Chamber approves merger study for Texas City and La Marque
Chamber of Commerce board approves feasibility study to merge Texas City and La Marque. A slide presentation for prospective businesses will be created under the Texas City La Marane Industrial Foundation. Nominating committee named Col. Farquhar John Dunn Dick Fosdick Lucy Robles and Jerry Buster.
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Chamber of Commerce Board
Texas City
la Marque
Woodlands Inn
Col
W.W. Farquhar
John Dunn
Dick Fosdick
Lucy Robles
Jerry Buster
Tom Mackey
la Marane Industrial Foundation
Ray
Picket line forms as CPS rate protest grows in La Marque
Local residents including Mrs Florence Dean and group of La Marque housewives protested high electricity prices in front of Community Public Service Co. office on Friday. They cited recent bills of 60 41.37 and 75 while others noted bills during vacations and hospital stays. The protesters plan petitions across La Marque Texas City Angleton. Police investigated two burglaries costing residents over 5 000 including a 4410 35 burglary at John Barnard’s home and thefts from Roosevelt Taylor’s La Marque United Contractor business.
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la Marque
Office of
Community Public Service Co
Florence Dean
Doris Athanasiou
Texas City
Angleton
John Barnard
Bonham
Barnard
Roosevelt Taylor
la Marque United Contractor
AARP Meeting Date Changed for Labor Day Week
The La Marque AARP chapter rescheduled its monthly gathering to September 8 at St. Michael's Parish Hall. Mrs. Mary Patterson, Home Service Advisor for Community Public Service, will give a talk titled How to Cook for Two.
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la Marque
St. Michael’s Parish Hall
Mary Patterson
Home Service
Serendipity Weeks and Small Pleasures Lighten the Day
A reflective column urges finding small joys amid national and local frustrations. It notes signs like Smile and say thank you at checkout, kindness from service workers, and readers recalling missed papers. The piece encourages noticing serendipity and shared humanity to cope with disappointments.
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USA
Public Service Ad Emphasizes Electric Cooling Era
A community message from Community Public Service Company promotes modern central electric air conditioning to replace old hand fans. It notes high electricity use in homes industries and schools and pledges reliable service when residents flip the switch. An Equal Opportunity Employer.
Letter to the Editor calls for Peace Department over militarism
Ernie Sheffield of Minneola Florida criticizes President Ford and Nixon era reliance on violence. He urges a Department of Peace and World Order and a world government under united nations to prevent World War III, warning that military policy leads to war and fear.
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Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
Department of Peace and World Order
Earth
United Nations
Ernie Sheffield
P.O. Box
Minneola
Florida
Twinologist visits quints
Helen Kirk Lauve of Galveston has kept global birth statistics for 36 years and spoke at the First International Congress of Twin Studies becoming a Founding Member of the International Society for Twin Studies. On July 18 a Lewisville couple welcomed a boy and four girls and Lauve met the quintuplets.
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Helen Kirk Lauve
Galveston
Miss Lauve
International Society For Twin Studies
Twins For Science
Lewisville
Texas
Dallas
Budget Hearing Set After Trustees Resign Over Deficit Plan
Citizens view budget as Hitchcock School trustees, who resigned after lengthy meetings, will submit a deficit budget to the public at a 7:30 p m August 20 hearing. Trustees voted to raise the local tax rate to $1 50 per 100 of 80 valuation, adding about 11 000 but not offsetting new teacher salary costs from the state base minimum raise. Half of the 1400 increase is borne by the state, half by the district. Despite objections during multiple workshops the board kept Superintendent J C Sheperd’s budget intact, totaling 1 768 040 with a 108 000 rise in salary expenses.
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Hitchcock
J. C. Sheperd
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