Port Isabel youth life notes and summer antics
A lively Port Isabel page reports on trips to the Lake of the Ozarks and Bridal Cave, neighborhood sights in Missouri and Arkansas, local football prep, and summer socials. It highlights students, chaperones, and families returning for school, with updates on Daisy Varnum’s sandy sculptures and town happenings around Corpus Christi and Donna.
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Lufkin
Goree’s
Knob Noster Misery
Missouri
Lake of the Ozarks
Camdenton
Carlsbad Caverns
Mammoth Caves
Carlsbad
United States
Paul Kelsey
Lu Lu
Swope Park
Kansas City
Bagnell Dam
Benton
Arkansas
Des Loige
Huntsville
Sam Houston
State Penitentiary
Gorce State Farm
Port Isabel
Bob Mac
Corpus Christi
Eddie Whitney
Rita
Edith
Flour Bluff
Glenn
la Nelli Johnson
Daisy Varnum
Sandy
Margaret's Cousins Visit From Donna
Margaret hosts Betty Davis and Dixie Gillan from Donna who stayed several days visiting relatives and local friends.
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Margaret
Betty Davis
Dixie Gillan
Donna
School News Beats and Local Gossip From San Diego
Rash of school chatter, daily life notes, and hometown names fill the page. Norma Lou medals, Pat change at Mad House Drug, Sleepy Petch comments, and Sharon Joe attend school next week. A San Diego nails crash leaves 19 kegs scattered, puncturing tires including a police car.
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Sharon
Joe
San Diego
Cal
1954 Area Grid Schedule Highlights Conference Dates
The schedule lists 1954 area grid games with opponents and locations. Key events include Sept 9 St Joseph here and Oct 14 Rio Hondo here, with several home games noted and conference designation marked by here or there.
Hollywood Stars Shifts and New Projects Reveal Busy Fall
Ava Gardner returns to MGM duties in Love Me Or Leave Me follow up Bhowani Junction with Stewart Granger as co star in India. Cecil B DeMille to shoot The Ten Commandments in Egypt starting September. Alfalfa Carl Switzer from Our Gang resurfaces in TV via Roy and Dale Rogers. Susan Hall joins Chief Crazy Horse location with Victor Mature for a Sioux tribe celebration set decades ago.
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Ava Gardner
M-G-M
Bhowani Junction
Stewart Granger
Miss Gardner
India
Cecil B. DeMille
Hollywood
Egypt
Alfalfa
Carl Switzer
Roy and
Dale Rogers
Susan Hall
Sioux Indiana
Crazy Horse
South Dakota
Susan
Victor Mature
Mask Suffocates Fort Worth Boy at Local Pool
Charles Bryan aged 14 was found suffocated in three feet of water at a local pool in Fort Worth Texas. A rubber and glass swimming mask pressed tightly over his nose and mouth as he inhaled and had to be cut from his face.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Charles Bryan
San Benito Team Schedule Fragments Across Cities
A fragmentary schedule lists matches by date and place including Brownsville on Sept 16 and Sept 22, Raymondville Oct 7, Pharr Oct 14, McAllen Oct 21, Harlingen Nov, with venues Here There Across multiple towns.
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Brownsville
Raymondville
Pharr
McAllen
Harlingen
Margaret OBrien to Play Juliet in TV Romeo and Juliet
Margaret OBrien will portray Juliet in February on television. No Romeo has been chosen yet for the production.
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Margaret O'Brien
Juliet
Joan Crawford
Esther Costello
Jean Simmons
Ruling Extends Vote Rights for Poll Tax Payoff Abolished
Attorney General John Ben Shepperd rules that ex service members with active duty in last 18 months may vote in the August 28 runoff primary without paying the poll tax. County Clerk H. D. Seago will apply the ruling while issuing absentee ballots.
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John Ben Shepperd
Armed Forces
U. S. Maritime Service
U. S. Merchant Marine
H. D. Seago
First NYC Power Plant Opens in 1882
The article notes the first power producing public utility was constructed in New York City in 1882, marking a milestone in urban energy access and municipal infrastructure.
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New York City
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Charlie's Sporting Goods
Fishing Tackle
Berry
Clyde Privett
ED Hauf
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By Norma A Browder
Charlene Bobbitt
Tom
Ken
Nedy
Wayne the Great
Dixon
Bob Bull” Varnam
Robert Holland
Bull Dog” Farrar
Arnaldo Ochoa
Larry Myers
David Bates
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Arthur Hill
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Ft. Worth
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Oldsmobile
Norma Lou
Patricia
Pat
Petch
Mickey Haley
Joe Marchan
Mr. Edwards
Rose Mary Perez
Lawrence J. Fanning
OMI
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Mother Club
Port Isabel Tarpons
St. Joseph
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Rio Hondo
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la Joya
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Hollywood News
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Carol
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Audrey Hepburn
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TSCW
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Mary Lou Johnston
John H. & Earl
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E. Elizabeth St
Haskell Hodge
E. Stenger
S. 1St St
A. M. Kent
U. S. Army
U.S. Army
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