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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1966
Page
1
The piece notes Port Isabel minors ignore a 10 p.m. curfew, urges parental enforcement, and commends police for cracking a burglar ring that targeted merchants. It suggests staffing changes, praises a Winter Visitors Club dance, mentions national anxieties, and reports draft news and band booster worries with a Feb 1 meeting call.
Texas citizens must pay poll taxes by January 31 to vote in state city county and school elections. Port Isabel will have major elections this year including a city vote in May. Poll taxes may be purchased from Emory Green at Merchants Marine State Bank and Gloria Hunter at 24 Camacho.
The Port Isabel City Commission and Urban Renewal Board approved a second project covering the shrimp basin and E Mexiquito area. Plans, financed two thirds by a federal grant, propose removal of sub standard homes and drainage improvements with one third funded by local credits. A public hearing was held last Thursday and notices were published in The Port Isabel Press.
The Rev. Sam Fore, district superintendent of the McAllen District, Southwest Texas Methodist Church, will speak at First Methodist Church Sunday at 7:00. A Southern Methodist University and Perkins School of Theology graduate, he has pastored in San Antonio at Travis Park and Westlaco during the hospital and Wesley Manor building boom.
Temperatures are projected to average 1 to 3 degrees below normal highs of 69 to 73 and lows of 47 to 32. Little or no precipitation is expected.
Police report a group of teenagers carried out five business and one home burglary spree in Port Isabel over January, including Hazel's Fashions, B&B Grocery, Fricks Variety Store, the Weeks residence, Shell Shop and Freddie's Pharmacy. Investigations tie several youths to additional gas and car thefts with recovered merchandise and ongoing inquiries by city police and the sheriff.
A federal grant of 66 514 funds a school program to tutor students hindered by illness or language barriers. Three teachers, Mrs Laura Coker Mrs Melba Caudill and another, are approved for this work. About 2500 of the funds will be used locally.
Retired civil service and federal employees are invited to a 1 p.m. buffet dinner January 18 at the Echo Hotel Hidalgo Room in Edinburg. Entertainment will follow. Over 60 Iowa retirees now living in the Valley have reserved, per C. S. Norland.
Port Isabel mothers plan a Mothers March on January 18 to support the March of Dimes against birth defects. Cochairmen Gwen Bellinghausen and Dorothy Grant urged residents to host visits to raise awareness of mental and physical disabilities and the impact on families and babies.
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