Beaumont DA Named Special Prosecutor in Conspiracy Case
Jefferson County District Attorney Tom Hanna was named special prosecutor in a conspiracy case involving County Judge Ray Ramon and Adolph Thomas Jr. of San Benito. otros include Carlos Carrasco and Noe Alaniz Trevino. Pretrial hearing set for Nov. 21. Ramon and Carrasco freed on $5,000 bonds. Trevino held on $900,000 bond and for federal heroin importation charges.
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Jefferson County
Beaumont
Tom Hanna
County Com
Ray Ramon
Adolph Thomas, Jr
San Benito
Carlos Carrasco
Noe Alaniz Trevino
Matamoros
Texas
Hanna
Port Arthur
Port Neches
Hester
Baylor University
University of Texas
Ramon and
Carrasco
Trevino
Two Real Estate Firms Merge to Form Town and Country Properties
Baldaur Realty Co and Town and Country Properties announce a merger creating Town and Country Properties. The new firm offers property management appraisal residential and commercial sales and will operate across the Lower Rio Grande Valley including South Padre Island and Brownsville. Nita Flewelling will manage Island activities from Padre Blvd office. Phil Baldauf leads training and operations. Dayle Baldauf heads Brownsville office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldaur Realty Co
Town and Country Properties
Nita Russell Flewelling
Lower
Rio Grande Valley
South Padre Island
Brownsville
South Padre Island Board Talks Licenses and Health Studio
The South Padre Island board discussed alcohol licenses and a health studio issue at a night meeting. They considered a building inspector hire and approved a three year tax assessor-collector contract for Randy Fletcher, plus a motion to let the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council handle police equipment purchase.
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South Padre Island
South Padre
Martha Feldman
Susie’s
Harlingen
Susie's
Cunningham
Troy Dillon
Larry Thompson
Dillow
Schoppe
Thompson
Salry
Randy C. Fletcher
Fletcher
State Board to Hold Session on Padre Island Inn project
Texas Water Quality Board public hearing was to assess waste control orders for Padre Island Inn Inc of Hurst proposing to build condominium apartments on South Padre Island. The firm plans a domestic sewage plant to serve residents with effluent discharged into Laguna Madre near Park Road 100 north of the Queen Isabella Causeway. 39 influenza cases rising, says Cameron County Health Department.
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Texas Water Quality Board
TWQB
Hidalgo County
Edinburg
Padre Island Inn Inc
Hurst
North Texas Company
South Padre Island
Padre Island Inn, Inc
Park Road 100
Queen Isabella Causeway
Laguna Madre
Engineers Announce Permit Requests in Port Isabel Area
The Corps of Engineers Galveston office lists two applications in the Port Isabel South Padre Island region. SDG Inc seeks a permit to dredge a boat basin and build a bulkhead in Laguna Madre near FM 510 and Highway 100 at Laguna Vista with about 35 000 cubic yards of material to be filled behind the bulkhead. Mobil Oil Corp applies for drilling and production permits in the Gulf of Mexico adding state tracts NE-4 of 1025-L E-2 of 1065-L and S-2 of 1066-L to a blanket area about 17 miles east southeast from Port Mansfield. Public comments may be sent to the Galveston or Brownsville offices by November 29.
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Corps of Engineers
Galveston
Port Isabel
South Padre Island
SDG Inc
Minneapolis
Gulf of Mexico
Mobil
Port Mansfield
Corps
Brownsville
Isabel Permits Climb in Port Isabel Through October
Port Isabel reports strong building activity for January through October 1973 with permits totaling $906,573.67 or more than $278,848 above the 1972 January-October total of $627,726. The October permits alone amounted to $11,605.
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Port Isabel
Local Meetings Set for Week
Four local government meetings are scheduled for the coming week. Port Isabel city commission meets Monday November 12 at 7 30 p m in the municipal building. Laguna Vista board of aldermen also meets Monday at 7 30 p m in city hall. Navigation District commissioners meet Wednesday November 14 at 3 p m at the navigation district office Port Isabel. Cameron County Fresh Water Supply District No 1 supervisors meet Wednesday November 14 at 7 p m at the water district office Port Isabel.
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Port Isabel
Municipal Building
Laguna Vista
City Hall
Navigation and Canal Commissioners
Port Isabel- San Bento
Board of Supervisors of
Cameron County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1
Water District
Point Isabel
Cameron County
E. D. Reed
Torres
Reed
Local precinct 1 votes mirror state in nine Texas amendments
About 170 of 2,300 eligible voters in precinct 1-Port Isabel South Padre Island Laguna Heights and Laguna Vista cast ballots in the constitutional amendments election. Across nine amendments six were approved statewide and locally while amendments 1 4 6 7 2 3 5 9 and the rest showed mixed results with 8 and 9 failing locally.
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Port Isabel
South Padre Island
Laguna Heights
Laguna Vista
Texas
Lone Star
Veterans’ Land Fund
Isabel Island
Texas Constitutional Revision Commission
Trustees to Hold Workshop on Building Program
Point Isabel ISD trustees plan a 7:30 p.m. workshop on November 13 to review proposals for a district building program. Architects Downs and Walker outlined needs for a new high school and related facilities, with a preliminary budget of 3,317,423 dollars including Garriga and Derry Elementary, the junior senior high, and a swimming pool. The session is open to the public.
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Bill Downs
Calvin Walker
Point Isabel Independent School
Downs
Walker
Garriga
Derry
Jimmy Steele
Millard N. Caudill
Steele
William K. Zimmerman
Randy C. Fletcher
Ruben M. Torres
Fletcher
Port Isabel
Plane wreckage near Laguna Madre misidentified as Valley planes
Wreckage found three miles east of Three Islands and six miles south of Arroyo Colorado mouth was from an old Cessna, not the two missing Valley planes. Parts scattered, engine buried, no serial numbers. FAA lists missing Piper Comanche and Piper Cherokee pilots as possible owners.
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Laguna Madre
Arroyo Colorado
Cameron County
Gaines Burns
Burns
Valley
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Fred Galindo
Galindo
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Ellis E. Perry
Admiral Perry
Coast Guard
New Orleans
Lafayette Duke
By Ronald Ozio
Ghilain
Bahia Grande
Corpus Christi
Anchor Constructors Inc
Braniff International
Bahia Mar
Cameron County Health Department
Isabel
Zimmerman
COP
Tarpon Stadium
Los Fresnos
A.m. Torres
Dallas
Manuel Galvano III
Sabas Gonzales
Cecil Moses
Verl Poston
Eliseo Vega
Noe Gonzales
Charles Parce
Clyde Collens
Bob Sparks
McAllen
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