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Many people over many
year* have said many times.
Why isn't something done
with this area’ ’
from the bluff to the
eauseway has always been sort
of a land's end It is low. very
low To make any economical
use out of the area would
require a major effort
It seems there are those now
who want to make that effort
. It is all to the benefit of
Portland A benefit more than
one way
What is planned is to even
tually have a $200 million area
for resort living A beautiful
luxurious 200 acres of
condominiums, hotels motels
and office buildings And
marinas A channel cut bet
ween the lake and Corpus
Chnsti Bay Seventy-five per
cent of the area will be green
and water area Twenty-five
per cent will be in develop
menl
There is nothing else like it
on the Texas coast, or
anywhere near It will be a
tremendous window through
winch to look at Portland in the
future
And then1 are other benefits
Calvin Glover of the Portland
foundation has made some
calculations
With room for a maximum
■1.000 dwelling units and with an
estimated per unit cost of
$50,000 this comes to $200
million in improvements
With a proposed 25 per rent
development factor- 75 acres,
some 3,267,000 square feet,
would have a value of $3 00 a
square foot, or $10 million in
land value
The $210 million value would
produce some $1,464 750 in ad
See PDL, Page 10
POR TLAND
Dedicated Tit The Hest Interests
Of Portland- The Fastest
Growing City In Texas
TAFT. TEXAS. 78390, THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1973
VOLUME VIII - TEN PAGES - NO. Is
NEWS
CPL Donates $2,500
Hill \\rPI. m.$?»«»►»er Portland pre»rnt* a H.XSO check
to Mr* W ( Spark* Jr., president. Portland t.ibrar) Itoard
The check i« the fir*t of two for a t entral Power and Light
< out pan \ donation of 92.SOO to go toward defraying fur
ni*hing and equipment co*t for the new librarv facility. The
*econd check. al*o in the amount of Si .2541 will he presented
Little League Asks
For Scott Seals
Sunset Lake Area Rezoning
Commission To Recommend Approval By Council
At a public hearing Tuesday
night, the planning and zoning
commission unanimously
approved two motions per
laining to rezoning of a 304
acre area at Sunset Lake
One motion recommends
inclusion of a MH Multiple
Kesort Zoning in the city's
zoning ordinance and the
second motion recommends
the rez.oning of the 304 acres
Irom the current designation of
It 2 Single family Residential
to the new Mil designation
Hecommer^ations are made
by the commission to the city
council where they will be
heard in public hearing June 5
All land involved in the
rez.oning request made by
developers Bill Whiltel and
Ralph Durden is located on the
east side of Highway 181
The area would provide for
hotels, motels, multi-family
and other housing to provide
for permanent residents and
the very htghesl type tourist
facilities
Minimum lot stz.e would be
20.000 square feel A channel
Gregory-Portlanrt Little
League is asking the help of all
Gregory and Portland
residents in a community wide
program that will enable Little
League teams to obtain free
hats and halls this season
The program is sponsored by
Scott Paper Company in co-
operation with Little League
Baseball Incorporated Seott
Paper Company will give away
lo leagues nationally up to
$3(Ni.oon worth ot approved
Little League bals and
See LEAGUE. Page 10
School Board Meets
Many Items Covered
Oratorical ft inner
Davis Gets Scholarship
Dee Davis, daughter of Mr
and Mrs Ron Davis. 203
Poesta, took lop honors and a
$500 scholarship in the girl's
division in the oratorical
contest at l.aredo Saturday
sponsored by the South Central
Texas District of Optimist
International
An eighth grade student at
Gregory Portland Junior High
School. Dee was sponsored by
ihe Downtown Optimist Club of
Corpus Christ!.
There were 176 girls who
competed in their division and
254 in the boys division
Oee earlier had won the club
level competition and then
went on to win zone com
See DAVIS, Page 10
The Gregory Portland In-
dependent School Board
disposed of a wide range of
items Tuesday nighl from
setting the salary schedule for
next year lo hiring new
teachers, approving course
schedules and establishing new
programs,
A teacher salary schedule
was adopted for next year
providing for a scale $500
above Ihe state schedule The
district is now [raying $600
above the schedule with $500 of
this being from local funds and
$100 furnished under Ihe
supplementary salary act by
the state The funds for this
supplementary salary ad has
not tieen included in Ihe senate
appropriation hill (or this year
and Ihe board decided to
postpone any action on the
additional $100 until such lime
as the appropiration bills are
finally passed
Alice Jane Craig and Elena
ttaz.an were employed in the
special education department
The contracts of Paula
Niesner John Bible and Anna
Benavides were approved
These teachers joined Ihe
system at mid-term
Resignations were accepted
from Marjorie Koenig. Betty
Rodriguez. Marilou Foster,
Isabel Daehne and Kathy
Randall Retirement was
approved for Avis Collell,
Gladys Stroman and Beatrice
Move Ester Hinojosa was
given a leave of absence
The hoard approved Ihe
extending of billingual
education lo include the first
grade next year Last year, the
district opened one bilingual
kindergarten class, so this will
mean that next year the
district will operate a kin
dergarten and first grade
bilingual class
Attendance zones and seven
See BOARD, Page 10
some 400 feel wide would be cul
from Ihe north end of Sunset
Lake to Corpus Christ! Bay
This would provide a
possibility of a public marina
on the north side of the chan
nel. but which would have to be
funded and built by.'he city
In a presentation hy the
developers at (his third
meeting with the commission.
