Kansas City Star Men Speak Of Port Isabel Vacation
Two Kansas City Star reporters Buck Martin and Roger Reynolds vacationing in Port Isabel toured the Bay area fishing and sight seeing. They collected fish and photos for potential use in Kansas City while praising local foods and hospitality. They plan to return next year and tell readers about the Valley.
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Virginia Henderson
el Dobe
Buck Martin
Roger Reynolds
The
Kansas City
Bay Area
Martin
Port Isabel
Reynolds
Mexico
Florida
Bahamas
Bay
Rio Grande River
Wiley Bennett
Olmito
Padre Island
Matamoros
Kansas City Star
Roger
STAR
K.C
Old
CofC Directors To Meet Monday
The board of directors of the newly formed area chamber of commerce will meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the chamber building. Secretary A W Jardine says the meeting will adopt a program name and slogan and organize a membership drive. Entries for a name and slogan contest with two $25 Savings Bonds prizes must be mailed by January 16.
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Area Chamber of Commerce
A. W. Jardine
Visitors' Club Grows 96 Members At Fire Hall Meeting
The Port Isabel Winter Visitors Club met at the Firemen's Hall on Wednesday at 8 p.m. with 96 members, up 29 from last week, representing 16 states and Canada. Michigan led state turnout with 23 members. Activities included games and crafts on Thursdays and Fridays, with hostesses from local groups and demonstrations on seashell crafts. Merchants were thanked for door prizes, and organizers encouraged wider attendance and more social programs.
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Port Isabel
Canada
Michigan
Ernest DeFord
Colley’s Fishing Service
Port
Fisherman's Inn
Anchor
Warren Hardware
Gulf Oil
Freddie's Pharmacy
Lighthouse Grocery
den Russ Drugs
Frick’s
Alta Vista
Marjories Beauty Salon
Hazel’s Fashions
Shaylor Tackle
Mary Maramo
Mexican Mart
Jimmie Lee Hockaday
Thelma Colley
Mrs. Morgan
Queen Isabella Inn
B&pw
Virgil Spradlin
Neptune Apartments
Services Held For Cliff McWhorter Civil Engineer
Clifton Thomas McWhorter 46 died Friday January 8 from a heart ailment. A South Padre Island resident for two years he worked as a civil engineer for John L. Thompkins Company. Funeral was Saturday at Clifford Jackson Funeral Home Corpus Christi. Born August 29 1918 he is survived by wife Elizabeth two children Brice and Milton a brother J D Milton of Alice and his parents J T and Josie Odesa McWhorter.
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Clifton Thomas McWhorter
McWhorter
South Padre Island
John L. Thompkins Company
Clifford Jackson
Corpus Christi
Elizabeth
Brice
Milton
J. D. Milton
Alice
J. T. and
Josie Odesa McWhorter
Jim Pockrus 76 Dies in California Saturday
Jim Pockrus 76 died Saturday morning at his home in Santa Rosa California He was formerly a resident of Port Isabel and worked with the Twin City Fishermen's Coop He is survived by his wife Mary three sons Oole Pockrus James Pockrus Marion Pockrus and three daughters Romana Graham Jack Israel and Helen Franklin a brother Marion Pockrus and a sister Mrs Maude Robbott He leaves 19 grandchildren and W great grandchildren Services in California were under the auspices of the Church of Christ Santa Rosa
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Jim Pockrus
Santa Rosa
California
Port Isabel
Twin City
Fishermen's Coop
Pockrus
Mary
Oole Pockrus
James Pockrus
Marion Pockrus
Billings
Montana
Romana Graham
Beaumont
Jack Israel
Helen Franklin
Lawton Oklahoma
Maude Rpbbott
Florida
Church of Christ
Aurther Shafer Named CPL Port Isabel Manager
Aurther W. Shafer of Harlingen will succeed Stuart Adkins as Central Power and Light Company manager for the Port Isabel area, announced this week by CPL District Manager R. A. Ewing.
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Aurther W. Shafer
Harlingen
Stuart Adkins
Central Power and Light Company
Port Isabel
CPL
R. A. Ewing
Banquet to Feature Ben Brite Speaker and CPL News
Port Isabel's Quarterback Club hosts a football banquet in the high school cafeteria with guest speaker Ben Brite of Brownsville, a TCU graduate and former Eagle coach. Ted Hunt will MC, and CPL’s new Port Isabel manager Shafer, a San Benito native, begins soon. Adkins retires after 39 years with CPL.
