of Phelan Boulevard in
Beaumont at 2:30 p.m. Mnday.
He was taken before Justice of
the Peace Harold Engstrom,
who set bond at $500,000 on the
murder charge.
Officers were reportedly tip
ped by a caller who had seen
someone who resembled a com-
posite drawing which was re-
leased earlier.
Tschang’s body was dis-
covered at 9455 Mapes by a
contractor. A real estate agent.
Tschang was believed have
been in the process of showing
a rental home at the time of her
death, police said.
Kime had been observed
painting a pickup truck without
a bed a beige color at his trailer
park home in Lumberton last
weekend. Officers located the
truck bed."
The bed had been removed
from the pickup and apparently
dumped in a wooded area facing
the trailer. Officers impounded
both the bed and the pickup
truck.
Police have now found a knife
they believe could have been
used in the stabbing. Officers
said the knife was recovered
from a grassy area beside
Eastex Freeway at Meadow-
view Road, just south of Tram
Road. The knife has been taken
to the Jefferson County Re-
gional Crime Lab for tests.
Silsbee Woman Dies
Fol lowi ng Col I ision Tuesday
A collision involving a three-
wheeler and a Jeep on Massey
Lake Road left one woman
fatally injured late Tuesday.
The accident, which occurred
at 7 p.m. severed the victim's
leg. She also suffered from
internal injuries, according to
Department of Public Safety
officials.
The victim, Pam Harrod, 31,
was taken to Highway 96 by
private car where they were
met by Lumberton Ambulance
Service, which called a Life
Flight helicopter. She was
transported to Baptist Hospital
in Beaumont where she under
went surgery, but died early
Wednesday morning.
DPS officials said that Mrs.
Harrod, who was reportedly
driving the three wheeler, col-
lided with the back of a Jeep,
being driven by a minor.
Funeral arrangements are
imcomplete at this time.
Gov. White Announces
*390,000 County Grant
that a student, after having
All Student’s Grades
Required To Be
Reported To Parents
With the passage of the new
Education Reform bill this sum-
mer, school districts across the
state are making adjustments
to meet its requirements. One
of these changes is in regard to
report cards.
School districts must give
written notice to parents of all
students’ grades in each class
or subject, at least once every
six weeks. This practice has
been in effect within the Silsbee
schools for many years. The
change: The notice must pro-
vide for the signature of the
parent and must be returned to
the school. The return of the
signed report card is required
for all students in Kindergarten
through Grade 12.
Failure to return the signed
card to school will mean that
the campus administration is
required to mail notices to
those parents.
Herb Rothlisberger
Named President
Of Band Boosters
The Silsbee Tiger Band
Booster Club met September 11
at 7 p.m. in the Silsbee High
School band hall and new
officers elected for the 1984-85
year were: Herb Rothlisberger,
president; Anita Schaee, vice
president; Joyce Ruff, secre-
tary; and Georgia Rothlisber-
ger, treasurer.
The club meets the second
Tuesday of each month at 7
p.m. in the Silsbee High School
band hall.
Parents interested in the
booster club may attend the
next meeting, which will be on
October 9 at 7 p.m. in the band
hall, according to Joyce Ruff.
Squirrel Season
To Open Monday
Squirrel season opens in Har-
din and a number of surround-
ing counties Monday, Oct. 1,
and remains open through Jan.
5. Daily bag limit is 10 squirrels
with a possession limit of 20.
Deer season in Hardin Coun-
ty, and much of Texas, is Nov.
17 through Jan. 6.
Conroe Gome Here Friday Is
Expected To Be Tough Contest
Silsbee High School head
football coach Lidney Thomp
son can’t find enough adjectives
to describe the visiting Conroe
Tigers this Friday at Kirby
Stadium.
“Conroe could be one of our
toughest games this season, if
not the toughest,” Thompson
said. “They are big, strong,
well-groomed, very aggressive,
and they are a lot like Vidor
except they are faster." (
Thompson noted the 1-2 re-
Two Men Face
Marijuana Charges
Hardin County Sheriffs de-
puties arrested two persons on
possession of marijuana charg-
es, and also investigated sev-
eral burglary and theft reports
this past week.
