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VOLUME 58 — NUMBER 36
SILSBEE, TEXAS 77656
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1976
20 PACES IN 3 SECTIONS
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Tigers Take On Greenies Friday
“The team that wins this Park)
COMMENDED STUDENT — Roy Simmons re-
ceives a hearty handshake from high school prin-
cipal S. A. Wallace.
one will win the zone,” is the
way Coach Ray MeGallion put
it in summing up the Friday
night Tiger - South Park en-
counter at Greenie Stadium.
“This is the game,” he said,
and added that “this (South
Simmons Is Named A
Commended Student By N.A.S.P.
Their
is a tough bail club.,
quarterback (Aitlui
Delon: c-wisc the Greenie-jtremendously as this has been
L r, .. k Bridge City was a weak point,” the Tiger nien-
Lewis) is a good scramble able
ie three times, but
and passer and can throw
deep on the run.” Ilis favor-
ite receivers arc wingback
Darrell Mouton and split end
Ricky Thomas. lVIcGallion’s
scouting reports show Mouton
to be the faster of the two,
and either of them can break
the long one.
other opponents have found it
difficult to cross the goal line.
Jasper only scored six on them
the week before last.
Looking at the bright side,
McGal!ion raid ruard Myles
Coward wou'd be back, but
only to f’lap for. punts and
place kicks. "This will help
tor commented.
The Bengal lineup will re-
main just about the same, he
said, with the exception of
quarterback. “Green (Norris)
did a good job in the second
half last week and Avery (Ri-
chard) threw well," McGal-
lion said.
He praised Green and the
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other backs for their ability
to hold on to the ball with a
minimum of fumbles during
the heavy second half down-
pour al Jasper.
OFFENSE
15-Richard Avery, 14(1, quar-
terback; JO - Robert Arline,
169, tailback; 26 - Ronald W.
Robertson, 190, wingback; 33 -
William Graham, 176, fullback;
50-Tim Albrecht, 182, center;
62-Alan Sanford, 168, left
guard; 68 - Don McGinnis, 182,
right guard; 74-Dunny Doyen,
201, right tackle; 75-David
Norton, 224, left tackle; 82 -
Rayford Dolford, 185, split end;
85-Dwight Fobbs, 182, tight
end.
Roy E. Simmons, son of Mr. basketball and band, was a
and Mrs. Emett D. Simmons class representative, a member
Sr., of 405 South 10th Street, of the Junior Engineering Tech
is one of 2,700 students to qua- Society, and a member of the
lify as a commended student by National Honor Society. He is a
the National Achievement senior this year at Silsbee
Scholarship Program for Out- High School. He plans to at-
standing Negro Students. The tend Lamar University in
announcement was made Tues- Beaumont, although he has
day afternoon. heard from many other schools
Roy, who has participated in through' 1 he nation, including
Burglary, Two Accidents
Are Investigated By Police
The Silsbee Police Depart-
ment experienced another quiet
week, according to Police Chief
A. L. Burleson. Police officers
made six arrests for various
dimes, including three public
intoxication cases, one expired
driver’s license, one driving
while intoxicated charge, and a
burglary charge.
The burglary occurred on
Oct. 18 at 10:06 at the Cajun
Delight. A local juvenile was
caught trying to break into the
car, according to police reports
There were no inuries.
The second accident happen-
ed on Oet. 16 on North Fifth
Street. David Lee Stanley, 38.
of 620 Knupple Road, was driv-
ing south on North Fifth, when
the car driven by Willie Ed-
ward Anderson, 64, of 480
Dunlin Drive pulled in front oi
him, while making a left turn
across the south bound traffic
into a gas station, police say
Stanford, Not e Dame, at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Each student honored has
been designated a “commended
student” in the thirteenth an-
nual National Achievement
Scholarship Program for Out-
standing Negro Students. More
than 55,000 black students took
the 1975 Preliminary Scholastic
Aptitude Test National Merit
Scholarship Qualifying Test
(PSAT NMSQT) and indicated
on their answer sheets that
they wished to participate in
the 1977 Achievement Program.
The PSAT NMSQT Selection j
Index scores ol Achievement
Program Commended students
place them in th" upper ten
per cent of black students who
take the test. Although these
students perform well, their
scores are below the level re-
quired for Semifinalist stand-
ing in the Achievement Pro-
gram.
Only the names of the ap-
proximately 1,500 Semifinalists
who will continue in the 1977
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Silsbee’s raging Tigers
kept their No. eight spot in
the Associated Press school-
boy rankings this week and
also have enjoyed the No. 4
rating in the Houston Post
area football standings for
the past few weeks.
The Post selects schools
from the Houston area.
