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; Wallace ft. Clark, son of the!
! fwtmder of the dM Boy View I
IChUMir in Portland nn<1 mu 1
i rt/iur of many early history j
; stories about early times in
i Portland, recalls the days when
^Portland shipped vegutables to
all moot Ions of the nation.
"1 was just a lad, nbout at,
: leaching in Hay View Ctuleg”)
t at Portland, Mr Clark remits, j
|"Of count#, 1 was restless and,
! welcomed any kind of a change i
I of 'scenery', especially on the j
! week-ends. A triced jbl mine j
was station agent thereat Port-
land and I used to help him
j with the loading of the vego-,
:table shipment on the morning;
train Often I would work on!
the inside of the baggage e.ai f
helping the messenger 'pul
away' the ismti and basket*,
i Sometimecx I would get 'eov-1
ered up', that is. blocked away
from the (loot, and before I week by several of the camps
cOUkl get out the train would and the fish who remained in
have started and even he going the lake got a good drink of
; at such a speed 1 couldn't get fresh water with the heavy
off Then I would go on to Greg- rains reported Sunday,
wry. help with the Rork|tnrt
branch transfer, then have to
hope for a ride with someone
in a buggy or wagon bark to
Portland. I even walked it
in
'Me CAP I TO
sBifcr
Fish Tales
lake Mathis
Some good catches of fish
were reported (hiring the past
week by
even
just three
and
BUCK'S CAMP: Some small
catfish and crappie were re-
IKirted over ihe week-end but
no large cai< ties were brought
in. A goHl rain was also re-
ported with no estimate of the
amount given
jENfr'QF THE LINE T»v, will be literally rh m
ffcnlrood in Portland when the company pull-, u
hit the track between Portland and Corpus ' hr! :
continue operating the line to Portland, in- ttida .j
ground.
nay tr
The
i.ng
td takes up
they plan to
n »he bori>
Closing Of 5P's Reef Bay Bridge
Marks End Of Early History Chapter
sometimes
half miles."
In tlrose days the express was
handled on the trains by Weils
Fargo messengers.
The vegetable business in
Portland continued to boom un-
til the St. L.B.&M. Railroad
ojienod up tiie Valley in 1905.
This marked the beginning of; BOYD'S CAKK A hass that
the end of Portland as a major !weighed tour (tound; four
BROWNS HOI.fDAY HAR-
BOR: A lew small catfish ami
some crappie were reported
The rainfall registered two and
nine-tenths in< hes.
; Austin A costly [dan for
"catching up" with other states
tin the fleld of highei education
I h,«s been outlined to Texans by
jibe Governors Committee un
Kdtti alum Beyond die High
I S< howl.
It will take considerable mur-
ry to aceompll’h ju«t one <’•
>he major tes-i- of evrelletn e o
edtteafion bringing Texas
faculty salaries up to the na-
tional average. More is needed
for libraries and re-ean h facil-
ities.
To help achieve goals in those
field-, the Committee recom-
mended that further < oiler
const met kilt he delayed By us-
ing present classrooms and lab-
oratories more hours a d i> and
more day- a year this say ing
van tie accomplished, the i ont-
mittee felt.
ten- John Connolly conceded
that it will take new taxes to
9mm ^
Wells Omntv KeenTJH *■'
have been sev’erg) - ^ J
tied applicants for tjTlf*
fan declined to U«t Mlfm P*.
ever, it has lieen
a siafl vetci iruulw »•*, t* *>
t*fl they ;»iv cwm-hupivIhhI with vommUsinn, Dr, q
ill j|f)ti **♦*!! it will hf favored
Brucellosis Program R^.,
to w*!! it.
A POPCLAR PIjXCK Texas'
giiio. faptiol Is being invaded
daily by Imth Texans mid out
of state tourist* who t ome here
to pay trilmte to the htxtflry of
the state Men. women and i hll-
dren at tout three time* as
many children as parents it
seem* literally crowd the
Capitol's halls, their numbers
as many t« 1.200 a
Animal
port lamed
Health
rein lung
day.
One of toe most fxipuiat stops
on the inlorma! tour t there are
no gunlesi of State buildings :s
tire State At chives and Library,
jus' across n walkway from the
Comw^^
* A.
..... "••* «*«* l IO J(»t * n,
H hni( ellosis cnrunol fin***
tie set up in one |)an Jr**
County, ‘-t
Commission has Iren
ed that many Brook,
praduiem warn to
iM'tid of laltle on
u 0>*h
•dOwST,
lirogram. Inn the KimmL.1*?
