Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1938 Page: 4 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, August 11. i<)38
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Published Every Thursday
MRS. J. W. DISMUKES & SONS
Editor and Publishers
Entered at the Post Office at Pala-
cloa Texas, as second class mail
matter, under the Act of Congress.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.00; 1 Year $1.75
Outside Matagorda County:—
Six Months, $1.25; 1 Year $2.00
HEALTH NOTES
Austin, Texas.-—The mean dog
that suddenly becomes friendly
may transmit hydrophobia or rab-
ies, states Dr. Geo. W. Cox, state
health officer in refuting the time-
worn belief that rabies must be
spread by a frothing "mad dog."
"In the first stage of rabies,"
Dr. Cox states, "the disposition of
the dog changes entirely. A happy,
playful dog becomes dejected,
creeps away and hides. An ordinar-
ily vicious dog may become friend-
ly. If he licks his master's hand,
he may spread rabies through cuts
:and abrasions on the skin. The dog
may be mean at times, and at other
times apparently normal."
According to Dr. Cox the phrase
"mad dog" is associated with the
second stage of rabies. This is the
irritable period in which the dog
becomes restless, sometimes run-
ning away and returning hours
later, worn out from fighting other
dogs. Rabies may be suspected,
especially if the dog was not form-
erly in the habit of leaving home.
Because of irritation the dog may
snap at everything it approaches
and will run amuck in crowds,
often biting people. The dog's bark
changes to a throaty howl in this,
the most dangerous stage.
Rabies, according to many au-
thorities, has a 100 per cent mor
tality in man unless Pasteur treat-
ment is instituted. Pasteur treat-
ment, however, is nearly 100 per
cent effective in saving lives when
properly administered. Rabies must
be considered with every dog bite
and the history of the dog should
be studied to determine the possi-
bility of rabies infection. The dog
which bites a person must be
caught and confined for ten days
observation. If the dog develops
hydrophobia it should be killed and
the dog's head sent by express,
packed in ice, for a laboratory ex-
amination. See your family doctor
immediately after any dog bite.
The State Department of Health
maintains the Pasteur Institute in
Austin where the heads of dogs
suspected of rabies are examined
Your family doctor will immediate-
ly avail himself of this service if
he has reason to suspect the dog
was rabid. Treatment for hydro-
phobia is supplied by the Pasteur
Institute.
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NOBODY'S BUSINESS
By JULIAN CAPERS, Jr.
Austin—Money for pensions will
be the first problem to confront the
new administration when it takes
office next January, is the opinion
of those here whose business it is
to follow the trend of public think-
ing in Texas. The first indication
of what direction the O'Daniel ad-
ministration's efforts to meet the
public demand for increased pen-
sions will probably come out of the
Beaumont state convention next
month. The whole field is wide
open—since O'Daniel made no com-
mitments during his campaign nor
since,—and the platform adopted
at Beaumont should show the di-
rection in which he will turn to get
additional pension revenue.
Sales Tax Drive On
Advocates of a sales tax already
are busily urging this method as
the least painful method of extract-
ing substantial additional revenue,
and it now appears that the sales
tax advocates, headed by Jim Fer-
guson, did some shrewd political
maneuvering during the campaign
At the outset, Ferguson, the most
voluble advocate of $30 pensions
and likewise the most ardent spon-
sor of the sales tax, endorsed and
supported McCraw, who looked like
the leading candidate early in the
campaign. Later, as the O'Daniel
movement developed, Ex-Senator
T. H. McGregor, life-long ally of
Ferguson and as strong sales taxer,
jumped abroad the O'Daniel band
wagon. The politicians wondered
about his apparent "split" between
the two veterans who have always
worked so closely! together, but
when the votes were counted, and
McGregor launched a speaking
campaign in behalf of the sales
tax, advocating repeal of the chain
store tax at the same time, they
understood.
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Two Best Bets
The sales tax and additional
taxes on natural resources appear
to be O'Daniel's best bets to get im
portant pension money. The oil in-
dustry, however, claims it is now
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bearing about all the load it can
carry and remain in competition
with other oil producing states, and
any radical increase in taxation
might result in a declining total of
revenue, especially with too much
oil being produced even under rigid
proration. Oil and gas are now
produced in substantially more
than half the counties of the State,
and a strong bloc to resist increas-
ed taxation on these resources
would be formed immediately in
the Legislature. Real estate no
longer is an important source of
state revenue, and the property
owners have protested so vigorous-
ly that the trend there is to relieve
real property eventually of all
State taxation.
O'Daniel's taxation views are not
known here. He has been a flour
broker, selling to merchants him-
self, so it is a natural assumption
that he ought to be sympathetic
with the view of retail merchants,
who oppose a sales tax to a man.
If that is true, it appears that nat-
ural resources will emerge as the
prospective patient for the $90,-
000,000 pension operation.
But O'Daniel's friends concede it
was the pension talk that recruited
the backbone of his tremendous
fetrength, and being the careful
student of public psychology that
he is, few here believe the new
governor will waste any time tack-
ling that problem.
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IN PALACIOS HISTORY ®
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10 YEARS A<;0
The Harbison barn, west of town
was struck by lightning and burn-
ed to the ground.
Salt water in the canals had de-
layed imcaiism-uf. rifio. fiddaJn.thfi.
Blessing district.
Mrs. E. C. Sisson died at her
home in (his city. She had been an
invalid for several years.
In a contest for the most popu-
lar small child at the Queen Thea-
tre, Arline, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. .Tack Parks, received first
prize of $5.00. Cleo Garner received
second prize, $2.50.
