The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [13], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1964 Page: 1 of 6
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TWO UNENDORSED PHONIES
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HARDIN COUNTY’S
LARGEST CIRCULATION
KnENeedle
CIRCULATION 3,500
BULK RATE
U.S. POSTAGE
2 3/4 0 PAID
KOUNTZEjj TEX.
PERMIT *NOk5
TELEPHONE NO.
CH 6-3979
CITY
OF SILSBEE SUES ITS POLICE CHIEF
AREA
WILDWOOD CITY
It had to happen.. somehow I
always knew it would.. The "Big
Woods" will soon be the play-
ground for thousands of people,..
Dam B was the first great thrust
in this direction.. Then there was
Carla.. A boisturous hard driving
young lady with a mean eye...
She took her toll in destruction
but also introduced many people
to this jaybird country known as
"The Big Woods". I’m sure you
recall this week long visit from
the Flatlanders..We fqd ’em pea-
nut butter and entertained royally.
They liked what they saw and 1
heard and have ventured back
many times on weekends. The
last great aid in this "Back to the
Woods" campaign was the publi-
city concerning the possibility of
converting the Big Thicket into a
State or Federal Park. This one
stirred up the natives like a wasp
nest but it also blew enough smoke
to excite the imagination and cur-
iosity of many people and ultima-
tely no doubt spawned the idea of
wildwood city..Now the march is
on.. Personall, I'm proud of the
whole idea. These poor flatlanders
have to stay down in mucky mos-
quito infested swamps in order to
make ends meet and they deserve
a haven of rest on the weekends,
and I’m glad we have this type re-
thret. The French head for Louisi-
ana and the Piney Woods Rooters
head for the woods.. I’m sure this
will cause a little confusion here
and there... with so many visitors
coming in the natives may have
to fence in his favorite fishin’hole
so that his flock will always have
the opportunity to hair-lip a Gog-
gle Eye occasionally. This may up-
set him a little but soon as one of
these flatlanders walks in and buys
a T V set from him his eyes will
bug out like two shootin’ taws and
once again.. All will be well.
One thing to remember.. Most
of the flatlanders were reared in
these woods or thier parents were
and the only reason they left was
for economic reasons.. I mean..
You can live on unmarked Hawgs
just so long then you must seek out
something more regular.. I believe
the old term was "Study Work."
From the information I have at
this time, which is almost negli-
gible, WildwoodCity is to contain
a two hundred some odd acre
lake.. A Motel .with restaurant..
And a landing strip. I've tried to *
locate the exact site in my mind 3 *>,<“** Box ^91
and it seems to lie somewhere 3 KOUNTZE, TEXAS
near the Old Gulp Pump Station |
ground. And this makes it about 3
6 to 8 miles from my home out ■ Enclosed is $
of W arren so I may use this landing
strip if I can get a mule to ride
that mileage through the woods.
One of my sponsors is the Longhorns
flying club.. (Are there any
Questions?
Well, when all the $1400 lots
are sold and the $4lOO plots
have come down considerable,
when the bitter weeds cover the
air strip signs start popping up
(see page three)
ARCHER FULLIHGIM KICKED
AS
HascalWilson, Hardin County
Democratic Chairman, was
backed by the Hardin County
Democratic Committee Monday
night when he removed Archer
Fullingim as election judge of
the Democratic Primary Election.
Fullingim, Kountze Democra-
tic Precinct Chairman had been
appointed election judge on his
recomendation at the last meet-
ing of the committee.
Curtis Davis of Kountze who
is contesting Fullingim for the
position of Democratic Precinct
Committee for the Kountze pre-
cinct, filed a letter of protest
against Fullingim serving as
judge. In the protest Davis point-
ed out that he was contesting
Fullingim and that the spirit of
fair play should not permit Ful-
lingim to particiapate inside the
ballot box and be in a position
to know who was voting for or
against himself. The Commit-
nee members, who in the main
did not know that Fuliingim’s
election . was being contested
went along with the actions of
its Chairman with the exception
of Eddie LeGrende, the Com-
mittee man from Saratoga. La
Grendre is the election judge at
Saratoga although his own office
JUDGE
is being contested by a write-in
candidate.
The Committee appointed Tom
Barclay, Kountze surveyor, to
take the job of election judge for
Kountze.
Every committeeman from
Hardin County was present ex-
cept Fullingim who had been
notified.
At the time of the original
appointment as election judge,
fhe Pine Needle was the only
newspaper that reported this fact-
another Pine Needle exclusive
reporting of the truth in Hardin
County.
SCHOOL
Dwight D. Anderson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Anderson
"of Kountze, enlisted in the Army
ELECTION RESUUS
West Hardin Kountze
rise*-.
The West Hardin School Board
election polls closed at seven
O'clock and the counting of the
votes was completed and the re-
turns were released to the public
shortly after seven. Mr. Walter
Coon of Saratoga incumbent, was
placed back on the board with
179 votes. Mr. Donald Taylor of
Batson swung out in lead as high
man with 200. Jimmy Wayne
Cryer placed third with a 153
'votes. Mrs. Rissie Self received
90 votes. Mrs. Oree Parsons had
54 and Mrs. Shirley Jacobs had 29.
