Port Isabel prepares new school facilities for fall term
Port Isabel unveils a $650000 school project with a freshman to senior campus of 10 buildings. Construction will continue into November, but classes will start August 31 for all grades with registration August 30 at the new Junior Senior High School. Enrollment expected at 1300.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway 100
Port Road
Floyd
Robert E. Gades
M. N. Caudill
David Dailey
Derry
North Shore
D. Wooldridge
P Garriga
Washington
Port Isabel
Koyd
Otto Langlois
Tsta
Corpus Christi Seeks Low Bidder for Sewer Extension
Bids opened for extending the sanitary sewer system with six firms submitting offers. T. H. Lee of Corpus Christi bids 55 059.65 the lowest and pledges 75 working days for completion. Engineer to recheck totals. contract set for the next city commission meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saniiary
City Commission
Corpus Christi
Mitchell - Darby Co
Rising Construction Co
Paul Cornett
Dodd & Wedegartner
W. M. Linn
T. H. Lee
Mr. Lee
Richard Hansen
Lee
Port Isabel
Silva Oil Company
Yacht Basin
Parish Bazaar Committee Sets August Meeting
The Annual Bazaar Committee will meet Friday August 22 at 8 00 p m in the parish hall to finalize plans for the church bazaar on September 23 and 24 All parish members are urged to attend and welcome to join the meeting
Ambulance delay blamed for shark attack victim death
A Port Isabel resident, Mr. Hans Fix of McAllen, died after a shark attack and ambulance delays. The letter blames the stalled ambulance at the Hockaday Clinic and a Brownsville response time for the fatal outcome. It questions Port Isabel’s ambulance organization and notes possible shark predation linked to odors from fish on the victim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Port Isabel
Coast Guard Sailors at Port Isabel Face Daily Routines and Repairs
Coast Guard News describes a Port Isabel sailor as a non rated man awaiting petty officer status. The piece outlines a sailor’s day from reveille to midnight, duties on radio and lookout, boat duties during rescues, drills at 0800, and studying Coast Guard courses for promotion. It notes repairs and face lifting of the 95 footer, crew tasks under Dink Tyler, Kipuhne, Help Enstill, Parker, Kowallwski, and Haptin, plus two recent promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CWB
John Kittila
Webster's Dictionary
Port Isabel
Coast Guard
J. W. Sayers
LTIG
USCG
Dink
Tyler
Ld Kipuhne
Frank Helpenstill
Bill Parker
Tapa
Fla
Kowallwski
St. Louis
Morris J. Haptin
US Public Health Service
Galveston
Eood Health
Mare
Luther “'H. Seim
Queen Candidates Named for Port Isabel Bazaar
Miss Maria Teresa Villareal and Miss Maria Isabel Mora are the 1962 Queen contenders for Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in Port Isabel. Both 15, daughters of local families, contest closes September 24 as the Catholic Bazaar runs September 23 and 24 with a Mexican Supper Bar-B-Que Chalupa games and other activities to raise funds for the church Building Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria Teresa Villareal
Maria Isabel Mora
Our Lady Star of the Sea
Port Isabel
Miss Villareal
Justo Villarreal
Miss Mora
Juan Mora
Laguna Heights
Tarpon Prospects Report For Practice
Forty five prospects reported with several top players still expected to report. About seventy five High School and Jr High players were examined by Dr Hockaday last week. Jr High football practice will start only on the first day of school due to an interscholastic rule. Coach Aldrum reported a capacity squad on the first day but many dropped out. eleven suits were turned in. By day two thirty four players remained. Lettermen include Dixon Galvan Mata Andrade Martinez Silguero Petty Tower Floyd Poston Evans Meyners Holland Calvillo. Some players have not reported including Villarreal Camacho Cohea Galvan and Billy Galvan. Some suits remain available until Monday morning practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hockaday
Aldrum
Denis Dixon
Israel Galvan
Frank Mata
Tony Andrade
Baldemar Martinez
Ildefonso Silguero
Freddy Petty
Elton Tower
Floyd Poston
Alfred Evans, Jr
Mike Meyners
Frank Holland
Peter Calvillo
Larry Villareal
Faustino Camacho
Joe Cohea
Dionicio Galvan
Billy Galvan
Waldrum
Rockwood of Union Carbide speaks at Port Isabel Rotary
