Hospital board approves rates and renovations at Memorial Hospital
Champ Traylor Memorial Hospital reports 60000 in losses through October and plans a 15 percent room rate increase effective December 1. The board funds 2000 of a 3480.65 conference room remodel and notes auxiliary savings buying life-saving equipment. Ed Wagner named voting delegate. Dec meeting set for Dec. 12 4 to 7 p.m. at Calhoun High patio.
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Jim Mitchell
Champ Traylor Memorial Hospital
Ronald Clapp
Hospital Board of Trustees
Ed Wagner
General Assembly of the
Fire breaks out during Fox executives’ visit in San Antonio
Dennis Stanfill of Twentieth Century Fox heads a meeting with 75 civic leaders on the Hilton Palacio Del Rio’s top floor when a smokey fire erupts in a nearby ballroom. Firefighters contain the flames quickly, and Towering Inferno jokes spread as the incident ends. Executives later discuss KMOL-TV acquisition in November.
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San Antonio, Tex
Dennis Stanfill
Hilton Palacio del Rio Hotel
Stanfill
Twentieth Century Fox
United Television Inc
Kmol-Tv
Strike Violence Threat in Valley
The Produce Haulers of Texas, a 30 member group led by David Coers, threatens a midnight strike with picketing and possible roadblocks to back a 3 percent rate rise for produce shipments from the Rio Grande Valley. DPS adds patrols on US 28 and US 77 as truckers from several states converge to support the action.
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Harlingen, Tex
Texas
David Coers
Produce Haulers of
Coers
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Arkansas
Department of Public Safety
Mike Parkhurst
Overdrive Magazine
McAllen-Pharr
Parkhurst
DPS
Hidalgo County
Rio Grande Valley
McAllen
Tex
Produce Haulers of America
Flooding problem discussed by Two Mile Creek board
Clyde Roemer of the Two Mile Creek Conservation and Reclamation District and the Calhoun County Soil and Water Conservation District examined a flooding issue caused by Coloma Creek and an overly narrow brush filled Two Mile Creek. They considered inviting affected districts to meet and discussed Corps of Engineers coastal erosion work and stalled Bayou drainage projects. The board tabled city project action pending expert input and reappointed Marvin Williams to the Golden Crescent Council of Governments.
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Two Mile Creek
Clyde Roemer
Coloma Creek
Wright Board
W. H. Bauer, Jr
SWCD
Wright
Army Corps of Engineers
Calhoun County
Little Chocolate Bayou
Big Chocolate Bayou
Barton Ditch
Shofner
Brookhollow
Port Lavaca
S&wcd
Bauer
Victoria County
Marvin Williams
Golden Crescent Council of Governments
Bicentennial Choral Festival At Calhoun High School
About two hundred singers from Calhoun and local junior high ensembles perform American Bicentennial music in the Fall Choral Festival at Calhoun High School Auditorium. Participants include Travis Junior High seventh and eighth graders and Crockett, Fannin, and Calhoun choirs. Conductors are Sonya Holesovsky Oscar Gomez and John Williams coordinates. Admission is free. Pianists and percussionists accompany the groups.
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Ed Kasper
Texas A&mae
Oscar Rodriguez
Crockett
Albert Einstein
Atomic Energy
Viking Mall
Crockett Junior High
Travis Junior High
Seadrift
Calhoun High School
Fannin Junior High
Travis
Travis and Crockett
Sonya Holesovsky
Oscar Gomez
Fannin Choir
John Williams
Calhoun
Weather Summary With Thundershowers and Winds
Cloudy and warm with a chance of thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Decreasing cloudiness and turning colder with thundershowers ending Thursday. Southeasterly winds 15 to 25 mph gusty this afternoon shifting to northwesterly 3 to 30 mph late tonight and Thursday. High this afternoon in the upper 70s, low tonight in the mid 60s. High Thursday in the low 60s. Rainfall probability 50 percent this afternoon and tonight, 20 percent Thursday. Tides high 2:52 am and 6:51 pm Thursday, low 10:35 am. Thursday 11:59 pm sunrise 6:55 am sunset 5:33 pm. Barometric pressure 29.9.
United Way Nears Its Goal of 55000 in Calhoun County
United Way in Calhoun County reports $54,641 pledged toward a $55,000 goal for 17 agencies. Campaign chair Ben Harriss notes only $358.49 remains and expects donations from local businesses and fair share payroll pledges to push the total over the top. Employee gifts lead with $34,281 and advance gifts total $14,295 as divisions await final contributions.
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United Way
Calhoun County
Ben Harriss
Harriss
Harold Young
General Gifts
Young
Ed Warren
Warren
Housing Authority Hones Decision on Low Rent Project
Port Lavaca Housing Authority will seek City Council direction on whether to proceed with or drop the proposed low rent housing project. After a Fort Worth meeting with the developer Herbert Manning architect F Olin Smith and general contractor Jack Goeble, costs were cut by about 25 000 and a maintenance building loop and community room were removed. The board discussed whether the need remains and potential establishment of a municipal corporation to sell tax exempt bonds backed by federal rent subsidies to finance the project, aiming for possible completion next year.
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Port Lavaca
Clais Green
Fort Worth
Herbert Manning
F. Olin Smith
Jack Goeble
Curtis Nelson
Housing Authority
John Faubion
Alex Vean
Green
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M.storine
VFW
Millard Holden
Willis Devies
Texas Citrus and Vegetable Growers and Shippers Association
Dennes
Deines
America
Sue Heffernan
Altus Aschen
Lydia Strakes
Anne Rambikar
Cindy Pilgrim
Mark Mueller
Tammy Kittles
Pine Island
Fla
Seven Seas
Pineland Marina
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