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PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UP
PALACIOS GANADO
Name
No.
Wt.
Pos.
Wt.
No.
Name
Walter Weakley
27
145
L.E.
180
46
E. Koudelka
Tommy Reneau
43
170
L.T.
169
37
Wayne Burney
Pete Martines
31
135
L.G.
164
41
Marvin Luce
Eddie Perez
29
136
C.
162
52
Terry Tullos
Lannie Gillette
40
165
R.E.
164
42
R. Louckemeyer
Fred Law
44
170
R.T.
169
40
Mason Galow
George Cornett
39
155
R.G.
142
21
Jack Burney
Dean Blackwell
37
155
Q.B.
159
20
Pat Mauritz
Bobby Walton
38
156
L.H.
155
58
Carroll Roome
Donnie Beard
32
125
R.H.
172
32
Burrell Dulaney
Leo Morish
35
155
F.B.
153
30
Leslie Long
Coach R. C. Shelton
Coach Paul Stewart
Coach Ted P. Smith Coach Jack Skelton
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1954_PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS_ VOLUME XLVII NUMBER 41
City Gets Camp Hulen Shell
SHARKS SEEK FIRST DISTRICT WIN
AGAINST GANADO INDIANS FRIDAY
Arch Rivals Will Bring Experienced
Team To Local Gridiron; Time 8:00 P. M.
When the Palacios High Sharks
tangle with the Ganado High
Indians on Shark Field Friday (to-
morrow) night, they will be out to
do two things. Those two aims will
be to win their first district game
of the season and to bring their
season record up to the .500 per-
cent mark.
The Sharks under Coach R. C.
“Sharkey" Shelton haven’t experi-
enced a losing season since 1948.
Coach Shelton’s Sharks have work-
ed long and hard during the week
preparing for the Indians.
Ganado will bring a team to the
“City-By-The-Sea” that has ten
lettermen returning from the 1953
season. Among these lettermen is
a veteran backfield composed of
Carroll Roome at quarterback, Les-
lie Long and Burnell Dulaney at
halfbacks and Pat Mauritz at full-
back.
Coach Paul Stewart will have his
Indians operating from the stand-
ard T, split-T, and single wing for-
mations. Stewart’s Indians own a
season record which is identical
to the Sharks record. The Indians
Hornets To Ploy
Edna '6' Team
Tonight In Edna
With two wins and one defeat
under their belts the Palacios Jun-
ior High Hornets travel to Edna
Thursday (tonight) to take a crack
at Class AA Edna’s High School
“B” team.
The Hornets of Coach Charles
Shreve defeated the Seadrift Jun-
ior High Hornets 34 to 6 last
Thursday night. They have also
defeated Freeport Junior High 19
The Palacios Junior High
School will have a parade and a
pep rally before their game with
the Victoria Freshmen football
team.
The parade will begin at 5
o’clock next Thursday, October
21. The parade will be led by the
Palacios High School Band.
to 6 and dropped a close game to
Velasco Junior High 26 to 19.
The Hornets will have to combat
Edna High “B’s” size, age and
experience with their own brand
of “speed and spirit.” Robert
Slaughter at fullback, Arthur Ala-
mia at wingback and Bobby Shows
at quarterback have the speed, and
the entire team seems to have the
spirit.
Robert Keszler and Benny Starr
at ends; Ted Bates, Mike Seaquist,
and John Hamlin at tackles; Paul
“Red” Taylor and Johnny Sardelich
at guards; and big Bill Dewitt at
center have combined to give the
Hornets a strong line regardless of
their lack of size.
V. A. Committee
Investigates Local
Housing Possibilities
A committee representing the
Veterans Administration was in
Palacios Tuesday to study the
needs and possibilities ol additional
homes for discharged veterans.
Just how many new homes will
be allowed was not decided but it
was estimated that the administra-
tion will probably approve a pro-
gram calling for 50 to 60 new
homes in the construction cost
range of from .$8,500 to $10,000.
City Attorney Eli Mayfudd, a
representative for the city at the
inspection, stated that the commit-
tee would require the city to restrict
the area where the proposed build-
ings would be located, also that the
streets would have to be hard-sur-
faced, either by the city or the
developer.
Construction costs of the build-
ings could be increased to take
care of the needed improvements,
Mayfield stated.
were defeated by Port Lavaca 26
to 0, tied Edna 12 to 12, defeated
East Bernard 13 to 6 and were de-
feated in their first district game
25 to 0 by Louise.
In local circles the game is rated
as a toss-up because of the two
teams similar season records.