,vh:,h has t M| rrf **"!?**
cattle on coring ^
3 991
(lead of
roll, floes not
owner* of 75
cattle in
Approval of ^
l<er <em ^
There
Jltiril mi
Rogers, ;
of Te\a*
'OnOWfUKl .H FVtf»l
hi- -on-in-law Petri
re i'\"i nrrm; a mural
hisiory. f«uiUnin*4 rm
fttnty I,
.O the profmnenta want » -
ganige » program In (rut &,
s,,il conservation district
covers all of the co— *
King
mai’kaitle likenesses of Stephen
K Austin, Sam Houston and
, . . Anson Jones as well as I>.avy
finance the program wu.-h he am, u iiH.im B Travis
has termed hi*
Neither he nor
recommended a
Committee did
No. I interest,
the committee
lintincim; tiian
-ay the L.egi.s-
depi
I vegetable shi|iping center. How-
! ever, shipments were ma<ie out
of Portland and the area for
! many years after that time Inn
not in the quantities us before
1900.
Iounces was reported caught in
the river below the darn The
rainfall amounted to five inches.
it
l) |
From the time that the railroad
was built in 1886 up until 1914
when the first causeway was
built across the bay. the rail-
road furnished the only reliable
Suteheni Pacific Railroad air
noUMsed plans this week to
Abandon It* reef bridge across
Wuece* flay and afwut six rmles
track from Corpus Chrirti to
J^oHtaad. SI* will continue to ] link between San Patricio Cnun- groups for new uses for the bay
present concrete link was built.
No sooner had the announce-
ment lieen made that SP would
abandon it* bridge, plans be-
gan to lie advanced by various
jnsiMtain its public freight track j ty and Nueces County
m Portland.
SP plans to file with the fnter-
g&kte Commerce Commission an
feppttcattoa ftroviding for joint
•neratians bafween Slnton am)
wpi Christ! over Missouri
reef bridge and ap.
six tnilea of line ;
wit.ii riic :
''PHrigttfat DMricf trackage on ;
Cbttpus Christi Beach to Port-
WA Rail service will not lx-,
rtfffeHiHl to Psaitend. | The causeway linking San
Jlistwva! of ffk reel bridge I Patricio and Nueces County was
M&lMMfc tkifl Improve navi- j constructed in 1914-15 by Nu-
ptfftn between the channel and leec^Coimtj with San Pairteto
Old timers spin taies afimit
crossing the bay in wagon- on
j oyster reef that were marked
; by poles stuck in the reef ■
The trip across in the daytime
! could usually be run off with-
out tnrftfcx!.. thf
e.aN. b«rt it was a rather haza'-
dous trip in the nigfit when j
some of the markers wen* lost i
in the daakness.
front. It has been suggested
that a channel could now be
cut from Sunset Lake to the
main body of Nueces Bay. I>-
velopers are also eyeing the
railroad pro|erty an a possible
resort development. Several
oW terror-'f*M,,*havv 8n
interest in salvaging the mri
ferial nut of the bridge.
At the present time the
road does not play Uxi big a
part in the development of Port-
land with the freight unloading
siding handling just a few cars
of material each month. Road
building materials and lumliei
18 Troops At
Karon ka wo
This Week
CAMP RKLL: Johnny Wright
if Corpus Christ! caught a 36
! Mound. ,31 pound and 30 |«mnd
j yellow' eat.
j Johnny Mickey of McCoy got
j a 12 pound yellow and lots of
j small blue cat were reported.
A three inch rainfall was regia-
j fered.
: CRONS BOAT LANDING:
! Mi and Mrs. Tom Lacy of
Eighteen Boy Scout Troops j Alice fished for two days and
from six area towns arc oc-! caught a stringer of 35 ratfish
copying Camp Karankawa dur- and ■asp. ,■ gou
mg the eighth week of the an- Dr and Mis Davis ol Alice
riual summer camping session fished two afternoons and got
There are 23'. la.ys and 37 ro raffish.
.leaders at the vamp With a 36 M|. an(, Mrs. Artiutt Kan/
memtier camp staff it makes ;tn,| Ml am| Mrs s,«,ny Kanz
of New Braunfels
stayed two days and caught 25
latuie should double college tu-
ition so students and their par-
ents would share more of the
cost of education
Plan calls for expansion of the
! junior college system and wide
use of vocational training to
. prepare students for skilled end
semi-skilled technical jobs :n
, industry.