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The Run-Off
The final scramble for votes be-
tween two candidates for each of
six State offices, and a goodly
sprinkle of local candidates is near-
ing the final spurt for the second
primary August 27. The State
ticket find Walter Woodul, lieuten-
ant governor, of Houston, an able
lawyer and an official seasoned by
experience in public service, pitted
against Gerald C. Mann, of Dallas,
youthful Dallasite who is cam-
paigning against "professional pol-
iticians," who has held three ap-
pointive political posts in the brief
period since he graduated from
Harvard law school. For lieutenant
governor, Coke Stevenson, of Junc-
tion, veteran legislator, twice
speaker of the House and political
conservative, is opposed to P.
Pierce Brooks, of Dallas, a real
estate subdivider who has never
held office, but ran for Governor
two years ago. Chairman C. V.
Terrell, of the Texas Railroad Com-
mission, faces G. A. Sadler of
Longview; Bill McDonald, Land
Commissioner, of Eastland, whose
administration has drawn criticism
from legislative and other sources,
tilts with Bascom Giles, a former
Beware Kidney
Germs if Tired,
Nervous, Aching
15 YEARS AGO
Memorial services for the late
president, Warren G. Harding, were
held in the B. Y. P. IT. auditorium
Dr. F. W. Dimmitt was chairman.
All business houses closed from 10
to 12 o'clock.
The schools of Collcgcport and
DcMoss districts were combined.
R. E. Coffin, superintendent, had
as assistants, Miss Merle Warner,
of Bay City, and Misses Marjorie
Berger and Beulah Price, of Pala-
cios.
A large crowd attended the an-
nual Sunday School picnic at Haw-
ley.
B. T., Holmes purchased D. L.
Clark's property, just to the north-
west of the city limits.
Tuesday night was family night
at, the Queen, 35 cents for the en-
tire family.
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employee of the office who has
never held elective office. Two high
court judges, also face runoffs, As-
sociate Justice Richard Critz of
Williamson county, with W. H.
Davidson, of Beaumont, and Judge
Harry Graves, of Williamson Coun-
ty, with Judge James A. Stephens.
Leading Lawyers of the State have
inaugurated a vigorous campaign
in behalf of Judge Critz, who seeks
election to his first full term, hav-
ing been first appointed to succeed
Justice Pierson and later elected to
complete Pierson's unexpired term.
* * *
Campaign Aftermath
The extraordinary campaign
waged by W. Lee O'Daniel and its
outstanding success with the vot-
ers, has upset some traditional be-
liefs of candidates and campaign
managers generally. The fact that
O'Daniel, rated as one of the na-
tion's premier radio personalities,
used that medium extensively, has
influenced heavy purchases of ra-
dio time in both primaries by vir-
tually all candidates. Newspaper
advertising has suffered consider-
able loss of prestige, as a result.
But as one advertising expert
pointed out, they overlook the fact
that it was the continuity of ad-
vertising effort, kept up for eight
years by O'Daniel before he got
into the Governor's race, that won
success for him, instead of the
medium he used. . . "It sho' is too
bad, ma'am," remarked the negro
cook employed by one candidate's
wife, when sho read the election re-
turns and found her employer in a
read it and weep-*
taxes in 1929 were
12% of the hationau
income amd in ,,,
1939 are 34%. //'*
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Roman men in the time op emperor
aurhian were forbidden to wear
white, yellow, or green shoes
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FEMININE FOOTWEAR,
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asbestos developed 6n modern industry
into a productof gre,^ use, wa9 u5eu
du CHARLEMAGNE to avert war. aw AS&KTCS
MUOOM WAi CLEANSED WITH Ml BEFORE
THE STARTLED ENVOYS OP HMUN-AL'RASCHItX
The oil industry
has an annual
payroll op
*1.500,000,000
supporting some
4,000,000 peopie-
APP&OXIMAYELV
THE POPULATION
CP THE STATE
op new jersey.
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Natives alon& we orinoco river
f/n venezuela, S. america) 6R0W
vegetables in elevated gardens..
because op the pla6ue op ants, the
small, tender vegetables are 9r0w
in containers propped v and s feet
above the ground.
; CHIROPRACTOR ;
j Dr. H. J. Havlik j
| 8 to 12 a. m. Tues.-Pri. !
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West of Methodist Ch. j
FEATHER & SON
REAL ESTATE
AUTO and LIFE
FIRE, TORNADO
INSURANCE
BONDS
—NOTARY PUBLIC—
runoff race. "I was hopin' de bossj It's better to build up to quality
man would win, but he's done got,than down to price.
hisself in one of these 'run-arounds'
. . . New State Senator from Fort
Worth, to occupy the seat formerly
held by Frank Rawlings, the upper
body's ablest parliamentarian, will
be Jesse Martin, whose runoff op-
ponent, Rep. L'.nnie Smith, with-
drew. Martin is a former assistant
Federal district attorney. . . E. R.
Lindley, of Beaumont, doorkeeper
of the House of Representatives
has announced he will be a candi-
date for the post of chief clerk of
the new Legislature, and Mrs.
Louise Snow Phinney, of Dallas
chief clerk for the past 12 years,
has also announced she will seek
re-election, denying an earlier re-
port that she would not run again.
The schools and churches in our
community were not built with the
dollars that were spent with ped-
dlers or out-of-town interests.
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Mrs. J. W. Dismukes and Sons. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1938, newspaper, August 11, 1938; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth412016/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.