Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1961 Page: 1 of 8
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Million Dollar School Bond Election Saturday
GRASSY POINT
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By LORRAINE BASFORI)
Those of us who were up and
about between 4 and 7 a.m. Sun-
day, found a light jacket very
comfortable, on the coldest May
28th in 60 years.
VOLUME LIV, NUMBER 22
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1961
Issue Will Provide
Classrooms, Etc.
Taxpaying residents of the Pa-
lacios Independent School Di'fjfrjrct
will go to the polls Saturday wilt,
the opportunity of voting rut the
issuance of $1,000,000 in bonds far
the purpose of expanding the sefoonl
facilities of the District.
Oil Production Held
To 44 Days This Year
Appoint Committees
For Hospital Auxiliary
Oscar and Julie McLerran
brought in two large gafftops and
a few small ones from Coon Island.
« » •
L. V. Price, Sr., a native of Pa-
lacios, now of Houston, spent the
week end here with his two hoys,
David and Edward, and Dan Mar-
bury, also of Houston. Dan and
L. V. got in some fishing, enough
to call a good take home catch;
though Price lost a b'g one at the
Pavilion. The boys hunted at Fran-
citas getting a few squirrel, and
no doubt lots of red bug bites.
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Fish Line News: Frank Long
caught the gafftop that he threw
away, so the Longs are going to
enjoy a fish dinner when it is add-
ed to the trout the family caught
Sunday off G.P.B.C. pier. And the
“Mysterious Gifford” is Frank’s
7-year old son.
• *
Mrs. Paul Campos had as her
guest, Mrs. Velma Day, of Hous-
ton, and they fished Saturday
morning from 6:45 to 9, at the
Shell Pile using dead bait. They
had no luck the first hour, then
began getting bites, so had 11
nice specks by nine. They returned
at 1:30 to continue their fishing
and had 48 trout, some going 20
inches, as result of the day’s trip.
» * *
Mir. and Mrs. R. A. Ohlund, of
Houston, spent their vacation here
as guests at the White Swan. Bea-
con 10 and 12 paid off one day
with 215 medium sized speckled
trout, and gafftopsails which they
did not keep.
• • •
Seems gafftopsails are plentiful
all over for those who want to
keep them. Quite a few are being
caught at the river.
• * •
For about three weeks now, there
have been reports of some big fish
or scavenger, taking off with hook,
line and sinker of many fishing
from the City pier. It was thought
to be a shark, gar, and even a red
that was doing the damage. Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Schwander of
Weimer. were here on their vaca-
tion, and after parking their trailer j
at Ed’s place, they went fishing,
every day and all day. Herbert
hooked a big gar at the pier, but let
it go after getting it up to the
pier. Then, while there, they saw a
young Palacios boy, about 16, hook
a gar in the side, and bring it in.
It weighed about 46 pounds. The
boy told of a large drum, around 50
pounds and a bigger sting ray be-
ing caught at this same spot. Her-
bert did not ask the boy his name.
Who was he? However, perhaps
now the tackle busters have been
wiped out, and the City pier will
again be one of the best fishing
spots in town.
« * •
Annie Padgett has this sugges-
tion for a fine shrimp peeler and
deveiner—take a rat tail comb,
place the handle in hot water and
bend to the cure of a shrimp;
leave the teeth in for these work
the vein out as the comb end peels
the shrimp. Be modern, make one
to match your kitchen.
* * *
Going camping or on a picnic?
Save your foil pie, TV dinner, and
other foil containers, for they make
light carrying, handy for heating
beans, etc. and easy to clean dishes
for an outing of any kind.
* * •
The June fishing calendar in-
dicates, poor fishing June 1 through
4; fair 5 to 8; good 9 to 11; bes®
12 through 21; gradually decreas-
ing on the 21, first day of summer,
to good on 24 and 25, and fair
26 and 27 to poor 28 to 30.
