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Council Sets Same Tax
Levy In Special Session
Councii Authorizes City To File Suit
On Delinquent Property Within Limits
A called meeting of the City
Council was held at City Hall the
last of September to determine
tax levy for the year 1953.
A rate of $1.50 per $100 valua-
tion was set by the council after
motion by Councilman Karl Wick-
ham. Councilman Pat Treaty
seconded the motion and it carried
This amount is the same as the
1952 levy.
In other business at the called
meeting, it was moved that Mayor
Charles Luther and City Secretary
Besse Belknap be authorized and
directed to do all things necessary,
including employment of necessary
assistance, to effect a judicial fore
closure and sale of real property
within corporate limits of the city
on which taxes are delinquent.
A break down of the tax levy is
as follows: General fund, 42 cents
Street and Bridge Fund, 20 cents
Hospital Bond Fund, 11 cents; Mu-
nicipal Market Improvement War-
rant Bond Fund, 1214 cents; Street
Improvement Bond Fund, 46 cents;
and Storm Sewer Bond Fund, IS 14
cents.
A short 45 minute regular meet
ing Monday night produced little
important business. Councilman
Wickham was in the mayor’s seat
due to the absence of Mayor Lu-
ther.
A building permit was issued to
Z. G. Salinas to construct a room
onto his residence on lot 12 of
Skinner sub-division. It is valued
at $400.
Councilman Ward Cook was
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By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN, Tex.—Politicians are
working up a head of steam that
will blow off when President Eisen-
hower visits Texas this month.
As far as any public announce
ment is concerned, the reason for
Ike’s Texas trip is to join Presi-
dent Adolfo Ruiz Cortines of Mexi
co in the dedication of Falcon Dam
on the Rio Grande.
But it is clear that H. J. Porter
of Houston, Republican national
committeeman, will use the presi-
dential trip as a means of rallying
G.O.P. support in Texas.
When Eisenhower gets to Texas,
his official host will be Governor
Allan Shivers. The president will
stay at the Shivers’ palatial home
at Sharyland, near Mission.
While Shivers led the Democratic
Party of Texas in helping to elect
Eisenhower last year, there is no
indication that the governor and
his political friends will line up
with the Texas Republicans as a
permanent arrangement.
On the contrary, Shivers has
said that the G.O.P. has “delusions
of grandeur” of the question of
making Texas a two-party state.
In other words, the Shivers
Democrats were for Eisenhower—
but that does nqt mean that they
will move over into the Republican
ranks in the Texas political battles
of next year.
At the Falcon Dam celebration
there will be represented a third
political faction, the Texas Demo-
crats who supported Adlai Steven-
son.
Senator Lyndon Johnson, a Ste-
venson Democrat, is expected to be
present at the border celebration.
Porter, by the way, has announc-
ed that the Texas Democrats will
put up the strongest candidate
they can find to oppose Johnson
next year.
That candidate .may be Ben
Guill, who once served as a Texas
Republican congressman from the
Panhandle district.
Guill is now an executive assist-
ant to Postmaster General Sum-
merfield.
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Workers in state departments
and some of those in state hospitals
and other institutions received $15
per month pay increases on the
first of this month.
Increases ranging up to $300 per
yearfalso went to faculty members
of state colleges and universities.
And some state workers received
“incentive” raises amounting to as
much as $50 per month under a new
law authorizing such boosts out of
savings effected by decreasing the
number of employees.
There will be more pay hikes if
the courts uphold the Texas nat-
(See “HIGHLIGHTS,” Page 8)
given permission to lease the taxi
strip at the airport to a “Sport’s
Car Association” with the approval
of Airport Manager R. T. Walker.
Cook was also given permission to
negotiate with Joe Tanner for un-
leased land at the airport.
The meeting adjourned at 8:15
p. m.
GRASSY POINT
By LORRAINE BASFORD
Louise White of Palacios got a
foot tub half full of drums, croak-
ers and sheephead at Red Bluff
last Monday.
A freak fish was caught off the
Grassy Point Pier on Thursday
It’s classification remained a mys
tery when it was finally discarded
It was about 12 inches long, had
head almost like a cat fish, ’arge
front fins, a striped body, and on
the back were eight small ‘bumps”
The answer to “What is it?” vari-
ed. One party said “It resembles a
barracuda though the teeth were
different." Others, that it was a
yellow cat or flying fish. Dorothy
Sawyer came about the closest to
being right when she said, “It’s
fish”.
Ed Smith and his father came in
with one four pound red and one
five pound red, and a five foot saw
fish from Coon Island on Saturday.
