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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1972
Page
5
The Port Isabel Boxing Club hosted Brownsville Parks and Recreation Department in a tournament held Saturday April 15. The first place team trophy went to St Theresa CCD for their performance at the event.
Six Week tests occurred Tuesday and Wednesday with periods 1 3 and 5 on Tuesday and 2 4 and 6 on Wednesday. NIKE Club to join B&PW Style Show Thursday modeling Hazel's Fashions. Section notes final payments for 1971 72 annuals due and ready in the library. District Literary Meet winners announced with multiple students earning third place and Student Council officers elected led by President Gualberto Gonzalez.
The First National Conference on Bilingual Education met April 14 15 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and J. Thompson Center in Austin. Port Isabel delegates included Ruben Torres and colleagues as educators, evaluators, and parents in a weekend program with sessions on parental involvement bicultural factors and bilingual school administration.
Governor approves ACTION grant placing three VISTA volunteers at the Callier Hearing and Speech Center in Dallas for one year. Volunteers include a public health teacher a teacher counselor and a pediatric consultant attached to the center's staff, with placement in Harlingen and collaboration with regional health and education groups.
Arroyo District Scouts will attend a Spring Camporee April 21-23 at McKelvey Park Harlingen with 25 extra points for arriving by foot or bike. San Benito area troops join. district camping chairman John Katzenburger says events start April 22 at 8 30 a.m. A campfire led by the Order of the Arrow occurs at 9 p.m. Saturday and all Girl Scouts are invited.
Entomologist James A. Deer warns cotton growers to curb spraying as it risks repeating 1970 disasters. He says most insecticide use is unwarranted and can destroy beneficials, allowing tobacco budworms to surge. high cotton prices mislead about costs.
Newspaper columnist Gerry Pratt notes the cost comparison between mailing and calling. A long ago two cent letter to Los Angeles contrasts with a ten dollar telephone, now eight cent postage and seventy cent three minute calls on weekends. Local calls use under five cents per unit, narrowing the long distance gap.
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