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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1975
Page
3
A reader suggests quietly building a canned goods stash for seasonal drives. The idea is to buy one or two extra items during grocery trips and donate them later, easing budget impact. Another letter from a child shares a simple family problem solution using a shoe box labeled complaints and suggestions.
An October Texas Highways feature gathers eerie Texas stories from Galveston to El Paso and the Big Bend. Ghosts of the concrete ship Selma, the Sealy Home nanny Cousin Agnes, a Vietnam veteran in a haunted east Galveston house, Plaza Theatre in El Paso, and the Alpine Marfa light are described with atmospheric details and local color.
New York AP reports a 2 percent decade decline in Catholic Mass attendance. The National Opinion Research Center study links most of the drop to the church ban on contraception, plus bans on divorce and remarriage, and shifting views of the Pope. Researchers say surface reasons hide these underlying factors.
Calhoun High Jr High and Elementary offer a weekly lunch menu for D7 1978. Monday features meat, green beans, potatoes and coconut cake with hot rolls. Tuesday presents Frito pie and beans with slices and mile. Wednesday serves beet stew and vegetables, salad, pears and corn. Thursday includes hamburgers with sides and milk. Friday offers tuna noodle casserole, peas and carrot sticks with fruit and hot rolls.
First Baptist Church hosts a Youth Rally Monday at 7 30 pm in Port Lavaca with youth leaders and attendees anticipated. Presbyterian Seminary speaker David Morgan will preach at Sunday services in Austin while Salem Lutheran holds All Saints Day Holy Communion and a Bible study for adults at 9 15 am in the church parlor. Grace Episcopal Chapel conducts Holy Eucharist at 7 30 am and 9 15 am with a 10 am service Saturday and notes the Fall Ingathering for the United Thank Offering.
The Port Lavaca Woman's Study Club will meet Tuesday at 2 p.m. at 418 S. Guadalupe in the home of Mrs J E King. Co hosts will be Mrs Amos Wehmeyer and Mrs Harlan Phifer. Past presidents Mrs Harry C Smith and Mrs J C Melcher present a program with a display of yearbooks, pictures, clippings and souvenirs.
Miss Susan Novak of San Antonio and David S McCarty of Honolulu were married Oct 20 at Pearl Harbor Navy Base Chapel by a Navy Chaplain. Parents: Dorothy and Fred Novak Jr of San Antonio and GR McCarty and wife of Port Lavaca. The bride, Calhoun High School 1975 graduate, attended San Marcos. groom, 1974 graduate, joined Navy after Alcoa work.
The TOPS Club No. 903 met at Point Comfort City Hall at 7 30 p m. Earline Harding won for the week with the greatest weight loss while Mrs Henry H Carpenter was named queen of the month for October with the largest month weight loss.
The Calhoun County Unit of the American Cancer Society will hold a board meeting Monday at 12 noon. The gathering will be at the White Cap Cafe and is a dutch treat luncheon.
Mrs. T. C. Hargrove brings oils acrylics watercolors pastels and recycled syrup container vases to Port Lavaca Art Guilds Fourth Annual Arts and Crafts Festival this weekend. She began painting in 1369 and studied under several instructors. Her coast to coast work includes portraits ceramics sculpture woodblock prints and tiles. Her nephew portrait won second at Calhoun County Fair and is owned by his mother. She belongs to Port Lavaca Art Guild and Gulf Crescent Art League with works on display at CPI Arts and Crafts and Arts and Things.
Advice from Ann Landers on guest etiquette includes inviting properly, shortening stays, pitching in with chores, leaving bathrooms spotless, treating hosts to a restaurant meal, taking time for hosts to relax, and bringing a gift. Also covers personal letters about drug awareness and aging hair, reflecting reader concerns and Ann’s practical guidance.
James W Crews a mathematics teacher at Lutcher High School Orange has been selected as Texas Teacher of the Year by the Texas Education Agency. The other five finalists included Jeanine Byrd Jackson Middle School Grand Prairie Joyce Collenback Jee High School San Antonio Joan Hardulak Bunker Hill Elementary School Houston Ann Oliver Greenbrier Elementary School Fort Worth and Maxine Ussery College Street Elementary Lewisville.
The Port Lavaca and Victoria garden clubs co host the Coastal Prairie District IV Fall Convention at the Holiday Inn Victoria Tuesday through Wednesday. General chairs are Mrs J M Gascede and Mrs George Fred Rhodes. Registration runs 2 to 5 30 p m Tuesday with executive and board sessions, a Mexican Fiesta Ballet Folklorico program at 7 p m, and Wednesday activities including a luncheon at St Francis Episcopal Church. Port Lavaca members listed include Mrs J J Forster Mrs Ted Clapp Mrs Donald Skaggs and others.
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