Thomas Elliot Wooten, 24,
Rt. 1, Box 1805, Kountze, and
William Carter Work, 24, P.O.
Box 643, Kountze, were report-
edly arrested and charged with
possession of marijuana, class
A. Both were taken before
Justice of the Peace Sid John-
son's court, who set bond at
$500.
Cheri Kroll, Rye, reported to
sheriffs deputies that someone
had damaged the windshield on
her vehicle. Damage to the
vehicle was set at $400.
Robert Baynes, Rye, report-
ed to sheriffs deputies that
someone had stolen a tractor
grader blade with a three-point
hookup. Value of the missing
item was set at $350.
Joseph T. Jones, Sour Lake,
reported to sheriff deputies
someone had stolen a 12-gauge
semi-automatic Belgium grade
full choke shotgun, a .32 caliber
single shot rolling block rifle, a
30-30 lever action rifle, a .22
caliber pump rifle with hexagon
shaped barrel, a 35 mm camera,
and a 12 gauge shotgun. Value
of the missing items is $1,600.
Earline Watts, owner of
Watts Resale Shop, Silsbee,
reported to sheriffs deputies
that someone had stolen an
eight week portable tape play-
er, a typewriter, and a set of
new Regal pots all valued at
$100.
T.J. Tucker Sr., of St. Rt. 1,
($•• Charges Sec. 1, Page 3)
cord Conroe sports /is deceiv-
ing. “They've lost vto Aldine
14-13, and Aldine^sin the top
20 in the state, and they’ve lost
to Bryan 21-7 and Bryan is in
the top 10 in the state.’’
The only game Conroe has
won, against Lufkin, 14-7, the
winning touchdown was scored
on a 60-yard punt return; The
punt return specialist is Bubba
Jacques, a 5-7, 165-pound
junior.
"He’s a head hunter,”
Thompson said. “He plays safe-
ty on defense, but his specialty
is punt returns."
If size is relative, then the
Tigers will have their hands full
with quarterback David White,
a 6-3, 190 pounder.
"White can really throw the
ball," Thompson said.
Thompson was happy to have
Richard Harris return to the
fold for the Nederland game.
Harris had been out since
before beginning of fall practice
with a broken hand and had
originally been tabbed as the
starting quarterback.
“You can tell we missed
Harris,” Thompson said. "But
he's still not quite at full
stength yet. Our defense just
keeps on getting better, and
having Harris in there helps.”
While the Tigers know they
have to take just one game at a
time, they are keeping a wary
Governor Mark White has
announced 118 grants totalling
$29,186,508 under the annual
Community Development Pro-
ject Fund competition of the
Texas Community Develop
ment Program. The awards are
provided to local governments
for public facilities and housing
projects that principally benefit
persons of low and moderate
income.
Hardin County grants total
$390,000 to pave community
dirt roads and replace one
bridge structure.
Kountze: $199,000 to install
Water Improvement System in
eye on the calendar, tor it says
that week after the Conroe
game, the district play starts
against Jasper.
“Playing Conroe at this time city of Kountze.
is a game that can help us in the Silsbee: $200,000
long haul,” Thompson said.
“Conroe will do a lot of things
Jasper does on defense.”
Thompson noted that the
field in Friday’s game, which
was muddy and wet after an all
day rain, probably didn’t help
the offense much.
to pave
residential street in a low and
moderate income area of Sils-
bee.
Pinehurst: $355,000, to con
struct street project in a low
and moderate income area of
the city of Pinehurst.
The State assumed responsi
"I’m sure that had a lot to do bility for administration of this
with it," Thompson said. “Ned- program, formerly the Small
erland was a little bit quicker
but the field conditions kept
them from doing anything with
it.”
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
Friday.
