The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 6, 1964 Page: 1 of 16
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Tomorrow Is Thrifty Thursday
The Aransas Pass Progress
MICROnLH SERVICE * SALES
P. 0. Box #066
Dallas, Tsxas 75205
Serving- the Aransas Pass, Ingleside and Port Aransas Area
Northern Gateway
To Padre Island
NaPl Seashore Area
VOLUME 56- NUMBER 6
SECOND CLASS POSTAOS
PAID AT ARANSAS PASS. TKHAS
ARANSAS PASS. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 6. 1964
(10 Cents by ths Single Copy)
-'v'Y* WM,
PICKUP TRUCK INVOLVED IN TRAGEDY
. . . Port Aransas woman died
One Killed, Three Injured In Auto
Aeeident Here Thursday Morning
A Port Aransas resident
was k11 loci and three others
were injured, two critically,
shortly after Id a m Thurs-
day in a two car collision at
the intersection of State High-
wav 35 and Farm Road 1069
one mile west of here
Killed was Mrs Emma
Byrle Revel. 51. of Port Ar-
ansas Injured critically were
her daughter Mrs Jack ros-
ter also of Port Aransas, and
Mrs Ruby M Taylor. 51. of
Aransas Pass
Foster, driver of the pickup
truck in which Mrs Revel
was killed and his wife in-
jured. received lacerations
and minor internal Injuries
Mrs Toster received a frac-
tured right leg. multiple
bruises and a concussion Mrs
Taylor usNered a fractured
right leg and left arm and a
concussion
All three of the injured per-
sons were taken to Aransas
Hospital here following the
accident but were later trans-
ferred to hospitals at Corpus
Chnsti
Memorial Hospital officials
this morning reported Mrs
Taylor's condition as satis-
factory
Mrs Foster was listed as
doing "very well" at the Na-
val Air Station Hospital this
morning, but officials said sh«
would be held for a few days
for observation
Her husband was dismissed
from NAS Hospital Tuesday
Investigators said that both
vehicles wstre traveling on
Highway 35 when the acci-
dent occurred Mrs. Taylor
was traveling east.
She pulled off the highway
onto the right shoulder of the
road and apparently lost con-
trol of the car It went into a
broadside skid down the mid-
dle of the roadway and the
Foster pickup truck, coming
from the opposite direction,
struck the right side of the
skidding car
Donald Carr and Rayford
Brown, with the highway de-
partment in Rockport. inves-
tigated the accident.
Funeral services for Mrs
Revel were at 2pm Sunday
at the Community Presbyte-
rian Churrh m Port Aransas
The Rev Henry Freund
pastor, officiated. Burial was
in Port Aransas Cemetery
with the Aransas Pass East-
ern Star Lodge No 162 in
charge of graveside rites
Cage-Marshall Funeral Home
was in charge of arrange-
ment*
She m survived by bar hus-
band. Ray Revel, of Port Ar-
ansas; two daughters. Mrs
Jack Foster of Port Aransas
and Mrs James Guenter of
Dallas; on* son. Jimmie Rev
el. with the U. S Army at
Fort Sill. Okla, and hour sis-
ters
SEEN
• • •
. . . dotens of quarter-inch
sea horses, just bom, in a
tank at the Sea Horse Curid
Shop EDITH and J B
FI .AGO driving a new 1964
two-tone Falcon MRS
CARLOS MOORE of Port
Aransas has won first place
in State Class B Bowling
. . MRS JACKSON MOSS,
nee Sissy Park, has been vis-
iting here the past week with
her parents. Mr and Mrs.
Richard Park, before leaving
Sunday for Augusta, Ga.,
where she will join her hus-
band who is stationed with
the Signal Corps at Fort Gor-
don .. . FRANK GATH-
RIGHT, former superintend-
ent at United Carbon here
and now with the company
in India, and MRS. GATH-
RIGHT visiting here and be-
ing honored at a get-together
Friday night at the country
club . . .
Building- Permits
Totaling $19,830
Issued by City
Building permits with val-
uations totaling $19,830 were
issued by the City of Aransas
Pass during April, according
to a report from City Hall
The permits include two
new residential structures for
$11,300. five residential ad-
ditions for $4,530 and one
commercial addition for $4.-
(100
The total was $29,320 lew
than the total building per-
mit valuations issued by the
city the previous month For
the same month in 1963 the
city issued permits with val-
uations totaling $42,800
The report shows that the
city collected $115 15 in fees
during the past month It
also shows that 60 garbage
inspections were made during
April.
FISH FRY SLATED
FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
A fish fry, sponsored by
the men's Fellowship of the
First Assembly of God
Church, will he held Friday
night. May 8, at the VFW
Hall ft*om 8 to 8 p. m.
