Around Town Highlights from Del Rio Social Roundup
Visitors of Mrs. Ann Briggs include son-in law Robert L Williams Jr and grandson Robert Williams IV from New Orleans. They attended a family wedding in Hondo and visited Del Rio area. PRACTICE for St Joseph Church Mass singers set 6:30 p.m. rehearsal Friday 7:30 p.m. Call 775-3290 if interested. Volunteers needed for July 18 29 summer Mental Retardation Services program. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Call 775-1334. Del Rio TOPS hosts social tonight with weigh-in at 6:30 p.m. at the Bank Community Room. then to 106 Broadview. Joe Castro injured by power mower may be released from hospital. middle finger severed but other fingers likely unaffected. Dutch Treat dinner opens Del Rio High School Class of 1952 reunion at Amistad Lodge Friday night with coffee Saturday at bank directors room. reunion ends with barbecue Saturday at Walt and BienPenn Davenport home.
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Robert L. Williams Jr
New Orleans
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Whaley Home
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Northeast Baptist Hospital
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Del Rio Weather Forecast for the Vicinity Today
Del Rio and vicinity expect cloudy late night and early morning through Friday with possible afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Warm nights and hot afternoons with southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Lows tonight mid 70s, highs Friday near mid 90s. Rain chances 30 percent today tonight and Friday. Sunset 8 47 p.m. Sunrise 6 47 a.m.
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Amistad Elevation and Water Metrics Rise This Morning
Amistad elevation reached 1117.25 feet, up 0.05 from Wednesday. Dam depth at 917.25 feet, up 0.05. Water storage totaled 3,521.68 acre feet, up 1,951. Water surface 65,070 acres, up 26. Downstream flow 2,290 cfs, versus 2,220 cfs on Wednesday.
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Poole Heads to Washington on Immigrant Schooling Crisis
Del Rio’s O B Poole Jr and nine border officials travel July 15 to Washington to press HEW INS and the White House for federal aid to educate immigrant students. They cite 924 immigrant students in SFDRC ISD and a potential $10 million need to expand classrooms. Government involvement urged as borders’ student numbers exceed prior funding.
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Mexico Returns Del Rioan’s Plane After Long Seizure
Del Rican Ben Bonnet’s Piper Cherokee, seized in 1974 after his son flew the wives of Mexican senators to a campaign stop, touched ground in Del Rio today after a release arranged by Texas Atty. Gen. John Hill and Royce Fichte. The craft arrived in McAllen after a 44 hour flight from Mexico City and was then flown to Del Rio International Airport.
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del Rio
News-Herald
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Ima JO Fleetwood
Texas
John Hill
Royce Fichte
Faith Mission
United States
Ehlers
Mr. Ehlers
Timmy
de Rio International
Inexico City
Gail
Luis Hernandez
Air Janeity
James Theodore Bonnet
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Second Thoughts Arise Over Housing Program
City administrators meet with Elia Santos to prepare Manpower Program applications. Council signals second thoughts on funding substandard housing rehab and other projects. A $244,000 CETA Title VI grant and a broad city beautification plan planned for inclusion. A 60 day auto air bag rule by Transportation Sec. Brook Adams appears in the same dispatch.
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Don Bryant
News-Herald
Elia Santos
Middle Rio Grande
Citizens Advisory Committee
Janws A. Hester
Rainfall totals and thundershowers in West Texas region
Del Rio received half an inch of rain with heavier totals near Amistad Dam at 1.44 inches during thundershowers. West Texas saw scattered storms from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley, with a 30 percent chance of more thundershowers today and tonight. National Weather Service forecasts for the July 4 weekend call for scattered showers, hot afternoons, and humid nights, with statewide temperatures ranging from the mid 50s in the West Texas mountains to near 102 in the Big Bend area.
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Amistad Dam
Hamilton Lane
Comstock
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Big Bend
Texas
Panhandle
Rio
St of Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Fargo
North Dakota
Wolff eyeing Aug. 30 kickoff for congressional bid
Nelson Wolff former state senator from San Antonio discusses a flying kickoff for his congressional campaign around Aug. 30 during a Del Rio visit. He plans formal announcements in San Antonio Del Rio and San Angelo after breakfast. He has visited 46 communities opened a San Antonio office June 1 and will set up offices in Mel Rio and San Angelo next year. He is accompanied by Pat Shaw and his son Kevin.
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San Antonio
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Mel Rio
Lindsey Riggs
Pat Shaw
Air Forces
Kevin
Bob Krueger
New Braunfels
Krueger
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