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“How times have changed” re-
marked the Old Skipper, now days
(See “FISHING,” Page 4)
Mj Neighbors
“They’re so anxious to brag
about having color TV they’ve
painted their set blue.”
By BOB WILKINSON
Oil Operator-Lease Broker
Last week total imports of crude
oil and products increased 223,000
to 1,836,100 barrels daily, point-
ing up a dire and immediate need
for some sort of effective controls
in order to save the domestic pro-
ducer from bankruptcy.
This column wishes to make it
clear again that we are not against
all imports and do not wish to do
away with imports entirely. We
simply believe that imports are
excessive and have been for some
7 New Members
Are Received By
Local Lions Club
Seven new members were induct-
ed into the Palacios Lions Club
Tuesday night by Deputy District
Governor F. A. Griffin. He also
presented a program on Lionism
at the weekly meeting held at Pet-
ersen’s Restaurant.
New members included were Jack
Falks, Garner Seaquist, Jim Lyons,
George Munro, Clifford Guffey,
Don Boaz and B. M. Gibbs, Jr.
The Club selected Billy Holt, F.
A. Griffin, O. M. Roane, and W. L.
Coffey to act as delegates to the
District Lions’ convention which
will be held in Victoria.
District' 2-S4 Of Lions
Clubs Convention To
Open In Victoria Fri.
F. A. Griffin, secretary of the
Palacios Lions Club, will serve on
the Registration Committee at the
district Lions Club International
convention which opens in Victoria
Friday.
Forty-nine clubs will be repre-
sented at the convention of District
2-S4, which includes an area ex-
tending from Galveston to Karnes
City.
Highlight of the convention will
be the election of the district gov-
ernor. The two candidates, both of
whom were in Palacios recently in
connection with their campaigns,
are Robert C. Koonce of Angleton
and Alvin Prince of LaMarque.
Summer School For
Non-English Speaking
Students To Start Soon
The summer school program for
the NON-ENGLISH speaking stu-
dents will begin Monday morning,
June 18. Mrs. Ilortense Wyatt will
be the teacher again this summer.
Ajt the first meeting of the par-
ents and children the program was
explained, the children tested, and
a selection of nineteen students for
this summer’s program was made.
The students in last summer’s pro-
gram gained a working knowledge
nf the English Language that en-
abled them to enter sehool in the
first grade.
The nineteen students selected
for this summer’s program are:
Tommy Aparicio, Diame Espinosa,
Yolanda Flores, Guadalupe C. Gar-
cia, Lupe N. Garcia, Trudie Garcia,
Richard Longoria, Andy Luna, Joe
Morales, Mary Luna, Rose Morales,
Pauline Ottinu, Rose Perez, Delia
Quintanilla, Simon Rodriguez, Cin-
dy Rogas, Delia Sanchez, Judy
Yanes, and Stella Palacios.
If any of the parents of the
above children have any questions
concerning this program they
should contact Mrs. Hortense
Wyatt.
Mr. and Mrs. John IWl Richards
are vacationing at Garner State
Park.
Leon Bullock returned Monday
from Lufkin where he had taken
Mrs. Bullosk and children to spend
a week with her parents while he
sponsored a group of FFA boys on
their trip to Garner State Park.
time. We believe they shou'd bo
cut down to a point whore the do-
mestic producer can get a fair re-
turn on his investment.
Excessive imports are the chief
cause of our depressed domestic in-
dustry, despite anything anybody
will tell you to the contrary, and
apparently it has been a growing
problem with us for sometime as
this paragraph from the 40-year-
ago column in the Houston Chron-
icle will point up:
"Members of the Gulf Coast Oil
Producers Association said they
would continue their campaign
against importing oil from Mexico
despite a setback in Washington
where they had sought passage of
tariff legislation regarding oil im-
ports.”
Familiar ring? That was in May
of 1921!
