Port Isabel to vote on 100000 dollar wharf bond issue
City of Port Isabel Texas schedules an election for September 11 1963 to authorize issuing $100 000 in bonds for building a wharf and docks plus related facilities including canals and traffic improvements. Ballots propose FOR or AGAINST the issuance with officials Mrs Clyde Privett and Mrs Archie Causey as managers.
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Port Isabel
Nion
Board of Commissioners
Texas
Port Isabels
State of Texas
PMM
State of
J. A. Hockaday
Fec
Planning and Zoning Commission
Gertrude Gilliam
City of
Girl and Her Pet Mike the Chicken Share A Polio Victory
A 15 year old girl Obie Ellen Baker of San Benito recalls polio battles since 1952 and how her pet white rock hen named Mike, given after polio, helps her cope. Mike, believed to think she is not a chicken, crows like a rooster, lays eggs, and returns nightly to the family home, even after a BB gun injury.
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Williams Road
San Benito
Mike
Obie Ellen Baker
Shriners Crippled Childrens Hospital
Shreveport
Obie
Harold Hensley
la Feria
San Benito High School
Cecil Woods
Visitors Thank Port Isabel Readers for Hospitality
The Canady family of Tulsa Oklahoma thanks Port Isabel readers for warm hospitality during their visit for the TIFT event. They praise the local people and the barbecue party, and say they plan to return next year.
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Port Isabel
PO Rox
Port
Peter
Port ‘'Sabel
Gene
Margaret Canady
Disease cases reported in Cameron County week ending August 24
Cameron County Health Department logs thirty communicable disease cases for the week ending August 24. Gonorrhea leads with eleven cases. other illnesses include five infectious hepatitis, five streptococcal throat, four tuberculosis, and one whooping cough case.
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Cameron County Health Department
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St. Padre Island
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Port Isabel, Texas
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Saldivar
City Printing
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Port Isabel Area
Blackburn
E. Elizabeth
Brownsville
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