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Some Close Figuring
T.
OYER 12 MILLION PLATES BEING
MANUf ACTURED FOR '66 VEHICLES
AUSTIN—Most Texas motorists
have "bought" their 1905 motor
vehicle registrations—better known
as auto "license plate!)."
And while they blithely motor
over the 66,000-mile state-maintain-
ed highway system they probably
are not aware—nor even care—
that the 1966 license plates now are
being manufactured at the State
prison at Huntsville.
They probably would be1 more
concerned if they knew that with-
in the next few weeks computa-
tions will begin to determine not
only what kind of cars motorists
will drive in 1987 —but also where
they will live.
Experts in the Motor Vehicle
Division of the Texas Highway
Department must determine some
18 months in advance of sale how
many plates of each different kind
will be required in each of the
EARLY TIMES
By JACK STEWART
ALSATE
One of the two most famous In-
dian Chiefs of the Big Bend coun-
try during the 1880's was spelled
and pronounced Alsate. Isow Atsate
was a pure 100% cold blooded,
shrewd, calculating, holder up of
wagon trains, stealer of livestock,
etc. Apache. What I am trying to
say is that he was all Apache.
But, he was born a Mexican!
Just as we go to today's modern
supermarkets, the Comanches and
Apaches used to use Northern Mex-
ico as the same convenience dur-
ing their annual horse and child
stealing expeditions during the
month of September.
On one of these raids, they stole
the six year old Alsate, although
that then was not his name. Being
of hardy stock, which he had to be,
he survived and in time proved his
equal of the Apache youngsters and
even excelled. Now this is easier
said than done when some of the
Apache youth training consisted of
such things as taking a mouthful
of water and running up and down
a mountain, about IV2 to 2 miles in
all, and then spitting out the wa-
ter upon their return without hav-
ing swallowed any. Anyway, Alsate
eventually became chief of the
Chisos Mountains branch of the
Membrenos Apache, and dealt the
early Big Bend settlers much much
misery. From Horse Head Crossing
of the Pecos, thru Comanche
Springs (now Port Stockton) to
Presidio, and all in between was
his domain, until finally he was be-
trayed by a half breed Judur of his
tribe for a few pieces of gold and
placed in irons by the Mexican
Rurales.
Destination Southern Mexico
arid slavery in the year 1882. Had
he been caught in the U.SA., he
would either have been shot or sent
to the Dry Tortugas Islands, whero
more than one rebellant Indian
Chief was sent to die.
But fate thru the hand or iiis pa-
ternal Mexican unclc came to his
aid, and although most of his peo-
ple remained captives Alsate and
one of his wives escaped.
For a long time there was peace
in the Big Bend. So much so that
people even ventured into the can-
yons on the Rio Grande, near the
Chisos (Ghost) Mountains. Finally
campers returning from that area
began to talk of strange things
happening. Things such as two sets
of foot prints, one large and one
small near their camp fires and
in the river bed for 15-20 miles up
and down the river from the
Chisos.
During these visits from the bare
footed visitors only a small amount
of food would be taken with never
enough noise made to disturb the
campers' rest.
Eventually a cave was found
high in the Chisos and a few hardy
souls endowed with the bravery
that comes only with the extraction
and fermintation of the juices of
certain grains and cactus ventured
inside and found the well preserved
remains of Alsate. There were no
signs of violence1; only a rough bed
made of limbs and a few rude
snares. No sign was found of an-
other person—only Alsate.
But, for years, and up until very
recent thugs, people •who have
camped in the lonely v' retches of
the Chisos have found foot prints,
unexplored and in pairs, one large,
one small. Deer hunters of that
area have seen things that they
hesitate to talk about for fear
of ridicule. . . . Some of the tales
will astound you.
The Weather
Date
Max.
Min.
Prec.
June
23
89°
81°
0.00
June
24
89°
80°
0.00
June
25
89°
80°
0.00
June
26
89°
81°
o.«o
June
1217
89°
80°
0.00
June
28
90i°
80°
0.00
June
29
90°
78°
0.00
Total rainfall for year 13.07
State's 264 counties. To complicate
the problem, there are 33 differ-
ent kinds of license plates—plus
the new "personalized" plates ap-
proved by the Legislature at the
session just ended.
Generally, it requires about six
months to make the actual alloca-
tion estimate, and another year for
production of the plates. However,
studies are under way to determine*
if the allocation estimates can be
made by computers, thua greatly
reducing the time required and
permitting the use of later data
for the determination.