Wm R Rockwood of Union Carbide describes company work in chemistry at extremely low temperatures. He notes chemists operate with elements down to 460 degrees below zero. Visiting Rotarians include Elmore Torn Taylor Bob Roloff Kirkwood Vernon Brinson Caldwell Art Ross Henry Warren Harold Sebern Ray Wait from Brownsville J Harold Bowman Padre Island Larle McDonald Mission and Bill Biddle Sheridan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Isabel
Brownsville
J. Harold Bowman
Padre Island
Larle McDonald
Mission
Bill Biddle
Sheridan
TSTA Representative to Speak at Port Isabel School
Charles B. Hamilton, field representative for the Texas State Teachers Association and state consultant for the Texas Student Education Association, will address Port Isabel teachers on Tuesday August 28. He arrives from the Texas Education Agency, holds degrees from North Texas State University and Texas Christian University, and has served as a teacher and principal at multiple levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Hamilton
Texas State Teachers Association
Texas Student Education Association
Port Isabel
TSTA
Texas Education Agency
North Texas State University
Texas Christian University
Hamilton
Shrimp Fiesta Officers Named
The Shrimp Fiesta Association held its regular meeting at Merchants Marine State Bank in Port Isabel on Wednesday August 15 at 8 00 p m. Officers elected for the coming year are President Ted Johns Vice President Floyd Bobbitt Secretary Mary Johns and Treasurer Jim Lowden. Port Isabel board members include Ted Hunt Edith Baines Mrs Lee Smith Hubert Dusek Robert Garcia and T B Mack with Bobbitt also serving on the board. Brownsville directors are Ann Johnson Charles Johnson Bat Rogers Paul Auschbacher Bob Fowler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrimp Fiesta Association
Merchants Marine State Bank
Port Isabel
Ted Johns
Floyd Bobbitt
Mary Johns
Jim Lowden
Ted Hunt
Edith Baines
Lee Smith
Hubert Dusek
Robert Garcia
T. B. Mack
Port Isabel Welfare Area Moves to Brownsville District
Miss Theresa Champion announces Port Isabel will join Brownsville welfare area rather than San Benito. Alfonso Garza will visit Port Isabel on the second Monday each month to accept applications starting September Ith at the Urban Renewal Building. Office visits aim to ease access to Old Age Assistance Aid to the Needy Blind Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled and Aid to Dependent Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theresa Champion
State Department of Welfare
Brownsville
Texas
Port Isabel
San Benito
Alfonso Garza
Champion
Ofice
Shark Attack Fatality on South Padre Island Surfer Targeted
Hans Fix of McAllen was attacked by a shark while fishing in Gulf waters off South Padre Island. He sustained a severely mangled right leg, died later at Mercy Hospital after ambulance transport and treatment. Fix was a Loomis Hydraulic Testing Co. machinist born March 26 1916 in Gruma Germany. survived by wife Ruth, four daughters, a son and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Fix
McAlien
South Padre Island
Dr. A
Hockaday
Brownsville
Fix
Mercy Hospital
Loomis Hydraulic Testing Co
McAllen
Gruma
Germany
Ruth Fix
Paul Fix
Limbach
Hans Bernard Fix
Fouraughters
Regina
Barbara
Rena Ree Pix
Ricarda Rounder
Norfolk,Va
Four County Area Sets Dates for Operation Gulp
Dr J A Hockaday and Dr S F Cope attended a Cameron Willacy Medical Society meeting at Valley Baptist Hospital Harlingen to finalize Operation Gulp plans. The four county Valley vaccination program will use a compromise date of September 16 with four counties administering simultaneously. Vaccine will be underwritten by local medical societies with volunteers staffing stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Hockaday
Cameron-Willacy
Hidalgo
Starr County Medical Society
Angling Roundup Totals From Texas to Ohio Trips
A fragmented fishing column logs weekend and weekday catches across Texas and Ohio. Anglers including Mr Tex and Goldie Megison of Dayton, J P Hay from Port Isabel, and Juan Cortez from Weslaco report trout and kingfish counts, with several parties from Houston and Dallas contributing sizable hauls across August weekends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tex
Goldie Megison
Dayton
Ohio
L. Falcone
G. Coutie
Houston
P. J. Johnston
Korreal
Texas
G. T. Colgrove
Hocater
M. Skinner
Corkiney
Koreases Springs
E. M. Skinner
Ward
Dallas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Beatrice Floyd
Board of Trustees
Corpus
Hockaday Clinic
Coast Guard News
John H. Kittila
James V. Sayers
Maria Teresa Villarreal
Rockwood
Union Carbide
P. I. School
Gulp
Robert L. Dillard, Jr
Grand Lodge of Texas
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!