Summer routines spark teens in Port Isabel weekly items
Charlene Bobbitt reports on local youths mixing summer activities with club notes. Meetings cover M.Y.F. officer elections, skating, outings to Harlingen and the island, new drivers licenses, and visits by friends from Morgan City and Old Ocean. A dull Living Desert trip and a birthday cake shaped like Oklahoma stand out.
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Local gossip round up from Brownsville and nearby towns
Den nis hosts friends and family reflecting on last summer while planning for freshmen day and dyed hair experiments. Lorna trades a clunker for a new Hudson as car troubles weave through weekends with Sharon hosting a supper for Jean Gallo. Wayne and Joyce share family news and small town happenings.
Questions of the Week Jolly town quiz prompts summer fun
Questions of the Week asks about girls seen leaving town dressed to kill and a bashful girl who hesitates to borrow money. It hints at a platinum blonde, a curley headed boy quitting the female sex, and a boy who will be lonesome for a month. Septem ber nears as readers are urged to have a good time.
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Norma Lou
Missouri
Padre Island Becomes Popular With Expanded Park Facilities
Park crowds grow as bathhouse for 400 to 500 guests opens on South Padre Island with lockers towels showers and lifeguards on weekends. A new snack deck coves, cabana reservations, 250 car rear parking, restrooms first aid and telphone access. Island visitation hit 8,500 over the last weekend and Queen Isabella causeway traffic topped 61,842 for the week.
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al McGehee
Isla Blanca Beach
Park Beach
Port Isabel
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Vitamin E in Diets and Human Health Remains Unresolved
Researchers note vitamin E is widespread in foods making deficiency hard to study in people. Animal tests show varied effects from deficiency, including sterility and muscular issues, but humans show little improvement from high dose vitamin E in conditions like heart disease.
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Man
Indestructible Glass Fibre Hat Sells in Lisbon
In Lisbon, a new indestructible hat made of glass and metal threads goes on sale. The item promises to survive demonstrations by remaining shapely, be easily cleaned by shoemakers, and offer economic use for daily life amid bullfights and public debates.
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Portugal
Lisbon
Bill Dillingham
Defense checks cite extensive security clearances during war
Secretary of Defense Charles FE Wilson reports the industrial security program has processed about 20 000 plants and 900 000 employees for access to top secret secret and confidential material since the Korean War. Currently about 200 plants and 4 000 employees are cleared monthly. In four years industrial security boards refused clearance to 688 persons.
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Poliomyelitis Cases Rise in Week Ended July 10
The Public Health Service reports 758 new polio cases for the week ending July 10, up 34 percent from the prior week. The year’s total reaches 5,458, down from 6,621 at the same point in 1953.
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The
Public Health Service
Westlake Named Cameron County Head for Texas United Defense Fund
L A Westlake of Harlingen was chosen chairman of Cameron County for the Texas United Defense Fund to back USC’s drive for 775000 statewide this year. The Cameron quota stands at 9075 with 2003 local service members. R A Ewing of San Benito named him district chairman to continue USO services for service members statewide.
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Re-Enlistment Bonuses for Air Force Ranks Expanded
Under new armed services legislation signed by President Eisenhower, Air Sergeant re-enlistment four year bonus rises to 416 dollars while a private first class receives 372 dollars for renewed four year service. The prior law offered 160 dollars, deemed too low to retain trained personnel.
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Congress
Eisenhower
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