Ralph Scurlac and John Peterson
of Dancvang, got 12 trout and two
reds at Tres Palacios River.
Ted Sawyer spent Thursday
night giving transfusions to thi
largest and hungriest mosquitoes
out of captivity, when he had motor
trouble near Oyster Lake. Friday
morning, he waded to the O. L,.
camp, and Willie brought him
home.
A party from Ft. Worth read in
the paper there about the nice
catches of red and trout, and
Brownies 20 pound red caught last
week. He came this week-end and
wanted to know where to go tc
have the same luck. A fisherman’s
luck depends too much on the
elements to guarantee just how
many or where they will get fish
Donald Ferguson of El Campo
fished at Coon Island and brought
in three extra large gaff top and
three sand trout.
Mr, and Mrs. Claude Boulting-
house, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Hodges
of San Antonio fished off Grassy
Point Pier, getting 20 drum, four
nice specks, 10 unusually large
golden croakers.
Jake Zickuhr cafhc into Grassy
Point camp last night and weighed
in two big reds. One was five lbs.
seveh ounces, and the other five
pounds. He caught them at Cashes
Creek.
Near Richman’s Pasture Joe J,
Kopecky landed 153 trout, all sizes.
Sunday Buster Motel had 70 nice
trout in his boat. Fifteen were
reeled in in 10 minutes. He got
them at Tres Palacios River and
Red Bluff.
Monday Mr. and Mrs. G. Hope
got three nice red, one weighing
about four pounds on the College-
port side of the Bay.
There are lots of reds up the
river and in the bay, but fishei men
say they are not biting. This may
be because a new school of then:
have just come in and they are un-
settled. So, in a few days one might
have better luck.
Some times the fellows who stop
in at G.P.B.C. enjoy telling about
the ones that got away as much as
about the ones they caught. The
difference being, one can not cook
an “uncaught” fish. L. Erickson
says, “I have found out that it is
always the one that got away that
was a BIG red.”
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. King, Jr. of
Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
McDougle and Mr. and Mrs. I. H.
White of Palacios went fishing
Monday. About 1 o’clock, W. King
hooked a red which broke his line.
He kept seeing the cork floating
and around 3 o’clock the cork came
in close enough for hiih to cast out
and hook the line, on it was a 4’4
lb. red. Among the rest of their
catch were 15 red totaling 40 lbs.,
two flounders and five specks.
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Hope hooked
a 6'4 lb. red at Tres Palacios River
Saturday.
Tuesday night Charles Faktor
and Ed Zemanek went floundering
and they got 14. Ed got one weigh-
ing 1194 lbs.
While fishing this week Faktor
got one four pound red.
Paulie Cooper got five reds
averaging five pounds each at
Carancahua.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1953
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 41
CUT IN PENINSULA PROPOSED
W. O. and Mrs. F. L. “Shaddy”
Lane of Austin spent the past week
end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. R. Lane.
1953 ISSUE—The Junior High School Hornets, coached by George Holst, will meet
the Clute City Junior High football team tonight at 7:30 on the P. H. S. gridiron. They
are pictured from left to right, first row: Bobby Guttenberger, manager, Arthur Ala-
mia, Rudy Lopez, Jack Crawford, Gerald Wells, Clark Jackson, Hubert Snider, manager
and Joe Tanner; second row, Benny Starr, Bobby Shows, John Hamlin, John Beard, Paul
Taylor, Oren Hamlin, Lino Martinez and Rudy Diaz; top row, Coach George Holst,
Gerald Taylor, William Sanders, Edward Pennington, Pat Nelson, Leo Morish, Tram-
mel Hunter, Norbert Eggeuieyer, Robert Slaughter, Hervy Gonzales and Bill DeWitt.
—Photo by Vernon L. Davis.
SCOOP
By VERNON L. DAVIS
HOUSES STILL NEEDED—The
Chamber of Commerce is still
asking residents to list their apart-
ments and houses with their office.
The phone is 5041.
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FOUND IN HALL—A small size
six gray wool coat was found by
Mrs. Tom Friery in the band hall
Wednesday. The coat looked as if
it has been lost for several years.
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LION HELPER—C. E. Padgett
can be remembered as one of the
helpers on the Lions Club sidewalk
project between the two elemen-
tary schools.
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SHARKS TO W. C.—Good 50 yard
line tickets still remain for the
West Columbia-Shark game Fri-
day. Tickets may be obtained fron.
Weldon Sullivan at the high school
for $1.00 each.
