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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1973
Page
1
The Texas Shrimp Association recognized the Port Isabel Shrimp Producers Association as a newly incorporated group and authorized three members to serve on the State Board. Ronald Boudreaux Bill Zimmerman and Martin Tower were elected to represent Port Isabel at the TSA State Board meeting March 21 at Sea Island Resort.
The article notes delays in a local Red Cross fund drive as Rio Hondo, San Benito, Los Fresnos, La Feria, Port Isabel, Santa Rosa and others seek donations. It highlights services for servicemen and families, first aid and water safety training, and mentions John Thomas Downey’s case as a backdrop to Red Cross work. Local chairs Emery Green Jr, Cleve Breedlove, Omar Rodriguez, Jack Caprenter, J. C. Richardson and Preston Murphy appeal for mail envelopes to aid contributions.
Catholic Schools Week to run March 25 to 31 across 11 Valley Catholic schools. Sister Anne Finnerty, Brownsville Diocese Superintendent of Schools, said the theme Make a Value Judgment. Schools will highlight preserved moral values and new educational initiatives during open houses.
Rep Poage and Rep de la Garza announce a two day inquiry by the Subcommittee on Department Operations to study the gap between farm prices and retail food costs. Officials from Agriculture and BLS will testify on production costs and consumer prices from past decades to today.
Two men were arrested in Port Isabel on March 15 for marijuana possession by patrolman Johnny Joe Zamora. David Cunningham 20 and Morris Gary Michael 21, both of Houston, were initially detained for trespassing before a search found the marijuana. They posted $1000 bond each and spent the night in jail.
The Jaycees will host a Know Your Candidate Forum for school trustees at Merchants Marine State Bank meeting room on Sunday April 1 at 3 p.m. Candidates may speak up to ten minutes each followed by a public Q and A session. All interested residents are urged to attend.
The Port Isabel-South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce offers free Leader Training literature from the Home Economics Educational Program of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service in Cameron County. Manager Mrs. Betty Prein announced the material is available for area clubs and organizations to view or study leadership training programs.
Two traffic crashes are under investigation by the Police Isabel Department. A 1971 Volkswagen driven by Robert Brooks and a 1971 Chevy Malibu driven by Mario Camacho collided on Highway 100. Camacho faces charges for leaving the scene and license issues. Brooks died in a separate crash on U.S. 281 in Santa Maria. A third incident on Garcia and Powers streets involved Gail Gillian and Robert Abernathy with no charges yet.
Identification of a headless man found on South Padre Island was made from a large tattoo on the back and a knee tattoo. Pedro de la Torre Jacobo, 23, of Matamoros, was identified by his father who reported he had been presumed drowned in the Rio Grande about ten days earlier. The body, missing head arms and one leg, was found about 1:30 a.m. near the Sandy Retreat Motel and sent to Matamoros for burial.
A Port Isabel school board candidate Carl Patrick Kelly, a former local teacher, was arrested Thursday night March 15 for possession of marijuana. Constable Lalo Camacho halted Kelly's car for a light violation and found about one pound of marijuana wrapped in a plastic bag. He was jailed in Brownsville and released on $2,000 bond Friday afternoon.
The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Texas A&M receives 320000 dollars in three USDA funded projects. Dr. G A Niles and Dr. J K Walker lead a 100000 dollar insect control effort. A 110000 dollar disease control program directed by Dr. Luther S Bird aims for multi disease resistant cotton. A second 110000 dollar project led by Dr. Ray Billingsley, with several co investigators, develops models to evaluate pest management in cotton ecosystems.
Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens led a rapid raid on the lower Laguna Madre. Eight commercial fishermen were apprehended and 30,000 feet of illegal trotline and 1,600 feet of illegal gill nets were confiscated. Equipment valued around 3400 dollars was seized.
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