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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1971
Page
3
A UT Austin group led by Dr. Lynton Land conducts a 10 day geological survey off Jamaica aboard a 117 foot vessel. The NSF sponsors the expedition featuring underwater photography piston coring and sub bottom profiling in waters to 200 meters deep.
Pack 17 Cub Scouts held its Blue and Gold Banquet at South Padre Island Civic Center on February 23 1971 at 6 30 pm. About 250 people attended as Scouting dignitaries District Executive Lee Escobedo Rotary President H O Kid Carson and guest Mrs Roy Rock joined Cub Master Tom Urie Jr and leaders in presenting Webelos and Webelos to Cub transitions.
Marjorie McKeown reports a busy week at the Episcopal parish with card games and prayer. Masses are Thursday at 9 30 a m and Sunday at 9 a m. Ladies Aux meets first Wednesday monthly. Thrift Shop seeks morning or afternoon help. Grace Rogers of Branson won bridge first prize. Mrs Talbot won pinochle high prize. other members praised attendance.
The festival will host Kinder Concerts for ages four to six with a School Days theme. Programs include Brahms Academic Festival Overture Bach Fugue, selections from The Sound of Music The Typewriter and Pomp and Circumstance. The event aims to reach over 10 000 students through Kinder and student performances.
The fourth annual Miramar bridge tournament banquet was held February 26 in the Marine Room of the Sea Island Motel on South Padre Island. Fifty nine Miramar Motel guests attended the awards with Charlie Harbin of Chicago presiding. The Miramar Champion for 1971 was Lee Vetter of Minocqua Wisconsin. Runner up was Genevieve Lombard of Caseville Michigan and High Game went to Mrs. Maxine Bryce of South Padre Island. Booby prize went to Ned Robinson of Beverly Massachusetts. Fourteen couples entered the tournament which ran January 15 to February 22.
World Day of Prayer will be held at the Port Isabel Methodist Church at 3 p.m. Friday March 5. The event is organized by the Women’s society of Christian Service and the Wesleyan Service Guild with Episcopal Church members assisting. The observance connects with Christians in 155 countries, based on work by Caribbean women for international use. The notice mentions related events including an Opera Rehearsal ticketed at 1.00 and a dress rehearsal at 7 p.m. March 5 in McAllen, plus Kinder Koncert on March 3 at Casa de Amistad in Harlingen. It notes screwworms activity in Texas and urges livestock checks and wound treatments, with larvae samples sent to Mission Laboratory for ID. The World Day of Prayer prayer intentions are by Ma Pilar Bellosillo of Madrid, Spain, and the service includes The Lord’s Prayer chant. Visitation is invited.
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