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Newspaper
La Marque Times
Location
La Marque, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1964
Page
1
School officials announced commencement details for La Marque and Lincoln High Schools. A record size class of 221 graduates will receive diplomas at ceremonies planned with joint or separate events and student speakers.
A colorful downtown parade in La Marque will start at 2 p.m. Saturday May 30 to officially open the annual summer program of the La Marque City Recreation Department.
Memorial Day rites are planned by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8248 at the post home 801 Main St at 5 pm Saturday May 30 with J E Saxon of La Marque as guest speaker. Activities include a grave watch at Memorial Cemetery Hitchcock flags at veteran graves in Hitchcock and La Marque, Buddy Poppy wreaths, and flags at the memorial monument at Lamar Elementary School. The parade starts Lamar Elementary School and proceeds through local streets with prizes for bike decoration. entries available at La Marque City Hall. winner receives a bicycle from La Marque Cycle Shop and runner ups gift certificates from Western Auto.
Galveston County Memorial Hospital earned top and first place honors at the Texas Hospital Association conference in Austin. The Junior Auxiliary Candy Stripers won a first place scrapbook award and a separate first place from Blue Cross of Texas for outstanding patient and community relations programs.
An April classified ad from J. D. Bean of Hitchcock asks for the goose neck hoe left on Evans parking lot. Bean’s accompanying note says the ad did no good and he hopes the finder has a good garden, adding he is glad if the crook in town is not present.
A total of 146.80 and four books were donated by Tuesday afternoon to the Diana Barbier Memorial Library Fund at Highlands Baptist Church. The fund honors Diana Barbier a La Marque High School senior who donated her eyes. Donations may be mailed or delivered to the church office at Cedar Dr and Westward.
La Marque School board awarded a $13,658 maintenance shop contract to George Beach Construction Co. of La Marque on May 21 after four bids. An extra $1,000 was approved for alterations. The board plans auto mobile body repair for adults under the National Manpower Program, possibly affecting up to $24,000 in TEA reimbursements. A $28,050 capital outlay for next year was approved despite dissent over band instrument funding. Summer tuition cuts boosted attendance in recent programs.
Dr E H Skipper Black La Marque school board member and former superintendent returned home Saturday after a May 7 hospital stay in Galveston County Memorial Hospital for a heart ailment. He is improving, sits in the yard briefly after supper, and will have limited visitors per Mrs Black.
Charles M. Hansen, an ambulance driver and La Marque officer, pursued his stolen auto along Gulf Freeway and Loop 197 ending in a ditch at Sixth Street Texas City. Suspects Richard Blackwell 17 of Houston and a 14 year old companion face felony auto theft charges plus misdemeanor theft for a Pasadena officer wallet theft.
La Marque city leaders directed City Attorney Allan Lerner to study moving at least three subscribers from the Hitchcock to the La Marque exchange. A boundary conflict between La Marque and Hitchcock affects telephone service with Southwestern Bell and General Telephone Co. of the Southwest. Some subscribers west of the Gulf Freeway within La Marque seek La Marque service, while fire calls and school communications pose toll concerns. The attorney was asked to persuade General to withdraw from La Marque.
The Texas City La Marque area starts the home interview phase of the Galveston County Urban Transportation Study on May 27. Interviewers will be local women, hired for the purpose, and identified by a lettered introduction signed by Ed Young.
Two La Marque residents, Raymond Franklin and H. L. Babbs, pled guilty and were fined $5 each in Corporation Court on May 20 for improperly parked vehicles. A third citizen forfeited a $5 cash bond. Clerk notes 15 additional complaints pending and 18 tickets posted May 14 on Brown Street after a city crackdown led by Officer C. W. Stroud.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wheeler celebrate 50 years with an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday in La Marque. Daughters in law assist. grandchildren serve cake and punch. Alma Jones attends as special guest. couple plans a Colorado vacation starting June 8. They moved to La Marque in 1928 and are active in the First Christian Church.
The La Marque Post Office will close Saturday May 30 for Memorial Day. No city delivery of mail and no window service. Mail will be dispatched on holiday schedule via street collection boxes. Special delivery mail will be handled as usual.
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