Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1961 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, Marcli 30, 1961
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Back in pioneer times our fore-
fathers found they could keep track
of the family history pretty well
with a few notations on the flyleaf
of the family Bible. But life’s not
quite that simple any more. Great-
grandpa wasn’t covered by social
security or workmen’s compensa-
tion. He didn’t have a bank ac-
count or safe deposit box, a car and
a dozen home appliances being
bought on time payment, or a half-
dozen insurance policies. We have
taxes great-grandpa never heard of
and wouldn’t have believed if he
had. And had you asked him for a
certificate to prove his birth, he’d
have thought you’d taken leave of
your senses.
The point of this is that the
average American today has a
good many important papers to
keep track of. There are birth cer-
tificates, receipts, copies of tax
returns, sales contracts, and a host
of other papers. With a little tidy
record-keeping, you can make life
easier for yourself and your fam-
ily when you are gone.
Here are some suggestions:
1. Get a heavily bound notebook
folder or file folder as a central
collecting point for all the records
of your affairs.
2. Put your especially important
papers in your safe deposit box,
but make a list of those papers and
a brief summary of their contents
to put in your home file.----
3. Get for your files copies of
birth certificates for all members
of the family, and add them to the
file. Add your marriage license or
at least a statement as to when
and where you were married and by
whom.
4. Insert your will or a copy of
it. If your will is kept elsewhere,
include a note telling where it may
be found.
5. During the year, put into the
file your income tax withholding
statements and receipts for ex-
penditures which may be deducti-
ble. Then keep a copy of each
year’s tax return in the file.
6. Make a list of all the stocks
and bonds you own and where they
are.
7. List all the places you have
lived and worked and the names of
persons there who you know. In-
clude the schools you have attend-
ed and the dates you left or were
People, Spots In The Ne\
73
SUPER-GREENHOUSE in St. Louis
is this “Climatron,” featuring tropi-
cal and semi-tropi-
cal plants from all
over the ^
world. #'c,
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APARTMENT for three
men, “stationed” in
space, shown in full-
scale working model in
San Diego, Cal.
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MIXED ERAS—Old-time auto and I
modern plane scramble time at
Chicago airport as 1898 Renault
arrives by air for auto show. I
ROBERT BARR, 18, student at Penn State, one of six 4-H
Clubbers to visit President Kennedy for “4-H Report to
Nation,” discusses career possibilities with Associate Dean
Russell B. Dickerson.
"DESK 83"
By Rep. John A. Huebner, Sr.
graduated.
8. If you may have benefits com-
ing under a profit-sharing plan
where you work, make a note of
that too.
9. If you’re in doubt about wheth-
er an item should be included, put
it in.
This takes time initially, but it
will save you both time ar.d worry
in the long run.
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EXCHANGES—
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may be launched on the river in
t:mo of emergency. — Wharton
Spectator.
An organization to promote safe-
ty through boat radio contact is
proposed fo rfishermen who fish
the Gulf from the mouth of the
Colorado River below Matagorda.
Arrangeml'iits have been made
with the sta‘e guard whereby boat
owners, at their own expense, can
have radios on their boats and
| thus stay in contact with other
beats that are in the Gulf and also
maintain communications ashore.
—El Cr.mpo Leader-News.
The Edna City Council passed a
revised City Fire 7.one ordinance,
which reduced the overall area of
the zone set forth in the previous
ordinance and also clarified other
points in the law'. The revised or-
dinance makes clear that any new
buddings put up within the fire
zone must be approved by the City
Council, to insure fireproof points,
before a building permit can be
issued.—Edna Herald.
COPYCATS
At a White House dinner given
by '.he late President Coolidge,
navous guests decided to do every-
ih ng S'lent Cal did. Things moved
nicely until coffee was served.
The Pres’dent poured his into a
saucer. £o did the others. He added
sugar and cream. The guests did
likewise.
Then Coolidge leaned over and
gave his to the cat.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEACON.
In order to give my readers a
liittle change of diet, I am, reprint-
ing here a column written by Ken
Towery, one of our finest newsmen
covering the Austin front. It is well
timed and, of course, is used with
Mr. Towery’s consent:
“Representative Ben Atwell of
Dallas opened debate on the so-
called “equal rights for women”
amendment with the admonition
that ‘class will come to order.’
“He ended debate with the quip:
‘class dismissed’. But in between
the opening and closing it was
evident that neither the teacher
nor ithe pupils knew all the an-
swers. The net effect of the entire
instruction period was that the
House of Representatives adjourn-
ed for lunch without any action
being taken on SJR 3, an innocent
locking little measure that says
‘equality under the law shall not
be denied or abridged because ot
sex’.
“Rep. Atwell tried for some time
to convince his fellow lawmakers
that S.1R 3 ought to be passed, and
(hereby remove all the 40-odd legal
shackles that bind or protect the
fairer sex, as the case may be. But
gome members of the House kept
asking embarrassing questions.
