The Pine Needle (Kountze, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 9, 1965 Page: 1 of 10
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News Sund
Puce
OPERATION BOOTSTRAP
The voice of Hardin County
GENE BARRINGTON
103 GOODHUE BLDG.
BEAUMONT, TEX, 777
VOLUME n, NUMBER XXXV
KOUNTZE, HARDIN COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1965
Big TWicket
PAST
PRESENT
FUTURE
IYNDA FERGUSON “MISS LOUISIANA
COMPETING FOR “MISS AMERICA
For die past few years, newspa-
pers, magazines, and scientific
Journals have been publishing more
articles about air and water polution
The public has become aroused
to the extent that laws are being
passed to control die polution of
our fresh water streams, although
in some areas, industries on whom
the economy of that area depends
seem to be immune to those laws.
Having lived in mid-Jefferson*
County, surrounded by six major
oil refineries, two chemical plants,
a sulphur refinery,a: synthetic rub-
ber plant, a chicken feed deriva-
tive plant, and die county dump
I can speak with some feeling, if
not authority, on the subject of
air polution and can tell you now
that there is little done about it
At the Texaco Refinery in the days
before air conditioning, office
Workars would pass out from die
femes, and no one who has never
smelled it could imagine an odor
like furferat a chemical used to
die Rubber Plant, one whiff of
which hits all the way down to
your toes and makes your hair sund
on end.When die north wind blows
it brings vapors from the chicken
feed' plant that make you paper
mill smell like Spring violets. ( Put
allthat together and you will under*
sund why we > live in Hardin
County. JDn the flat coasul plains,
there is nothing to stop die spread
of fumes and the entire area is in-
undated with a blend of fog from
the Gulf and gasses from chemicals
and consumed fuels.
The September Reader's Digest
contains a most alarming article
on air polution, written by a pub-
lic health consultant, called "With
every breath you uke I "He contend
that man is poisoning his inviro-
ment sufficient to alter the earth's
climate and make it uninhabiuble,
and is so convincing it scares you.
What makes it so convincing are
the sutisticsdn Manhattan in 1953,
175 people died in ten days from
smog;a year before, 4,000 died in
a smog that covered London, and
1000. again in 1956. Even worse
than the fauliti.es are the millions
whose respiratory and circulatory
systems are being irreparably dam-
aged. If the fumes in the air we
breathe can peel the paint right off
buildings and corrode stone and
meUl.whatmust it be doing to the
delicate tissues of our lungs,throats,
sinuses and eyes!
The author of this article is not
an isolatectcrackpot. Last week ,
the Beaumont Enterprise published
a report by a former head of Me-
teorology (weather) in the United
Sutes.He estimated that in a hun-
dred years.earth's atmosphere can-
not susuin life.
Fortunately, mankind does not
have to sit back and wait for die
(Continued on page 8)
In Talent, Beauty Baseant
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50 of Nation's Loveliest
Vie for Miss Ameriea
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-SUPPORT IYNDA-
This week Lynda Ferguson is representing die Sure of Louis-
iana, die City’of Silsbee, and the County of Hardin at the
Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. Of course, all of us
wish Lynda the best of luck because we think she deserves the
title "Miss America" and we are also mindful of the fact that
she has ^insisted that Silsbee is^her hometown. We know that
if she wins this week in Atlantic City that our City and our
County will be pushed forward by the publicity she will re-
ceive.We hope she wins, first for her sake. We hope she wins,
second, for our sake.
We at die Pine Needle have already let Lynda know we’re
behind her. We urge you to write her at Miss America Head-
quarter;, Atlantic City, New Jersey. We have checked with
the local Western Union Office and 5 people can send a tele-
gram for sixty cents each.
Lynda needs to know the folks in her town are behind her.
And we want all America to know that we think she should be
Miss America.
