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GRASSY POINT
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By LORRAINE RASFORD
Rev. L. W. Wickham tells this
about two friends, Rev. Herbert
Rust and Rev. Alfred Rast of Fort
Worth, who planned to spend two
days fishing here, and get a nice
lot of fish to take back home with
them. They went by boat with My-
ron Spree as skipper, to the reef
off the mouth of Turtle Bay at 4
p.m. the first day, and as it was
getting dark at 6 p.m. they stopped
fishing. Anyway in that short time
they had 85 beautiful trout, all
they could put in their ice chest,
so their visit was not as long as
they planned. As they remarked
they got what they came for in a
shorter time than they expected.
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Kenneth Scheffler of Cuero
caught a yellow catfish on Labor
Day, 1958, which weighed approxi
South bay was Fisherman’s
paradise Sunday as an estimated
ton of trout was caught by fish-
men in boats and waders lining
the area and all pulling in nice
catches.
“It was the first time in my
life I ever went out to get the
morning paper and came back
loaded with fish,’’ said Coach
Toney Carr when Calvin Sexton
dumped a tub at trout at his
feet. Calvin also gave the editor
several of his catch.
mately three pounds. He put it on a
metal stringer with safety pin type
catches for each fish, and some-
how the fish got away in the night
with the safety pin catch in his
mouth.
This fish was later re-caught
within 10 feet of where it was first
caught and had the catch still in
its mouth. Its approximate weight
the second time was five and a half
pounds.
Merry Christmas to All.
Petitioners Urge
Abolishment Ot
1 Cl. Gasoline Tax
GALVESTON — Congressman
Clark <W. Thompson was presented
Wednesday with names of more
than 15,800 persons from his dis-
trict who advocate scheduled ex
piration next June 30 of the “tem-
porary” 1-cent per gallon federal
levy on gasoline.
Petitions bearing the names were
presented to Rep. Thompson by a
group headed by Carl I. Huss, Tex
as City, a member of the Texas
Oil Information Committee. They
asked Thompson’s support in resist-
ing proposals to extend the federal
levy.
A one-week petition drive that
afforded Texas motorists a chance
to express their desire on expira-
tion of, the 1-cent federal levy and
cut their gasoline bill nearly $38
million a year was sponsored last
October by the Texas petroleum
industry through OIC. Statewide,
some 268,725 Texans signed peti-
tions and were joined by 5.5 million
motorists nationwide.
In making the presentation to
Rep. Thompson, Huss said: "These
petitions represent consumers in
the 9th Congressional District who
want Congress to keep its promise
(See ‘PETITIONERS,’’ Page 8)
VOLUME LIII, NUMBER 51
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1960
7 Directors
Elected To
C. C. Board
Sever, new members were elect
ed to the Board of Directors of the
Palacios Chamber of Commerce af-
ter the ballots were canvassed at
the last meeting.
Elected to the Board were Fred
Huitt, George L. Harrison, George
Kana, Verlin Murphy, S. W. Wil-
son, Jack Partain and M. M. Brook,
ing.
Hold over directors are C. H.
Chatham, J. C. Richards, Ronald
Harris, Irvin Petersen, Dr. Norman
E. Runyon, Myron Sipree, R. B.
Trull and Mrs. Fat Iiaplee.
Officers for the year will be elect-
ed at the next meeting in January.
Predict 176 To Die
In Fatal Accidents
During Holidays
P.-T. A. Benefited By
$322.85 Check From
Sale Of Cake Mixes
The Palacios P.-T. A. received a
nice Christmas gift last week as
they received a check for $322.85
from General Mills as their profit
from the Betty Crocker Cake Mix
Sale sponsored by ail the local
grocery stores.
Did you buy a package of the
cake mix during the sale? If you
did, you helped the P.-T, A.’s ef-
fort in supplying milk to the under-
privileged school children.
Members of the P.-T. A. wish to
thank all the stores for their co
operation, to those who worked and
especially to all who purchased
cake mixes during the sale.
My Neighbors
“They’re mighty glad to see
me after I’ye been away a
week.”
The Texas Department of Public
Safety predicted today 176 persons
will meet violent death in traffic,
murder and suicide, and other fatal
accidents during the 10-day period
embracing the Chrismas-New Year
holidays.
Col. Homer Garrison, Jr., depart-
ment director, said experience in
previous holiday periods and other
statistical factors indicate 90 per-
sons will be killed in traffic, there
will be 46 homicides and suicides,
and 40 persons will die in fires and
other non-traffic accidents.
He announced that “Operation
Deathwatch,” a grim tabulation of
holiday deaths will be in effect
from 12.01 A.M. Friday, December
23 to 11:59 P.M. Sunday, January 1.
“We hope our prediction is too
high, and through the most con-
certed and coordinated effort in
history this year, we will be doing
everything in our power to hold
down traffic deaths, particularly,
during the holidays,” Garrison said.
