CPL Offers Free Hurricane Booklet For Customers
CPL manager Roy Smith announces a free hurricane preparedness booklet for customers as June 1 marks the start of the season. The guide supplements weather bureau and civil defense advice, covers safety, storm prep, and how CPL and customers can restore service if power is interrupted. The company reviews plans annually and urges customers to keep the booklet for all storm types, including winter ice events, available at CPL offices.
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Central Power and Light Company
Roy Smith
Smith
Weather Bureau
Civil Defense
CPL
Tricity
DPS
National Weather Service
Brownsville
Save Our Beaches South Padre Island Letter to the Editor
The writer urges public hearings on beach development at South Padre Island, cites Sen Jack Ogg, proposes a statewide Save Our Beaches movement, and warns that heavy condo growth endangers access roads and public spaces. It compares to Key Biscayne and calls for a seaside recreation center north of Andy Bowie Park.
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South Padre Island
Texas
Jack Ogg
Legislative Committee
Arlington Citizen Journal
Arlington
Andy Bowie Park
Isla Blanca Park
Andy Bowie
Key Biscayne
Florida
Cape Florida
HUD Grants Port Isabel $58,000 for Development Project
HUD awards Port Isabel a $58,000 community development grant to improve sidewalks drainage housing rehabilitation and voluntary relocation clearance demolition. Senator Lloyd Bentsen was informed of the award from Washington D C and the funds will support urban renewal efforts in the city with local officials planning the program.
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Washington, D.C
Lloyd Bentsen
Department of Housing and Urban Development
City of
Port Isabel
Hurricane Season Crisis Briefings Outline 1978 Plans
Officials discuss hurricane threats and responses along the Gulf Coast and Texas Valley. Topics include Anita wind and surge scales, costs of past storms, and construction vulnerabilities. Disaster committee coordination, Red Cross shelter policies, and public information efforts are highlighted ahead of the 1978 season. A Point Isabel School District trustees meeting is set for June 6 at 7 p.m. in the Administration Building.
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Anita
Mexican
Texas
Gulf
Druemont
Galveston
Celia
Gulf Coast
South Padre Island
Corpus Christi
Harlingen
National Guard
Red Cross
Point Isabel
Shrimper Fined Released After Incident Near Padre Island
The Mexican vessel Mar Mediterraneo was fined three thousand dollars after being found trespassing in the Fisheries Conservation Zone south of Padre Island. Owner Luis Augusto Garcia paid the settlement in Brownsville US District Court. the vessel was escorted to the Mexican border and released. Captain Manuel Ramon Garza Torres and one crewman faced dropped charges, while three others were returned to Mexico via the Mexican consulate. The boat had been detained since May 18 after a report of fishing in US waters near the jetties.
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U.S
Padre Island
Mexico
Brownsville
Coast Guard
Reynaldo Garza
Luis Augusto Garcia Sentinel
Fisheries Conservation Zone
FCZ
Manuel Ramon Garza Torres
Carmen
Campeche
South Padre Island
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South Padre
Steve M. Elam
Ben Rushing
Martha McClain
Garcia Street
P.O. Box
Texas Waste
Cameron County
Miller “Lite
Miller Brewing Company
America
Fort Worth
Miller Lite
Fort Worth, Texas
McAllen
Ba As
Heinze
Levi
Waggar
Jantzen
Kennington
ENRO
Bernardo
Serbin
Nardis
Henne Yona
Health-Tex
Hazel
Kay Taebel
President Carter
Tennessee
Kentucky
United States
Thomas Joseph Smith, Jr
A. Tenessee State
HUD
Dan
The
Villarreal
Torres
Pol Ad
Memo Torres
Ming
Ming Auto Beauty Center
Valley Ming
W. Price
Hing
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