Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1962 Page: 7 of 8
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Thursday, November 15, 1962
PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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Matagorda Co. Soil
Conservation News
V. A. Petersen and his son, Law-
rence Petersen, who own and op-
erate a 740 acre row crop farm lo-
cated one mile south of El Maton,
are using1 soy beans in their con-
servation cropping system along
with cotton and grain sorghum.
The Petersens harvested over 900
pounds of soy beans per acre this
fall and at present prices this gave
them about the same cash return
per acre as maize. They grew 150
acres of soy beans this year. "When
the stalks and leaves are returned
to the soil after seed harvest, they
also serve as a soil improvement
crop," Mr. Petersen explained. Pet-
ersen said this is the third year
that they grew soy beans and are
well pleased with additional yield
they got from cotton following the
soy beans. He went on to explain
that he had ISO acres of cotton
this year following soy beans and
that his cotton yield was almost
one and one ninth bale per acre.
Mr. Petersen further stated he
believes that it is profitable to
grow soy beans in a crop rotation
even if you are not able to harvest
the crop as in 1961 due to the
hurricane.
H. D. Madsen, whose farm is lo-
cated near Tidehaven, and is op-
erated by Alfred Wind, has recent-
ly completed land smoothing 135
acres of row crop land. He used
an eighty foot land plane to do the
land smoothing job. The plane
eliminated the small highs and
lows on the land and thi3 improves
drainage. After the land smoothing
job was completed, a drainage sys-
tem was planned by the Soil Con-
servation Service engineer and it
is being installed to remove excess
runoff water.
Fred Cornelius has harvested
Gordo bluestem seed from a Gordo
Meadow he has established on his
farm located two miles south of
Midfield. Gordo is one of the intro-
duced bluestems that some of the
district conservation farmers are
using as a hay and grazing crop.
It is a good seed producing crop
and produces seed in the spring
and again in the fall. Mr. Cornelius
reports that after completing his
seed harvest he is going to harvest
the forage for hay. He explained
that he plans to use the seed to
establish Gordo bluestem on some
of his rice land.
The soil of a nation is its most
valuable material heritage.
(Editor's Note: The following
letter was received last week,
too late for last week's paper).
The Editor:
I'm writing this from Corpus
Christi where we have resided for
the past two weeks. Even though
we have moved to Corpus for eco-
nomical reasons, we still consider
Palacios our home, and love all
those there.
Imagine our chagrin and remorse
upon returning last Saturday after-
noon to discover via the Beacon
and rumors rampant about town
that our doctors, city, county and
state officials were without thought-
ful consideration cruelly advocat-
ing the wholesale slaughter of
cherished household pets. Which
if true would indeed be a heinous
sin.
I can, and do, sympathize with
Miss Ford over the loss of any of
her pets, or anyone else. I'm also
certain that if Miss Ford were
blessed with knowing and loving
these eleven children and their
parents as I have she would under-
stand our concern and know that
none of them would willfully harm
any animal.
Since our child was the one bit-
ten by the rabid animal and saved
from a definite, horrible agonizing
death, and quite possibly my other
three children, myself sharing the
same fate, as rabies is still 100%
fatal. Both my husband and my-
self feel we'd be most ungrateful
if we did not make an effort to
rectify and refute the charges,
which in our considered opinion are
unjust.
So with malice toward none, but
a sincere desire to try and clarify
the episode I will try to state to
the best of my knowledge all the
facts.
I have two first grade girls, a
third grade daughter, and a 5-yr.-
old son. We, and my husband, all
love animals and have always had
an assortment of pets, which any-
one knowing us can attest to. An
older lady friend found the kittens,
where they had been born and rear-
ed wild, in the alley. Noticing that
the mother cat was fighting them
became concerned over them starv-
ing, so knowing of our love for
animals gave them to my first
graders on the way home from
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school. Upon their arrival and aftei
hearing their story decided thi
mother was probably only weaninc
them. Marking the unhealthy ap-
pearance of one and being in thi
process of moving, I told the girls
we could not take them with us si.
they would have to return them.
In the meantime all of the neigh
borhood children had petted and
held the kittens.
So the girls went upstairs crying
over my decision, to change into
play clothes before returning them.
While there one of the kittens
(the sick one) entered a crack be-
side the chimney in the closet. We
could not see it only hear its pitious
meows. Fearing it had fallen be-
tween the walls I sent for my
young brother-in-law to help me.
