Winter Visitors Club meeting in Port Isabel draws members
The Port Isabel Winter Visitors Club held its weekly meeting at the Fireman's Hall on December 22 with 184 members from 26 states plus Canada and Belgium. Iowa led in attendance with 38 members and Minnesota followed with 20. birthdays were celebrated by seven members. Mr and Mrs W R Phillips of Beulah Michigan observed their 51st anniversary and Mr and Mrs William D Hughes of Benton Harbor Michigan marked their golden anniversary on December 10.
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Port Isabel
Roy Coons
States
Canada
Belgium
Iowa
Minnesota
Kay Kardinal
Dorothy Smith
W.R. Phillips
Beulah Michigan
William D Hughes
Benton Harbor
Michigan
Hughes
Visitors, Spaghetti Dinner Benefit for Laguna Madre Club
A series of community notes lists visiting guests from Indiana, Des Moines and Minnesota, plus a January 15 spaghetti dinner at the high school to fund the Laguna Madre Business and Professional Women's Club scholarship. It also notes a weekly Fiesta Mexicana at Chile’s No. 1 and an upcoming December 29 meeting. New registrants from numerous states and countries welcome attendees to mingle and reconnect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gemberling
Indiana
Dorothy Smith
Des Moines
Iowa
Alfred Lutz
Minnesota
Jan Swiers
Field Service
Belgium
Ed Goodell
Lowmiller
Laguna Madre Business and Professional Women’s Club
Chile
Wentworth
Ross
Reno
Mowerer
Kay Kardinal
Local Highway Office Moves To New Building
The San Benito Texas Highway Department office relocates to a larger building east of Port Isabel, housing resident engineer G G Garcia maintenance foreman Lewis Maston and moved permit drafting offices. The new complex includes a large parking area teletype link to Austin and radio connections with district offices and Pharr. The move supports work on the Port Isabel causeway with Garcia supervising and staff handling the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Benito
Texas Highway Department
East 77 Sunshine Strip
G.G. Garcia
Lewis Maston
Port Isabel
Garcia
Valley District
Pharr
Trio Fined For Camping Without Permit on Isla Blanca Park
Three youths from South Dakota were fined 22.50 each after being apprehended by Cameron County deputy sheriff Cleo Beauford for camping without a permit at Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island. They spent Sunday in jail and were released Monday. the group included David Keith Glover 18 Walter Ray Monk 19 and Michael James Elynn 19.
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Cameron County
Riff Cleo Beauford
Isla Blanca Park
South Padre Island
Isla Blanca Cabanas
David Keith Glover
Walter Ray Monk
Michael James Elynn
South Dakota
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Port Isabel - Padre Island
Harris
Don Harris
B. J. Antle
Laguna Heights
Fishing Service
del Mar
Mobile Park
Texas
R. E. Blake
Anchor Marina
Defords
Aloe Vera
Cactus Garden
Johnson Motors
Charlie's Sporting Goods
C. E. Berry and Clyde Privett
Gulf Tex
Hobby
Port Isabel, Tex
Lightner
Robert Crandall
Dolores Dubois
R. Deziel
Colorado
Mrs
Richard Illinois
A.F. Bangirt
Tom Armstrong
Jim Gemberling
Art Lechsterling
Phillis Whitmore
Kansas
H. Clegg
Bill Fisher
Massachusetts
R. Whalbey
Klingins
Jeffery, Jody
Jill
Ken McCoy
Paul Lee
Lon and Rolly Lee
Dal Linnerll
Kukuzke
Nebraska
F. Lenon
Ohio
Ernst
Oklahoma
Lisa Quatro
Susan Quatro
Joan Quatro
Pennsylvania
Momber
Evelyn E. Koehler
O. Bishop
Wisconsin
Sainis
John Ziesak
Frank Poborsky
Brownsville
FTD Florist
E. Elizabeth LI
Blackburn
E. Elizabeth
Laguna Madre Bay
al Hester
Dent
Peggy
Joe McNamara
McGregor
Megal
Tyler
el Paso
Galveston
Longview
Austin
Laredo
Huntsville
Waco
Mexia
Dallas
Southwestern Bell
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