Port Isabel gym wall collapse under probe findings due soon
Superintendent M L Caudill announces investigations into the Port Isabel High School gymnasium wall collapse near 10 50 am on May 20 are near completion with full findings to be released. The incident sent debris onto the gym floor, narrowly missing several students and a teacher, and prompted vows to rebuild to specifications at no cost to taxpayers.
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M.L. Caudill
Point Isabel Independent
Port Isabel High School
Caudill
Anchorage
Port Isabel
Memorial Day At Laguna Vista Marina Features Water Show Sky Diving
A Memorial Day program at Laguna Vista Marina offers sailboat racing, a water skiing exhibition, and sky diving. The 1 p.m. fish fry fundraiser costs 1.50 per plate with all proceeds to the Laguna Vista Volunteer Fire Department. Pro events include barefoot water ski by L G Myers and acts by Pat Bell Walter Skipworth Art Partin at 2 p.m. Sky divers Ramsey Bearden and Jerry Van Allen perform at 3 15 p.m. The sailboat Sunfish race begins at 4 p.m. Contestants must register before the 3 30 p.m. skipper meeting led by judge Fred Petch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Department
Laguna Vista
Laguna Madre
L. G. Myers
Pat Bell
Walter Skipworth
Art Partin
Ramsey Bearden
Jerry van Allen
Fred Petch
Laguna Vista Marina
Port Isabel Area Chamber Plans Monthly Auction Sale
The Port Isabel Padre Island Area Chamber of Commerce considers a monthly auction with ten cents from each sale going to the chamber. The sale would include varied items from sea shells to used tires. The chamber reports good finances and thanks local contributors for beautification efforts.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Retary
Area Chamber
Port Isabel - Padre Island
Port Isabel
Ted Hunt
Lawton Petty
Laguna Heights
Accomplishments Highlighted by Port Isabel Women
Port Isabel Rotary hears speakers detailing progress by local women's groups. Mrs Hickman describes Driftwood Garden Club beauty efforts. Mrs Dale Anderson details refurbishing the Fire Hall with paint and cleaning. Exhibits include beach finds and a rare 4 real Spanish coin.
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Rotary Club
Port Isabel
Hickman
Driftwood Garden Club
Dale Anderson
J. A. Hockaday
Randy Coleman
Art Fuller
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mansfield Jetties
Drowning Victim Identified In Padre Island Search
The 17 year old Ernest Holub Jr. of San Antonio drowned off Padre Island during a senior class outing. Coast Guard and sheriff deputies searched the Gulf area through the evening but did not recover his body. Twenty seven seniors and chaperones participated in the trip.
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San Antonio
Padre Island
Don Hoyd
Ernest Holub Jr
Ernest Holub Sr
Holub
Keystone High School
Mack Grunert
Wayne Vick
Marvin Pole
Gulf
Hoyd
Grunert
Gruner
Coast Guard
Sheriff's Department
Hoye
Coast Guard responds to multiple vessel incidents near Port Isabel
Coast Guard units assisted sunken and disabled vessels off Port Isabel including the F V Low Tide and F V Honey Bee. Cape York towed and secured the Honey Bee, while Linda C remained awaiting commercial tow. Crews Gary P. Harvey and Wayne Meckel earned promotions, KIMBALL replacing CAHOONE on Campeche patrol, and a local softball game was canceled.
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Coast Guard
Cape York
Bobby D. L., JR
Port Isabel
Honey Bee
Triton
Lindac
Linda C
Gary P. Harvey
Engiman
Wayne Meckel
Kimball
Cahoone
Galveston
Campeche
Brownsville
Oes Browns
Cub Scouts Enjoy Camp Perry Day Outing
Cub Scout Pack 17 traveled to Camp Perry on Saturday May 22 with 17 of 27 Cubs and families enjoying swim ming ball games biking and a picnic Transportation was provided by Mesdames Cateora Thornton Moore Smith and Hutchinson The group toured the Order of the Arrow Lodge heard a camp talk and were invited to Thursday summer visits with a chance to stay overnight in the camping area Summer meeting dates are available from Cubs or Den Mothers.
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Camp Perry
Order of the Arrow
James Green Dies At Home In Port Isabel
James Cecil Green 49 a Port Isabel resident for 16 years died Saturday at his home. A commercial fisherman he is survived by widow Lucy and six daughters Juanita Pouncey of Alabama Dorothy Carns Florida Virginia K Green Delores Marie Green Martha Camelia Green Hilda Janet Green all of Port Isabel and four sons Michael C Green Florida James Armod Jude Cecil and Jacob Anthony Green all of Port Isabel. Funeral services were held at 3 pm at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church Port Isabel officiated by Father Joseph McDermott with interment at Port Isabel cemetery.