After 3% hours hard work re-
moving six baseboards, a door fac-
ing, spoiling about 12-ft. quarter
round, a rug, and sawing up part
of the upstairs floor he was able
to rescue the kitten. As it was now
too late to return it I put it in a
large corrugated carton with ample
food, water, and some clean, dry
rags for its return trip the follow-
ing day.
The next morning one of my first
graders had a temperature 30 stay-
ed home from school.
The kitten was evidently having
some sort of convulsion when the
child trying to comfort it was bit-
ten, an hour later it was discovered
to be dead and already stiff.
Thinking it was probably not
anything serious yet not wanting
to take the risk I called Dr. Young-
blood who was not in at that time.
But Miss Nell Kimball (whom you
know has a fondness for animals
also) recognizing the threat im-
mediately got in touch with the
doctor and the sheriff. She also in-
structed me to wrap the carcass in
newspaper and store in the re-
frigerator. The doctor and sheriff
called a veterinarian who directed
them to bring him the dead animal
at once. It was done and the vet
sent it to the state lab. In less
than 24 hours the report was wired
back that the kitten had died from
a very advanced stage of rabies.
Dr. Youngblood called me at once
with the information. You can
know the fear that went through
■every parent's heart on that block
as the dread word hydrophobia!
was noised about.
A total of 168 shots have been
administered in the collective ab-
domens of 11 children and myself.
The Pasteur treatment is expensive
and painful although a blessing t&
mankind.
An admonition here for all of us
to educate our children of the dan-
gers in handling stray and untag-
ged animals. And please protect
your pets and children by having
ALL cats and dogs vaccinated.
The other kittens in the same
litter that could be caught were
confined and found not to be rabid
but since no one wanted them they
'were destroyed. The mother cat
and one or two others could not be
caught since they were in a wild
state aS previously stated and
knowing that they had been in con-
tact with the rabid animal, it was
decided that destroying them was
the only safe thing to do.
Mr. Miller, our doctors, local
police, and other officials should be
commended for their actions.
Everyone knows that General
Practitioners (which both Dr. San-
ford and Dr. Youngblood are) have
no time to really call their own,
much less for politics. Both men's
integrity is unimpeachable so the
alleged business connections, do
not apply to either. They are fine
conscientious men concerned only
for our health. (Yours and mine).
I've not had the pleasure of meet-
ing Dr. Roy G. Reed, but am sure
he is highly competent and scrupu-
lous or he'd not be able to hold his
position. All the parents have I'm
sure thanked the Lord several
times that the kitten was tested,
else we would have suffered un-
told agony and grief. Neither do I
know Mr. Marvin Curtis, but he
was duly elected by the people of
Palacios. And as mayor has respon-
sibility and duties to dispose of,
not all of them pleasant. This was
one of the unpleasant ones. He had
courage to authorize an order that
would and has gained him enemies
—nothing else.
The other four sets of parents
and mysahf, I know thought only
of the safety of our children. It
would behoove all of us to consider
the facts as such and put ourselves
in the other persons shoes before
passing out hasty judgments.
With Christain Love
Mrs. D. C. (Dorothy) Hall
P. S. Isn't the time ripe for all
citizens interested in the unwar-
ranted cruelty and abuseful ne-
glect of animals to organize a hu-
mane society for such ? Anyone
knows that there are innumerable
cats and dogs unvaccinated, un-
wanted and uncared for breeding
and roaming around hungry in our
community.
K) Days In November
Jut Traffic Deaths Ar<
High For That Month
Every school child knows tha
"30 days hath November," bu I
here's a bit of factual informatio j
especially addressed to motorists b. j
J. O. Musick, General Manager <
the Texas Safety Association.
Traffic deaths on America'
streets and highways in the mont!
of November, 1961, totaled 3,530 I
according to the National Safetj |
Council, Chicago. This is an aver
ave of a little over 117 fatalities
per day in the United States.
"November is a good month, with
golden sunsets, exciting weekend
gridiron games, pleasant evenings
by the fireplace, and family reun-
ions for Thanksgiving Day," the
safety director observed.
"But these happy events are
overshadowed by the sombre spec-
ter of Death for those relatives
and friends who must mourn the
loss of a loved one killed in an ac-
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"I urge every motorist in Texas
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laws; because when laws are obey-
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