Goal would lie to make jun-
■ ior college training available to
I all, and to raise its level of
excellence sc- all junior < ■ >i!«-■ .'<■ year 1990 nv dr
icredils would lie immediately print for piogic
The mut'M
ador s- well as the cowboy.
Visitors me invited to puU up
a chan and watch the artists
at work, and they do. They are
also treated to a newly ar-
ranged re-creation ol a room
from Gov fJia Pease's ' 18.53-
57 pti>7-ii9t mansion Furniture
was donated to the ay. hives
when Pa nice Gay Aban Shiv-
er- isiugiJ the venerable man-
- ion
MAKING WAY FOR 199f)
A nunifier ot fcxa.s cities
with pupulattons of h’ss ihan
511.00(1 aie p, inninv now for the
.loping a liliic-
uivler a Fed-
ounry ,
Ranch property.
Commission ond it lurked m.
fit lent information for y klT
ion at this time
WEST TEXAS SCHOfX,
Pst l laVOi mil,. . a ,. ,
ed will
least
S’ate
s the conijuist- Be-t Texas cities that mi.
■Sf home to a new West Jiyt
•Ncliaoi lor ihe mentally
ve to wait until *
September 14 u, u
bah will be thosen.
Chairman of the Ho,,* ^
Hospitals and S^.-
Schrsil*- site selections nmt^,
'"<• < K Bentley of AhReg^
said ins eommtftee will
oi tiie braird on mat (jgy,
ever Bentley did not «ayX
the committee will make \ fc.
Lnite recommendation ,n ,
siritfU* siti» -*
Industrial
transfm able to sonioi ( ollegr^ n al*k»* aS lu^'rarn b<»?nur ad-
Commitle«*. headed by II II mini^'crod by the State Health
Zarhry. San Antonio <«»rwirur- r>ep?n*tmen1
tion executive is hiking it 1
to the public in a sene-, of
meetings with business ieadei *•
in thru- fommuniti* '
crx aGAIIs Another Js.r.p;
barrel cut in daily oil allow able -
t’mler this f»ro ram,
ran i»bta n ^tu<hf * of
ta< ibt.M'x and ptcrH’i tion
t'iir ne/'J 05 e\,(*r\
i\. -noiiof tir.ra s.i. /»)»
tf» buiig^tin
» rnv
urrent
of lu-
e.i fi«»m
.<! pihhIs
,f that time.
I *evelopmait -
Texa- Industrial CommiidM ij
t" istmg in the July iss»
lc\ns Parade Magazine ik*
^, ne.i plains werr* aryv.jns*-
m Texas in May Map imef.y,
illustrate ihe new
jaiints
an overall total of 307 persons i ;lnf, fami)y
tdl1 at die camp.
catfish.
A three
j rain was
i week-end
and one-half inch
reported over the
Ihe-hny area, and will permit County and tiie Taft Rann form tiie chief commodity that
jjtn*Ac.i- «ommeiviat and racre- ; buikling the eastern approach i j* brought info Portland by i.n!
develofsuent of the :,° ih«* bridge. The bridge ami arid unloaded on the siding
IWMrfs area*. ' approaches were damatftxi w „ thpre wa<
«* r« « rsr.mx:
mrta,he obtained within ftnu *"1 - “TV" ■« ,hfl «*•< s» *a
SiKssitos,
to 2
tUm nannvul of the reef bay
built !rt 1921 by Nueces County.
San Patricio County and the
Coleman Fulton Pasture Corn-
spot
road.
a time
a "hot
un the old S A.4/YP. rail- from Sari
There will fie two more week
ly sessions following this one
and if plans materialize, there
will bo an Explorer Aquatic
camping session following the
regular summer session. The j
Explorer camp will he held on!)
it enough boys sign up for it.
Troops at the camp this week 1
,u- 33 from (Mem: 375 379 i DAVIS BOAT DOCKS: A two
and 353 from Kingsville; 44 : and eight-tenth im hes rain w.i-
COZY GROVE No fishing t*-
(xiried out the rauifaii amount-
ed to five and one-tenth inches
for • apitnl un-
was ordered by the Texas Rail- jeovemeois The Hrm-.ing tnd
triad Commission as t held A a- Home 1 inanoe agency make-
gust production to 26.5 pet cent • grants for the master plans ;,nd
of the capability of the web*., 'be < ,ty, pays aniMhini *he rod.