Just last Sunday, Max Skelton,
oil writer for the Associated Press,
and an old schoolmate of ours, said:
“Few Texas oil operators believe
the recession is at an end. Crude
production allowables are at a rec-
ord low. The end is not in sight.
Proration schedules the first five
months of 11961 totaled only 44
days, an all-time low. There were
81 producing days in the same 1957
period. Another eight-day pattern
has been set for June.”
And we saw another article which
stated that one-third of the nation’s
oil productive ability is shut in. It
said that the U. S. crude oil pro-
duction could be hiked 50 per cent
without exceeding the" maximum
efficient rate of production. It also
said that the production of gas and
natural gas liquids could be doubled.
There are indications that some
people are going to try to do some-
thing about this bad situation.
The Independent Petroleum As-
sociation of America advocated that
the government cut back oil im-
ports by about 200,000 barrels a
day to encourage a “healthy do-
mestic industry” and help national
security. The I. P. A. A. said this
is a time for decision and correc-
tive action by the government. The
I. P. A. A. said there was general
agreement within the petroleum in-
dustry that impert restrictions are
necessary.
The Texas Independent Producers
and Royalty Owners Association
has appealed for a revision of the
mandatory oil import controls pro-
gram whereby imports would he
related to demand for domestic
crude production rather than total
petroleum demand.
The director of the Office of Civil
and Defense Mobilization has an-
nounced that he will investigate the
effect on national security of im-
ports of residual fuel oil.
The House Small Business Com-
mittee, headed by Chairman Wright
Patman of Texas, is going to have
a subcommittee investigate the gov-
ernment’s crude oil import pro-
gram. Patman told the House a
healthy domestic oil industry is
vital to national defense and the
country’s economy.
He said Congress had given the
administration authority and the
duty to limit oil imports sufficient-
ly to maintain a vigorous and com-
petitive domestic industry, but that
recent hearings held by the De-
partment of the Interior suggest
that, instead of making full use of
the powers which have been grant-
ed, the previous administration put
into effect a program which may
be weakening the domestic oil in-
dustry and fostering monopoly con-
trol.
Since the program became effec-
tive, Patman added, the numher of
oil wells in the nation has dropped
steadily and in Texas producing
wells are operating only eight days
a month.
“It is a sign of the future that
only 14 college freshmen enrolled
:n petroleum engineering courses
this spring at the University of
Texas, a leading center of training
in the petroleum sciences. As late
as the fall of 1957, the University
was giving training to 134 freshmen
in petroleum engineering.”
Here is our latest driil report,
field-by-field, area-by-area:
Trull (Northwest Palacios)—
Texkan Oil Company is getting un-
(See “OIL NEWS,” Page 8)
CITY, COUNTY AND
STATE BACK TOWER
IN SENATE RUN-OFF
Palac-ies and Matagorda County
went along with the rest of the
Statei in Saturday’s special run-off
election for U. jS. Senator and
gave Republican John Tower
slight edge over Democrat William
Blakley.
Three hundred , and ninty-eight
voters whent to the polls in Palacios
last Saturday giving John Tower
212 of their votes and Wm. Blaklcv
184 votes. Two votes were muti-
lated. County-wide the vote was
1,236 for Tower and 983 for Blak-
ley.
John Tower is the first Re-
publican Senator > ever elected to
Congress from Texas.
Veterans Dedicate
Memorial Start At
Cemetery Tuesday
'Memorial Day brought fulfill-
ment to the first step of plans for
a Veterans Memorial at the Pa-
lacios Cemetery. The American Le-
gion and Veterans of Foreign Wars
have planned for some time to erect
such a memorial and as the first
step a flag staff was dedicated at
7:00 a.m. Tuesday morning.
The veteran organizations have,
in the past, joined in placing small
flags at the graves of each deceas-
ed veteran in the Palacios ceme-
tery. This proved unsatisfactory,
however, as in spite of the best
efforts, some graves were missed
on which flags should have been
placed.
