Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1953 Page: 2 of 10
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, September 17. 1953
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
PHONE 5181 Advertising Rates On Request
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PUBLISHER.......MRS. J. W. DISMUKES
NEWS EDITOR.......VERNON L. DAVIS
ASSO. EDITOR & ADV. MGR. .... JESSE V. DISMUKES
BUSINESS MANAGER.....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 will be gladly corrected
if brought to the attention of the publisher.
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
sporting goods stock in the Hill
building. J, B. Kimhall had charge
of the store.
Cotton was fine and 2125 bales
had been ginned in Palacios.
The Crawford Packing Company
had opened for the season.
10 YEARS AGO
Palacios was all prepared for the
big hurricane that blew itself out in
the Gulf.
Col. Russell J. Potts replaced
Col. John K. Brown as commander
at Camp Hulen. Col. Potts was
transferred to Ft. Bliss.
The local Rotary Club was visit-
ed by George K. Marshall, gover-
nor of the 130th district of Rotary
International.
Triplets, all boys, were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Elaido Sanchez on
Sunday, September 19.
Elesea G. Sanches, son of Manuel
Sanches, was reported killed in
action.
The half-way mark was reached
in the bond sale quota.
Emmitt Chiles, Jr. wrote home-
folks that he was in Kislca.
15 YEARS AGO
Guy Claybourn, who had been in
charge of the Texaco Service Sta-
tion No. 1, resigned to accept the
management of the Magnolia Sta-
tion.
Glenn Claybourn formerly agent
for the Pure Oil Products, took
over the Magnolia agency from
Wesley Buller.
Moffett No. 1 was abandoned
after encountering salt water at the
depth of 9012 feet, Glenn M. Mc-
Carthy was the driller.
Mr. and Mrs. John Michalik an-
nounced the birth of a son named
Raymond.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fields of
Dallas announced the birth of a son
named Cecil Thomas and weighing
In £t 8Vi pounds.
20 YEARS AGO
30 YEARS AGO
Miss Gladys Hillyer left for
Washington, D. C. to resume her
studies in music.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stewart
were the parents of a fine boy.
Dr. J. R. Wagner reported ten
births for the first ten days of
September in Palacios and vicinity.
35 YEARS AGO
Miss Lydia Parker left for Park-
ville, Mo, to attend college.
The cotton gin seed house and ice
plant at Francitas were totally de-
stroyed by fire.
The Matagorda County Federa-
tion of Women’s Clubs met in
Matagorda. Mrs. J. D. LaGue was
president.
Ralph Fox,-the first Palacios boy
to join the navy after the U. S. en-
tered World War I was critically
ill of pneumonia in a Houston hos-
pital, stricken while enroute home
on a furlough.
40 YEARS AGO
R. J. Sisson purchased the Tatum
interest in the Curtis-Tatum Groc-
ery and the name was changed to
Curtis-Sisson Grocery.
Star Hotel.
School opened with H. L. B.
Skinner was superintendent.
Members of the Palacios Volun-
teer Fire Department were enter-
tained by Mr. Rae at the Lone
In spite of canned, frozen and
dehydrated quick-to-fix foods, the
average working wife still puts in
an hour and a half a day preparing
meals. Stay-at-home wives spend
only half an hour less.
It Might Be Your Child
One of the largest transporta-
tion systems in the world has re-
cently gone back into operation—
the fleet of Texas school buses.
From now until next June, over
6,700 school buses will carry over
one third of a million school chil-
dren to and from school every day.
It is quite a job to carry all those
children every day—it is an even
greater job to carry them safely.
Yes, that bus driver has a great deal
of responsibility, but did you know
that you are partly responsible for
their safety', too! You are, if you
drive a motor vehicle on our streets
and highways!
The Texas Safety Association
says that traffic accident statistics
for 1951 show that some of oui
motorists in the State forgot their
obligation, because there were 150
accidents which involved'a school
bus. These accidents claimed 4 lives
and brought pain and serious in-
jury into the lives of 55 others.
Some motorist forgot and the chil-
dren paid for that forgetfulness.
The Uniform Motor Vehicle Act,
which consists of most of our State
traffic laws, makes the drivers ot
the vehicles on the highway re-
sponsible for interfering with the
safe loading and unloading of chil-
dren riding the bus.