“Our Regional Commanders have
been instructed to have every avail-
able man on duty and all radar
units working during this period in
an extra-special effort to maintain
the existing reduction in traffic
fatalities effected so far in 1960.
“We hope to wind up this year
with approximately 170, or about
seven per cent, les3 fatalities if we
can hold the trend which has ap-
parently been established.
“Operationally department per-
sonnel will attempt to achieve the
most effective enforcement pro-
gram possible during the period,
and through a coordinated, state-
wide public information program
an all-out effort will be made to
keep the public advised of and
aware of the special hazards of hol-
iday driving and the need for legal
driving at all times. Experience has
shown without a doubt that in
most fatal traffic accidents, at
least one violation of the traffic
laws is a causative factor.”
N. K. Woerner, manager of the
Statistical Services Section, said
all indications are that Saturday,
December 24 will be the high
“motorcide” day with Friday, De-
cember 23 and Sunday, December
25 to tie for second. New Year’s
day, he said, is expected to be
third.
He reported that the last time
Christmas and New Year’s day fell
on Sundays was in 1955. That
ear, in the 10-day period, there
were 81 fatal accidents resulting in
102 motorcides.
Last year for a .’2-day period
Woerner’s section estimated 111
motorcides, 47 suicides and homi-
cides and 42 other accident deaths.
Final count, perhaps as a result
of the enforcement and informa-
tion efforts, was 97 motorcides, 47
suicides and homicides and 42
deaths in other accidents.
VJMs
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yjrn warmest greetings are extended with the hope
that this Holiday season brings you good health and
much happiness. And may the joys of this Christmas
be yours for all time. A Merry Christmas everyone!
Mandatory Program Fails To
Curtail Foreign Oil Imports
IT’S A BOY
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kubecka an-
nounce the arrival of their seven
pound, 13 Vi ounce son, Donald
Paul, Jr. on December 15 at the
Nightingale hospital in El Campo.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Harvey and
Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Kubecka are
the proud grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs, Paul Gerhard and Mrs. Ella
Harvey of Stockton, Calif., the
great grand parents.
By BOB WILKINSON
Oil Operator-Lease Broker
For many months the domestic
crude oil market has been strangled
by over-supply aggravated by ex-
cessive foreign imports, and if
you think the government’s so-
called mandatory program to re-
strict excessive imports is a re-
lief you are dead wrong.
For instance: Last week’s report
of imports of crude oil and petrol-
eum products came to a whopping
total of 1,942,000 barrels daily 1
And Texas is still operating on an
eight-to-nine-day production allow,
able with everybody’s income, in-
cluding the state’s, going down,
down, down. . .
At long last voices are swelling
against excessive imports in com-
petition with our domestic produc-
tion. Michel T. Halbouty, Houston
independent who has Matagorda
County production at Pheasant and
Wharton County production in the
South Boling Field, among others,
says foreign oil, imported into the
United States at $1 a barrel below
the cost of domestic oil, is a threat
to the security of our nation.
He said the U. S. cannot become
dependent on foreign oil and re-
tain its world leadership. Governor
Price Daniel, Texas Independent
Producers & Royalty Owners As-
sociation, and the Independent Pe-
troleum Association of America
have voiced similar concern.
The Texas Bureau of Business
Research said the decline in the
number of days of oil production
allowed in 1960 is little short of
catastrophic. Unless the down-
ward trend in oil production is re-
versed, the Bureau said, a perman-
ent dislocation of the state’s econ-
omy will result. The number of oil
producing days allowed this year is
104, while 171 days of production
were permitted in 1957.
Meanwhile, gas production is be-
ginning to receive its hard knocks
too. Usually market demand more
or less guided the production of a
gas well but now we are beginning
to hear of the hardships domestic
companies are going through in
finding well connections. Some
pipeline carriers say they are “load-
ed” and cannot assume more pro-
duction. We have heard a report of
this right here in Matagorda Coun-
ty.
So the oil business is going
through a tough time right now,
but we are a little optimistic about
the new year. We think things are
going to improve; we fail to see
how they can get much worse. And
we are happy to say that we are
not alone in our optimism for ’61.
But, on the other hand, we re-
member we were optimistic in 1959
about 1960. . .
Here is the week’s drill report,
field-by-field, area-by-area:
Pheasant—John W. Pace's No. 1
T. N. Mauritz Unit is around 8,5C0
feet
Wilson Creek—Monsanto Chemi-
cal Company is testing 2-A Buck-
eye.
Ashby or South El Maton—Sin-
clair Oil & Gas Company has tom
down rigging around No. 1 G. B.
McKissick drillsite and moved out
material.
Northeast Citrus Grove—-Sinclair
Oil & Gas Company’s No. 1 Joe
Mangum Estate is around total
depth and circulating.