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Port Isabel
Tarpon
Ben Brite
Brownsville
Brite
Texas Christian University
San Antonio
Eagle
Ben
Ted Hunt
CPL
San Benito
Central Power and Light Company
Harlingen
Shafer
West Cameron
American Red Cross
Duplicate Bridge Club Organized Players Invited
The Bay area Duplicate Bridge Club has been organized in Port Isabel and will hold its first weekly game on Tuesday January 19 at 7 30 p m at the Firemen s Hall in Port Isabel. All bridge players are invited with door prizes. Entry is 75 cents per player. Partners available. For more information call Mrs Sammie Schmidt or Mrs Vera Glover.
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Bay Area
Duplicate Bridge Club
Port Isabel
Firemen’s Hall
Sammie Schmidt
Vera Glover
Walsh Realty Opens New Padre Island Offices
The Padre Island office of Vernon Walsh Realty, Valley's largest real estate firm, opens in the Sea Island Resort Hotel lobby with Mrs. Nita Russell Flewelling as Island representative. Founded 1911, the firm grew from Las Mestas land investment to brokerage and subdivisions like Laguna Bonita and Rio Viejo.
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Padre Island
Vernon Walsh
W. Vernon Walsh
Villa Verde
Resacaside
Laguna Bonita
Rio Viejo
America
Jack McGinness
Flewelling
Literacy Council Classes Begin in Port Isabel
An urgent meeting to organize the Port Isabel Literacy Council is set for Thursday Jan 14 in the High School library at 7 30 p.m. A teacher training workshop will follow. Rueben Torres urges volunteers especially women as 53 students have already registered for weekly classes starting Monday Jan 23 at 7 30 p.m. in the High School with classes of four to five students.
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Port Isabel
Rueben Torres
Laguna Madre Clinic opens in Laguna Vista with public open house
A new Laguna Madre Clinic building in Laguna Vista will host an open house Sunday January 24 from 2 to 5 PM. The facility serves South Padre Island Port Isabel Bayside Laguna Vista Bayview and Los Fresnos with a full medical center and future plans for a 20‑bed nursing home.
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Laguna Madre Clinic
Laguna Vista
South Padre Island
Port Isabel
Bayside
Bayview
Los Fresnos
John W. Gibson
Gibson
Gale
Johnny
Bill
Mother's March For January 25 In Port Isabel
Port Isabel hosts the Mothers' March of Dimes on Monday January 25 to seek donations for birth defects and polio research. Volunteers from the Port Isabel Home Demonstration Club led by Mrs. Gwen Bellinghausen will canvass homes from 6 to 8 pm, leaving return envelopes for absent residents. Residents are urged to greet the marchers and light porch lights to show support.
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Port Isabel
Port Isabel Home
Gwen Bellinghausen
Bellinghausen
March of Dimes
Port Isabel Track Team Begins Daily Workouts
Port Isabel High School track athletes start practice for the season with morning sessions at 6:15 a.m. to 7:00 or 7:30, and after school drills at 3:30 p.m. for about two hours. The squad numbers ten to twelve runners with throwers training shot and discus as well.
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Port Isabel
Port
Port Mansfield Causeway Plan Backed by Officials
Cameron County and Port Isabel officials hailed plans for a Port Mansfield to Padre Island causeway and 6000 acres of island land development by South Padre Investment Company. The project aims to build the causeway within 18 months and link Padre Island to the Cameron County network via a new island highway.
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Port Mansfield
Padre Island
Cameron County
Port Isabel
South Padre Investment Company
Cameron
Willacy
Kennedy Counties
Queen Isabella
Port Manafield
South Padre
South Padre Investme Company
Causiay
Laguna Madre Post Isabel
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Aurther Shafer
Cp&l
Adkins
Power Company
Harlin
Texas A&m University
Dorothy
Joy
Susan
Evergreen
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Rotary Club
Cameron County Parks Commission
Valley
International Good Neighbor Council
Valley Chamber of Commerce
Walsh Realty
Literacy Council
University of Tennessee
St. Luke’s Hospital
Spokane
Washington
Chasity Hospital
Ineville
Robert B. Rlis
Dickenson and
Jects
Oklahoma City
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