Holbrook backs dredging plan to aid flood control and recreation
County Judge Ray Holbrook said the commissioners court supports dredging from the diversionary channel to the Intracoastal Canal. The project, offered at no charge, aims to improve flood control and expand boating recreation while encouraging non-polluting industry. He noted efforts to keep West Bay clean and to place dredged material on dry land to protect marine life.
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Ray Holbrook
Highlands Bayou
Bob Moore
Commissioners Court
Corps of Engineers
Chocolate Bayou
Buttermilk Junction Festival expands to two day weekend
The third annual festival in La Marque, sponsored by the Jaycees and Jaycee-Ettes, will run September 6-7 at Mahan City Park with a parade led by Parade Marshall Marvin Zindler. Events include booths, crafts, food, greased pole, sack races, watermelon eating, relays, a cow milking contest, a costume contest, a 4-H horse show, and a softball game replacing tug of war. Booths cost $10. reservations now.
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la Marque Jaycees
Jaycee-Ettes
Mahan City Park
Marvin Zindler
Channel 13
Eyewitness
Galveston
United States Navy
The
Jaycees
Buttermilk Junction
Jaycee City
Bill Lockey
Dennis Payne
Don Lera
John McClure
David Guerrera
Billy Goebel
Susan McClure
Ted Mera
Milton Howard
Rick Rodriguez
Jaycee
Sarge White Receives Appreciation Award in Kemah Restaurant
White honored by Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co of Utica NY for work with Union Carbide and testing tools to improve safety and usefulness. E E Sarge White, long time Carbide member, lauds industry changes and cooperation with engineers. he and wife Marienne run Pirate's Market La Marque. Sarge is Carbide Pioneers Club president and ex Tech Sergeant Army veteran.
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E. E
Sarge
White
W. P. Nickles
Jim Walker
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company
Utica
New York
Marianne
Frank Fryer
P. E
Pete) Huffstutter
C&p
Houston
H. Cliff Reading
Sarge” White
Jimmie Walker
Edgewater
Kemah
Union Carbide
la Marque
Carbide Pioneers Club
Darlene
Terry
Renee
Highway signs contract let for 5.8 miles on I-45 Dickinson Bayou to FM 1765
The State Highway and Public Transportation Commission let a July contract to Interstate Highway Sign Co. of Little Rock for 418,982.76 dollars. Omer F. Poorman supervised the work in Galveston County with Hardy S. Jarrell directing. The project covers signing delineation safety lighting and bridge protection on I-45 from Dickinson Bayou to FM 1765 over 5.8 miles, anticipated to take 150 working days.
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State Highway and Public Transportation Commission
Galveston County
Omer F. Poorman
Interstate Highway Sign Co
Little Rock
Arkansas
West Texas City man shot and killed in Carver Park area
LM resident Charles Ray Parish 22 of 121 1/2 Edgar in La Marque was shot once in the chest and beaten with a stick around 8 30 p.m. Monday in West Texas City. He died at 8 45 p.m. The shooting occurred at Washington and Park. Police say one man is in custody and they seek a second suspect.
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Charles Ray Parish
Edgar
la Marque
Texas City
Texas
Ish
Washington and Park
Carver Park
Community Leaders Workshop on America Issues Forum
The Texas City La Marque Bicentennial Steering Committee and College of the Mainland invite teachers, administrators, civic leaders, ministers, and interested residents to a workshop at 7:30 p.m. on August 13 in Room A126A. The American Issues Forum, designed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, seeks a nationwide dialogue on core forces shaping American society. For more information, contact Bob Handy at 938-1211 Ext. 226.
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College of the Mainland
America Issues Forum
National Endowment For the Humanities
Readers urged to examine Highland Bayou project funds
Mrs. Belinda Fletcher asks Galveston County citizens to study the 1971 bond issue for Highland Bayou, now described as rectification. She questions who changed from clean out to rectify and urges readers to consider how tax dollars are spent in widening deepening and straightening the bayou.
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Galveston County Citizen
Highland Bayou
Galveston County
County leaders push for subsidence fixes and district projects
Galveston County officials discussed road and water projects including 146 north to Dickinson and the Texas City seawall upgrade. They warned subsidence could flood about half the county if groundwater withdrawal continues, and planned pump stations, surface water plans, and a bond election funding model.
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Highway Department
Dickinson
Holbrook
Texas City Seawall
Corps of Engineers
Galveston County
Texas City
Emmett Lowrey
Moses Lake
Lowrey
la Marque
Galveston County Memorial Hospital Board
Ralph Bucy
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