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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1960
Page
4
Ruth Waggone writes from La Feria Texas August 5 1560 complaining about a jungle overtaking her property and urging neighborly action while praising a local editor for starting a jungle cleanup in The La Feria News. She calls out a critic and thanks readers for support.
C Jones, former Park Commission chair, explains his resignation shifted duties and recounts the failed Holiday Inn hotel motel deal on the Island. The plan aimed to fund bonds via revenues without taxes, but private press opposition and rising interest rates doomed the venture and left the Causeway bond burden on taxpayers.
A campaign to raise the Valley Chamber of Commerce income by 15000 dollars per year will begin August 15, announced President Hubert K. Hudson. The extra income aims to cover the difference between continuing the current operations and expanded activities.
Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island issues a treasure hunting permit pairing beachcombing with official status. The piece recounts legends of pirate LaFitte and Spanish treasure, notes past wrecks and the Singer family cache, and frames treasure hunting as an offered, partly official, pursuit with uncertain outcomes.
President Hudson announced a $15,000 allocation to Valley communities based on population bank deposits and membership. The drive mobilizes 200 participants from 100 officials who will recruit new members and seek higher subscriptions, with many teams meeting in communities alongside Ed R. Herring, the membership relations manager.
One gas well was abandoned and another started this week in Cameron County. The Gulf Oil Co. wildcat on Padre Island twelve miles north of Port Isabel was abandoned at 13 227 feet with no productive results.
A company spokesman said no further drillings on the island are expected soon. A 9,000-foot project was announced for 15 miles east of Brownsville. Thomas F. Schmitz and others of the San Antonio No. 1 Brownsville Navigation District are 5,375 feet northeast of Texas Gulf No. 1 Lerma and others.
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