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THE SlLSBEE BEE
VOLUME 69 - NUMBER 16
SlLSBEE, TEXAS 77656, THURSDAY, MAY 21,1987
22 PAGES IN 2 SECTIONS
Deputies Arrest
Lumberton Man
On Assault Charge
Sheriffs deputies arrested a
Lumberton man earlier this
month on a charge of sexual
assault, according to Sheriff
H.R. "Mike” Holzapfel's re
ports.
Deputy Billy K. Roberts ar
rested Joel Mark Laningham,
37, 1344 W. Walton Road. May
11 on a charge of aggravated
sexual assault of a child. J ustice
of the Peace Bennie Como set
bond at 13,000.
In unrelated reports, Alcee
A. Dugas Jr. of Kountze re
ported someone took a pickup
truck, tractor and 20 foot trail
er valued at $13,000 from the
driveway of his residence be
tween the evening of Thursday,
May 14 and 6:20 a m Friday.
Roger Beard of Lumberton
reported someone took an air
compressor from the bark of his
truck w hile it was parked at his
residence about 1 a m. May 13.
The compressor was valued at
$199
Donald R. Brown of Lumber
ton reported someone took a
$1.13)0 termite control machine
from where rt had been chained
to a tree in hts yard. He did not
know the date the machine was
taken.
Four Plead Guilty
In 356th Court
Four guilty pleas were heard
in the 356th district court
between May 12 and Monday,
according to the records of
District Attorney R F "Bo”
Horka and District Judge Britt
Plunk
Bennie McKentie Jr., 21,
Willard s Lake Road. Silsbee,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
burglary ot a ouuamg. Me was
fined $500. plus court costs, and
was placed on seven year*
unadjudicated probation He
w as also ordered to pay $ 117 in
restitution
F.nms Neal Hinson Jr., 19,
Highway 96 at the Neches
Rner, Evadale. pleaded guilty
to a charge of burglary of a
habitation He was placed on
eight years unadjudicated pro
batkin and was ordered to pay
court costs.
Tommy Edward Fuller, 36,
135 Carolina Dr , Lumberton,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
felony driving while mtoxi
caled He was fined $1,000,
plus court costs, and was placed
on a two year sentence sus
pended over two years of
probation His driver s license
was suspended for six months.
Ma-k C Young. 64. Rt 6,
Box 151, Silsbee, pleaded guilty
to a misdemeanor charge re
duced from a charge of unlaw
fully carrying a weapon on
licensed premises He was fined
$500 plus court costs, and was
placed on one year unadjudi
cated probation
Bill To Require Cities
To Use Drug
Seizure Dollars
AUSTIN The House Cnm
mal Jurisprudence Committee
yesterday passed a bill that
would require counties and
municipalities to use a percen
tage of funds collected from
property seized from drug of
fenders to fund community
based drug abuse prevention
and treatment services.
Sponsored by Larry Don
Shaw iD Big Spring), House
Bill 1120 amends the Controlled
Substances Act to increase the
amount of money available for
prevention and treatment from
the current 10 percent to 25
percent of the funds from these
seizures. The legislation also
mandates rather than allows
the use of funds for this
purpose.
‘There is no more logical place
to access funds for drug abuse
prevention and treatment than
from the sale of property of
drug offenders,r said Repre
sentative Shaw. ‘Through this
bill, some of the damage caused
by those who sell these drugs to
our neighbors and our children
can be repaired by judicious use
of these dollars." Shaw stated
that the old adage ‘an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of
cure' is certainly appropriate
(iMOrvaitec. I.Po*»1i)
Speed And Weight Limits
Planned For Kiwanis Road
County commissioners plan
to set speed and weight limits
on a Precinct 1 road and will
consider countywide limits af
ter residents and the owner of a
local company spoke at a public
hearing May 14, County Judge
M R. “Pete" McKinney said
Monday. ^
Residents of Kiwanis Road
presented a petition to the
court April 13 asking that a
weight limit be set on the
resurfaced road Larry Daven
port, who presented the peti
tion, said Bennett Jones Jr. of
Speedway Company is tearing
up the road by running heavily
loaded trucks and a front end
loader from Highway 327 to. his
dirt pit on the road’s extension.
