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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1963
Page
4
Mrs Maria Cardenas Vd de Cuellar of Brownsville lies seriously ill at Mercy Hospital this week. A Port Isabel native with many pioneer friends, she is hospitalized in Brownsville, while relatives and former locals send best wishes.
The Driftwood Garden Club held its last unscheduled summer session on Wednesday August 21 at Mrs. T H Benton’s home. President Mrs. Frank Hickman opened with reading The Sandpiper as members listed plants suitable for the area and discussed the November Plant and Gift Sale planning.
The WMU program at 3 PM in the Educational Building featured talks on Buddhism World Faith Mohammedanism Mormonism and Southern Baptist doctrine with prayers and discussion of Christian differences. An all church covered dish supper followed. The Walter Lancaster family returned from Morgan City Louisiana. Mrs Carey Freel celebrated her birthday in poor health.
The American Spice Trade Association released a summer leaflet with 21 recipes from 19 countries including Pfef fermesse coins from Germany Scampi from Italy and Gazpacho from Spain. It also promotes a 130-recipe cookbook How To Use Spices at 25 cents. A highlighted recipe uses paprika to color and flavor stuffed cucumber rings in a salad.
The Mariners troop camped three days at Camp Lula Sams Brownsville with two nights of open fires and washing. Miss Lorna Petch, Camp Director, visited as they learned games and sang. They invited girls from Georgia for Sunday entertainment and thanked Mrs. Kirkpatrick Mrs. Ewing and Missie Trump for making the trip possible. The Veterans Administration disburses 170 000 burial flags annually.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Thoroughman and their two daughters of St Louis are visiting Port Isabel for a week or ten days. They stay with Mrs Myrtle Van Duesen. Town residents recall Thoroughman as former Port Isabel Coast Guard Life Boat Station commander and active local civic leader. Barbara and Jackie Thoroughman are now in college.
The document lists weekly school meals with items for Tuesday through Friday including meatloaf potatoes corn and desserts, hot dogs enchiladas fish and sides, with applesauce peaches and milk. It ends with a garbled line about Veterans Admins and mental health.
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