Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1956 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, January 19, 1956
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
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matter under the Ac*t of Congress.
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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
Cecil McWilliams was killed in
a car wreck near Blessing, this
was the first auto fatality in the
county for this year.
The local Army Air Base was
declared surplus.
Mrs. Dorothy Curl nd John L.
Blevins, who had leased the Pier
Cafe, were having their formal
opening Saturday night as Vic In-
sirilo and his band were playing
for a dance on the pavilion that
night.
New businesses in Palacios were
the Gulf Coast Appliance Store
opened by Jim Bateman and the
Auto Supply Store opened by El-
don Hamlin.
D. A. Brooks anl J. W. King took
-over the Sinclair Service Station.
15 YEARS AGO
The 204th and 105th Coast Ar-
tillery (AA) from Louisiana and
the 106th Coast Artillery (AA)
from Kentucky arrived at Camp
Hulen by train and trucks over
the week-end.
Two local boys, 12 and 14 years
of age, were arrested and eonfes-
"into and stealing
from six business houses.
Postal receipts for the first 13
days of January showed that the
Palacios post offiec made a gain
of $137.56 over the first three
months of 1940.
The Street and Road Paving
Bond election for Road District
No. 1 was set for February 8.
Mrs. H. B. Douglas announced
the marriage of her daughter,
Dorothy Franks, to James Arthur
Collins of Bay City. The cere-
mony took place January 10 in
Corpus Christi.
The Palacios Pharmacy, being
constructed by J. L. Pybus, was
nearing completion and would be
ready for occupancy next week.
Leon C. Presley of El Campo was
to be the manager of the store.
Representatives from various
organizations in Palacios were go-
ing to Houston for the purpose of
financiv.s the construction of the
builriing to house the prophylatic
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station and the Military Police
Headquarters for the U. S. Army.
20 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Wesley Buller, a recent
bride, was honor guest at the
shower given by Mrs. J. R. Wag-
ner and Mrs. Charles Luther.
J. H. McCroskey, 82, of Mrkham,
died in the clinic at Wharton. He
was a nephew of Shanghai Pierce
and a well known stockman and
rancher of Wharton and Matagor-
da Counties.
The quarterly meeting of the
Matagorda County Federation of
Women's Clubs was held in the
new school at Blessing. Mrs. Phil-
lip Johnson of Van Vleck, presided.
Mrs. F. A. White, district presi-
dent and Mrs. Bruce Reid were
guest speakers.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schoon-
over of Osage, Kansas, were the
parents of a baby boy born Decem-
ber 25.
Miss Mildred Helander was elect-
ed to fill the vacancy in the H.E.
department when Miss Theresa
Pawlek resigned to continue her
college work.
25 YEARS AGO
M. I. Cox purchased the jewelry
business located on Commerce
Street from M. J. Scudder.
Mrs. Freida Barnell died at her
home in Houston.
A meeting held in El Campo
boosting the completion of-High-
way 71 from Austin to Palacios
through El Campo was attended
by a large delegation from this
city.
30 YEARS AGO
C. L. Gass of Cuero, leased the
Smith building at the corner of
Fifth and Commerce Streets, and
was getting ready to open a dry
goods store by the first of Feb-
ruary.
Mrs. D. D. McConnell died at
her home in this city.
E. E. Burton moved his feed
store from the Smith Building to
one on Main Street.
A meeting held in Angleton was
attended by representative citi-
zens of Brazoria, Matagorda and
Harris Counties to discuss the
need of cement roads in this sec-
tion.
35 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Sisson and
son Jack, returned from a trip to
Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Hecq were
the parents of a seven pound boy.
Mrs. Marianna Elder Baines died
at her home in Dallas from burns
received when a stove exploded.
Remains were brought here for in-
terment.
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School Construction, Price Support
And Rice Problems, Week's Topics
FROM THE EXCHANGES . .
Matagorda Ship Channel Boosted
By Gov. Shivers; Culp For Senator
Gov. Shivers and the State
Board of Water Engineers Wed-
nesday approved the Matagorda
Ship Channel project and sent
work to Washington urging com-
pletion of the proposed develop-
ment.
Gov. Shivers, in a personal let-
ter to President Eisenhower, term-
ed the channel project to be "of
tremendous importance to the en-
tire mid-coast area of Texas."
The governor handed the multi-
million dollar project, which will
give Port Lavaca deep water ship-
ping, a firm endorsement. He
pointed out that he had just re-
ceived a "favorable report from
the Board of Water Engineers of
Texas recommending the Mata-
gorda Ship Channel."
—Port Lavaca Wave.
Plans for development of a 482
homesite subdivision in Southwest
Port Lavaca were announced Mon-
day by Willet Wilson, Houston at-
torney and prominent county prop-
erty owner.
Wilson informed the city coun-
cil that he is planning a $400,000
development which would begin
almost immediately. "I'm ready to
advertise for bids," he said. —
Port Lavaca Wave.
