Bolivar Crossing Debate Outlined For Chamber Meeting
Jim Luhning summarized the February 17 public hearing on the Bolivar Crossing at a chamber board meeting. Debate centers on linking Bolivar Peninsula to Galveston Island or to the mainland, with advocates backing a tunnel or bridge to the island’s east end.
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Jim Luhning
Greater
Texas City
la Marque Chamber of Commerce
Bolivar Crossing
Board of Directors
Bolivar Peninsula
Galveston Island
Ray Holbrook
Ed Schreiber
Wallace Coffman
Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Luhning
Houston
Houston Ship Channel
Emmett Lowry
Chamber
Pictures of Children and Local Business News
Youngsters are photographed with playful methods to elicit smiles, using tricks like a Chicken Heart headpiece and a red rubber nose. Ice cream or pickles and silly phrases also coax grins from kids as Halloween costumes appear. The piece notes an 8 x 10 color print offered for 99 cents plus 50 cents handling and 4 cents tax, with delivery in about 30 days. Also covered are a Texas Industrial Commission data system demo at a Lunch meeting and TCLM committee plans to invite Dickinson and Hitchcock Chambers to boost local industry, plus new members Southern Glass and Mirror, Parker Music, and John's Steak House.
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Jack
Austin
Texas Industrial Commission
Chamber Industrial Development Committee
Holiday Inn
Dickinson and Hitchcock Chambers of Commerce
TCLM
Les Box
Southern Glass and Mirror Company
Parker Music Company
John’s Steak House
Voters' rally set for La Marque In Termediate School
Absentee requests to submit voter guide info as candidates for College of the Mainland Board of Trustees La Marque School Board and La Marque City Council will speak at a 7 30 p m rally Friday at La Marque Intermediate School The Texas City La Marque League sponsors the event to inform voters with nonpartisan Q A to follow Chairs Mrs R C Lieban organizer and Mrs Ralph Bucy presiding Candidates speak in three minute blocks by group with written questions screened by a League committee
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Voters
College of the Mainland Board of Trustees
la Marque School Board
la Marque City
la Marque Intermediate School
Texas City-La Marque League
Ifeta
Voters’ Service
R. C. Lieban
Ralph Bucy
League
Chamber hears talk on college aims and budget limits
Stallworth booths and talk outline the junior college's mission as more than a campus. Dean Fred Taylor stresses experimental spirit and outreach to improve methods. Ed Brown notes declining revenue hampers budgeted goals while a fried chicken dinner honors guests.
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Fred Taylor
Ed Brown
Orlando Blackburn
Jean Koneman
The
la Marque Times
John Ballone
Daily Sun
The Capitol Bombing Message From Senator John Tower
Senator John Tower condemns the Capitol bombing as unnecessary. He notes the Capitol remains functional, security tightened, and a $100000 reward offered for information leading to the bomber’s arrest and conviction. He emphasizes freedom of expression and rejects violence as a means to challenge government policy.
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United States
Capitol
Congress
Congressional
Reason vs. Rebellion in American Authority
An editorial voice argues that reason remains essential in a lawful society. It urges adherence to common sense and is wary of dissident movements that reject established principles, citing J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI as a cautionary figure about honoring rational governance.
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America
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
County Earns Modified Certified Brucellosis Area Status
Dr H Q Sibley announces Galveston County as a Modified Certified Brucellosis Area after testing all breeding cattle with less than one percent infection. The Animal Health Commission thanks Hevstock producers and all cooperating individuals for the countywide testing effort.
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H. Q. Sibley
The
Texas Animal Health Commission
Galveston County
Animal Health Commission
See-Gro Kit Promises Visible Plant Growth Education
Union Carbide announced nationwide distribution of an educational kit named See-Gro that uses a transparent gel to reveal nutrient, pollutant, and insect effects on plant and root growth. The kit aims at students from kindergarten to college, with future biology and ecology kits planned.
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Union Carbide
John A. Swarte
Paul A. King
Corporation
Science Supply Distributors
Anton Garbide
Insurance reform proposal eyed to curb windstorm costs
Coverage would be mandatory in high risk areas if the Max Sherman Bill passes. A pool of companies would offer windstorm insurance at rates hoped to be affordable. Gulf Coast schools face rising windstorm and vandalism fire insurance costs. Senator Schwartz could extend coverage to fire and vandalism. The Thursday meeting included life insurance book distributions to county librarians. Fred Foreman presides over the Mainland Association.
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Max Sherman
Austin
Gulf Coast
A. R. Schwartz
Fred Foreman
Mainland Association
Three Named Js of Month For January
Andrew Hernandez Ricky Rodriguez and Gerald Guillot cited by the Jaycees for their work during Jaycee Week named as Jaycees of the Month for January Hernandez honored for planning promotion and direction of the Week activities Rodriguez planned the Appreciation dance Guillot chaired the parade float design and construction Fourteen individuals civic groups and organizations received Certificates of Appreciation for their help during the year
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Andrew Hernandez
Ricky Rodriguez
Gerald Guillot
Jaycees
Andrew
Gerald
Thefts Vandalism and Notices Reported in Local Facilities
Officer Locklin investigates felony theft of a 21 jewel Bulova watch from the M J Cheverere porch on March 10. Higginbotham Service Station on Hwy 3 and 519 shows a broken glass pane and pried cigarette machine. Mobil Service Station off Magnolia feeder road burglarized with glass breakage and coin box theft. Local letters express thanks to La Marque Texas City LWV for legislation coverage.
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Locklin
M. J. Cheverere
Cheverere
Thornton
Higginbotham
Mobil
Magnolia
Campbell
Konemar
League of Women Voters of
la Marque
Texas City
Austin
Ex Navy Pilot Harvey Drake to Teach Memory Course
Ex Navy pilot and author Harvey Drake will teach the College of the Mainland memory course Indexing the Mind. The four week program runs Tuesdays 7 to 10 p.m. March 23 30 and April 6 13 at Nessler Center and campus teaching auditorium. Tuition is 5 dollars with a 5 dollar text. Drake, an Oklahoma City memory expert, serves as a training consultant for the Oklahoma City Police Department.
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College of the Mainland
Nessler Center
Oklahoma City
Harvey Drake
Drake
Oklahoma City Police Department
Manage
SMU
OSU
University of Texas At Austin
Draake
Palmer Highway
Texas City
Texas
Larry Smith
Memory work and health drives across Gulf Coast area
The piece highlights muscular dystrophy fundraising and services in Gulf Coast programs offering free clinics equipment and therapy. It notes a breakthrough reversing degeneration in animal models and calls for a crash program to translate this into human treatment. It also profiles Mnemonics expert Dr Drake and a memory course at College of the Mainland with registration details.
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Gulf Coast Area
Bartlett
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Che la Marque Times
la Marque, Texas
Texas Press Association
Bolivar
Lowry
Texas Highway Department
Pelican Island
la Marque High School
Stallworth
James C. Loving
Faris Wilson
E. C. Woods
T. J. Jackson Jr
John Tower
Post Office Department
Postal Department
Pauline Bogatto
Greater Houston
Cheechako
Alaska
Kealakekua
Hawaii
Marilyn McClung
Marilyn Lves
Redondo Beach
California
Walter
Delta Burns
Marilyn
Out
Ralph DD. Bucy
Bunyan Ross
Kathy Albright
la Marque Jaycee-Ettes
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