Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1960 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, November 17. Iftftn
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THIS WEEK
Of PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
The H. E. I class at Palacios
jbaktr High School honored the
Bfaraetf with a banquet Wednes-
right Coach C. B. Roland of
Cliy was the guest speaker.
Tw.flyers from Florida
at the local airport Wed-
nesday morning. They were home-
wari bound from a Mexico City
.night.
■ Mary Lee Bell was to be crown-
Homecoming Queen during half-
time ceremonies of the Shark-
Crescent Blue Jay game Friday
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Willard B. Williams was the
second known veteran in Matagor
ate County to buy land from the
Texas Veterans’ Land Board. He
^purchased 80 acres out of the Ace
of Clubs Ranch on the east side
*» Tres Palacios Bay near Col-
•legeport.
Funeral services were held here
Xov. 11 for Mrs. T. R. Brandon.
Burial was in Columbus.
15 YEARS AGO
November 22 had been proclaim-
«sj as Thanksgiving Day. Commun-
Sy-Wide services were to be held
ti. the First Baptist Church Wed-
aesday evening.
Aipiproaching marriage of Miss
Janelle Allen to Charles A. Bur-
dick was announced.
Hie Sharks were to play their
Sinai game here Friday against
Goliad. They were defeated last
■week by Port Lavaca by a score
7-0.
Deaths reported were Mrs. H.
JK Clapp of Collegeport on Novem-
ber 9, Mrs. T. S. Elliott and Sam
Hebei on November 12 and Thomas
K. Wright on Nevember 14.
B. G. Faubion and J. M. Harbi-
sa*i were home after having re-
ceived their honorable discharges.
Mrs. F. L. Harper was present-
ing her music pupils in a recital
Monday evening at the Presby-
terian Church.
A GUARANTEED
FUNERAL INSURANCE
POLICY
Low Monthly Premiums
Protects The Entire Family
TVi itten By
TAYLOR BROS.
FUNERAL HOME
BAY CITY PALACIOS
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20 YEARS AGO
The school carnival, sponsored
by the Band Mothers, was a grand
success.
Mr. and Mrs Ted Fields opened
ihe Hi-Way Cleaners on Highway
35, one block north of the Humble
Station.
Work was begun on the enlarg-
ing of the postoffice.
No men were expected to be call-
ed from the county in the first
draft as 17 men had volunteered for
induction.
A delicious chicken and bean
supper was held Monday night at
the Presbyterian annex to celebrate
the successful membership cam-
paign.
The city council started a sanita-
tion program. Garbage and trash
was to be picked up regularly and
all trailer houses had to establish
proper sewer facilities.
Pye’s Post Paragraphs, telling of
the happenings at Camp Hulen,
were being written for the Beacon
by Pvt. Charles G. Pye, Jr.
Major Cliff Titus, chaplain of the
203rd C. A. (AA) was speaker at
an Armistice celebration under the
auspices of the American Legion
at the BYPU auditorium.
BUGGED
FROM THE EXCHANGES . . .
Jackson And Wharton Counties Vole
Democratic; Bay City Slates Banquet
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sullivan
were teaching in the schools at
Hockley.
The Palacios Sharks defeated the
Ganado Indians by a score of 6-0,
which again stamped them district
champions.
J. W. Dismukes, owner of the
Palacios Beacon, died at his home
in this city.
Bid# for constructing the new
high school building being asked
were to be opened December 4, G.
H. Faubion, president of the school
board announced.
Honorable J. J. Mansfield stop-
ped over here for a short visit en-
route to Port Lavaca where he
poke at a Texas Coast Oyster
Conference. Earnest Wehmeyer, J.
L. Koerber and W. C. Gray were
Palacios representatives at the con-
ference.
Dr. J. R. Wagner was host for
the annual meeting of the Mata-
gorda County Medical Society of
which he was president. The meet-
ing was held in he new pavilion
cafe.
If you can’t control your temper,
you can’t control your driving.
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Following the lead established by
the State of Texas and the nation,
Jackson County went solidly for
the Democratic ticket of Jack Ken
nedy and Lyndon Johnson in Tues-
day’s General Election. The unof-
ficial vote was Kennedy-Johnson,
2,278 and Nixon-Lodge, 1,670.—
Edna Herald.
El Campo and Wharton County
went with the winners, Kennedy
and Johnson, in the presidential
sweepstakes. Near complete but
unofficial returns from all boxes
in the county gave the Kennedy-
Johnson ticket a total of 4976 to
3298 for the Nixon-Lodge ticket.—
El Campo Leader-News.
Ernest T. Lindsey, Vice Presi-
dent of the Celanese Chemical Com-
pany, Corpus Christi, will be the
speaker at the annual Chamber of
Commerce Banquet, Thursday, Jan-
uary 19. His topic will be “Why
Celanese Selected Bay City, Mata-
gorda County, for its New Plant."
—Bay City News.
Jens P. "Chris” Christensen was
the winner in a seven man race for
Justice of the Peace of Precinct 5.
