Point Comfort Bicentennial Celebration Weekend Downtown
Point Comfort marks its bicentennial with a Friday night pageant in the school auditorium directed by Con nance Lynch, featuring a history from 15th century to now. Saturday schedules include flag-raising, religious and civic speakers, a 23-entry parade, meals, games, a beard contest, a fire department exhibition, and a giant fireworks show with a street dance to close.
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Point Comfort
Connance Lynch
George Dykes
Bobby Grasse
Calhoun County
VFW
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Court Orders Death For One American And Three Britons
American Daniel Gearhart and three British mercenaries were sentenced to death by firing squad by the People s Revolutionary Tribunal in Luanda for mercenarism in the Angolan civil war. Other defendants received long prison terms, including two Americans given 30 years and 16 years for the second American. The sentences await presidential confirmation.
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Luanda
Angola
Daniel Gearhart
People’s Revolutionary Tribunal
High Court Ends Annual Desegregation Review In Pasadena Case
The Supreme Court 6 to 2 ruled federal courts cannot require yearly changes to desegregation plans. Justice Rehnquist said Judge Real overstepped by enforcing annual attendance zone readjustments to maintain minority majorities in Pasadena schools. The decision follows Ford’s push to limit busing orders to five years and shapes ongoing federal oversight of school integration efforts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Pasadena
Calif
Ford
Congress
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
U.S
Manuel L. Real
Los Angeles
Pasadena Unified
Real
Pasadena Board of Education
William H. Rehnquist
Aldermen Call Special Session on Equalization Hearings
The Point Comfort board of aldermen will hold a special emergency session at 8 p.m. in the city office to set new dates for the equalization hearings. The July 15 and July 27 hearings were originally scheduled, but three aldermen will be out of town that week. The regular July 13 meeting was cancelled due to vacation schedules.
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Point Comfort Board of Equalization
Board of Aldermen
U S Foreign Trade Shows May Surplus
The Commerce Department reports a May surplus of $395.6 million as exports reach a record $9.6 billion while oil imports drop sharply. Imports fell 4.2 percent in May, with a 24 percent decline in petroleum imports the key factor, though this dip may be temporary. Exports rose for the third straight month led by farm products chemicals and machinery.
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Washington
Commerce Department
United States
U.S
Balloonist Karl Thomas Missing Over Atlantic Try
New York AP reports Karl Thomas attempting the first fatality free Atlantic balloon crossing. Ground crew says no news is good news as Coast Guard and Navy search by air and ships are alerted to locate him after last contact midmorning Sunday.
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New York
Karl Thomas
Atlantic
Thomas
Coast Guard
Navy
Port O Connor Barbecue Set for Fourth of July
Port O'Connor plans an annual barbecue and fireworks event Sunday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the beach front park area. Proceeds support the Volunteer Fire Department from pies cakes drinks and coffee sales. Fireworks ignite at 9 p.m. over the bay. The barbecue, described as barbec ue with all the trimmings, will be sold by plate at 2.75 for large and 2 for small, by the pound at 3.85, with beans and potato salad at 1 a pint.
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Port O'Connor
Port O'Connor Chamber of Commerce
Beach Front
Henry Goode
Weather Outlook With Warm, Partly Cloudy Skies
Partly cloudy and warm with a slight chance of daytime thundershowers through Tuesday. Southeasterly winds 8 to 14 mph, seas 3 to 4 feet, and 20 percent precipitation today and Tuesday. Tides vary, with lows late tonight and Tuesday, and highs in the morning and evening Tuesday. Barometric pressure around 30.04 inches.
Swimmer Rescues Tot From Drowning at Magnolia Beach
A three year old Port Lavaca boy Ramiro Fuentez nearly drowned at Magnolia Beach. He was in two to three feet of water when knocked under by a wave. Rescued by Richard Bennett of Victoria, the child was aided by nearby rescuers Lindy Lopez Bonnie Lopez and Marcus Navarro before deputies arrived. He received care at Champ Traylor Memorial Hospital and was released.
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Port Lavaca
Magnolia Beach
Ramiro Fuentez
Esther Guzman
del Rio Street
Sheriff's Department
Lindy Lopez
Edna
Richard Bennett
Victoria
Bonnie Lopez
Marcus Navarro
Bill Lindsey
Bill Lawson
Beef Cattle Field Day at Gene Traylor Ranch
A beef cattle field day is set for Thursday at the Gene Traylor Ranch two miles northeast of Point Comfort off FM 1593. Activities begin at 9 a.m. with demonstrations on Tick Tamer for gulf coast ear ticks, led by Dick Solls of Y Tex and Dr. James Robinson.
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Gene Traylor
Point Comfort
Dick Solls
Cody
Wyo
Y-Tex Corporation
James Robinson
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Garlyn Hoffmand
Wayne Hanselka
Passengers Leave Plane Hijackers Still in Control
A hijacked Air France jetliner emptied of passengers and crew but remained under Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe’s transit lounge in Uganda. Negotiations began as authorities and diplomats sought release of about 256 hostages including 80 Israelis and nine Americans. The hijackers issued Arabic demands. Paris and Kampala sought safe, non-discriminatory release while guarding the fuel constrained plane.
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Kampala
Uganda
Air France
British High Commission
Entebbe
Paris
Pierre Renard
Idi Amin
Tel Aviv-Paris
Marxist
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
France
United States
Israel
U.S
Tel Aviv
Yitzhak Rabin
Lake Victoria
Amin
Renard
Home Burglary and Stolen Car Reported in Port Lavaca
Port Lavaca police investigate a Sunday night burglary at Glenn Harvey’s home on Ezell. Items stolen include gold jewelry and two silver dollars valued at 221 dollars. Amelia Montez’s car, stolen from J and E Lounge on West Main, was found abandoned near Seadrift. fingerprints are being taken.
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Port Lavaca
Glenn Harvey
Ezell
Amelia Montez
W. Wilson
Seadrift
J&e
West Main
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Calhoun
Bayfront Park
Boy Scouts Order of the Arrow
Sir Winston Churchill
Newport
R.I
Churchill
Bermuda
Plymouth
England
New York Harbor
Gustavo Grillo
Jersey City
N.J
Gary Acker
Sacramento
Gearhart
Kensington, Md
Costas Georgia
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Andrew McKenzie
John Derek Barker
Agostinho Neto
Sheila
Maryland
State Department
Soldier of Fortune Magazine
Acker
Soldier of
Grillo
Costas Georgiou
High Court
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and
American Petroleum Institute
Macartney Rose
Huisache
Traylor
Agricultural Extension Office
Calhoun Cattlemen's Association
County Agricultural Extension Service
Egypt
Syria
Kenya
Radio Israel
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