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex.—Governor Allan
Shivers has lashed both Republi-
can and Democratic national parties
for refusal to let the South take a
full share of determining party
policy.
Shivers’ criticism, delivered in a
speech at a testimonial dinner for
Louisiana Governor Robert Kennon
at New Orleans, singled out no
particular party as major culprit.
For too long the South as a
region has been “insulted and de-
graded by national parties and their
leaders,” he said.
However, he served notice on
the Democratic party that it must
get in the middle of the road to
win southern favor.
Shivers appealed to people in all
forty-eight states to join in de-
fending “the last great safeguard
of individual liberty” through sup-
porting local self-government over
powerful central government.
Industrial Activity
Texas’ industrial business is
picking up while farm income is
declining.
Dr. John R. Stockton, director
of the University of Texas Bureau
of Business Research, said the low
farm income was due to months of
continuous drouth faced by farm-
ers and ranchers.
However, he reported that the
“high level of Texas business has
been maintained by expanding in-
dustrial activity.”
The Bureau’s business index for
the state showed a 2 per cent de-
cline in August from July. August
totals were 7 per cent better than
August, 1954, Dr. Stockton said.
DWI Law
Texas’ motorists now face a
tougher penalty for driving while
intoxicated.
A Court of Criminal Appeals
ruling has labeled unconstitutional
the part of law that let a presiding
judge, at his own discretion, com-
mute a jail sentence handed out in
DWI cases.
Minimum punishment now is a
mandatory three-day jail sentence
and a fine for DWI convictions.
Gas Firms
A five-year-old suit against ten
oil companies for anti-trust viola-
tion has been ordered for trial by
the Supreme Court.
Charges were made against the
firms in 1949 by former Attorney
General Price Daniel. Daniel al-
leged that the ten companies violat-
ed Texas antitrust statutes by
upping wholesale gas prices several
times after federal price controls
expired in 1946
Toll Roads
Prospects of Texas’ first two toll
roads have faded from view with a
Supreme Court decision that the
highways, to be built and owned by
private firms, would be taxable.
Attorneys for the Texas Turn-
pike Company which had planned
a toll road from Dallas to Houston,
and the Sam Houston Turnpike
Corporation, planning a Dallas to
San Antonio route, told the court
the projects could not be realized
without tax-exemptions.
Only 29% of the people of the
U.S. live in cities of more than
100,000. But 42% of all TB deaths
occur in those cities.
Salt Dome Preparing
To Drill Test In Gulf
52 X 136-Ft. Drilling Plat-form Being Built
In 48 Ft. Water 18 Miles South Of City
Salt Dome Oil Production Co. has returned to Palacios
and with Sam Lloyd, Chief Engineer, in charge is preparing
to drill on State Tract 608 in the Gulf of Mexico 18 miles due
South of Palacios.
Western Natural Gas Company of Houston are the
operators in charge of the drilling. El Paso Natural Gas
Company and Texoma Production
Company have combined with
Western in the operations.
The well is on a Stanolind Oil
Company farm out and is pro-
jected to bottom at 13,000 feet.
Salt Dome is contractors in the
drilling operations and will use a
new and modern drilling platform
and equipment, designed by Mr.
Lloyd for use in the Gulf. The
platform itself is 52-fcet by 136-
feet that is being built by Brown
and Root Marine Operators, Inc.
in 48-feet of water.
The living quarters are modern
in every respect, one spokesman
stated, as we have air-conditioned
quarters for 28 men with tele-
vision. The unit will have a heli-
copter landing platform.
All personnel and supplies will
be worked out of Palacios, Mr.
Lloyd stated.
Carl C- Wilson and R. J. Boland
will be tool pushers on the project.
Gulf Coast Assn.
Manager Speaks
At C. Of C. Meet
C. S. “Tiny” Rowand, business
manager of the South Texas Gulf
Coast Association, spoke to mem-
bers of the Chamber of Commerce
at their regular meeting Tuesday
night.
Mr. Rowand presented the plan
of his association for increasing
tourist trade and attracting of in-
dustry to the Gulf Coast area be-
tween Palacios and Corpus Christi.
He stated that this area has great
possibilities to attract tourist and
industry, but it must be developed.
The purpose of the organization is
to develop, and promote, this area’s
tourist trade.
Membership in the association is
open to individuals, small and large
businesses, and industry.
The Chamber of Commerce mem-
bers voted to accept the job done
on the roof of the building, and to
take a membership in the South
Texas Gulf Coast Association.
