Weekly Space And Sports Roundup From Gemini Nine To Belmont
Gemini Nine completes a near splashdown as NASA learns conditions to avoid for future flights. Surveyor sends hundreds of high quality moon photos after a soft landing. Amberoid wins the Belmont Stakes while Kauai King falters after Derby and Preakness. Texaco plans offshore drilling off Port Isabel near an ARCO rig. Valley farm workers strike meets injunctions amid peace concerns. Judge Garza declines jurisdiction. Eugene Nelson jailed for a one night stand. Ronald Reagan runs as GOP nominee for California governor facing Pat Brown in November.
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Amberoid
Citation
Reynaldo Garza
Eugene Nelson
Unior
Ronald Reagan
California
Pat Brown
Five Day Forecast Climatology Shows Slight Warm Trend
Temperatures will average 1 to 4 degrees above normal highs near 90 to 91 and overnight lows around 73 to 75. Expect minor day to day changes across the period.
Views From The Lighthouse Father’s Day Tribute
Raymond R. Murphy reflects on his father nearing retirement after 47 years with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. He portrays a principled, loyal machinist and union member whose unwavering beliefs shaped his sons, guiding their sense of right and wrong and lifelong respect for his convictions.
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Pether
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Dad
International Brotherhood of Machinists
McAllen Chamber Publicizes Padre Island and Port Isabel Areas
The McAllen Chamber of Commerce publicity department distributed South Padre Island attractions to major dailies in 23 states through May and June, expanding to 42 states total with 1 000 stories sent this year. Officials credit Cameron County taxpayers and the Park Board for the Causeway and South Padre Island development, a premier recreation asset for the Valley and Northern Mexico.
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South Padre Island
McAllen Chamber of Commerce
South Padre
McAllen Chamber
Port Isabel
U.S
Hawaii
McAllen
Cameron County
Park Board
Sea Scouts Cruise From Port Isabel to Corpus Christi
Forty four Sea Scouts and four officers sail aboard MV Speedway and MV Marian on a annual long cruise from Port Isabel to Port Mansfield then Port Aransas and Corpus Christi. They meet at NAS Corpus Christi and tour facilities before returning to Port Isabel.
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Sea Scouts
Corpus Christi
W. W. Zimmerman
Jean Brand
Port Tsabel
Rio Grande
Valley
Port Isabel
Port Mansfield
Otra Vez
Jones
Commoville
Port Aransas
Allie Allie Adiaieen Air Station
Nas
Liberty
Naval Air Station
Speedway
MV “Speedway
Bolton Named Junior Area Director for Six-County Council
Frank Bolton was named junior area director for the Texas Southmost Development Council at a Harlingen meeting. Bolton, an Austin resident and University of Texas graduate, will oversee work to advance the six-county council. Port Isabel Commissioner Ted Hunt praised the selection and expected Bolton to start within 10 days to accelerate the program. The Cameron-Willacy Council of Governments convened to admit Hidalgo County, with merger plans to form the Lower Rio Grande Valley Councils of Governments next.
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Frank Boilton
Texas Southmost Development Council
Harlingen
Bolton
Austin
University of Texas
Port Isabel
Ted Hunt
Hunt
Cameron - Willacy Council of Governments
Hidalgo County
Lower
Rio Grande Valley
Modern Dredge McFarland Launched For Local Use
The US Army Corps of Engineers launched the 15 million hopper dredge McFarland on Tuesday at Sparrows Point Yard. Built for the Galveston District it measures 300 feet by 724 feet with a 22 foot draft and a 79 person crew. It can dump dredged material through bottom gates pipelines or a side casting boom and will operate at Brazos Island Harbor among other sites.
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US. Army Corps of Engineers
McFarland
Sparrows Point
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Baltimore
John E. Unverforth
Galveston
Brazos Island
Park Board Meets Friday in Brownsville
Cameron County Park Commissioners plan a Friday meeting at 3 p.m. in the Court House Brownsville chaired by Ygnacio Garza Jr. The session will discuss the contract between the Park Board and Oceanfront Development Corp for South Padre Island.
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Cameron County Board of Park Commissioners
Court House
Brownsville
Ygnacio Garza Jr
Park Board
Oceanoanage Development Corp
South Padre Island
Rotary Club of Port Isabel Sees UFO Talk
Port Isabel Rotary met at its unique Saturday noon session with Guy Bevil of Brownsville presenting on unidentified flying objects. Bevil, linked to civic groups and television, discussed sightings and related topics while noting his son led youths to Honduras for sanitation and health projects praised by the Honduran government.
