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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME L NUMBER 7
SHARKETTES SEEK 29TH STRAIGHT
WIN TONIGHT, I0HA COWGIRLS HERE
Sharks Go To Edna Friday; To Close
Season With Sweeny Here Tuesday Night
The coming week of basketball
will mark the end of another sea-
son for the Palacios High Sharks.
Palacios Junior High's Hornets
finished their season last Thurs-
day night. Only the Sharkettes of
Palacios High will carry on in the
hardwood game. They will finish
the west zone piny of district 26-
AA next week before going into a
•play-off with the winner of the
east zone the following weak.
Thursday (tonight) the Sh&rk-
GRASSY POINT
LORRAINE BASFORD
The Coast Guard is charged
with enforcing our federal boat-
ing laws, and they are doing an
excellent job of it, but the Coast
Guard if often not in the position
to enforce these laws, due to the
wide territory , each station must
cover.
Commander Walter Curwin Of
the Coast Guard Air Attachment
stationed at Corpus Christi says
that about 98 per cent of the small
boat owners in this region' are
violating federal laws.
One reason for this is that small
boats may be purchased on the
time payment plan, and the owners
either ignore the laws, or do not
know about them.
There are two basic laws, small
boats should have a life jacket or
cushion for each person aboard
Also running lights, red, green
and whHe shall be displayed in
ieir proper* positions by any boat
inning after dark.
Commander Curwin stresses the
fact that having a life jacket is
~not enough—it must be worn to do
any good and provide full pro-
tection should the hnat capsize.
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Lee Wulff gives a simple tasty
method of cooking fish in the Feb-
ruary Fisherman's Magazine. If
you want to impress guests with
your culinary prowess, says 'Wulff,
feature a main course of steamed
ealmorc or any other suitable fis^i
Cut two pounds of steaks or fil-
lets—or three pounds of whole
fish into serving pieces and cover
with a solution made of two table-
spoons of vinegar or lemon juice
in three cups of cold water, allow-
ing it to stand for five minutes.
Each servings should then be
wrapped in perforated aluminum
foil. Place the fish, one layer deep,
on a perforated platform or tray
in the cooking vessel with a small
amount of water beneath it. Cover
and cook for five to 12 minutes or
until tender. Serve with seasoned
butter sauce using part of the
stock solution as a base. This
serves four to six. Baked potatoes
and cold slaw, will round out the
meal.
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Did you know that:
The horned toad is not classified
as belonging to the toad family
It is a lizard. It does not lay eggs,
but gives birth to living young.
The African fingered frog re-
sembles man in that it gathers
food with its fingers and not with
its mouth.
In captivity the raccoon will not
touch meat unless there is wat^r
in which to wash it. This does not
always prove true in the wild
state, hut it largely explains why
the coon is never far from water.
Many old miners and early set-
tlers kept the cacomistle, or ring-
tailed cat as a pet and a mouser.
The fisher, which belongs to the
same family as the mink and the
marten, i§ able to 'fight off and
kill such animals as the fox, bob-
cat and lynx.
Weasles are Relieved to have only
one litter a year. The young are
blind and helpless for about nine
days after birth.
The vocal sounds of the mink in-
clude a low growl, a deep savage
snarl and a shrill squeak.
During the winter months the
range of a wolverine may cover an
area of more than 50 miles in
diameter.
If it's fish you're after ydu're
likely to find Blenny off rocky
shore. A Blenny is a type' of jfish
generally found p'ff rocky shares
but very few fishermen in the
(See "FISHING," Page 8)
ettes will meet the Edna Cowgirls
in a district 26 A A. game at the
Palacios Junior High Gym. Game
time will be at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The Cowgirls' gave the Sharkettes
a "run for their money* in the two
teams' first district meeting at
Edna. The score of this game was
59 to 50 with the Sharkettes win-
ning.
Coach Joanna Hendricks' girls
•will be going for their 29th straight
victory tonight, so the fans will be
assured a real thrller as the Cow-
girls try 'for an upset and Pala-
cios fights to continue their win
string.
Tuesday night the Palacios High
Sharks will be setting their teeth
for the Sweeny Bulldogs in the two
team's last district 26AA game of
the season. For the Sharks it will
be a chance to finish out of the
cellar and for the Bulldogs a
chance to defeat the Sharks for
the first time in three starts this
season. Coach R. C. "Sharkey"
Shelton will be after,.the victory
with Kenneth Countryman, Paul
Taylor, and Marshall Rogers serv-
ing as artillerymen and John
Beard and Robert Keszler doing
the ball handling. The Bulldogs
will rely on the ever ready Ebbie
Neptune, their all around athlete,
to# get the job done.
