Graduation Night Recap At Local School Parade
The event featured Brad Smith as speaker with glowing remarks and awards for seniors juniors and sophomores. Jose Vasquez received the American Legionship award. Pat Ward Arthur Hill and Marlene Ardwell earned scholarships while Charlene Bob and others received various honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brad Smith
American Legion
Jose Vasquez
Jose
Oher
Tn Ward
Arthur Hill
Marlene Ardwell
Arthur
Margarit Zamora
Pete
Betty Mack Receives Graduation Watch from Parents
Betty Mack received a beautiful watch from her mother and father after graduation. She was thrilled and surprised by the thoughtful gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lu Lu
Betty Mack
Betty Nixon
Corpus Christi
B.M.F
Class Prophecy memory page for Port Isabel High 1955
A long list of Port Isabel graduates now scattered across the U.S. and globe opens with Edith and family in La Porte, notes shifts in jobs from theater to government and business, and ends recalling Marlene Churchwell as a reminiscence of the class of 1955 with many named individuals and careers.
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Edith
la Porte
Burnell
Mrs. Burnell
Charlie Browder
Don Farrar
Charles Burnell
Port Isabel
Cail
PIAS
Wacs
Walt Disney
the Force
Stardust Studio
Battles
Bobby Pins
Charlene Bobbitt
Four Corners
Loring
Mexico City
Rachel Carter
Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
Tomas Morales
Vincente Gonzales
Jose Vasquez
Washington, D
Marlene Churchwell
Bird Sanctuaries North of Pt Isabel
Two small Laguna Madre islands near Padre Island, Little Bird and Big Bird, host thousands of nesting birds each spring. Gulls lay spotted eggs in sand hollows while terns and pelicans nest on beaches and grass mounds. Egrets and herons inhabit nearby cactus and flamingos, cranes, and snipes also find sanctuary.
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Laguna Madre
Padre Island
Padre Island Maps Reveal Longtime Human Touch at Southern Tip
Historical notes recount Spanish navigators passing south of Padre Island in 1519 and anchoring in Laguna Madre for 40 days while exploring. An earlier expedition led by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda mapped the Rio Grande area reaching Brownsville vicinity and reported fertile lands and rivers promising gold.
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Padre Island
Texas
America
Laguna
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Rio Grande
Falm Groves
Brownsville
de Pineda
Spain
Padre
Rio Grande Valley
Lost City on Padre Island Fades Into History
The Lost City on Padre Island now leaves only museum pieces and private collections. Once a Padre Island ranching community founded by the Singer family before the Civil War, its later foundations grew into a town of about 70 to 80 residents. By 1930 its traces were fading as tourism boomed.
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Texas
Padre Island
South Texas
Lost City
Singer
Lost City site yields coins and Viking-style artifacts
A site identified as the Lost City by a Singer descendant yielded old coins and heavy brass handles resembling 10th century Viking sword fittings found in the Padre sands.
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Padre Sands
Fish Ducks Rice All Get Into Act
The Texas Game and Fish Commission studies alternating rice and fish crops on a 600 acre Sheldon reservoir tract to test waterfowl habitat value and influence coastal land use. If approved the project would run two years of rice farming followed by two years of catfish farming, aiming to preserve duck and goose resting and hunting grounds.
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Gulf Coast
Exas Game and Fish Commission
Sheldon Reservoir
City of
Houston
Commission
Arkansas
Texas
Intervening fish farm plan aims to boost waterfowl habitat
The executive secretary describes a 10 year program blending duck and goose habitat with rice lands. He notes rice lands under the plan receive better fertilization and restoration than grazing, with catfish from state hatcheries as a cash value asset. President Eisenhower had urged a ten year program costing 101000 billion with bonds for financing.
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Cally
Commission
Eisenhower
Senate panel backs five year highway program financing
A Senate Public Works sub committee endorsed a five year highway construction plan totaling 21.737 billion dollars funded by Federal and State agencies. The panel proposed raising the Federal gasoline tax by one cent to help cover the project costs.
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Senate Public Works
Also Mentioned on This Page
Yorma Lou
Anna Wa
Rachel
Martha W
Charlene
Rosalie
Daisy
Lena
Betty
Wlota
Gwen
Lorna
Aide
Ronnie
Lorna Petch
Rosalie Whitney
Jerry Stout
Erma Green
Harry
Dave
Morgan City
Louisiana
Luke
Kay
Harlingen
Mrs. Ward
Wayne the Great
Lighthouse Drug
Dixon and Son Plumbing
Emilio Vasquez
Wayne
Mr. Merryman
San Benito
C. Churchwell
Terminix CO. Abash Insect Control Service
Garfield
la Nell
Martin
Nell
Glenn
Cora Perez
Port Isabel Opera and Civic Center
Robert Varnam
Terry Brennans
Notre Dame
Robert Holland
Playboy
Cadillac
Phillip Bates
Museum of Fine Arts
New York City
Paris
Drip Drop Dry Oi Co
Arabia
Derick
Big Tuna Processing Co
Willys
Edward Fleming
General Motors Corp
Ruben Barbera
San Francisco
The
Bookkeepers of America
Robert Cooksey
Cambridge University
Bobby Mack Farrar
Bet and
Bob” Taxi Caba
Austin
Chevrolet
Wayne Dixon
Dallas
Neiman Marcus
Pt. Isabel
Program
Ocie
Dial
Fred W. L. Petch
Southwestern Life Insurance Company
Padre Beach
John L Tompkins
John L. Tompkins
Corpus Christi Real Estate and
Southwest
Cameron County
Padre's
Florida
Miami Beach
Tompkins
Denton
Air Force
France
John L. Tompkins and
Cora Lee MacDonald
Temple
Lawrence Young
Frank Tompkins
University of Texas
PAN American State Bank
F.d.1.c
Federal Reserve System
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