Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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55S
Published Every Thursday
J. W. DISMUKES Publisher
One Year, $1.50 Six Months, $1.00
Entered at the Palaeios Post Office as
second class mail matter under Act
of Congress.
KNOW TEXAS
Texas with 144 plants is produc-
ing 20.5 per cent of all the natural
gasoline made in the United State'-.
Road Work Rushed
in Pennsylvania to
Help Unemployed
In 134 Texas counties so far report-
ed on by the Census Bureau the per-
centage of unemployment in April,
and May was 1.4.
The first interconnected electric ser-
vice was rendered in Texas in 1913.
More than 800 Texas towns and com ■
munities are now served by intercon-
nected lines.
Texas is building the first antimony
smelter in the United States—at La-
redo where an initial outlay of $100,-
000 is being made with ultimate ex-
penditure when all proposed units are
completed of $500,000.
Texas subdivisions have isssued
$721,925,076 in bonds of various sorts
since 1893, accoi'ding to Texas Tax
Journal, including more than $100,-
000,000 in bonds for school buildings.
The highest total for any one year
was $135,504,100 in 1927-1928.
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DID YOU EVER
STOP TO THINK?
By Ed*on R. Waite
Shawnee, Oklahoma
For their own self-protection, vot-
ers should give more than casual at-
tention to the various candidates seek-
ing election to public office.
As a usual thing, the average vot-
er goes into a voting booth and su
veys with bewilderment a long list of
names and wonders dumly which ones?
to vote for. Too many voters then take
a change and, the wrong man gets
elected.
Now is the time to look over the
candidates for public office and sel-
ect those that you think will serve
the public best. Investigate them, then
when voting time comes you know
who you are voting for.
Most office seekers want to do all
in their power to promote the welfaiv
of the section they serve, yet some
of them regard a public office as a
private possession to be used for per-
sonal gain or advancement. Some
candidates are willing to barter away
and promote anything in trade for
votes. This class of office seekers are
enemies of the public.
A true office seeker is the one who
considers a public office as a public-
trust, who will do everything to ad-
vance the welfare of the people he
serves and who will promote public
well being in so far as his office will
permit.
Today the city, the state, the pro
vince and the country whose people
select carefully and elect honest,
square, well-meaning office holders
are the ones who are ahead in th«
march of progress and who are out-
standing in power, money, education
and progress.
By E. E. Duffy
Realizing that delays in carrying
through public improvement are cost-
ly to the public and contribute to un-
employment, the Pennsylvanica High-
way Department this year pushed
highway construction so that by June
1, four-fifths of all 1930 road con-
tracts were awarded.
This action was of tremendous im-
portance to the 26,000 men working
for the state and private contractors.
Where other states have permitted
legalities, technicalities and indiffer-
ence to slow' up letting of road ""con-
tracts, Pennsylvania has gone ahead
and started work. Early completion
of contracts carries with it the bene-
fit of early highway usage, which in
this age of efficiency and applied ec-
onomics is highly desirable.
If, for instance, a 50-mile stretch of
pavement is thrown open to traffic
six months earlier than originally
planned, with a traffic volume of 1,-
000 cars daily that highway will earn
$500 to $1,000 daily for its users
through lower car operating costs.
Through speeded-up work, Pennsyl-
vania will this year complete about
1,000 miles of concrete pavements,
and may build as much as Iowa's
expected mileage of 1,025.
Pavement benefits arg so manifold
that often important savings are over-
looked by the public. For instance,
since 1911 Pennsylvania has, through
paving projects, shortened main high-
ways by 305 miles through re-loca-
tions. This has resulted in annual
savings of $15,670,000 to motorists
through unnecessary travel, according
to careful estimates. This year alone
brought a reduction of 29.5 miles in
the state system, at an estimated
car operation saving of $1,150,000.
Not only is speed of letting con-
tracts a part of the Pennsylvania pro-
gram, but also speed of construction.
By August 21, 615 miles of concrete
were completed. The week of August
29, two dozen detours were removed
and the week of September 4, 14 were
removed. Concrete is being placed at
the rate of five miles daily.
Private business cannot get the
most out of its money on a postpone-
ment program; neither can a com-
munity
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HELPING TO
BUILD TEXAS
Plans for $400,000 Federal prison at
El Paso are being drawn. State Pri-
son Board is considering $150,000 im-
provements at Sugarland farm under
legislative appropriation. Federal ex-
penditures of $650,000 on additii nal
improvements at Randolph Fi 'Id
(West Point of the Air) at San An-
tonio are being planned.
"Motoring is surely a great thing.
I used to be fat and sluggish before
the motoring craze, but no I'm spry
and energetic."
"I didn't know you motored ?"
"I don't. I dodge."