Southwest Collegcport—Apache
Corporation’s No. 1 Hattie LeTulle
was plugged and abandoned as a
dry hole around 6,000 feet.
West Midfield—Cyprus Oil Com-
pany has plugged and abandoned
No. 1 Lucy Anna Phillips as a
failure.
Blessing—Texaco’s No. 6 A. B.
maty mistletoe says., ^
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CALL!'
Pierce is waiting on a potential as
an oiler, No. 7 A. B. Pierce is wait-
ing on a potential as a gasser, and
No. 8 A. B. Pierce is a new test
to go 8,900 feet. . . Texkan Oil
Company’s No. 1 J. A. Wheeler is
testing.
Trull—Tennessee Gas Transmis-
sion Company’s No. 1 W. G. Davis
is projected to 12,250 feet and Pel-
Tex Petroleum Company’s No. 3
B. IW. Trull is projected to 12,000
feet.
South Francitas — Texaco has
completed No. 1 Hillyard Unit for
a gas-condensate well from 8,964-
78 feet.
Ashby, West Flank—Lloyd H.
Smith’s No. 1 Ella K. Dunn, et al,
is drilling around 7,500 feet.
East Bay City—Fan American
Petroleum Corporation’s No. 2
Thompson Unit is around total
depth.
Faith-Mag — Russell Maguire’s
7-A Huebner is waiting on a po-
tential test as an oiler from 9,-
530-35 feet.
North Bay City—M. P. S. Pro-
duction Company’s No. 2 Pierce
Estate is testing.
Sugar Valley—M. P. S. Produc-
tion Company’s No, 1 Martha
Fields has been finaled for a gas-
condensate well.
Chalmers—K. & II. Operating
Company’s No. 2 J. B. Norris has
been plugged and abandoned as a
dry hole.
Northeast Ashwood—Humble Oil
& Refining Company’s No. 1 Hum
ble-Halbouty-Pierce Estate is drill
ing around 6,000 feet.
Southwest Markham—H. E. Wil-
liams' No. 1 Caroline B. Fisher is
drilling around 7,000 feet.
Northwest Van Vleck—A. H.
Wadsworth Jr. and J. A. Wheeler
have plugged and abandoned No.
1 Galen Savage, et al as a dry hole.
East Sugar Valley—Fran Evers
is testing No. 1 J. J. Robertson, et
al. Total is 10,200 feet.
South Blue Basin (Southeast El
Campo)—Toro Drilling Company’s
No. 1 J. L. Myatt is scheduled to
go 2,500 feet.
Southeast Bay City — J. M.
Flaitz’s and R. B. Mitchell’s No. 2
W. B. Ferguson Jr. is around its
projected depth of 11,000 feet.
Santa Will
Arrive At
2:30 Thur.
Lions Club President, Vic Kah-
lich, has received official word from
the North Pole that Santa Claus
will visit Palacios Thursday after-
noon, December 22.
Jolly ole Santa will arrive in Pa-
lacios by special transportation at
2:30 p.m. He will be driven around
the business section, then will go to
Shark Stadium where he will meet
the tiny tots and hear the requests
of Palacios youngsters.
As Santa’s time here is limited
he will be assisted in his duties
of distributing bags of candy, fruits
and nuts by members of the local
Lions Club.
House Canvass For
Recreation Assn.
Funds Big Success
At the December 15th meeting
of the Palacios Recreation Associa-
tion, Inc., reports of collections
were given by the representatives
of the various organizations par-
ticipating in the canvass for funds
with which to build the recreation
center.
The house to house canvass is
still incomplete but to date a total
of $1,430.50 has been collected. Oth-
er donations received were 36 4-ft.
fluorescent light fixtures and
globes from Aluminum Company
of America, Point Comfort Works
and the Palacios Volunteer Fire
Department has agreed to pay for
having the water well dug. This
assures that water will be available
for the opening of the 1961 Little
League season.
The Palacios Recreation Associa-
tion, Inc. is now a tax free cor-
poration and any donation given
to it can be deducted from your in-
come tax.
If you haven’t been contacted
and would like to help Palacios
build a recreation center, send your
donation to R. C. Shelton, presi-
dent of the organization or to Mrs.
T. E. Friery, secretary.
Youth Club To Hold
'Battle Dance' At The
Pavilion Tues., Dec. 27
There will be a Battle Dance on
December 27 at the Palacios Pa-
vilion for the Youth Club. It will
be a dance for both Christmas and
Now Years combined. The Jokers
and the Velvatones of Wharton will
play for the dance. It will be $1.00
per person.
New officers were elected at the
meeting Monday, December 5. To
serve as president next year will
be John Roy Pierce; vice-president,
Carl Pendergrass, and secretary,
Rita Horrell. We wish there could
have been more members present.