Cities Community Develop
ment Block Grant Program, in
June, 1983. The projects were
selected through a shared seor
ing system between the Texas
Department of Community Af
fairs and Regional Review
Committees appointed by the
Governor in each of the 24 state
planning regions.
In making the awards, Gov-
ernor White said, “Again this
year we have demonstrated, by
the wide range of funded activi-
ties, that state administration
of this program makes sense.
The selection process has re-
sulted in projects that are
responsive to priorities estab
lished bv each of the Regional
Review Committees, not to
priorities in Washington, D.C.
or even in Austin. This type of
open competition assures that
the funds are used wisely
across the State."
The Governor also empha
sized that State administration
of the Community Develop
ment Program has increased
local participation. "This year
the State received 461 applies
tions compared to 300 during
the last year of administration
by the Department of Housing
and Urban Development in
1982. This increase in participa
tion shows both the need for
these activities and the out
reach efforts by the State to
make the program accessible to
more communities.”
Spacek's Raiders Travel To Buna
Friday To Test Unbeaten Cougars
■
GILBERT JOHNSTON, a registered surveyor, watches as a computer with graphic
capabilities puts out a map of Hardin County during a mapping session at the
Silsbee Community Center Tuesday afternoon. The meeting drew a crowd of
people which included representatives from five counties in Southeast Texas.
Coach Larry Spacek's Lum-
berton Raiders fresh off a
shutout victory, will travel for
the first time this season to face
the 19 AAA Buna Cougars, an
undefeated team that could
pose a problem for the young
Raiders.
The Raiders have never beat
en Buna, thus giving added
impact to the Lumberton cause.
Also a win would give the
Raiders added momentum for
next week's district opener
against South Park.
“They have a very good ball
team, and they’re 3-0,” said
Lumberton head coach Larry
Spacek. Spacek also pointed
out that after viewing game
films of the Buna win over
Stephen F. Austin last week,
he is even more impressed with
the Cougars. “They have the
ability to make the adjustments
to take whatever you give
them."
The Cougars are paced by a
seasoned backfield led by
quarterback Jamie Holmes,
(5-11,180) who passed for over
1,000 yards last season and
tailback Byron Johnson who
rushed for 1,000 yards in 1983.
Both were 19-AAA all-district
selections. This year the Cou-
gars have also had a mountain
stroyed the SFA defense last
week.
Worsham carried the ball 28
times for a total of 210 yards.
On paper, the two squads
seem to line up about even.
Looking at the common op
ponents, it seems even closer.
The Cougars (3-0) defeated
Hantshire-Fannett 14 12 in the
(Saa Roidars Sac 1. Page 3)
County To Hire Special
Attorney To Defend
Officials In Lawsuit
Hardin County Commission-
er’s Court in a special session
Monday, granted permission
for Judge Milton R. McKinney,
Herbert Williams, and Sheriff
Mike Holzapfel to hire an
attorney to defend the three in
a lawsuit filed by a prisoner in
the Lufkin State Hospital. The
prisoner claims that he was not
advised of his rights by his
attorney.
In other action, the court
granted permission for the
County Judge to advertise for
construction fencing around the
solid waste site.
* Reappointed Mrs. Robert
Neyland as a member of the
Public Responsibility Commit-
tee for the Mental Health and
Mental Retardation center.
of performance from Fallback Mental Retardation center.
Raylen Worsham. iw!fo <fo- Approved the 1983 delinquent
tax roll as prepared by Jean
ette McCreight. and gave per
mission for Sid Johnson to hire
a secretary.
* Gave permission to Aline
Harper to hire a new employee,
but tabled reimbursement to
the sheriffs department.
* Tabled the appointment of a
chairman for the Hardin Coun-
ty Historical Society, and tab-
led permission to advertise for
insurance coverage for county
operations.
* Tabled taking any action on
the disposition of two sheriffs
cars until the county could
readvertise for bids.
* Granted permission to Bill
Ong, a representative of MCI
Telephone Company, to lay a
(Sm Lawsuit Sac. 1, Page 3)
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