Women stopped wearing corsets
and thousands of people engaged in
making them lost their jobs; they
went to wearing silk hosiery wrecked
the cotton hose industry, and threw
tens of thousands out of work; they
bobbed their hair, and ruined the hair-
pin manufacturers; they cut short
their dresses and their bathing suits
abbreviated—but what's the use?
Pretty soon there will be nothing left
and we can all quit work. Not lay it
all on them, enough young men quit
wearing hats until the other day 40,-
000 laborers were put out of work on
their account.—Edna Herald.
Rock Island and Cotton Belt have
reached agreement for builing six
miles immediately and three miles
more ultimately to serve the new in-
dustrial district created by the re-
claimed area in the Trinity River
bottoms at Dallas. Sabine Basin Rail-
way, backed by Missouri Pacific and
Santa Fe, has applied for permit to
build from Beaumont to Port Arthur
and may use Beaumont-Port Arthur
interurban line. Rock Island and
Santa Fe have tentatively agreed for
joint track arrangement between
Dumas and Spearman. Santa Fe has
let contract for million-dollar bridge
over South Canadian north of Amari-
Ho. Texas railroads are doing their
part toward developing Texas.
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PALACIOS, TEXAS
Southwestern Public Service Co. is
adding a new 12,500-kilowatt unit to
its Amarillo plant, bringing its ca-
pacity to 22,500 kilowatts, and build-
ing a 66-kv transmission line f om
there to near Tascosa, adding several
hundred horsepower to the demand
on the Amarillo unit and rendering
better service to the Northwest Pan-
handle region. Temple plans a 4,000,-
000 gallon reservoir and is consider-
ing installation of an electric pump
to handle 2,000 gallons a minute.
Texas University regents will receive
bids on $500,000 library building,
$400,000 classsroom building and
$250,000 laboratory addition.
The seventh large office building
for Dallas this year is the 25-s'::iry
"Professional Tower," to cost $2,C00,-
000. Harris County leads the slate
in tax valuations with $340,000 D0O.
Four other Texas counties have valua-
tions nbove $100,000,000—Dallas $o10,-
000,000, Bexar $190,000,000, Tarrant
$176,360,000 and Jefferson $129 ( 32,-
000. The new office building of the
Dallas Gas Co. will have "tailor-
made." tempertures on its first twi.
floors with an air-conditioning equip-
ment that will regulate both the heat
and the relative humidity of the at-
mosphere. Lamesa's $200,000 milk
plant is in operation after two y jars
of hard work in the part of citi :ens
and dairymen with over 100 stock-
holders owning the institution w hich
will handle the milk of nine nearby
counties.
A cooperage plant is a new indus-
try at Brown wood with a capacity of
1,000 barrels a day to handle the pro-
ducts of that section of Central West
Texas. Orders for 110 carloads of bar-
rels were received with only about a
tenth of its territory canvassed ac-
cording to the Brownwood News.
Specimens of Dallam County ftand
have shown as high a silica cor.tent
as 75 per cent. Another specimen
showed 50 per cent silica, 33 per cent
aluminum ard 17 percent iron. A
brick plfyit will be an early result of
the discovery. Capacity of the Petro-
leum Iron Works and Pennsylvania
Shipyards, Beaumont, will be doubled
if railroad bridges are rebuilt to give
sufficient cleai'ance for vessels com-
ing to the plant's dry dock. Pampa is
to get two new industries, a steel fab-
ricating plant and a new refinery.
Beaumont's new paint factory, built
by a Standard Oil subsidiary, will
produce 10,000 pounds of paint a day
when it gets into operation. For the
first six months of 1930 output of
the Texas Electric Service Co., Fort
Worth, gained 17.5 per cent over the
same period in 1928.
Whether the menu planner is an
inexperienced bride or a family cook
of long standing, the following rules
for healthful eating are worth not-
ing. The bureau of health education
of the New York City Department of
Health suggests them.
1. Don't bore your stomach with
a monotonous diet,
2. Don't despise the lowly turnip
and onion.
3. Don't scorn the cheaper cuts of
meats; when properly cooked with
vegestables they are betteer than a
diet of steaks end chops.
4. Buy fresh vegetables when they
are plentiful.
5. Allow a quart of milk a day for
each child and a pint fni1 each adult.
6. Don't be afraid to try new dishes.
7. Adopt a cosmopolitan menu—be-
come acquainted with minestone, gou
lash, Irish stew, pig's knuckle and
sauerkraut, and ragout with vege-
tables.
8. Don't eat too much sweets.
9. Drink several glasses of water
daily.
10. Do real cooking. Good health
will not last minute meals.
Chevrolet Radio
Program to Start
Tuesday, Oct. 7th
MENU
Ragout of Potatoes and Tinned Beef
Mustard Green Corn Bread Sticks
Stuffed Tomato Salad
Cinnamon Cakes with Green Apple
Sauce
RAGOUT OF POTATOES
AND TINNED BEEF
Melt in a stewpan two tablespoons
of fat. Slice two onions in it and let
them fry until they are light colored.