Precinct 1 Commissioner
Andrew Redkey repaired the
road last summer The repairs
on the approximately three
fourths of a mile road cost
about $10,000. Redkey said
At the public hearing. Jones
said he has hauled dirt over the
road for 12 years and has been
using a tandem truck for about
four years
"We haven't hurt the road
one bit running across it."
Jones said. “We're not there to
tear up the road. If that's the
case we shouldn't be allowed to
do so, but we re not tearing up
the road "
Jones acknowledged that his
trucks are heavy and that
damage had been done one time
to the edge of the road w hen a
truck turned a corner too
sharply. He said he later re
paired the damage
. "Midta just try ing to make a
living," Jones said “If we ever
do tear up the road we’ll be
more than happy to fix it."
Davenport passed around
pictures showing the damage
done the road
They are tearing up the
road," Davenport said. "That
road is not designed to haul
that equipment."
Redkey said his crews later
repaired the road where Jones
had attempted to repair it
earlier.
Bill Black, another resident of
the road, said his purpose was
not to put Jones out of bust
ness "I've got no objection to
Mr Jones hauling his dirt out
of there at all. I think hr should
do it maybe a little slower and a
little lighter."
Alton Davenport said he
waited 18 years for the road to
be fixed, only to see the repairs
in danger.
“(The trucks) may.not tear it
up the first day, but (they're)
going to tear it up." he said,
adding that the court should
consider a rouiilywide permit
system for all large trucks
Under the system, pictures
would be taken of anv road a
business planned to haul over
before and after the hauling
"It la hauler) tears it up.
make him fix it right th^n,"
Alton Davenport said
McKinney agreed that there
should be a countywide permit
system for all vehicles over a
certain weight He said Monday
the county could require a
performance bond and could
check roads before and after
use by a permit holder. If the
road was damaged, the bond
would provide funds for repair.
Other residents at the meet
ing said their main concern was
the speed of the trucks in an
area where a number of child
ren live.
"We all have kids playing up
and down the road all day
long," Mike Lovell said. “Bv the
time (Jones') trucks get to my
front yard they're going 35 to
40 miles per hour. They 'have
slowed down lately because
they've been under a lot of
heat.
“All I ask for is the safety of
my kids," Lovell said.
Amy Lyle, who lives on the
Kiwanis extension, said she
sympathizes with Jones, but
would like to see the limits
placed on the road.
“I'm afraid it's probably go-
ing to take one of the children
to get injured before anything
is done about this," Lyle said.
Bruce Jones, the son of
Speedway's owner, denied that
the trucks speed on the road.
When the trucks leave the dirt
pit they are in first gear and are
forced to go slow, he said.
The residents denied charges
by Jones wife, Vickie(that they
were there because they had
"something against" Jones.
“We're certainly not here to
try to shut you down or
anything like that," Lovell said.
"We didn't come down here as
a personal grudge against
(you)."
Near the end of the hearing,
the residents and Jones agreed
that a 15 mDh SDeed limit on the
extension to Jones' pit and a 35
mph speed limit on Kiwanis
Road would be workable.
McKinney said Monday the
weight limit has not yet been
decided.
There's a lot of things to
consider," McKinney said
“We're not here «to eliminate
business in Hardin County,
we're here to generate busi
ness.”
Also in the hearing, Jones
denied that he has recently
dumped raw sewage in his pit,
($•• Rood Sot. 1 Poga 12)
Chris Barnes Wins
200 Meter Dash
At State Meet
Silsbee High School track
star Chris Barnes added the
class AAAA state title to his
total effort this season by
turning in the best time in the
200 meter dash last Friday in
Austin.
Barnes’ time of 20.7 was fast
enough for first place in that
event, but his excellent 10.4
took only third place in the 100
meter dash at the same meet.
The Tigers also had the 400
meter relay team entered in the
state meet at Memorial Sta-
dium Friday, but they were
disqualified when they missed
the exchange lane on the hand
off.
Man Indicted
On Charge Of
Attempted Murder
TEAMS Tests Improve
In Most Of Subject Areas
Silsbee administrators are
pleased with the results of the
TEAMS tests administered in
February and have already
started thinking of ways to
improve the area in which
students improved the least.
Assistant Supt. James B. Lang
said
Scores rose across the district
in the test areas of mathe
matics, reading and writing.
“We realized we re going to
have to make adjustments in
the writing programs (That
area'll not up as much as math
and reading." Lang said.
l^ang said the changes will
involve incorporating the ob
jectives of the test, as laid out
in the scoring guidelines, into
the classroom curriculum so
teachers and students will
know w hat is expected of them.
