Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1955 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, October 20. lass
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
PHONE 5181 Advertising Rates On Request
PUBLISHER MRS. J. W. DISMUKES
EDITOR HENRY ROSENTHAL
ASSO. EDITOR & ADV. MGR JESSE V. DISMUKES
BUSINESS MANAGER HUGH J. DISMUKES
Entered at the Post Officc at Palacios, Texas, as second class mail
matter under the Act of Congress.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year In County, $2.00 One Year Outside County, $2.50
WE STOP ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS AT EXPIRATION
Any erroneous reflection upon the character,
standing, or reputation of any person, firm or
corporation which may appear in the columns
of the Palacios Beacon will be gladly corrected
if brought to the attention of the publisher.
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
The football squad and their
coach were guests at the Rotary
Club luncheon Wednesday.
Miss Dorris Wright and S/Sgt.
Orval Quinn were married at the
home of the bride on October 9.
Three fires in three days had
kept the fire department on the
run. The first fire was a small one
~at the Chandler Trailer Camp, then
the J. E. Tanner barn and about
30 tons of hay and the home of
Minnie Holmes, colored.
The marriage of Miss Margaret
Rice to Walter S. Gillette Jr. on
October 9 at the home of Father
H. L. Bauman was announced.
Charles Luther was in Hous-
ton to preview the 1946 Chevrolet.
Delbert and Virgil Colvin, who
had recently returned to the states
from overseas service, were honor-
ed at a family get together.
15 YEARS AGO
W. E. Worthen was lowest bid-
der on the construction of a bridge
across Oyster Lake.
P. R. Isley of Oklahoma City let
contract to Chas. F. Newman for
construction of a new theatre. On
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Monday work was to begin on the
new Long Theatre. Ed Wagner had
the contract for building it.
Lt. Col. E. E. Brown was guest
speaker at the Rotary Club. Jesse
Strasner was in charge of the pro-
gram.
Seven hundred and ninety men
registered Wednesday for the draft.
Thomas Troutman, nine year old,
was hit by an auto driven by A. E.
Stricklin Saturday night at the cor-
ner of Fifth and Main.
20 YEARS AGO
In the School Bond Election
only 14 votes were polled against
the issue. Work was to begin on
the new building about Dec. 1.
The. new Palacios Pleasure Pa-
vilion was opened with Messrs.
Steve and Fred Gardner in charge.
The Sharks won their first con-
ference game when they defeated
Goliad with a score of 6 to 0. The
pep squad under the direction of
Miss Mary Fetterly was an added
attraction.
The death of Mrs. Mary E.
Myers on September 28 was re-
ported. Mrs. Myers passed away
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
J. A. Callaway in Houston.
25 YEARS AGO
Matagorda County was one of
the 12 released from tick quaran-
tine by the state livestock sanitary
commission.
Everything was ready for the
big road celebration and 10,000
visitors were expected.
The 20,000 acre rice crop in
Matagorda County had been har-
vested, making a 10 sack average
of fine quality.
30 YEARS AGO
Miss Marjorie Berger, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Berger, was
married to W. E. Ramsey.
P. A. Richman, Sr. purchased the
II. P. Taylor farm seven miles
northeast of Palacios.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cunningham
were the proud' parents of a baby
girl, who was named Mildred.
Captain Elliott Vandeventer,
engineer of construction work at
the camp for Texas National
Guards, reported bids were being
leceived for the work.
