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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
1
Citizens are urged to support Port Isabel's ambulance corps after a rough year with misfortunes and criticism. Volunteers and donors like Harry Laneday are sought to sustain life saving service. A Christmas food drive accompanies a screening of Mr Belvedere Goes to College at the Junior High auditorium.
Canned goods or other edible items serve as the price of admission for a 9 30 Saturday showing of Mr Belvedere Goes to College at the Junior High auditorium. Proceeds help the Community Welfare committee prepare Christmas baskets. Clifton Webb stars as Mr Belvedere. Emilio Garcia volunteers as projectionist.
Christmas services at the Baptist church will be held at 11 A M Sunday morning. The Christmas sermon will be delivered by Reverend Raymond Glass, pastor.
The Propeller Club of Port Isabel and Brownsville held its ninth annual dinner and installation at Fort Brown Memorial Center on December 15. Toastmaster Harold W. Sebern announced officers for the coming year, with Stanley Thoroughman as president and Cecil Crawford retiring president.
The Methodist church holds Christmas services Sunday morning at 11. Rev. L. Slanin will deliver the message with the theme They rejoice with Exceeding Great Joy. The choir offers two Christmas Anthems and an annual patent program follows Sunday evening at 7 30 presented by Sunday school children in a Nativity story. The public is cordially invited.
The Church of Christ will hold Christmas services at 10 45 am Sunday with the message by Brother Godrey of San Benito. הג
The Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church will hold a Monday night Midnight Mass conducted by Father J J Fanning O M I The church choir will sing during the Mass.
Browns Ville holds Christmas service with ReverV delays planned for Sunday morning. Roy Rock and family depart December 23 to spend holidays with Mrs. James Rock Sr in Berwick Louisiana.
Archie Causey is again named chairman of the Port Table area drive for the Dimes fund. The campaign kickoff is planned for January first with miniature donations in stores and early contributions already arriving. Full details of annual drive activities will be announced next week.
Fir. Baptist youth group plans a Monday at 7 30 carol singing followed by an afterglow at the home of Rev. Raymond Glass.
Port Isabel faces loss of ambulance service after a motor overhaul loan and low operating revenue. Local driver Harry Sannady urges community support to keep the service, citing government sharing with Brownsville and volunteers funding fuel and first aid costs. Continuous appeals call on civic clubs, organizations, and the public of Port Isabel Bayside Padre Island and Laguna Vista.
A Cameron County memo directs deputies to assist the Texas Highway Patrol and county traffic unit through the holiday period. Emphasis on deterring reckless driving, drunk driving, and dangerous speeds, with exceptions for emergencies and felonies through January 1987.
All owners of dows not vaccinated for rabies within the past year are urged to bring their animals to the Fire Station tomorrow for vaccination. The notice specifies owners should appear with their dogs or cats for preventive care.
Mr and Mrs Dex Warne William of Brownsville announce the arrival of a daughter named Rose Marie born Tuesday December at four pounds ten ounces. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs D. De Williamson of Port Isabel and Mr and Mrs EF W Cole of Brownsville.
A Port Isabel reader list shows multiple children asking Santa for toys and clothing. Requests include dolls bicycles cowboy boots shirts hats guns and toy rifles along with dishes a record player a playhouse and a walking doll. Several sign with names such as Sammy Byrd Guadalupe Saldivar Joe Cuevas Anita Rosaria Sharon Lee Byrd Emilio Ganzalez Maria de Ja luz Galvan and Desi.
A fragmentary notice lists anglers from Harlingen Texas and Minneola Kansas, noting trout and sheephead catches. Names include Sid Roerat Mrs ForHner Harlingen Harve Kile Scobey Cecil Harvey Ranie Champion Loren Shannon LB Young and Dr. Binger Brownsville among others.
May readings in Brownsville and Artesia feature several anglers reporting trout and redfish. Howard Basen and J W Howard lead trout catches, while Loren Shannon and Lawrence Young report trout totals and Marshall Kveton with He M Smith land a 27 pound redfish.
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