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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
2
The column warns of sharpies and flim flam artists targeting vulnerable Port Isabel residents, urges forming a barter business bureau with support from the Better Business Bureau and officials, and notes hopeful world improvements amid year-end reflections and a recreated Mayflower signing account.
Postmaster Mras announces second class postal rates will increase January 1 1969 in the ongoing three step rise enacted with the 1967 law. The change raises editorial non advertising rates to 3.2 cents per pound and updates advertising zone rates to 4.9 to 16 cents per pound. Classroom and organization publications also see higher rates with guidance offered at local post offices.
The Campeche Patrol in the southern Gulf of Mexico will discontinue January 1 after 18 years. The Coast Guard will retire two aging ships and shift search and rescue duties to cutters from Texas ports as cases in the area have sharply declined since 1962.
Coast Guard members at the local station held a chief's dinner to honor newly promoted Chief Engineman William T. Cooner and welcome him to the chief's mess. Other recent advances include Willem Brockus, Raymond Hadfit4, Eric Kitsesparger, Richard Mathes, Stanley Moore, and Dravid Sheffield. January 1 handover will be by cutters homeported in Corpus Christi as 210 foot class cutters replace the old 125 foot ships in the southern Gulf search and rescue missions. The Kimball will be retired Dec 31 marking the cutter's third retirement since 1927. Continued on page 6.
Temperatures average two to eight degrees below normal with highs 70 to 72 degrees and lows 48 to 52. Expect cooler conditions Friday and Saturday, then a warming trend Monday. Showers bring moderate precipitation around Friday.
A Nashville Tennessee soldier’s 1847 letter from Port Isabel offers a vivid glimpse of early valley life and local terms. The writer notes uncertainty over a word thought to be either nettles or a regional plant and mentions hornes, with no reference to cactus. The Port Isabel postmark and context intrigue local historians.
A compromise ends the injunction suit delaying Cameron County pension plan. The county cuts its participation from seven to six percent, saving taxpayers over $15,000 annually and covering court costs. Commissioners agree to work with the Cameron County Taxpayers League on the 1970 budget and property valuation, following a district judge ruling.
South Padre Island residents are urged to attend a 7 30 p m meeting on January 7 190 at the Community Center in Isla Blanca Park to review a feasibility study by a committee formed to study incorporation. The panel invites input from island residents on forming a city.
Babson predicts 1969 brings continued Vietnam conflict and a resurgent Russia, with inflation persisting amid higher military spending and defense tech booms. Space spending could rise as the USSR may threaten with a space spectacular, while the dollar status improves briefly but remains vulnerable to deficits. President Nixon faces slow inflation battle after 1968 tax measures.
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