40 YEARS AGO
Mrs. T. K. Fowler died in Green-
BANK'S OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL CONDITION OF
THE CITY STATE BANK OF PALACIOS
at Palacios, Texas at the close of business on the 5th day of October,
1955, pursuant to call made by the Banking Commissioner of Texas in
accordance with the Banking Laws of this State.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts, including overdrafts $ 310,872.48
(After deduction of $4,572.67 valuation allowance or bad debt reserve)
United States Government Obligations, direct
and guaranteed 1,160,000.00
Obligations of states and political subdivisions 225,500.00
Corporate stocks, including $none stock in
Federal Reserve Bank 5,000.00
Cash, balance due from other banks, including reserve
balances, and cash items in process of collection
(including exchanges for clearing house)
Banking house, or leasehold improvements
Furniture, fixtures, and equipment
Total Resources
639,622.35
13,500.00
1.00
$ 2,351,495.83
LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Common Capital Stock $ 50,000.00
Surplus: Certified $50,000.00, Not Certified $none 50,000.00
Undivided' profits 54 827.44
Capital reserves (and debenture retirement account) 7,861.08
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations 1,950,995.78
Public funds (Incl. U. S. Govt., states
and political subdivisions) 233,081.47
Other deposits (certified & cashier's checks, etc.) 7,278.86
Total all deposits $2,191,356.11 xxxxxxx
Other liabilities 451.20
Total Liabilities and Capital Accounts $ 2,354,495.83
STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF MATAGORDA
I, M. M. Brooking being Vice-President and Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the foregoing statement of con-
dition is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
M. M. BROOKING, Vice President and Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of October 1955.
CORRECT ATTEST Patricia G. Raplee, Notary Public
M. T. BROOKING Matagorda, County, Texas
THOMAS S. BRANDON
P. R. 1IAMILL
G. T. BROOKING
DIRECTORS
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Port Lavaca City Council Approves
$176,8(8 Budget; R. B. Wallace Dies
Hope that all departments will
trim expenses was expressed by
city council Monday night when
it approved a record $176,868.18
budget for the 1955-56 fiscal year.
Spending allowed for each de-
partment this year: administrative,
$30,069.10 street and bridge, $37,-
207.65; police, $29,250; and fire,
$14,880.
The fire department was the
only one of this group which did
not exceed the amount it was
budgeted last year. It was allow-
ed $8,064, spent $7,708.—Calhoun
County Times.
Members of the Port Lavaca
Chamber of Commerce have voted
to ask Soil Conservation Supervi-
ser Jimmy Hensley to make a pre-
liminary survey to compare the
amounts of water which could be
impounded by proposed dams at
the Lavaca Bay Causeway and
across the Lavaca River in Jack-
son County.—Port Lavaca Wave.
Plans for the parade and rodeo
to be held in conjunction with the
7th annual Calhoun County Fair,
October 21-22, were nearing com-
pletion Wednesday.
Wes Newlin, who with Freddy
Fagan of Tivoli, is directing the
rodeo under sponsorship of the
County Farm Bureau, announced
that seven regular events have
been planned.—Port Lavaca Wave.
ville, Texas, where she had been
for a few weeks.
W. C. Best and family left for
Groveton to make their home.
Captain Hicks left for Galveston
with his sloop carrying a cargo of
1,400 melons, two bales of cotton
and other produce.
Officers for the recently or-
ganized Boy Scout Troop were
Senior Patrol Leader, Carlton
Crawford; seci-etary, George
Truitt; treasurer, ^ack Parks;
drummer, Britton Laughter; flag
bearers, Ted Elder and John Wag-
ner.
45 YEARS AGO
S. E. Franz, brother of Mrs. W.
C. Williams, died at his home in
Bay City.
Miss Elsie Schickle and August
Mosier were married.
'Curley" Duson, one of the origi-
nators and incorporators of the
Texas Rice Development Company
and founder of the City of Pala-
cios, died in New Orleans.
A new theatre was being opened
in the Williams building. Motion
pictures and other high class en-
tertainments were scheduled.
A. E. Wickham established a
marine freight service between
Palacios, Galveston and Houston.
Here's the government's sched-
ule on the survey by the U. S.
Engineers on a deep water pass
and channel from the Gulf of
Mexico to Lavaca and Matagorda
Bays:
It will leave the Galveston Engi-
neers' office Saturday for the Dal-
las Divisional Engineer's office
and is due in the Chief of Engi-
neer's office in Washngton on No-
vember 1.
