Weekly News Summary includes airliner crash and UN exit
Ninety people die when a Britainnia Airways turbo-prop crashes near Ljubljana Yugoslavia. U Thant resigns as UN Secretary General effective November 3. Four Valley residents die in a Highway 281 crash near San Benito. Labor Day weekend traffic toll exceeds six hundred as highways suffer heavy losses.
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Britannia Airways
Ljubljana
Yugoslavia
Wales
Valley
San Benito
U.S
Lighthouse notes seek Ranger mementoes and local items
Col Homer Garrison Jr requests help collecting Texas Ranger memorabilia to honor the oldest police force with statewide jurisdiction. The column also notes local South Padre area submissions for news, school activity, and upcoming winter tourist season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Garrison Jr
Texas Rangers
Labor Day traffic on Queen Isabella Causeway rises
Traffic over Labor Day weekend on the Queen Isabella Causeway reached 5 635 vehicles, up from 4 983 last year. Larry Allen, Director of Parks and Causeway, called it a successful close to a most successful summer with no drownings and strong attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Padre Island
Queen Isabella Causeway
Larry Allen
Parks and Causeway
Allen
Cameron County
South Padre
Cheerleaders Train Ahead of Tarpon Football Season
Joy Shafer reports on the Port Isabel high school cheer squad preparing for football season. Emma Barri entes leads practices attended by Inez Villarreal Yolanda Mata Anna Laura Villarreal Joy Shafer and substitutes Sylvia Gonzalez Lydia Galvan. They trained at Pan American College camp learning new cheers pom pom routines tumbling and gymnastics and seek student body support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boys In Blue
Emma Barrientes
Inez Villarreal Yolanda Mata
Anna Laura Villarreal
Joy Shafer
Sub
National Cheerleaders’ Association
Pan American College
Port Isabel
Tarpon
Evening Class Registration Set For Southmost
Browns ville Texas Southmost College announces registration for evening classes from 7 to 10 p m on Thursday September 8 for former students and Friday September 9 for new students. Dean W T Poulos says the college offers a wide range of courses and will add any in demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Texas Southmost College
W.T. Poulos
Rotarians Push Reeption Plans on South Padre Island
Rotary Club and Port Isabel Volunteer Firemen plan a fish event on South Padre Island. Firemen will supply the fish as part of the fundraising effort.
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South Padre Island
Rotary Club
Port Isabel
Tarpons Face Zapata Hawks In Season Opener Friday
Port Isabel's Tarpons meet the Zapata Hawks in the 1966 football opener. Zapata brings 14 lettermen including 8 from 1965 and heavy linemen Francisco Garcia and Rogelio Cavazos. Tarpons rely on Garcia and Bob Kirkconnell to control the game while facing a strong passing threat from Zapata quarterback Robert Hein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarpons
Zapata Hawks
Port Isabel
Hawks
Francisco Garcia
Rogelio Cavazos
Zapata
Edeouch Elsa
Raymondville
Robert Hein
Manuel Garza
Red Taylor
Robert Kirkconnell
Juan Ramirez
Robert Turner
Raymond Ragusin
Robert Garcia
Tony Gonzalez
Garcia
Bob Kirkconnell
Massey
Robert Trevino
Jack Stork
Raul Espinosa
Postmaster Obtains Change in Port Isabel South Padre Schedule
Ruth Mras Port Isabel Postmaster secures new mail arrival and departure times between Port Isabel and South Padre Island. Effective Sept 10 first trip leaves Port Isabel 9 a.m. second at 12:30 p.m. South Padre Island to Port Isabel 12:55 p.m. air mail and Valley connections via Brownsville at 1 p.m. Monday through Friday with final island departure 4:35 p.m. not 4:45.
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Ruth Mras
Port Isabel
South Padre Island
Brownsville
Post Office Department
Mias
Air Mail
Valley
Dispatch
Band Booster Club Meet Set
The Bard Boosters Club will hold its regular meeting on Monday at 8 p.m. in Garrigan Auditorium. The installation of officers for the coming year will be held at the gathering.
