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THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1953
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 23
MERCURY VAPOR STREET LIGHTS
APPROVED BY COUNCIL MONDAY
New Lights To Be Ploced On Highway
From Camp Allen To Tenth, On Square
The City Council voted to install
27 Lumen Mercury Vapor street
lights on Main and around the
square at its regular meeting Mon-
day night.
Meeting in the absence of Mayor
Charles Luther and Councilman Pat
Treacy, the council discussed the
project at length after it was pre-
sented by Councilman Guy Clay-
bourn.
Central Power and Light will in-
stall and maintain these new lights
for a total increase in rates of
$44.10 a month, Claybourn said.
The new proposed lighting sys-
tem will start at Camp Allen and
HSHMG!
HP*
Itv NEY OLDHAM. JR.
What Pm looking for is one of
those “Robinson Crusoe” jobs—
you know, everything done by Fri-
day! “(Some joke, huh, kid?). But
seriously, I envy these guys that
come down for that “long week-
end” (I said “long”—not “lost”).
Oh well, only a couple million more
to go and I’ll think about “joining”
the boys.
This is one week when the fish
took the beating for a change. . .
and it ain’t always necessarily so
as I can prove by back columns.
They bite best out toward the
mouths of the Bays in such places
as Half-Moon Reef; Sehiekes Pt.,
Salt and Redfish Lakes, Wells Pt.
and Coon Island but by Sunday the
water was clearing around the edge
of town and on Monday the South
Bay front paid off.
Bill Hunt picked up 12 trout at
the Shell-Pile on Monday a. m. and
then Mrs. Hunt and Dee Trees
caught 13 more there later in the
morning.
Robert Koch and Lester Morton
picked up 29 reds, two trout and
two flounders in Turtle Bay on
Wednesday. The reds went up to
six pounds.
Bob Loff scored with 43 trout on
Wednesday and eight on Thursday
at Sehiekes. Leonard Kolonka
caught 13 Thursday same place.
Col. Haynes, of San Antonio,
picked up eight trout Thursday,
near the “Old House” (#52 on your
map) including one 3% pounder.
Lester Morton and the ’’Brown-
woodians” Ross New Ion and Dar-
rell Watts caught five reds and two
trout in Turtle Bay Friday.
Say, don’t you know all this is
killing old Lawrence Arnold and
him with a date with a Farm-All
tractor in a cotton-patch every day
this is all happening?
J. G. (ex-coonhunter) Smith
hunted down 23 trout Friday; 37
Saturday and three reds Sunday at
Salt Lake. He took A. N. Evans
Jr. of the School-contracting, along
Friday and let him catch 14 trout.
Don Mathias caught a two pound
flounder at the Turn-Basin Satur-
day.
Mr. Ewell Weakley has been
catching some good Sheepheads
lately, taking ten, some of which
went three and four pounds, near
Colters Dock on Thursday. The best
bait to use for Sheephead is “one-
armed-fiddler” Crabs.
Sells Buffalo©, “Mick” Mixon and
“Bay Cityian” “Bubba” Barrett
picked up 22 trout near Coon Island
on Saturday.
Pete Morales and Santos Salinas
scored with 30 trout near Beacon
#16 on Sunday.
John A. (“Dago”) Glenn and S.
W. “Woody” Wilson want it to be
known they can catch a fish and
did—with 79 trout near Coon Is-
land on Monday.
John Taylor caught eight trout
and two reds off the Pavilion on
Sunday.
Earl Eddy picked up 12 trout at
the Houston Club on Sunday.
(See "FISHING,” Page 4)
extend to Tenth street. As plans
now stand, Central Power and Light
will install 1000 Lumen Bracket
fixtures on First and Main; one
2500 Lumen Bracket fixture on
Main between Fifth and Sixth
streets and eight 2500 Lumen Orna-
mental fixtures around the square.
The city will be given credit on
four 2500 Lumen Ornamental
Bracket fixtures now around the
square. Proposed lighting for the
square by elimination four of the
present lights will only increase
the bill for that area to $5.50 a
month, Claybourn said. When com-
pleted, the street lighting will be
increased to approximately 15,000
Lumen Mercury Vapor.
Plans submitted by the local
power office will have to be approv-
ed by Ceneral Power and Light
Company engineers, he continued.
A total of 33 fines amounting to
$636 were collected by the city for
the month of May, according to a
report turned over to the council
by City Recorder Milam Monday
night.
The fines were divided four wavs
with the recorder receiving $117;
City Attorney Gray, $145; City
Police Officer Buster White. $117:
and the City of Palacios, $257.