On November 28 it will go be-
fore the Rivers and Harbors Com.
mittee of Congress which l-ecom-
mends appropriations for projects
of this type.
Estimated cost of the pi-oject. is
$17,500,000 of which the local Cal-
houn County Navigation Disti-ict
is to pay $7 million. — Calhoun
County Times.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson has set the marketing
quota and acreage allotment on
the 1956 cotton crop.
The national marketing quota is
10 million bales, the same as this
year. The national acreage allot-
ment, however, is 4 percent below
that of 1955 which was 18,113,208
acres. The 1956 figure is 17.391,-
304.
Benson says a referendum on
the cotton marketing quota will be
held December 14.—El Carnpo Citi-
zen.
Robert Bruce Wallace, Chairman
of the Board of the Commercial
State Bank, and resident of El Cam.
po for approximately 45 years,
died in his sleep early Monday
morning following a heart attack.
He was 68 years of age.—El Carn-
po Citizen.
The El Campo Chamber of Com-
merce and Agriculture has an-
nounced plans to conduct a special
one-day only membership cam-
paign throughout El Campo and
the surrounding West Wharton
County on Thursday, November,
4, labeling the occasion as Pledge
For Progress Day.
The announcement was made
Wednesday noon during a joint
meeting of the chamber's member-
ship, finance and publicity com-
mittees.—El Campo News.
The Karnes County Commission-
ers Court held a meeting in the
District court room in Karnes City
on Monday, October 10, 1955, at 2
p.m., to discuss the proposed for-
mation of the. Karnes County Wa-
ter Control and Improvement Dis-
trict No. 1.—Kenedy Advance.
Thomas Jefferson was the first
U. S. President to advocate the
abolition of slavery.
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All Children Need
Eye Examination
At School's Start
AUSTIN—The irreplaceable gift
of sight is being lost to one Ameri-
can every 20 minutes.
If that figure—estimated by the
National Society for the Preven-
tion of Blindness—holds true for
nil population segments through-
out the United States, it means
four Texans are being visited by
sightlessness every day.
Even as you read this some man,
woman, or child is standing on the
brink of a life of permanent dark-
ness, about to join the 300,000
Americans who are already endur-
ing the bleak enormity of blind-
ness.
More than 14,000 of the 300,000
Americans currently blind are
Texans, according to official esti-
mates.
What causes blindness? The
State Department of Health lists
three contributing factors: disease,
accidents, and neglect.
"Blindness brought on through
neglect really is no worse than that
caused by disease or an accident,"
says Dr. Henry A. Holle, commis-
sioner of health. "But somehow it
seems worse. It's so unnecessary."
If all children were given a
thorough eye examination prior to
entering school for the first time,
and if all visual defects were eor-
rected or placed under treatment
at that time, a major step ill the
prevention of blindness in child-
hood would be taken, Dr. Holle be-
lieves.
"But a single examination is not
enough. A child grows quickly. His
eyes, like every other body organ,
are constantly changing. Some-
times the change is a defect."
The health official judges that
"at least half of all cases of blind-
ness occurring from year to year
could be prevented through use of
the sight-saving knowledge at
hand."
For example: some 400,000 in-
dustrial accidents occur each year,
1500 of them resulting in per-
vnanent blindness.
And as for disease-caused blind-
ness, modern surgical methods now
restores or improves vision in 19 of
20 cases of cataract, the leading
cause of blindness in the United
States.
When parents or teachers ob-
serve a child holding reading mat-
ter closer than the normal 14
inches from his face, tilting his
head while reading, or constantly
blinking healh authorities agree it
should be interpreted as a sign of
impending eye trouble.
Other conditions which may in-
dicate eye trouble are crossed eyes,
frequent styes and headaches, red-
rimmed or encrusted eye lids, or
persistent watering of either eye.
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From where I sit, Pops always
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though he never takes anything
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Rosenthal, Henry. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1955, newspaper, October 20, 1955; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth428189/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.