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Volume XX — Thursday, July 10, 1986
Portland, Texas 78374 — 16 Pages — No. 28
Dedicated To The Best Interests Of Portland
"Gem City Of The Gulf"
Portland police early Tuesday ar-
rested a Corpus Christi couple on
larceny charges after H.E.B. of-
ficials reported that the couple was
shoplifting.
According to police reports, the
store’s night manager called police
underneath his shirt, police said.
When police told the 28-year-old
man he was under arrest and told
the subject to place his hands on the
police car for a body search, the sub-
ject attempted to flee the scene, they
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“Exactly Like Me,” a Liza Minella
song, while Love will perform a jazz-
twirl routine in her portion of the
talent competition.
Durham, who is believed to be the
first Miss Gregory-Portland and the
first Miss South Texas to go on to
represent those communities in the
state pageant, said she has spent the
past year preparing for this
weekend’s contest.
“There are so many things you
have to do,” she said. “I’ve been
working out to get my body in shape
and I’ve been working out mentally,
too, listening to inspirational tapes
to psyche myself up.
“There’s a lot of pressure on you
wants you to win and you don’t want
to let anyone down.”
Preparation for the Miss Texas
Pageant has included numerous
the Portland Mobile Home Park.
The intense heat from the fire
broke the windows in adjoining
trailer homes and threatened to
engulf neighboring trailers, Bishop
said.
Although firefighters prevented
the blaze from spreading, Bishop
said they could not save the home
on fire.
“The home was fully involved
when we got there,” he noted.
No one was in the trailer when
the fire began and no firefighters
were injured while battling the
blaze, he noted.
Bishop said firefighters remain-
ed on the scene for approximately
two hours, completing clean up.
The cause of the fire was undeter-
mined, he said.
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An estimated 52,502 operations are
predicted in 1987 and approximately
104,340 in 2007.
The proposed airport will replace
the existing San Patricio County Air-
port as the primary airport for San
Patricio County and will replace the
existing Aransas Pass Municipal
Airport and most of the functions of
the existing Portland Taft Hunt Air-
ports.
The existing San Patricio County
Airport is anticipated to continue
operation as a municipal airport of
the City of Sinton, the study states.
“It is not a multi-million dollar
money maker (the proposed air-
port),” Willis said. He proposes the
airport will see a $44,280 annual
surplus in 1992 rising to a surplus of
$80,132 in 2007.
“It’s a management game. You’ll
get the exposure of Home Port but if
you don’t market it (airport) then
you’ll probably shoot yourself in the
foot,” he said.
“It will generate enough revenue
to stand alone but not for a few
years,” Willis said.
Willis estimates that 234 acres are
required for the proposed airport
site. “We have not had direct con-
tact with landowners,” Willis said.
"We recommend you (county) go
to the landowner, following federal
guidelines, and see if they’re in-
terested in selling or donating the
land,” Willis said.
“The landowners are very aware
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Torch Run
The communities of Gregory and
Portland will join in celebrating the
Olympic Festival ’86 with a torch
run early Sunday through both com-
munities.
Sponsored by the Shell Cos. Foun-
dation Inc., the Olympic Festival
torch run, which promotes the up-
coming Olympic Festival, will ar-
rive in Portland at approximately 7
a.m. Sunday, Chamber of Com-
merce director Mickey Mitchell
said.
Mitchell, who is coordinating the
torch run in Portland, said the local
run will begin at the Nueces Bay
causeway where the Corpus Christi
city limits meets Portland city
limits.
Local runners will carry the torch
down Highway 181 to Moore Avenue,
turning left on Moore and traveling
to Memorial Road, he said.
The torch will be carried down
Memorial to Lang and down Lang to
Wildcat, turning right on Wildcat
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overlooked.
“I practice in front of the mirror,
too,” she said. “I don’t want to just
sing; I want to act too. That’s what I
think is neat about my talent. ’ ’
As a performer, Durham said she
will depend on her audience to aid
her in the talent portion of the con-
test.
“The audience reacts to someone
having fun and I do have a fantastic
time on stage,” she said.
“Sometimes, though, you can have a
dead audience and it makes it
harder to perform well. ”
Durham said her hopes for this
pageant are not too ambitious.
“At 18, I’m one of the youngest
contestants in this pageant,” she
noted. “Right now, I’m hoping to
place in the top 10. I wouldn’t mind
placing in the top five or winning the
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The study states that based air-
craft are forecast to increase by 199
percent during the planning period:
from 79 in 1987 to 157 to 2007.
Two Portland girls will compete
for the title of Miss Texas in pageant
ceremonies this weekend in the Tar-
rant County Convention Center
Theater in Fort Worth.
Locally, the state beauty pageant
will air at 8 p.m. Saturday on KZTV,
Channel 10.
Competing for the Miss Texas title
from Portland are Barbara
Durham, daughter of David and Pat-
sy Durham, and Shelbi Love,
daughter of Mrs. Robbie Love.
Durham, who won the Miss
Gregory-Portland Pageant in 1984-
85, won the right to travel to the Miss
Texas Scholarship Pageant after
winning the Miss South Texas title
last summer. Love won the right to to do well,” site noted. “Everyone
participate in the pageant by captur-
ing the title of Miss Corpus Area in
March.
