Port Isab L Press Item Digest
January 16 1964 Port Isabel Press reports on local events and notices from Page 5 detailing community items, schedules, and brief updates likely including civic notices and social briefs.
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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1964
Page
5
January 16 1964 Port Isabel Press reports on local events and notices from Page 5 detailing community items, schedules, and brief updates likely including civic notices and social briefs.
For rent a furnished apartment at Mac s Apartments. For sale a 20 ft trailer house with aluminum construction, two beds a drop seat fall hay automatic heater four burner stove with broiler or natural gas, one 7 ft firegrater. No bath or the OO. £150 cash balance payments at 6 ser once. See at Franklin Trailer Park.
The Port Isabel Urban Renewal Agency calls for bids on South Port Isabel No 1 Tex R 50 street and drainage improvements with items from roadway excavation to reinforced concrete pipes. Bid documents cost 25 dollars. 5 percent bid guarantee required. bids due 2:00 p.m. January 15 1964. agency reserves right to reject or waive formalities.
Oscar D. Henslee of Brownsville killed two deer with one shot this season, while a Cuero man did the same with three. Randy Lee Smith of Harlingen won junior deer with 14 points in the store deer contest. George Blackburn promotes barbless hooks for easy release of nonkeepers. Captain W. B. Thompson fenced redfish to three pounds in five months, and Jim Mutts from Harlingen favors trimmed bucktails for saltwater fishing. Marine scientist William N. McPshand notes 35 881 catfish per acre on March 1, 1961, with far fewer later.
Cleanup is a phase of corral maintenance often neglected. Litter and debris including discarded machinery fallen timber fencing rolls and broken red equipment pose injury or death risks to animals.
Mission artist Ann Coffing will chair the 1964 Citrus Fiesta Art Show February 12 to 16. Entries are invited from Valley and South Texas artists, due February 10 at Fontana Hotel. Judging February 11 with public view February 12 to 16. Prizes awarded in junior and senior divisions. driftwood sculpture returns along with sculpture mosaics and paintings.
Agriculture Department forecasts show citrus output down three percent from last year’s freeze damaged crop. Orange forecast 99 million boxes close to prior estimate, grapefruit 32.306 million, with state totals for oranges and grapefruit spread across California Florida Texas Arizona and Louisiana among others.
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