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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1955
Page
1
The Shrimp Fiesta Boosters club will hold a shrimp gumbo gathering on Saturday October 8 at the Firermen's Community building to elect next year's officers and directors. Tickets at the door cost 1.00 for adults and 60 cents for children under 12.
Ernie Goldshag, longtime Port Isabel police member and Lions Club secretary, was appointed deputy sheriff for the Los Fresnos area and has moved to that city. Goldshag previously served in Port Isabel and has resided near Isabel for two years.
Mr and Mrs A B Scanlon and children of Kingsville visited Sunday in the home of Mr and Mrs F M Kershaw. The gathering included relatives and sealed by hospitality as both families share local ties.
Clifford T Turney and family of Amarillo visited Mr. and Mrs. J L Merryman. Turney and Merryman were POW buddies captured when Corrigador fell. They endured three and a half years as prisoners, later separated in Manchuria and Nagoya. The Amarillo Globe News stereotyper plans return to work after travel to Chicago.
The State office of the Selective Service announced a call of 1,000 Texas men for November split evenly between the Army and Navy. San Benito Draft Board No. 16 has not received details. A current call is for ten men to depart on October 11.
Mrs. J. A. LaRoche captured first place by missing only two games and a predicted tie, with her tie-breaker score six points off. Gene Mock followed closely with three misses. Entries open to all except PRESS staff. drop in at the PRESS office or mail by Thursday 5 p.m. prior to each publication.
The Port Isabel Quarterback Club elected Archie Causey as president to lead the group next year replacing J L Merryman who becomes secretary. No vice president was filled and a Tuesday high school meeting will review plans and films of previous games. Archie Causey invites interested joiners to contact at Lighthouse Grocery.
Mr and Mrs William H Fair III announce the birth of their daughter Jeanne at Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital San Benito. Jeanne weighed seven pounds seven ounces and arrived Saturday morning.
Mrs. Lillian Sannady will handle ticket sales for Port Isabel Civic Movies Series. Tickets go on sale through the coming week for student and adult brackets. Confirmed films include The Little Kidnappers Tonight We Sing Gate of Hell and To Paris With Love.
The Cameron County Crippled Children’s Society holds its annual meeting Tuesday night at the Stonewall Jackson hotel. Dr. Ted Mathews of Dallas will speak. Treasurer Mrs. J. R. Fitzgerald of Harlingen will present the annual activities report, then officers will be elected. Meeting opens at 7 30 p.m. Tickets are 1 50. Reservations with the hotel.
The Port Isabel Chamber of Commerce sponsors a drive for food and clothing to aid Tampico flood victims. Four shrimp boats volunteer to carry the aid once Tampico docking facilities reopen, expected in four or five days. Donations can be left at Hazel's Fashions Ochoa's Grocery and the Seaside Inn, with a charity dance at the Seaside Inn tomorrow night requiring canned goods.
Hurricane Janet, the tenth of the season, is a small but deadly storm in the Caribbean south of Martinique. The U S weather bureau reports winds of 115 miles per hour around the eye and notes the track is uncertain for several days. Janet was about 2,600 miles from Port Isabel and moving west northwest at 15 miles an hour.
A Negro woman from La Feria writes to Superintendent Vail praising the friendly treatment her children received upon entering classes with white students.
A clash between Cameron County Commissioners Court and Willacy County Navigation District over a dredge channel from Port Mansfield to the Gulf via Padre Island was resolved Tuesday. Willacy’s Charles Johnson agreed to add a bridge item in a written statement, leading Cameron to withdraw its protest to the U S Army Engineers.
The Port Isabel PTA held its first 1955 56 meeting with Homer Hannah Brownsville High School principal as speaker on school activity. The shrimp fleet bounced back as storms faded with docks crowded and boats returning, boosting unloading and set to a busy week. The column notes PTA planning for Halloween and a growing membership while weather reports clash with local optimism amid ongoing shrimping recovery.
Roland and Mrs Campbell marked their golden anniversary after fifty years of marriage. A clipping from Topeka shows them on their honeymoon midway at a fair eating cotton candy. Our congratulations to the Campbells on this milestone. Port Isabel High played a scrappy game Tuesday scoring 21 to 13 against Los Fresnos.
Port Isabel notes the arrival of deputy sheriff Ernie Goldshag in Los Fresnos and announces Allen Anderson as successor. The Tarpons edge toward better play with a heads up effort, while San Benito B team showcases passing with Deen and Tame connecting. An offsides call negated a Galvan to Wright pass, but overall the game is praised as a good effort.
The Chamber of Commerce sponsors a drive for food and clothing for Tampico's needy. It is a charitable effort inviting donations to aid people in Tampico, with items to be shipped via shrimp boats.
Mrs Ray Lowrie of Grand Saline Texas departed Wednesday following a stay with her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs William H Fair and family.
A burial ground over 50 miles long lies along Padre Inland between the high tide line and dunes. The site holds the remains of many jalo pies and Mode T pickups that were buried and forgotten during the 1920s when Col. Sam Robertson cleared a beach drive on the island.
A Tampico casualty toll tops 200 with 1800 injured and hundreds missing after Hurricane Hilda leveled the city and surrounding villages. A rancher in a private plane described widespread ruin as storm tides, winds, and floods wiped settlements from the coast toward the river. The Panuco flood was subsiding but half the city remained waterlogged rubble and filth.
Visiting over the weekend were Mr and Mrs Art Warnker and their son Dick from Sen Benito. They spent time at the home of Mr and Mrs A J Reeves.
On Thursday anglers including Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Van Ness and Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Stopple from Houston, plus Bobby Goolsby and Pee Wee Shumaker from Port Isabel, and Mims and Cleo Pederson, all reported trout catches. Notable individual counts were 55, 51, 15, and 12 trout respectively.
A description lists Rev. Paul Edgar, Floyd Park, Cullen Wilson and Don Shel don of Donna with one dolphin one sheephead and three jewfish weighing 20 45 and 125 pounds respectively.
Sam Cashiola and Sid of Houston reel in 70 trout and a few fe fish. Fritz Gray and Joe Cuttete of Houston land 75 trout and red fish.
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