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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1968
Page
1
The column highlights high school athlete development under Head Coach Jim Moses with multi sport participation and recent trophy wins at a Weslaco or McAllen meet. It notes city jail demolition affecting lodging, a shell fair first prize by the author’s son, and a Solon Cousins quote on character.
Port Isabel city commissioners unanimously authorized time warrants for 25000 to fund a new municipal building replacing the old police station jail and fire house destroyed by Hurricane Beulah. Low bid of Biltrite Construction Co. was $60359.42 with completion by September 1 1968.
Harlingen residents ask Cameron County Commissioners to support rebuilding a low water bridge near the Port of Harlingen joining Rt 106 and Oscar Williams Road. A 250-signature petition, presented by H W Bahnman and Randy Moore, cites destruction from Beulah flooding.
Cameron County officials vote to end the 14 year toll on the Queen Isabella Causeway linking Port Isabel and South Padre Island effective March 1. State conditions require debt clearance and road extension work, with tollhouse staff to be reassigned as bonds are paid.
Public School Week runs March 4 to 8 in Point Isabel ISD to mark five years of Texas public free schools. Gov. Connally issues proclamation. Derry Elementary Tuesday March 5 6 39 to 8 30 p.m. Garriga Elementary Wednesday March 6 6 30 to 8 30 p.m. Port Isabel Junior Senior High Thursday 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Science exhibits on view. meet faculty invited.
Funeral services for Muriel Irez Causey 57 of Port Isabel died Monday in Brownsville Mercy Hospital were held Wednesday at First Methodist Church Port Isabel with Rev F L Martin officiating. Burial followed at Mont Meta Memorial Park under Thomas Funeral Home. Survivors include Archie B Causey husband two sons Ronnie and Carey Causey and grandson Curtis Lee Causey all of Port Isabel two sisters Merle Shirling Donna and Wanda Green Houston and father J M Sullivan San Saba Texas. Fallbearers were Roy Byrd Doyle Wells Wiley Mahurin Verle Poston Woodruff Thornton and Vicente Gonzalez with honorary pallbearers Lucy Landers Ted Hunt and E W Cateora.
Mrs Betty Allen won Division 7 and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Award at the Eighth Annual Shell Fair on South Padre Island for an exhibit tracing the shell collector’s evolution from casual amateur to professional. She also took the KGBT trophy for advanced malacology and the academy award.
Port Isabel High School athletes dominated Weslaco Relays with Raymond Ragusin winning the 100-yard dash in 10.2 seconds and Rod Taylor taking the 120-yard high hurdles in 15.8. The 440-yard relay team clocked 46.3, led by Joe Ramirez, Tony Gonzales, Tony Alamo, and Ragusin. Gonzales placed third in the 100-yard dash, Sandoval sixth in 10.8, and Pechacek ran 17.1. Additional top finishes included Taylor and Alamo in various events and the Tarpons earning several trophies for display next week.
USS Frank E. Evans off the coast of South Vietnam under the U S Seventh Fleet receives a report of an enemy platoon hiding in a field near Phan Thiet 75 miles east of Saigon. Charles N Berry son of Port Isabel is serving aboard the destroyer as a boi ler man First class and the Evans engages the enemy with gunfire driving them from concealment.
Albert L. Ford Jr. of Star Route Port Isabel was named one of the best future college teacher prospects by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. A Rice University senior chemistry major, Ford plans to teach after graduate study. his father is principal at Garriga Elementary in Port Isabel.
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