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Gordon Baxter (December 25, 1923 – June 11, 2005), nicknamed Bax, was a well-known Texas radio personality, an author of books and a columnist for newspapers and magazines. He was a lifelong resident of Southeast Texas, having grown up in Port Arthur where he was born.
It became a daily under editor W.W. McLeod in 1896 or 1897, to compete with crosstown rival Beaumont Journal [4] (founded 1889). [5] In 1907, William P. Hobby became manager and part owner of the Enterprise [6] and bought the paper outright in 1920, [7] while Governor of Texas. One of his co-owners was general manager/associate publisher James ...
Byars married Joyce Ratcliff, the daughter of Viola Walsh and Midlredge B. Ratcliff; they had two sons, Jessie Thomas Byars Jr., born September 30, 1949, [51] in Beaumont and Robert Wayne "Bubba" Byars, born October 3, 1951, in Beaumont. [52] Byars left 5 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. [1]
The Examiner is an investigative weekly newspaper based in Beaumont, Texas published by the Examiner Corporation. It calls itself "The Independent Voice of Southeast Texas". [1] The paper was founded in 1996 and its staff has been awarded a variety of local, state and national awards. [2] [3] [4]
Miles Franklin "Frank" Yount (born January 31, 1880, in Monticello, Arkansas, died November 13, 1933, in Beaumont, Texas [1]) eventually came to head up one of the most successful private oil companies in the United States.
John Henry Phelan (December 11, 1877 – May 19, 1957), was an American oil producer and philanthropist. In partnership with Miles Franklin Yount, he worked for the Yount-Lee Oil Company.
Frustrations are mounting across southeast Texas as residents enter a fourth day of crippling power outages and heat, a combination that has proven dangerous – and at times deadly – as ...
Southeast Texas is a cultural and geographic region in the U.S. state of Texas, bordering Southwest Louisiana and its greater Acadiana region to the east. Being a part of East Texas, the region is geographically centered on the Greater Houston and Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan statistical areas with a combined population of 7,662,325 according to the 2020 U.S. census.