South Padre Island boom reshapes Port Isabel area
CP and L Magazine highlights the South Padre Island Port Isabel and Port Isabel area as a six page color feature. The piece notes a building and tourist boom since the Island causeway opened eleven years ago, predicting continued rapid development with dozens of new beach homes condos and rental units. It describes an all electric island with strong hotel and trailer park activity and ongoing utility challenges from blowing sand and salt spray while Port Isabel manager Ruther Shafere discusses corrosion issues and the need to keep up with rising demand.
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Port Isabel
South Padre Island
CP & L News
Chamber of Commerce
Cp&l News
South Padre
Texas
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Padre
Padre Isaind
Povide
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el Padre
Ruther Shafe
Gulf Spray
Cplers
Port Isabel Varpon Quarterback Club Holds First Meeting
The Port Isabel Varpon Quarterback Club will convene Monday August 23 at 7 30 p m All members and fans are urged to attend by club officials and supporters preps for upcoming season
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Port Isabel
VFW Post to Meet at New Home Tonight
Isabel Memorial Post 8791 of the VFW will meet at 8 p.m. at the new post home formerly the Ship facility. All members are urged to attend and see the updated headquarters.
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VFW
Post Isabel Memorial
V.F.W
One Injured When Blaze Sweeps Northside Apartments
Port Isabel man Robert Cooksey, 32, escaped critical injury by jumping from a second floor window as a fire swept the Northside Apartments in the Fort Isabel district. He was hospitalized at Mercy in Brownsville with burns covering about 20 to 30 percent of his body. Coast Guard and Fort Isabel volunteers fought the blaze, which was controlled around midnight. cause not yet determined.
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Port Isabel
Robert Cooksey
Mercy Hospital
Brownsville
Fort Isabel
Coast Guard
Cooksey
Conference Hour At Hugh School Principal Office
Principal Cecil Rountree calls all high school students to attend conference about schedule changes. Meetings scheduled at the high school office from 8 to 12 A.M. and 1 to 4 P.M. for students who wish to discuss their timetables.
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Hugh
Cecil Rountree
Port Isabel Seeks Permit for Small Boat Basin Wharf
City of Port Isabel files with U S Army District Engineer for a permit to dredge and construct a wharf at the Port Isabel Small Boat Basin beside City Park at Pompano Street. Plan includes dredging to eight feet below mean low tide, an 8 by 60 foot wharf, deck five feet above low tide, and mooring piles for slips. Mooring and spoil disposal details noted. decision rests on navigation impact. Also notes a separate dredging request by George Raymond along Houston Street to eight feet below mean low tide with spoil areas east of the entrance to the basin.
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Port Isabel
U. S. Army District Engineer
Galveston
Department of the Army
Pompano St
Vence
Federal Project
Laguna Madre
Army
George Raymond
Houston Street
Aguna
Coast Guard rescues two vessels near Port Isabel
On August 14 the Port Isabel station advised the POINT BAKER to assist the F V CAPT ROYAL five miles north of Port Isabel. The ship was towed and anchored safely in Port Aransas. On August 15 the CAPE YORK towed the F V MASTER ALLEN five hours northeast of Port Isabel into the Port Isabel anchorage. New personnel joined the station from Groton Connecticut and the First Coast Guard District.
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Port Isabel
Vie 2182 Kcs
Coast Guard
Point Baker
Port Aransas
Royal
Allen
Cape York
Allien
Johnnie Kt. Dunn
Groton
Connecticut
George Kay
Commander First Coast Guard District
Headstart Class Outings Include Beach Trip and Clinic
Operation Headstart pupils spent a week of summer activities with a beach party on South Padre Island for twelve students and their teacher. Chaperones Roger Villarreal Del fina Castilo and Diana Gutierrez joined. On August 13 the group visited the county clinic for an Oral Polio vaccine and DPT first shot, listing attendees Pasty Mills Brenda Garza Sylvia Castillo Frances Garcia Debbie Galvan Irma Leos Perez Robertaons Gabourel and It Cantu. They also had a physical at Dr Gibson's Clinic last week.