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Bard Boosters Club
Garrigan Auditorium
Mrs. Annie Heinze 73 dies after long illness
Mrs Annie Lou Heinze 73 of Laguna Vista died Friday at Dolly Vinsant Hospital after transfer from a San Benito nursing home following a long illness. She was mother of E W Heinze Jr of Laguna Vista and sister of Mrs Gaytle Wash John Heinze of Austin and Lynn Heinze of Port Isabel. Funeral services were held 3 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church Marble Falls with burial in Marble Falls Cemetery.
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Annie Lou Heinze
Laguna Vista
Dolly Vinsant Hospital
San Benito
E. W. Heinze Jr
Gainesville
Birmingham
Ala
Texas
Mr. Heinze
Gaytle
Wash
John Heinze
Austin
Lynn Heinze
Port Isabel
First Baptist Church
Marble Falls
Marble Falls Cemetery
Port Isabel Coin Club to Meet at Housing Project Center
The Port Isabel Coin Club will hold its regular monthly meeting on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. at the Housing Project Community Building. Visitors are welcome. Members Martin Tower D L Pruitt and Velma Pruitt attended the McAllen Coin Club meeting on Sept. 1.
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Port Isabel
Coin Club
Housing Project
Martin Tower
D. L. Pruitt
Velma Pruitt
McAllen
Ginning Totals Top 200 000 Bale Mark
The sixth weekly Valley gins survey shows 38,561 bales processed last week, lifting the season total to 222,999. Cameron County leads with 100,779 bales, Hidalgo 77,240, Starr 3,491, and end of season noted with several gins already closed.
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Valley
Valley Farm Bureau
Cameron County
Willacy
Hidalgo
Starr
Certan
Coast Guardsmen Bound Over In Port Isabel Visitor Death
Two Port Isabel based Coast Guardsmen were bound over to the grand jury in the death of 65 year old Claude L Harrison a visitor in Port Isabel. Bond was set at 5000 dollars. Sumpter and Smith faced Judge D J Lerma in Cameron County Court at Law. Harrison disappeared July 21 from a motel and was found Aug 3 in a Laguna Vista ditch.
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Coast
Port Isabel
Harrison
Laguna Vista
Arkansas
Sumpter
Smith
Claude
Palm Blvd
Taylor Street
Ray Sandlin
Londrie
Cameron County
Adolfo Rentancourt
Flory
Betancourt
Coast Guardsmen
Harry Lewis
Brownsville
Tria
New Priest Takes Over Episcopal Church Here
The Rev. Lee Sampson Block arrives as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church San Benito and priest in charge of St Andrews Episcopal Port Isabel. A Del Rio native, he is 32, with a past in the Army and local service in Refugio, where he helped in building a new church and led community organizations. He was ordained in 1962 and has held roles in Trinity San Antonio and Ascension Refugio before moving to San Benito.
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Lee Sampson Block
All Saints Episcopal Church
San Benito
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
Port Isabel
del Rio
University of Texas
Sth
Germany
St. Juanes
Trinity Episcopal Church
San
Caralor
Rotary Club
Jaycees
Refugio County Center For Children and Youth
Refugio Church
Dancy Appoints Mrs Hockaday to Historical Survey Panel
Cameron County Judge Oscar C. Dancy appointed Mrs. J. Hockaday of Port Isabel and Mrs. J. Scott Brown of San Benito to the Cameron County Historical Survey Committee. He praised the selections as outstanding and fitting, noting the appointments were made.
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Cameron County
Osccar C. Dancy
J. Allockaday
Port Isabel
J. Scott Brown
San Benito
Port Isabel Schools Report Record Enrollment
Point Isabel School District officials announced 1,315 students enrolled, up from 1,157 a year ago. Junior senior high held 496, Derry Elementary 404, Garriaga Elementary 416. Title I preschool class was added, and some tuition students aged six by Sept 1 to Nov 30, 1966 paid 81.50 with readiness certification.
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Point Isabel
Port Isabel
Derry
Garriaga
Our Lady Star of the Sea
Yvonne Seago
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Dancy
Greater
Brownsville Commission
U Thant
By Raymond R. Murphy
Post Office
Carr
Laguna Heights
Bayview
Jo Kent
Joe Staley
Border Patrol
Rispoli
Santana Galvan
Charles Londrie
Charles Barter
Leo F. Sanders
By Joy Shafer
Stitute
Sylvia Gonzalez
Lydia Galvan
Tarpon Field
Lee Simpson
Episcopal Church
Hockaday
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