Two large purcliaser- complain- ’• 'he Fedei.ii : .<-my pays
Uvo-t hi i tls.
A ♦ v|>n.*5iI MtWT; umlfr 'study i>
LAKE MATHIS MARINA N-. me West T. ■ > • : V.'.t:* r-
fishing reported. The rainfall which ha- a fkijiuia'iop «f 3 '*w
measurett two arid cight-temii .mo il .(and Vt.xl-5 ■ -cd .<
inches
will mark ihe (dotting ofjpany. Subsequent hurricanes of
jjfe Isisidry of the j late yecus also demolished the
-ifVSh^£S3£tii'(sf tiie bay area, laid wooden structures until the
Back around 1900 a substan-
tial acreage in ,hi< area was
devoted to th>- raising of vege-
tables end Portland was one of
Diego, 200 from La- reported at the Davis camp,
j redo; 47 from Benavides and Hubert Wilkerson and father of
i 26-1, 178. 327. 326, 10, 232. 211. iOorpus Christ! fished two and
153. 2.38. and 289. all from Cot-I'*14’ half days and caught 127
pus Christ!. !crappie.
So far the tamp has had 1391 K J- Stevenson and party
, troops. 2.081 boy scouts and 3S07 Dished Wednesday and caught
LAGARTO STORE: A direr
and one-ha If inch lam was n-
ported
STATE PARK BOAT DOCKS
A few crappie were brought m
Rainfall measured tin re and
one-half inches.
leaders at the camp since
sessions started.
g£;-: "'
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ft '
fa#
I >'
Locals
i'
87 crappie Leroy O’Sullivan
and family of Baytown fishecj
Tuesday and Wednesday arid
caught 73 crappie.
O. W. Johnson of San Antonio j
caught 15 crappie and seven
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Sloan i bass Friday and Saturday
and family have moved to Vic- , Mr. and Mrs. E. L, SchUither
toria. jof San Antonio caught 18 oraj>-
Dale Pogue Is spending this i **’», Sa,u,‘,'<-V
i week at Camp Zephyr lot the' Mr' and Mr*' Ji,ck Lau«h,,n
Brqiust Youth Congress.
SHORTY'S CAMP: Sunny
Hennessey of Corpus Christ!
look -i -k) pound yeNow .41 h:-
trot line Saturday.
Don Lewis ot Midland caught
S13 365 master (Jar.
Si tar, 109 * ide- iliive en-
tnilrtl in the planning project
to sec- where de v ■ an go and
ihow the) enn »■' thete over
■the next 25 years.
PI BMC PIER Pm k- and
V. lidbfc I>.partment will ad-
vertise i se. oral time for tad
for ■ .a;. < n i t. , on tire
new State lishiltg pier- at Port
i . ica (mi) , it,!’
•ItV'Vd a hid July 1 iflet 13
said they were interested
The 3.aril loot-long pier, vxli.cn
a 52 pound yellow plus three tepi.n eit one destroyed t.y Hut- mixtion heiiwxl i f-x.it- *M*nD>
two to
smaller yellows from
four pounds Monday.
Ralph Cabin tnd part) of
Pleasanton .-aught four or me
ri. anc Cnrhi. is -aid to tie the
world's longest fishing pier Ac-
res* to is will tie free lo the
pubiir hut the department is
ipERFORMc ICE
j tutd sons of Port Neehes caught
j 18 crappie and ten catfish
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Travis | Mr. and Mrs. Oiester Nixon
and family are on a trip to of Seguin caught 12 crappie
Six Flags. four catfish and three gaspers.
yellows weighing up to eight 'trying to provide a murre of
pounds Saturday night They 'bait, soft drink- arid fishing
also caught a numbet of chan- year via a concessionaire <on-
nel cats and blue cats. The ; tract
rainfall nmountwl to approxi- ANIMAL HEALTH HEAD Jr.. Houston
mately three inches, CHANGE DEE Texas Am- 'Ford, i-ongview
and their deitendent, iinti Ms*
*. ivors olnam 193.591,W st
b< nefik durii'g the yettr nWefc
ended Augtis 3). 1963
Commissioners are JtiBt £•
M< Kelvey of Electro; Justin M-
Morrow. Ro!an; J. Walter J**-
ko Somerville; Joe F RtuwtJ
.u ics *
and Chariti
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