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MISS FRANCES LIVELY
Nazarencs io Hear
Missionary From
Africa Thurs. Night
Miss Frances Lively, returned
Nazarene missionary nurse to
Swaziland, South Africa, is on a
furlough in the United States, do-
ing deputation work among church-
es of the denomination and will
speak at the Church of the Naza-
rene, Thursday, April 5, at 7:.'1P
p m. and Rev. J. E. Bozeman in-
vites all to come and hear her.
She has been working in the
Raleigh Fitkin Memorial hospital,
Bremersdorp, built and maintained
by the Church of the Nazarene. She
also has worked in outpost Sunday
Schools in the area.
Miss Lively was assigned to
Swaziland in October, 1956, by the
Nazarene Department of Foreign
Missions. This will be her first
Visit home.
In missionary talks, she will de-
scribe Swaziland and the Nazarene
work there. The denomination has
about 100 doctors, nurses and mis-
sionaries in South Africa.
Born in Carrollton, Georgia, Miss
Lively graduated from God’s Bible
College, Cincinnati, and completed
nurse’s training at the Georgia
Baptist hospital.
She worked as a nurse for four
years at the hospital in Langdale,
Ala., before going to Africa.
School Choirs Take
i
Many Places At
!.L Regional Meet
Palacios schools were well repre-
sented at the annual University In-
terscholastic League Choral Con-
cert, Region 16, held Friday and
Saturday, March 30-31 at the Cal-
houn High School in Port Lavaca.
Participating from the Palacios
s-’hools were two choirs. Senior
High Choir and Junkr High Choir,
one ensemble and 16 vocal soloists.
The group were accompanied by
Kermit. Gideon, director, Mrs. Her-
mit Gideon, R. E. Wintterie and
Charles Mize.
The ratings were as follows:
Junior High Choir, (2-3) concert,
(4) sight reading; Senior High
Ghoir, (2-3) concert; (3) sight
reading; Ensemble or Trio, com-
posed of Blanche Halstead, Gaye
Rogers and Judy Lothridge, (1)
> concert.
Soloists Junior High: John Joyce
(I) and Linda Jackson (II). Solo-
ists Senior High: Russell Corpor-
on (1), Blanche Halstead (1), Gaye
Roger (I), Judy Lothridge (I),
Karen Bell (II), Bonnie Chnmblee
(II) , Linda Paxton (II), Tommy
Stiles (II), L. M. Dyson (III), Gene
Malone (III), Lydia Oldham (III),
Andrea Lee Peoples (III), and
Bobby Dillard (V). Piano Solo,
Karen Bell (II).
The concert judges were Mrs.
Wilma Stewnrt of the University of
Tears, sight reading, piano: Carl
Duckwall, Del Mar College, Cor-
pus Christi, solo and choir; Karl
Hickfang, Giddings High School,
Polo and choir and R. E. Sellers,
Robert E. Lee High School, San
Antonio, solo and choir ensemble.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Miller of Hous-
4)n spent the week end here with
his sister, Mrs. George Curtis and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dale Clay-
lourn and Jan of Beeville were
guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Claybourn during the week
end.
My Neighbors
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BEACON
LIGHTS
By Lorraine Basford
Bible Verse: Now from the sixth
houi there was darknpss over all
the land until ihe ninth hour. And
the ninth hour Jesus cried with a
loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani ? that is to say, My
God, my God, why hast thou for-
saken me? And some of them that
stood there heard it, said. This man
culled Elijah. And straight way
one of them ran, and took a
sponge and filled it with vinegar
and put it on a reed, and gave
him to drink. And the rest said,
Let be; let us see whethei Elijah
cometli to save him. And Jesus
cried again with a loud voice and
yelled up his spirit.—Matthew 27-
46-50.
• •
A room of quiet, a temple of
peace; the home of faith—where
doubting cease. A house of comfort
—where home is given: a source of
strength to make earth Heaven: A
shrine of worship, a place to pray
—I found all this in my church to-
day.—Selected.
* * *
April Holiday and Holy Days:
April 15th. Palm, Sunday. Com-
memorates the entry of Jesus into
Jerusalem and the start of Holy
Week The Eastern Orthodox holy
days fall seven days after the
Western church celebrates this
year. Catholic and Protestant.
April 19, Maundy or Holy Thurs-
day. Marks the Last Supper, the
institution of the Holy Eucharist
and the priesthood. Catholic and
Protestant.
April 19, Passover. The Festival
of Freedom is an eight day cele-
bration marking the deliverance of
Jews from slavery in Egypt. Jew-
ish.
April 20, Good Friday. Com-
memorates the last day of Jesus’
life and His crucifixion. Protestant
and Catholic.
April 22, Easter. Principal feast
of the Chrisiian year in commem-
oration of the Resurrection of Jesus
Christ. Protestant and Catholic.
