Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1973 Page: 1 of 12
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Dedicaletl To Th e lies! Interests
Of Portland- The Fastest
(inuring City In Texas
TAFT. TEXAS. 78390. THURSDAY. JULY 26. 1973,
VOLUME VIII - TEN PACES - NO 30
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Portland has a shortage of
tot lots
This was the message given
this week by M S DeGaish.
instructor coordinator of the
high school distributive
education program
It concerned a study his
students made on recreational
facilities in Portland and the
surrounding area
Actually, when compared
against national established
standards. Portland doesn't do
too badly numbers wise But.
much of the recreational area
the city has isn't improved In
other words, the land is there
Period
Adding to the "what to do to
better the recreational
facilities of the city" scene this
week where a couple of other
developments
The Jaycees have taken on
the task of doing something
with Baker Park Ever hear of
it’’ It is an area just across the
drainage ditch from the H E.B
pool The Jaycees. an en-
terprising forward-looking
group of doers intend to see
that the area has something to
offer those who are able to find
it They are going to do some
cleaning out first and then put
in some picnic tables and
barbecue grills The area is a
beautiful setting It just needs
a little attention
And the Jaycees aren't
stopping there They have
prepared and are going to
circulate a petition to present
to the city council asking that
the five per cent land
dedication to the city for park
area by subdivision developers
be taken in land and not money
in kind when such subdivisions
are located immediately ad-
jacent to Corpus Christ! or
Nueces Bays
Their initial intent here is to
try to get the five per cent
which will be coming from the
Sunset Lake area project in the
form of a chunck of land on the
bay shore
Calvin Glover president of
the Chamber of Commerce,
this week also voiced concern
over recreational facilities. He
said that through the newly
See I’DL. Page 2
Baptist Church Clinic
The world famous First
Baptist Church of Hammond.
Ind pastured by Dr Jack
Hyles, will conduct a Soul
Winning and Bus Clinic here
sponsored by the Portland
Baptist Church, Thomas M
Smith pastor, announced
The clinic will begin at 6 p.m
Sunday with evening sessions
at 6 30 o'clock each day
through Wednesday Morning
sessions will begin at 10 o'clock
and will be held Monday
through Wednesday
Morning sessions will deai
with soul winning, while the
evening meetings will pertain
to the bus ministry followed by
a preaching service conducted
Swim Team
Hosts Meet
The South Texas Com
mission Swim Meet will be
hosted here Friday and
Saturday at the HE B pool by
the North Shore Swim Team
Swim teams from all over
South Texas will be in com
petition
A North Shore spokesman
urged a big turnout to cheer the
Portland team to victory
by Kev Jim Black who will
lead the clinic
The clinic will bring young
people as well as adults from
various parts of the state and
locally together to learn
Black, a student at Hyles
Anderson College at Ham
mond. will bring with him
knowledge and experience
gathered in the ministry of the
First Baptist Chur h of
Hammond, a church which
averaged 9.846 in Sunday
School this past spring
operates the world's largest
bus ministry
Booster Club
Plans Book
The G-P Booster Club will
publish a 60-page illustrated
book entitled Wildcat Football
1973 as a fund-raising project
lor the coming year
Advertisements for the book
will tie solicited from mer
chants by Booster Club officers
and by the chairman of the
committee, W W Hamon
The club would appreciate
the cooperation of the mer
chants in this first attempt at
an endeavor of this type,
Hamon said
Black, who is 21. is from
Pontiac, Mich He is a
sophomore enrolled in pastoral
theology at the Hyles-Anderson
College
After transferring to the
college last August, he began a
bus route on the north side of
Chicago where he visits an
average of nine hours weekly.
He now runs three busses and
has brought us many as 311
people on one Sunday to the
church in Hammond
Registration for those
wishing to attend the clinic will
be held through Monday
morning For further in-
formation or to register
call643 3116.
The evening services will be
open to all interested parties
and registration will be
required to attend the entire
clinic
(]ano«*r Crusade
Meeting Called
A meeting for the purpose of
training volunteers for the
American Cancer Society
Crusade will tie held at 7:30
p m Thursda; . Aug 7, at the
Portland State Bank
All persons contacted by
Mrs Adrian Sutton are asked
to attend
Kev. Jim Black
Police
Make
Arrests
Portland police this week
arrested seven local juveniles
in connection with eight
business burglaries and
destruction of city and other
property.
