Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1956 Page: 1 of 8
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Commercial Water Users With Bills Unpaid To Be Shut-Off
The Palacios City Council Mon-
day night authorized City Water
Superintendent M. O. Cavallin to
crack down on delinquent water
and sewage bills.
Businesses and commercial users
of water will be asked to pay then-
hack bills up to date by August
15. Any commercial bills unpaid
by that date will be regarded as
"un-cooperative" and the user will
be disconnected from the city wa-
ter system.
The council, in view.of the pres-
ent ALCOA strike, agreed to be
more lenient with residents who
are behind on their water bills.
"If they'll agree to pay their
current water bills and pay off
back bills in monthly installments,
"we'll keep them connected with
the system," Mayor Petersen said.
The Council also passed a reso-
lution proposed by Charles John-
son, making it policy of the City
that no "outside the city limits"
residences be added to the present
water facilities until a more ade-
quate water supply can be ob-
tained.
Cavallin told the council that
more than 70 water users are de-
linquent on the water bills. May-
er Petersen would not comment
as to how much the bills total.
A large portion of the outstand-
ing water bills are owed by com-
mercial users.
The council, noting that rice,
cotton and shrimp harvests are in
full swing felt that businessmen
should be able to pay their bills
"now or never".
Councilman Ed Barrett stressed
that no favoritism should be shown
in the case of commercial water
users.
"We're dependent on our water
system as a major source of in-
come and have to have that monetf
to operate on,' Barrett said. "If
they're making money on our wa-
ter through their business, they
should be able t.o pay for it."
••
Boat Races Scheduled
Labor Day Weekend
Chamber Hopes To Have Best Racing
Boatmen Of Gulf Coast Area Entered
Plans for gigantic Labor Day
boat races to be staged here by
the Chamber of Commerce were
going full steam Wednesday, with
C. H. Chatham, chairman, busy
Dempsey Tucker
Severely Injured
In Auto Accident
Dempsey Tucker received severe
head cuts and bruises and two
others—J. D. Greenawalt and Babby
Gene Beard—received minor cuts
and bruises in two accidents in
this area Saturday night.
Tucker was injured and remain-
ed unconscious for several hours
after an, automobile driven by
Greenawalt failed to make a- turn
on the cutoff highway near Fran-
citas at a by-pass detour and col-
lided with a concrete abutment.
Greenawalt suffered from shock
and minor injuries when brought
to the Bayview General Hospital
about 11 p.m. Saturday.
Beard was sligh.ly injured when
the car he was driving failed to
make the turn on the East Bay
road in front of Grassy Point
Bait Camp. The car was totally
demolished after colliding with a
pole and ending up in the Bay.
Beard was traveling East and
said an oncoming car's lights
blinded him at the turn.
A number of stitches were taken
in a deep scalp wound in'flicted on
Tucker in the Francitas accident.
The car was declared a total wreck.
GRASSY POINT
By LORRAINE BASFORI)
Robert (Bob) Lewis works with
successful fishermen, eight hours
a day, six days a week, so he
hears lots of good advice as to
how, where, when, maybe even
why to fish, from Bill Hunt, who
spends his spare hours behind
a rod and reel; the same with C.
O. Huff who checks groceries part
time, and the other part he is
handling four pound trout over
the counter for Bill to check in
the deep freeze.
It must be that this advice that
comes out of two mouths, goes in
one ear, for when Bob and Jesse
Derrick went fishing Sunday
morning, they didn't get one
single nibble! Maybe Bob just
over sleeps and the 'early worms'
are all taken by the time he gets
ready to go fishing.
Bill and Mrs. Hunt, E. Tate,
IV. H. Horrell was fishing for trout,
when a "five pound red answered
the call of the shrimp by mistake,
and you can be certain Horrell
didn't mind one bit. Bill got a
nice drum and trout.
Bob Stewart, Editor of the Bay
City News, and Ed Cooper were
visitors at G.P.B.C. Wednesday.
Bob dashes off a few lines of fish-
ing news for his paper, but sel-
dom has a chance to dash off and
do much in the line of fishing for
his own pleasure.
Ed had a pocket full of bait one
evening about sundown, fishing
near the BYPU pier. He lost all
of his bait on some big 'fish, so
was in the "guess I'll fish some
more" mood when he noticed one
of the most successful fishermen
in Palacios wading along with his
bait bucket. Right then Ed figured
he didn't hare a chance, and call-
ed it a day.