The only out of town game for
a local team during the coming
week will find the Sharks at Edna
Friday (tomorrow) night doing
battle with the Edna Cowboys in
a district game. Edna won the
first round game, so It will be a
revenge bent group of Sharks Fri-
day night.
Hayes Twins Win
Harmonie Club's
Sweetheart Race
Sallie and Billie Hayes, twin
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy
Hayes, went over the top of the
other contestants in a last minute
flurry of voting at the Valentine
Sweetheart Dance Saturday night
at the Palacios Pavilion.
Sallie and Billie, sponsored by
Petersen's Cafe, were officially
crowned Sweethearts of 1957 bv
Constance Law, the 1956 Sweet-
heart, before a record crowd.
Tee Tiemann and his orchestra
furnished the music for the dance
which was sponsored by the Har-
monie Club. The proceeds of th*
dance are to be given to the Pala-
cios Chamber of Commerce.
Betty Tanner, the Youth Club's
candidate, had been leading the
contest the last two weeks. She
was closely followed by Gale King,
Lynn Richards and Dana Pore.
The Sweethearts of 1957 are
sophomores and members of the
Methodist Church choir. Billie was
an attendant, to the Homecoming
Queen and a member of the Shark-
ettes. Sallie is a cheerleader and a
member of the Sharkettes' B team
Four Local Students
Selected For Places On
AH-State Girls Band
Laura Ford, Gale King, Patsy
Robinson and Diana PrincTle, mem-
bers of Palacios High School band
were four of the one hundred and
twenty high school girl musicians
selected to participate in the All-
Girl Band Festival at the Texas
State College for Women March
1-2.
The winners were named from
more than 300 applicants for the
first of these annual music work-
shops which will bo directed by
Lowell Little, TSOW director of
bands.
The festival concert, with the
girls wearing their school - uni-
forms, will be at 8 p.m. Saturd^r,
March 2, in the College Auditorium
following two days of rehearsals
Principals, band directors and
parents are invited to all sessions.
Dr. J. Wilgus Eberly, TSCW
music director, announced. i I
.ss'i-
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hart of
Gainesville, who have been visit-
ing the Dr. Hart family since the
last of January, will leave for their
home Monday. They stayed with
their grandchildren while Dr. and
Mrs. Hart were on a trip to Nas
sau.
F.F.A. WEEK—Governor Price Daniel has desig-
nated the week of February 16-23 as National Future
Farmers of America Week in Texas. Governor Daniel is
shown presenting the proclamation to Kenton Harvey,
State FFA President and E. C. Weekley, Executive Sec-
retary of the Texas Association of Future Farmers of
America.
Seaquist Brothers' Steer 'Gent' Wins
Reserve Championship At S. A. Show
"Gent" (short for Gentleman)
the 1050 pound Braford steer own-
ed and fed by the Seaquist broth-
ers Mike and Jack, won the Re-
serve Championship of the Cross-
bred Fat Steer Show at the San
Antonio Livestock Exposition. The
calf was entered in the San An-
tonio show by Jack and shown by
Mike.
Mike and Jack carried out their
feeding program under Mike's F
F. A. program under the direction
of V. J. Kahlich, the able super-
visor of the F. F. A. classes at
Palacios High School.
"Gent", a crossbred Brahman
Hereford, was bred by Bascorr
Munson of Angleton. Mike select-
ed the calf when he was about six
werk« old, brought him homo, and
then he and Jack convinced Bessie
the family milk cow that she had
unexpectedly become a mother
The boys were fortunate that th
calf's disposition was such thai
their mother appropriately named
him Gentleman. Through spring
and early summer Gent gained
four pounds a day.
On Wednesday, February 6
Jack helped Mike load Gent in a
trailer and said good-bye to both,
leaving Gent in Mike's very cap-
able hands. On Saturday Mike
showed Gent to win 1st place
crossbred heavy weight steer. Then
with an almost flawless exhibition
of showmanship Mike and Gent
went on to win the Reserve Cham-
pionship of the Boy's Crossbred
Show. On Monday they faced the
Champions, the open show and
Mike showed Gent to win the Rp-
serve Champion, Crossbred Divi
sion, of the entire show.