The write-in election became neces-
sary because of the death of Judge
M. L. Hansard, the incumbent, last
July.—El Campo Leader-News.
The Edna High Student Coun-
cil will be host on Thursday, Nov.
17, for a conference of the South
Central Gulf Coast Association of
Student Councils. An estimated
500 student leaders representing
some 25 area high schools are
expected at the meeting.—Edna
Herald.
J. B. Chamberlain, the Houston
Natural Gas System’s Wharton dis-
trict manager, recently was pre-
sented a service pin in recognition
of his twenty years of service with
the gas company.—Wharton Spec-
tator.
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A safe deposit box that is adequate for
the average family rents for as little as
$3.00 a year. Get one for yourself/ soon!
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Officers and directors of the Edna
Little League organization met
Monday night and voted several
changes in the local program for
the next season. The league was
increased fro-m six to eight teams
for the 1961 season. It was reported
at the session that another $1,000
donated by interested citizens had
been paid on the new Little League
field.—Edna Herald.
Th El Campo United Fund was
reported Wednesday to be nearing
the $10,000 mark or close to 50
per cent of this year’s budget of
$21,260.—El Campo Leader-News.
Young Farmers from seven local
chapters met at the Wharton High
School to hear reports of progress
in the organization and to study or-
ganizational improvement.—Whar-
ton Spectator.
Caspary and Wendell have offer-
ed Aransas County Navigation Dis-
trict $4,000 a year rental for a
long-term lease on seven acres of
land at Little Bay, on which to
build a $625,000 motel and Ma-
rina. If a lease is consumated, the
firm guarantees to start construc-
tion within 120 days and to com-
plete the entire installation by
early 1962.—Rockport Pilot.
The thick compilation of statis
tics is entitled “Accidental Poison-
ing by Gases and Vapors,” Pub
lished by the Texas State Depart
ment of Health, it shows there
were 44 such deaths in Texas
1959.
Some were caused by open gas
jets which should have been closed
tightly or capped when in prolong-
ed disuse, Others were the result
of inhaling certain toxic chemical
substances.
But most poisonings by “gases
and vapors” are the direct results
of carbon monoxide—the silent kill
er.
During the chilling days of win-
ter, hardly a week goes by that
someone somewhere in Texas does
not die from carbon monoxide poi
soning.
Such deaths come under the
broad heading of “accidental”, but
a more apt heading would be “care-
less”.
The fact of the matter is that
carbon monoxide poisoning is the
end result of improperly adjusted
heaters, leaky vents or none at all,
and lack of ventilation in roor#3
where any kind of fire is burning.
Perhaps the greatest danger lies
in the tasteless, odorless, and color-
less character of carbon monoxide.
Unless you have complicated test-
ing equipment and keep checking
about every 15 minutes, there is
absolutely no warning of the pres-
ence of the gas until symptoms ap-
pear.
Even these symptoms are mask-
ed. A seemingly mild headache,
slightly watering eyes or a touch
of stomach upset are easily mis-
taken for a cold; when they may
really be early symptoms of car-
bon monoxide poisoning.
If sleeping in a closed room with
a faulty heater burning, death may
come without waking or warning.
In fact (most carbon monoxide
deaths follow this pattern.
Regardless of the heating fuel,
precautions must be taken, since
carbon monoxide is the result of in-
completely burned fuel.
Proper venting should be install-
Texans have a big time.
They also have a big timepiece.
Fact of the matter is, it’s the
world’s largest. It’s the clock that’s
atop the 30-story Continental Bank
Building in Fort Worth.
Time is controlled by a micro-
wave radio from the U. S. Ob-
servatory in Washington, D. C.
The clock itself is five stories
high. It weighs 77 tons and the
numbers are so large—25 feet high
and nine feet wide—that the clock
can be read from a distance of five
miles.
The terrible story of the Webster
Massacre is now written in stone
above its victims, in a cemetery at
Leander, in Williamson County,
north of Austin.
In 1839 the Comanche Indians
attacked John Webster and his
party of about thirty settlers. They
were trapped by the Indians in the
open prairie after attempting to
escape under darkness.
Mrs. Webster and her two child-
ren were imprisoned, but all others
were killed.
Victims were baried in one box,
about the size of a wagon body.
Their remains still are there.
No official action was taken at
the regular Edna City Council ses-
sion as the group did not have the
necessary quorum present to take
legal action. One important issue
passed until the next council meet-
ing is the recent request from Cen-
tral Power and Light Company
tor a new 30-year franchise in
Edna.—Edna Herald.
Teddy Roosevelt trained his fam
ous Rough Riders in Texas in the
same fort that housed such out-
standing generals as Grant, Lee,
Sheridan and Hood.
It’s the 3,000 acre Fort Sam
Houston, the greatest Army post
in the Lrnited States. It is located
within the confines of San An-
tonio.
Old “Fort Sam” dates back to
the pre-Civil-War days and still is
active today. Much of the old at-
mosphere remains.
It’s a sight to see, whether you’re
interested in the activities of today
or of yesteryear.
The Nobel Prize was instituted
by Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of
dynamite.
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