Have you ever been so thrilled
over something that you acquired
a headache as the result of the
excitement? Well, if you were an
eleven year old boy and hooked a
14-lb. tarpon in the old turning
basin, you'd be thrilled too—just
like young David Leighton was
when he was the one who hooked
his 14-pounder. In fact, dad D. E.
Leighton was thrilled also. David
used cut mullet on his hook, and
one can imagine his amazement
and anxiety when such a big fish
hit, then began jumping high out
(See "FISHING," Page 4)
arranging rules, promotion and
entries.
Scheduled to become an annual
affair on a large scale, the races
will accommodate boat racers in
all stock divisions, but will not
cater to "modified" aqua speeders.
B. R. Bradshaw, a local water
sport enthusiast, is assisting
Chatham in arranging contestants
for the races.
Boat racers are expected to come
here from the Baytown Boat Club,
Houston Bayshore Boat Club, Gal-
veston Boat Club, Galveston, Cor-
pus Christi and other Gul'f Coast
cities.
Wednesday the committee was
trying to decide to offer cash or
trophy prizes. It is not known yet
whether one or two heats will be
run in each category.
The races will be staged along
the East Bayshore. Adjoining
streets will be roped off and tickets
taken up at each entrance.
Meeting Monday night, the
Chamber Board of Directors de-
cided to sponsor the races in an
effort to "kill two birds with one
Stone."
"It will be the best type of
tourist promotion we can have,"
President S. W. (Woody) Wilson
said, "and it is a chance for us to
make a l'ttle money to help us get
back on a sound financial basis."
Local boatmen interested in com-
peting in the races should contact
Chatham. Entrance fees and ticket
prices haven't been decided.
Twirling Clinic
Starts Monday
With 24 Palacios music students
enrolled, a twirling clinic sponsor-
ed by the Band Boosters Club, will
get underway here Monday.
The clinic, to be directed by Lyn
Ploegpr, an exceptional twirler
from Yoakum, will deal with all
phases of beginning and advanced
twirling, specialty acts and field
dances.
Miss Ploeger has taught as an
instructor at twirling schools in
both Galveston and Huntsville and
maintains her own twirling class-
es at Yoakum.
The twirling teacher is expect-
ed to arrive in Palacios Sunday
and begin organizing her schedule,
according to Mrs. B. W. King.
Classes will be held at the Pa-
lacios Junior High School.
Six Young Palacians
Are Attending
Swimming Course
Six youthful Palacians, who
earned their Junior Lifesaving
Badges earlier this summer, are
taking instructions on how to give
swimming lessons this week in
Bay City.
Ranging from 17 to 14 years of
age, the youths travel to the Bay
City Municipal Swimming Pool to
participate in the course.
The course will deal with first
aid and water safety, along with
methods of teaching swimming.
Those attending are: Frances
Halamicek, Pat King, Norris Craw-
ford, Ronnie Linville, Kenneth Cook
and Hugh Dismukes.
George Washington's estate was
valued at over $5,000,000 when he
died.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Praytor and
Mrs. Ottie Nixon of El Campo
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Conner Tuesday.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1956
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 3\l
BEST IN MID-COAST
First Annual Little League Softball
Tournament Set Here Next Week
Good, fast softball, and plenty
of it, is on the slate next week for
Palacios fans.
Eight of the best "big ball"
teams 'from the Texas Mid-Coast-
region are expected to compete
here in the first annual Little
League Softball tournament.
Sponsored by the Palacios Little
League to raise funds for next
season's expenses, the tournament
is scheduled to begin Monday
night, with games each night dur-
ing the week.
The finals will fall on Saturday
night, August 18.
King Oil, champions of the City
Softball League here, will be one
o'f the contenders in the Little
League tournament.
Other teams are expected to be
the Bay City Red Caps, Phillips
66 from Old Ocean, Rosenberg,
Bell Bottoms o'f Houston, Mark-
ham, Matagorda, Sealy and Boling.
Expected to be a two-prize tour-
nament, the set-up will feature
doublo elimination. Umpires will
be furnished by the Little League
and concessions will be in charge
of the Little League.
If this year's joust is successful,
the event will be an annual affair,
according to President J. M. Trey-
big.
Wednesday the list of competi-
tors wasn't completed and a final
schedule wasnt available. Games
will probably start at 7:30 p.m.,
with two contests each night.