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THANKS TO TONY—Thanks to
David Toney for a copy of the
statistics of the Port Lavaca con-
test.
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CHAMBER MEETING—A full re-
port will be given at the Chamber
of Commerce meeting Tuesday
night on the recent Intrucoastul
meeting at Harlingen. Time, 8 p.m.
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A WILD GUESS—David Toney
our sports writing friend from
Port Lavaca, was way off on his
prediction of the outcome on the
Shark-Sandcrab contest Friday
night. He said the score would be
P. L.j 12, Palacios, 6. As it was he
had the Sandcrab score figuieJ
right but missed our total by 14
points. Toney.also stated that “if
we play against Palacios the way
we did against Aransas Pass and
Ganado, we’ll run the Sharks into
Matagorda Bay.” Well Toney, how
does it feel to get your “crab legs”
wet?
Hornets Meet Clute City Here Tonight,
Sharks Travel To West Columbia
Friday For Last Non-District Tilt
16 More Firms Give
To Pamphlet' Fund
Sixteen additional business firms
have made donations to the Cham-
ber of Commerce pamphlet fund,
according to A. Rioux, chairman.’
Rioux and his committee will
canvass the city for one week more
before its work is done, he said
Thursday morning. Response to
the drive has been good with only a
few turning them down, according
to the chamber office.
Those making additional contri-
butions were: Port Shipyard, Dr.
E. B. Sanford, Lewis Cash Grocery,
Humble Service Station, Capitol
Drug, C. O. Huff, Bozeman Barber
Shop, Hunter Floral Shop, Wick-
ham Plumbing, L. A. House Ac-
counting Service, Palacios Shoe
Shop (Dick Ray), Magnolia Service
Station, Mrs. E. R. Allen, Farmers
Feed Store, Alamo Cafe and Burton
Feed Store.
Lawrence Stewart of Tulsa, Okla.
is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Stewart and family.
The Junior High Hornets will
meet Clute City Cougars at Shark
iFeld tonight at 7:45 p.m. Coach
George Holst’s eleven will be look-
ing for their first win in their last
three games. They have lost very
close tilts on the road.
The Palacios Sharks, coached by
R. C. “Sharkey” Shelton, will
travel to West Columbia Friday for
their last non-district contest of
the 1953 season.
Scheduled to open their District
27-A race against Goliad on Friday,
October 16, the Sharks are hopeful
that several key players such as
Nelo Seaman, Bobby Partain, Char-
les Simpson and Leroy Smith will
be back in the line. Such reserves
as Tom Reneau, Lannie Gillette,
Paul Guttenberger and Jerome
Kimball have shown well for Coach
Shelton’s crew since injuries hit
the squad.
West Columbia, a member of Dis-
trict 26AA along with 3ay City,
will field a powerful slightly heavi-
er eleven Friday night against the
Sharks. They have an average
overall weight of 175 pounds per
man.
The starting 11 for the Rough-
necks has been released as follows:
Ends, Charles Sweeny and Kenneth
Setzer; Guards, Eugene Fink and
Bill Barrow; Tackles, Vernon Ste-
wart and Ray Edwards; Center,
Albert Shaw; and Backs, Julian
Danford, Ray Bigler, Danny Sas-
sin and Frankie Lieb.
West Columbia is coached by
Harold Pool, B. F. Chrintiar. and
Sherman Hughes. They have a
strong defense and use a short punt
and single wing on offense, ac-
cording to Coach Shelton.
The maroon and white Rough-
necks have Boling, Wharton, El
Campo, Bay City and Lamar Con-
solidated remaining on their 1958
schedule.
The Sharks starting line-up re-
mains the same as for the Port La-
vaca Sandcrab contest last Friday.
Ends, Lannie Gillette and Dick
Bolling; Tackles, Tom Reneau and
Alfred Manning; Guards, Boyd
Foltyn and Paul Guttenbcrgei;
Center, Don Johnson and Backs,
Clint Wratislaw, Bobby Walton,
Neil Blackwell and Hubert Bowers.
Plenty of reserve seat tickets re-
main in the principal’s office for
the contest tomorrow night, accord-
ing to Principal Weldon Sullivan.
The tickets are on the 50 yard line
and sell for $1.00 each.
Football practice has been slow
at the local gridiron this week due
to the lay out of many of the play-
ers because of injuries. Coach
Shelton couldn’t field two eleven
men squads Tuesday in preparation
for defensive signals against the
Roughnecks. Many of the players
have only minor injuries but are
scheduled to see action Friday
night.
