Causeway Crew Prepares for 100000th Passenger Crossing
Cameron County plans to honor the 100000th vehicle crossing of the Queen Isabella causeway as traffic nears the milestone with drivers likely from multiple states and countries. Al McGehee announced rewards include a memento and a day in Isla Blanca Park as park facilities stay open year round for visitors and locals.
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Queen Isabella Causeway
al McGehee
Isla Blanca Park
States
Mexico
Canada
Alaska
Okinawa
New Mexico
Illinois
Ohio
Louisiana
California
Kansas
Andrew King
Estevan
Saskatchewan
Kings
America
Cameron County Park Board
McGehee
Driftwood Garden Club Plant Sale October 22 23
The Driftwood Garden Club of Port Isabel sponsors a plant sale Friday and Saturday October 22 and 23 across from the post office in the lighthouse area. Proceeds support beautification projects at Beulah Lee Park and the triangle at the Y on Highway 100, plus clean-up of Port Isabel Bayside and Laguna Vista as part of a Montgomery Rose cup effort. Plants priced from 50 cents up include small trees bougainvillea hibiscus esparanza papaya Carissa grandiflora oleander and rubber plants.
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Lighthouse
Beulah Lee Park
Highway 100
Port Isabel
Bayside
Laguna Vista
New Boat Honeymoon to Lead Snapper Fishing Expeditions
Captain Carey Freel returns from Florida with the 33-foot diesel Honeymoon built at Port St. Joe. The vessel will offer oversite snapper fishing from Port Isabel, with a Sunday introductory trip for Port Isabel residents only. The day starts at 7 am and ends about 5 30 pm with bait lunch and drinks provided for 250. Fishermen bring their own tackle.
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Carey Freel
Florida
Port St. Joe
Freel
Port Isabel
Captain Freel
Franklin Trailer Court
Port Isabel PTA Plans Halloween Carnival
The Port Isabel PTA meeting at Port Isabel High School approved a Halloween carnival on the basketball courts for Saturday October 30 with a weather contingency to move indoors. Members discussed finances and committee reports as the group grows to 58 members.
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Port Isabel
Gene Landrum Cast in Finian's Rainbow at SWTSTC
Gene Landrum of Port Isabel is part of the cast in Finian's Rainbow to be presented October 18 to 21 in the Little Theater at Southwest Texas State Teachers College San Marcos. The show, sponsored by the Speech and Music department, was a summer hit and re staged as the fall presentation. Curtain is 7 30 each night. Landrum plays the Second Sharecropper and also appeared in the summer production.
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Gene Landrum
Port Isabel
Landrum
M. M. Landrum, Jr
Finian
Legion Auxiliary to Sponsor Bingo Tonight At Legion Hall
The American Legion Auxiliary will sponsor a benefit bingo game tonight at 7 45 in Legion hall. This marks the first of several charity bingo parties planned to support local projects.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
First Texas firm uses snow icing on vegetables
F. H. Valhsing, Inc., based in Texas' Lower Rio Grande Valley, becomes the first business to introduce snow icing as a processing method for vegetables.
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F. H. Valhsing, Inc
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Port Isabel Community Sports and Civic Notes
Port Isabel reports only about 1 percent paving completed with 23 percent remaining before action. Tarpons lost 39 to 0 to Rio Hondo Bobcats, and port remains hopeful for next week against Los Fresnos. Local news includes thanks for blood donations for Mrs. Mock, Mercy hospital, Girl Scout finance drive, and Lions Club BULB campaign outreach.
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Rio Hondo Bobcats
Rio Hondo
Port Isabel
Los Fresnos
Padre Beach Developer John L Tompkins Honored in Who's Who
Corpus Christi magnate John L Tompkins, developer of the Padre Beach area on Padre Island, has two biographical entries in 1954 Who's Who editions. His firm operates offices in Corpus Christi, Port Isabel and Brownsville as he builds a residence at Padre Beach.
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John L. Tompkins
Padre Beach
Padre Island
Who's Who
Comree
South Texas
Tompkins
Corpus Christi
Port Isabel
Brownsville
100th Jail Sentences Mark Long Beach Man’s Century in Custody
Wilson Ray Parkins of Long Beach California has reached his 60th birthday in jail marking a century of arrests since 1926. He has faced drunkenness charges four times and a variety of charges including vagrancy disorderly conduct drunk driving and fleeing from traffic warrants.
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Long Beach
Cal
Wilson Ray Parkins
Port Isabel and Brownsville shift funds and traffic notes
Olin Brashear joins Brownsville Savings and Loan as collection manager succeeding Robert Specht who moves to Salt Lake City. A Port Isabel Girl Scout fund drive opens with $750 goal to sustain Scouting. Brownsville will not aid this year. Port Isabel becomes second port on the U.S. coast for outbound passenger traffic behind New York, with 4 000 aliens shipped since Sept. 2 and 226 157 tons of traffic since July 15. Port activity includes oil, cottonseed cake, gasoline, and other cargo with plans for expansion.
