Vietnamese Refugees Celebrate Anniversary In Port Lavaca
A year after arriving from Camp Pendleton by way of Vietnam, Khanh and Duy Duong host a strictly American style anniversary at their Half League Road home. The event drew 25 guests from three area Lutheran churches, with stories of adjustment, gratitude, and new work in Gemco and Brown and Root.
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Port Lavaca
Khanh
Duy Duong
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Vietnam
Timothy
Tran
Nhi
Day
Duy
Half League Road
Rudolph Willmann
John Winder
George Haynes
Guong
Utah
General Manufacturing Company
Gemco
Brown and Root
Duongs
Ford Delegate Hunt In Mississippi Falters
Mississippi Republican chairman Clarke Reed said Ford backers may have backfired by pressuring delegates, reducing Ford support. He noted tactics included hints Reagan might accept a vice presidency. Mississippi hosts sixty delegates and will seek a preference vote, but plans were paused. Reagan pressed Ford campaigner to stop promoting a Reagan vice presidency.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Republican Party
Ford
Clarke Reed
Reed
Ronald Reagan
Jackson
Reagan
Gil Carmichael
Meridian
Miss
Boat Check Set Saturday at Port O'Connor
Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 65 offers a free safety check for motor boats at the Port O'Connor Fishing Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The exam covers federal safety requirements not tied to law enforcement. Boats passing receive a decal and are considered compliant. those failing are not reported to authorities.
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Port O'Connor
Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 65
Auxiliary
Coast Guard
Three Armed Men Sought in Chowchilla Kidnapping Case
Nationwide search targets Frederick Woods James Schoenfeld and Richard Schoenfeld from wealthy Bay Area families. Warrants sought in the mass holding of 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver. Ransom motive suspected as investigators review the case tied to a Livermore quarry burial.
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San Leandro
Calif
California
Chowchilla
Alameda
Madera County
San Francisco Bay Area
Frederick N. Woods
James L. Schoenfeld
Richard A. Schoenfeld
Houchins
Younger Woods
San Mateo County
John McDonald
Sonora County
San Jose
Woods
Bates
FBI
Newhall
Henry Mayo Newhall
Mass
San Francisco
James Schoenfeld
Woodside High School
Schoenfelds
Peninsula
Chamber Chooses Representatives for Pier Park Meeting
Dr. Kirby Smith and Charles Cobb named to represent Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce at a gathering with city and state officials to discuss Pier Park improvements. A date for the council and boards meeting has not been set. two plans were submitted and the council urged a joint session with chamber and state officials.
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Kirby Smith
Charles Cobb
Port Lavaca
Olivia Community Barbecue Promotes Fire Department Fund
Olivia hosts a Sunday barbecue starting at 11 a.m. at the Community Center after a trail ride. Plates cost 2 dollars with T A Burch selling tickets, Ervin Hermes and Les Rainer as chefs. A country store sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary supports the Olivia-Port Alto Fire Department and Community Association. Proceeds fund fire equipment, community upkeep, and a scholarship fund.
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Olivia
T. A. Burch
Ervin Hermes
Les Rainer
Ladies Auxiliary
Olivia-Port Alto
Fire Department
Community Association
Calhoun Bay ships at risk from drilling and dredging
Texas Historical Commission archeologist Berto Arnold notes Calhoun County’s Lavaca Bay holds at least 28 sunken vessels from various nations, likely including Belle and Amible linked to LaSalle in 1687. Two surveys found magnetic readings. drilling pipelines and dredging threaten submerged sites, with efforts to cooperate with oil firms and the Corps of Engineers to protect them.
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Calhoun County
Lavaca Bay
Texas Antiquity Committee
LaSalle
Austin
Berto Arnold
Texas Historical Commission
Matagorda Bay
Texas
Arnold
Baptists First Met at Indianola in Calhoun History
Calhoun County history outlines the first Baptist activity at Indianola beginning in 1848 with Rev Ohr and layman James Howerton. It details early meetings in Elder’s warehouse, the destruction of church records in fires and storms, the evolution of Second Baptist to Mount Sinai in Port Lavaca, and the 1888 reorganization in Port Lavaca with a new building later remembered at Leona and Colorado.
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Calhoun County
Bicentennial Committee
Port Lavaca
Lelia Seeligson
Indianola
Indian Point
Ohr
James Howerton
Elder
Ernestine Wilhelm Mayne
Thomas Mayne
Devonshire
England
Mayne
Cuero
St. Mark's Lutheran
First Baptist Church
Second Baptist Church
Josephine Richards
Moses Richards
Burr
Wilcox
Canfield
Victoria
American Association of Nashville
Bethlehem
Henry Smith
Mount Sinai Baptist Church
Lorena Wagner
Texas
Z. N Morrell
Morrell
Advocate
Guadalupe Association
Presbyterian Church
Wagner
D. H. Regan
Union
Lavaca
Colorado
Leona
Wave
Cary Leggett
T. J. McFarland
Guadalupe Street
Arab Terrorist Report Probed By Mounties
Montreal police investigate a London report that Arab Liberation Front leader Abdel Wahab Said al Kiali slipped into Montreal on an Iraqi diplomatic passport. RCMP say no evidence yet of his presence in Canada while security teams review the tip from Daily Telegraph sources. The hint of a potential threat comes as the Olympic Games proceed under tight security recalling Munich 1972.
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Montreal
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
London
Canada
Gagnon
London Daily Telegraph
Abdel Wahab
al Kiali
Arab Liberation Front
Weather outlook with warm, partly cloudy days
Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday with a slight chance of late night and morning showers. Southeast winds 6 to 14 mph, with low tonight in the mid 70s and Saturday highs near. Rain probability 20 percent Saturday. Boating and recreation winds southeast to east 10 to 15 knots, seas near 3 feet. Tides show low tonight at 8:52 p.m. and Saturday 10:49 a.m., highs at 5:16 a.m. and 1:07 p.m. Barometric pressure 30.17 inches at sea level.
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Downieville
Chamber
Point Comfort Bay Front Park
Punkin Taylor
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Corps of Engineers
Historical Commission
Calhoun Religious History
Mounties
RCMP
Jean Louis Gagnon
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