There are approximately six
million registered vehicle® in Tex-
as. For the last decade this num-
ber has been increasing at the rate
of about four per cent each year.
This will moan that by 1967 more
than 6.5 million sets of license
plates will be needed.
This poses many problems. Will
motorists be driving more "com-
pacts"—or will the trend be re-
versed toward heavier vehicles ?
Will the new "deep water" barge
canal at Victoria create another in-
dustrial boom in that coastal area,
and pose the need for thousands,
more plates—and if so, what kind ?
Will the population movement from
the rural areas to the cities be
continued; and, if so, which coun-
ties will lose population and which
cities will gain the most?
Arriving at allocation estimates
for each county is an art. Economy-
minded, the Department shies away
from overstocking ("This runs into
money"). At the same time the
Department tries to avoid under-
stocking the counties, too.
One Department official, closely
associated with the problem, as-
serts that so far—during the 16
years he's been involved in the allo-
cation estimate—the Department
never has exhausted the total plate
supply produced.
"But I'll tell you this," he con-
fided, "We've come pretty close to
it."
Estimates are based on the prev-
ious year's estimate, although this
may be .some 18 months in advance
of the registration period. Besides
registration figures. Department
personnel consider any pertinent
information available—such as pos-
sible population changes in an area.
If the Department doesn't learn
of an anticipated major population
change in time, a county may have
either a surplus or fall short of its
needed plate supply. Because of
such unpredictables it is difficult to
be certain that each county has the
needed number of plates—or the
Utopian goal of "no more, no less."
And since a set of plates costs
the Department about 13 cents to
manufacture, the importance of
having a minimum surplus of
plates in each county is readily ap-
parent. A surplus of just one of
each of the 33 kinds of plates in
each of the 254 counties would rep-
resent nearly $1,100 of the tax-
payers' money. However, this ob-
viosuly would be "skinning the
cat" too close, and some surplus is
inevitable.
Provision is made for the pos-
sibility that a county may ex-
haust its plate supplies. In this
event, additional plates usually are
forwarded from one of six stock
points in the state—Amarillo, Cor-
pus Christi, Houston, Austin, Dal-
las and Odessa.
It has been said that there is
nothing more worthless than yes-
terday's newspaper—unless it is an
obsolete license plate. Field in-
vestigators of the Motor Vehicle
Division inventory surplus plates
in each county. Then they are sent
to Highway Department District
Offices where most are sold to the
highest bidder for scrap metal.
Although 1967 and sale of license
plates for that year are many
months away, one thing is certain-
Some county will need at least one
license plate of a particular kind.
The incumbent governor always
gets number "SO 1" (State Official
One), which is issued in his county
of legal residence.
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By The Sea
* ISMi « 1
VOLUME LVJII NUMBER 26
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1965
10c Per Copy
At Wagner General:
Patients In Hospital:
Emma Samora, Raymond Koch,
Paul Davis, James Blackwell, Mrs.
Lucy Starr, Mrs. Emma Hamlin,
Mrs. Mary E. Copeland, Mrs. Agnes
Carvell, Mrs. Viva Metcalfe, Danna
Rodriguez, Mrs. Florence Harvey,
Mrs. Mary Maulding, Mrs. Doro-
thy Tumlinson, Fred Bates, George
Carmichael, J. J. Spruiel, Anita
Lewis, Raymond Millspaugh, Mrs.
Janis Hutchinson, Mary Frazier,
Joe Kelly, Curtis Henderson, Mar-
co Gatica.
Patients Discharged:
Mrs. Melvina Koerber, George
Frangullie, Mrs. Betty Braudrick
and boy, John D. Glenn, Sr., Mrs.
Angelifta Rodriguez and girl, Mrs.
Nancy Scott and boy, Michael Trey-
big, Frances Geirra, Vida White,
Mamie Singleton, Richard Perez,
Robert Koch, Jr., Ruth Newman,
Mrs. Dorothy Smith, Mrs. Alvena
Laslie, David Alamia, Glenn Ko-
curek, Francis Bales* Angelina
Flores, Tony Gatica, Mrs. Rae
Robinson, Kenneth Brown.
All Ready For Grand Fourth
Boat Races, Barbecue,
Fireworks On Sunday
New Pastor At First
Presbyterian Church
Palacios welcomes Rev. Leslie E.
Webb, Jr. and family as new citi-
zens of the community. They are
at home at 300 Humphrey.
Rev. Webb assumes duties as
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Palacios on July 1 and
will preach his first sermon here
at the 11 a.m. service Sunday
morning. The evening service will
be at 7:30.