The highway patrolman was giv-
en permission to use the chamber’s
building during his visits to Pa-
lacios. Insurance on the building
was renewed for another year, com-
pleted the business of the meeting.
Those present were R. P. New-
som, R. B. Trull, Rex Cooper, J.
C. Richards, R. T. Walker, Dr. Nor-
man Runyon, C. L. Haynes, A.
Rioux, Rev. W. J. Weimer, Ronald
Harris, Eli Mayfield, and Paul
Miller.
Directors Mid-Coast
Water Development
Assn. Hold Meeting
Directors of the Mid-Coast Wa-
ter Development Association met
in Port Lavaca last Thursday night
to review the preliminary drafts of
the Galvestion District of the Corps
of Engineers.
The engineers had presented in
their drafts two different types of
construction for the proposed three
channels for navigation to the. Gulf
of Mexico and. the estimated cost
of each.
The three sites mentioned were at
Pass Cavallo, Green’s Bayou and
the mouth of the Colorado River.
The Green’s Bayou pass was the
most economical of the group.
The estimated date for the Dal-
las office of the Corps of Engineers
to make their initial report was
set at about December 1.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEACON
Merchants Start
Silver Harvest
Drawings Oct. 2?
A group of Palacios merchants
began the distribution Monday
morning of entry blanks for their
SILVER HARVEST DRAWING.
Entry blanks are given to persons
visiting the various stores l'egard-
less of whether or not they make
purchases.
Weekly contributions are made
by the participating merchants to
the SILVER HARVEST FUND.
Drawings will be held each week
to determine the winner. It is plan-
ned to hold the drawings in the
City Park at 3:00 p.m. each Wed-
nesday, beginning October 27th. In
case of: inclement weather the event
will be held indoors at a location
which will be known to all partici-
pating firms. The winner is re-
quired to be present when the
drawing is held.
These merchants are planning to
expand this event to include other
attractive features which will be
announced from time to time. Ask
your merchants for Silver I arvest
entry blanks.
Cify Attorney Gives
Resume Amendments
At Rotary Meeting
City Attorney Eli Mayfield gave
a resume of the forthcoming amend,
ments to the State’s constitution at
the weekly meeting of the Rotary
Club.
Leonard House, secretary report-
ed that they was one member ab-
sent, and gave the club a 94.44
percent in attendance.
President J. C. White requested
all Rotarians to place their orders
early for copies of the Golden An-
niversary issue of The Rotarian,
the club’s official magazine.
Visitors were Rotarians Rowland
Rugeley and Dick Bachman of Bay
City, Bud Snell and Frank Seerden.
The guests were introduced by A.
Rioux, the club greeter.
At The Bayview
Patients Dismissed:
Mrs. Evelyn Evans, Martha
Elizabeth Pierce, Mrs. Powell Nel-
son, Mrs. Pat Richman Jr., and
baby girl, Nurcey Bonvier, La Rose,
La.; John L. Pate, Mrs. John Jura-
sek and baby boy, Mrs. Vilirie Pen-
ard, Miquel Salinas, Louis A. Thurs-
ton, Mrs. Fred Rendon, Ophelia
Rendon, Billy Dewitt, Mrs. B. E.
Littlefield, Mrs. Moncia Gatica and
baby girl, Jimmy Rodriquez, and
Mrs. F. M. Kellow and baby boy.
Patients In Hospital:
Dr. J. R. Wagner, M. S. Hols-
worth, Mrs. Paul Sicard and baby
girl, LeRoy Hurta, L. C. McMichael,
Blessing; Vernon Matthews, Mrs.
Ted Merrifield, and Mrs. Jame3
Henley.
CUB SCOUT PACK 47M
Cub Scout Pack 47M will hold
their regular Pack meeting Octo-
ber 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Presby-
terian Church. The public is in-
vited to come and see all the new
recruits receive their Bobcat Pens.
It is believed this will be quite an
impressive ceremony.
/nchary Taylor, twelfth Presi
dent of the United States, was a
second cousin of the fourth Presi-
dent, James Madison.
THE CIRCUS IS COMIN* . . .
Arrangements have been made for
a special train out of Palacios on
Nov. 3 to take the school children
and adults as well to the Shrine
Circus in Houston. The fare is low,
the admission lower. The train will
be made-up in Palacios, and pick up
students in Blessing and Markham.
It will be S. P. all the way. Watch
for further announcements.
* • *
FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN...
