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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1966
Page
3
The readable text hints at an uncertain, compressed note about timing and availability. Names and concrete details are too fragmentary to identify a clear person, place, or action.
A Texas Capitol briefing outlines state and local tax policy options to cover a growing 75 million surplus shortfall. Proposals include sales tax increases to 2.5 3 percent and a 4.4 percent corporate tax, plus a graduated personal income tax. Draft calls project 31 000 September enlistments with 4 000 5 000 preinduction exams.
Shell Club members and guests caravanned eight miles along South Padre Island for a July 17 picnic. They left at 9 30 a.m. returned by 2 30 p.m. and toured the Hatchery while digging nests and shells. Robert Auld led the event with about 50 people aboard. The group plans a July 22 monthly meeting at Trailerark Recreation Building on South Padre Island with a program on conservation of shell life by Mrs. Wayne Holiman.
Valley artists plus guests from across Texas and beyond prepare for the Beachcomber Art Show on Padre Island July 24. At the Iila Blanca Civic Center and nearby area, notable exhibitors include Marie Snow and Jane Bennack of Raymondville, Rickie Knight of Harlingen, Janice Gilbert of Harlingen, Violet Springman of Brownsville, and sculptor Albin Rush of Brownsville.
The piece extols fresh peaches as a seasonal staple and outlines a bakeshop style recipe for a peach cake with yellow freestone fruit. It notes peaches' sweet mature flesh, defuzzing and packing, and low calories, plus a brief nod to local printing orders in San Benito.
A brief item notes a peach petal cake product described as 1 percent fat and about six medium pieces or portions in fresh form.
Local Apache Travelers begin a cross‑state journey starting in Yellowstone National Park then proceed through Utah and California. The group visits Brigham Young University and Salt Lake City, tours Zion and Bryce Canyon, and ends with leisure time at Long Beach Recreation Park visiting Disneyland Marineland. The 30 youths and eight adults travel over 18 days across nine western states.
The group leaves California bound for Lake Mead and Las Vegas then onward to Williams Arizona and the Grand Canyon. They stop at Springer ville and Petrified Forest, face a Rockies snowball fight, feed chipmunks, and attend a park service devotional before heading to Yellowstone and Palo Duro Canyon. Campers swim hike and enjoy meals as D Rodriguez Reed Buchanan Pow Fomaci and Smith from San Lenito La contribute.
The B and P W social and Spanish class is suspended until school opens in September due to teacher Deyain Boudreaux returning to summer school.
A Salisbury woman seeks a goffering iron for her son to shape the stiff neck ruffs of choirboys. The device is noted as a tool used to crease and secure fabric for ceremonial attire.
Official wildlife reports from Austin indicate excellent outlooks for mourning and white winged doves. Valley surveys show high whitewing breeding, with over 800 000 nesting birds. Texas mourning doves up eight percent and Central Flyway up nine percent. 1965 favorable for Texas dove hunters. Citrus groves damaged by a 1962 freeze boosted breeding in the Valley. Whitewings increased despite prior concerns. season normally opens September 1 in the north zone.
Christian Science services consider Truth in a sermon this Sunday. The lesson centers on Jesus parable of the sower with seed on various soils and the fruit produced, along with related readings from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy.
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