Official installation services will
be held Sunday, July 11, at 7:30
p.m. The ministers from El Campo,
Port Lavaca and Wharton Presby-
terian Churches and Ruling Elders
from Falfurrias, Port Lavaca and
Victoria will participate in the
service.
Rev. Webb was bom on June 30,
1915 in St. Andrew, Florida. After
graduating from Bay County High
School, Panama City, Fla. in 1932,
he became an aviation metalsmith
in Civil Service. He was draft ex-
empt because of his occupation but
Volunteered for the Army Air
Corps in January 1942 and served
for four years, three of which were
overseas. He attained the rank of
Captain.
He attended Marysville College
from 1946 to 1949, completing the
four year course in three years.
He received his B. D. degree in
1950 from Austin Presbyterian
Theological Seminary.
His first pastorate was Delhi,
Louisiana. During his tenure here
from 1952-1957 the membership of
the church increased from less
than 50 to more than 100 and a
beautiful new church was con-
structed. He then went to the First
Presbyterian Church, Falfurrias,
where he served until coming to
Palacios.
Library Receives Many
New Books, Mostly
For Children's Reading
We have 13 new books for child-
ren, from the Dr. Seuss level
through "The Secrets of the Dol-
phin" by Kay.
"The Sleep Book" by Dr. Seuss
is to read only in bed, while his
tongue-twisting "Fox in Socks" is
worse than "Peter Piper Picked a
Peck of . . There's "Life Along
the Seashore", "Now You Can Read
to Yourself" (and you can),
"Quack, Quack" for fans of ducks
and "Afraid to Ridei" and "The Dol-
lar Horse" for horse lovers. All
these are memorial books bought
with money given in memory of
Joan Carroll Allen.
The Palacios Library thanks
"Sparky" Hale of Bay City for a
10 volume set of books entitled
"Messages and Papers of the Pres-
idents, 1789-1898".
Are you bringing your children
to the library this summer? We
also have 200 books on loan from
the Texas State Library.
Have you noticed that the demoli-
tion of the Feather building is pro-
ceeding?
He received a Master's Degree
in English from A. & I. College,
Kingsville in 1959.
In 1946 he married Elaine Kinc
of Bryn Mawr, Penn. and they
have four children, Leslie III, Rob-
ert, Mary Alice and Ralph.
Leslie III is a 1965 graduate of
Falfurrias High School and was
valedictorian of his class. For two
years in succession he won the
grand prize in the South Texas
Science Fair. He is now attending
Florida Presbyterian College at
St. Petersburg.
Robert will be a high school sen-
ior next year. He plays B flat
clarinet and has made State Band
for two years. He is presently at-
tending the National Music Camp
at Interlochen, Michigan.
Mary Alice is a high school
sophomore and Ralph is in the
eighth grade.
Mrs. Mildred Cairnes returned
Tuesday from Tulsa, Okla. where
she had been since Friday.
Thunderbirds, With 8
Wins, Are Champions
In L.L. Senior Division
The Thundeiulrds with eight
wins and four losses captured the
championship honors of the Senior
Division of Little League baseball.
The Cardinals and Colts each
had records of six wins and six
losses while the Red Sox with four
wins and eight 'osses finished in
fourth position.
Donnie Schroeder of the Cardi-
nals walked off with the batting
honors with an average of .632,
followed by R. Garza of the Colts
and C. Remlinger of the Thunder-
birds, with .571 and .555 averages
respectively.
Joe Buckley and Terry Harvey,
both of the Cards, led in home runs
with three and two, respectively. B.
Remlinger had four triples, and
Schroeder 2. Wallace of the Thun-
derbirds had e>ight doubles to his
credit.
John Sutherland, 101,
Prominent Bay Citian,
Oldest Mason, Buried
A prominent Bay City business
and civic leader, John Sutherland,
died Sunday at the age of 101.
Sutherland, who was mayor 14
years, was one of the founders of
the Alamo Lumber Company of
Texas and was in charge of the
company's Bay City operation until
he retired in November, 1959.
At the time of his death, he was
the oldest Mason in Texas and the
fourth oldest in the nation. He
joined the Masons in 1885.
Funeral services werei held at 3
p.m. Monday at the First Baptist
Church in Bay City with burial in
Cedarvale Cemetery.
He is survived by five children,
seven grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren.
Mrs. Pat Raplee returned Sun-
day from a week's visit with her
sister in Concord, Calif. During her
absence Mrs. Pearl Zemanek of Bay
City took care of her office.
