Refugees work at Seadrift Crab Co in uncertain futures
The Seadrift Crab Co employs about 25 Vietnamese refugees daily, many women, with limited English and variable earnings up to about $40 for an 18 year old who can clean 70 pounds. Recruitment linked to local tensions and refugee camps. most hope to return to a free Vietnam, while the plant quietly operates amid uncertainty.
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Seadrift Crab Co
Thi Cuc Nguyen
Fort Smith
Fort Chaffee
Florida
Vinh
Vietnam
Crab Co
Seadrift
Vinh Quang Nguy Center
Ten-year terms in Calhoun marijuana case
District Judge Joe E. Kelly sentenced Floyd Phillips and Siguredo Gonzales to ten years in prison and fines of 5000 dollars after they were found guilty with Cenovio Trevino of possessing 255 pounds of marijuana at Calhoun County Airport. Trevino awaits sentencing on bond while Rubin Becerra faces a pending indictment. Investigators recovered the drug from culverts at the airport after an airplane delivered it and left for Bay City. The four men were then arrested following a pursuit to the Six Mile area. the airplane was seized in Bay City. Phillips also faced theft charges involving a Pasadena pickup linked to the case.
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Joe E. Kelly
Calhoun County
Floyd Phillips
Houston
Siguredo Gonzales
Pearland
Cenovio Trevino
Trevino
Rubin Becerra
Mission
Phillips
Gonzales
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Austin
Bay City
Six Mile
Pasadena
Hurricane Awareness brochure available for Calhoun County
Civil Defense director C. L. Roberts says the 1976 Hurricane Awareness brochure will be distributed starting today. Joint publication by the Texas Insurance Institute Coastal and Marine Council and the Governor's Division of Disaster Emergency Services includes an inundation map for Carla or Beulah type storms and a survival checklist. Copies will be at Point Comfort Port Lavaca Seadrift and Port O’Connor city halls and local businesses, with one copy per family urged for residents in low lying beach areas.
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Calhoun County
Civil Defense
C. L. Roberts
Texas Insurance Institute
The
Coastal and Marine Council
Governor's Division of Disaster Emergency Services
Texas
Point Comfort
Port Lavaca
Seadrift
Port O'Connor
Roberts
Weather Update For Coastal Area Through Tuesday
Weather forecast shows cloudy and warm with a 30 percent chance of showers this afternoon and tomorrow. Easterly winds 8 to 14 mph, high today in the mid 80s, tonight mid 70s, Tuesday highs in the upper 80s. Boating winds SE 10 to 15 knots, seas 3 to 5 feet. Sunset 8:49 p.m., sunrise 6:39 a.m. Tides include a high at 4:15 p.m and 7:36 a.m Tuesday, a low at 11:51 p.m and 1:05 p.m Tuesday.
Carter Sets Sights On Unity As Carter Chooses VP
New York AP reports Democrats enter their 37th national convention with rare unity as Carter avoids floor fights and interviews potential running mates Sen Frank Church and Sen Adlai Stevenson III are explored while Carter eyes a post convention VP decision. Humphrey Brown and Brown meet delegates amid calm party platform.
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New York
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Sen
Frank Church
Idaho
Georgia
Adlai Stevenson III
Illinois
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Humphrey
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Brown
Port Lavaca Council to discuss 11 agenda items on pier park plans
City officials meet at 7 30 p m in the City Hall annex to review state funded plans totaling 350 000 for fishing pier park improvements and sewer facilities. The agenda includes appointments to several local authorities a beauty shop building permit and revenue sharing reporting.
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Port Lavaca
Froilan Gonzales
City Hall
E. Mahan
Texas Parks and Wildihlife Department
Seadrift Council to Discuss City Judge and Ordinances
Seadrift City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall to appoint a city judge and discuss amendments to dog and dinner wording, an ordinance on swimming and boating within 100 feet of the fishing pier, the entitlement period 6 general revenue sharing use report, and opening Seventh Street one block south of Nelson Avenue. The meeting will cover water line extensions to the city limits for treated water to out of city residents and the easing of areas at Pine Street south end to Cunningham Seafood and H M Seafood Company.
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Bertha Kincannon
Earnest Bale
Stella Vela
Seadrift
Seventh Street
Nelson Avenue
Baltimore Avenue
Grape Street
Pine Street
Cunningham Seafood
H&m Seafood Company
Brown Stays In Race For Democratic Nomination
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown arrives in New York with his delegation and says his name will be entered for consideration when balloting begins, while supporters hint he will withdraw as Carter widens lead. Brown, with 302 AP delegates, suggests he will not walk away yet but may exit during roll call. Carter holds 1,653 votes and needs 1,505 for nomination.
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New York
California
Edmund G. Brown
Jimmy Carter
Brown
Carter
White House
John F. Kennedy
Associated Press
Tax Assessor Resigns Post at Calhoun ISD
F. E. Pereira the tax assessor collector for Calhoun Independent School District since 1969 and his wife, also a district employee, submitted resignations effective August 3. Pereira said he will enter private business in another city. he previously worked at Brazosport ISD and served as Port Lavaca city finance director from 1965 to 1968.
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Calhoun Independent School District
F. E. Pereira
Pereira
CISD
Brazosport
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Victoria Highway
John Leonard
Matthew Hooten
Norman Garcia
Highway 35
US Weather Service
Lavaca Housing Authority
Port Lavaca Port Commission
Electrical Advisory Board
Justice Drive
John
Comptroller of Public Accounts
State of Texas
Gov. Brown
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