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Newspaper
Deer Park Progress
Location
Deer Park, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1972
Page
6
A collection of handwritten holiday notes from children to Santa. Each letter expresses good behavior and requests for toys such as dolls bears balloons and pets, with warm wishes for a Merry Christmas.
Tamra Lee expresses happiness for the approaching Christmas season and her desire for toys and a Dall while praising Santa and noting she has been good this year.
Legal notice outlines an ordinance to annex 1.34984 acres adjacent to Deer Park Texas, detailing a public hearing held November 28 1972, notices published November 9 1972, and the amended boundary inclusion of Exhibits D-1 through D-5. It records council readings and official approvals by Mayor W. E. Black and City Secretary Dorothy S. Martin with attestation.
Deed recorded September 11, 1928 in Volume 766 page 421 of the Harris County Deed Records describes a 0.1148 acre tract. It runs from the west right of way line of State Highway No 134, then 100 feet south, then 50 feet west, then 100 feet north and 39 degrees 24 minutes east back to the starting point. Exhibit D-2 No 646.
The text outlines a land description linking a 4.6 acre tract conveyed to Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District by Houston Oil Company on September 11, 1928 and a parcel conveyed to the district by Equity Export Corporation on February 26, 1966. It provides boundary bearings and distances including 116.0 feet northward and 50.00 feet eastward, detailing the southwest corner and successive corners of the tract and strip in Harris County, Texas.
Exhibit D-3 details two tracts owned by Port Terminal Railway Association totaling 0.18364 acres. Tract A sits on the west Rohm and Haas Texas plant boundary in George Patrick Survey and begins at the north line intersection with the common boundary line. Tract B lies on the east plant boundary within A 646 and is defined by metes and bounds starting at the same boundary intersection.
Legal notice portion details tract boundaries for Tract B along Port Terminal Railway property 50 feet west of Rohm and Haas Texas and Rollins Properties. Describes compass bearings and distances totaling 0.11478 acres and 0.06886 acres, with beginning and ending points, and references to adjoining properties.
Beginning at the intersection of the south line of a 100 foot wide tract owned by Harris County tion District and the west line of a B L Ryan to Shell Petroleum deeded tract, then north 0 51 55 west 100 feet to a corner in the north line, then 26 17 east along the north line 400.01 feet to a corner in the east line of Deer Park city limits as described in Ordinance No 039 dated July 28 1955, on file in the City minutes book.
Exhibit D-5 describes a 0.9183 acre tract in Harris County Texas beginning on the south line of a 100 foot wide tract owned by Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District in the Deer Park city limits. It specifies a corner point on the south line and uses bearings South 0 51 55 East and South 89 26 17 West along the 100 foot wide parcel to define the boundary and the place of beginning.
City of Deer Park Texas minutes dated July 28 1956 filed volumes describe a boundary survey along the west city limit and Patricks Bayou. The description includes multiple compass bearings distances totaling 6 9227 acres more or less and references Ordinance No 039 and center of Patricks Bayou.
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