Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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PUBLISHER - -
NEWS EDITOR - - -
ASSO. EDITOR & ADV. MGR.
BUSINESS MANAGER -
- MRS. J. W. DISMUKES
- - VERNON L. DAVIS
- - JESSE V. DISMUKES
- HUGH J. DISMUKES
Entered at the Post Office at Palacios, Texas, as second class mail
matter under the Act of Congress.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year In County, $2.00 One Year Outside County, $2.50
WE STOP ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS AT EXPIRATION
Any erroneous reflection upon the character,
standing, or reputation of any person, firm or
corporation which may appear in the columns
of the Palacios Beacon wili be gladly corrected
if brought to the attention of the publisher.
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
Word was received from the War
Department informing Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Miska that their son Pvt.
John Miska was killed in action in
Sicily on Sept. 16.
Miss Cherry Price, bride-elect of
Sgt. Burnell Waldrep, was honored
with a coffee by Miss Mary Baines.
Lt. and Mrs. Lauren Mickle of
DeLand, Fla, announced the arrival
of a son on Sept. 26. She is the
former Nannette Elliott.
Oscar S. Hart died of a heart at-
tack October 14 as he and J. L. Wa-
ters were leaving town for a few
hours fishing.
The sum of $214,625, was collect-
ed here in the Third War Bond
Drive.
Jimmie Shearer, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, was named
as War Chest chairman in the drive
for the United Nations Relief which
begins Monday.
Funeral services were held Tues-
day in Bay City for Frank A. King,
a Collegeport resident.
15 YEARS AGO
Early James Legg, eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Legg, passed
away in the hospital at Bay City.
Funeral services were held in the
Palacios Funeral Home and inter-
ment in the Palacios cemetery.
The Volunteer Fire Department
was called out to extinguish a blaze
■which threatened to destroy the
PlezTek pleasure resort north of
the city limits on Highway 35.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hoffman
were new citizens of Palacios. They
arrived October 4 from Houston to
make this their home.
The completion of Highway 71
was celebrated in Columbus.
A new weekly paper for Mata-
gorda County made its debut in Bay
City with W. E. Green editor and
publisher. The mechanical work
was done in the Beacon office.
Nineteen million pounds of fish
were caught by commercial fisher-
men in the coastal area from Sept.
1, 1937 to Aug. 31, 1948, W. W.
Boyd, coastal director reported to
the State Fish, Game and Oyster
Commission. The area supervised
by Mr. Boyd included Galveston,
Corpus Christi, Rockport, Palacios
and other points along the coast
from Galveston to Corpus Christi.
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Thursday, October 8, Iftss
GOOD HUNTING—AND BE CAREFULI
20 YEARS AGO
The bus station was moved to the
Crescent Drug Store.
Miss Ruby Johnson was a new
employee in the post office.
Miss Mattie Sue Atkins and Arch
Boyd were married.
Palacios gins had turned out
1247 bales of cotton for the season
and 6,917 hales had been ginned in
the county, R. E. Lindsey, county
staticiar reported.
25 YEARS AGO
Clarence Koontz was furnishing
the local markets with plenty of
home grown vegetables.
Carl Ehlers disposed of his in-
terest in the Queen Theatre to the
co-owners, Ralph Williams and J.
L. Deutsch Sr.
More than 13,000 bales of cotton
were reported for the county and
Palacios had more than 2,500 bales.
The P.-T. A. opened for the year
with Mrs. L. Craymer, president;
Miss Ulrich, vice-president and
•irs. J. W. Dismukes, secretary.
COMPLETE
plumbing
SERVICE
WICKHAM
PLUMBING CO.
Dial 2211
4th & Commerce
30 YEARS AGO
Palacios clubs entertained the
Matagorda County Federation of
Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Seth Corse of
Collegeport was president and thir-
teen clubs were represented.
Alfred Baldwin and family mov-
ed to West Texas, expecting to
make their home in that part of the
state.
The football boys were scheduled
to play Victoria. H. C. Lewis was
coach; Joe Deutsch Jr., captain and
quarterback; Glenn Shuey and Paul
Stanford, halfbacks; Gerald Miller,
fullback; Clarence Buffer and
Frank LeCompte, ends; Sterling
Smith, center; Lester Dunkleberg
Homer Luther and Ruel Batchclder,
guards and Fred Thompson and
Emmett Gibson, tackles.
35 YEARS AGO
Local gins had baled 1064 bales
of cotton for the season.
Miss Alice Barr was teaching in
the Blessing schools.
Julius Cunningham, assistant
postmaster, received word of the
death of his father in Houston.
COMMENTS FROM
40 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rives an-
nounced the birth of a baby girl.
George W. Walker resigned as
postmaster at Blessing.
Total rainfall for September was
15.1 inches, one third of the aver-
age annual rainfall.