SILSBEE CHAMBER SUPPORTS LYNDA
The Silsbee Chamber of Com-
merce urges the local citizenry to
write or wire Lynda Ferguson, Miss
Louisiana, in care of Miss America,
Pageant Headquarters, Atlantic
THE PINE NEEDLE
EDITOR-
PICTURE EDITOR-
JAMES C. JENNINGS
.....THOMAS BEAN
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/ TIGERS OPEN THIS FRIDAY AGAINST HUNTSVILLE---Pictured kneeling Lett to Right--David
|S£utts, Lynn Stephenson, Bobby Whisncant, Ricky Willis, Ronnie Langston, and Johnny Reeves.
I Standing Leut to Right-Larry Seaman, Bo W lbprn, Kenny Gibson, Larry Jackson, Ronnie Beal, Barry
I Eason, Alton Cryer, and diaries Lewis. Tom Bean--Photo 1
MAYOR PAT PACE
SECURES $7500
FOR AIRPORT
HARDIN COUNTY CRIPPLE
CHILDREN SOCIETY TO MEET
A meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Hardin County Society
for Crippled Childreji and Adults
will be held Thursday, September
9,in the commissioner’s courtroom
in Kountze. Mrs. Lola Bryan of
Kountze, newly elected president
will preside.
At this meeting committee chair
man appointment will be announ-
ded; the treasurer will give the
annual report; the proposed budget
for 1965-66 will be presentedjplans
for the annual dinner meeting will
be made and acheduled regular
meeting dates announced.
All persons interestedin the work
of the Association are invited to
attend.
Billy Graham Will Hold Texas Crusade
City, New Jersey.
Miss Ferguson is competing for
the title of Miss America and is
representing Silsbee, since this is
her home.She has said, many times
that this is her home and her heart
is always in Silsbee.
Let her know that all the home
folks are pulling for her to gain the
title of Miss America 1965. Let’s
don’t let her down.
ATLANTIC CITY- Fifty of die
nation's njpst beautiful girls-most
of whom are college students see-
king scholorships - will compete
thisweek in a four-day talent and
beauty examination that will end
with one being named Miss Amer-
ica 1966.
The agenda for the exam includ-
es a preponderance of pulchritude,
poise and personality but with a
special emphdsis on talent.
The girl who scores the highest
gradewilireceive a$10,000 scho-
larship, personal appearance con-
tracts valued at some $80,000 and
Continued on Page 7
Churches from all over Sou-
theastern Texas ahe expected to
participate In the Billy Gra-
ham Greater Houston Crusade
for Christ to be held here Oct-
ober 8-17. Dr. Walter H. Sm-
yth, executive vice president
of the Billy Graham Evangelis-
tic Association and director of
the Houston Crusade, says that
people from many sections of
the state have Indicated they
will attend the meetings.
All nine meetings will be
held In the Astrodome and will
begin at 7:30 p.m., except on
the two Sundays, when they will
start at 3:00 p.m.
All seats are free and open
to the public, Dr. Smyth says,
Although a special section will
be* reserved for groups requ-
esting blocks of seats. Out-
of-town groups wanting reserv-
ed seats should send their re-
quests to the Billy Graham Cr-
usade Office, 1212 Main Street,
^Houston, Texas, 77002. Indiv-
iduals dq not need tickets, and
need not make reservations.
In addition to the nightly ser-
mon by Billy Graham, special
features of the crusade will be
■the mass choir under the dir-
ection of Cliff Barrows, and
music by soloists George Bev-
erly Shea, Ray Robles, and
Ethel Waters. A choir of 3,
000 is being recruited, some 2,
000 of which are expected to
sing nightly.
Crusade officials report that
1,000 ushers have volunteered
to handle the crowds at the
50,000-seat “Dome.”
Four associate evengellsta
will accompany Dr. Graham to
the state and will speak th-
roughout the area during die
week. These are the Rev. Ralph
Bell, the Rev. Joe Blinco, Dr.
Grady Wilson, and Dr. T. W.
Wilson. Also with Dr. Gra-
ham will be pianist Tedd Smith,
organist Dr. Donald P. Hus tad,
crusade director Walter Smyth,
and special assistant StanMoo-
neyham.
