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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1955
Page
5
After a record fishing tournament the island reports a busier shrimp season with higher boat counts and larger hauls. The Causeway and port development bring extra travelers and money, while oil and motel projects promise ongoing economic boosts amid lively island life and seagull antics at the docks.
The House passed a bill to extend the Mexican farm labor program for three and a half years, with Senate approval for a one and a half year version. A conference committee accepted the House version, setting expiry for December 31, 1955. Anfuso’s amendment for federal contract regulation was defeated, as was an immigration oversight amendment.
John Good Oswald, 82, died of a heart attack on July 26 while visiting Mercedes. Funeral services were held July 28 at Stotler funeral home. Born February 16, 1872 in Lebanon PA, he was a glass furnace bricklayer and worked 30 years at Inland Steel in East Chicago, Indiana. He served as a private in Company H 4th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry during the Spanish American War and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He retired and moved to Port Isabel in 1941 to be near his eldest son.
Former Lighthouse Drugstore owner moved to Mercedes in 1943 and returned to Port Isabel after Mrs. Oswalds death in 1983. He is survived by a son, a daughter, a sister, seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
W H Phelps a Port Isabel resident for four years died July 21 at Santa Fe hospital in Temple after a period of confinement. He previously worked 30 years as Santa Fe Railway engine foreman in Fort Worth. His body was sent back to Fort Worth for burial. Survivors are his wife of Port Isabel and two stepsons Fred Harrison of Hobbs New Mexico and John Harrison of Fort Worth.
Frank H Carpenter, 80, longtime Port Isabel resident and noted fishing guide, died early Wednesday at his cottage near his son Guy L Carpenter’s home. He had lived in the Valley two years after moving to Port Isabel about 20 years ago. Survived by son Guy and four daughters Mrs Jack Hewlett of Austin, Mrs Ferbert Bartley of La Porte, Mrs Wilford Pair ey of San Benito, and Mrs Jodie Goolsby of Port Isabel, plus seventeen grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
A 350 pound sea turtle captured in a shrimp net 12 miles from Port Isabel died in a pool at the Aquarena in San Marcos. The big turtle had drawn crowds as a "sea monster" and later appeared to go blind before dying. Funeral services are set in Port Isabel and Brownsville with burial at Buena Vista cemetery.
The program costs just over 300000 dollars this year and enables quarantine officials to approve a single fan for treating gin trash. Much gin trash has been burned previously to kill pink bollworm, but the practice now saves hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by making gin trash available for livestock feed and soil building. Gin research aims to boost savings for ginners in pink bollworm–affected areas.
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