Zimmerman Honored At Sixth Birthday Party
Inda Zimmerman celebrated her sixth birthday with a Saturday afternoon party at the Zimmerman home in La Vista. Walter Zimmerman hosted with cake and punch for guests from Port Isabel and nearby areas.
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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1957
Page
3
Inda Zimmerman celebrated her sixth birthday with a Saturday afternoon party at the Zimmerman home in La Vista. Walter Zimmerman hosted with cake and punch for guests from Port Isabel and nearby areas.
Barbara Branch of Incheon was honored at a Thursday wedding reception hosted by Mrs. PF N. Martin and M.N. Caudill. Decorations featured yellow hibiscus centerpieces, a color scheme echoed in the living room table displays. A plated meal included ongelled salad and green beans. Guests included members of the local elementary school faculty and several Mrs. Knollie Carpenter Jr. and Mrs. Wilbur Carpenter of New Ananeta. An arriving visitor from Wednesday joined the festivities. Isabel Baptist church’s Frances Smyth circle met at Mrs. Carl Fleming’s Bayside home for a mission study with Mrs. FE. W. Edwards Jr. presiding.
Mr and Mrs Vince Meyers of Weslaco spent the past weekend in the home of Mrs Meyers daughter and family Mr and Mrs Caudill.
Church calendar lists Sunday School and Sunday Worship at 7:46 p.m for BorViCd ceseeccccseess service. Wednesday night Prayer Service is at 7:30 p.m. Pastor Cecil Lanning presides over Church of Christ activities.
The notice lists Sunday School at 10 50 am and 9 45 am worship services with Spanish Mission Services, Training Union, and midweek events including Sunbeams Jr GA s Intermediates and Young People Prayer Service. It also notes a WWII era fact that fuel used in the Two Jima campaign would fill a 238 mile line of tank cars and lubricating oil would fill 125 rail cars.
Sunday School at 6 a.m. Pastor L. V. Delay leads services with midweek prayer and gatherings announced for Gospel Lighthouse Bayside.
Father L J Fanning 0 M I presides at Our Lady Star of the Sea with Sunday Masses at 6 30 and 10 00 am Daily Masses listed as available Thursday Holy Hour at 7 30 pm Services noted in a concise parish notice style.
Rev. F. St. Marlin leads Sunday School at 10 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. Evening service at 6:30 p.m. Lamplighters meet Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. Bible study Wednesday follows.
Seminarian Douglas Hutchings of San Benito leads Sunday communion services at 9 a m during July and August with monthly gatherings noted. Parish measures storage and outreach events alongside regular worship at St Andrews Episcopal Church.
An incomplete quiz from the Texas Safety association tests road safety habits. It prompts readers with scenarios such as stopping at red lights, walking with traffic on busy roads, handling curves, and approaching railroad crossings to emphasize cautious operation and pedestrian respect.
The Cameron County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis received a 4996 dollar check from the national HQ after January March of Dimes funds fell short. Since starting aid, the chapter has disbursed 574 NK.51 to 72 polio patients and continues fundraising efforts.
The speaker notes the March of Dimes backs vaccination to curb polio and stresses funding needs for treatment and rehabilitation. He cites total care costs reaching tens of millions and recalls a Cameron County case of long term disability requiring braces, therapy, and ongoing support.
The article describes Blanco State Park at the Blanco River crossing on US 281. It notes a designed rock work landscape with multiple small dams creating waterfalls, a rock and timber pavilion, and a stone arch bridge. The park offers picnic tables, grills, restrooms, shaded cottonwoods pecan and live oaks, a wading area, and fishing pools though recent flooding washed out nets. Improvements funded in 1957 include overnight shelters.
Fragmentary cooking note describes timing and water covering for boiling pron es for about 45 minutes. Mentions adding two tablespoons of sugar per pound as optional.
Bernardo Vasquez Rios, 38, of Rio Hondo has been charged with attempted murder of Brownsville police officer Augustin Sauceda. Rios allegedly struck and stabbed Sauceda in Rio Mondo Sunday and is jailed in the county facility.
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