♦ * *
I have received an invitation to
and a program of the oldest ob-
servance of Christ’s Resumption
in Am. rica, which will be held for
the 190th year in the square of
the Rome Moravian Church on Eas-
ter morning in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
The order of service never varies,
with the services beginning in
front of the Rome Moravian
C hurch. After the muster snluta-
\ion and response, choral salutation
and liturgy, the congregation pro-
ceed in reverent procession to
God’s Acre, with chorales by the
band playing antij-lionally. The
passing from the church to the
Graveyard is a so’enn part of the
entire period of wo\-Ji:p. Over 700
ushers are placed at various points
to assist those attending the ser-
vices.
The early Easter morning ser-
vice of the Moravians had its origin
in 1732. On Easter morning of that
year, before dawn, a group of
y oung men met by special appoint-
ment on ‘God’s Acre’, in the village
of Herrnhut, Saxor.y, renewed
their personal faith in the Risen
1 ord, found fresh courage for life’s
experiences and sang appropriate
hymns of Christian joy. This ex-
perience rspeate.’ for several years
with increasing favor and spiritual
gain, the Church saw in such a ser-
vice a means of grace for wider
blessing, and gave it a fixed place
in its program of Easter observ-
ance.
It is the same service but with
little variation from the traditional
and liturgical form, which, since
1772, has been continued without
interruption in Winston-Salem un-
der the auspices of “Salem Con-
gregation’’. The service is in no
sense one of spectacular appeal or
pageantry; but is held as a service
of true worship, centei irig attention
on the great underlying fact of the
Christian Faith. The Resurrection
of Jesus Christ, through which
God placed the seal of His approval
on His atoning sacrifice and estab-
lished the truth of the claims of
our religion.
The site of the beautiful and uni-
que Graveyard was selected April
21, 1766. The avenue bordering the
graveyard was laid out in 1770.
■The ground was consecrated and
the first body interred on June
7, 1771 was that of John Birkneau.
one of the first eight men who
came to the settlement. The Grave-
yard is called God’s Acres, mean-
ing it is a field in which the
bodies of loved ones are sown in
faith as Natural bodies, in due
time to be raised as spiritual
bodies.
A striking feature of -he Grave-
yard is the recumbent stones, sym-
bolizing the Moravian belief in the
democracy of death and making it
impossible to distinguish between
the giaves of the rich and the
poor. There are no family plots
in God’s Acres—the married men
are buried in a choir with other
married men; married women bur-
ied in a choir (meaning group)
with other married women, single
women, children and so or. all in
separate choirs with their kind.
Bu'iul in the manner emphasizes
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VOLUME LV, NUMBER 14
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1962
All City Officials Re-Elected
Mayor Curtis Wins Overwhelmingly;
Council Race Close, Others Big Margin
An election that appeared to
be of a quiet nature turned out
to be a grand slam approval for
those in office, as all those seeking
office were returned, some how-
ever had a close margin.
Mayor Marvin L. Curtis was re-
turned to office with the greatest
margin of victory polling 410 votes
to 196 for Travis Don Boaz, and
108 votes for William W. Hunt.
Incumbents Homer Aparicic and
N. I. Brotemarkle polling 363 and
361 votes, respectively, eked out
third place Ney Oldham, Jr. who
polled 340. W. R. Stewart, the
fourth man in the race, polled 227
votes.
In the City Secretary’s rac/%
anticipated to be close, saw Besse
Belknap receiving 495 votes to EL
M. (Ed) Feather’s 306 votes.
In the first of a double-header,
W. R. (Bill) Hasley counted 425
to R. T. Bozeman’s 281. They meet
again in another race May 5.
M. M. Brooking, candidate few
Treasurer, received the top poB
of 726 votes. Eli Mayfield, uncuo-
tested City Attorney candidate, re-
ceived 722 votes.
Write-ins were not repotted.
Council Adopts Ordinance Creating
Planning Commission. Accepts Repair
Work On Airport Hangar, Lef Permits
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER—Herbert Abraham of Carancahua is shown, center,
after receiving notification that he has been awarded a $2,500 Alcoa Foundation col-
lege scholarship. Shown at right is Supt. C. D. Holmes of Industrial Consolidated
School District, chairman of the selection committee, and H. F. Chrisco, smelting
works manager and Alcoa representative on the committee.
Herbert Abraham, PHS Senior,
Is Winner Of Alcoa Scholarship
Palacios High School senior Her-
bert Abraham of Carancahua and
Calhoun High School senior Ronald
Flournoy are winners of two $2,500
Alcoa Foundation scholarships. The
parents of both stu lents are em-
ployed at Alcoa’s Point Comfort
Operations.
Awards to the two students were
announced Monday, April 2, at
special school assemblies at the
two schools, and were presented by
April Is Month For
Concer Society Drive;
Need Local Chairman
April is set aside as the month
for the American Cancer Society
Drive. Palacios is in need of a
chairman for this drive. Anyone
interested in being chaiiman for
the local drive, please call 4-3135.