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Port Isabel
Rotary Club
United States
Guy Bevil
Brownsville
Bevil
Honduras
Disaster Meeting Set For June 22 In Brownsville
A Severe Weather Conference is scheduled in Brownsville on June 22. The event runs from 3:30 am to noon in the First National Bank First National Room. Speakers include Father Sexton, Mayor Antonio Gonzales, Governor via film, and Ernst Rice of the Brownsville Weather Bureau with engineers and civic leaders in attendance.
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Alma
Lief
Texas Department of Public Safety
Civil Defense
Brownsville
First National
First National Bank
Father Sexton
Sacred Heart Church
Texas
Antonio Gonzales
Ernest Rice
More Drilling For Oil Planned Off Port Isabel
Texaco applied to the Corps of Engineers Friday for a permit to drill for oil off Port Isabel in the Gulf of Mexico. The operation will use a mobile platform about 13 miles east of Port Isabel and include a 188 by 150 foot rig with a 4 foot mast above mean low tide.
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Texaco
Port Isabel
Texaco Company
Corps of Engineers
Gulf of Mex
Atlantic Richfield
Padre Isaind
Port Isabel Mayor Signals Strict Speed Law Enforcement
Port Isabel Mayor Leo Sanders directed Police Chief Charles Barter to enforce posted speed limits. Sanders urged compliance to protect both locals and visitors, noting prior warnings and the possible use of radar and license checks. Barter pledged firm enforcement and safe driving, stressing visible limits and public safety on Port Isabel streets.
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Port Isabel
Leo F. Sanders
Charles F. Barter
Sanders
Barter
Grass on runways prompts county airport handling
County Engineer John Hugh is asked to address grass growing on the Port Isabel Cameron County Airport runways amid questions over past EDA filings. Commissioner Ted Hunt and County Judge Oscar C Dancy confirm action and cite a Washington letter via Real Estate Research Corporation as evidence of eligibility for aid while Texas Research League explores county responsibilities in metropolitan areas.
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Port Isabel
Cameron County
John Hugh
Economic Development Administration
Washington
Ted Hunt
South
Texas
EDA
Oscar C. Dancy
John Huth
Real Estate Research Corporation
Huth
Robert Norwood
Texas Research League
Commissioners’ Court
Commissioners’Court
Norwood
Mrs. Tjosvold Dies at 84 in Port Isabel
Lucy Rebecca Tjosvold, 84, of 8 North Shore Drive Port Isabel died early Saturday at Mercy Hospital after a brief illness. Funeral June 6 at Our Lady Star of the Sea in Port Isabel with Father Leo St. John and Marie Hogan of Austin Minn. Pallbearers were Port Isabel residents. She was known as Lulu for her humor and storytelling.
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Lucy Rebecca Tjosvold
North Shore Drive
Port Isabel
Mercy
Barter Reports May Police Activity in Port Isabel
Port Isabel police logged 147 calls in May and 43 arrests were made in the month. Chief Charles F. Barter announced 21 suspects jailed, 9 drunk arrests, and 27 misdemeanor fines totaling 767.50 dollars. Burglary, attempted entry, larceny, and assault cases were listed along with traffic offenses. Mayor Leo F. Sanders received the monthly report.
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Port Isabel
Leo F. Sanders
Charles F. Barter
Native Port Isabel native aids Apollo moon program at Cape Kennedy
John La Roche, formerly of Port Isabel, now at Merritt Island, works on Apollo capsule components after nine years in liquid oxygen gas conversion for spaceflight. He and his brothers joined Cape Kennedy space projects, with Saturn vehicle work for Apollo moon shots. He notes Florida interest in Gemini 9 outpaced by local disengagement.
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Cape Kennedy
Port Isabel
John la Roche
Merritt Isnedy
la Roche
Hce
Los Fresnos
Apollo
Navy
East
William
Fred la Roche
Florida
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NASA
Surveyor
By Raymond R. Murphy
Padre
Alfonso Gonzalez
Lorenzo Barrientez
Juan A. Gonzalez
Sanitation Department
Francisco Villarreal
U.S. Coast Guard
T. Head
Cox
USC
Turweiler
Courage
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
Louise Levine
Rio Grande Council
BSA
Richard Bentley
Charlie Berry
Rio Grande S.S
Corpus Christi Naval Air
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