The flag is flown from the newly
dedicated mast in honor of all the
departed comrades from this area.
It is planned to build around this
flag staff a small memorial of
which the community may be
proud. It is the hope of the veteran
organizations that well prepared
memorial ceremonies can be con-
ducted each year in the future with
large community participation.
The V. F. W. and The American
Legion wish to thank the Mayor
and City Council for donating the
flag staff from the old Bayview
Hospital. They also express ap-
preciation to Ellis Jensen for mov-
ing the flag staff from the old site
to the cemetery and to Jack Mad-
dox for furnishing the equipment
to raise the staff at the new site.
Anniversary Dance
Of Youfh Club To Be
Held Thursday Night
The Youth Club’s Anniversary
Dance will be held Thursday, June
1, from 8 until midnight at the
Palacios Pavilion. The Jokers will
furnish the music and the cost will
be $1.00 per person.
There will be a special meeting
at the Youth Club building Satur-
day night at 8 and all members of
the Youth Club sot attending will
be assessed a 15c fine.
Mrs. Rose Treybig also reminds
all members that their membership
cards must be renewed before June
26th.
104 Students Receive
Readers Club Awards
A total of one hundred four Tex-
as Readers Club Certificates have
been awarded to students in the
Palacios Elementary and Junior
High Schools.
Each student had to read ten
books to be eligible to receive this
award. Five of these were fiction
books one of which must have been
a Newberry Award Medal Book.
One book read had to be a bi-
ography, one about travel, one
about history, and two other non-
fiction hooks making the total of
ten books. After the student had
read a book he had to make a re-
port on the book either a written or
oral report.
These students are to be com-
mended for the diligence they have
shown to receive this award.
Every student in grades four
through nine have the opportunity
to receive oie of these certificates.
A meeting was held Friday morn-
ing, May 25. at 'vVeimer Hall, to
organize a Hospital Auxiliary.
Mrs. J. L. Jinkins, of Galveston,
a past president of the State Hos-
pital Auxiliary, and at present
chairman of a committee for Dis-
trict 4, which includes Matagorda
County, to hclpi organize new aux-
iliaries was the principle speaker.
Mrs. Blanche O’Conner, President
of the Bay City Hospital Auxiliary
also spoke, and brought a film on
the duties of auxiliary members
which was interesting and inform-
ative.
'Mir. Leonard Watson, Hospital
Administrator for both County Hos-
pitals, spoke on the three most im-
portant phases of the auxiliary
members’ work which is; No. 1,
public relations; No. 2, the plus
service which an auxiliary mem-
ber can render to relieve the nurses
for the technical and nurses duties
for which they are trained; and No.
3, serve snacks to the patients.
Mr. Watson stressed that the
auxiliary member is not to take the
place of any paid employee, but to
do the little services that can re-
lieve the nurses for more important
duties. Mr. Watson also stated that
many people had no idea of the
actual cost of running a hospital.
He stated the cost for maintaining
Wagner General for the first three
months averaged $26.50 per day
for each patient.
On# of the things that each
speaker emphasized was the neces-
sity for auxiliary members to be
good listeners.
It will be necessary for each
member to buy a uniform, and
they must wear it at all times
while on duty. Each member will
be required to take an orientation
course, and become familiar with
Gospel Meeting To Be
Held At Church Of
Christ June 5 Thru 11
Mr. Coy Day will be evangelist
at a Gospel Meeting at the Church
of Christ, Sixth and Rorem, from
Monday, June 5th through Sunday,
June 11. The services will begin
each evening at 7:30.
Brotier Day has chosen as his
subject topics and will speak on
one each evening “God and You”;
“One Way to God”; “The Way
Back to God”; “New Testament
Church"; “Where Are the Dead?”;
“The Day the Earth Burns"; “Hell
Bound Millions” and “The Court of
No Appeal”.
Mr. Archie Crabtree of the local
church extends an invitation to all
to attend arty or all of these ser-
vices. A cordial wetoome will be
extended to all.