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Olin Brashear
Brownsville Savings and Loan Association
Brownsville
Robert W. Specht
Prudential Federal Savings and Loan Association
Salt Lake City
Brashear
Air Force
Texas A & M College
Lubbock
Texas
Mary Louise Robertson
Mission
Port Isabel
National Committee
United States
New York
U. S. Immigration Service
Vera Cruz
Middle West
Indus
Isabel
T. E. Dunn
Border Patrol
Taylor-Mayfair
Port Leathes
Dunn
Heidelberg
the Cabins
Kettle Creek
Otto
von Wasson
Coast Guard
Roushneck
Erika U Henriks Fisser
Esso Bridgeport
Leon
Girl Scouts Begin Christmas Card Sale Across Town
Girl Scout troops 8 and 9 in Port Isabel sell Christmas cards at 1 per box. About 30 girls participate, with 1350 dollars from sales staying in troop funds for arts and crafts for next year. Last year Troop 9 spent on flags pins re-registration and world pins. Troop 8 used funds for flag and staff and aluminum for crafts.
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Girl Scouts
Port Isabel
Troop
San Benito Wildcat Drills Offshore Oil Test
San Benito area wildcat tests advance as Superior Oil completes San Benito Unit 11 at 16 250 feet after a Schlumberger log showed no show. A second wildcat near Lozano on the Lou McElhannon farm near San Benito begins a 9 400 feet test. Drillers Stewart and Richardson with Phillips Petroleum Texas Co and Shell Oil conduct the tests.
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San Benito
Superior Oil Company
Lou McElhannon
Lozano
Stewart and Richardson
Phillips Petroleum
Texas Co
Shell Oil Co
Amendment Four for Texas Courts Would Create New State Building
Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd touted Amendment Four during a State Bar of Texas gathering in Fort Worth. The measure would fund a state court and office building by using surplus Confederate Pension money, without new taxes, easing crowded Supreme Court and other offices and improving access to legal services. He urged judges to support the plan amid cramped quarters and scattered offices.
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John Ben Shepperd
Judicial Section
State Bar of Texas
Forth Worth
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Civil Appeals
Attorney General's Office
Texas
Dogs foil dogs in Lebanon sheep guard plan
In Lebanon Kentucky Charles J Jarboe trains a pack of dogs to chase and round up marauding dogs attacking his sheep and herd them into the barn where they are locked up.
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Lebanon
Charles J. Jarboe
Jarboe
Shrimpers Explode and Burn Off Gulf Coast
The Jim Melton shrimp boat exploded and burned offshore near Port Isabel, throwing a crewman overboard. The captain jumped clear after the engine room fire, survived with burns, and was treated. The Lady Luck reportedly burned in the Brownsville channel. Captain Walling was ashore 16 hours south of the jetties. The Buccaneer and the Sem Houston headed to aid Captain Walling.
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Jim Melton
Gulf
Port Isabel
Ronnie D
Lady Luck
Nso
Brownsville
Walling
Buccaneer
Sem Houston
Methodist Laymen Day Observed Next Sunday
The Methodist church will observe Laymen Day next Sunday during morning worship. Arthur H. Klein of Harlingen will be the speaker. George F. Cail Jr. leads the program. Millard Caudill offers prayer. Fred Petch reads the scripture. BE. W. Edwards is the soloist.
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The
Methodist Church
Arthur H. Klein
Harlingen
George F. Cail Jr
Millard Caudill
Fred Petch
BE. W. Edwards
Bay and Jetty Fishing Report Highlights Bountiful Trout
The TEXAS JOY report tracks anglers from Houston Dallas Brownsville Pharr Mercedes and San Perlita. Notable catches include 52 trout by Ward and party 42 trout by Jim Butcher 27 trout by Mrs Bledse and Mrs Pederson 32-pound redfish by Buster White 105 trout by Sam Cashiola and Lt Martendale 46 gulftop by Paul Eby and Herb Shulenberger 225 pounds red snapper and one pompano and 12 trout 15 mango snapper and an octopus near two tub size by D J Schware and Porter.
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Ward
Houston
Jim Butcher
Brownsville
M. R. Bledse
Dallas
Cleo Pederson
Port Isabel
Buster White
Sam Cashiola
Martendale
Paul Eby
Herb Shulenberger
Pharr
Gulftop
Gulf
Texas Joy
Frank Roberts
Owen Jones
San Perlita
Trout Counts by Houston and Dallas Women
Roy Ward and Mac McGuffey of Houston report 40 trout caught on Monday October 1. Mrs. M B Bledso of Dallas and Mrs. Cleo Pederson of Port leabel record 16 trout.
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Roy Ward
Mac McGuffey
Houston
M. B. Bledso
Dallas
Cleo Pederson
Port Leabel
Local Fishing Party Reports Catch From Morea Trip
Mr and Mrs D J Schwi and R A Porter of Morea recorded a haul of 140 trout along with six mango snapper and six whiting from a recent outing.
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D. J. Schwi
R. A. Porter
Morea
Local anglers reel trout and jewfish catches
Wednesday highlights from Houston Port Isabel Dallas and Brownsville show Sam Cashiola Lt Martene Dale Mae McDuffey Roy Ward Cleo Pederson Mrs M B Bledso trout sand trout 60 to 139 pounds and two jewfish weighing 300 and one pound respectively reported by Jack Porter Alton Archer and Chester Martin at the coast.
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Sam Cashiola
Martenedale
Houston
Mae McDuffey
Roy Ward
Cleo Pederson
Port Isabel
M. B. Bledso
Dallas
Noel Delgado
Brownsville
Jack Porter
Alton Archer
Chester Martin
Lace
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E. W. Edwards
Lions Club
JLM
John L. Tompkins In
Who
Mee
Aed
Fred Peten
D. J. Schware
KR. A. Porter
Mercedes
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