Jack Maddox and Ed Thompson
of Maddox Motor Company appear-
ed hefore the council in behalf of
City Officer White informing the
group that a two-way radio is
available for White’s car at a cost
of $375 to $650. An exact list has
not been received but will arrive in
a few days, Maddox said.
Antonio Diaz was granted a
building permit to construct a 8 x
10 foot wash house on lot 4 of
block 93.
Boy Scout Troop 4? Spends Week
At Camp Slrake; Receives Award
Year Old Child
Crushed By Auto
Little Ann Kubena, one year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Kubena was crushed to death late
Sunday night as she was hit by an
auto in the drive way of her home.
Mrs. C. P. Ticker, local taxi
operator, was leaving her home on
Highway 35. She kissed the child
good bye and put her car in a re-
verse motion when she struck the
child who had followed her from
the house, according to City Police
Officer J. N. White.
The child was rushed to Bay
View General Hospital where she
was pronounced dead on arrival,
White said.
Funeral services were held at
the Talacios Funeral Home Wed-
nesday with the Rev. Rayford Har-
ris, pastor of First Baptist Church,
officiating. Burial was at the Pala-
cios Cemetery.
She is survived by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kubena; grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Tucker
and Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Kubena of
Bay City; one sister, Margie Lou
and one brother, Dickie.
The Weather
Date
Max.
Min.
Prec.
May 27
88°
73°
.00
May 28
88°
72°
.00
May 29
88°
75°
.00
May 30
89°
76°
.00
May 31
89°
73°
.00
June 1
90° •
68°
.00
June 2
93°
69°
.00
June 3
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90°
71°
.00
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Mo-Pac Buses To Be
Re-Routed On Main
The Missouri Pacific bus will
soon be re-routed off Commerce
street onto Main, as was the origi-
nal route before the street construc-
tion started, according to City
Police Officer Buster White.
The district office of the bus line
has been notified and a short time
will be required to notify the driv-
ers, White said.
A rumor that a petition was be-
ing circulated by residents on the
300 block of Commerce was not
verified by Officer White.
The week of May 24 through 30
was one of much work, play and fun
for Troop 47. Every boy in camp
made advancements that were
necessary toward getting the much
sought after Pioneer Award. Camp
Strake awards the Pioneer Award
to the troops that fulfill the follow-
ing requirements: Inspection. BOO
maximum; Hike, 200; Patrol or-
jganization, 400: Advancement 600:
Adult-Junior leadership, 200; Camp
spirit, 100; Troop good turn. 200;
Total, 2200 Maximum; 2000 for
pioneer. Troop 47 finished with a
total of 2193 points.
Two other Scout units were in
camp at this time, an Explorer
post and troop from Crosby. They
each won the Pioneer award. This
was the first time in the history of
Camp Strake that all the units re-
ceived the award.
Camping is Scouting and scout-
ing is fun. To have twenty three
boys live in tents in a camp that is
away from all other people and
practice the Scout Oath and Laws
at all times is proof that they are
able to take care of themselves in
an emergency.
In the Aquatic meet, Troop 47
won first place in the junior divi-
sion. This included rowing, canoe-
ing and swimming. The Aquatic
meet was held on Saturday morn-
ing, the last day of camp. The
scouts that participated in the
events had spent a lot of time dur-
ing the week practicing on the
events they entered.
Below are listed names of Scouts
who have successfully completed a
rank advancement in camp.
Tenderfoot; Norris Crawford,
Roy Jackson, John Sardelich, Larrv
White.
Second Class; Henry Thompson,
Kenneth Cook, Jack Traylor, Jon
Claybourn, Ronny Linville, Charles
White, Hugh Dismukes, Ted Bates,
Gerald Stork, Roger Anthis.'
First Class; Bobby Bradshaw,
Harold Pennington, Bill Wilson,
Lacy Lowry.
Merit Badges: Swimming, Joe
Tanner, Jack Crawford, Beckwith
Steiner, Clark Jackson, Bobby
Bradshaw, Edward Pennington, Dr.
White.
First Aid; Joe Tanner, Jack
Crawford, Beckwith Steiner, Clark
Jackson, Bobby Bradshaw, Edward
Pennington, Dr. White.
Basketry; Joe Tanner, Jack Craw-
ford, Bobby Bradshaw, Roger An-
this, Dr. White.
Rowing; Beckwith Steiner, Clarl
Jackson, Dr. White.
Pioneering; Beckwith Steiner.
Edward Pennington, Dr. Whit".
Thursday night the Order of The
Arrow had a ceremony and nom-
inated Eddie Peres and Dr. Whit"
as candidates.
