GulfPoint Ground Breaking on South Padre Island Tomorrow
Ground breaking ceremonies for GulfPoint on South Padre Island are planned for tomorrow morning. The resort complex is a joint SDI Dallas and Prattco project featuring 299 condos, a six story Holiday Inn, yacht basin, shopping, pools, and underground parking.
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GulfPoint
Tommorrow
South Padre Island
Gulf To
Bay
Southwestern Dynamics Inc
SDI
Dallas
Prattco
Fiesta Isles Project Promises Amenity Rich Bayfront
Moss announces New Fiesta Isles with 250 feet of bay frontage, covered parking, landscaping, tennis courts, a pool, and two piers. Tennis courts are a featured element with a low residents to courts ratio, and per unit parking exceeds two spaces. Units include trash compactors, frost free refrigerators, garbage disposals, dishwashers, and more. Designed by Morgan Spear and Associates in Corpus Christi with access to the private Fiesta Isles boat ramp.
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Moss
Corpus Christi
Official Opposes Move to Abolish County Superintendent Post
James D. Koonce, longtime Cameron County school superintendent, opposes a referendum to abolish the office. He argues the move would shift duties to the county judge and raise costs, cites current budgets and duties, and notes a single local school Palm Grove with 135 students.
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Koonce
Cameron County
Palm Grove
Santa Maria
Commissioners Court
Russ Fowler
Pet. 4
Court
Record Blacktip Shark Caught In Texas Coast
A 136 pound blacktip shark was caught on August 25 off Port Isabel by 15 year old Robert A Cline of Harlingen on a charter boat. Cline becomes Texas first recorded blacktip. A 412 pound barracuda also set as a Texas record by Mrs Hunter Barrett of Fort Worth east southeast of Port Aransas.
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Austin
Texas
Port Isabel
Robert A. Cline
Harlingen
Cline
M. Cline
San Benito
Hunter Barrett
Fort Worth
Barrett
Port Aransas
Isle permit totals show growth in October 1973
Newest Isle building permits for October total $3,638,000, slighty below August’s $3,663,800 peak. January October 1973 permits reach $13,365,167, more than double all of 1972. October’s items include three residences $56,000 and Gulf Point projects totaling $2,? other large developments like Kentucky Fried Chicken $35,000 and Holiday Inn $935,000.
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South Padre Island
June Tallant
Gulf Point
GulfPoint
CID
Kentucky Fried Chicken Establishment
Holiday Inn
Las Brisas
Corpus Shrimp Harvest Marks Mariculture Milestone
The first full scale harvest from Central Power and Light Barney M Davis plant demonstrates man reared shrimp viability. Dr Jack C Parker Texas A&M says 2040 pounds from a half acre equals about 4000 pounds per acre doubling Texas record. Plans target year round growth with plant cooling lake facilities and Laguna Madre waters.
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Corpus Christi
Central Power and Light Company
Barney M Davis
Parker
Texas
Angleton
Davis
Causeway Crossing Figures Up Again
Causeway crossing activity continues to rise as 153 530 crossings were recorded in September on the Queen Isabella Causeway. S Gutierrez says the January September total reaches 1 721 380, surpassing 1972 and 1971 figures by wide margins. County health notes report one chickenpox case and several influenza strep throat and tuberculosis cases.
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Highway Department
Pharr
S. Gutierrez
Queen Isabella Causeway
Cameron County Health Department
Guide to Voting: Free Nonpartisan Voters Guide
The League of Women Voters of Brownsville offers a free Nonpartisan Voters Guide on the nine Texas constitutional amendments. It provides pro and con arguments, voter registration details, and absentee voting information. Copies available by mail from Box 3643, Brownsville, Tex. 78520.
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Texas
League of Women Voters of
Brownsville
League
Tex
Houston angler claims Tarpon Rodeo grand title in Acapulco
Tom Gibson of Houston won grand champion and heaviest tarpon at the first annual Tarpon Rodeo Bay and Surf Fishing Tournament near Port Isabel. Neal Isaacs of Brownsville placed second tarpon, Elaine Machado of Arlington third. Doyle Wells of Port Isabel won bay and surf division grand champion and largest redfish. Dusty Wells and Brenham Wells won children’s honors.
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Tom Gibson
Houston
Guide Junior Wells
Acapulco
South Padre Island
Gibson
Island
Port Isabel
Houstonian
Neal Isaacs
Brownsville
Elaine Machado
Arlington
Tita Wells
San Antonio
al Pancoast Jr
James Ewers
Roderick Potts
Les Hawkinson
Dusty Wells
Brenham Wells
Gaston Machado
Doyle Wells
Wells
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The
Gulf
Nugent
Fiesta Isles
Herb Moss
Jerry Watson
Holmes and Moss Co
Robert Martinez
Laguna Madre
James D. Koonce
Corpus
Jack C. Parker
Texas A&m University
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
CPL
Ralston-Purina Co
South Padre Island Bay
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