Adult plates are $1 00 and
children's pOates 50 cents.
orders will also be prepar-
ed to go.
We Invite
We invite to be our guests
at the picture, "Hud." show-
ing Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday. May 10, 11 and 12.
at the Rialto Theatre. Mrs.
M L. Rolls and guest
This notice, clipped from
The Progress, will serve as
your admission.
A-P Voters Join Slate In Returning
Connally, Yarborough To Office
State, LocalM" Choose
Goldwater In Preference Poll
Everything Set
For 2nd Thrifty
Thursday Here
Local and area residents
shopping in Aransas Pass to-
morrow, and in many cases
Friday and Saturday this
week, will find a variety of
products being offered at bar-
gain prices during the special
Thrifty Thursday sales.
About 3.250 eight - page
shopping guides are being
distributed throughout Aran-
sas Pass, Ingleside, Port Ar-
kansas, Rockport and Fulton
advertising products’available
in Aransas P.lss during Thrif-
ty Thursday sales.
The special sales advertise-
ments are also carried in to-
day's is-ue of The Progress.
Parking meters will not he
n operation tomorrow.
See related editorial on
Page 7
SKIDDED SIDEWAYS WTO PICKUP
Mayor Authorized
To Sign Contract
For Federal Funds
The Aransas Pass city
council, meeting in a regu-
lar session Monday night,
authorized Mayor William L.
Ellis to sign a contract with
the U. S. Government for
$129,270 federal grant under
Public Law 660
The money will be used to
make improvements to the
city’s sewer system.
Also during the routine
business session, the council:
—Granted a request of
George Godfrey concerning
bulkhead!! at Conn Brown
Harbor
^Approved the paying of
a $6,000 invoice from Lock-
wood. Andrews and Newnam
for engineering services ren-
dered Nov 1, 1963 through
Feb 13, 1964 in connection
with the city’s sewer sys-
tem.
—Assigned a full-time
worker to care for Little
League and Pony League
baseball parks.
— Discussed the adoption of
a fire code and the adoption
of a plumbing code.
Saa Inglaaida News
On Pages 6 and 8
See Port Aransas News
On Page 3
STAN BIRKELBACH AND LING
Tropic Autel owner was on Hoot Bevert' "Misty"
In Gulf, Bays
May Begins Merry
For Sports Fishermen
The month of May got off
to a merry start for sports
fishermen in the Aransas Pass
-Port Aransas area, according
to report* received this week
by the AP-PA Chamber of
Commerce.
The month-long run of big
ling just off the "apron” of
the Port Aransas jetties and
around off-shore oil structures
is continuing Light-tackle
trollers in the gulf, also close
to shore, are finding plenty
of mackerel and scattered
kmgfish are also being tak-
en.
"Any day now." commented
L. R. (Hoot) Bevers, operator,
"we may expect the big sum-
mer-long run-of kingfish to
begin. Water temperature at
Port Aransas has been in the
mid-70s for quite a while
now and the clear green wa-
ter lias been close to shore.
"So for as I know, nobody
has tried going out to the
blue water, where the king-
fish. sailfish. marlin and dol-
phin are found—when they
get here
“Green water close to
shore has been producing
enough ling and mackerel to
satisfy everybody so far.”
Bill Sheppard's two large
boats which make regular
overnight runs to the snap-
per banks, the "Janice" and
the "Emily,” are well l>ooked
for May.
Big Warsaw grouper added
to the Sunday catch of the
"Janice," captained by John-
ny Moore. The "Emily," skip-
pared by Gene Moore, marie
her first trip with her new
air-conditioning.
Neither of the Moore bro-
thers have reported sighting
any quantity of kingfish or
any sailfish on the surface
in blue water yet. Fishermen
So* FISHING." Pag* 8
Aransas Pass voters joined
other Texans at the polls Sat-
urday to return Gov. John
Connally and U. S. Senator
Ralph Yarborough to their
offices for another term.
Locally Connally received
545 votes compared with 343
cast for Don Yarborough, his
strongest contender for the
state’s highest office. In the
U. S Senate race here, Ralph
Yarborough received 5 6 0
votes to Gordon .McLendon’s
287
Also returned to their
9:30 p m at the intersection | state offices bV lncal and oth-
of W Wheeler Avc. and N 'er Texas voters were Lt.
9th St. Galvan was walking!G<>v Preston Smith, Agricul-
west on Wheeler when he
AP Man Dies
After Being
Hit By Auto
Damicio Galvan, 77, a res-
ident of Aransas Pass since
1916, died at 2 30 a. m. Fri-
day from injuries received
when he was hit by an auto-
mobile Thursday night
The accident occurred about
was accidentally struck from
behind by a passing automo-
bile
Funeral services were held
at 10 a. m Saturday at St.