Some of the Youth Club mem
bers are trying to raise money
for the new youth building. We
would appreciate the help of any
one.—Reporter.
Fireworks,
Traffic Hit
By Council
Change Of Garbage
Pick-Up Routes Also
Discussed At Meet
Members of the City Council in
their final meeting of 1960 Mon-
day night had little business on
the agenda, and time was spent
discussing fireworks, traffic near
churches and garbage collection.
The shooting of fireworks in the
city has become a nuisance accord-
ing to some, and a tradition at
Christmas and July 4th to others.
There is an ordinance prohibiting
the sale of fireworks in the city.
Traffic near churches was also
discussed as it has become dan-
gerous near some churches, espec-
ially at the First Methodist Church
where class rooms are in Weimer
Hall across the street from the
edifice; and parking facilities limit-
ed at other churches.
The councilmen are planning a
change early in 1961 in the manner
that garbage will be picked up by
the city. Contemplating street pick-
up from covered regulation size
cans is the first move.
This has been made necessary
due To the conditions of the alleys
and their not being suitable for
use by the heavy garbarge dis-
posal unit now in use, M. O. Caval-
lin reported that approximately
thirty percent of the citizens now
use street pick-up service.
Building permits were issued to
Petersen’s Restaurant, lot 9 and 10,
block 50 for a 280-sq.-ft. wall and
roof to connect to the old C.PP.&L.
office building. Value $1,000. Boaz
Building Co., a $12,500 brick resi-
dence on lot 13 and W% of 12,
block 3 in First Extension, Foley
Village.
City To File On 20
Properly Owners
For Overdue Taxes
Tax assessors are now preparing
duplicate notices of delinquent
taxes to turn over to Attorneys.
Twenty property owners of Pa-
lacios owe approximately $11,000
in un-paid taxes to Matagorda
County, Palacios Independent
School District and the City of Pa-
lacios. These 20 people have not
paid taxes due for periods of 14 to
27 years.
The Mayor and the city council
of Palacios have made up a list of
property owners whose taxes have
not been paid for this long period
of time with the recommendations
that the property be sold by law-
suit if need be, to satisfy the tax
rolls. The city will be joined in any
lawsuits by the School District and
Matagorda County and the State
of Texas.
The Mayor and city council re-
mind property owners that their
property can be sold for delinquent
taxes even if the property is a
homestead. Notices of these sales
have beer, given due publication in
your newspaper—the ax will fall.
Many Ways To Say
'Merry Christmas'
Have you wondered how the
folks in different lands say “Merry
Christmas” each year?
Here’s how:
Italian .................. Buon Natale!
Japanese ............ Kinge Shinnen!
Norwegian ................ Giedelig Jul!
Polish ............... Wesolych Swiat!
Portuguese .............. Feliz Natal!
Rumanian ........ Sarbatori Fericite!
Russian . .. Vespoloye Rolidyestov!
Serbian Kristos Se Rodi!
Slovak ................. Vesele Vianoce!
Spanish ............. Felices Pasluas!
Swedish ................... Glad Julen!
Bohemian .............. Vesele Vanoce!
Chinese .............. Tin Hoa Nian!
Croatian ................. Sretan Bozie!
Czech ................. Vesela Vanoce!
Danish .................. Glaedelig Jul!
Dutch .............. Frolijke Krestmis!
French ............... Joyeux Noel!
Gaelic ............ Nodlag Sona Duit!
German . Froehliche Weihnachten!
Greek .......................... Chrystovina!
Hawaiian .......... IMele Kalikimaka!
Hungarian........Boldog Karacsonyi
Unnescket!
Highway Dept. Plans
Road Improvements In
County On Hiway 35
The Texas Highway Commssion
has announced plans to improve
State Highway 35 from 0.5 mile
west of San Bernard River to F. M.
457 in Bay City, in Brazoria and
Matagorda Counties. This work
consists of additional surfacing
needed to keep this road in condi-
tion satisfactory for handling of
the present-day traffic volumes and
loads and those anticipated in rea-
sonable future.
Mr. W, H. Carmichael, District
Engineer, Texas Highway Depart-
ment at Houston, advises that this
work will be done under the direct
supervision of Mr. John C. Smith,
Senior Resident Engineer in Bay
City. The work will be done during
the coming calendar year.
Sylvester Clark left Saturday for
St. Petersburg, Fla. for a two
weeks vacation seeing places of
interest- on
Florida.
the west
coast of
The Weather
Date
Mar. Min.
Prec.
Dec. 13
47° 38°
0.20
Dec. 14
43° 36°
1.23
Dec. 15
61° 38°
0.00
Dec. 16
52° 36°
0.00
Dec. 17
57° 33°
0.00
Dec. 18
66° 37°
0.00
Dec. 19
69° 43°
0.04
Dec. 20
67° 51°
0.00
Total rainfall for year: 51..78
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