This is a portion of the law: ‘‘The
driver of a vehicle upon a highway
outside of a business or residence
district upon meeting or overtak
ing from either direction any
school bus which has stopped on
the highway for the purpose of re-
ceiving or discharging any school
children shall stop the vehicle im-
mediately before passing the school
bus but may then proceed past such
school bus at a speed which is
prudent, not exceeding ten (10)
miles per hour, and with due cau-
tion for the safety of such chi1-
dren.” Why not read it again and
he sure that you know it thorough
ly!
The major portion of thosi
school bus accidents for 1951 in
volved a violation of that section of
the law—the motorist failed t-
stop! The loss of money will be th'
lea^t thought in your mind if Join
have to look down at the torn, dis
torted body of a school child whe
was killed or injured because o!
your negligence.
The Texas Safety Association
A GUARANTEED
FUNERAL INSURANCE
POLICT
low Monthly frffi'ums f/
Protects The EnfrsyFflCVib •’
Written Bv
TAYLOR BROS.
FUNERAL HOME
BAY CITY PALACIOS
PHONE 613 PHONE 5261
I
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 8ERV1CB
Christian Science Services art
leld every Sunday morning at the
VFW Hall.
According to the Lesson-Sermon
entitled “Matter” to be read in
Christian Science churches this
Sunday the temptations of evil can
always be successfully silenced by
turning to God for guidance. When
tempted by evil to believe that the
worship of evil and matter would
bring great personal gain, Jesus
rebuked the devil and declared:
“Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
god, and him only shalt thou serve”
(Matthew 4:10).
The Golden Text is from Hosea:
“I will have mercy upon the house
of Judah, and will save them by the
Lord their God, and will not save
them by bow, nor by sword, nor by
battle, by horses, nor by horsemen”
(1:7).
Amont the selections to be read
from the Christian Science text-
book by Mary Baker Eddy is this
asks that you join with them in a
concerted, statewide effort to re-
mind Texas motorists that it is up
to them to do their share in protect-
ing our school children—after all.
the child you save may be your
own!
one: “Belier in a material basis,
from which may be deduced all
rationality, is slowly yielding to the
idea of a metaphysical basis, lock-
ing traiiic jam in front of the
office last week. Thought every-
body in the county was coming
in to buy The Clarion, but they
weren’t.
Seems a 5-gallon can fell off
Whitey Fisher’s truck, spilling
cream all over the street. Our cop
on duty, Tiny Fields, halted traf-
fic so Whitey could pick up the
can. Tiny was about to wave the
cars on when a kitten ran out
and started lapping up the cream.
Well, traffic piled up, but Tiny
paid no heed. Light changed
ing away from matter to Mind as
the cause of every effect" (Science
and Health with Key to the Scrin-
tures, p. 268.)
green three times. After the kit-
ten had enough, Tiny waved the
traffic through.
From where I sit, this was just
a “Tiny” demonstration of the
way people in our town are.
They’re usually pretty consider-
ate and tolerant. If one of our
neighbors prefers a good glass of
beer to his friend’s coffee at din-
nertime. it’s just each to his own
taste and everything’s “smooth as
cream” between them.
Copyright, 1953, United States Brewers Foundation
dilreniitmeiu
From where I sit... Joe Marsh
Cream Whips Main Street
Traffic
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Miss Elizabeth Stadig left forj
Lubbock to attend the Texas Tech-1
nological College.
Mr and Mrs. Thelbert Allen were'
the parents of a baby girl.
Miss Clara Ward and O. L.
Hodges were married, Rev. G. F.
Gillespie officiating.
Palacios schools opened with an
enrollment of 463.
Misses Bobbie Louise Price and
Carolyn Slaikcu left for Stephen-
ville to enter John Tarlton College.
25 YEARS AGO
J. S. Litton died at his home
here. The remains accompanied by
his daughter, Rosa, were taken to
Spencer, Ind. for burial.
The Texas Gulf Sulphur Com-
pany opened a new plant at New-
gulf, Wharton county.
J. L. Koerber was adding a line
of furniture to his hardware and
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Davis, Vernon L. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1953, newspaper, September 17, 1953; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth523569/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.