Commenting on the property
destruction. Police Chief
Homer J Bare Jr. said this
should assist in putting an end
to the rash of vandalism which
has (wen prevalent here over
See POLICE. Page 2
Missing
A
Bike ?
I'ulicr Officer Hutch Garrett
lines up a number of bicycles
which have been found and
otherwise acquired by the
Portland Police Department. If
an>one who is missing a bike,
can make positive iden-
tification of any of the bicwles
on hand. Chief llomer J. Bale
said he surely would like to get
them back to their rightful
owners Some have been held a
year or longer. (News photo*
Recreation Study
Distributive Education Students Do In-Depth Study
Twenty-seven juniors and study of Portland's recreation
seniors of distributive posture
education at Gregory-Portland Their result was a SO page
High School, under supervision term paper whicii DeGaish
of M S DeGaish, instructor described as an excellent and
coordinator, recently put in complete job
about 91 -i weeks of work into a Working in groups of three
M 8 DeGaish ( right i ind Chamber af Onasm FraaMeni
Calvin Glover < News photo!
students each, the youngsters
covered five areas in their
studies of where the city stands
when weighed against the
National Recreation and Parks
Association standards
DeGaish Tuesday noon
presented the program and the
findings it brought forth to the
noon lunch meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce
DeGaish said that the study,
in addition to making a com
plete analysis ot recreational
facilities. gave the
students an opjxirtunity to get
out and communicate with
various business, civic and
governmental persons It also
gave them the chance to learn
about the community and the
people who live here, he ex
students broke the
problem down to provide a
plained
The
Kotary To
Hold Installation
The Rotary Club will hold its
annual installation of officers
at the regular meeting at noon
Monday July to. at Ramada
Inn
All members are urged lo
attend
systematic approach to the
studies. As an introduction,
they make a statement of the
problem, outlined procedures
lo follow fixed delimitations
and defined terms They then
prepared facts on what now
was available, recreation
wise, to Portland residents
This included city-county
recreation. parks and
playgrounds, park arid
recreational structural
operation and city recreation
budget
Following that, the students
made a study of what
recreation was furnished by
school, churches, industry,
organizations, private and
commercial
The city recreational budget
was found to be adequate in
weighing against NKPA
standards
The students found the two
county parks are available to
Portland residents One is a
300-acre park at Sinton and the
other is a two acre park at
Ingles ide
Gregory Portland schools
won an excellent in their
programs It was found that
the 10 Portland churches have
various forms of recreution at
different times Industry,
according to the findings, has a
minimal recreation program
here The Community Center
was rated very high and
comment was made to the vast
number ot programs available
The 55 civic and other
organizations here have a wide
variety of recreational activity
in both scope and degree
NRPA standards recorn
mend 85 acreas of recreational
area for a city the size of
Portland There are 95 acres
available here, however, the
study pointed nut that 63 of
these acres are undeveloped
which leaves Portland with an
overall deficiency
Standards also call for:
-6 tot lots, there are 2
4 neighborhood
playgrounds, there are none
I community field, there is
4,500 sq ft of miscellaneous
use area. Portland has over
that
4.000 si) ft of swimming jiool
area, Portland has more than
5.000 sq ft
5.000 sq ft recreation
building, the city well in excess
of that (Community Center)
1 nine hole golf course, the
city has no course
1 track and field facility,
the city has one
4 tennis courts Portland
has 5
I baseball diamond, the city
has one
See STUDY. Page 2
Council Votes
To Kill Hike
At a specially called
meeting, the city council
Saturday morning heard the
first reading of an ordinance
repealing electric rate
schedules approved by them in
an ordinance passed Oct. 17,
1972
The vote was 4 to 3.
Mayor William B. Crow and
Councilmen Harry Sherman.
Adan Rangel and Wayne
Walters voted for the repeal
while Mayor Pro Tern Charles
Tothill and Councilmen Carl
Duncan and James Dugat
voted against
The CPI, rate increase has
been an almost constant
agenda item for the council
since April when exception was
taken to the six per cent in-
crease as ojiposed to a two per
cent increase voted by Corpus
Christi
The vote on the second
reading which would constitute
approval of the ordinance will
come at the council's regular
meeting set for 8pm Tuesday
Aug 7
In a short discussion prior to
the vote, Duncan who had not
been present for the July 17
meeting when the motion was
mude to considei first reading
of the ordinance Saturday
morning, said he was "shucked
at the outcome of the
(Tuesday) meeting "
He added, "I was under the
impression that we would have
the hearing and that then the
council, the city manager and
the city attorney would study
the findings and if there was a
need, consider outside help 1
was amazed at the Saturday
morning meeting to consider
the ordinance."
