25th Annual Fishing Tournament Begins In Port Isabel
The 25th annual Texas International Fishing Tournament opened with a Blessing of the fleet at the South Padre Island Coast Guard station. Winds were forecast 9 to 20 mph onshore. offshore winds lighter. More boats arrived than ever before, with participants from Corpus Christi and Houston attending dock parties, a barbecue, and a public fish fry.
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Bob Meade
US Coast Guard Life
South Padre Island
Earnest Rice
Brownsville
Lester Brusse
Charlie Holmes
Rayford McNabb
Willy Pugh
Corpus Christi
Houston
Sam White
Scott Frost
Fob Shahiman
Wards In Sam Houston Lead Summer Session Enrollment
Two Port Isabel students John Franklin Ward and Mollye Frances Ward are among 2012 registered at Sam Houston State Teachers College for the second six weeks summer session. The figure tops prior term by 66 and marks a 100 percent ten-year gain, with Harris County sending 471 students and total enrollments spanning 358 towns in 129 Texas counties, six other states and 11 foreign countries.
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Huntsville
Port Isabel
John Franklin Ward
Mollye Frances Ward
Sam Houston
Elliott Bower
Gulf Coast
Texas
Harris County
Walker
Montgomery
Galveston
Brazoria
Office of Admissions
1962 Winners Crown Tommy Caldwell Sailfish Champion
Texas Grand Champion Fisherman of 1962 is Tommy Caldwell of Corpus Christi, who won the sailfish division with two ten pound test line catches. The event features a family affair with Don Sheldon's wife Donna and daughter Carol also winning prizes in the junior division. Glenn Arthur of Alice topped the sailfish with a 55 pound catch earning the Charles Polhemus Trophy and Bill Massey of Harlingen won an outboard trophy for a tarpon.
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Texas
Tommy Caldwell
Corpus Christi
Tommy
Don Sheldon
Donna
Carol
Bill White
Tom Monk
Monk
Terry White
Glenn Arthur
Alice, Texas
Charles Polhemus
Bill Massey
Harlingen
Rotary notes and local business blurbs from Port Isabel
A Rotary Club update highlights entertainer Rex Van Florence Carroll and Tito Levine at a Brownsville venue. It mentions a planned Long Island landing strip per July coverage and a Port Label Marina meeting called by John Wilcox. The piece references two Texasco Humble station operators visiting with families and a gas-fueled controversy.
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John Wilcox
Port Label Marina
Coast Guard Auxiliary Aims at Safety and Boating Education
The Coast Guard Auxiliary explains its purpose to assist the Coast Guard in safety and rescues on seas and navigable waters. It details flotillas and divisions, eligibility, and provisional enrollment. The piece notes Port Isabel as a growing boating area and reports a week with no accidents or breakdowns.
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U. S
United States
Coast Guard
Port Isabel
Entertaining Rotary Program Delights Brownsville Club
Brownsville Rotarians packed the Pot Isabel Rotary Club meeting as Bob Silva of Fort Brown Motor Hotel, John Kittila Jr., and Rex Van of Las Vegas Motor Hotel Houston delivered a lively program. Miss Florence Carroll and Tito Trevino provided songs and piano while Van kept the audience amused with jokes. The event was praised as the best Rotary program in years.
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John Kittila
Bob Silva
Ft. Brown Motor Hotel
Rex van
Florence Carroll
Houston
Tito ‘Lrevine
Resaca
Brownsville
Pot Isabel
Fort Brown Motor Hotel
John Kittila, Jr
Kittila
Lasegas Club
Las Vegas Motor Hotel
Rex
Van
Tito Trevino
Carroll
Tito
VEFW Auxiliary Opens 29th High School Writing Contest
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars launches its 29th National High School Writing Contest with the theme The Foreign Student in America An Opportunity for Friendship. Open to all high schools, prizes include 1000 first, 500 second, 250 third, 100 fourth and 20 honorable mentions plus local awards. rules can be obtained from local units or the national contest department in Kansas City Missouri.
