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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1976
Page
1
Crockett School seventh grade teacher Mrs. Carl Jacobs describes her Montreal Olympic trip filled with grand sights and crowded lines. She recalls taxi rides, a French-speaking host family, Metro travel, and moments meeting figures like Curt Gowdy and Howard Cosell while chasing tickets and autographs.
Survivors huddle on hillsides as rain and wind halt air rescues. Officials say about 60 killed with dozens more feared dead. National Guardsmen, law enforcement and volunteers wait to key in on search strategy as helicopters remain grounded. Gov. Lamm seeks federal disaster aid after 10 inch rainfall from Rocky Mountain National Park created a 12 foot wall of water over 30 miles of canyon.
Rhett Simmons of Troop 395 Port Lavaca joins eleven Cuero scouts in a 100 mile hike to San Antonio led by John Hamilton. The group travels from Cuero to Austin and San Antonio visiting missions and the Alamo with opening ceremonies at Hemisfair Plaza.
The first group of American women and children evacuated from the U.S. diplomatic mission in earthquake-threatened Peking arrived in Tokyo today. The move marks a rapid evacuation as tensions rise and safety concerns mount.
The Wave becomes Port Lavaca Wave and the Calhoun Citizen is absorbed continuing daily Monday through Friday publication. Polly and Charles Taylor, longtime Citizen publishers, have led the change and welcome the Citizen staff into the Wave family. Christy Lynn Taylor is named editor and publisher. Cliff Allen announces the shift.
The Seadrift Chamber of Commerce sponsors the second annual Shrimp Festival at Seadrift Bay Front Park on Saturday. A parade of fleets for commercial boat owners, an art display by Victor Martin, and a crab race for children are planned. A boiled shrimp dinner runs noon to 2 pm, $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for children under 12. Proceeds fund a new community center.
Calhoun County July building permits total over 900000, a record for the office. Twenty permits netted 2142 in fees on 785143 valuation, including a 445000 Brook Hollow apartment and a 200000 Port O Connor dwelling for Ralph R Gilster Jr. City hall issued 24 permits totaling 117920.
Calhoun County sees June unemployment at 6.6 percent as the labor force grows to 7,777 with 512 jobless. Victoria district TEC manager Willis Mason says the rise follows end of school influx, but compares it to typical seasonal patterns and notes year‑over‑year improvement from 8.5 percent in June 1975.
Partly cloudy and warm through Tuesday with a slight chance of thundershowers Tuesday. High this afternoon mid to upper 90s, low to mid 70s tonight. Boating winds southeast 15-20 knots, seas 1-3 feet, with higher gusts near storms. Sunset 8:19 p.m. today, sunrise 6:50 a.m. Tuesday. Tides show multiple high and low events. Barometric pressure 30.01.
Port Lavaca United Citizens League and area groups plan the first annual Mexican heritage celebration with nine organizations attending a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Events run September 16 to 18 with a parade on the 16th and activities from dancing to costumes. A follow up meeting is scheduled Friday at 7 30 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce building.
Officials of Bank of Commerce in Point Comfort announce purchase of a controlling interest in the local bank. New stockholders include Bill J Kemp Victoria Fred P Turner Port Lavaca and Bill Nowland San Antonio attorney. Kemp elected president and to move to the community with wife Marilyn and children Randy Kimberly and Rebecca. Kemp a Texas A&M 1963 graduate and former U S Treasury bank examiner, native of Falls County. He and his family attend Catholic church. The bank plans a policy of community banking and growth with the area under the new board.
Port Lavaca port commissioners schedule a budget work session Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the city hall annex 306 E Mahan St to draft the proposed budget for public hearing Thursday at the 7 30 p m regular meeting Also on Thursday a deep water port feasibility study funding report will be presented and a lease cancellation at the Harbor of Refuge by Alamo Cement Co Ind will be discussed Curtis Rece Jr recommends tabling the matter City manager Mike Gibson will report on limestone sampling and related expenses The agenda also covers ramp repairs at Harbor of Refuge limestone stockpile sale and engineering services from Smith and Russo of Corpus Christi.
Thirty eight marijuana plants were found in pots beside Highway 238 South and turned over to the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office by Constable B B Browning and Deputy Vivien Richards. Five or six juveniles were turned over to juvenile authorities. A van was destroyed and one side of a trailer house demolished.
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