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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1973
Page
1
Mayor Leo F. Sanders announces local high school students are conducting a city census door to door. The effort aims to determine if Port Isabel surpasses 5000 residents for potential home rule charter and added council seats. The 1970 census listed Port Isabel at 3067.
Graduation for twelve Head Start pupils will be held June 29 at 7 00 p m at the Port Isabel Head Start Center with a reception for graduates afterward. Open to the public. Staff for 1972 73 includes Delia Garza head instructor Esperanza Garza and Anna Maria Martinez aides Ruby Martinez. Menu help by Amelia Gonzalez.
The 35th annual Texas International Fishing Tournament runs August 1–5 with registration at Ignacio Garza Civic Center. Prizes include silver and perpetual trophies plus merchandise and cash for the winning boater. Events feature divisions for marlin tuna swordfish sailfish tarpon offshore bay surf and junior.
The Port Isabel Press Office will relocate to 302 Garcia Street opposite Queen Isabel Inn. Operations start Monday July 2 with hours 8 30 am to 5 30 pm.
The Valley Jaycees telethon on June 23 raised 26000 dollars for the Cerebral Palsy Fund of Texas broadcasting from Harlingen on KGBT channel 4. Port Isabel Jaycees added 841 from calls and 46 from a house-to-house drive totaling 887. The drive ran from 10 p.m. Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday with the Port Isabel Girls Baseball Team canvassing doors.
Bahia Development Corporation of Brownsville will start work this late summer on a $5 million 12 story apartment hotel named Galleon Bay on Padre Island bay side. Completion is expected eighteen months after construction begins. The building will include a top-floor lounge a restaurant and laundry facilities with golf putting greens three pools and a marina for residents. President George E. Dupre says two bedroom two bath and three bedroom two bath units will comprise the project.
Port Isabel still awaits 265000 due since 1972 for selling the sanitary sewerage system to Cameron County Fresh Water Supply District No 1. Mayor Sanders says the delay has postponed street repairs and unsettled the budget, with payment expected by July 15. Officials later voted to sign the deed to the Water District to secure bond funding.
Phillip A Schoppe won the run-off on Tuesday June 26 with 90 votes to Mary Lou Franklin Campbell 63. The deadlock after May 26 had 77 votes each. He will join Mayor William Neukomm and four aldermen when the board meets July 5 for the township's first council session.
Isle Blanca Park revenue figures show permanent trailer rentals totaling 44311.80 for 1972 with 95 spaces at 35.87 monthly plus 3 garbage fee. Electricity and water sewer bring total park revenue to 63981.54 while other sources net 65850.27. Protestors claim permanent mobile home owners provide about half the park’s income as county officials push rent increases amid board resignations.
The Central Power and Light Company plans a second Port Isabel substation to meet growing power needs. It has bought Lots 7 through 12A, Block 65 on Garcia Street near Port Isabel Lumber and Hardware. Construction is expected within months. the initial Laguna Vista substation serves the area.
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