“For instance, Representative
Marshall 0. Bell of San Antonio
wanted to know if passage of the
self-enacting constitutional amend-
ment would deprive a woman of
homestead law protection if heT
husband dies. This was very im-
portant, Rep. Bell said, and Rep.
Atwell, agreed. — - —
“Rep. Atwell consulted his brief.
‘Let’s see if this gets where you
want to go’ he said to Rep. Bell.
Then reading from the brief he
summarized it by saying that the
effect would ‘probably’ be to allow
either the husband or w'fe the ex-
emption if both were living ntu
either if the other were to die.
“Then Representative Baliman
asked Rep. Atwell what would
happen to all the laws governing
such institutions as marriage and
juvenile homes. Would passage of
this amendment mean that the
present laws relating to marriage
to be out of date? Would the boy
he able to marry at 18 or would the
girl have to wait until 21?
“Atwell, again after extensive
consultation with his brief, said,
‘more than likely’ the statutes
would be constued to mean that
no minimum age existed either for
male or female in this regard, if
his amendment passed.
“What about the juvenile laws?
Rep. Baliman asked. Boys are
now subject to prosecution as
adults at the age of 17. Girls are
not subject to this until they reach
the age of 18.
“I think it would raise the age
for males to where it would be the
same as females, Atwell replied,
after looking at his brief.
“My opinion is we should be
down here for the next 10 years
trying to straighten out all this
mess, Baliman said. And what
about the proposition of assault?
When a man hits a woman it is
aggravated assault. What would
happen if a woman were to hit a
Traffic Signs Are
life Savers' For
Average Motorist
Six life-savers.
That’s what the nation’s traffic
signs are, J. 0. Musick, General
Manager of the Texas Safety As-
sociation said today.
“Traffic Signs,” he said, speak-
ing in behalf of the National Safe-
ty Council’s Signs of Life pro-
gram, “Are designed to protect
human life. It is essential motorist®
know the Signs of Life by sight—»
and obey them without fail’”
“Traffic signs represent tine ex-
pert thinking of traffic engineers
and safety officials. The signs aw*
designed for your protection.”
He urged motorists to learn these
six traffic signs by shape so they
can recognize them on .sight: I
1. Octagon—red with white let-
tering. Means come to a full stop
and make sure the way is clear be-
fore proceeding:. This is a reririoa
of the older stop sign painted yel-
low with black lettering. But the
meaning remains the same.
2. Triange—-yellow with Mack
lettering reading “Yield Right of
Way.” Signifies slow down or stop
at intersection to give right of way
to cross traffic.
3. Rectangle—white with letter-
ing in black or another color. In-
dicates traffic laws concerning
parking restrictions, speed limits
and turning and passing regnla>-
tions, for example.
4. Round—yellow with “X” and
“RR” in black lettering. Warns nf
a highway-railroad crossing 300-
500 feet ahead.
5. Diamond—yellow with black
lettering. W'arns of such dangerous
or unusual conditions ahead as
curves, side roads, intersections,
hills, dips, bumps, school zones.
6. Crosebuck—tall white rail-
read sign with b’ack lettering. Us-
ually placed within 15 feet of a
h’ghway-ra lroad crossing.
man after this amendment passes?
‘Before Atwell coiAl find the
answer in his brief Baliman posed
a real stickler.
“Would this give women the
right to go to Texas A & M‘? he
asked. Atwell replied, ‘That’s not
covered in my brief.’
“That was too much. Someone,
probably an old ex-Aggie, got up
and moved that the House reoess
until Wednesday morning at 10
a.m. The motion carried.”
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One of Texas' most respected Rangers was described by hisiorian Waller Prescott Webb
as "a tallish man of quiet manner, with the soft voice of a timid Methodist preacher.”
It was said that as a scout during the Civil War L. H. McNelly had been able to disguise
himself, successfully, as a woman.
But no one of Captain McNelly’s special Ranger force would ever believe it. Some had
known him since, at the age of 17, he enlisted in Co. F, Jth Reg., Texas Mounted Volunteers.
Many of them were with him during the Civil War, at Val Verde, Brashtar City, Lafourche,
Mansfield, and knew all about this quiet man’s contempt of danger. Aftea the reactivation
of the Texas Rangers in 1874, they saw him step into the sizzling Sutton-Taylor feud in
DeWitt City, and chill it thoroughly. They went with him to the Rio Grande to suppress
border trouble, and saw the border bandits simmer down to drowsy peace. This was the
last service he was able to perform for his state. Not long after his outstanding border
clean up, Captain McNelly contracted tuberculosis and died, September 4, 1177, at hia
plantation home in Washington County. He was only }) years of age.
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Dismukes, Jesse V. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1961, newspaper, March 30, 1961; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709816/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.