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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1961
Page
5
The Texas Safety Association launches a highway safety campaign with local officials to cut summer crash tolls. Leaflets titled Trip Cost Record list five tips: keep car in top condition, watch distance, stay alert, share the wheel, and obey traffic laws.
A fragment outlines six safety recommendations for using pesticides. It stresses reading labels, keeping containers closed and away from food, washing hands, avoiding spills and inhalation, protecting pets and livestock areas, and proper disposal of empty containers.
Final honor roll standings for Texas Southmost College spring semester are announced by Dean Dawson DeViney. Top student Deyaun Brown of Port Isabel earned straight A's, with Erma Leah Barta and James Bell from Port Isabel also on the list for maintaining a B average or higher.
Girl Scout Troop No 155 from Wichita Kansas visits Port Isabel Padre Beach area en route home from Monterrey Mexico. They stay in shelters reserved by the Port Isabel Chamber of Commerce and are hosted by local Scouts and leaders including Mrs George Kennedy and Captain W W Zimmerman.
Texaco Inc seeks a Department of the Army blanket permit from the U S Corps of Engineers to build drilling structures about 30 miles northeast of Harlingen in Laguna Madre. Plans include sinking a drilling barge, six dolphins, six piles, a 140 foot top drilling structure, and protective facilities with dredged channels and underwater pipe lines. Protests on navigation due by June 15.
Ray Barnick delivered the first Harlingen bale weighing 559 pounds in the nation’s first bale race. The bale arrived at 4 59 p m and is worth at least 2500 dollars. Barnick used 113 hand pickers and a machine to harvest about four and a half hours. The first bale was stored at the Harlingen police station and will be auctioned Friday night.
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