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James Cecil Green
Lucy Green
Juanita Pouncey
Alabama
Dorothy Carns
Florida
Virginia K. Green
Delores Marie Green
Martha Camelia Green
Hilda Janet Green
Port Isabel
Michael C. Green
James Armod Green
Jude Cecil Green
Jacob Anthony Green
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church
Father Joseph McDermott
Area Delegates to Attend Annual Methodist Meet
Over 100 McAllen District Methodists will travel to San Antonio for the 107th Southwest Texas Conference session at Travis Park Methodist Church June 3 to 6 with Bishop O Eugene Slater presiding. Delegates include ministers from La Feria Port Isabel San Benito and other area churches with lay representatives and alternates listed.
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McAllen
San Antonio
Southwest Texas
The
Methodist Church
Travis Park Methodists Church
O. Eugene Slater
San Antono - Northwest Texas
Slater
Elmer J. Hernover
Austin
Darrel D. Gray
Corpus Christi
H.ill Thomas
Kerrvile Jr
R. F. Carl
Lawrence K. Brown
San Angelo
Ted Richardson
la Feria
Charles Graham
C. W. Haws
Port Isabel
Orrin Johnson
San Bento
E. E. Dawson
W. L. Marlow
First Church
Brownsville
Donna
Combes
Santa Rosa
Wesaco
Godfrey Dies After Short Illness In Port Isabel
W L Godfrey a Port Isabel resident for two years died Tuesday in Valley Baptist Hospital after a brief illness He and his wife Cill had visited the Valley since 1947 prior to moving He belonged to a Masonic lodge in Cushing Okla and recently received a 30 year pin He was district superintendent of Kee Nee Oil Co in Oklahoma before retiring Arrangements by Tommy Cox Mortuary Harlingen
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W. L. Godfrey
Port Isabel
Valley Baptist Hospital
Carroll Richardson Dies in San Antonio After 33 Years in Port Isabel
Carroll Richardson a native of Washington County Alabama and longtime Port Isabel resident died at Fort Sam Houston San Antonio Texas on May 14 at 8 30 p m He was 70 and survived by his wife Lula Richardson of Port Isabel and one sister Mrs Florence Williams of Sun Flower Alabama Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Methodist Church Wagarville Alabama with interment at the adjoining plot
Shrimp Season Closes June 1 in Texas Gulf Waters
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department issued a 45 day closed season for shrimp from June 1 to July 15 to aid growth of the brown shrimp, the Gulf strip extends ten and a half miles along the Texas coast from Louisiana to the Mexican border, affecting about 400 trawlers in the Brownsville Port Isabel area though fishing may continue south of the area.
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Texas
Gulf
Parks and Wildlife Department
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Mexican
Oscar Longnecker
The
Shrimp Association
Brownsville
Port Isabel
Roark Named Agency Manager in Rio Grande Valley
John W. Roark is named manager of the Aylin Advertising Agency Rio Grande Valley Branch in Harlingen with the office at 1991 W. Harrison. James D. Cook, former manager, becomes advertising sales manager for KGBT-TV in Weslaco. An official announcement comes from agency president Robert N. Aylin.
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John W. Roark
Aylin Advertising Agency
Rio Grande Valley
Robert N. Aylin
News
James D. Cook
Aylin
Kgbt-Tv
Weslaco
Aylin Valley
W. Harrison
Harlingen
Shrimp Association objects to coast guard vessel move
Brownsville Shrimp Producers Association opposes transferring a coast guard patrol vessel from Brownsville Port Isabel to Port Aransas. Telegrams protesting the transfer went to Senators Yarborough and Tower U S Representative de la Garza and Admiral Craik. Association cites inadequate local vessels and protection for the world’s largest deep sea shrimp fleet.
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Coast Guard
Brownsville
Port Isabel
Ralph Yarborough
John Tower
U.S
Eligio
Kika) de la Garza
James Craik
Eighth Coast Guard District
New Orleans
Association
Eligio de la Garza
James Crack
Sib
John Kittila
Port Brownsville
Fort Label
Soldier Commended for Meritorious Service at Fort Sam Houston
Pfc Cordell Kirkconnell served as a driver for the Information Section of the Toth Maneuver Area Command from March 14 to 18 1965 at Fort Sam Houston Texas. He assisted the information program, showed courtesy and alertness and willingly took on extra duties.
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Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Toth Maneuver Area Command
Houston
Cordell H. Kirkconnell
Pfc
Kirkconnell
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Diana Thompson
Jimmie Rock
Calvin Byrd
Harryey
Yacht Hotel
Tanya Duncan
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Tanya
Irma Garza
Indiana
Donnie Keller
Susan Smith
Teresa Garza
Linda Nussbaum
Judy Roberts
Paula Vukovvic
Esther Kaevanda
Susan Zimmerman
Rodney Harris
Sylvia Ragusin
Johnny Hoyt
Rhodie Mack
Debra Zigler
Danny Green
Eioy Gonzales
Harry Dancey
Coast Guard News
John H. Kittila
Port Isabel CG
KCS
James Green
Carroll Richardson
Roark
BH. Kirkconnell
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