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South Padre Island
Roger Villarreal
Delfina Castilo
Diana Gutierrez
Pasty Mills
Brenda Garza
Sylvia Castillo
Frances Garcia
Debbie Galvan
Irma Leos
Perez
Robert Aons Gabourel
It Cantu
Registration Day Set for Mrs Cail’s School
Mrs. George F. Cail Sr. announced registration for Mrs Cail's School on Monday August 3 from 2 to 4 p m for kindergarten and first grade children. Registration will be held at the Educational Building of the Methodist Church.
East Gym Wall Replaced at Point Isabel High
The Point Isabel High School East Gym wall was rebuilt after a May collapse. The West wall was reinforced and deemed sound. Keillor Construction Co. led the East wall replacement at a low bid of 26,895 dollars funded by the contractor and architect with insurance backing. Sixty students were in the gym during the failure but escaped injury.
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Point Isabel High School
Keillor Construction Co
Los Fresnos
Red Cross enrolls 1,147 in water safety classes
The West Cameron County Red Cross chapter reports 1,147 students completed swimming water safety classes in the past year. Frank Davis, Harlingen water safety chairman, notes 689 beginners and 238 advanced beginners among the group. five instructors qualified and seven certificates near expiration.
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West Cameron County
The
Red Cross
Frank Davis
Harlingen
Aurther Shafer
Port Isobel
Davis
Corpus Christi
Junor
la Feria
Rio Hondo
San Benito
Cotton Grades Lowered By Scattered Valley Rain
Cotton prices and grades slipped after scattered valley rain affected quality this week. Officials note lower overall grades with longer staple lengths but diminished other quality factors, influencing market assessments for the period ending Friday August 13.
RGV Livestock Show Dates Set and Officers Re elected
The 1966 Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show will run March 16 to 21. L. W. Mike Clifford was reelected president with Steve Galloway Eldon Smith and W. H. Crawe as vice presidents and W. A. Heller as secretary treasurer. The board also includes Lloyd Bentsen S H Collier Jay Dudley and others. USDA Harlingen notes cattle grade shifts tied to rains dews and irrigation and oil use in spindles affecting discol oration in cotton samples.
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L. W
Mike” Clifford
Clifford
Steve Galloway
Eldon Smith
W. H. Crawe
W. A. Heller
Lloyd Bentsen
S. H. Collier
Jay Dudley
Larry Franks
L. L. Galloway
V. F Neuhaus
J. L Boggus
Woods Christian
Carl Schuster
Felix Till
Frances Mitchell
Pep Squad Plans First Meet Monday
The Port Isabel Tarpons Pep Squad will hold its first organizational meeting in the High School Science Room. Principal Mr. Thountree and Miss Diana Gutierrez called the meeting for 2 30 p m Monday August 7.
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Port Isabel Tarpons
Thountree
Diana Gutierrez
Five Day Forecast Temperature Outlook
Temperatures will average about one degree below normal highs from 3 to 101 and lows near 73 to 75. Precipitation is expected to be moderate with scattered showers and locally heavier bursts.
Bal lard Named Chancellor for New Brownsville Diocese
The Very Rev Emanuel Ballard assistant pastor at Immaculate Conception Brownsville has been named chancellor of the new Diocese of Brownsville. The appointment came from Most Rev Adolph Marx former Corpus Christi auxiliary bishop who becomes the first bishop of Brownsville. Installation is set for 0 a m September 2 at Immaculate Conception Church Brownsville. Ballard previously organized Cameron County Community Action Program and served as deanery moderator of Cursillo and chaplain of the Newman Club at Texas Southmost College. He studied at St Bernard College Cullman St Anthony Minor Seminary and Oblate College of the Southwest and was ordained in San Antonio. Ballard’s family remains in Holy Cross Kentucky.
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Emanuel A. Ballard
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Brownsville
Adolph Marx
JCD
Corpus Christi
Ballard
Magr
Wiliam Thomp
Diocese of
Cameron County
Cursillo
Newman Club
Texas Southmost College
Holy Cross
C. F. Ballard
Thomas J. Drury
San Angelo
Marx
M. S. Garriga
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