April Bond Sales In
County Total $16,712
April E and H Savings Bonds
sales in Matagorda County totaled
$16,712 according to Mr. P. R.
Hamill, chairman of the county
Savings Bonds Committee.
Stales for the first four months
of 1961 were $92,629 which repre-
sents 18.5% of the county’s 1961
goal.
“Savings Bonds are an invest-
ment in the future. For 20 years
the Treasury Department sold
bonds as a doorway to opportunity
—a new home, college education,
retirement, or some other dream
of the future. But today the future
itself is threatened. With the dawn
of the missile age, the world is sud-
denly aware that one more war
could be the last. The hope of the
age is for peace—for some guar-
antee that there will be a future to
look forward to. We must have
PEACE TOWER—the strength to
keep the peace; the knowledge to
make it lasting. Saving's Bonds, in
building economic stability, help
strengthen America’s peace pow-
er,” Mr. Hamill concluded.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lentz and
daughter Terry and Jay Blackwell,
of Bay City, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Basford on Monday. Jay
Blackwell lived in Collegeport sev-
eral years ago. Both men are an-
nouncers over station KIOX,
the hospital, its rules and regula-
tions.
There were 32 ladies present at
the meeting with Mrs. G. G. Hope
acting as temporary chairman. A
nominating committee was elected
with Mrs. J. R. Wagner, chairman,
Mrs. R. B. Trull and Mrs. Henry
Barr members. A By-Laws commit-
tee was also elected with Mrs. Eli
Mayfield, chairman, Mrs. Robert
Herlin and Mrs. Charles Luther.
Next week’s Beacon will carry
an announcement of our next meet-
ing to elect officers and complete
our organization.
Commencement
Exercises Are Held
Monday Evening
Parents and friends of the grad-
uating classes of Palacios High
and Junior High Schools attended
the commencement exercises at the
Junior High School auditorium
Monday night.
Honor students of the senior
class were Julian Ray Jenkins,
valedictorian and Bruce Harris, sa-
lutatorian.
Awards presented by Principal
J. G. Smith, Jr. to students for out-
standing wsrk in various courses
were: Julian Ray Jenkins, scholar-
ship, English and music; Bmae
Harris, science; Adrain Goff, math-
ematics; Kathryn Rogers, home
economics; Frederick Woodland, ag-
riculture; Carl Pendergrass, social
science; Larry Taylor and Georgia
Hurta, athletics.
Those receiving Trull Scholar-
ships were: Julian Jenkins, Edward
Kana, Adrian Goff, Bruce Harris
and Carl Pendergrass; Rita Hor-
rell, Georgia Hurta, Dorothy Clark,
Kathryn Weimer and Linda Dar-
nall.
L. A. House presented the Amer-
ican Legion awards to Karen Bell
and Tommy Beard, outstanding girl
and boy of junior high school.
Supt. Ralph Newsom presented
certificates to those graduating in-
to high school and Dr. John Hart,
president of the school board of
trustees, awarded diplomas to mem.
bers of the class of ’61.
Final Try-Outs For
Teen-Age Ball Players
Slated Friday Night
One mere attempt will be made
to get a teen-age baseball league
started in Palacios for boys 13, 14
and 15 years of age.
Only 18 boys showed up for try-
outs last week and that is not
enough to formulate a league. Some
CO boys signed up for play during
the school term.
The final try-outs will be held
at 5:00 p.m. Friday, June 2 at the
Little League park. If not enough
interest is shown no further plans
will be made. Managers have been
arranged for four teams. Three
teams will formulate a league.
Open House At State
School For Retarded
To Be Held June 9th
The date for the annual Open
House, honoring parents and
friends of Austin State School, has
been set for Friday, June 9 and
will have special meaning for 11
Matagorda County families who
have children in this School.