WELCOMED VISITORS—Emil
and M'ollie Weber, editors and pub-
lishers of the Goliad Advance-
Guard paid our office a visit last
Thursday afternoon. She was here
for a medical check-up by Dr. J. C.
Howard. While here we talked
"shop", hospital, Palacios and Go-
liad.
• * *
IN THE ASTRODOME we spent
three or four innings talking to
Iformer Shark Coach Joe Newbill
who is now head coach at Midland
Lee. He sends his regards to all
his friends here. Annie Laura was
at the game with him. Naturally
we talked football during the base-
ball game, and things going on
here and at Midland.
* * *
COMING EVENTS—Only six
weeks until the Sharks open grid
practice and nine weeks before
they play their first game. Doesn't
seem too long ago we were in
Brownsville and Austin, does it?
+ * *
GUS THE BUS—Carl Crouch,
driver of the Silver Eagle that
took football fans to Seguin,
Brownsville and Austin, on one of
his regular runs though Palacios
last week .cMlasl us, and .suggested
a trip to the Astrodome by bus,
and his driving. A great idea, any-
body for it call Helen Ward or
this writer.
* * *
HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET—
When Mrs. Gloria Perry returns to
Corpus Christi this summer after
teaching in the local schools the
past year, she will pick up the
payments on the very same house
she moved out of when she came
to Palacios. Unusual at that.
* * *
CONGRATULATIONS to Ralph
Bowers on being elected first vice
president of the National Associa-
tion of Student Branches of the
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers. . . Also to Edward J.
Kana for being a Distinguished
Student in the College of Engineer-
ing during the Spring Semester
at Texas A&M University.
* * *
AWAY FOR THE 4TH—If you
are one of those people who just
must go somewhere for the 4th,
we recommend the Industrial Vol-
unteer Fire Dept.'s annual Fourth
of July Bar-B-Q to be held at the
LaSalle Hall in LaSalle, Texas.
Two meals of sausage and beef with
all the trimmings starting at 11:30
a.m. and 5:30 p.m. A dance at 8
p.m. features the music of the Edna
Polka Boys.
* • *
DOESN'T COST THE CITY—
On approving the lease of 103.6
acres of land on the airport for
$1 an acre to the Palacios Golf As-
sociation it gave further proof that
they didn't want any financial help
whatsoever from the city. However
2S (plus) acres of this plot had
(See "DIZZY," Page 5)
The Texan Department of Public Safety urges you to avoid all "close calls" when driving
(luring the 1965 Fourth of July weekend. The DPS has estimated that 31 persons will die in
Texas traffic from midnight, July 2 through midnight, July 4. By driving in accordance with
the laws of safety, staying alert for dangerous conditions, and by not taking chance* you can
insure that you and your loved one* will' be "Safe**#
Saturday Night Dance Opens Week-End
Activities, Games, Rides, Other Features
With the 16th annual Lions' Club
Carnival scheduled to begin at noon
Sunday, July 4th, members of the
club indicate everything will be
"set and ready" to go.
Lion members have been work-
ing on the project for the past
several months and most of the
kiddie rides are ready for opera-
tion. Final touches of paint were
added to the stands and rides
earlier allowing plenty of time for
the paint to dry before the car-
nival's opening.
Kicking off the holiday weekend
celebration will be a dance Satur-
day night, sponsored by the Pa-
lacios Volunteer Fire Department.
The dance will be held on the
open air pavilion, over the blue
waters of Tres Palacios Bay and
under the stars. Music will be fur-
nished by Johnny and the Wild
Ones.
Nearly a score of individual at-
tractions will be in operation on
the carnival grounds on East Bay-
shore during the afternoon and
night, but one of the main attrac-
tions of the day will be the free
boat races, sanctioned by the Lone
Star Boat Racing Association.
Trial runs will get underway at 10
that .morning with the starting gun
firing at 1 p. m.
Competition will be fast and
fancy in the waters of East Fay
when the Stock Divisions of the as-
sociation roar into action, each
driver hoping to get his boat across
the finish line first. Thirty-six
beautiful trophies are to be pre-
sented to the first three place win-
ners in 12 divisions.
With the outboard racing season
in full swing along the Gulf Coast
the overall point standings are al-
most deadlocked in every class and
every contender will be making an
all-out effort to take over the first
place spot.
Darts, penny pitch, bottle throw,
cake walk are just a few of the
sideshow attractions that will be
going "full tilt" during the car-
nival. Kiddie rides will be spread
over the grounds with the hobby
horses and ferris wheel slated to
attract most of the younger set.