The Tigers arc rated be-
hind llehert, Humble and
Dickinson in that order. Sils-
bcc and Hebert, the No. one
ranked Al‘ team, are mem-
bers of District 9-3A.
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. „ , 23-Tommy Golden, 150, halt-
fyf, 'back; 10-Norris Green, half-
back; 85-Dwight Fobbs, 182,
safety; 35-Mark Gore, 168, lov-
er back; 38-Doug Shankie,
205, linebacker; 0(l-Eddic ltohy,
149, nose guard; 62-Alan S.in-
ford, 168. end; 64-C’raig Medal-
lion, 178, linebacker; VU-iJa-
vul Jones, 191, tackle, 78-
Johuny Hooks, tackle; 8(1-
Greg Edwards, 172, end.
Contact was made with thelcompetition
premises, and was held bv the , jyht front of the Stanley carl Scholarships
manager, Gwen Russell, until
policemen arrived.
Officers wore also called to
the scene of two minor car ac-
cidents. On October 15 officers
were called to the scene of a
two car accident at 8:1)5 at the
intersection of Durdin Drive
and South 96. Don Wayne Mat-
thews, 17, of Rt. 1 Box 991,
Silsbee, was driving west on
Durdin Drive and failed to stop
at the red light, pulling out
and turning north on 96. Ken-
neth Ray Franks, 21), of 305 E.
Ave, H. Silsbee. was unable
to stop, as the Matthews car
pulled out in front of him, and
struck the side of
for Achievement
arc announced
to the rear of the Anderson)publicly.
car. There were no injuries, j The fourteenth annual (1978)
Silsbee police offices also!Achievement Program will be-
wrote out 19 traffic tickets and ft"' with the administration of
issued 14 warnings to area tlri-|,hc PSAT/NMSQI on Oct. 1. £><
V01.s ior 23. 1976. Black students who|
, will complete secondary school
Two Si shoe men P eaded c()Uo m 1078 alld
gmlty to dnymg while inlox-, wish to compete for
.rated m Jefferson County j Achjevcmcnt ScholarshipS to
, be awarded that year must
U take the 1976 PSAT, NMSQT.
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Derrek Shelton To
Return To Tiger
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Patrick was fined $50
court costs and two years pro-
bation of a 90-day jail sen*1
fence.
Robert Withers was fined;
*“• "*comt T.‘tS“In Mishap Wednesday:
THE GAME-KNOTTING SCORE came late in the
second quarter when Ronald Robertson quilled in
this pass from quarterback Norris Green and strug-
gled the remaining three yards into the end zone.
The Tigers went on in the second half to score 15
points and win their second victory in as many
starts in intra-zone play. Final score in the con-
test: Silsbee 29 - Jasper 13. _ _
Gertie Brown Injured
Precinct Voting
Locations Announced
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year probation of a
Matthews’l sentence. „ ______
Gertie Brown, Box 619, Sils-
bee, was injured in a car-trac-
tor trailer accident, which oc-
curred at 11:30 a.in. Wednes-
day. The accident happened on
North Fifth Street on the San-
ta Fe railroad crossing.
An unidentified person, driv-
ing a green Ford cut in front
of a Kirby tractor trailer driv-
Tuesday Nov. 2 will be the Center Baptist Church, Mrs. en by Daryl Gene Venable of
date for the general election Eddie Loltin 855 North filth Stieet, Silsbee.
to elect the President, Vice No. 7 — Kountzr. Emanuel j Venable blew his horn to warn
President members of Con- Baptist Church. L. Pattillo it he driver, and the loud blast
the Legislature. Slate. No. 8 — Village Mills, Moth-!of the horn caused Miss Brown
and Precinct odist Church, Mamie Waddell I to slop her car because she
No. 9 — Silsbee, Fire Hall.!thought the horn was a train's
Richard E. Jones 1 whistle. j number
No. H) — Silsbee, Jr. High! Venable swung out to avoid
County will be able to vote in;C».vmn. E. J
their respective precincts from No. 0 ~~
gtess.
District. County
officers, and the voting on two
constitutional amendments.
Registered voters of Hardin
Mrs. Janice Warren Prizes
1872 Voter Registration Receipts
the United States, a resident of was overjoyed to place her,a careful listing of birth dates.
treasure in responsible hands. Stephen Simmons and his wife
Janice Warren brought the Anna were both born in 1797.
box home to Silsbee. There is They were just twenty when
their first child arrived. Eight
7:l)ll a.tn. until 7:01) p.m.
Diet rick j the green Ford and struck the
Silsbee, Willy Mac Brown car, which had conic to
Church (Roc. Hall), Jack Gore a stop by this time.