Troop 47 also set two new cham-
pionships; Prune Eating champion
is John Sardelich and Tree Climb-
ing champion is Kenneth Cook.
The members of Troop 47 wish
to thank all those that furnished
transportation to and from Camp
Strake.
ATTEND CAMP—Local Boy
Scouts of Troop 47 attending
camp at Camp Strake last week
are from left to right: bottom
row: Henry Thompson, Ronny
Linville, Harold Pennington,
Clark Jackson, Dr. John White,
scoutmaster, Bill Wilson, Ken-
neth Cook, Norris Crawford. Sec-
ond row: Joe Tanner, Ted Bates,
Larry White, Lacy Lowry, Jon
f laybourn, Charles White, John
Sardelich, Roy Jackson. Top row:
Jack Crawford, Beckwith Stein-
er, Edward Pennington, Jack
Traylor, Hugh Dismukes, Gerald
Stork. Bobby Bradshaw, Roger
Anthis.
Courthouse Group
To Hold First Meeting
Monday At 7:30 P. M.
The committc« selected to in-
vestigate the courthouse problem
at Bay City will hold their first
meeting Monday, June 8 at 7:30
p. m. in the district courtroom. The
purpose of the first meeting will
be to organize the group, according
to County Auditor Luther Robert
son.
Dr. Norman Runyon is one of the
committeemen from here to serve
with the group. Another is to be
named.
Motorists Asked
To Drive Carefully
On New Streets
The base material on the town’s
new streets will take two or three
more weeks to settle, according to
A. S. Curlee, resident engineer.
Curlee asks that motorists drive
carefully over the new streets
mainly during the hottest part of
the day.
Skidding of tires, rounding corn-
ers too fast and speeding on the
new streets tend to loosen the gra-
vel and asphalt from the soft ma-
terial throwing it from the road
bed, Curlee said.
Please drive carefully and let
Palacios have first class streets in
the years to come.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEACON.
Effie Singleton Attends
Insurance Institute
Effie Singleton, employee of the
Howard Campbell Insuarnce Com-
pany, is attending the Casulty-
Property Insurance Institute at
Southern Methodist University this
week.
The institue is sponsored by the
Southwest Chapter Society of Char-
tered Property and Casualty Under-
writers. The institute ends Friday,
June 5.
New Weil To
Be A Producer
The new Johnnie Mitchell Num-
ber One-F. K. Robeson well north-
west of Palacios will be a producer.
The well which is on a 320 acre
tract bottomed at 9,000 feet and is
running 5%-inch pipe.
It’s the straightest well ever
drilled around here, A. Rioux said
Thursday. It’s only 3/4 of a degree
off, he said. The well is believed to
be a gas-distillate and natura1 gas
well. John Pundt of Dallas js the
promoter.
This is the third well in the field
started by Glenn McCarthy of
Houston in 1938.
Thirty-three days were required
to drill the well.
Victoria Man
Elected District
Lions Governor
Grady Hollingsworth of Victoria
has been elected district governor
of the Southeast Texas Lions at the
annual convention at Galveston this
week.
Delegates to the convention, num-
bering about 400, was attended by
local Lions secretary F. A. Griffin
and Millard M. Brooking.
Hiram Brandon was re-elected
director of the crippled children’s
camp from this district. This camp
is maintained by the Lions Clubs
at Kerrville.
Rev. L. V. Cockrum
Installed As New
Presbyterian Pastor
Ordination and Installation ser-
vices for the Rev. Logan V. Cock-
rum were held at the First Presby-
terian Church Sunday night, May
31.
The services opened with a ser-
mon by the Rev. James I. MsCord.
The Ordination of candidate Cock-
rum to the Gospel Ministry follow-
ed. The Ordination prayer was pre-
sented by the Rev. E. W. McLaurin.
The Rev. R. Brice Brannon pre-
sented the “Charge to the Pastor”
and the “Charge to the Congrega-
tion” was given by Ruling Elder, C.
W. Owen of El Campo.
The Rev. John W. Lancaster gave
the prayer and the Benediction was
pronounced by Rev. Cockrum.
The new pastor, a recent grad-
uate of Austin Presbyterian Theolo-
gical Seminary at Austin, will re-
side at 415 Morton with his wife
and daughter.
Rev. B. B. Shiflett To
Speak At Morning
Services Sunday
Rev. B. B. Shiflett, pastor of the
Anglin Street Presbyterian Church,
Cleburne, Texas, will speak at the
local Presbyterian church Sunday
at the morning service. The church
pastor, Rev. Logan Cockrum, will
conduct the evening worship.
