Gunmen damage highway signs endangering motorists
Texas Highway Department reports a surge in vandalism damaging reflector markers delineators and flashing signals at danger points on highways. A Del Rio area crash narrowly spared a motorist and a Breckenridge lens theft led to court fines. Theft and destruction cost about 750000 annually.
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Austin
Texas Highway Department
del Rio
Breckenridge
Val Verde County
Texas
Highway Department
Death Claims Dale M. Hiatt
Dale M. Hiatt 50 a Port Isabel resident for five years died Tuesday in Valley Baptist Hospital Harlingen. He was a contractor and moved to Port Isabel from Cheyenne Okla. Survivors include his wife Janice Hiatt of Port Isabel a daughter Joyce Faye Smith of Reydon Okla and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are handled by Kreidler Ashcraft Funeral Directors.
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Dale M. Hiatt
Port Isabel
Valley Baptist Hospital
Harlingen
Cheyenne
Oklo
Janice Hiatt
Joyce Faye Smith
Reydon
Okla
Kreidler Ashcraft Funeral Directors
Local Youth Attends 35th American Legion Boys State in Texas
Rusty Beauford of Port Isabel joins 899 other Texas high school boys at the University of Texas in Austin for the 35th annual American Legion Boys State. Sponsored by American Legion Post No. 498, the program aims to build civic leadership as youths simulate government through party activity and a Capitol office day.
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Rusty Beauford
Cleo Beauford
Port Isabel
Texas
American Legion
Beauford
University of Texas
Austin
Department of Texas
Boys State
Hurricane Alert Conference Set In Brownsville
The National Weather Service will sponsor a Hurricane preparedness conference at 10:30 a.m. on Friday June 20 in the Industrial Room of the Pan American Bank in Brownsville. Attendees include civil defense directors city school and police officials newsmen and others involved in preparing for the 1975 hurricane season. The panel features Dr. Neil L. Frank and others from the NHC and Weather Service.
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National Weather Service
Pan American Bank
Brownsville
Civil Defense
Neil L. Frank
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Herbert S. Lieb
Washington D.C
Edmund A. Dilcreto
San Antonio Weather Service
Walter R. Anderson
Fish License Sales Decline in Texas During Year
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports fishing license sales down by about 121000 with three months left in the fiscal year. Officials attribute the drop to licenses valid for one year from issuance and expect many buyers in August to cover next July. Through April, 680788 licenses sold versus 802550 a year earlier, while resident combination hunting licenses rose to 463173 from 410998.
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Austin
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
P&w
Radar Tops Police Month in Port Isabel May Violations
Port Isabel Police Department reports May receipts to Corporation Court totaled 3821 with radar violations leading. Notable infractions include 24 radar violations and 188 public intoxications along with issues such as expired MVI and driver license problems.
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Port Isabel
Corporation Court
McNeely Named Freshman At Rice University
Milinda Leigh McNeely of Port Isabel has been accepted for enrollment at Rice University in Houston. She joins about 550 incoming freshmen selected under interim and early decision plans based on scholastic records teacher evaluations interviews and SAT and achievement test scores.
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Milinda Leigh McNeely
Robert Edwin McNeely
Port Isabel
Rice University
Houston
Rice
College Entrance Examination Board
Dredge Regulation Comments Extended for Public Input
The U S Army Corps of Engineers received a 40 day extension from a DC court on its dredged material disposal regulation. Public comments are invited through June 30 1975 with final rule planned by July 26 1975.
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Washington, D.C
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. District Court For the District of Columbia
Usdcdc
United States
Corps
EPA
Federal Register
Congress
Corps of Engineers
Environmental Protection Agency
Office
Chief of Engineers
Department of the Army
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McNeely
Andy Bowie
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