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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1975
Page
4
Calhoun County students attend school four days this week as Friday is a teachers in-service day. Victoria hosts multiple workshops, games, and club meetings including tennis at 3 p.m., band and spelling bee finals, Girl Scout activities, and PTA gatherings.
Local owners praise mobile homes for economy and flexibility while noting limited storage and wind sensitivity. Park managers report growing installs in Port Lavaca and Point Comfort with 47 trailers at Roadrunner Park and 35 at Carlson Park. A Texas A&M study counters myths about mobile home residents and shows higher household income and smaller, stable families in the state.
Point Comfort’s City Council will meet this evening at City Hall to post bids for painting the water tower exterior and to address any other pertinent business.
The first place winner is Bugaloo Patrol Troop 114 Hallettsville with a Port Lavaca Troop 397 and Troop 317 sharing second. The 1975 event runs March 15–16 in Point Comfort with the theme Scouting by the Sea. About 500 Girl Scouts from four counties are expected. patches awarded to attendees. Judges include Mrs. AC Johnson Port Lavaca Art Guild member and former Scout Leaders Mrs. S.A Bradley and Mrs. Alpha Kimes.
AP market basket survey shows January 1975 declines in seven of thirteen cities, average 3 percent drop, while overall 12 month period to Feb 1 shows 20 percent rise. Readings taken March 1 1973 in a supermarket sample.
Calhoun County Navigation District seeks a Corps of Engineers permit to dredge about 1.5 million cubic yards of mercury contaminated silt from the Matagorda Ship Channel and place it on land behind levees on the east bank of Huisache Cove. The corps expects no environmental impact statement. A theft by check complaint lists Lenora Avery for a $15.60 lodging charge at Viking Inn Motel with insufficient funds.
The State School Land Board will reoffer Tract 160 in Matagorda Bay after King Resources forfeited the lease by bankruptcy and nonpayment. About 635 acres will be offered on a high royalty basis with a $50 per acre cash bonus. fittings and the well to be negotiated separately. Gas output potential was 15 million cubic feet per day.
Mrs. Julia R. Morales aged 78 of Port Lavaca died Friday at 5 p.m. after an apparent heart attack. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church with Rev. Donald McNally officiating. Burial followed in Port Lavaca Cemetery. Rosary services were observed beforehand.
Sheriff deputies arrested Robert Cone Dunlap Saturday for alleged disorderly conduct drunkenness and property damage following a disturbance at the Music Box. Port O’Connor officers rushed Earl Smith to hospital after an air boat propeller injury. Juvenile thefts and thefts of boots and engines cited. Two 14 year olds face marijuana and probation referral.
Santos Figureoa Jr sues Major Lee Carway of Rockport seeking 4000 dollars for injuries from a November 7 1974 traffic crash on Highway 35 in Calhoun County. Event cited occurred at 8 p.m. on a Sunday near Port Lavaca. Funeral notices for local residents follow with details of survivors and services.
New York AP reporting Mich igan National Bank set its prime lending rate at 8 percent effective immediately, the first major drop below 9 percent since last March as the industrywide pace shifts amid recession. Other banks followed with changes to their prime rates, including Manufacturers Hanover Trust to 9 percent and Mellon Bank to 9 percent.
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