ALC0A-U.S.W. Union Negotiations
Continue Today In New York Offices
A spokesman for ALCOA at
Point Comfort this morning said
negotiations between the CIO
Steelworkers Union and the
aluminum industry are still in
progress in New York offices.
There was no information as to
Little Leaguers
Will Be Guests
Of Buffs Aug. 23
Between 50 and 60, and maybe
more, Palacios Little League ball
players and their chaperones will
drive to Houston Thursday, Au-
gust 23, to be guests of the Hous-
ton Buffs during a clash with the
Fort Worth Cats.
Previously league officials plan,
ned to hold a barbecue here and
take only the championship nine
to Busch Stadium as guests of the
Bu'ffs.
Thursday night President J. M.
Treybig announced that the entire
league will travel to the Buff
game.
The small fry ball players will
be taken in private automobiles.
Wednesday a few more cars were
needed to make the trip. The con-
voy will leave here in the after-
noon in time to reach buff Sta-
dium by 7:15 or 7:30 p.m.
Each little leaguer will be ex-
pected to take money for his sup-
per. The group will eat before or
during the game at Buff conces-
sion stands at the ball park.
Anyone willing to drive a group
of players to the game should con-
tact Ed Cooper at 5181 or 3526.
BULLETIN!
The game scheduled tonight
between the Palacios All-Stars
and the Blessing Bluejays was
canceled at 7:40 a.m. today.
President J. M. Treybig said
the Blessing team won't be able
to play because so many of their
players can't be on hand because
of the cotton picking season.
Ted Smith, Junior High Coach,
Resigns To Take Civil Service Job
Ted Smith, head coach of the
Palacios Junior High School Hor-
nets, became the sixth local teach-
er to resign this summer when he
quit last week to accept a civil
service position in Brownsville.
Superintendent of Schools Ralph
Newsom said Tuesday that no re-
placement for Smith has been con-
tacted. The Board of Trustees of
the Palacios Independent School
District will meet Monday. They
are expected to consider applica-
tions of possible replacements for
two of four other teachers who
resigned earlier this year.
Smith, who is a graduate of
North Texas State Teachers Col-
lege, completed one year as junior
high school coach here after serv-
ing as assistant high school coach
for one year.
Other teachers who resigned
earlier this summer include Miss
Dean Sanford, / (M&ry Petersen
and Mr. and ?/ E. Sullivan.
how close the negotiators are to a
settlement.
In the meantime, approximately
150 ALCOA workers in the Pala-
cios area are still idled by the
strike that started at Point Com-
fort over a week ago.
Approximately 950- workers at
the Point Comfort plant are off
their jobs and will be idle until
a settlement is reached between
the USW and the aluminum in-
dustry.
The ALCOA spokesman said he
didn't know "what the snag is in
the negotiations'"
An offer "equivalent of benefits
recently agreed upon in the steel
industry settlements" has been
offered the CIO Steel Workers
Union.
Aluminum Workers Interna-
tional Union accepted the pro-
posal last week, but USW of-
ficials have turned down the
three year contract.
The proposal offered a "package
settlement" calling for a general
wage increase of 9V£ cents per
hour the first year, seven cents per
hour the second year and eight
cents per hour the third year.
Further concessions in the of-
fer provided for additional
amounts on wage rate structures,
additional holiday pay, supple-
mental unemployment benefits,
jury pay, increased insurance
benefits, incentive adjustments,
a modified union shop, increased
pension minimums, additional
vacation allowances, a cost-of-
living and adjustment formula
and additional paid holiday.
The ALCOA spokesman at Point
Comfort said he didn't know exact-
ly what the union objects to in the
proposal.
(See "NEGOTIATIONS," Page 8)
Rotary Hears About
Texas Agriculture
'When you speak of an indus-
trial !revolution in /the United
States, remember that you first
had to have an agricultural revolu-
tion to release the people working
on the farms so there would be
workers available for industry,"
Dan D. Clinton, Harris County
Agriculture Agent, told the Pala-
cios Rotary Club Wednesday.
Clinton pointed out that farm-
ing is getting bigger and more
complex with each passing year,
and farmers must be businessmen
to operate successfully.
He pointed out that where once
50 per cent of our population work-
ed on farms, only 14 per cent of
our population is now employed on
the farm.
Vice-President Paul Milller was
in charge of the regular weekly
meeting in the absence of Presi-
dent John Fluth.
