Port Lavaca Jaycees Labor Day Fishing Festival slated
The 18th annual Port Lavaca Calhoun County Jaycees Labor Day Fishing Festival opens Friday August 29 and runs to noon September 1 with tours, booths, prizes around 3000 dollars and contests for adults and children. Fishes must be Calhoun County waters or Matagorda Ship Channel jetties. Tickets cover all divisions.
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Port Lavaca
Calhoun County
Jaycees
Matagorda
Oshman’s Department Store
Bottom Dollar Discount Center
Causeway
Evelyn's Fish Market
First National Bank
First State Bank
Port O'Connor
Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce
Calhoun County Jaycee
Texas
Willis Jetton
Jaycee Ticket
David Roberts
Judge Jetton
Roberts
Port Lavaca Housing Authority approves 50 unit plan
The Port Lavaca Housing Authority approved a federally subsidized 50 unit low income housing project on Trinity Street between Tilley and Geoge streets. Developer Herbert Manning of Fort Worth will arrange financing and HUD approval before construction begins. units range from one to four bedrooms with rent capped at 25 percent of income. Key attendees included Clais Green Don Cunningham and Alex Dean. architect is F Olin Smith of Fort Worth.
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Port Lavaca
Housing Authority
Clais Green
Don Cunningham
Alex Dean
John Faubion
Curtis Nelson
Mike Gibson
F. Olin Smith
Fort Worth
First time U S may face gas shortage in homes
AP reports that residential and small business gas supplies could be cut this winter as Transco warns of curtailments up to 40 percent for distributors. The firm, serving Texas to New York, says as much as 2.5 percent of gas for homes may be curtailed, potentially affecting top priority users.
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Washington
Thomas Ryan
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co
Transco
Federal Power Commission
Ryan
Texas
New York
North Carolina
Delaware
John D. Dingell
Dmich
Ford Administration
Congress
Ford
FPC
Weather Report: Warm, Partly Cloudy With Showers Likely
Partly cloudy and warm with a slight chance of mainly daytime thundershowers through Friday. Winds vary mainly southerly at 6-12 mph, seas 1-3 feet, with higher bursts in scattered showers. Highs in the low 90s, lows mid 70s, rain chances 20 percent today and 30 percent Friday. Highs and tides noted, barometer 30.11 at noon.
Weather In Texas Stays Hot With Scattered Showers
Hot sticky weather persists across Texas with clear skies in most areas and light rain from scattered showers on the coast and in far West Texas. El Paso reported .08 inch while temperatures reached 100 degrees at Mineral Wells and dawn readings varied from 79 at Palacios to 68 at Midland Odessa.
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Texas
Galveston
Greenville
el Paso
Mineral Wells
Palacios
Waco
Midland-Odessa
Three arrests in West Texas crude oil theft ring
Three men are jailed in Ballinger Texas amid an unfolding case of a suspected interstate crude oil theft ring. Warrants issued for at least three others as FBI Texas Rangers and the Texas Railroad Commission investigate alleged spotters, truckers, and shipments from West Central Texas to a Texas City refinery involving thousands of barrels.
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Ballinger
Tex
Roy Payne
Texas Railroad Commission
John Hill
Hill
John Odam
Jerry Carruth
Attorney General
Organized Crime Division
Dist
Atty
Royal Hart
San Angelo
FBI
Louisiana
Texas Rangers
The
Runnels
Taylor
Jones Counties
Texas
Texas City
Dennis T. Davis
Abilene
Clinton L. Wilkerson
Houston
Jackie Clough
Winters
Davis
Wilkerson
Clough
Runnels County
Johnny Wilson
Payne
Texas City Refining Co
East
Texas City Refining
Railroad Commission
Red Tide Sighted From Galveston To Port O Connor
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department warns weekend plans of a large red tide along 90 miles of the Gulf coast from Galveston Island east to Port O Connor. Only a few fish killed so far including speckled trout and flounder. The algae bloom may last unknown as weather shifts could kill or spread it.
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Austin, Tex
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Galveston Island
Port O'Connor
Charles Belaire
Seabrook
Gulf Coast
Florida
Belaire
Freeport
Matagorda
Gulf
Inflation Surges 1.2 Percent In July Amid Food Gasoline Costs
Washington reports consumer prices up 1.2 percent in July led by food at 1.9 percent and gasoline at 4.3 percent. The year to date inflation nears double digits at 14.4 percent annually, while midyear GDP shows strongest four-year rebound, signaling a quicker economic recovery. Agriculture Secretary Butz projects retail food prices could average about 9 percent above last year.
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Washington
Labor Department
Earl L. Butz
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Seadrift
Indianola
Monty Goss
Port Lavaca Causeway Pier
Causeway Pier Park
U.S
Dallas
Lavaca
Ppuiriz
Kes
Vin
J.C. Carrock
H.L. Burton
Sparky
Firedog
Kenneth Boyd-Robertson
Ray Stringham
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