Problems also exist when the
test requires knowledge of
students in areas not yet cover
ed in class, Lang said.
The state mandated TEAMS
tests are administered once a
year to third, fifth, seventh and
ninth grade students.
The most dramatic improve
ments came in the seventh and
ninth grade tests. In the seven
th grade, 90 percent of the
students mastered the mathe
matics and reading sections, as
opposed to 75 percent master
ing the math and 68 percent
mastering the reading in 1986.
Up from 55 percent in 1986, 6S
percent of seventh graders
mastered the writing section.
In the ninth grade, 88 per
cent of the students mastered
the mathematics section, while
77 percent did so in 1986. In
reading. 82 percent mastered
the subject as opposed to 74
percent last ye.ar, and 68 per
cent mastered the writing sec
tion, up from 52 percent last
year.
Fifth graders also made im-
provements in the three sub
ject areas. In math, 72 percent
mastered the subject, while 68
percent did so in 1986. Seventy
six percent of the students
mastered the reading section,
up from 73 percent last year. In
writing, 56 percent mastered
the subject as opposed to 55
percent in 1986.
Third graders showed the
only district drop in the percen
tage of students mastering a
subject. The number mastering
math dropped one percentage
point to 78 percent, and the
percentage of thoee mastering
writing dropped two points to
55 percent. In reading, 70
percent mastered the subject,
up from 68 percent last year.
In the math portion of the
third grade test, over 90 per
cent of the students mastered
the topics of ordering whole
numbers, place value, free
tional parts, addition and word
problems (additionI. The lowest
score came in measurement
units with 76 percent master
ing.
In the third grade reading
section, over 90 percent of the
students mastered the table ot
contents and specific details.
The lowest score came in word
structure with 55 percent mas
tering.
In third grade writing, over
90 percent of the students
mastered capitalization, spell
ing, correct English usage and
proofreading. The lowest score
was in punctuation with 74
percent mastering.
In fifth grade, the highest
percentage of those mastering
an area in math was 88 in
multiplication, with equivalent
fractions the area least master
ed at only 43 percent.
In reading, 87 percent of the
fifth graders mastered parts of
a book. The area mastered by
the fewest number of students
were main idea and sequencing
of events with 61 percent
mastering.
In fifth-grade writing, 92
percent mastered spelling,
while the lowest score came at
79 percent in proofreadie.
In the seventh grade math
section, 93 percent mastered
the perimeter ot polygons. 1 ne
lowest number mastering was
59 percent in decimals.
In reading, over 90 percent of
the seventh graders mastered
context clues, reference sour
ces, graphic sources and parts
of a book. The lowest score
came in the fact, opinion sec
tion, with only 49 percent
mastering.
in the wngmg section, 92
percent mastered the proof
reading, with the lowest per
centage mastering at 68 per
cent in the area of sentence
structure.
Gty Receives Check
roriTuie srrancnise
Tax On Banks
The City of Silsbee has
received a check for $11,281.64
as its share of this year's first
allocation of the state's fran
chise tax on banks, according to
state comptroller Bob Bullock's
office.
The Texas legislature in 1984
brought banks under the state
franchise tax for the first time
and allocated money from the
tax to cities, counties, school
districts and other local taxing
(So# To* Sot. 1 Pag* 12)
In the ninth-grade math sec
tion, over 90 percent of the
students mastered decimals
and word problems (addition,
subtraction, mulitiplication and
division). The subject mastered
by the fewest was equivalen-
cies with 59 percent mastering.
In reading, over 90 percent of
the freshmen mastered the
meaning of words and the
graphic sources sections, with
the lowest number at 63 per-
cent in author's point of view.
In writing, more than 90
percent of the students master
ed spelling and sentence struc
ture. The subject least master-
ed was proofreading at 75
percent.
Lang said the district is
waiting now for the TEAMS
exit test scores.
The Hardin County grand
jury indicted a Silsbee man
Tuesday on a charge of at
tempted murder, according to
Distnct Attorney R.F. "Bo"
Horka s records.
Indicted was Gregory Ber
nard White, 18, 2027 Dearmond
St. Reports show White, an
employee at Wooden Pallets
Inc., and Richard L. Turner of
Kirbyvitle;also an employee at
the company, got into an argu-
ment during the morning of
March 9.
