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TRANSPORTING CARS TO HARBOR ISLAND—A converted automobile (prob ably a Model T) is shown towing two flat cars loaded with three old vintage cars over the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railroad between Aransas Pass and Harbor Island This scene was probably more than 25 years ago before the rail route to Harbor Island was modified to handle both rail and automobile traffic.In the early days, autos were hauled by flat car to Harbor Island and then driven down ramps and on to the ferry for movement to Port Aransas They returned tothe mainland in the same manner.This method of transporting vehicles to Harbor Island and Port Aransas wasinaugurated in 1926 and continued until 1931 when, a vehicular cauesw-ay was constructed.i2EX333Highlights-(Contiued from Page 4B)Covernor Connally lauded it as the most productive ofany in this centuryGovernor specifically cited work in the areas of education. public health, finance, water development and con-sicmal and legislative rending He recalled thatJanuary the 59th wasfaced 1 ith a greater and more varied assortment of problems than any legislature in modern times and educated predictions were that lawmakers could not solve all of them without one or moregrlt; dilastBeginning-(Continued from Page I Aransas Pass Railroad would connect the mainland with a railroad to the deep water harbor at Aransas Pass waterway, but a financial panic at that time caused the railroad to abandon any such plans. It was shortly thereafter that the San Antonio Aransas Pass R R. passed into the control of the powerful Southern Pacific Railway System, which had heavy investments in terminal facilities at New Orleans and at Galveston. A new port, serving southwest Texas, would decrease the earnings of the Southern Pacific system by diverting goods from the long haul to Galveston and New Orleans from the southwest coast area. Therefore the Southern Pacific contributed nothing to the development of the proposed new port. This was a keen disappointment to Wheeler and his associates, whose success in building a city was entirely dependent upon securing an adequatedepth of water in the Aransas Pass channel.BURTON DANFORTHIn 1909, E. O. Burton and A. H. Danforth of San Antonio established themselves in Aransas Pass, operating under the firm name of Burton Danforth. Their purpose was to continue building the city begun by T B. Wheeler and also to build docks at the port and connect them with the mainland by dredging a chan-See,vBeginning* Page atspecial sessions.Connally disagreed with critics who insist the redis-tricting bills will be knocked out by federal courts He thinks the bills will meet thecourts’ test.The session closed outcalmly in contrast to most of those of the past After congressional redistricting was disposed of two days be-for the quitting deadline, there was not much left to wrangle about.LegislativeReforms UrgedHouse Speaker Ben Barnes believes power of legislative conference committees(which wrote at least two dozen of the bills passed in the last week of the legislature's session) should be reduced Rank and file lawmakers also should have more to say about how state money is spent. Barnes says.“There wrere riders in theSee “Highlights,” Page 9BBOOOOOOOOOOOO . . seeing ghosts? Find TELEVISION SERVICE fast in the YELLOW PAGES. Where your fingers do the walking.THE GANDY BUILDING, which once stood at the corner of Goodnight and Commercial where Conoly Drug is now located, was the first home of The Aransas PassProgressPictured in front of the building in this photo taken in 1909 are left to right M B Secoy, Ben Utterbackand Beaman Franklin.The Progress was not the first newspaper to be published in Aransas Pass. The Harbor Herald was published here in the early 1890s, but seems to have failed after about two years and the city was without a newspaper until The Progress was founded in 1909 by J WVernor.GOLDEN JUBILEE JOINSARANSASPASSDIAMOND JUBILEENOWTIME TO CELEBRATE WITH REFRIGERATOR FROM FRIGIDAIRENEW
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Aransas Pass Progress
Aransas Pass, Texas, US
Wed, Jun 09, 1965
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