Chambers Merge Port Isabel and South Padre Island Chambers
The Port Isabel South Padre Island Area Chamber of Commerce and the South Padre Island Chamber merge after an 8 1 vote at a meeting last Monday. Balloting faced questions over legality and a letter from attorney Benjamin Hardy prompted a review of merger methods. The measure passed 24 12 with seven conditional votes and two abstentions, and the group approved donations to Beulah Lee Park Committee and the Community Ambulance Fund.
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Port Isabel
South Padre Island
M.G. Smalldridge
Hardy
Chamber
Beulah Lee Park
Community Ambulance Fund
Cameron County Park Board Approves 1972 Budget
At the June 2 meeting the Cameron County Park Board approved a 1972 expenditures budget of 233,865 with 97,432.83 for labor and 136,000 for miscellaneous. Chairman Fausto Yturria Jr says the 1972 labor rise reflects more personnel raises retirement funds and insurance coverage. The system expects 181,242 in revenues for 1972 leaving a county cost of 52,623.
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Cameron County Park Board
Fausto Yturria, Jr
Yturria
Park Board
Park budget sets $100,000 capital plan with state match
The 1972 budget shows revenues and expenditures totaling $52,641.19 along with a $100,000 capital improvement plan matched by $50,000 in government funds. Bid letting would start at the July meeting pending Texas Parks and Wildlife Department approval, with construction to begin mid August.
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Port Isabel’s Jake Trice Enters ETSU Alumni Classic
Port Isabel native Jake Trice is among entrants in East Texas State University’s second annual Alumni Classic Golf Tournament at Sand Hills Country Club. Trice was a ETSU varsity letterman in football and golf in the early 1940s.
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Commerce
Jake Trice
Port Isabel
East Texas State University
Sand Hills Country Club
Trice
ETSU
Texas amends tax on shrimp boats
The Texas Legislature removed the phrase built in this State from the sales tax law, eliminating the use tax on vessels bought out of state. HB 1235, prepared by Rep Menton J. Murray, passed the House 97 to 39 on May 18, 1971, and cleared the Senate 30 to 0 on May 19, 1971, now awaiting the governor's signature.
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Texas
Menton J. Murray
House
Jim Bates
Senate
Gulf Shrimp Season Closed From June to July 15
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announces a 45 day closed season for Gulf shrimp from June 1 through July 15 to protect small brown shrimp migrating from bays to the Gulf. Coastal coordinator Terry Leary expects strong shrimp numbers later in July with the open season applying only to larger shrimp.
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Gulf
Terry Leary
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Gulf of Mexico
Leary
Methodist Appointments After Southwest Texas Conference
The United Methodist Church announces a series of appointments across districts and churches in the Southwest Texas Conference. Notable changes include Sam L. Fore named conference program director and James E. Ferguson Jr. as conference secretary treasurer, with numerous pastors reassigned to charge positions in McAllen, Harlingen, Laredo, Mission and Weslaco among others. Port Isabel’s F.M. Marlin noted for 27 consecutive years as pastor.
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Southwest Texas
The
United Methodist Church
Special Appointments Conference
Sam L. Fore
Prenza L. Woods
C. Leon Sims
James E. Ferguson Jr
Mcallen
Elmer J. Hierholzer
Gene S. Schweizer
Alice
Harold S. Goodenough, Jr
Harry C. Bamberger
Brownsville
Harold D. Burkhardt
Los Fresnos
C. Reginald Hardy
Donna
L.C. Johnston
Edinburg
John C. Gilbert
Falfurrias
Premont
William P. Treade
Freer — Benavides
Charles H. Simpson
George West
C. David Crabtree
Harlingen
Robert M. Hinkelman
St. Paul
Leroy R. Welch
Westley
Jesse M. Mothersbaugh
Hebbronville Bruni
Miranda City
Jessie A. Kingsville
Christ Banquete
Harold G. Sassman
Bruce C. Galloway
Leo F. Ross
Scott’s Chapel
Earl D. Alexander
la Feria
Santa Rosa
Elmer A. Rader
Laredo
John Gibbs
Lyford
James Lee Carter
Wheat
Riviera
Kenneth W. Norton
San Benito
Ben T. Welch
San Juan
Finis B. Jeffery
Three Rivers
Los Fresnos Youth To Work in Refuge
About 25 students from Los Fresnos High and Junior High will join a summer youth conservation corps at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. Selected for interest and ability, they will work eight weeks on tasks such as building observation posts bird banding and nest construction to aid the refuge’s wildlife, including redhead ducks.