The argument was broken up
by the shop foreman, but as
Turner walked to lunch later in
the day White allegedly hit him
over the head from behind with
a 2-by-4 piece of wood.
Others indicted were:
Zada Antoinette Butler,'37,
575 S. 12th St., Silsbee, on a
charge of forgery (possession
with intent to pass). She
allegedly had a $999 U.S.
Treasury check April 14 which
had been altered.
Raymond David Haynes Jr.,
18, Rt. 1, Box 426, Silsbee,and
William Jack Tanton Jr., 38,
P.0. Box 1738, Kountze, on
charges of burglary of a build-
ing. They reportedly burglar-
ized the Porter Construction
Company's site on Highway
418 April 1.
Alphonso “Buddy" Lacv III,
30, P.0. Box 29A, Prince' Hall
Villa, Silsbee, on one charge of
burglary of a building and three
charges of burglary of a habita-
tion. He is charged with burg-
larizing the Hitching Post Cafe
in Kountze May^ 5, the resi-
dence of Lillian Cheatham of
Kountze Feb. 14, the Kountze
residence of Sam Ricks of
Spring March 25 and the resi-
dence of Jimmy Heaton of
Kountze April 25.
Charles Edward Whittle, 37,
Rt. 6, Box 134, Silsbee, on a
charge of possession of a con-
trolled substance March 16. He
reportedly possessed less than
28 grams of cocaine.
Curtis Alfred Williams, 45,
205 Dogwood, Woodvilie, on a
charge of felony driving while
intoxicated* April 15.
Louis Hunter Oliphant Jr., 51,
Box 132, Raywood, on a charge
of theft Feb. 16. He is charged
with taking 23 bundles of road
boards from Kile and Kile
Construction of Batson.
Steven Eugene Conley, 22, of
Houston, on a charge of felony
driving while intoxicated
March 22.
Robert Floyd Cryer, 21, Rt. 1,
Box 410, Silsbee, on a charge of
criminal mischief Jan. 22. He
allegedly damaged an* auto-
mobile belonging to Pamela
Jones of Silsbee.
Hattie Mae Davis, 34, P.0.
Box 2192, Silsbee, on a charge
of delivery of a simulated
controlled substance Feb. 10.
She is charged with delivering
capsules supposed to be amphe-
tamines to an undercover of-
ficer.
Mary Anderson, aka Mary
Martha Downing, aka Mary
Hoilomon Downing, 43, P.0.
Box 37, Buna, on a charge of
theft by check March 17. She
reportedly wrote an insufficient
funds check for $11,687 to
Britton-Cravens Lumber Com
pany.
Sean Velton McKinley, 30,
Rt. 3, Box 3803, Trinity, or
12807 Murphy, Elber, Colo., on
a charge of securing execution
of a document by deception
Oct. 1, 1986.
Ronald Kenneth Haney, 32,
Rt. 2, Box 430, Jasper, on a
charge of enticing a child March
2.
The cases no-billed by the
grand jury were:
Jerry Baker, 51, Rt. 3, Box
638, Silsbee, on a charge of
aggravated assault Jan. 19.
Baker was charged with stab-
bing Harold D. Tunnell of
Lumberton.
Robbie Lynn Jacobs, 29,
P.0. Box 144, Wells, on a
charge of unlawful possession
of a firearm by a felon Feb. 22.
He was charged with carrying a
pistol.
County To Seek New Bids
On Courthouse Phone Systems
Cain And Holzapfel Named
Top Students At Kountze
Christopher Cain has been
named valedictorian and Sheri
Holzapfel salutatorian of the
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Mr
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CHRISTOPHER CAIN
Valedictorian
1986-87 Kountze High School
Senior Class.
Christopher is the son of
Eldon knd Esta Cain, and he
plans to attend Lamar Univer
sity. He has been on the honor
roll each year in high school,
was a member of the National
Honor Society two years, presi
dent of his freshman class,
Student Council one year,
Spanish Club two years,
Science Engineering & Aca-
demic Team one year and
Speech Club one year. He also
participated in football, basket-
ball and baseball two years,
and track one year.