, No. 12 — Kountze, County Miss Brown was taken to
Voting locations arc listed by I5arn j0hn Traugott Memorial Hospital in Kountze
Piecmct Boxes, followed by No. 13 _ Lumberton, Middle1 and was complaining of back
city, location and Election j School, Darnell Gardner and neck pains. She was later
Judge. 1 N() _ pjnc wood, Realty transferred to St. Elizabeth
Box No. 1 — Kountze, Fire (-0 jq,s p w. Young Hospital in Beaumont. The ex-
Hall. Curtis Davis " ! No. 15 — Sour Lake, Com- tent of her injuries are not
No 3 Saratoga. Fire Hall, munitv Center, D. W. Theriot known.
Mu. Guy Flowers Jr. No. 17 - Fine Ridge, Baptist! The driver of the green Ford
No. 4 — Hull-Batson. Mason- Church, H. E. Fullmer jeontinued north, never stop
it Lodge, Mrs. D. A. Shaw Absentee Judge Mrs. Me- ping, and city police haven :
No. 5 — Thicket - Votaw. Kim (Louise ) 'been able to locate the driver.
I AST FRlpAY NIGHT
2 Injured In Shotgun
Shootout Near Spurger
By BARBARA l’ARI T
As November 2 approaches.| IT’xa!!’a,,d 11 mali: ovci tvvemy-
news editors hnd TV conimen- 0110 >'cals ««*-'’ Hu t,K'n
takns speak frequently of the! marked his X on the piopu
JW«. Rosa Davenport
of citizens who have "ell cared for. 1) is neither JJjgj ^efe Wednesday
bolhcroa lo loslolcr « oK »r vollooo.l lo * ^ ^ ||jness
Practice Monday
Coach Ray Medallion was
all smiles Wednesday when
he announced that halfback
Derrek Shelton had been
pronounced well and would
he hack in pads next Mon-
day. “His doctor X-rayed
him and said he was well,"
the happy roach said.
Shelton, picked by sports
writers as an all-district
prospect as the season open-
ed. separated his collarbone
the third time he carried the
Da 11 against West Orange in
the first game.
little intention „f exercising'011'-'- 'ho Spencerian script
their voting privilege. 11 hns|Jk'iUcr that it was wiitten
not always been so.
104
Mrs. Rosa Meigs Davenport,
j years ago, dinting the recon-Wednesday at 6 a.m.
One of Mrs. Janice Warren’s!^'f^'.pCriod fol,OW‘ng ,tU'ft' Silsbee Doctors Hospital af-
, ,. j'-ivii wai. ter ;i brief illness,
most pitted possessions is the j jyjrs Warren discovered the! Funeral services for Mrs.
voter registration certificate is-,document in ;i box of family Davenport will be held at 10
sued to her great-greal-great- mementos long buried in her a.m. Friday in the Farmer Fu-
arandfather. On Nov. 4. 1872!gr;indmother’s cedar c h e s t.m ral chapel. Burial will he in
Stephen Simmons appeal'd be- Column Cone is wi ll into her iho Hasthaven Cemetery,
foie the Registrar of Voters eighties. When her grandchild. A na.ixe of Brooklyn. Tex.
for Guadalupe County and on a recent visit, indicated an : (n had re irled in Silsbee foi
swoie tliat he was a eilizrii of interest in family history, she’the part 62 wars. She was a
former schis 1 leather and own-
gHMt3 2 "d and operated the Davenport
'■ ’M Florist Shop for the past srv-
eral years. She was a rnonibe;
of the First Baptist Church ana
of SiNbre Chapler 298 Ordei
1 f Eastern. Star.
A man and a woman were in the area where he believed
injured in a shootout lad Fri- Ids son was. Offir rs sa,d h”
clai night north of Spurger, as told hi.- wife, "I’m afraid out
hunters and a property own t son is dead,” and he went to
resorted to guns instead of in» estigate.
words to settle their problems. /\s |n> ran down to the are."
According to Texas Hanger w,u,|0 , t.|j,.Ved his sen U
Everett Smith of Jasper. the,t_ u<< ______, ..........m, sho.
Frank Grissom home, which ls|>»- llL' heard on.
idiout. three miles north of Grissom said he found his su
Spurger. was shot at live times) with a shotgun and a group of
by someone in a pickup with j hunters with guns tending t
a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with I m injured man
squirrel shot. Gri.sttttti’s
wife,
Doris was struck with nine
pellets in the shooting and wa.-
Tho injured man, James Al
faro of 486 South Eighth Strer1
of Silsbee. had apparently be°t
?aken to Tyler Counlv Hirpi'-ri shot by Grissom's son, Range
whore she is listed in gpodjStnii’n said,
condition. ! Alfaro was rusher! 11 Bap-
Gris'som returned fire nil theltist Hospital in Beaumont
pickup that was speeding riway | wlwre lie is listed in gqhri con-
after the attack on the house.ldit/irm.