Plans for the establishment of
a national bank in Port Lavaca
were disclosed this week with the
filing of application for a char-
ter before Ray M. Gidney, comp-
troller of the currency, in Wash-
ington.
Woodward C- Regan, who with
seven others, filed the charter ap-
plication, said Wednesday he had
no statement to make at this time
on plans for the new bank.—Port
Lavaca Wave.
A city ordinance, complete with
all the teeth needed for cleaning up
the El Campo traffic picture and
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uniform traffic code, has been
given the nod of approval by the
city council.— El Campo News7
A movement, long listed in the
rumor stage, began to take shape
Tuesday night when a group of
county businessmen made plans
to draft Culp Krueger to run for
state senator.
Approximately 25 citizens from
El Campo, Wharton, Louise and
surrounding areas attended the
meeting during which plans were
made to have petitions circulated
for signature by persons interested
in supporting Krueger.—El Cam-
po News.
The Jackson County Fresh Wa-
ter Supply District No. 1 comprised
of the town of Vanderbilt, will
hold its regular election of su-
pervisors Saturday.—Edna Herald,
At the regular meeting of the
Directors of the Chamber of Com-
merce and Agriculture on Thurs-
day evening, the Board voted the
sum of $150 toward the expenses
of the first annual cotton clinic to
be held at the American Legion
Recreation Center of Thursday,
January 26, beginning at 10 a.m.
—El Campo Citizen.
SEADRIFT—City Council took
another step Tuesday night to-
ward realization of a long stand-
ing dream of Seadrift citizens—
the construction of a municipal
harbor.—Calhoun County Times.
Plans and estimates of cost for
the construction of additions to
two Port Lavaca Schools will be
presented to the school board by
Architects Jordan C. Ault and
Robert C. Rick at the board's regu-
lar meeting.
The figures will be studied by
the board to see what can be done
with available funds. — Calhoun
County Times.
Baptist- Brotherhood
To Meet In El Campo
A Baptist Brotherhood Meeting
for all brotherhoods in the Colo-
rado Association will be held Mon-
day, January 30 at the First Bap-
tist Church in El Campo, with the
Memorial Baptist Church of El
Campo as co-host.
Supper will be served from 6:30
to 8:00 p.m. Dr. O. D. Martin will
be guest seaker and will show a
picture taken by himself while on
a recent tour through the "Land
Where Jesus Walked".
Special recognition will be given
the brotherhood bringing the oldest
member as well &s the youngest
member (youngest possible mem-
ber is 17 years of age).
Some 200 men are expected from
the counties of Colorado, Whar-
ton, Matagorda and Jackson.
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PALACIOS
PHONE 5261
By CLARK W. THOMPSON
Congressman
I expect to be hearing from you
soon in regard to the President's
federal aid to school construction
plan. You and I have talked about
this a good bit in the past, and I
think I know how you feel about it.
Ilere is the way I understand your
views: You would consider federal
aid only for the construction of
permanent buildings, and then
not unless there were no strings
attached to the federal money. You
don't, under any circumstances,
want the federal government to
interfere with the administration
of our schools. That in a nutshell
is the way I understand your
wishes.
The effectiveness of the Family
Farm Sub-committee is particular-
ly evident in the requests we are
receiving to go places and hold
hearings. Two are now pending.
One is in North Carolina where
Chairman Cooley of the Agricul-
ture Committee plans to take the
entire Committee and staff to sit
in with us on a hearing just like
we held in Hallettsville and La
Grange. He has agreed to make it
grass roots and let us run it as we
did on the memorable bus trip last
fall. We have another trip plan-
ned for down in southwest Vir-
ginia. Much of the good which
comes from these hearings is
brought about because we spot-
light the problems and alert the
federal agencies, such as the De-
partment of Agriculture, to the
necessity of taking action. Very
few new laws, if any, are neces-
sary. All they need to do is to ap-
ply those now on the books.
In the President's Agricultural
message to Congress one of the
most significant points and one of
the most hopeful was the sugges-
tion that there be a limit to the
amount of money any one farmer
could receive for price suppoi-t
loans. It was never the intention
that price support money should
be used to build up tremendous
farms under single ownership. It
was more designed to take care of
the family farmer. If there is such
a limit placed on loans, it will dis-
courage the huge speculative plant-
ing that has gobbled up so much
acreage from the family farms. I
first heard this suggestion during
our hearings last fall. Whoever
thought of it has a very interest-
ing idea and one that ought to be
explored.
In a Senate Committee hearing
last week, Secretary Benson men-
tioned the possibility of a two-
price system for rice. This, too,
must have some merit and should
be carefully studied. I have already
assured the rice producers that as
Chairman of the Rice Sub-com-
mittee I will hold hearings when-
ever they are ready. If there is
an answer, we will find it.
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