The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 30, 1966 Page: 8 of 16
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w«eo. Clark
Chevrolet Co
Phone 758-3262
PROGRESS—A ran 8a s Pass, Texas
PAGE EIGHT — WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30. IMS
i *f*^!*1E**/ P*EaEKT CHECK -Pictured is James Cowart, president of the
local Shrine Club, presenting a check to Dr Jeff Ashcraft Jr. the Illustrious P<
S*** Temple, for the Shnners Crippled Children s Hospital At
mt is Sam Elliott of San Antonio, membership chairman of the Al/afai Temple
«he presentation was made at a dinner meet! k in the Rattan Room at Little
Bkib’s Thoradajf night. At the meeting Cowart was appointed vice chairman .,1
uic AJx&far Temple A plaque was presented to Fred Tabet, who was appointed
Potentate representative for membership Fifty-eight Shnners attended the meet-
^ Fhillips Photography
Scouts-
(Continued from Page 1)
Gwinn Freese and Jackie
Wells.
Gold Arrow Under Bear
Wesley Lee and Eldon Borwn
Denner Strip: Clifford Ban-
dy. Billy Mark Arnold, Trey
Parks, Nippy Hamrick and
Jeffrey Huff
Asst Denner Strip: Jack
Troutt III, Jimmy Eamst and
Mark Garrett
Perfect Attendance Pin:
Bucky Buckmaster
Den Chief Cord David
Harris
Den 2 had the closing and
Den A furnished refresh-
ments to approximately 80
persons present -
Mrs. Bracken
Buried In
Muncie, Ind.
Office Supplies at Progress
Funeral services for Mrs.
Harry O. Bracken, 66, were
held Tuesday in Muncie, Ind-
iana. Burial was in Union City,
Ind.
Mrs. Bracken, a resident of
this area since 1953, died Fri-
day In a Corpus Chrtsti hos-
pital after a lengthy illness.
Mrs. Bracken and her hus-
band, formerly owned the Alamo
Courts here, and operated the
Treasure Island Motel in Port
Aransas for three years.
She is survived by her hus-
band, and one sister, Mrs. Iva
Dustman of Muncie.
AP PA Lions
Will Host
Convention
I ions and their ladies attend-
ing the District 2A-3 conven-
tion in Corpus Christi June
2-3-4 will be treated to a sea- ,°----•'••rr™
food dinner and enjoy an after- “^een ^ee* water.
noon and evening at Port Aran- Ffve of the previously re -
sas. ported six drownings were six-
Plans tor hosting the con- ,een years of age or y°unKer-
vention crowd on June 3 were 0ne was six' ofte
worked out by delegates of the another ,welve years of age.
*— ■ None of the ten drowning
victims reported to date this
year wore life preservers.
Four Drown
As Toll
Hits Ten
AUSTIN.--Six additional out-
door recreational fatailtl tes are
listed In the latest Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department tabula-
tion.
Four drownings raised the
toll from that cause to ten for
the year.
The Department monitors
these tragedies as a means of
encouraging greater safety ef-
forts.
The other two deaths were
from gunfire.
A 61-year old Stratford man
was killed with his own light
hunting rifle when the weapon,
placed on the seat of a pickup,
fell and struck the running
board, causing it to discharge.
He died from a head wound.
A 15-year old Ganada boy
was killed while hunting when ■
he stepped in front of a shotgun
as it was firea by a 15-year
old brother.
Three of the four drownings
occurred on one weekend.
A 22-year old man drowned
in Grapevine Lake at night when
he was thrown from a motor-
boat that struck a channelbouy.
He had been sitting on the prow
using a hand flashlight to light
the way.
At almost the same time, on
the same lake, a 62-year old
man drowned when he fell into
the water while docking his
boat.
An 11-year old Houston boy
drowned in a pond when he fell
into ten feet of water while
trying to shoot a bird with a
bow and arrow.
