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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1955
Page
3
Los Fresnos schools will begin classes on Tuesday September 1 with a two day teachers workshop preceding. Walter C. Coers announces a calendar including August 30-31 faculty workshop August 30-31 one half day Sept 1 and holidays through May 22. He aims to fill three vacant teaching positions soon.
Estimated construction value in Texas reached an all time high in the first half of 1955. The UT Bureau of Business Research predicts a new annual record may be set this year. Experts caution only a severe decline could drop the average by about 11 percent from 1954.
Big Thines a cookin in Port Isabel as townspeople rush to ready for the Blessing of the Fleet. Gals compete to look prettiest to win the queen crown for Port Isabel while contestants from other towns loom as rivals. Rumors of the yacht boat deal are denied as Doc Hockaday aids a cannery project with a tuna company. M Y F skating party delayed by illness in Chicago.
Last Monday night in Fresno, Bailey Stone preached to a group that included George, Florence, Jayne, Gloria, Erma, Skipper, Gene, Janet, Jerry, Linda, La Verl, and others. Betty Albair’s Baptist women hosted a bridal shower Friday prior, with young attendees such as Janet, Jayne, Beverley, La Verl, and Carol. Erma returned Monday with news about Corpus and Flour Bluff, learning to ski not on snow and enjoying hillbilly music after dragging main.
Donald Armand, former Port Isabel resident, visited Tuesday and left by 10:30. Bob Owens returned to Illinois with many photos. Billy Albair attended two family weddings while Helen and Mary are kept close. Betty secured a marriage license. Grabowski brothers arrived Tuesday night, Erma and Richard send keys by mail, and a playful birthday for a two year old ends the note.
Gwen Jean Rosalie Erma Jerry Barbara and Norma Lou held a taco party and a slumber party at Rosalie's Tuesday night. They claimed they did not eat so much they could not eat more nor sleep so much they could not sleep anymore.
A fragmented column recalls sleepy nights full of quirky anecdotes. Norma Lou is described as a guinea pig for the night while a sleepy house hosts odd questions and small-town humor. Nostalgia, teenagers, and local names pepper the piece with casual gossip.
A fragmentary note set recalls a busy port scene on Sunday night with many people fishing and casual hints of surf culture. References to birthdays astrology and quirky lines about TV shows mingle with stray names and questions about local residences and events.
Local attendees recount Fridays through Mondays at the Majestic and nearby venues. Patrons Wayne Rita Joe Pat Gene Lorna Eddie Norma Lou Henry Rebee Joan Johnny Missy Trump Marcy Martha Daisy Jim and others attend films including New Horizons A Star is Born Riding Shotgun Battle Cry The Man from Laramie and Daddy Long Legs.
The Roxy eater of Port Isabel welcomed Wayne Dixon and Miss Rita Le Maire for Monday evening on August eighth. Entertainment featured the cool film The Raid. A note hopes Charlene will return next week and invites letters to Kay and Charlene Bobbitt at Charley Hall Cedarvale Kan Sas.
The Port Isabel Press is a weekly newspaper published in Port Isabel Texas by The News Publishing Co Inc San Benito Texas. It lists the publisher Steve M Elam and editor Jack L Merryman with office at 904 Adams Ave Port Isabel and subscription rates of 2 per year in Cameron County and 3 per year outside Cameron County.
Advertisements list two vehicle choices a 1950 Olds 98 four door with radio heater and Hydramatic or a 1949 Plymouth two door. Contact numbers WH 3 2589 or E W Heinze. Also for rent a furnished two bedroom apartment with water paid and redecorated, see J W Brown west of Marine Mart or call WH 3 2788.
Classified list advertising three beds and garage home with 50 by 120 lot, Maytag washing machine, laundry trays, rental apartments starting at 40 dollars, furnished Bayside house, two Bayside lots with small house and septic, all urging calls to Western Union style WH 3-… numbers and names May Brooks Helen E Williams Martin Tower.
The family expresses heartfelt appreciation for kindness sympathy and tributes shown during our bereavement following the death of Frank H. Carpenter.
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