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Newspaper
La Marque Times
Location
La Marque, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1964
Page
2
ThEl Marque Times published Thursdays in La Marque Texas. Orlando Blackburn is publisher and the paper is a member of the Texas Press Association.
The Galveston County GOP Club schedules an April 28 panel at 7 30 p m in the Captain s Room Texas City Recreation Center. The discussion on Which Party Primary Should The Conservative Vote In features John Shirley and Bryan Williams for Democrats and Joe Poin Dexter and George Korkmas for Republicans with Gene Newman as moderator. Audience questions will be welcomed and refreshments will follow.
The piece argues that voter apathy and outdated laws alike block eligible Americans from voting. Alfred Balk says up to 20 million were disfranchised in 1960 by registration issues and institutional barriers, with reforms urged to align laws with the modern age.
The La Marque board approved a $506 yearly pay raise for all district teachers to average $4,300, well above the Gilmer Aiken minimum of $2,805. Superintendent Dr. E H Black cited competitive salaries to attract top instructors as the aim.
At closing time staff moved patients from the original 96 bed ward to the new revive-atorium. Bob, now home, has half a stomach and no ulcers and expects to resume golf and social life in a couple of weeks with wife Evelyn.
Monsanto Company announced its highest quarterly sales and earnings. For the quarter ended March 31, 1964, net income rose to 28.7 million dollars with 95 cents per share on 30,064,573 shares. Consolidated sales reached 324.4 million dollars versus 273.7 million the prior year.
The office cut up Stew Pidd jokes about not knowing which side his bread is buttered on yet he eats both sides, delivering a playful quip about indecision and appetite.
Monsanto will send 24 engineers from its Texas City site to a seven week 112 hour advanced engineering mathematics course. The program, run with the University of Houston, aims to renew and extend technical skills across the company with future courses in reactor engineering computer applications and polymer processing.
L D Ward and J H Turner will lead the barbecued dinner at the Parisian Festival on May 2 at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Lake and Magnolia. Dinners served 5 to 7 pm with to go boxes managed by Mrs P A Schapper.
Marine Lance Corporal Charles W. Sanders, son of Mr and Mrs Powell G Sanders of 2209 10th Ave La Marque Texas, serves with the First Marine Division Seventh Engineer Battalion Bridge Company at Camp Pendleton California. The unit builds temporary bridges and is part of an ongoing training program.
Texas Department of Corrections inmates are producing 1965 license plates at Huntsville under an interagency pact with the Highway Department. The new design uses three letters and three digits, with 20-letter prefixes and vowel removal to avoid offensive words. The English System yields up to eight million prefixes, enough for 10 to 18 years, as presses run at top speed to meet rising registrations.
A small smooth black dog about cocker spaniel size with vaccination tag 786 from D King Veterinary and License 5568 1963 is lost. It stays with C J Caywood at 1302 Cut Off Road between Kemah and League City and watches traffic hoping the owner will return, likely in La Marque or nearby.
Evans first chain grocery opens at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday April 15 in El Camino South center Clear Lake City. The self service store from Food Mart of El Paso will offer groceries fruit vegetables meat home service department health beauty housewares hardware toys sundries and a home baker department with official center opening June 18. Clear Lake City on Farm Road 528 off the Gulf Freeway hosts TG Y and Walgreens among others.
Henry Mest son of Mr and Mrs H H Mest of La Marque is listed on the first nine weeks honor roll at Lee College Baytown. His GPA is 2.6 of 3. The second nine weeks begins and ends with final exams May 22 27. Summer registration is set for June 5 and June 17 for terms.
The La Marque Times notes rumors of golf greats visiting while recounting Trustee Holt on a sixth grader selling tickets for a band trip and Dr. Black praising the district’s tax office. It also touches on voter expectations, a pastor’s apology, Tiger track star Jim Baxter, and spring greenery at the Times building.
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