Secretary J. H. Shearer intro-
duced visiting Rotarians, which in-
cluded C. IJ. McMurray of Pasa-
dena, J. P. Dearsole of Port La-
vaca and Charles Eppwright of
Bay City, guest of Joe Feather.
ABOUT TOWN
By THE EDITOR
NOT SURE I have the story
straight, so don't take it as the
gospal, but a man who is in and
out of Palacios off and on has
probably decided that chivalry is
dead—for him anyway.
His politeness led to the local
hoosegow.
It seems this fellow imbibed a
little too much of the stu'ff that's
good for preserving worms, mix-
ing in hair tonics and sometimes
has a lot to do with Christmas
and other spirits.
Whether it was a sudden, or long
thought decision, we don't know,
but anyway, he suddenly changed
his direction and went to the Mis-
sionary Baptist Tent Revival, in
a sad condition to absorb religion.
Even he was pretty hazy as to
what happened while there, but
its- safe to assume it wasnt con-
structive, and he left in a rather
uncertain state of mind.
Wandering around the north
section of Palacios, he roused sev-
eral households who thought a
prowler with ill intent was in the
area. They were about ready to
call the police when he went up to
a doorway and asked the woman
who answered his knock to call a
cab.
The taxi came and he was safe-
ly on his way—then he remember-
ed he' hadn't thanked the woman
for calling the cab, so he return-
ed to the residence.
His first appearance at the wo-
man's home wasn't exactly nerve-
settling, but its effect was nothing
compared to the second time
around. She was frightened, and
showed it by calling the police,
who came by and prepared our
wanderer a bed for the night.
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PALACIOiS FEED and Milling
Company is not a co-op as it was
referred to in a recent Beacon
story.
* * *
DR. JACK DUFFY, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. E. Du'ffy of Pala-
cios is one of the few selected for
post graduate work at the grad-
uate School of the University of
Pennsylvania this Fall.
* * *
MEMBERSHIP in the Palacios
Youth Club has soared to 115 or
more teen-agers, depicting the
amount of interest the youngsters
have in organized social activities.
The value of the organization
is hard to determine because it is
rated different in the mind o'f each
individual.
However, psychologists (or just
common sense, if you don't believe
in that new "modern stuff") will
tell you that the "social graces"
become encreasingly important to
a youth when he passes into the
semi-adult years.
Before a child reaches 12 or 13
years of age, or puberty, his social
contact is limited almost exclu-
sively with members of his own
sex and his family.
CITY COUNCIL HAS BUSY MEETING;
PLAN BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR
Accept Brooking's Offer To Donate
Two New Pumps For Sewage System
City Fathers had a busy night
Monday, hashing over next year's
budget, adjusting taxes, discuss-
ing the water problem and plan-
ning improvements at the city air-
port.
They voted t» accept Garland
Brooking's offer to donate two lift
pumps for use on the city sewage
system, and any other improve-
ments he might want to make on
the system.
Brooking, who previously com-
plained that the booster pump on
East Bay allows the sewage to
leak into his channel, offered to
replace the present pump and also
Highway 35
Not On Federal
Primary List
High h|opes aroused (through
correspondence with Senator Lyn-
don Johnson and Congressman
Clark Thompson that Highway 35
was included in the Primary Fed-
eral Aid Bill were dampened some-
what last Thursday.
At a meeting of the Bay City
and Palacios Chamber of Com-
merce Highway Committees with
District Engineer W. E. Car-
michael in Houston, it was learn-
ed that the immediate use of fed-
eral monies on Texas Highways
will not affect Highway 35.
Interstate highways such as 90
and 75 will be the primary concern
o'f the state department under the
new federal aid program.
Highways with right-of-way al-
ready ava:lable will be improved
immediately where traffic condi-
tions justify the expenditure.
Dr. Norman Runyon, local com-
mittee chairman, and Mayor A. H.
Petersen attended the meeting as
representatives from Palacios.
Runyon said Carmichael asked
the committee to "hold off" until
a Highway 35 program can be pre-
pared through his office.
"When the District office can
supply us with a program or plan
for improvement of Highway 35,
we'll just have to figure out where
we fit into the program," he said.
Aclcording to information re-
leased on the new highway im-
provement program with 'federal
aid, the State will follow their
present policy of taking those
roads that justify improvements
in the order of their importance.