Sheri is the daughter of Mike
and Nancy Holzapfel, and she
plans to attend Lamar Uni-
versity. Sheri was on the honor
roll each year in high school,
was s member of the National
Honor Society two years, ser-
ving as secretary her senior
year, Science & Spanish Club
two years, Future Teachers of
America four years where she
was secretary her junior year
and vice president her senior
year, and a member of the
volleyball team two years.
SHERRI HOLZAPFEL
Salutatorian
County commissioners re-
jected six bids to replace the
courthouse telephone system
and agreed May 14 to rework
the specifications for the svs-
tem before asking for bids a
second time.
County Judge M.R. "Pete"
McKinney said the court was
considering alternates to the
original specifications and had
not been able to discuss the
alternates with all of the bid
ding companies.
“It will give everyone an
opportunity to bid (on alternate
suggestions)," McKinney said.
The new system would in-
volve replacing all downstairs
telephones except those in the
sheriffs office, which had its
system replaced earlier. Most
of the telephones upstairs have
also been replaced.
The new system would go
through a switchboard, which
would reduce the number of
trunk lines coming into the
courthouse. The switchboard
would be automatic, but-in the
original bid- would be able to
be converted for an operator if
one is ever needed. McKinney
said. Two toll-free lines to
Beaumont would be included in
the system.
One of the alternates being
looked at is to remove a
monitoring computer from the
bid The court originally asked
that the computer be included
in the bid to monitor the use of
county telephones, but since
the computer would not be
compatible with some of the
phones already replaced there
is no need to monitor only half
the courthouse, McKinney said.
Another alternate being con-
sidered is s change in the
method of maintenance pay-
ments.
One question delaying the
decision process is what to do
with the upstairs phones that
have already been replaced
that would not be compatible
with a switchboard. Some of
the telephones are rented, but
others are on a lease-purchase
agreement.
McKinney said the county
would probably try to live with
the lease-purchase equipment
upstairs for about three years,
when the purchase agreement
will be paid off. If so, the
county would then decide
whether to keep or replace the
equipment.
“We're trying to eliminate
anything we're paying rent on
right now," he said.
McKinney said the county
could have saved money by
accepting any of the rejected
bids, which were opened in
April.
"Any bid we could have
taken would have saved us
money because we're renting
the equipment now,” McKinney
said. “I just want to be fair to
each bidder (and let them bid
on the alternates)."
County Auditor Horace Moye
said the county is currently
paying between $1,200
$1,300 a month in rent
telephones. With the new
tem, the figure would drop
less than $1,100 a month, and
the equipment would be owned
by the county in five years.
McKinney said he expects to
advertise for new bids on the
system within 30 days.
Russ Wilson Buys
J&M Supermarkets
Silsbee grocery shoppers will
be able to choose between the
luxury of having someone bag
their groceries or the economy
of bagging the groceries them-
selves after Silsbee resident
Russ Wilson opens two super
markets in June.
Wilson, owner of the King
Saver Warehouse Foods and
Russ Wilson's Supermarket
grocery stores, completed an
agreement May 8 to buy Jim
Tackett's two J&M Super-
markets for an undisclosed
amount of money.
toe stores will change hands
June 1. Tackett said the Pine
Plaza store will be closed May
31 for inventory, while the
Highway 327 store will remain
open part of the day.
The Highway 327 store, the
larger of the two stores, will
become a King Savor Ware-
house Foods store. The store
will be closed for about a week
after the transfer of ownership
while two additional lanes,
electronic scanners, warehouse
shelving and bagging stations
are installed, Wilson said.
When the store re-opens, its
hours will be from 8 s.m. to 9
p.m. seven days a week.
Customers in King Saver will
bag their own groceries. Wilson
said the lack of bagging and
carry -out personnel along with
the practice of buying items in
truckloads, saves the business
money and lowers the cost of
groceries to the consumer.
The Pine Plaza store will
become a Russ Wilson's Super-
market and will have fewer
changes, Wilson said. No scan-
ning equipment will be installed
because of the smaller size of
the store. The hours of the
the store. The hours of the
store are not definite yet.
He expects to be able to keep
moot of the employees at both
stores.
Wilson said he has talked to
Tackett several times about
buying the stores and talked
seriously for about a month
before the sale was completed.
“I still live hers in Makes."
Wilson said. “It’a Ml right to
have stores (in other cities), hot
I wanted a store back hi Makes
where I hve."
Wilson first came to the ana
in July 1966, when he I
small grocery star* oa 1
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