Mike and .lack will probably en-
C. OF C. MEETS . . ,
Channel Project
Included In Bill
ter 'Gent' in the sale Friday and
then devote their time to the
calves they are taking to the Hous-
ton Fat Stock Show. "Rebel", a
Hereford, and "Bob", a Shorthorn
both bred by Bob Smith of Hous
ton, and "Black Beauty", an An-
gus-Brahman Crossbred bred by
Riley Sanborn of Sargent.
During Mike's leave of absence
from school he has had splend'd
cooperation from his teachers, from
the school administration, from
his classmates, and from many of
the good people of this community
which proves indeed that the F.
P. A. program is a great teach-?)
of democracy.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Highberg
daughter, Sharon and son, Paul
Jr. spent the day Sunday visitin
Mrs. C. S. Owens in Houston an<
enjoying a p'enic at Herman Park. J
School Budget
Is Presented At
P.-T. A. Meeting
The Palacios Parent - Teacher
Association met Tuesday night
February 5, at 7:30, in the Junior
High School Cafeteria. The busi-
ness meeting was conducted by
Mrs. Howard Tanner, Rev. Nel-
son Longnecker of the Episcopal
Church read the opening prayer,
Mrs. Julian Jenkins read the "Ob-
jects and By-Laws" of the local
P.-T. A., she also said examina-
tion of the students ears and teeth
had been completed in every school
except High School, and that the
two blankets for each of the three
nurse's rooms had been bought
and were now in use. Mrs. J. B.
Gillette read the petition from the
Senior class stating they would
like to have the Parent-Senior
Banquet given each year by the
local P.-T. A. and that they se-
lected February 7 as a date for
the banquet. A motion was made
that $75.00 be used for this ban-
quet, but.it did not carry.
Mr. LeRoy Neal, Mrs. Jimmy
Shearer and Mrs. Thomas Brandon
Avere elected to serve on the nomi-
nating committee, with Mr. Ralph
Newsom as chairman. Mrs. Julian
Jenkins said it would help this
committee if all of those wiic
could serve as o'f • ers for the Caul
ing year wr.'ud contact them. A
motion was made and carried fhat
$" 00 be donated •« both the Four.:
ers Day and Endowment Fund.
Mrs. Tanner announced the next
P.-T. A. meeting will be held in the
Central Elementary School, March
5, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a
display of work by students of
both Central Elementary and East
Side Elementary Schools. The Ex-
ecutive Board will meet Friday-
March 1, at 3:00 p.m.
Mr. Ralph Newsom spoke on
"Our Palacios School Budget and
Expenses" and gave each one pres-
ent the Official Budget for the
Fiscal year 1956-57 and Tax Index
of Palacios Independent School
District.
Dr. Furbeck, Director of Health
for Matagorda, Jackson and Fort
Bend Counties, made a short talk
and showed a film on the Common
Cold.
Parents Interested In Little League;
Ground Needed For Playing Field
Ground work towards forming
a top notch Little League baseball
program for Palacios youth during
the coming summer got underway
last Thursday night at a meeting
o'f interested persons held at the
Chamber of Commerce building,
according to Jim Treybig presi-
dent of the association.
Some twenty-five parents and
about 45 youths attended the
meeting. Sponsors for the four-
team league have been secured but
in order to promote a good pro-
gram much adult help i3 needed.
The program is in desperate need
of land near the city on which to
build a playing diamond. Anyone
having land available and would do-
nate or lease to the Little League
please contact President Treybig
If land is secured, the light poles
and lights at Eastiide Elementary
School will have to be moved
Your help will be needed.
The worthwhile work done by
thj league last summer is a fine
example of what can be done for
the youth of our area if the adults
will help lliem.
A well attended meeting of the
Palacios Chamber of Commerce
last Tuesday evening saw many
topics of interest to the Palacios
area discussed.
Continental Tra ilways war
represented at the meeting by Mr
C. P. Anders and a Mr. Bolton
Anders was the spokesman, and
presented a request that the
Chamber support Continental
Trailways in a hearing before the
Texas Railroad Commission where
the Greyhound Bus Company had
made application for a permit to
operate over Texas Highway No
35 from Houston to Brownsville.