In other words, the more deplor-
able the traffic situation is on a
highway, the quicker it will be im-
proved, according to the amount
•Suddenly it becomes very im- \ traffic that follows the route
portant to the youngster that he
get along well with the opposite
in question.
Runyon said Carmichael indi-
sex and gain their approval and i cated that future plans for High
notice
Whether you think so or not,
this "social ability" must be learn-
ed, just as a child must learn to
walk.
A teen-age boy or girl feels that
his or her personality and charac-
ter is judged by their ability to at-
tract the opposite sex. To dance
well, to carry on a lively conver-
sation, to be an interesting per-
sonality is suddenly the desire of
almost everyone reaching the
"adolescent" stage.
But this mixing, dancing, dat-
ing and what have you is a new
experience, and they are uncertain
of themselves, just like the little
fellow toddling around when he
first learns to walk.
A properly supervised youth
club and teen-age center is the
best means of giving our adoles-
cents a "laboratory" where they
can experiment with and learn
how to handle "social situations"
safely and properly—and have a
lot of good clean fun in the pro-
cess.
The teen-ager that is uncertain
(Se* "ABOUT TOWN," Page 5)
way 35 call for a four lane high-
way.
"If this is what we expect to
have in the future, then it pre-
sents a problem in right-of-way,"
he said. Should we buy now just
the right-of-way for immediate
improvements, or when obtaining
right-of-way, should we go ahead
and get all that we'll need in the
future."
Ho pointed out that the cheapest
way out would be to buy all the
right-of-way needed at one time,
eo buildings and other structures
would have to be moved back only
once.
The new program presents anoth-
er controversial question. Under
the new system, the stalte is
authorized to procure right-of-way,
where in the past, right-of-way
was a county problem and expense.
However, the policy in the pri-
mary use of federal aid is to pave
those highways first where right-
of-way is available.
In other words, a highway with
equal traffic and equal conditions
as Highway 35 would be given
(See "HIGHWAY 35," Page 5)
buy an extra one for emergen-
cies.
A'fter reading a letter from W.
K. McFall of the CAA suggesting
improvements at the city airport,
the Council agreed to use their
maintainer in leveling grass and
other obstruction around the run-
ways so that water will not stand
on the concrete.
Mayor A. H. Petersen also sug-
gested that city laborers be used
in cleaning grass from the ex-
pansion cracks in the runway so
they can be refilled with tar.
Councilmen also agreed to sepa-
rate personal and real estate taxes
on property sold by Joe Husak to
Emmett Cole. The property is the
present site of Hunt's Food Store.
Cole agreed to pay delinquent
"real" taxes on the property, but
said the city tax collector had re-
fused to accept payment of the
real estate property tax without
including a large personal proper-
ty tax.
The council agreed to charge the
personal tax to the original owner,
setting the delinquent "real" tax
figure at $674.34.
CROP Drive
Begins Here
Matagorda County farmers and
citizens were asked this week to
participate in the Christian Rural
Overseas program by donating
checks, money or cotton and rice
to be sent to impoverished families
overseas.
"Several have already mailed
checks to CROP, Box 994, Bay
City, Texas, or, if in the Palacios
area, to B. W. Trull." C. C. Wil-
lis, publicity chairman, said this
week.
Gin and rice dryers in the coun-
ty are asked to accept the gifts of
cotton or rice, in any quantity, for
CROP. Crop is basically the farm-
er's gift to the hungry people of
the world.
Most of the CROP organization
is made up of people in the county
who have volunteered their ser-
vices to gather together this gift
The government plans to supple-
ment each CROP gift by twenty
times.
A gift through CROP is given
in the name of Christianity by our
various churches.
Five Sea Scouts
Pass Review For
Promotion, Badges
Five members of the Palacios
Sea Scouts were awarded higher
rank and merit badges at a Board
of Review Tuesday night at the
Scout Hut.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the
Board of Review consisted of Ed-
die Peres, J. M. Pennington and
Owens.
Roger Anthis, Clark Jackson,
Bobby Kitchens and Hugh Dis-
mukes passed Apprentice require-
ments.
Dr. J. C. White qualified for
seven merit badges. Charles Jack-
son was awarded seven and Hugh
Dismukes met the requirements
for one.
Natives of Monte Carlo are not
permitted to gamble at the casino
The Weather
Date
Max.
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Prec
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92°
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Aug. 2
92°
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Aug. 3
93°
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94°
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