Whittet said they were asking
for "no special considerations”
and apologized for leaving an
earlier impression that ap
proval of the rezoning was
necessary before June I to
meet funding committments
A public hearing by Ihe city
council previously had been set
(or May IB, but at the request of
Ihe developers to hold such a
hearing at a regular council
See LAKE. Page 10
Awards Assembly if eld
Honors Presented, Top Students Named
ller I la \ I* holds the trophy she woe Saturday at Laredo in the
district ortorlcal contest for the South Central Texas District
of Optimist International A $.VMi scholarship went with the
trophy. (News photo'
Jamie Bishop and Henry
Solis were named as the Best
All Around girl and boy of
Gregory Portland High .School
at an awards assembly held
Wednesday morning
Other nominees for this
honor were Janelle Handleman
and Polly Marek. girls, and
Mike Crosswhite and John
Slevenson, boys
The highest ranking student
in each class was recognized
They were: Mike Broadway,
freshman, 95 Debbie Searcy,
sophomore. 94 63; Debbie
Butler, junior, 95.1)3. and
Jannelle Handleman. senior,
97 91 Miss Handleman was
also recognized as the
valedictorian and Brian Baer
as ihe salulatorian of the 1973
class
Outstanding students in
various fields were honored as
follows Athlete, boy, Mike
Crosswhite: athlete, girl,
Elaine Racklcy, art, David
Nevels; auto mechanics, Tod
Davis, band. Polly Marek,
business education. Shelly
Kammeyer; choir, Evan
McDonald; distributive
education. Cindy Richardson
and English. Jerene Broad
way.
Also foreign language,
french. Palti Beilis,
homemaking. Gloria Perez;
industrial arts. Jimmy Fulton;
mathematics. Ricky
See AWARDS. Page 10
FISH Chapter Proposed
For Gregory, Portland
An effort to organize a FISH
chapter to serve the Gregory-*
Portland area will he launched
with the showing of a movie
here next week. Mrs Charles
DeCou and Mrs Earl Mellon
have announced
The film, entitled The FISH
Story," will lie shown at 7 30
pm Monday at Ihe Eirsl
Presbyterian Church at Crosby
and Reynolds
Invitations to the meeting
have been sent to churches in
Portland and Gregory. All
member*, as well as those
without church affiliation, are
welcome
A FISH chapter is com-
prised of persons who have a
concern for others and wish to
express their love through
action.” according to Mrs
DeCou "Their earing is ex
panded through person to-
person contact as they become
involved whh Ihe needs of their
fellow men ”
"For a FISH group to work in
the Gregory Portland area,"
Mrs Mellon explains, "it must
be an ecumenical lay ministry
involving people of all faiths
who love their neighbors and
want lo show it in their con
rent* and actions "
Monday night's film will
show in detail how the FISH
program functions It will lie
followed hy an attempt to get
Students Take
U.I.L. Awards
Gregory Portland High
School studenls won one first, a
second and tied for a third in
the slate U.I.L literary meet
held last week in Austin
Peggy Beilis and Peggy
Parish won the girls' 3A
debating title (o lead their
team. Robin Fulton won second
place in girls' informative
speaking and the hoys' debate
team, composed of John
Stevenson and Brian
Caravantes, tied for third
The students were ac-
companied to Austin by their
coach. Mrs Peggy Carvantes
an expression of interest of how
many people would be willing
lo volunteer their time in a
chapter here KISH had its
modern-day start in Old
Headinglon. Oxfordshire,
England in 1961 Today, there
ar e more than I ,ixxi chapters in
ihe United Slates Canada.
See FISH, Page 10
So This Is Paris
Musical comedy swings into the final lour day* of
preparation with XI singers on stage, instrumentalists in the
pit and :tn spntlightcrs in the wings. "So This is Paris" hits
the boards at N: 11 p m Friday. May IK. at the Gregory-
Portlanit High School Auditorium Here Kevin Wright. Chuck
Poling. Itussell Terry. Jim Parish amt Doug Block work on
the set Members of the technical crew under Mrs. Charlotte
Itarier are constructing the sets as a joint effort of the choir
and drama departments.
$
Wildcat Band
Wins Awards
Have Highest Averages
Shown are the Junior high school eighth grade studenls with the top grade averages through
the fifth si* weeks. Tied for thr girl honors are Catherine I.under < left I and I’nyllis Murphy,
who both came up with a 96.5 average John Srarcv look the honors for thr hoys with a 96 6
average Calhrrlnr is thr daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest l.undrr of I0K Maple: Phyllis Is
thr daughter of Mr and Mrs . G M Murphy Jr . 225 E Broadway: and John Is the son nf Mr.
and Mrs John S. Scarry. 112Granby Place. (News photo)
The Gregory Portland
Wildcat Band, the Marching
lot), was named as both the
outstanding hand in Class AAA
competition and as the nul
standing hand of the entire
Buccaneer Parade last
Saturday nighl in Corpus
Chris!!
The G-P Band was Ihe only
area hand to he named as a
winner in the parade
Some 30 (lands from across
Ihe stale plus the Corpus
Christ! hands marched in Ihe
parade
1
Senior class member* of thr Wildcat Rand (how off the two trophic* won by thr organization
in the Buccaneer Parade Saturday at Corpus Chrlatl That was the final public appearance
with thr Marching IDA for thla group of graduating youngsters i News photo i
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Leveen, Paul D. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. [19], Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1973, newspaper, May 10, 1973; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth864343/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.