Anders stated that operating a
bus system over this route during
the time the Missouri Pacific Bus
Company was in operation had re-
sulted iii financial losses to both
companies due to the fact that
there was not enough traffic to
support the two lines. He explain-
ed that this has resulted in poorer
service than would have been the
case had the route been profitable
and kept the company from put-
ting their best equipment on the
run.
Anders reported that since The
Missouri Pacific Bus Company had
ceased operation on the route one
bus schedule had been added and
that others were being planned.
He also stated that modern equip-
ment is slated for this route.
Runyon Explains
Highway Program
At Rotary Meeting
Dr. Norman E. Runyon, as a
guest of Adolphus Rioux, spoke on
Highways at the regular meeting
of the Rotary Club, Wednesday
noon, at the Green Lantern Inn.
Dr. Runyon had spent hours in
preparing his talk for the Rotar-
ians and pointed out explicitly
the program set aside by the high-
way department in their future
plans for the area.
Dr. Runyon, in his talk covered
from the time that man walked,
until his over-growth of present
highways constructions from their
width to their basic foundation.
Highways of todays are not built
for highways of tomorrow. . . he
plainly told the members of the
cluh.
The needs of new highways co-
incides with the increased power
and speed of modern vehicles. The
highways of today are built for
automobiles of yesterday, in other
words our highways are inade-
quate for today's speed.
The need for improved highways
can be seen at, every angle.
President John Fluth reported
on the Rotary Conference held in
Houston, last Monday, which he
attended with Thomas Brandon
Fluth reported that Jewel Ben-
son of Houston was nominated as
the new District Governor for the
coming year, effective July 1, 1957.
H. Roe Bartle, Mayor of Kansas
City, Mo., and a past president of
Rotary International gave the
keynote address at the meeting.
The conference was the swan
song for the local club in District
190, as there will be a change in
Districts made.
There were no guests at the
meeting except the speaker.
Anders requested the Chamber
to cither write a letter to the Rail-
road Commission supporting the
Continental Trailways in their op-
position to the Greyhound Bus
Company application for a permit
or a letter stating that the chamber
would remain neutral in the mat-
ter. Action on this request was de-
ferred until more information
could be had.
George Hunter, Commander of
the Palacios Ground Observer
Corps, requested moral support for
the work that is being done by the
Corps. A vote of appreciation for
this important work was given by
the board of directors.
Eli M'ayfield reported1 that he'
and Carlton Crawford with the'
Calhoun County Commissioner's'
Court attended a meeting of the
Mississippi Valley Association in
St. Louis last week in behalf of
the Matagorda Ship Channel. May-
field reported that the delegation
(See "C. OF C. MEETS," Page 4)
Barber Re-Elected
Chief Fire Dept.;
Banquet Planned
Sherwood D. Barber was re-
elected chief of the Palacios Volun-
teer Fire Department at the annual
election of officers to their regu-
lar meeting Monday night.
Price M. Barnett was elected
assistant chief to replace Ed Bar-
rett, who had requested his name
be taken off the list of nomina-
tions due to business obligations.
The efficient secretary-treasurer
Millard Brooking was unanimously
re-elected.
Trustees for the coming year are
Marvin Curtis, Noel D. Curtis and
Bobby Lewis.
Committees were, appointed to
handle arrangements for their an-
nual banquet to be held Monday
Feb. 25, at which time members
of the City Council and others are
entertained.
Boy
First Aid Hints
At- Lions Meeting
At the regular meeting of the
Lions Club Tuesday evening at
Petersen's Cafe LeRoy Neal had
several Boy Scouts present to g»ve
some First Aid Hints and demon-
strations.
Edward Smith had a film and
cartoon on How to Keep from
Catching a Cold.
At the directors meeting of the
club it was voted that they spon-
sor a Little League team this year.
Don't froget the broom sale on
March 4 to benefit the Lighthouse
of the Blind.
OUR BUSINESS PEOPLE
'You've Got To Love The Work'
(Editor's Note: This is the
2'4th in a series of stories about
Palacios business and profession-
al people.)
"There's something fascinating
about the grocery business. You'll
never get rich at it—I don't think
any small town grocer ever does.
.You've got to love it.
So says R. J. (Bob) Sisson, old-
est grocery man in Palacios and
proprietor of Quality Grocery on
Main Street.
A Palacios resident since 1911,
Mr. Sisson remembers that when
he came here Matagorda County
was composed of large ranches
with only a few farms and crops
of hay for the livestock.
