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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1966
Page
4
Graduation events listed include a vesper service at First Methodist and Port Isabel High School ceremonies. The Tarpon Band leads processions with speakers Superintendent M N Caudill and Principal Cecile Rountree.
A 1986 letter from R J Phinney District Director expresses gratitude for the Austin District’s automated data use on individual tax returns. The writer credits the taxpaper program and the question and answer column for timely, accurate returns and for helping customers in the area.
Murphy Sr. was admitted to Vingnant Memorial Hospital Sunday after the horse he rode bolted and fell, fracturing his right leg just below the knee. Attendants call the fracture compound but his condition is listed as satisfactory.
Mrs. Robert W. Oswald announces the engagement of her daughter Roberta Irene Oswald to Jack W. Harris. Roberta is a University of Texas graduate and a Deer Park teacher active in Delta Kappa Gamma. Harris is a Reston University graduate employed by Signal Oil in Chicago. A summer wedding at First Methodist Church in Houston is planned.
Graduation exercises for Port Isabel Junior High School are set for 8 p.m. Monday in the Derry Elementary School Auditorium. The program includes a processional, invocation, address by M N Caudill, diplomas presented by Joe Estes, and a recessional.
Mr and Mrs Ronald Lee Causey of Port Isabel were injured in a two car collision on Paredes Line Road near Allende in Brownsville. They were taken to Mercy Hospital with facial abrasions while Rodolfo Benavidez Jr 24 of Brownsville was cited for speeding. Police estimated vehicle damage at 550 and both Causeys were in good condition Tuesday night.
Point Isabel Independent School District faces a potential 1966-67 cost of about 25000 unless relief comes from the Texas Education Agency. Our Lady Star of the Sea parochial School will close after current term, possibly boosting public enrollment by about 125 students. Superintendent M N Caudill warns state aid cannot be counted without attendance figures and vows to press Austin for help.
Port Isabel High School offers free home economics classes in June for 7th to 9th grade girls and adults. Junior high sessions run June 6 to 10 from 8 a.m. to noon, while adult classes cover dresses for girls on June 13 and 14, shirts for small boys on June 15, and planning sessions June 16 and 17 from 1 p.m. onward.
The second Laguna Vista Water Show and Boat Races will be held at the Laguna Vista Marina on Sunday May 29. Chief Art Partin says the event benefits the Laguna Vista Volunteer Fire Department with a fish fry serving from noon to 5 p.m. Mayor Dick Roloff notes exciting sailboat and powerboat trophy races in the newly dredged channel and invites sailboat owners to enter. Tickets are 130 for adults and 90 cents for children.
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