Rotary Joins CROP
Plan For County
Attendance for the Rotary Club
meeting at the Green Lantern was
set at 86.36 with no make-ups for
Inst week, according to Secretary
L. A. House.
Visiting Rotarians were intro-
duced as follows: Dan C. Pfunns-
tiel, Bay City; Carl E. Carlson,
Bill Stelzn, Port Lavaca; Carl J
Carlson, El Campo and Frar.k
Seerden of Houston, guest of Tho-
mas Brandon.
Pfannstiel explained the opera-
tion of the CROP set-up for Mata-
gorda County. He also pointed out
how the Rotary Club can partici-
pate in the program. The club vot-
ed to join the drive with Dr. John
Hatt, chairman.
Ralph Newsom was in charge of
the program and he spoke* * on the
“Great Unwatched” by Lester
Velie. The subject dealt with an ap
peal to the American people to do
something about the Legislature.
New Jersey still pays $2.00 a day
for its members with New York
paying the highest, he pointed out.
The booklet can be obtained free
by writing the Readers Digest.
At The Bayview
Patients In Hospital:
Mrs. C. H. Wilson, Mrs. Dora
Hurta, Tom Fulcher, J. W. Bradley
Jr., Mrs. Janie Espinosa and baby
boy, Mrs. Freddy Burdick, Bob
Wall, and Hilland Harvey.
Patients Discharged:
Ronald Crone, Bobhy Partain,
Mrs. W. S. Gillette and baby girl,
Mrs. Arlene Stewart, Mrs. A. Iligh-
herg, Mrs. A. Loff and baby gill,
Mrs. R. J. Hebert, Mrs. Emitt Clary
and baby girl, Mrs. Allic Murray,
Sherman, Texas; Mrs. F. E. Stal-
lard. A. V. Jefferson, J. H. Parker,
Bobby Glenn, R. A. Jenkins Jr., Pat
Nelson, Michael Brune, Jacqueline
Glenn, Ann Charnetski, and Mrs.
E. E. Skrrpa, and baby girl.
Nat. Letter Writing
Week Nears Close
“National Letter Writing Week”
moves into its final few days with
a motive to bring pleasure and hap-
piness to millions throughout the
country as the result of letters.
This year the theme is “Letters
Bring Happiness,” according to
Mrs. Grace Barnett, postmaster,
“We suggest the use of Air Mail
for speed and Special Delivery for
immediate delivery,” she stated.
To help focus attention on the
event, posters featuring the rural
mail box, a rural carrier deposit-
ing mail in the box, have been dis-
played in the lobby of the post of-
fice.
The week of October 4-10 has
been observed as “National Letter
Writing Week.
WIDENING OF CONNECTING CHANNEL
WOVEN INTO ASSN/S RESOLUTIONS
Mayor Luther, Dr. Runyon, Tom Friery,
L. G. Margerum, C. Crawford Attend
Ninth District; and Major General
Bernard L. Robinson, Deputy Chief
of U. S. Engineers for Construc-
tion, Washington, D. C.
Progress reports were given by
Colonel Herbert D. Vogel, U. S. Di-
vision Engineer, Southwestern Di-
vision of Dallas; Colonel James D..
Lang, U. S. District Engineer of
Galveston; Brigadier General John
R. Hardin, U. S. Division Engineer,
Lower Mississippi Valley Division,
Vicksburg, Mississippi; and Colonel
Charles T. Tench, U. S. District.
Engineer, New Orleans.
Members of the group will be
present at the Chamber of Com-
merce meeting Tuesday night at
8 p.m. for a further discussion on
details of the meeting. All local
citizens are invited to attend.
The New York Tribune was
the first American newspaper to
pass under corporate control.
Two important factors which
will help shipping in this area in
the near future were introducted
into the resolutions of the Intra-
coastal Canal Association of Louisi-
ana and Texas at their 48th annual
meeting in Harlingen, October 4-5.
Meeting with delegations from
cities and towns in Louisiana and
Texas which are connected to the
Intracoastal Canal, were such in-
terested local citizens as Mayor
Charles Luther, Carlton Crawford,
member of the executive committee,
Dr. Norman Runyon, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, L, G.
Margerum, chairman of the Navi-
gation District, and Tom Friery,
member of the Navigation Board.
This group was able to get the
following resolutions introduced in-
to the association’s program: 1.
to obtain a cut or pass through
Matagorda Peninsula, and 2. to get
the connecting channel between the
Port of Palacios and the Intracoast-
al Canal deepened and widened.