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Los Fresnos
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
Darrel L. Ryan
Valley
San Benito
Conservation Corps
Irene Atkinson
Robert H. Ray
Francisco Garcia
Rogelio Cisneros
Enrique Esquivel
Sigmund Kooningseder
Gil Gomez
Tracy Russell
Marcela Argullin
Beverly Patton
Teresa Soto
Pamela J. Meyn
Donna Humphries
Herminia Cazares
Paula Buendia
Magdalena Cruz
Minerva Rios
Kirby E. Townsend
Seashore Plan Faces Rights of Way Hurdle in Willacy
Port Mansfield leaders press for park road funds transfer from the state to their area citing Willacy County’s failure to secure a 300 foot right of way. Johnson requests a southward road to the Cameron County line and a Port Mansfield Island causeway. He argues NPS seashore funds favor Corpus Christi and hopes Cameron County soon gains its turn.
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Cameron County
Port Mansfield
Highway Department
Charles R. Johnson
Texas Highway Commission
Johnson
Willacy County
National Park Service
Corpus Christi
Dog Roundup Underway in Port Isabel
Port Isabel police urge public to report unvaccinated stray dogs and cats as rabies season begins. Cameron County dog catchers will visit Port Isabel every Monday to collect reported animals.
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Port Isabel
Londrie
Police Department
Cameron County
Summer School Sessions Begin
A remedial session for 4th to 8th graders started last Monday at the High School with about 47 students. Classes run 8 to 12 each morning taught by four teachers in language arts, history, math, and Spanish, with several teacher aides assisting.
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Janice Stark
Stella Smith
Mark Holt
Ismael Gracia
Mabel Chavez
Kate Fine
Anne Trice
Carmen Delgaailio
Nancy Sanders
Ambulance Fund Drive Tops Eight Thousand Dollars Reached
Port Isabel pools support from organizations merchants and citizens as the Community Ambulance Fund nears its ten thousand dollar goal with eight thousand raised in six weeks. Scouts student council and CYO volunteers plus bake sales and a car wash boosted totals. a June 17 fish fry at Sea Ranch Marina aims to finish funding for a new ambulance garage.
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Port Isabel
CYO
Girl Scouts
Lucille Ochoa
Shorty Rivera
Gulf Station
Brickco
Park Road 100 Pacts Promised for Monday
County officials expect three landowners holding 2000 acres to have easement papers ready for a Monday presentation to Commissioners Court. The Park Road 100 extension on South Padre Island faces another bid delay as Texas Highway Department plans July or August letting if instruments arrive as pledged.
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Highway Department
Park Road
South Padre Island
Commissioners Court
John Huth
South Padre Investment
Atwood Estate
Hart Fisher
Texa Highway Department
Hwy
Raymon Stotzer
Officials Probe Cause of Blast at La Blanca Plant
Amoco Production Co. officials from Houston investigated a blast and fire at a hydrocarbon recovery plant in La Blanca near Edinburg. The blaze started about 10:10 p.m. Monday, visible as far away as Brownsville, and 45 gas wells supplying the plant were shut down to extinguish the fire.
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Amoco Production Co
Houston
la Blanca
Edinburg
Brownsville
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Chambers
Don Chasteen
Jesse Chasteen
Myrlin Johnson
D.R. Hutchinson
Rotary Club
Sandy Retreat
Martinez
Texas Gulf
Kermit Gibbons
John D. Lowrey
St. Mark
Doyle W. Morton
Mercedes
Edcouch
W. Boyd Harris
Mission
J. Leonard Garrett
Pharr
Lynn H. McAden
F.L. Marlin
Raymondville
F.M
Willacy
Meddress Report Community Ambulance Fund
DRE
United States
E.W. Cateora
Cateora
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