A 52-year old Houston man
drowned in State Lake near
Huntsville when a canoe con-
taining four persons capsized in
Hi-Litesi
History
Pharmacy
BY HELEN THOMAS
word
Th# word pharmacy
from the ancient Egyptian
moki" and fh* Greek word
It wo» from th* religious ideology of
hmet thot believed illness wos o divine
‘ing
_ _. j fp
sis
comes to us
word "Ph-ar-
Pharmakon"
the
ishment and healing o purification thus
these words derive from th* word "cathar-
two clubs at a recent meeting
and both the port Aransas and
Aransas Pass Lions Clubs have
voted their approval. Cost of
the project will be borne by
the convention, but the members
of the two clubs will handle
arrangements.
Moreland Bexley, past deputy
district governor, said plans
call for the convention group
taking chartered busses from
Corpus Christi, touring the
naval base, and then driving
to Port Aransas. A shrimp boil
and special entertainment will
be provided during the late
afternoon followed by i sea-
food dinner that night.
The busses will return to
Corpus Chrlstl through Aran-
sas Pass.
Highlights-
(Continued from page 7)
In 1 790 th* first United Stotts Potent
Low wos enocted ond th* first medicol pot-
tent wos gronted to Elisho Perkins in 1796
for his metallic troctor, on electrogolvomc
device
Conoly Drugs
RHONE 7M MU
ARANSAB PAM. TEXAS
Two Locals
Hurt In
Collision
A collision ot two automo-
biles Monday evening at the
corner of Whitney and Green-
wood, Injured Mrs. WayneSmlth
and Gene Durbin,
The Investigating city officer
Lonnie Neville reported that
Durbin was traveling north on
Whitney and Mrs. Smith was
crossing on Greenwood on the
way to her home on Lamont
Street. Durbin ran the stop
sign and the two cars collid-
ed.
Mrs. Smith is In Lyman-
Roberta Hospital with broken
riba, cuts and bruises. Durbin
was taken to Memorial Hospital
for the night, but returned home
yeaterday. He also has broken
TREE and PLANT SALE
ITBISCOS, large
$1.Z9
JATE PALMS, reg. $18.00
$10-00
FAR PALMS, reg. $5.95
$4-00
FAN PALMS reg. $)6.00
$2350
FREE DELIVERY WITH OVER
FIVE PALMS
<l\o4%iaal NusU&iu
BOX «
Port Aransas, Texas
SHORT SNORTS
Gov. John Connally has an-
nounced approval ofCommunity
Action Program grants for El
Paso ($246,988); Dallas ($46,-
905); Waelder ($21,915); and
Lockett ($649).
Land Commissioner Jerry
Sadler has announced that more
than 515,000 acres of submerg-
ed lands off the coast of Texas
and more than 16,000 acres of
uplands and riverbeds, most of
■ them in far West Texas, will
be offered for oil and gas leas-
es at the Lease Sale to be held
In the General Land Office on
Mav 3.
Texas crime rate Increased
nine per cent last year, to 2,-
967.2 for each 100,000 popula-
tion, for an all-time high of
284,249 offenses, according to
Col. Homer Garrison, Texas
Department of Public Safety
director.
Texas Water Pollution Con-
trol Board will send a repre-
sentative to the Rio Grande
Valley to consult on cleaning up
the Arroyo Colorado Watershed
from Harlingen area to Gulf
of Mexico.
Autos must have safety
checks by April 15 inspection
deadline and Department of
Public Safety says more than
1,300,000 cara still are to be
Inspected.
Attorney General Carr has
announced recovery of $4,830
in Judgments from two defen-
dants for allegedly operating
slanted oil well in Upshur
County.
UT’s Bureau of Business Re-
search reports February retail
sales for state were up three
per cent over February, 1965.
In 1843 Samuel Morse re-
ceived an appropriation of $30,-
000 from the federal govern-
ment to build a telegraph line
from Washington to Baltimore.
Dale Hagy
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The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 30, 1966, newspaper, March 30, 1966; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth993331/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.