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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1958
Page
1
The final presentation of the three act comedy Our Miss Brooks will be staged tonight at the high school auditorium. Directed by Gene Todd the high school principal and speech teacher, the evening includes a planned ten minute intermission between acts.
The Port Isabel Press reports the top themes from elementary and junior high entries. Annmarie Caudill won first with How I Am Trying To Be A Good American, detailing understanding, honesty, and respect as core values. Second went to Pamela Poston and third to Celia Pena in junior high. Oralie Anthony and Lynn Heinze earned second and third in elementary, with Charles Bobbitt winning first in another elementary entry.
Budget request from the Texas State Parks board includes funds for Port Isabel Lighthouse State Park in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Plans cover repainting plaster walls and metal stairs, soil erosion control, grounds updates, power and maintenance equipment, plus a Brazos Island project with a $50 175 initial expenditure and a new park residence, utilities, disposal facility, parking, picnic tables and grills.
Mrs J A Hockaday Port Isabel chapter of the National Cancer Society announced 134 Port Isabel women attended a free screening of Breast self examination and the animated film Man Alive about cancer signals at the Roxy Theater. Doctors J A Hockaday S F Cope and Stephen Youngberg spoke and answered questions.
Brother Ben Cash representing TANE will speak at the Methodist church during the 11:00 service on Sunday March 9. The program, seen in about 2,800 churches in 1957, aims to exceed that reach in 1958. attendees are invited to attend replacing the regular sermon.
George Higgenbotham, a long time Port Isabel resident, used about ten pints of blood during illness. Blood Bank in Harlingen requests donors to replace blood at two pints per one pint used, with no charge to patient. Donors should specify replacement for Higgenbotham at 510 E Harrison, Harlingen. Open times listed. minors need parental consent. no malaria or yellow jaundice donors.
Clyde Privett is confined at Dolly Vinsant Memorial hospital in San Benito for a physical checkup. Bill Penn, editor of La Feria News, has been elected a director in the Rotary club there.
The Driftwood Garden club announces a plant and rummage sale on Saturday March 8 across from the Post Office. Mrs Vere Myrick leads the plant sale with Lions club trailer for shelter if needed. Members should arrive at .00 a.m. with plants rummage and white elephant items to donate and price them before delivery to Mrs Barth and Mrs Myrick.
Four shrimp trawlers assisted by the U. S. Coast Guard searched the Gulf of Mexico toward Port Isabel for the missing Sammy Jr. owned by Purvis Shrimp Co. of Port Isabel. Sammy Jr. and her crew have been missing since February 1. Trawlers Cavalier Saratoga Georgie Pine and Mam my Yoakum towed into Port Isabel as the search resumed.
Mr and Mrs Jerry Lindgren of McAllen spent Sunday as guests in the home of Mr and Mrs Walter Zimmerman and family of Laguna Vista.
In Port Isabel the city and school elections have little activity with incumbents hockaday Perez and Garcia running unopposed for the city and three candidates filing for two school posts. Public School Week draws visits by 195 residents, as Education in Action is noted. Local business openings include Carmens Ladies and Children's Wear, Bay View Beauty Shop, and an Inter business opening scheduled for March 15.
The Port Isabel area reports no opposition in the city race where incumbents Mayor J A Hockaday and commissioners Naya Perez and Roberto Garcia seek re election. Three candidates filed for two school board seats including incumbents Beatrice Floyd Floyd Bobbitt and Leo F Sanders with deadlines passing March 6.
Sunday March 9 marks Girl Scout Sunday with Brownies Girl Scouts and Mariners in uniform attending church. A Girl Scout dinner follows at Pier 77 cafe at 12 30 with leaders and members attending, priced at 75 cents per plate.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Pomeroy of Monticello Arkansas and former Laguna Vista residents announce the arrival of a daughter Leslie on February 16. Mr. Pomeroy was stationed at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station for about a year.
The Port Isabel Methodist Church will sponsor a covered dish supper at the church Educational building on Thursday March 13 at 7 30 pm. It will be a family night with winter visitors and locals urged to bring covered dishes and join the evening.
Mrs Emry Green announces Carmen's new store opening this Saturday March 8 next to Personality Beauty Shop on Powers Street. Formal opening delayed by late merchandise arrivals. will be announced when planned. The shop will carry McKettrie Betty Barclay Tony Todd dresses, Youthful Mother Dixie Deb maternity wear, Tom Sawyer and Cinderella children's lines, infants wear, lay away and free gift wrapping.
The La Feria school board appoints a truancy officer to round up students and press parents to ensure school attendance. In Mercedes three mayoral candidates and four for two city commission seats surface as the race heats up. Ramon Ray is proposed as veterans service officer. Raymondville weighs adding Memorial Hospital to tax rolls.
F E E Keeck, principal of West Elementary in Merced es, dismissed by the board after misconduct charges. J H Greenway, student counselor, named to succeed him as the new principal.
Miss Gwendolyn Ward of Port Isabel, a sophomore apparel design major at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, was elected floor chairman of Houston Hall. The role places her on the House Council and as a committee head for dormitory social activities.
Thursday February 27 at the bay E H Garrett and Jack Bartholomew of Port Isabel reported a catch of 20 trout and 10 redfish while surf or jetty fishing in the area.
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