During the summer months the
evening service will begin at 8 p. m.
this schedule is now in effect.
FUTURE HOMEMAKERS OF AMERICA
ENCAMPED AT BAPTIST GROUNDS
Girls From Areas 3 And 10 Represented;
Officers For Coming Year Are Elected
Some 458 Future Homemakers of
America from areas 3 and 10 are
encamped at the Baptist Grounds.
The encampment is scheduled to
break up June 6.
Areas 3 and 10 take in a large,
section of South Texas. Area 10 ex-
tends from Yorktown to Browns-
ville in the valley. Area 3 includes
Harris, Hardin, Liberty, Jeffprson,
Brazoria and Matagorda Counties.
Officers for the coming year have
been elected. Gerry Woolls of Cotul-
la was replaced by Gayle Hood of
Refugio as president of Area 10.
Betty Budge is the new president
of Areas 3 replacing Dorothy Davis
of Galena Park.
In an interesting program Wed-
nesday night, discussion leaders
gave a topic entitled “Leadership
Through Caring, Sharing and Do-
ing.” Those giving the program
were Miss Virginia Hufsedler, Con-
sultant in Pupil Personnel Services,
Texas Education Agency of Aus-
tin; Mrs. Florence Ritchie, Super-
visor, Home and Family Life Edu-
cation of the Austin Public School.
Suggestions to the topic made by
some of the girls present were-
Everyone wants to participate in
FHA; Every member should be
Rev. Carmichael
Re-Assigned Here
The Rev. and Mrs. W. P. Carmi-
chael have just returned from the
Southwest Texas Annual Methodist
Conference at San Antonio were
Rev. Carmichael was assigned to
the First Methodist Church for
another year.
The session was presided over by
Bishop A. Frank Smith of Houston
for the 16th time. Bishop Bromblcy
Oxnam of Washington D. C. was
the conference speaker.
The annual open house at the
Texas Mission Home and Training
School Friday afternoon was well
attended. A luncheon for returned
ministers was presided over by Bi-
shop H. A. Bolz of Dallas and the
speaker was Rev. M. H. Keel of
Barksdale, a former Palacios pas-
tor.
Post Office Box
Rent To Be Raised
Box rent rates at the local post
office as well as other post offices
over the United States will be rais-
ed effective July 1, 1953.
An amendment to the Postal
Law and Regulations requires post-
masters to adjust box rate sched-
ules July 1 of each year based on
gross postal receipts for the pre-
ceding calendar year and that prior
authority of the Post Office Bureau
is no longer required, according to
Postmaster Mrs. G. M. Barnett.
The basic schedule now in effect
has not been changed since 1907
and the increased ehargps are made
to conform with the increased cost
of providing the equipment and
maintaining the service. It is be-
lieved that patrons generally will
recognize that this is a proper r^p,
Mrs. Barnett said.
Boxes that now rent for 60 cents
will be raised to 90 cents; 75 cent
boxes to $1.10 and the $1.00 boxes
to $1.50. This is the schedule made
out by the Post Office Department
for post offices with gross receipts
between $10,000 and $40,000.
At The Bayview
Patients In Hospital
Mrs. J. E. Winfield, Mrs. E.
Bengston, Elvira Munoz, Lawrence
Hunter, Toby Orr, Colletonia Lopez,
R. J. Rogers, P. T. Sartwelle, H. D.
Allday, Tom Fulcher, Jessie Har-
vey, Lupe Hernandez, Roy Tweedle,
Albert Buckley, Dan Curry, W. S.
Phillips, Dan Davis, E. T. Miller.
Mrs. Irene Sicard and J. L. Koerr
ber.
Patients Dismissed
Mrs. W. H. Rapstan, John Whitt-
ington, Frances Chamblee, Hope
Silvas, Wanda Bradley, W. H. Cle-
ment, Consuelo Mendez, Mrs. C. D.
Sanders, C. R. Tweedle, Mrs. Mat
Robinson, Mrs. Vic Gallaher, An-
nette Johnson, Bob Jenkins, Vac
Capak Van Vleckd Texas; Mrs. L.
O. Hill, Espiridionj Puga and Raul
Garcia.
Two Scouts Take
'In Training Council'
At Camp Strake
Two local Boy Scouts, Wally Cle-
ment and Eddie Peres, are attend-
ing the “In Training Council” pro-
gram at Camp Strake, near Conroe.
These boys are helping to run the
camp and are receiving on the job
training.
Texas Ruby Visits
Foley Family Saturday
Miss Texas Ruby of radio and
television fame, and her sister, Mrs.