Stir in one tablespoon of flour and
two cups of hot vegetable water or
meat stock. (The French cook you
know never throws the water from
vegetables down the drain, and inci-
dentally she usually thickens the stew
at the beginning of the cooking pro-
cess rather than at the end as we
do.) Now we have fried the onions
in fat until nicely browned, we have
added flour to thicken the liquid, ei
ther vegetable or meat stock. Next
season with salt and pepper. When
the sauce has sufficiently thickened,
add about two pounds of potatoes,
peeled and cut into moderate-sized
pieces. Cover the pan and simmer
very gently, shaking the pan now and
then. When the potatoes are almost
cooked, add one pound of corned beef,
cut into little squares. Then simmer
again until the potatoes are quite
done. Turn into a deep dish and serve
very hot.
CINNAMON CAKES WITH
GREEN APPLE SAUCE
V2 C butter
1 C sugar
2 Eggs
V2 C mlk
1% C flour
2V2 t bkp
1 T cinnamon
Cream butter, add sugar and well
beaten eggs. Sift dry ingredients
and add alternately with the milk to
the egg mixture. Bake in individual
buttered cake tins.
No. 88-592
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE
Palaeios State Bank and Trust Co.
at Palaeios, State of Texas, at the close of business on the 24th day of Sep-
tember, 1930, published in the Palaeios Beacon, a newspaper printed and
published at Palaeios, State of Tt-xas, on the 2nd day of October, 1930.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts, on personal or collateral security $134,292.91
Loans secured by real estate 55,649.22
Overdrafts * 99.29
Other bonds and stocks owned 129,976.00
Customers' Bonds held for safekeeping 10,800.00
Banking House $15,000, Furniture & Fixtures, $8,000 23,000.00
Real Estate owned, other than banking house 26,346.42
Cash in Bank 20,274.48
Due from approved reserve agents i 41,566.58
Due from other banks ajid bankers,
subject to check on demand 2,816.45
Other Resources > 2,375.86
TOTAL
$447,197.21
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock * 50,000.00
Surplus Fund 5,000.00
Undvided profits, net 6,399.81
Reserve for Taxes 363.15
Due to banks and bankers, subject to check 2,117.81
Individual Deposits subject to check, including
time deposits due in 30 days 356,469.48
Time Certificates of Deposit 13,338.30
Cashier's Checks Outstanding 2,708.66
Customers' Bonds deposited for safekeeping 10,800.00
TOTAL
$447,197.21
STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF MATAGORDA:
We, J. F. Barnett, as President, and C. B. Hansen, as Cashier of said bank,
each of us, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of
our knowledge and belief.
J. F. Barnett, President.
C. B. Hansen, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of September, A. D. 1930.
CORRECT—ATTEST: L. S. Appleton, Notary Public,
Mary H. Elder Matagorda County, Texas.
J. L. Pybus
P. F. Campbell, Directors.
. The first of the "Chevrolet Chron-
icles", with Captain Albert P. Baston
of the Fifth Marines describing those
stirring events in Chateau Thierry
back in 1918 which brought him the
distinguished Service Cross, the Croix
de Guerre and the Naval Cross, will
go on the air locally from station
KPRC on Tuesday evening, Oct, 7,
at 8:00 p. in.
The program is sponsored by local
Chevrolet dealers, and is the first of
a series of weekly broadcasts from
this station featuring America's great
martial figures, most of whom wear
the highest honors within the power
of the Government to grant for valor-
ous deeds in action. The "Chronicles"
are being broadcast nationally through
more than a hundred radio stations.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, ace of
American aces and himself awarded
the Congressional M«dal of Honor and
many other decorations, will act as
host of the evening and introduce
Captain Baston to the air audience.
Mucial numbers arranged by Frank
Black and Gustavo Haenschen will
precede and conclude Capt. Baston's
description of his experiences. The
program will be of a half hour's dura-
tion.
Captain Baston, who the year be-
fore the War was an All-American
end and captain of the Minnesota
football team, was cited for conspicu-
ous heroism in action while a first
lieutenant in the 5th regiment of the
U. S. Marines, 2nd division. His offi-
cial citation reads: "Although shot
in both legs while leading his platoon
through the woods at Hill 142 near
Chateau Thierry, France, on June 6,
1918, he l'efused treatment until after
he had assured himself that every
man in his platoon was under cover
and in good firing position."
The details back of this generalized
statement of fact—the "Come on, you
kids; you can't expect to live for-
ever" of Sergeant Dan Daly, twice
holder of the Medal of Honor, as he
led a charge into a hail of machine
gun bullets; the coolness of mere
youths under fire; the self-sacrifice
of a former Kansas football player
who rushed into the open to draw
the fire of a machine gun that his
comrades might capture it—will be
described by Captain Baston.
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