While the program of the day
is planned for the parents of stu-
dents in the School, it will be of
real interest to those people who
are considering application and
placement for a retarded child, as
well as for all people concerned
with the care, training, and treat-
ment of mentally retarded children
in an institutional setting.
Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Johnson
are visiting their daughter, Mrs.
Raymond Mitchell and family in
Albuquerque, New IMlexico.
The election is a “must” it we
continue to provide facilities ac-
ceptable to the average student «*■
parent. Acceptable is used in terms
of over-crowdedness experienced
the past two years when nutfitog.
iums and library have been con-
verted into classrooms to meet the
ever increasing enrollment. The
Central Elementary School built
for a capacity of 360 students; had
an enrollment of 520 student* this
past term.
The East Side Elementary, a
wooden structure built during Use
war years of surplus material, feaa
more than served its usefulness,
and any parent who has had child-
ren in the school would be thank-
ful for its disbandment, of which is
planned.
The Junior High is ‘bursting at
the seams’ with the increased en-
rollment each year and has bees
us ng every available space fee
classrooms.
The high school, where woodeE
buildings have been used for bsiDd,
shop, vocational training and honor,
conomics, has alos had its audi-
torium converted into improvised
classrooms for the influx of students
during the past few years, ha
above any expectations of buildi^
programs of which the last was in
1962.
The issues up to the voters Sat-
urday will provide for new Semur
High and Athletic Plant, estimated
value of $500,006; an addition
Central Elementary, two wings or
8 classrooms, $100,000; new Ele-
mentary School, 24 classroom*.
$350,000; reserved for contin-
gencies, etc., $50,000.
Naturally, it was pointed out that
it will cost the taxpayers a mini-
mum 29J/& cents per $100 of assess-
ed valuation which will be absorbed
by increased values coming intothr
district and in the lowering of the
maintenance tax, which will resufit
in no addition tax to the tax-
payers. This figure was made b&
Russ & Company of San Antonia.
Financial Advisors to the District.
The new facilities, as planned,
will probably adequately take care
of the needs of the District for *
period of 10 years if enrollment,
continues to increase at the rate tS
6% per year.
The Palacios School system, with-
out a doubt, has oae of the finest,
academic rating in he shite. Tbey
have obtained that rating with out- -
moded and over-crowded condition*.
We must plan ahead. We raid
provide adequate facilities for <mr.
children. The extra cost is mboex..
It’s up to you—vote Saturday.
Voting boxes will be maintained *tt
the City Hall, Palacios, with Mrs..
Mollie Wope, presiding judge; JS*-
pa# Building, Collegeport, Mrs. A-
A. Penland, presiding judge; Mid-
way Store, Midway, Mrs. Hanli
Sells, presiding judge; De«ts«Mw*gr
School, Deutschburg, Mrs. Peter
C. Kocurek, presiding jpdge.
Both propositions on the baBct
must carry.
Registrations To Be
Held June 5 For W.C
J.C. Summer School
WHARTON — Registration frxr
the first six weeks term of sum-
mer school at the iWlharton Court®
Junior College will be, held June
5, beginning at 8 a.m. The first
summer term classes will begin
June 6 and close July 14. The sec-
ond six weeks will begin July 17
and close August 25.
Only academic, non-laboratory
courses will be offered in summer
school, and classes will be held,
mornings only, Monday thiiotigb
Friday each week.
Courses scheduled are Freshman
and Sophomore English, United
History and United States Govern-
ment, Algebra and Trigonometry,
and Economics.
High school graduates planning
to enroll must have their tran-
scripts sent to the Registrar. Col-
lege transfers will need a statemert
of good standing from their col-
leges.
The Weather
Date
Max.
Min.
Prec.
May 24
87°
67“
0.00
lYay 25
82°
68"
0.92
May 26
84°
68°
trace
May 27
78°
69“
0.00
May 28
80"
56°
0.00
May 29
83°
63°
0.00
May 30
84“
65°
0.00
Total rainfall for year: 124®
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