Plans Proceed For Final Leg Of Park Road 100
The Texas Highway Department plans a seven mile extension of Park Road 100 from the new section to the Willacy County line. A corridor hearing was held May 20, 1969, and any public hearing request must be sent to G G Garcia by Dec 27, 1971. The extension proposes a two lane asphalt road with a 200 foot right of way.
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Texas Highway Department
Park Road
Willacy County
G.G. Garcia
San Benito
Coast Guard manhandles three rescue calls off Brazos Santiago
Coast Guard units assisted a drifting West Gulf II and two other vessels during a busy week. A 40 foot launch could not tow the grounded trawler due to heavy seas and jetty limits. Two crew were evacuated while the captain remained aboard.
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Coast Guard
West Gulf II
Brazos-Santiago Pass
Gulf
Port Isabel
Corpus Christi Naval Air Command
Adolfo Brooks
Brownsville
Anita Bryant
Port Aransas
Corpus Christi
Police Arrest Burglary Suspect Wanted By FBI
Port Isabel officers arrest Ronald Dodson 24 of Harlan Kentucky for burglary of a shrimp boat. A teletype shows he is an FBI escapee in Louisville. He is held in the City Jail awaiting U S Marshal transport to Louisville.
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Port Isabel
Chuck Londrie
Laura Ochoa
Ronald Clinton Dodson
Harlan
Kentucky
National Crime Information
Dudson
FBI
Louisville
Londrie
U.S. Marshall
Shrimper Shifts Plea on Federal Shrimp Theft Charge
Everett Milo Anderson a 35 year old Port Isabel shrimp trawler captain changed his plea to guilty on a federal charge of stealing about 2000 pounds of shrimp in a 1969 Gulf transfer. A second count piracy against the Bobby V will likely be dropped.
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Everett Milo Anderson
Port Isabel
Mid- Gulf
Anderson
John E. Batto
Bobby
U.S
Reynaldo Garza
Raul A. Gozalez
Bobby V
Gulf
Sawyer
Tarpon
Zimmerman Heads Area's Salvation Army Fund Drive
Port Isabel Salvation Army Service Unit chairman W W Zimmerman will lead the annual drive with a goal of 800 dollars for the area lasting about two weeks. A kickoff coffee-doughnut event is set for December 1 1971 at 10 00 am in the Merchants Marine State Bank board room with volunteers receiving instructions and donor cards.
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W.W. Zimmerman
Port Isabel
Salvation Army Service Unit
Salvation Army
Zimmerman
Merchants Marine State Bank Board Room
Brownsville Pedestrian Killed By Auto
Glen Henry Cherry a longtime Brownsville resident was killed Monday evening November 29 in an automobile pedestrian crash on Port Road near Bill Buck's Grocery. He walked west in the eastbound lane when struck by Curtis Lewis Rebel of Port Isabel. No charges filed pending further information. Valley traffic fatalities rise to 104 for the year.
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Glen Henry Cherry
Brownsville
Bill Buck
Cherry
E. 14Th St
Texas Department of Public Safety
Curtis Lewis
Port Isabel
DPS
Sea Ranch At Padre Island Changes Hands
Sea Ranch Motel and Marina on Padre Island has been purchased by H. George Koch Jr a New Orleans hotelier leading Sea-Rinch Ltd. with Michael G. O Quinn as vice president and manager. The pair will manage the property immediately with no staffing changes planned.
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Sea Ranch
Padre Island
New Orleans
H. George Koch, Jr
Sea-Rinch Ltd
Louisiana Investors
Harry Koch
Michael G. O’quinn
George Koch
Louisiana
Asset Management, Inc
Mike O’quinn
Koch
Howard Johnson
O’quinn
Royal Orleans
Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn Travl-Park
Sea-Ranch
Marina
New Orelans
Miami
Florida
Return'rt
Howard Johnson's
Stetson University
DeLand
McComb
Mississippi
Sea-Ranch, Ltd
New Group
South Padre Island
Park Director Hired For City Parks
Port Isabel appoints Aniceto Torres as park director to oversee maintenance at Washington and Beulah Lee Parks. New additions include a merry go round and six wooden horse swings funded by the Boxing Club via the Port Isabel Jaycees. Baldimar Torres Jr and Robert Garcia also join city roles under Mayor Arturo Galvan. A visiting Pennsylvania man, William M. Wright, was arrested for trespassing on the trawler Not Quite and charged with stealing cigarettes, jailed on $1,000 bond.
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Washington Park
Port Isabel
Candelario Martinez, Jr
Boxing Club
Washington and
Beulah Lee
Aniceto Torres
Torres
Baldimar Torres, Jr
Police Department
Robert Garcia
Arturo Galvan
Pennsylvania
William M. Wright
Johnny Joe Zamora
Cleo Beauford
Wright
Cameron County
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Area Coast Guard
Shrimper
Salvation Army Fund
the Valley
Linda Ann Rankin
Shawn
City Parks
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