The members of the Palacios Lions
Club are selling tickets to the
Wharton County Junior College
and Rice Freshmen football game
to be played in Wharton on Satur-
day, Nov. 6 at 8:00 P. M. The pro-
ceeds will go to the Lions Crippled
Children’s Home in Kerrville. The
price of the tickets, $1.50.
* * *
NO, NO, NOT NOW! . . . Visit-
ed the Salt Dome office the other
morning while they were waiting
on a radio call from their rig in
the gulf to report on working con-
ditions being made difficult by the
hurricane “Hazel.” The report—
self explanatory—“mightily un-
favorable.”
* * ■»
NEW TIME . . . The manage-
ment of the Hollywood Theatre has
asked us to call attention to the
6:30 opening time of the theatre.
The second show will begin in the
neighborhood of 8:30. This will en-
abled the school children to attend
and be out of the show by 11, or
before.
* * *
WE’VE BEEN REQUESTED...
To ask general admission patrons
to the Shark football games to use
the Northwest and Southwest en-
trances. The east gate is for those
holding season and reserved tickets.
This request comes from school of-
ficials. There have been complaints
that reserved seats have been oc-
cupied by others.
• • •
CARDS, LETTERS WANTED...
A letter from “The Sheppards”
who were employed at Camp Hulen
during the construction days, re-
quests Palacios friends of Carine
Carson to write her. She is now very
ill of cancer and on Sept. 23 suffer-
ed a heart attack. She was not in
Los Angeles long enough to make
any friends before her attack, so
it’s lonely for her. Cards and let-
ters would cheer her so much. Her
address is 1246 S. Hope Street, Los
Angeles.
• • V
AIRPORT HAPPENINGS ...
Last Saturday the San Angelo Jun-
ior College football team with their
coaches landed at the local airport
in a 202 Airline of the Pioneer
Lines. The team played the Whar-
ton Junior College that night. They
were met by bus and transported
to Wharton. Following the game,
they returned to the local airport
and departed for their home at 1
a. m. Sunday morning. The plane
used was stationed at the local
airport during this period. . . W.
E. Moye is new instructor at the
Walker Flying Service. . . A heli-
copter will be stationed there in
the near future. . . A new class in
flying is soon to begin. . . Every-
thing that goes up, is bound to
come down—but much easier if you
know how to fly.
* * *
ABSENCE . . . Makes the heart
grow fonder. And may we add, ap-
preciative. A. T. Chanik recently
purchased the old sheet-iron ware-
house located behind the William’s
building at the corner of Fifth and
Commerce, and is removing it from
the premises. Chanik will improve
his property on Highway 35, north
of Palacios with the material sal-
vaged from the building. The im-
provement to Mr. Chanik’s prop-
erty couldn’t equal the service he
has done in the removal of the
fire trap, rat trap, eye-sore he has
removed from our “square.” We
sincerely hope the material will
serve your purpose as you expect-
ed. It’s not what you salvaged—
but what you carted to city dump—
that has made you many friends.
Mayor Petersen Closes
Deal With State Dept.
Enough Material To Re-Shell Every
Street And Alley In City; Work Started
After only two months in office Mayor A. H. Petersen
initiated a program that will prove to be the biggest money
saving undertaking in the city’s history.
The shell that was palced on Third Street from the end
of the topping at Maddox Motor Company to the hospital,
south, is only the beginning of what may, in the near future,
GRASSY POINT
By LORRAINE BASFORD
Everyone hopes by the time this
news goes to press, that hurricane
Hazel will have picked up her bil-
lowy skirt and danced merrily back
out to sea.
Storm warnings, and over cast
skies with light showers over the
week-end, did not hinder fishing.
It seemed that everyone from
great - grandpa, down to fifth
cousins went a ‘fishin’ Sunday.
Bill Sisco covered a wide area
getting a four pound and 5(4 lb.
flounder at Caraneahua; a 4% lb.
red at army camp; and 5% lb. red
in East Bay. Bill always uses a
plug n’ shorty, and his largest red
had swallowed the plug clear to
the gill.
Sells Buffaloe, like many others,
had good luck at Caraneahua, com-
ing in with 35 large specs one day.
Then, Sells, with E. T. Smith of
Lubbock, got 32 at Red Bluff.
Mr. and Mrs. F J. Brhlik had
Mrs. Alice Jewell (Fort Worth),
Wm. E. Nesbitt and Frank Skin-
ner of Aledo, 111. as guests a few
days. As they had never seen
shrimp before, Mr. and Mrs. Brhlik
brought them to G.P.B.C. Mr. Nes-
bitt said he never had much of a
chance to go fishing in his locality,
and if he ever got started down
here, he wouldn’t want to stop.