This places Mr. Taylor and Mr.
Coon to fill the two seats on the
West Hardin School Board. The
board now .seats five men from
Saratoga and two from Batson.
Lee W alcott led the slate
of trustees in the Kountze scho-
of trustees race here last Satur-
day with a total of 359 votes.
Other total votes were Lamar
Hargrove, 326; John Traugott,
303; Eddie Gene Hall, 225r~and
Raymond Wheeler, 132.
Mr. Wolcott, Mr. Hall,
and Mr. Wheeler were new can
didates. Voting was light with
only about one-half of the pot-
ential being exercised. In the
Honey Island box voting strength
was only about a third.
Votes by the boxes were;
Ktz HI.
Walcott 339 20
Hargrove 312 14
Traugott 286 17
Hall 207 18
Wheeler 118 14
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MOTHER
DAUGHTER
BANQUET
Lamar College student, Wisutr
M. Yontwises of Thilland will
be guest speaker at Kountze FHA
Mother and daughter banquet
Thursday night at 7:30. He will
speak on home and family life
and customs of his country. The
group is looking forward to an
enjoyable evening. •
CHUCKLE OF THE WEEK:
A man on radio says the edi-
tor is trying to run Hardin County,
That’s a laugh. He can’t even run,
this paper.
Same feller said this paper
was being supported by thousands
of dollars each week. Well, who
ever is sending the money must
be sending it wrong. Our box
number is 791, Kountze. Please,
Mr; Rich Backer get busy and
send it in. The bill collectors
are hounding us..
- BULLETIN-
A Pine Needier has informed
this newspaper that the Chance-
Loeb School District is in the Pro
jg
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CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN-
cess of purchasing 20 acres of land p “ * u f""
for the location of a new, modem ""“T: Th* GeI”an ShePheti-
high school plant. We were also £“? ^
informed that dre fire department G°™’ " -!own h“ ^
has also purchased a one acre tr-T 14 PUp£>leS- Ak° piotured’
act adjoining said 20 acres.
KOUNTZE BAND WINS AWABD
The Kountze High School Band
won a second division in the Con-
cert Contest and a third division
in the Sightreading Contest held
this past Friday at Lamar College.
Friday’s Contest involved a total
of fourteen class A A Bands from
Rdgion ’Xll and was under the
rules and regulations of the Uni-
versity Interscholastic League.
The Band performed its three
concert numbers at 10:00 A.M.
in the Lamar Auditorium. Then,
immediately following this per-
forman ce, the students went to
the Lamar Tech„Bandhall where
theSightreadingcontest was being
held. This contest requires a band
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GIRL OF THE YEAR--Pictured years. She lettered in basketball
ABOVE, Miss Rita Jean Brown, 2 years and played volleyball
daughter of Mrs. Ruby Mae
Brown of Saratoga has won the
honor to be girl of the year in
the West Hardin FHA chapter.
She won the title by being the
most active chapter member in
getting points during the year.
2 years.
She served as president of her
class her freshman year and was
class secretary this year.
Rita Jean appeared in the
classes Who’s Who as most in-
tellectual in her class and has
mailing address
■jiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiCof the FHA chapter for two
The high point girl is always the been on the honor roll 2 years,
t winner. She won out over Roxie She is a very sweet and charm-
jean Payne. ing young girl, so lets all boost
Miss Brown is a very intellec- Rita and wish her a lots of good
tual and studious sophomore stu- luck as she goes forward into her
dents at West Hardin High School, next two years of school because
She has been an active member she is a very deserving person.
to play a selection after being
given only five minutes to look i
over.
Judges for the Concert Con-
test were Floyd Weger, Paris
High School, Ralph Rowe, Con-
roe High School, and Weldon
Covington, Austin Independent
School District. Judges for the
Sightreading Contest were John
Bennett, Crosby High School,
Hal Spencer, Marlin High
School, and L. M, Snavely, Mc-
Allen High School.
Band members taking part
in this contest were: Linda Bar-
tholow, Dwight Blackwell, Bar-
bara Blessing, Robbie Broussard,
Janice Coe, Olivia Daniels, John
Davis, Dani Eversol, Barbara
Herrington, Margaret James,
Karen Keevert, Elizabeth Kirk,
Kay Mills, Elaine McCoy, Gayle
Overstreet, Trevor Pinder, Ro-
bert Pulliam, Louis Sahde r s,
Betsy Simms, Mahala Simms,
Voilet Smallwood, Barbara Trau-
gott, Glenn Walker, Mark Wil-
liams, Sarah Williams, Wayne
Williford, and James Young.
SILSBEE S1BAW
VOTE FAVOBS
PABKIN6 LOT
Silsbee voters in a record vote
for a city councilman’s election
voted to permit the city to turn
Santa Fe Park over to downtown
business interests to be made into
a free parking lot. The vote was
677 to 455 for the parking lot.