A crusade executive commit-
tee of more than 50 ministers
and business leaders, repres-
enting many denominations, has
been formed from the greater
Houston area. Mr. Earl c.
Hankamer, a Houston oil oper-
ator, Is chairman, and two cl-
ergymen — the Right Rev. J.
Milton Richardson, Bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese of Te»-
*s,
Mayor Pat Pace of Kountze ap-
peared before the TexasAeronautics
Commission in Austin on Septem-
ber 2 in a request for funds to de-
velop the Kountze Municipal Air-
port. Since appearing the Mayor
has been notified that a $7500.
grant is being made available to
him as a result of the Commission
hoarding. Mayor Pace pointed out
to the group diat Kountze was in
the National Airport Plan as design-
ed by the Federal Avaition Agency
and when notified of this he im-
mediately went to work to develop
an airport. A Iso that industry would
be interested in such a facility as
well as oil and gas interests in. the
area.The W onder ofthe Big Thicket
will bring tourists into the area and
thisfacility will aid them said Ma-
yor Pace.
In presenting information to the
Commission, Mayot Pace used
copies of the Pine Needle who gave
excelle.nt photographic coverage of
the airport area under development
a few weeks ago.
The availability of funds was
made possible by the legislature
passing H. Q. 43%which made pos-
sible these funds of cities from the
State of Texas, Mayor Pace had
the priviledge of appearing before
the House Committee when this
bill was being considered. He ap-
peared with the Chairman of the
Texas Aeronautics Commission in
favor of this bill. He also appeared
at a budget hearing for the Com-
mission. This is the first bill which
enables state aid to cities and will
undoubtedly serve as a precedent
for future bills enabling State aid
to’ cities in other forms,
RepJEmmett Lack and Sen. Mar-
tin Dies Jr.of Lufkin also supported
this bill in the last session of the
legislature.
Philosopher
Editor's note; The Village Creek
Philosopher on his Fire Ant farm on
Village Creek won't get far with
his idea this week, we predict.
Dear editar;
As important as everynew break-
through is science is, none of them
can hold a candle to anybody who
thinks up a new source of tax rev-
enue.
I have thought up several in the
past,like taxing rainfaUin a drouth
area and sunshine in a rainy area,
so the government would have tax
money coming in, rain or shine,
but haven't gotten very far with
them. Yesterday, I thought up an-
other one.
According to the newspaper, the
J. S. mint is now making a quarter
witlioutany silver in it, but it does
have a copper band around its edge
so it’ll have the proper electrical
properties to work in the nation's
12 million coin-operated vending
machines. Money that wouldn't
work in a coin machine wouldn't
be worth much nowadays.
At the same time, I read that
four and a half million young peo-
ple will be in college this fall.
I don't know why somebodyhasn't
thought of it before, but why don't
colleges and universities set up some
coin-operated machines in the hall
outside every class room door furn-*
ishing answers to examinations?
Where is the student who wouldn't
at one time or another give two-
bits and answer for questions on an
examination?
With over a million students as
aprimemarket, the colleges could
collect a million dollars on every
examination. Any time a college*
needed to add a few books to the
library or a few seats to the stadium,
ask the faculty to give a special
examination.
With a graduated scale, say two-
bits for weekly exams, four-bits
for monthly exams, and at least a
dollar for finals, the coin-operated
answer-machines would do a land-
office business.
I'm not suggesting this, but it’s
well also to bear in mind that there
will be nearly 13 million high sch-
ool students this fa 11 and 36 million
elementary students, and the field
there for coin-operated answer-
machines is vast in case it costs
more to get t6 the moon than we
figured.
Of course though, about the time
they got these machines going and
bringing in the money, somebody
In Washington would think up the
idea of dederal aid in quarters to
help students keep paying for the
answers, and everybody would be
back on the same merry-go-round.
I doubt if this idea will work.
Yours faithfully,
J. A„
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