Crim of Houston spent an enjoy-
able Saturday afternoon with the
Foley family.
During her visit hei-e, which was
her third to Palacios, she met many
of her ardent admirers who listen
and watch all of her programs on
KPRC and KPRC-TV. She appears
with Curley Fox.
made to feel his contribution is ap-
preciated; FHA can promote good
work by knowing every member;
Knowing is not enough, must be in-
terested in everyone; and one way
to get interested might be to render
service to home, school and com-
munity.
Girls from Palacios at the group
are Ima Jean Morgan, LaNell
Smith, Patsy Wesselman and Ver-
dell Cosby.
Two Local Men
On Grand Jury
R. M. Harris and G. G. Lawson
are serving on the June-December
term of the Matagorda County
Grand Jury which began work Mon-
day.
A light docked of work is sched-
uled, Sheriff Jack Cole said.
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Swimming Classes
Start- Monday, June 8
Red Cross swimming classes in
Bay City will begin for local chil-
dren on Monday, June 8, accord-
ing to Mrs. R. H. Neeley, chairman
of the group.
A bus will leave the elementary
school at 7:15 each morning. Mrs.
Neeley urges each child to be on
time and to bring doctor’s certifi-
cates along with $1.50 for the
course.
Three More Donations
Received By Firemen
Three more donations have been
received by the Volunteer Fire De-
partment, according to Irvin Peter-
sen, secretary.
Gifts were received this week
from Ward Cook, Weldon Sullivan
and Warren Feather.
Mrs. George Jones of Sour Lake
is spending the week here with her
daughters Mrs. R. A. Moss and
Mrs. Charles Faktor and their
families.
Mrs. George Curtis returned last
Friday from Tulsa, Okla. where she
visited her sister, Mrs. Dell Arnold,
a pntient in room 535 of St. John’s
Hospital.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEACON
^CAPITOL
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex—Before leaving
Austin, the legislators said to each
other, “Goodbye, see you at the
special session.”
It is expected that Governor
Shivers will call them back when
the courts make a final decision on
the natural gas tax.
If the tax is upheld, the state
will have available the money that
has been piling up since the tax
was passed by the previous legis-
lature, plus a monthly return of
some $1 million.
Governor Shivers has predicted
that the court test will come to an
end in the Fall.
— tpa —
Reviewing the session, Governor
Shivers commended the legislators
as a hard-working lot who had put
through about 75 to 85 per cent of
the program he requested.
He thus revised upward a pre-
vious estimate that only a small
fraction of his program was com-
pleted.
Lawmakers deserve praise, the
governor said, for passing some
legislation and for defeating other-
bills.
It was well, he thought, that no
new taxes were passed, no expen-
sive state services were inaugurat-
ed, and no punitive measures were
taken against either labor or man-
agement.
— tpa —
As to legislation passed, the
governor thought these measures
were good:
Authorizing new tuberculosis
hospitals at San Antonio and Har-
lingen; setting up a stronger water
conservation program; establishing
a state toll road authority; increas-
ing the pay of state employees
$180 per year; toning down the
auto safety inspection law; provid-
ing three-day jail sentences for
driving while intoxicated; and tak-
ing steps to study and deal with
alcoholism.
The chief executive also thought
favorably of these proposed con-
stitutional amendments to be voted
oil by the people in November next
year:
Permitting Texans in the armed
services to vote; authorizing use of
a surplus in the Confederate Pen-
sion fund for state buildings; boost-
ing the ceiling on state welfare ex-
penditures from $35 million to $42
million; and permitting women to
serve on juries.
— tpa —
There were several of the gover-
nor’s proposals that the legislature
failed to put into effect, including:
Revising the election code; con-
gressional and judicial redistrict-
ing; raising the money for road
building; 'financing new buildings
at Southwestern Medical School at
Dallas, the University of Texas
cancer research hospital and dental
school, the deaf school and the pri-
son system; and providing public
school teachers a salary raise.
— tpa —
Increasing the teachers’ pay was
the hottest and most controversial
issue of the session.
Teachers asked for $600 per year
additional salary—they got noth-
ing, although a compromise, had
they accepted it, would have given
them $306.
“It wasn’t so much the money,”
the teachers’ spokesmen complain-
ed. “It was the principle of the
thing.”
They said that administration
leaders never considered any way
of financing the pay increase except
by hiking local property taxes.
School people also balked at the
administration’s insistence that
state payments to school supervi-
sors and counsellors be eliminated.
A statement was issued by the
Texas State Teachers Association
to the effect that it “should not be
and has not been in the position of
being willing to cripple or sacrifice
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