In the pageant, Durham will sing
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The San Patricio County Commis-
sioners Court Monday unanimously
accepted Phase II, the final report,
for the proposed new San Patricio
County Airport to be located in the
Aransas Pass/Ingleside area.
“We’ve been looking forward to
this day for a long time,” San
Patricio County Judge J.M. Ed-
mondson said as Charles Willis, of
Charles Willis and Associates, Inc.
who was contracted by the County to
conduct the study on the proposed
airport, presented the study to the
Commissioners.
“This is the final day as far as the
report is concerned, from the initial
concept,” Edmondson said.
“This study will be submitted to
the FAA (Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration) tomorrow,” Willis
said.
After the study is submitted to the
FAA, the administration is expected
to approve the grant request by the
County. Willis suggested the County
request a $1,500,000 grant.
Willis and Associates estimate the
short range costs (five years) of air-
port development to total $2,693,601
of which the county would fund
$1,233,836 and the FAA $1,457,765.
“The FAA has seen this (the study
in the early stages) and liked it.
They do recognize the airport pro-
ject,” Willis said. “Conceptually
they’ll go along with it. The FAA is
very flexible.”
The study states which areas of
the County would be serviced by the
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At Warehouse Saturday
Bargain hunters and early Christmas shoppers will find a variety of
items priced right at a city auction Saturday morning, City Secretary
Norma Lockhart said.
Lockhart said the city will auction impounded vehicles and unclaim-
ed bicycles as well as a variety of surplus city equipment that is no longer
used during the auction that begins at 9 a.m. at the city warehouse
facilities, 1102 Moore Ave.
Among the auction inpounded items are four cars and two motor-
cycles and more than 40 bikes that have been confiscated by police and
never claimed.
A police department spokeswoman said the bikes to be auctioned
have been picked up by local police in the past year.
Persons who have lost a bike or had one stolen and want to check for
it among those at the police station must be able to identify their bicycle
by its serial number or by naming an identifying mark, she said.
In addition to the confiscated police items, surplus city equipment
will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
That equipment includes an IBM 34 computer, base unit radios,
folding tables and chairs, adding machines, copy machines, a tape
recorder, typewriters, a posting machine, lawn mower and vacuum
cleaner.
The piano from the Portland Community Center will be up for bid as
will a 8-mm silent projector, 8-mm sound projector, two garbage compac-
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SERVING LINE - Scout mothers work on the front lines at Scout Troop 345's July Fourth barbecue Fri
day. The fund-raiser offered local residents an old fashioned barbecue dinner with all the trimmings as
well as an opportunity to dunk a Boy Scout. (N EWS photo)
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A fire engulfed a house trailer
just outside Portland city limits
Friday, destroying the dwelling, a
volunteer fire department
spokesman said.
However, Jim Bishop said
firefighters were able to prevent
the blaze from spreading to adjoin-
ing trailers in the high winds that
fanned the early morning fire.
Bishop said three trucks and 21
firemen responded to the fire that
occurred about 2 a.m. Friday in
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airport, the amount of traffic, the
kinds of aircraft based and non-
based at the airport and what en-
-vironmental repercussions if any,
the airport would have on the area.
According to the study, forecasts
show an increased demand which is
attributable to the Home Port, fur-
ther justifying the need for an air-
port in the southeastern portion of
San Patricio county. Willis and
Associates estimate the population
base of the southeastern portion of
the County will be increased by at
least 12,000 with the addition of
Home Port.
The study based the projected
growth of the airport for a twenty
year period: from 1987 to 2007.
The study states there are several
significant factors which will in-
fluence future aircraft activity in the
market area of the new airport in-
cluding: numbers of based aircraft,
training activity, business and
economic activity in the area served
by the airport, the extent of airport
and industrial development, size and
character of the business communi-
ty using the airport for
transportation purposes and for
shipment of goods, facilities im-
provements, including the in-
stallation of navigation aids and
maintenance/storage hangars.
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TRAILER BLAZE - Portland firefighter Joe Nara jo, at right, assisted by a second Portland firefighter,
dousesa fire that destroyed a Portland trailer home Friday. (NEWS photo)
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clothes consultations, she added.
“You have to look like a queen,”
Durham said. “You have to make
yourself your absolute best. ”
Although preparing her wardrobe
for the pageant has been costly,
Durham said she has had much of
her wardrobe made rather than
bought, in order to save money.”
“Also, I’ve been borrowing a lot of
things,” she noted. “I’ll have no
need for silk dresses in college next
year.”
The former Miss Gregory-
Portland and Miss South Texas said
she has been spending hours practic-
ing on her talent for the upcoming
pageant.
“When you sing to yourself, you
don’t hear all the flaws that other
people hear, so I’ve had my parents
and friends critique me,” she said.
“They tell me the things I’ve
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PVFD Battles Fire Friday
“There was no way we could have
saved it. But we had the fire under
control in five to 10 minutes.”
Police Arrest Larceny Suspects
to the scene after watching the two
suspects inside the store.
The manager, with police officers’
assistance, stopped the suspects out-
side the store at which time the male
suspect admitted to stealing meat
and removed two steaks from
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Castleberry, Linda. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1986, newspaper, July 10, 1986; Portland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304370/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.