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Ladies Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
America
Florence K. Ronald
Daily Republic
Mitchell
South Dakota
Harry Reasoner
New York
CBS News
George McGovern
D.-S.d
W. FW
West 34Th Street
Kansas City
Dr Mary Walker Pioneer Spy and Suffragist
Dr Mary Walker, famed Civil War figure known for wearing male attire, emerges as a pioneering surgeon and early advocate for women’s suffrage, shaping the era’s medical and social landscape.
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Mary Walker
Rural Urban Commission backs Port Isabel renewal plan
Port Isabel in Cameron County plans an 83 acre South Port Isabel No 2 urban renewal project with a $59 578 Federal advance approved by Urban Renewal Commissioner William L Slayton The plan covers housing for substandard units with clearance rehab plus park recreation and improved schools and an industrial redevelopment phase to link to South Port Isabel No 1.
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Port Isabel
Texas
Port Isabel No
William L. Slayton
Cameron County
Gulf of Mexico
Padre Island
Brownsville
Marching Band To Start Work On August Eighth
Portsabel High School band director James Haney announced the marching band would begin work next Thursday for the new school year. He urged all participating students to attend the first meeting with instruments and music.
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James Haney
Portsabel
Haney
Baptist Church Revival Slated In Port Isabel
Evangelist Ray Davidson of Waco will lead a revival at the First Baptist Church in Port Isabel starting Sunday morning August 4 and running daily through August 1. Rev. Virgil Drewery says services will be held morning and evening with the public invited to attend.
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Ray Davidson
Waco
First Baptist Church
Port Isabel
Virgil Drewery
CP&L Employees Annual Party Fishing Contest
Twenty eight fishermen registered for the CP&L Employees Club Fishing tournament held here on July 1 and 20 attended the fish fry on South Padre Island the evening of July 20. Prizes awarded to five persons plus the Queen Isabel Inn Trophy went to Jody Goolsby of Port Isabel for the most fish. Other winners include Asa Logan San Benito largest drum Donald Holliday Corpus Christi largest flounder L Lee Pharr largest trout. Kenneth Lee Harlingen largest red fish. The party is held annually in Port Isabel.
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Cp&l
South Padre Island
Central Power and Light Co
Port Isabel
Queen Isabel
Corpus Christi
Lee
Perez To Manage Roxy Theatre
The Rox Theatre of Port Isabel will be chartered and reopen with Perez and Sons from Port Isabel as managers. Movies shown six days a week, except Thursdays and Fridays, beginning August 4.
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Perez
Roxy Theatre
Port Isabel
Perez & Sons
Ralph Agar Funeral Held in San Benito
Funeral services for Ralph Thomas Agar 71 a pioneer San Benito resident and water district engineer manager since 1949 were held Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church. Surviving members include his widow Mary Hervey Agar daughter Jean Sullivan sister Mrs Bruce Gentry and four grandchildren. He was active in local development since 1909 and served in WWI before a lengthy engineering career.
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Ralph Thomas Agar
San Bento
Mr. Agar
San Benito
Dolly Vinsant Memoral Hospital
Agar
Cameron County Water Improvement District No. 2
First Presbyterian Church
Charlie Robinson
Kerment
Thomas Funeral Home
Vient Meta
E. A. Brady
Oscar Thieme
Floyd Huie
B. O. Taubert
Ernest Hector
Ray Stewart
Jack Cook
Jimmy Landrum
Mary Hervey Agar
E. L
Jean) Sullivan
Bruce
Gentry
Glendale
Calif
California
American Legion
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Laguna Vista
George Etz, Jr
McAllen
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Merchants Marine State Bank
Don Randall
Aspen
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John Trump
Coast Guard News
John H. Kittila
Port Isabel CG
Coast Guard Auxiliary
VEFW
Judy Crawford
Las Vegas
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Wenesday P. M
At R. Agar
Princeton
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Henry Elsworth Agar
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