For the older group attending there
will be games.
The day's activities will get un-
derway around noon when delicious
beef barbecue will be served. The
meal will cost §1.50 and will in-
clude chuck beef or sausage, beana,
cole slaw and all the other trim-
mings. Barbecue on buns, ham-
burgers and hot dogs will also be
sold.
A model 88 Winchester .243 or
.308. a portable TV or a set of golf
clubs will be awarded at' a drawing
at 10 p.m.
Approximately 45- minutes of*
fireworks will light the skies as the
climaxing event of this year's
carnival.
The Lions' Club member urge
you to attend the church of your-
choice that morning, then come
down for a delicious barbecue din~
ner and spend the afternoon and
evening having fun.
Proceeds from the carnival will
go to charities, chiefly local pro-
grams such as eyesight conserva-
tion. A portion of the proceeds
though will go to the Lions' Crip-
pled Children's C*mp at Kerrville,
where four local youngsters spent
two weeks this Rummer.
Houston F.A.A. Center
To Control 68,000 Sq.
Miles Of Air Traffic
The Federal Aviation Agency's
Air Route Traffic Control Cente*
at Houston began operations at 10
p.m. Saturday, June 26, assuming
initially control of the 140,000-
square-mile area of the New Or-
leans Center and 68,000 square
miles of the San Antonio Center.
Simultaneously, the New Orleans
Center will close and the first
(stage of the phasing out of the
San Antonio Center will be com-
pleted. On July 10 the San Antonio-
Center will transfer its remaining
102,000 square miles of control
area to Houston and it, too, will
close.
"When this consolidation is com-
pleted the Houston Center will con-
trol approximately 310,000 square
miles bound by Fort Stockton on-
the west, Waco and Alexandria on
the north, and Mobile, Ala. on the
east," Henry L. Newman, South-
west Region Director, said.
Houston is the last of the FAA's
centers to be built in the current-
program which reduced the number
of centers in the continental Unit-
ed States from 29 to 21. The center
at San Antonio has been in opera-
tion since 194£ and New Orleans;
since 1945.
Kathy Foulds of Austin is spend-
ing awhile here with her grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Milam
and her cousins, Lisa and Walter
Hamlin and their parents, the Billy
Hamlins.
Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Johnson?
have returned from a week's vaca-
tion. They visited their daughter
and family, the Ray Mitchells iu
Houston, and took their grand-
children to Six Flags over Texas-
Repeal Of Excise Tax Will Save Money
And Much Book Work For Tax Payers
AUSTIN—-The Excise Tax Re-
duction Act of 1965, approved by
the President on .Tune 21, 1965, re-
peals certain excise taxes effective
June 22, 1965, and makes other
important changes, according to It.
L. (Bob) Phinney, District Direc-
tor of Internal Revenue here.
The following taxes are repealed
outright on sales made on or after
June 22, 1965:
1. The retailers excise taxes on
jewelry, furs, toilet preparations,
luggage, handbags, etc.
2. The manufacturers excise tax-
es on refrigerators, freezers, self-
contained air-conditioning units,
electric, gas and oil appliances,
radios, TV sets, phonographs,
phonograph records, musical in-
struments, sporting goods (except
fishing equipment), cameras, film
and projectors, lenses, business ma-
chines, mechanical pens arid pen-
cils, lighters, and matches.
Also, the Act repeals the tax on
the use of safe deposit boxes, ef-
fective for periods of use beginning
on or after July 1, 1965.
Taxpayers who, becausei of the
repeal of one or more of these
taxes, are no longer required to
file Forms 720 for calendar quart-
ers beginning on and after July 1,
1.905, should write "final return'"
at the top of the excise tax return
for the quarter ending June 30,
1965, due on or before July 31,
19615, so that their names can be
removed from the IRS mailing list.
The Act also repealed the special
occupational taxes on bowling al-
leys, billiard or pool tables, and
coin operated amusement devices;
(but not gaming devices) effective
July 1, 1965.
Other changes made by the Act-
include graduated rate reductions
of the tax on passenger automo-^
biles, and repeal of other taxes ore
December 31, 1965, or January IV
1966. In addition, the Act provides
for retroactive refunds to May 1&,
1965, of the tax on air-conditioners
and passenger automobiles, an*i
for floor-stocks refunds of manu-
facturers taxes based on inventor*-
ies of tax-paid articles held by?
dealers on the day after enactment
of the Act.
More information about thesei
changes may be obtained by con-
tacting the IRS office.
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