Duncan had been out of the
state at the time of the Tuesday
meeting
Crow said he felt CPL was
entitled to a rate increase but
that Portland had not been
"treated as agreed.”
"We have an obligation to the
citizens to protect them,” he
stated
"The six jier cent rate is
necessary for CPL and for the
city to receive the services,”
Tothill commented
"Agreements must tie written
into the ordinance "
Saying he thought repeal of
the rate increase was a
mistake S E Kelly Jr., CPL
district manager, said. "The
same people who have con-
tused the issue will be here to
prolong Hie problem .” He said
complications would continue
after the Corpus Christi dispute
was settled
Crow predicted that future
action would be rapid
City Manager Pete Gildon
discussed the seal coating of
several streets for which the
city has budgeted $15,000 Work
will lie done on Terlingua
Drive, Grace Drive and on
sections of Driftwood, East
Boradway, Dallas. Bay View
Blvd and Fourth Street
Dugat asked the city
engineer how long it had been
since Elm, Market and some of
the streets in the Old Town Site
had been coated He contended
that some of the streets have
never been touched
The council approved the
advertising for bids on the
paving work with a stipulation
that there would be a restudy of
streets to receive the work
Kindergarten
Guidelines Are Set For Program
The board of trustees of the
Gregory Portland Independent
School District have
established guidelines for the
kindergarten program for the
1973-74 school year
Children who are at least five
years of age and under six
years of age as of Sept 1, 1973,
may attend
The program is not man
datory
Educationally handicapped
students will be offered a full
day program at Austin
Elementary School at Gregory
or a half-day, full-year
program at the other
elementary schools
Educationally handicapped
students for the purpose of this
program are defined as:
A child who can not speak,
read and comprehend the
English language to the extent
that he is not familiar with the
common English language
words that are necessary for
normal progress in the first
grade
-A child who is from a family
whose annual income is $3,000
or less
Other five year old children
may attend a one-half day. full
year program to be offered at
each of the elementary schools
The younger five year old
Life Saving
Courses Set
Red Cross junior and senior
life saving courses begin
Monday, July 30, at the H E.B.
pool
They will be held from 10
a m to 12 noon
students will attend in the
morning and the oldpr ones will
go to class in the afternoons
The Portland Jaycees soon
will circulate a petition which
will call attention of the city
council the problem of dwindl-
ing bayfront acreage available
for future park development
for city residents.
Concurrent with the petition
project, the Jaycees have un-
dertaken the task of improving
Baker Park which is adjacent
to the H.E.B. swimming pool.
Spencer Gaille, Jaycee pre-
sident, said the organization
Principals w ill set the breaking
date after all registrations are
See KINDERGARTEN. Page 2
hopes to clean out the park
area, provide additional picnic
tables and barbecue grills and
possibly assist in providing
easier access to the park area.
The Parks Petition which the
Jaycees will present for resi-
dent signatures reads;
PARK PETITION
WHEREAS, the Ci»y Ordi-
nance No. 104 of Portland pro-
vides In Section IV, F that upon
development of a new subdlvl-
See JAYCEES. Page 2
Season Tickets
Now On Sale
Season tickets for the Gregory-Portland "Wildcat' i973
football season are now on sale at Lhe school administration
building in Gregory from 8 a m. to 5 p.m Monday through
Friday, school officials announced
Those persons who had season tickets last year have until 5
p.m Friday, Aug 3, to purchase their 'ickets
There will be six home games this year and the price for
each season ticket book is $9.50
Season tickets formerly held by people who have moved
away from the district during the last school year and this
summer will not go on sale until Monday, Aug, 6 Parents of
varsity team members who have not had season tickets in
past years will have first choice in purchasing these tickets
between Aug 6 and Aug. 13, school officials said
All other season tickets will then go on sale Aug 13 to lhe
general public on a first-come first served basis
Jaycees Get Up
Park Petition
Within The City
Drain harvnttinK (onirn to the cit\ limits of Portland thin week Two harvesting machines
were working Monday morning* in the V formed by Wildcat IHJve and Highway I HI
Iteports from the grain ele\ ator operators indicate that this year’s crop has far lew weather
damage than at first anticipated. It is now felt that the county will have a better than
average harvest (News photo)
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