Port Lavaca commission OKs lease termination at Harbor of Refuge
Port Lavaca city commission voted 4 to 1 to terminate the lease with Alamo Concrete Co. at Harbor of Refuge effective Aug. 1, leaving limestone valued at about 6000 on site and requiring 4000 to be paid plus 2600 worth of limestone for a sewer line. New board member John de la Cruz joined as Curtis Reece opposed. Budget was tentatively approved with 5000 shifted to contingency. public hearing set for Aug. 25.
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Harbor of Refuge
Port Lavaca
Alamo Concrete Co.,, Inc
R. E
Bob” Clegg
Lamar Marshall Sr
Ted Mumme
John de la Cruz
Curtis Reece
Port Commission
Reece
Alamo Cement Co
City of
Clegg
Commission
City Hall
Boar
Grain Elevator Study Presented at Point Comfort
Mary Baker Phillips reports Rapsilver International of Houston presented a preliminary proposal for a 2.5 million bushel grain elevator at Point Comfort costing about 13 million dollars. The Calhoun Navigation Commission accepted study. officials foresee financing interest and possible expansion to 4 million bushels with rail involvement.
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Mary Baker
Phillips
Rapsilver International, Inc
Houston
Point Comfort
Calhoun Navigation Commission
Stanley Mikula
Rapsilver
Jim Griffin
Griffin
Weather outlook and seas updated for weekend boating
Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday with south to southwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Highs in the mid 90s, nights mid 70s. Boating winds 10 to 15 knots this afternoon through Saturday. Seas 3 to 4 feet. Sunset 8 16 p.m., sunrise 6 53 a.m. Saturday. Tides low 8 45 p.m. today high 5 a.m. Saturday low 10 22 a.m. Saturday high 1 33 p.m. Saturday. Barometric pressure 30.07 inches.
Union Carbide buys 2241 acres near Bay City Texas
Union Carbide officials in New York announced a 2241 acre purchase near Bay City on the Colorado River about 16 miles upstream from the Gulf of Mexico. The company said there are no immediate plans for the tract though Bay City could be a potential chemical plant site. Expansions at Texas City Seadrift Brownsville Taft are expected to meet near term production needs.
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Union Carbide
New York
Colorado River
Gulf of Mexico
R. J. Hughes
Chemicals and Plastics
Texas City
Seadrift
Brownsville
Texas
Taft, la
Port Lavaca youths complete eight week Aransas refuge project
Environmental Education youths Scott Mouw and David Strickland of Port Lavaca finish eight intensive weeks with the Youth Conservation Corps at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. The program began in 1971 as a pilot. became permanent in 1973, serving 40 youths from across Texas who built shelters, platforms, paths, sampled water, and learned environmental skills.
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Scott Mouw
David Strickland
Port Lavaca
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Calhoun High School
Youth Conservation Corps
Charles Ward
YCC
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Aransas Refuge
Texas
Frank Johnson
C. C. Edge
Calhoun Religious History IX Churches of Christ Grow
Concluding installment of Port Lavaca Wave nine part series traces the Port Lavaca Church of Christ growth from small Six Mile meeting to a 280 member congregation. It notes 1911 ignition, key founders John Mickle family, Mrs Maude Buskisk, early preacher A C Ruebush, and the 1915 move to a farm extension office.
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Calhoun County
Port Lavaca
Calhoun County Library
Church of Christ
W. B. Mickle Sr
Maurine Jackson
Nancy MecCarley
Olivia
Fred Conners
Six Mile
Church of Christ In
John Mickle
Falls County
Texas
Six Mile School House
Mickle
W. B. Mickle
Ethel Randle
Alan Pennington
Wells Fargo
van Buskisk
City Council Sets Agenda for Port Lavaca Meeting
Port Lavaca city council meets at 7 30 p m Monday to certify the 1976 tax roll review the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority budget for the water plant and discuss bids for pipe and equipment. They will designate a street from the Highway A35 bypass to Brook Hollow Village Apartments as Village Road and consider appointing an electrical advisory board member.
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City of
Brook Hollow Village
Electrical Advisory Board
Probation Officer Hiring Planned by County Commissioners
County commissioners court plans to hire a new county probation officer and designate a chief probation officer, appoint a justice of the peace for Precinct 2 to fill H. B. Eskew's vacancy, and meet Texas Parks and Wildlife on a trapper. Open bids for seaboating and road construction, approve contract with winning bidder at 10 a.m. Monday. Appoint three Drainage District 10 commissioners for two years. Hear Maida McKamey on Kamey area representation. Open bids for surplus hospital property, hold 1977 budget work session, authorize late-year health unit expenses, hold closed session with the court's attorney, and consider a TPWD proposal to build a Hog Bayou river boat ramp at Highway 35.
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Commissioners Court
Justice of the Peace
H. B. Eskew
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Hog Bayou
Highway 35
Seadrift Shrimp Festival Highlights Second Annual Event
Seadrift hosts Saturday Shrimp Festival at Bay Front Park with a noon to 2 p.m. shrimp boil and a 3 p.m. prize ceremony after a fleet parade. Sponsored by the Seadrift Chamber of Commerce, the day features music, a children’s crab race, decorated boat contest judges, and prizes. Local clubs participate. adult shrimp boil tickets cost 2.50 dollars and children's 1.50.
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The
Seadrift Chamber of Commerce
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