Letters From Port Isabel and Valley Show Gratitude
Readers share memories from Port Isabel and Laguna Madre Hotel owners the Bassets. The Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show Inc. thanks supporters for aiding the 1958 official FFA and 4-H show, with gratitude from Col. H. G. Stein. Liz Graves greets friends from Trinity Nursing Home in Little Rock Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Laguna Madre
Port Isabel
Esther
Ollie Basset
Bassetts
Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show Inc
Mercedes
Grand Vally
Liz” Graves
Trinity Nursing Home
Liz Graves
Main Street
Little Rock
Ark
Liz
Cancer Crusade Launches With Coffee Meeting
Port Isabel hosts a Cancer Crusade kickoff as about forty volunteers meet at Gulf Cafe to plan outreach and distribute materials. Crusade chairman John Trump aims to raise 16,300 in Cameron County for American Cancer Society research and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Isabel
Gulf Cafe
John Trump
Crusade
Cameron County
American Cancer Society
Trump
Pt. Isabel
Spring Music Festival Sets High School Concert Friday
The Port Isabel Parent-Teachers Association presents the Spring Music Festival at the high school auditorium on Friday night April 25 at 8 o’clock. The program features a high school chorus junior high chorus and elementary chorus with solos duets and a men's sextet. Mrs. Fred Petch directs with Penelope Marlin Karen Petch and Jerrie Birge as accompanists. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students with advance sales by students supporting PTA projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Isabel
Parent - Teachers Association
Fred Petch
Penelope Marlin
Karen Petch
Jerrie Birge
PTA
Baseball Leagues Name New Officers For Year
Parents of Little and Pony league members met Tuesday evening April 15 at Fireman's Community Hall for organization and officer elections for the coming year. Attending were Mr and Mrs Harvey Rose neighborhood commissioner for Port Isabel area and Mayor J A Hockay with interested parents. Meeting adjourned with 7:30 p.m. start and a note that the next meeting was set for Wednesday April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little and Pony League
Harvey Rose
Rose
Port Isabel
Peg
J. A. Hockay
Tarpon Track Men Enter Regional Meet
Eight Tarpon track team members plus one late-entry Ernest Holland head to Kingsville for regional competition Saturday. Athletes compete in sprints relays and field events including Cantu brothers Maloan Galvan Spoonemore Lang Fabacher with Holland listed but injured may miss events. A substitute will run the relay in his stead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsville
Albert Cantu
Hector Cantu
Roger Maloan
Noe Galvan
Steve Spoonemore
Ronald Lang
J. W. Fabacher
Ernest Holland
Two Teachers Take Summer Courses
Port Isabel High School science and math teachers E. E. McClellan and Robert Vela will study for six and five weeks respectively this summer. McClellan attends Southern Methodist University starting June 4, while Vela goes to the University of Arizona beginning June 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. McClellan
Robert Vela
Port Isabel
McLellan
Southern Methodist University
Vela
University of Arizona
National Science Foundation
Accidents Involving Port Isabel Student on Highway 100
Ernest Holland a Port Isabel High student sustained slight injuries in a two car collision with Elias Becerra Garza of Rio Hondo on Sunday afternoon at the rear intersection of Highway 100 Farm Road 1792 Garza suffered internal injuries Holland had stopped at Highway 100 then entered the intersection and into the path of Garza who was driving a 1956 Ford Charges against Holland include driving without an operator license and failure to yield the right of way
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Holland
Port Isabel High School
Elias Becerra Garza
Rio Hondo
Garza
Holland
Highway 100
Second Street
Car Overturns Near Farm Road 1792 In Early Morning Crash
At about 5 30 a.m. Enrique Arriola lost control of a 1950 Ford sedan on Farm Road 1792 two miles from Highway 100. The car overturned four times at a curve. One passenger remained unidentified after leaving the scene. The vehicle was a total loss according to the County Highway Patrolman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrique Arriola
Beemend Mbieeet Green
Eestlan Emesthe Moeth Leekeenes
Highw 100
Arriola
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Cancer Crusade
Texas
Panstaatione
Court of Awards
Tarpon
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