Members of the Catholic Church
were soliciting funds to erect a
building. Father F. F. Pallanche of
Port Lavaca held services at the
home of Mrs. Kreuger.
Rev. Edward Owers, of Aransas
Pass was preaching at the First
Christian Church.
Pau-omze BEACON Advertisers.
CONGRESSMAN
CLARK W. THOMPSON
9th TEXAS DISTRICT
Dear Neighbors:
Galveston—If anyone doubted
the great interest of the farmers
and ranchers in the proposed agri-
cultural legislation, he woifid have
needed only to come along with me
this past week to have his doubts
removed. In every section, these
groups are planning meetings to
discuss among themselves, and with
me, just what may happen in the
next Congress. No one has propos-
ed “something for nothing.’’ But,
everyone is very anxious to have
some degree of stability to prices
and the least possible control or
interference by the Government.
One of the most urgent problems
concerns the small merchants
whose prosperity is so dependent
upon farm income. Some meetings
have already been held, and from
them, I have received much
thoughtful and valuable advice. '
Perhaps the most difficult of all
of our problems is the cattle price
situation. How to support the price
of a commodity as perishable as
beef has everyone puzzled.
I have seen some more exception-
al Fairs since I wrote you last. . .
Fort Bend County, for instance;
and Brazoria County and Fayette
County. Again I marvelled at thi
outstanding qualities of each one
Each has its own individuality;
each is different from any other
and yet, after seeing them all, I am
impressed that each is spark plug-
ged by the same kind of community
effort. I wonder how many thou-
sands of man (and woman) hours
have been put on the decorated
floats, the children’s costumes, the
queen’s gowns. One thing for suri
—you can’t put on Fairs as good
as these in our Ninth District
without tremendous community co-
operation.
Elise Hopkins returned from
Washington with her award for bt
ing the outstanding volunteer work-
er in the nation and brought back
the impression that I knew she
would of President Eisenhower. She
spoke of his keen interest in her
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Going to the City?
PLAN TO GO CONTINENTAL TKAIIWAYS.
NO TRAFFIC WORRIESI NO PARKING PR081EMSI
North Bound Departures
7:17 A.M. — 11:07 A.M. — 3:04 P.M.
5:35 P.M. — 8:41 P.M.
South Bound Departures
8:10 A.M. — 11:25 A.M.
3:31 P.M. — 9:11 P.M.
continental!
TRAILWAYS
OCT. 8, 1953
& sstmam*
When you plan a trip
PLAN TO GO
CONTINENTAL
TRAILWAYS.
Eliminate driving
fatigue and save
up to 6c a mile.
MRS. C. .1. PARCHMAN
4TH & MAIN PHONE 4241
• —vp>7 rtrr- —s* t— 2—* “
and her accomplishments, his un-
derstanding of the problems which
she, and each one of us, confronts.
She was impressed with his fine
humanity, a characteristic on
which I have often commented.
I had a swell visit with an old
friend of ours over the week-end—
General B. L. Robinson, Deputy
Chief of the Army Engineers. Not
too long ago, he was District Engi-
neer at Galveston and we worked
together on the preliminary plan-
ning of many projects which are
now being accomplished. He turn-
ed in the first report on the Fort
Bend County Drainage program
General Telephone Co.
Moves Offices From
Dallas To San Angelo
This is “Moving Week” for the
General Telephone Company of the
Southwest,......................................
Normal operations were sus-
pended after 5:00 p.m. Thursday,
September 24, 1953, in the present
location in Dallas, Texas, and then
were resumed Monday, Septem-
ber 28, 1953, in San Angelo, Texas.
The company will occupy tem-
porary space in the Amaeker Build-
ing at 342 South Chadbourne Street
pending the construction of a new,
single-story building or a 10-acre
site in southwest San Angelo. The
move into permanent quarters is
expected to take place within the
next 18 months.
Post Office Box 1001 is the new,
permanent mailing address of the
company.
The move fulfills the long-stand-
ing desire of the company to locate
its headquarters in a city in which
it operates.
San Angelo, which was included
in the purchase of the San Angelo
Telephone Company by the General
Telephone Corporation early tiffs
year and which only recently was
consolidated into the Southwest
subsidiary, was selected on the
basis of its size and its central lo-
cation in the five-state area over
which the company serves. The
San Angelo Exchange now is the
largest, by number of telephones
served, of any of the company’s
238 exchanges, having over 18,000
telephones.
History shows that the press has
been uniformly on the side of the
common people.
The first newspaper in New York
City was named the New York
Gazette. It was started in 1725 '
SEAFOODS — CHICKENS — STEAKS
and if the Engineers will go back
to his first recommendations,
everything will be fine. We are
fortunate to have an old friend like
this sitting right next to the Chief
of Engineers. These people have
much to do with everything from
our conservation program to our
Intracoastal Canal and our major
arteries.
Sincerely vour friend,
CLARK W. THOMPSON
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