This was not a binding vote but
should be influencial in deter-
mining the issue. The large vote
against the move indicated that
there was a large number of
Silsbee citizens opposed since
there was no organized opposi-
tion to the parking lot.
In the Councilman’s race, H.
C, Hopkins, Veteran councilman
led the ticket with 773, follow-
ed bypaul Georgas 666, Johnnie
Fordinal 575, V. C. Caraway
467, H. M. (Dusty) Jones, 452,
and Rev. D. L, Jones 286. The
three top candidates were elect-
ed.
LEFT TO RIGHT, are the lovely
Como Children, Sarah, Donna,
and Peggy, Mrs. Como says this
is Princess* second litter, the
first one also was 14 puppies.
(Pine Needle Staff Photo)
WHITAKER
SERVICES
HELD
Funeral services for William
Whitaker, 51, Silsbee, Hardin
County Sheriff, was held at 2
p. m. Friday in- the First Bapt-
tist Church in Silsbee.
The Rev. Carroll Cole, pas-
tor of the Kountze Baptist Church
officiated. Assisting was the Rev.
R. E. Barclay, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Silsbee.
Burial was in Frank’s Branch
Cemetery, near Fred, under dr-
ection of the Farmer Funeral
Home of Silsbee.
Pallbearers were Frank Payne,
Tom Burch, D. W. Richardson,
E. E. Cotton, Fletcher Richard- !
son, Sherman Wor they, Lee Mil-
ler and Rex Worley.
County deputy sheriffs, police-
men and highway patrolmen were
designated honorary pallbearers.
Whitaker died Thursday at
7:45 a.m. in his apartment in
the Hardin County Court House.
A native of Hardin County, he
was elected sheriff in 1953. He
TARVER
IN TAX SUIT
On April’s Fool Day the City
of Silsbee quit fooling around
with its Chief of Police, G.~ C.
Tarver, and filed a suit for se-
ven years of back deliquent city
taxes. The taxes were for the
years 1957, 1958, 1959, I960,
1961, 1962, and 1963. In case
inumber 7057 on the Hardin
County Docket styled the city
•of Silsbee vs. G. C. Tarver
5city tax attorney C. L. Chance
(filed suit for $64.24 in back city
itaxes, $15.50 in penalty and in-
terest, $7. 00 in cost or a total
of $83. 74.
The property involved is Lots
1 and 2, Block 5, South Silsbee
jj.Addition (Woodrow).
The suit was filed April 1,1964
at 9:30 A. M. The citation was
served on the Chief of Police at
8; 15 P. M. on the same day.
People on the streets of Silsbee
estimated that during this same
seven years that the Chief of Po-
lice was not paying his taxes, he
drew approximately $40,000.00.
in salary from the City of Silsbee.
At press time the lawyer still
had his job,___
KOUNTZE CITY
ELECTION
Kountze citizens went
to the polls and re-elected
Mayor Pat Pace for another
term. Also re-elected with-
out opposition were Council-
men Truett Williford and T,
B. Roundtree.
served as .a deputy sheriff from
1944 until his election as sher-
iff.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs,
Willie Whitaker, Siibee; two
sisters, Mrs. E. w, Bell and Mrs,
Clarence Dehart, both of Silsbee;
and a sister-in-law, Miss Em-
ma Bell, Silsbee.
KOUNTZE
Boyd's Cafe
Central Garage
Drake's Drive In
Kountze Hardware
Kountze Pharmacy
Marshall's Grocery
Mary's Cafe
Moore's Super Mkt
Phillip's 66 Station
Pine Needle
Smith's Super Value
l'op Half Drive In
Wheeler's Drive In
William's Farm fe Home
Williford's Grocery
HONEY ISLAND
Orand Grocery
SARATOGA
Mid-Way Gro.
Basils* Service Station
Cleava's Shop
Crouch Dry Goods
Crawford's Cafe
Brammer's Gro.
Big Thicket Inn
Son Collins’ Gro.
Babe Martins Gro.
BATSON
Hobb's Gro.
Rhoden Cafe
THICKET
PICK-UP STATIONS
SILSBEE
Andy's Drive In
City News Stand
.Byrds Drivfe Tnn
Ivy’s Grocery
Min-I-Max
Nifty Drive In
Pat's Drive In
Ray's Food Town
Silsbee Print and Copy Shop
Crockett-Gi lchriest
Silsbee Packing House
Williamson's Wrecking Yard
Ruggle's Cash Grocery
Bus Station
Peavy’s Gror.Ty
Langton’s Fixit Shop
CANEY i IE:- D
T&M Drive Iini
Callaway's Gro,
Dominy’s Dr vc-inn ^
SOUR LAKE
Aline’s Drive Inn Grocery
Verdie’s Cafe
CHANCE-LOEB
B fe C Drive In
Burge Drive In
Cochran's Grocery
Jeffcoat's Feed Store
Jeffcoat's Ser. Station
Milner's Gro,
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Thompson, Houston. The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [13], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1964, newspaper, April 9, 1964; Kountze, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth847545/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.