Another thing of interest to the
party were the jet planes. Mr.
Skinner said “Up North they go
so high and so fast, one never even
gets to see them. Down here the
planes go so low, one can at least
see the tail end.”
M. D. Ray, (Austin) never fails
to go home without fish. In two
days at Caraneahua he came in
With 100 trout, some large, the rest
medium size.
I. J. and Joe Mazoch were lucky
in getting a 7% lb. jewfish and
five pound red Sunday near Heard
place on Collegeport side. The boys
had never seen or eaten jewfish be-
fore, so after being given several
recipes, I hope the Mczach fam-
ilies enjoy their fish.
Jack Basford had a new ex-
perience during a light shower this
week. He was shrimping along East
Bay, when a rainbow formed and
cast a perfect reflection in the
water, which left him “shrimping
in the middle of a rainbow.”
W. P. Bradshaw and party
(Houston) had over 50 peanut
trout, which they got at what is
now called “Mesquite Reef.” W. P.
was all for throwing them over
board, but the party were “fish
hungry” and decided it was worth
the bother of cleaning them.
N. E. Thompson had “fair luck”
at Fence Post. What he called
“fair” is often termed “wonder-
ful” luck, by newcomers who fish
in Palacios Bay.
“Butter Krust” Gibson can’t fool
me with any fish tales. I asked
him about his catch Sunday. At
first he began a big story about
big reds he and Paul Cooper got
at Army Point. When I asked to
see them, well that was another
story! They had 15 rat reds, and
Paul caught half of them, which
according to that, makes 7 Vi fish
a piece! Who caught which half of
the 15th red ?
Earl Perkins picked up a four
pound drum and a small strange
fish at the Cedars. It weighed (4
lb. and was later identified as a
tarpon.
There are lots of drum in East
(See “FISHING” Page 8)
see every street in Palacios sur-
faced with a base suitable for top-
ping, with the hope that, through
property owners, all could be top-
ped with no bond issue necessary.
Mayor Petersen, on September
30th, took it upon himself to write
Adjutant General K. L. Berry,,
a letter of suggestion that would
be to the advantage of both the
State and the City of Palacios.
Mayor Petersen pointed out that
due to nearby facilities the City
could perhaps salvage some of the
Camp Hulen parking lots and turn
the land back into productivity.
Adjutant General Berry agreed
with the suggestion made by Mayor
Petersen and informed him that
Col. Thomas R. Black would call
on him and discuss the matter and
draw up an agreement.
Thursday of last week, Colonel
Black visited Palacios and in ses-
sion with Mayor Petersen signed
an agreement whereby certain
designated areas in Camp Hulen
may be salvaged by the. City of Pa-
lacios for the benefit of .both the
State and the City.
Naturally, there are regulations
to be followed, which city officials
have informed us will be followed
to the letter. , • •
The day following the signing of
the agreement the city maintainer
was at work preparing the mixture
of shell and sand for loading to be
trucked to the streets ;n Palacios.
Lt. A. G. Thompson, officer in
charge at Camp Hulen, has been
Very cooperative in showing the
city crew where to work, and sug-
gesting which areas should be
cleared first to the advantage of
both parties.
The hospital road is the first,
Mayor Petersen said, as that was
one of the main roads left out of
the original topping program. A
few patch-up jobs followed, then
we will complete from the highway
to Welch Avenue, also on Third
Street. A street between the
schools is next in line, with others
to follow, the Mayor added.
The completion of Moore Avenue
west of Eighth is scheduled, but
will be held up awaiting the pas.
sibility of a more suitable base,
however, work will be divided be-
tween the western sectors, includ-
ing the area just recently opened,
and streets needing topping on this
side, the Mayor informs the press.
This savings may enable the city
to clear up an enormous shell bill
accumulated during the past sev-
eral years, and buy necessary road
equipment to keep the streets in
first class condition.
The City of Palacios is indeed
grateful to the State of Texas par-
ticularly the Adjutant General’s
Department for their interest in
Palacios—the home of Camp Hulen
—the Mayor concluded.
Wednesday Club To
Observe Fortieth
Anniversary Oct. 20
The Palacios Wednesday Club
will celebrate its 40th anniversary
on October 20th honoring its two
charter members, Mrs. R. J. Sis-
son and Mrs. Duncan Ruthven,
with an Open House at the B. W.
Trull home from 3 to 5 p.m. Friends
of the club are invited to attend,
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