The fish and oyster industries
were also big concerns in Pala-
cios, then a community of some
500, residents.
Bob was already 29 years old
when he came to Palacios in 1911.
The trip was necessitated because
of his father's health. Doctors
recommended he make the trip
from Nebraska to the mild climate
pf, the Texas Gulf Coast.
For a couple of years he and
his brother were in the grain, feed,
and hay business.
Then in 1912 Mr. Sisson formed
a partnership with H. L. Curtis
and launched his career in the
grocery business in the old Bran-
den Building.
Groceries then had to be ship-
ped in from Galveston via the Gulf
since the intra-coastal canal was
still on the drawing boards.
Once a gulf storm blew up while
the boat bringing several $1,000
worth of grocery supplies to Pala-
cios was on fch« way.
Mf. Sisson- Jnd? Curtis were
anxious over\<fc fate of Captain
Howard Stdpp£ antf his boat, the
Sterling, as well as for their goods
since they hal telegraphed Gal
veston and 'foftid that he had al-
ready started for Palacios when
the big blow began.
No need for them to have wor-
ried, however, since the sea-wise
old captain pulled into the San
Bernard River and rode out the
storm.
When the ship finally arrived
long over due, the merchants, who
were already counting the entire
cargo a complete loss, found that
the only damage was to a small
sack of sugar.
In those days, customers bought
grocery items on a large scale
since visits to town were seldom
and ranches had big crews to feed.
Air. Sisson recalls that ranchers
came into Palacios to make pur-
chases driving everything from
mule teams to buggies.
The grocer served 16 months as
postmaster here during the Her-
bert Hoover administration. When
Roosevelt was elected in 193o, Mr
Sisson, along with four other
Matagorda County postmasters
lost his job.
During the depression years, Mr
Sisson tried his hiind at the auto
business.
In 1936 ho moved to his present
location at 409 Main Street and
has been operating the Quality
Grocery there ever since.
The Palacios business man was
bein ip 1882 on a farm near Lin-
ed?', 111. (When he was two years
old, his family moved to Nebraska
At the county seat of Hebror.
Nebr., his father served two terms
as county commissioner.
Bob was graduated from Hebron
High School and attended the Uni-
versity of Nebraska for two years
studying electrical engineering.
The Palacios man quit college
when his father bought a string of
grain elevators and needed him to
manage one.
He was married in 1906 on the
date o'f the San Francisco earth-
quake.
The union produced two off-
spring. Miss Elizabeth Sisson at
present is principal of the primary
school here, and Harry is chief
geologist for a California oil com-
pany.
Mr. Sisson has served on the
Palaciod City Council and as di-
rector of the chamber of com
meree. fie is an elder in the Pres
byterian Church.
After working hard all his life,
he is looking forward to th» time
when he can retire.
"When you get to be my age,"
he s"SyS, "you begin to want to take
life a bit easier."
Pal-Port Brick Co.
Adds Equipment To
Double Capacity
"The building trend has turned
to brick, and we hope to keep pace
with the builders," Dick Talbot,
general manager of the Pal-Port
Brick plant, informed us Monday
morning in announcing an expan-
sion program at the site.
Following the purchase of a
plant in Mississippi they hope to
double the capacity of the present
plant. They w;ll build in the near
future two new kilns and possibly
a third one ha stated.
The production department will
also be doubled he informed.
Mrs. Koerber Attends
Luncheon Gulf Coast
Medical Association
Mrs. J. L. Koerber attended the
luncheon last Tuesday noon ,'n ^
Wharton for the- more than 100
volunteer officers and workers ol
the Gulf Coast Medical Founda-
tion Hospital campaign.
She heard a talk by Frank C.
Smith, Chairman of the Board o'f
the Iloustuu Natural Gas Com-
pany. He pointed out the privilege
of living in the upsurging Gulf
Coast area and asserted that ad-
ditional health care facilities are
needed to provide the maximum
medical service for the wholejffHiT" '
The Weather
Date
Max.
Min.
Prec.
Feb. 6
80"
65°
O.Ofl
Feb. 7
80°
66°
0.00
Feb. 8
78°
63°
0.00
Feb. 9
78°
63°
0.00
Feb. 10
79°
69°
0.00
Feb. 11
80\
«7"
0.00
Feb. 12 *
81°
64°
trace
Feb.. 13
73°
66°
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