G'dssom 'old Smith that, he, Ty'er O only Sh-riff ' "iii-
had heard more shooting down'Cravens was contacted Wcd-
netday morning, and confirmee
unith’r stoiv. He added that
10 arrests have hern made yet.
and that extensive invesiiga-
ion must be done before the
tuirient in cleared up.
Smith reported that the
Grissom' family had been
lircatened before by hunters
who wanted to hunt on theii
'leperty. Smith stated that
Grissom's life had been threat-;
■ned by a couple of angry
turners.
Wiien asked about the trou-
'lc between Grissom and hunt-
ers. Sheriff Cravens said.
"That’s not all of it. there’s
a lot more going on here than
meets the eye." The Sheriff,
however, would not explain
my farther what he meant by
•hi- last statement, only that the
investigation was continuing.
Survivors arc one sen. Dav-ldicn,” it reads
others followed. Amanda, the
youngest, was horn when they
were forty-two. No deaths arc
recorded.
But a beautifully penned will
bequeaths all household goods,
cattle, horses, and land hold-
ings to Amanda and a single
grandson. Did only one of the
nine children survive? Mrs.
Warren wishes these papers
might speak, for her unanswer-
ed questions grow.
There is a faded photograph
of Great -Great - Grnndmothei
Amanda with her five grand-
children. She appears a hand-
some but unsmiling woman.
Janice Warren knows that
'-lie was widowed — that a se-
cond marriage ended in di-
vorce. A poignant letter of fare-
well was carefully filed away
with Amanda's papers. “H1
member me kindly to the chil-
li id Davenport Sr. ol Silsbot
sisli is, Mrs. Li he V 1
Jasper and Mrs. Leona)
a eland.
There is a tin type ol a sty
lish young man — no idetUin-
Couple Are
Arrested For
Bank Fraud
A Kountze couple was ar-
rested on Oct. 13 in connection
with a bank fraud which oc-
curred at the East Texas State
Bank of Buna. James V. Shep-
herd and liis wife Ann Louie
Shepherd, both of Box 95,
Kountze, were apprehended by
Hardin County Deputy Charles
Laird and Texas Hanger II.is-
kell Taylor at 5:30 pan. in
Kountze.
Mr. Shepherd was taken to
the Hardin County Courthouse,
where lie was arraigned by
Justice of the Peace Cecil Ov-
erstreet. Bond was set at $10,-
000.
Mrs. Shepherd was taken to
Jasper County, where site was
charged, arraigned and freed
on $10,000 bond.
The charges came following
an im esiigation of a 1 epot t< d
worthless check epeiaticn re-
ported by East T xas Slate
Bank in Buna.
The Hardin Coin y Stic ill s
' ll lice also ini r-,! ; ,! <i tin
burglaries this pa. I week t'u
Jet. 9. Fred it. Roger of
Grin e.s, repoi le i that his e.inip
(See Warren, See. 1, Page 7) i(Sec FRAUD.
Page 7)
S1SD Entering Second
Phase Of Accreditation
MRS. JANICE WARREN
The educational goals tha
were recently written by ,
on;;: idee established Dst Feb-
ruary have been arc ptrd hi
tjie Silsbee Boaid of Kduc 1
lion. They ire now l-ihg pri-
oritized and evaluated, hv
cross section of the populatin''
within 'the school ribt;iet. a
well as stnri',n.t> and educator
These goals and indicators a
prioritized by the community
will lie submitted to the Texa
Educational Agency, Divisior
of School Accreditation, for ap-
proval.
At the present time Sit,-be
wheels are in tile second pitas
if the accreditation pt'oee.-
vhieh is self evaluation. Al
earners and adm.inistra'or
s" involved in this proves
Che 1 e ults ol this. ''If to aitia-
;1! noilit up I he : t evict’:
he -1 if vnluatio
ional system in
c involved in e
ive year plan for r
■ ifica1111 -■. dis 1 ep>1
tl
Ft
eduea-
" will
1 lishing a
du mg sig-
■i i]pi;(I. in
| tiitden* 'eeniiic mi' ’iyo 's. and
disci epaney need :rt progiams
■illd resource sunpoi'l nm-,' .-a; v
mil weaknesses of our present h-’ achieve the district geal-.
due.,non,'i| program. R’ccom-! The results of iho-'c off0.^
niftidatipiis for improvement^ on the part of peonle within
'o meet the goals will also bcithc coiimiiinity of Silshoe, slu-
imade. (This phase mn.-t. hi dent-, and educa'ors should
j'onip'eted by July 1, 1977.1’bring ailoul an out standi r,{g cd-
I Following the completion ol u.rational program tor this urea.
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