Mary’s Star of the Sea Cath-
olic Church.
The Rev. Thomas Meaney,
pastor, officiated Burial was
in Prairie View Cemetery un-
der direction of Cage-Mar-
shall Funeral Home.
Among his survivor* is a
daughter, Mrs. Paula Ruiz of
Corpus Christi.
Other survivors include hia
wife, Margarita; four ion*
Louis. Lucas and Haprvdion
all of Aransas Pass and Tor-
ferio of Rockport; two daugh-
ters, Miss Genoveva Galvan
and Mrs. Trinidad Aldaco,
both of Aransas Pass; and
one brother, Urfano Saldano
of San Antonio.
Two AP Students
Notified Poems
To Be Published
Two Aransas Pass High
School students have been
notified that two of their po-
ems have been accepted for
publication by the National
High School Poetry Press.
The students are Frances
Paim and Betty Umenhoffer.
The poems, submitted as
original manuscripts about a
month ago in a nation-wide
contest, will be published in
the spring semester edition
of the Semester Anthology of
High School Poetry.
A. C. Blunt, high schol
principal, said that the school
will purchase copies of the
book as soon as it is pub-
lished.
FOUR MORE UNDER CONSTRUCTION HERE
Two Trawlers For Colombia Are ‘Launched’
Two of six steel shrimp
trawlers destined to fish off
the coast of Colombia were
officially launched Saturday
afternoon at Bishop Marine
Way*.
Hie boats are being built
for Morgan’s Inc. of Savan-
nah. Ga., agents for Pesque-
rous Unidas de Colombia, i
They are the first boats to
be constructed from the keel
to outfitting by the local
yard.
Designed by Bren C. Bish-
op, the boat contract is a joint
enterprise of the designer and
his father T. L. Bishop. The
firm has been engaged in ma-
jor repair and overhaul work
for 11 year*.
About 40 guest* were pres-
ent for the launching cere-
monies, including L. S. Liv-
ingston of Morgan's Inc. and
J. L. Putaturo of Pesqueroa
Unidas de Colombia.
Named Valla and Csuca,
~niA
r m
ture Commissioner John
White, Land Commissioner
Jerry Sadler, Railroad Com-
missioner Jim Langdon and
U. S Representative at Large,
Joe Pool.
In the race for state rep-
resentative from the 35th
district, incumbent Leroy
Wieting of Portland received
5,843 votes in the district as
compared with 1,426 votes
cast for his opponent Eugene
(Gene) Carter of Aransas
County.
San Patricio County Sher-
iff Homer Hunt of Gregory,
seeking his second elective
term, was defeated 3,840 to
3,952 by Sinton businessman
Wayne Hitt in the county-
wide voting.
However, Hunt received
513 votes in the two precincts
here as compared to 335 cast
for Hitt.
Jack Johnson, incumbent
constable of Precinct 6, won
re-election over Gene Durbin
850 to 553.
A total of 908 votes were
cast in the Democratic pri-
mary here.
G. O. P. Rasults
Local Republicans, voting
in the city’s first GOP pri-
mary. selected Arizona Sena-
tor Barry Goldwater in a
presidential preference poll.
Goldwater carried the state.
Henry Cabot Lodge, a
write-in candidate, placed
second in the Presidential poll
among local and state Repub-
licans.
Republicans here also se-
lected Jack Cox as their
Sm "ELECTION." Pag* •
HEARD
• • •
. . . PAUL LOMAX hi
come up with the city’s mo
outstanding Thrifty Thursdi
special. He plans to give awi
15,000 pounds of choice Va
ley onions, a sack per fan
ily. Get them Thursday i
front of Lomax & Associafc
Insurance Agency, 420 !
Commercial, or at a locatia
across from the post offlc
. . . HENRY BURLEIGH hi
returned home after visitin
the RCA Whirlpool plant an
attending the Kuntucky Dei
by. He won the trip in a sak
contest ... the CHAMBE1
OF COMMERCE is now loo*
ing for a beautiful voun
lady to represent Aranea
Pass in the Rockport Sea-C
Rama on June 19-21. Sh
must be 18. Sharon Dlngk
was winner last year . .
PATTIE SHOBE has only
broken foot and is reports
to be improving nicely i
Spohn Hospital ... a hug
rattlesnake with ten rattk
that O. W. Harwood killed I
his dog pen on RailxtM
street Sunday night... LAI
RY and LINDA LOWE hat
the chicken poa . . . SONK
PARK, who is stationed
Fort Hood, left
morning for
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Lenore, Gene. The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 6, 1964, newspaper, May 6, 1964; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996517/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.