Port Lavaca to Welcome New Bottom Dollar Food Store
Groundbreaking ceremony for a 24 000 square foot Bottom Dollar Food Store adjacent to the current facility on Highway 35. Lebow Wholesale plans eight more shops and a major shopping center phase, with local contractors to be used as much as possible and a ten month construction timeline before opening.
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Port Lavaca
Joe Lebow
Lebow Wholesale, Inc
Bottom Dollar
Lebow Wholesale Company
Lebow
Moe
Highway 35
Stanley's
Longerot
Point Corfort City joins National Flood Insurance Program
The city announces acceptance into the federal program meaning eligible homeowners and businesses can obtain affordable flood insurance. Rates vary by coverage with single family homes up to 35 000 and contents insured separately. nonresidential and other details outlined by the insurance administrator.
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At Learst
Department of Hysing
Feder
J. Robe Hunter
Manor
Anand Wa
Pritt Coseo
Ouafonith
Asota
Texas Ave
Hamilton St
Ausin
Hamilton
Xpareet
Eli Bulé
Hunter
Comesden’ia Boldings Hunter
Tom Iarner
Agra
Home Insurance Comany of
Houston
Ted
Nine Calhoun students vie for county spelling honors
Nine students from Calhoun Independent Schools will compete in the County Spelling Bee to be held at 30 a.m. Tuesday in the Port Lavaca school board room. Participants include Kimberly Pfuhl from Madison Elementary and Michael Wade Ebrom from Point Comfort Elementary among others from Port Lavaca Seadrift and Port O Connor area schools. The winner advances to the Corpus Christi Regional Bee at Del Mar College and could earn a trip to Washington, D.C., for National Spelling Bee Week.
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Calhoun Independent
Board Room
Port Lavaca
Calhoun County
Kimberly Pfuhl
Edgar Pfuhl
Port Lavace
Fannin
Seadrift
Thomas Walter Pilgram
Walter Pilgram
Long Mott
Port O'Connor
Stephen Ross Davis
James Davis
Ada Lyon Kolacny
Roosevelt Elementary
Adolph Kolacny
Barbara Litzler
Milton B.litzler
Point Comfort
Crockett Junior High
Mark Dale Kurtz
Jackson Elementary
Emil C. Kurtz
Corpus Christi
Wolfe Recital Hall
del Mar College
Washington, D.C
Slow start noted in absentee balloting in city election
City election absentee voting opened with two ballots cast on the first day, signaling turnout near levels from recent years. Incumbents face two challengers as campaigns begin, with sue Denette unopposed in Ward 1 and Ralph Yatt facing Sanaa Darry Smith, while W.R. Zworschke is opposed by Henry Perez in Ward 4. Absentee ballots are available at City Hall weekdays. Historical turnout highs and lows are recalled from 1970 to 1974, including notable mayoral and council contests that shaped past interest and participation.
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Sue Denette
Lorene Sutton
Therr
Calzada
Charlie Watkins
Zwerschke
Kieth Matlock
Wyatt
Robert Parcell
Goris Named Bank Director at First State Bank
D L Goris named a director of First State Bank and Trust Company at Port Lavaca replacing Joseph Fallon who was promoted to vice president of Union Carbide and transferred to New York. Goris, plant manager at Union Carbide Seadrift Plant, began with the company in 1951 and holds a Purdue chemical engineering degree.
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Db Goris
Carbide
First State Bank and Trust Company
Port Lavaca
Jno
J. Faubian
Goris
Joseph Fallon
Bank
Fallon
Union Carbide Corporation, Chemicals and Plastics
New York
Union Carbide Seadrift
Brownsville
Texas City
The
Chemicals and Plastics Group
Union Carbide
South Charleston
W. Va
Purdue University
Weather outlook with clouds and cool temperatures
Cloudy and cool through this afternoon with decreasing clouds and a cold night. Friday will be partly cloudy and cool with northerly winds 15 to 25 mph gusting, turning northeast 12 to 20 mph tonight and Friday. Small craft advisory in effect with northwest winds 15 to 25 knots gusty, seas four to five feet. Highs in mid 60s, tonight near 60s to low 40s, sunrise 7:40, sunset 7:36, tides high 5:33 and 6:00 p.m., lows 11:33 p.m. and 12:07 p.m. Friday. Barometer 30 inches and rising.
Seadrift Harbor of Refuge Reclassified as Active
Seadrift Harbor of Refuge in the Guill Intercoastal Waterway was reclassified from inactive to active by the Corps of Engineers Galveston. No funds are in the current fiscal year budget, and Congress has yet to authorize finance for the project. The West Side Calhoun County Navigation District meeting also addressed depository arrangements with Seaport Bank, permit renewals for Lone Star Industries and Parker Bros. Co., and plans to advertise industrial sites on the Victoria Barge Canal while preserving navigation and deck facilities.
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Seadrift
West Side
Calhoun County Navigation District
Wi ‘Paber Figo, Jr
Pilgram
Col
Donald S. McCoy
Corps of Engineers
Galveston
Guill Intercoastal Waterway
Guada River
Harbor of Refuge
Niow
Congress
Seaport Bank
Lone Star Industries, Inc
Parker Bros. & Co
Parker Bros. & Co., Inc
Seadrift Harbor
Bob Armstrong
Navigation District
Matagorda Island
Texas Water Rights Committee
Rodney B. Reilly
Neill F. Amster
General Property & Services Inc
Houston
Victoria Barge Canal
C.R. Blassingim
Calvin Lewis
Noebell Southern
Munson Smith
Kindergarten Registration Opens in Calhoun County
Registration for 1975 76 in Calhoun County runs March 17 to 21 from 8 am to 4 pm at the school each child will attend. Five year olds by Sept 1, 1975 qualify for kindergarten. six year olds by Sept 1 go to first grade. Parents must bring birth certificates immunization records and a negative TB test or x ray. A family roster speeds check in. those 18 or older need not be listed.
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Calhoun County
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Texas
Jeff Coates
HL. Longerot
Cuero
Joe Brooks
Coastes
Jim Hackett
Hackett
Delle ‘ Achise
Joe Hackett
Point Corfort
Bill “Ack
Varo Stel Weiter
Lavaca
Mike Lopez
Wave
Paul Gary
Milton Hochgraber
Perez
Hochgraber
Gary
D.L. Goris
Army Chemical Corps
Lafayette
Ind
Joyce
Andy
Texas A & M
Bonnie
the Baptist Church
Seadrift Harbor of Refuge
Consolidated
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