18th annual 1975 Calhoun County Fishing Festival kicks off
The 18th Calhoun County Fishing Festival kicks off at 6 p.m. with Labor Day weekend events. Prize rules cap winners to one category each, with 46 prizes for 46 winners and a grand prize 15 ft aluminum canoe. Over 180 sponsors have donated prizes totaling about $3,000. The festival runs Friday evening to Monday noon with daily and grand prizes for largest trout redfish gaftop drum and crab. Tickets cost four dollars from local banks and fishing centers, with a noon Saturday cutoff.
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Calhoun County
Jaycees
Jaycee
Morris Maretiek
Lester Kovared
Fambian Koronczyk
Ben Riha
Richard Carter
Joe Fellers
First State Bank
First National Bank
Port O’connor
Indianola
Port Lavaca
David Roberts
Mike Lopez
The
Dallas
San Antonio
Cunningham
Seadrift
Lopez
EPA to inspect Texas uranium mines for water safety
EPA plans sampling of ground and surface water near three Texas uranium mines in Karnes and Live Oak counties as a precaution after New Mexico drinking water contamination findings. The effort, directed by EPA Administrator Train, will begin in two to three weeks with tests coordinated with the Texas Water Quality Board and other agencies.
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Houston
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Texas
John C. White
New Mexico
White
Conoco
Karnes County
Live Oak County
Exxon and
Dalco
U.S. Steel
Falls City
Texas Water Quality Board
Russell E. Train
Dallas
Post Offices Close on Labor Day Observance
Washington AP reports the Postal Service will suspend mail delivery Monday for Labor Day with limited window service holiday lock box and special delivery in some areas. Airmail and star boxes will be used for late-day pickups and residential boxes will also be collected. Normal weekend service occurs Saturday and Sunday.
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Washington
Postal Service
Hurricane Caroline Aims at Tampico Mexico Coast
Hurricane Caroline strengthened to a hurricane in the southwest Gulf of Mexico and tracked toward Tampico Mexico, with warnings issued for campers and fishermen along the Lower Texas coast. Forecasters urged residents from Aransas Pass to Brownsville to withdraw from beaches as tides rose and small craft were advised not to venture into the open Gulf. Weather center director Neil Frank cautioned the public to plan carefully amid possible intensification.
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Caroline
Gulf of Mexico
Mexican
Brownsville
Tex
Texas
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Tampico
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Fla
National Weather Service
Corpus Christi
Gulf
Aransas Pass
Middle
Lower
Miami Hurricane Center
Neil Frank
Frank
Padre Island
Matagorda Island committee to meet in Austin
Special joint committee on Matagorda Island chaired by State Senator Babe Schwartz and Representative Joe Wyatt will hold its first meeting September 10 at 2:00 p.m. in the Senate Finance Room. The panel seeks to facilitate the transfer of surplus federal land for inclusion in the Texas state park system with members named by Lt. Gov Hobby and Speaker Clayton.
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Austin
A.R
Babe’’ Schwartz
Galveston
Matagorda Island
Joe Wyatt
Senate
House
Shakeup hits Texas Parks and Wildlife staff in wave of suspensions
Four workers across the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department faces suspensions or terminations within two weeks amid a shift in emphasis between commercial and environmental goals. Ray Childress, Joe Mayhew, and three chemists in Region IV are suspended with hearings sought. one chemist faces 15 days. Officials say actions are for discretionary reasons, not a broad shakeup, while noting changes to the division masterplan and project shifts at Seadrift.
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Austin
Ray Childress
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Joe Mayhew
Childress
Reagan
Tom Moore
Bob Kemp
Fisheries Division
Mayhew
Ford assassination plot draws Secret Service probe
The Secret Service is investigating threats to kill President Ford and Vice President Rockefeller in Dallas and New York City. A spokesman said authorities are reviewing the threats with limited details. In Dallas an anonymous call linked the plot to police action against a Bishop College student from Nigeria. In New York threats to kill Ford and Rockefeller and to blow up buildings were made in calls to The New York Daily News and ABC News. The FBI said the caller also threatened FBI Director Clarence Kelley and Attorney General Levi. the spokesman noted the caller was male.
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Washington
Secret Service
Ford
Rockefeller
Dallas
Tex
New York City
New York
Ken Lynch
Associated Press
Bishop College
Nigeria
New York Daily News
ABC News
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Clarence Kelley
Eward H. Levi
Weather Outlook With Warm Temperatures and Scattered Showers
Partly cloudy and warm with a slight chance of showers and thundershowers through Saturday. East to southeast winds 8 to 18 mph. High near 90 today, low mid 70s tonight. Rain chances 20 percent today and this afternoon, rising to 50 percent on Saturday. At 11 am, Hurricane Caroline’s coordinates were 23.5 N 94.0 W.
Stapp Seeks Harbor of Refuge Lease for 1.3 Acre Parcel
Port Lavaca businessman Paul Stapp asked the City Port Commission for a 1.3 acre lease on Pinta Street crossing the city rail line in the Harbor of Refuge under $1,500 yearly terms. The panel also approved Kinchen Construction Co to unload and store rock for a drainage project at the rail terminal, with 30 cents per ton and a 12 month limit. The commission discussed rate objections to scrap metal shipments and welcomed new Commissioner Gladden Young with a charter briefing.
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Paul Stapp
Port Lavaca
City Port Commission
Stapp Co
Stapco
Pinta Street
Harbor of Refuge
Stapp
Alberti Co
Calhoun County Navigation District No. 11
Commission
Mike Gibson
Curtis Reese
R.E. Clegg
Commercial Metals
Dallas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Pacific Railroad
Eagle Pass
Alter Co
Davenport
Iowa
ICC
Clegg
Corpus Christi
Gladden Young
Port Commission
Reese
Lorene Sultan
Young
Sixteen Missing After Niagara River Raft Capsize
A raft with 16 missing after capsizing near the Niagara River whirlpools below Niagara Falls. Fourteen rescued. Coast Guard dispatched helicopters and boats but rapids kept craft about a mile away. Officials stated no immediate word on other survivors.
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Niagara Falls
N.Y
Niagara River
Coast Guard
Building permits issued in Calhoun County August report
Calhoun County Building Inspector Don Ragin issued 34 building permits in August totaling 182,900 dollars. The permits covered five new residences 77,000 dollars relocation of a building 5,000 dollars five new mobile homes 25,000 dollars three garages 9,000 dollars and five residential repairs 6,900 dollars. A separate permit for a 60,000 dollar oil rig crew quarters for Dresser Industries at Port O Connor was also issued.
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Calhoun County
Don Ragin
Mobil
Dresser Industries
Port O'Connor
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Pier Park
Jesumes Ous Ooths
Harold Young
Frea Jones
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Midland- Odessa
Matagorda
Schwartz
Bill Hobby
Bill Clayton
Ron Bird
Lola L. Bonner
Rockport
Walter Fondren, III
Pearce Johnson
Don Kennard
C.K. (Kerry) McCan, Jr
Victoria
John H. Miller, Jr
Linton
George Fred Rhodes
Tom Schieffer
Ft. Worth
Glenn Sedam
Bay City
John R. Thomas
Sidney Ward
Parks, Wildlife
Leland Roberts
Seadrift Laboratory
Roberts
Moore
Niagara
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