English cousin visits Port Lavaca guest Jack Wright enjoys Texas
Herbert John Wright known as Jack makes his first U S visit and stays with Mr. and Mrs. Fallon of Port Lavaca. He is impressed with American life and markets, and praises the country after meeting Mrs. Fallon and Toby Morton’s family. He praises gardens in the Fallon yard as well.
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Port Lavaca
Herbert John Wright
Pat Fallon
Blundeston
England
Jack
United States
Fallon
Toby Morton
Great Yarmouth
Morton
Brown and Root
June
Yorkshire
Fallon Yard
Texas
New York
Espinosa promoted at Yamac in Point Comfort
Armando Espinosa of Palacios has been named assistant controller of Yamac Production Company at Point Comfort and of Neumin and Akron Production Co. He succeeds D. S. Grawe who retired after 35 years with Alcoa and its subsidiaries. Espinosa, 47, previously construction accounting manager for Alcoa at Point Comfort, has a long career with Alcoa and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston. He and his wife Maria have five children and reside in Palacios.
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Point Comfort
Armando Espinosa
Palacios
Yamac
John L. Minter
Espinosa
Neumin Production Co
Akron Production Co
Aluminum Company of America
D.S. Grawe, Sr
Port Lavaca
Alcoa
University of Houston
Maria
Moore Street
G.I. Forum
LULAC
Knights of Columbus
Texas probe of SW Bell to be told
Texas Atty. Gen. John Hill will reveal findings next week from an inquiry into possible violation of a Texas Supreme Court injunction by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. The probe centers on Bell's long distance rate increases which the company says were lawful, with a May 15 WATS rate hike already in effect for anticipated $4.9 million in extra annual revenue.
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Dallas
Texas
John Hill
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Supreme Court
Hill
Bell
Dallas Times Herald
Volunteers help run desegregation program at Hamilton Park
In Richardson Texas a voluntary integration plan named Pacesetter aims to mix students without busing. The school will have 80 percent master's degreed staff and a 16 to 1 pupil teacher ratio with enrichment classes. 292 black and 250 white students are involved with a waiting list.
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Richardson
Tex
Dallas
Hamilton Park School
Robert Harris
Drainage District 11 eyes contracts for pipes and erosion fixes
Calhoun County Drainage District No 11 plans negotiations this month on contracts to lower pipes for the Big Chocolate project with Gulf Interstate Engineering Co and Seadrift Pipeline Co, plus an eight crossing deal with United Brine Pipeline Co. A cost sharing erosion solution with Port Lavaca is explored, with rip rap material and willow tree removal discussed. District engineer Walter Maguire seeks equitable cost sharing and a storage structure purchase for district materials.
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Calhoun County Drainage District No. 11
Port Lavaca
Gulf Interstate Engineering Co
Seadrift Pipeline Co
Mike Fricke
United Brine Pipeline Co
Fricke
Lynn
Brookhollow Dr
Walter Me
Big Chocolate Bayou
Highway 35
Maguire
Walter Maguire
USWA Local 4370 Open House for new hall set
United Steel Workers of America Local 4370 will hold an open house at its new John Haser Memorial Hall in Point Comfort from 2 to 6 p.m. August 16. The building behind the shopping center replaces the old WWII Army barracks on Highway 35, funded by the Alcoa land trade worth $50,000. Local 4370, with 1900 members, describes the new facilities including a larger conference room and parking area. Haser died in 1972 and his family is invited along with labor and government dignitaries.
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United Steel Workers of America
Union Hall
Point Comfort
John Haser Memorial
Highway 35
Terry Bonds
Camp Hulen
Palacios
Bonds
Alcoa
John Haser
Haser
N.W. Abel
Walter Burke
John S. Johns
Jim Ward
Lloyd Bentsen
John Young
United Steels Workers of America Local
John Maser Memorial
Calhoun High Band to start summer rehearsals and camp
Calhoun High School band begins summer rehearsals on Monday August 4 for the 1975 76 year with full band sessions 6 to 9 pm and sophomore marching drills 9 to 11 am daily A one week marching band camp is set for August 1 at Schreiner Institute in Kerrville The CHS band camp is run by the Calhoun County Band Boosters Club New students may contact Edward Zamora band director on Thursday or Friday at 552 3775 or 552 6438.
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Calhoun High School
Schreiner Institute
Kerrville
Calhoun County Band Boosters Club
CHS
Edward Zamora
Calhoun County Day Center Gains National Attention
Port Lavacans who organized the Calhoun County Day Center are featured in the July August 1975 New World Outlook article There Something Strong about the Meek by Mrs Ben H Comiskey Jr The Rev and Mrs Jim Mayfield Mrs Janet Custer and several others are praised for their work The centers growth from seven to 27 children and support from civic groups a pledge drive and a Hogg Foundation grant are outlined
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Port Lavacans
Calhoun County
Board of Global Ministries
United Methodist Church
New World Outlook
Ben H. Comiskey, Jr
Port Lavaca
Jim Mayfield
Janet Custer
Annette Pfeil
Barbara Armstrong
Evelyn Williams
Grace Ann Badgett
Hogg Foundation
Weather Update With Warm, Partly Cloudy Skies
Partly cloudy and warm with a 30 percent chance of rain today and 30 percent tomorrow. Tonight 20 percent. Weather calls for mainly afternoon thundershowers and seas of 2 to 4 feet in the Gulf. Winds west to southwest 6 to 14 mph on land, 10 to 18 knots in the Gulf, turning to 8 to 16 knots tonight and Friday. Highs mid 90s, tonight lows in the low 70s. Sunset 8 20, sunrise 2 53. Tides: low 5 22 this afternoon, high 2 53 tomorrow morning, next low 6 03, next high 8 31. Barometer 29.92 and falling at noon.
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Gulf
Howie Hustles Sweeps Mrs Ira Nicholson Ad
Howie Hustles offers to clear unneeded items. Mrs Ira Nicholson hired him to sweep her bedroom in hours. For sale items include a four poster white bed frame canopy dresser mirror coverlet dust ruffle shams and drapes. Dial 552-0000. The bed set sold quickly and drapes are expected to snap up today.
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Howie
Ira Nicholson
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U.S. District Court
William Taylor Jr
Justice Dept
Taylor
Elizabeth Allen
Jeffrey Mabry
John Roberts
Houston
USWA
William N. Patman
A.R. Schwartz
Local 4370
Calhoun County Day Center
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