It was pointed out that these reso-
lutions only suggest certain tilings
to be done, according to Dr. Run-
yon
Over a series of reports given to
the delegates in attendance, each
report showed an increase in use of
the Intracoastal Canal and tha
such items as iron and steel has in-
creased in usage up to 350%
salt, 820%; chemicals, 1724%, and
such new cargos as lead ore from
Mexico had made its first appear-
ance in the canal. Food stuffs were
added to the reports as a new pro-
duct using t.he waterway. Also it
was pointed out, that large tugs
and barges have only recently
operated in the channel.
Eight billion dollars has been
spent in river and harbor improve-
ments along with canal and flood
control, Dr. Runyon said.
Twenty-six million has been ap-
propriated for the Gulf waterways
for 1954. This amount will be allot-
cd to projects now under construc-
tion and maintenance of same. -
The group viewed a picture of
water transportation and its uses
which is scheduled to be shown in
Palacios when released by the \rm\
Corps of Engineers.
The 1954 meeting has been sched-
uled for New Orleans with the 1955
assemble the following year in
Victoria. 1955 will mark the 50th
meeting of the association.
Interesting addresses were given
by John W. Fulbright, president of
Intracoastal Canal Association;
Dale Miller, Executive Vice-Presi-
dent of the association; Choyce Al-
lison, assistant Sales Manager of
Humble Oil; Clark W. Thompson,
Representative in Congress from
Oct. 16 Last Ginning
Day As Total Hits 2919
Around 10 more bales of cotton
are expected to be ginned at the
local gin, according to Ike Ramsey,
head of the co-op.
With only two ginning days left,
the total now stands at 2919 bales
for this cotton year. At first, it
was expected to total 2900. Late
cotton in this area has caused the
gin to operate on a two or three
days schedule during the past two
weeks.
The gin will he open on Fridays,
October 9 and October 16. The 16th
will be the last ginning day for
this season, Ramsey said.
Low Of 51 Degrees
Recorded Thursday
A low of 51 degrees was register-
ed at the local weather station
Thursday morning, according to F.
A, Griffin, chief of operations.
The high for October was regis-
tered on the first day when the
mercury topped the 9-1 degree
mark.
Nearly an inch of rain was re-
corded at the airport as .98 inches
fell in three days during the first
seven days.
Lufkin was one of the coldest
spots in the state this morning
(Thursday) as they reported a low
of 38 degrees. ,
Wrapped Pipe
Leaving Harbor
Area For Location
Truck loads of wrapped and coat-
ed pipe are now leaving the Pala-
cios harbor area for the Wharton-
Edna location as process work has
begun on the 45 miles of Houston
Pipe Line pipe at the harbor.
The huge job of wrapping and
coating was started by the Clem A.
Mayes-Company of Lake Charles,
Louisiana around October 1. Only
a few hours of bad weather has
held workmen up.
It is expected that around one
mile of pipe a day will be processed
under the direction of W. R. Mar-
tin, general superintendent of the
Mayes company.
The pipe is first cleaned and
prime-coated. After this operation,,
the pipe is rolled to another ma-
chine which applies three coats of
tar and paper.
P.-T. A. Plans
Big Halloween
Carnival Od. 31
The first business meeting of
the Palacios Parent-Teacher As-
sociation was held Tuesday after-
noon, October 6. The meeting open-
ed with Mrs. Walter Orr handing
out the new yearbooks.
The resignation of Mrs. Cap
Traylor as 1st Vice-president was
accepted and Miss Elizabeth Scott
was elected to that office.
The P.-T. A. sponsored Hal-
loween Carnival to be held Satur-
day, October 31, was discussed. In
addition to other entertainment
there will be a Cake and Pie Sale,
Talent Show, Fish Pond, House of
Horrors and several scary films
shown. More information on the
carnival will be publicized at a lat-
er date.
The Rev. Logan V. Cockrum,
First Presbyterian Church pastor,
spoke on “The Structure of Ameri-
can Society.” Rev. Cockrum nar-
rowed the topic down and dealt'
with the Southland’s particular
struggle to construct the modern
educational and industrial system
we have now. His very interesting
speech explained how the migra-
tion of farm labor to southern'
cities rather than northern ones
has changed the South’s social
structure.
The Weather
Date
Max.
Min.
Prec.
Sept.
30
02°
66°
0.00
Oet.
1
94"
65°
tr.
Oct.
2
87"
72°
0.69
Oct.
3
89°
72’
0.01
Oct.
4
88°
71°
0.28
Oct.
5
78°
68°
tr.
Oct.
6
79°
56°
0.00
Oct.
7
83°
54°
0.00
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