An increasing number of peo-
ple throughout the country have
become living proof tha* the count-
down for cancer is on.
In 1937, only one cancer patient
in seven was saved. A few years
ago, it was one in four. Today, it
is one in three. It could be one in
two. This is the countdown that
saves lives.
Today there are more than one
million men, women and children
saved from cancer, and there is
hope that even more substantial
gains will be made soon.
There is no Cape Canaveral for
the cancer countdown. Instead,
there are thousands of scientists
in hundreds of laboratories, hos-
pitals, medical schools searching
for the final solution to the cancer
problem.
Their task is just as challenging
as placing a man on the moon.
What causes cancer? Is cancer a
virus? Why do some people get
it and not others 1 From these ques-
tions will come the answers that
will lead to cancer’s ultimate con-
quest and to the saving of millions
of lives.
The current Crusade of the
American Cancer Society is the op-
portunity for all of us to help
speed up this countdown. Gener-
ous contributions will assure the
Society that every promising re
search project can be supported.
The Crusade also reminds us to
take personal protection against
cancer. Annual health checkups are
the best immediate assurance that
more lives will be saved from can-
cer.
The talk about cancer is right-
fully filled with optimism. The
countdown is on. Through our con-
tributions, all of us can have the
satisfaction of being an active part
of it.
C. L>. Holmes, superintendent of
the Industrial School Distiict and
Howard F. Chrisco, manager of
the Alcoa smelting plant at I’oint
Comfort. Mr. Holmes in chairman
of the six-man selection board that
made this year’s choice from among
six finalists.
Each of the two winners will
receive $625 each year for a four
year period. In addition to the
money each student will receive, a
$500 grant will be made by the
Alcoa Foundation to the college
the student will attend.
Herbert is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Abraham of the Carar-
cahua community. Mr. Abraham
works in the utility depart-nent of
the smelting plant. Herbert has
been active in the Palacios Future
Farmers of America and during
high school held the offices of sec-
retary and historian. He also has
a perfect attendance award for
FFA activities. He is one of seven
children and ranks in the upper
10 percent of his graduating class.
Herbert plans to attend Texas
A & M. and major in agriculture.
Ronald is the son of Mr. and
Mrs Q. P. Flournoy of 64 Hamil-
ton Street, Point Comfort. Mr.
Flournoy is pipe foreman in the
alumina refining plant. Ronald has
consistently ranked high scholas-
tically in his class. His school ac-
tivities include membership in the
Future Teacher’s Club, Slide Rule
Club, and Key Club. He was busi-
ness manager of the school annual
and president of the Jets, a pre-
college engineering club. He was
vice-president of the school Na-
tional Honor Society. Ronald was
an exhibitor in the recent High
School Science Fail finals at El
Campo and won a second division
award for his project.
In addition to his school activi-
ties Ronald is a Sunday School
teacher and an officer in the Guad-
County F.H.A. Offices
In Bay City Are Moved
The Matagorda County Farmers
Home Administration announced
today that it has moved its offices
from the basement of the Post
Office Building in Bay City to the
2nd floor of the Bachman Building,
located at the corner of Avenue G
and 5th Street. The mailing address
remains Box 1230, Bay City, and
the telephone number remains
Circle 5-2382.
William F. Minlcert. County Su-
pervisor for Matagorda and Bra-
zoria Counties, emphasized that his
Bay City office period is Friday
morning from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00
noon; the office period for the Bra-
zoria County office in Angleton is
Wednesdays from 10 until 12 noon.
aiupe Baptist Youth Association.
He plans to attend Lamar Tech
next Fall and major in engineering.
Thirteen scholarships have been
awarded to sons or daughters of
Point Comfort Alcoans since the
program began in 1954. Over 40
awards w ill be made this year by
the Alcoa Foundation to the sons
or daughters of Alcoans in plants
and offices throughout the United
States.
Miss Nelle Ayers, Co.
Public Health Nurse
Past 14 Years, Retires
Miss Nelle Avers, public health
nurse in Matagorda County the
past 14 years, ret Ted April 1 and
lias moved to Dal! is to make her
home with her sister, Mrs. Naomi
Wood.
Miss Ayers, who has been with
the Texas State Healtn Depart-
ment for 36 years, was horn in
Nebraska and attended school in
Siloama Springs, Ark. She receiv-
ed her nurse’s cap from a nursing
school in Oklahoma, then did post
graduate work at Cleveland, Ohio,
the University of Oklahoma and
public health nursing at Peabody
College, Nashville, Tenn.
She has served as public health
nurse in Plainview, Lubbock, Here-
ford, Henderson, Bryan, Tyler,
Sweetwater, McKinney, Fairfield
and Austin before coming to Bay
City.
During her 14 years of service
in Matagorda County, Miss Ayers
lias directed the Heif test for TB
in the public schools, worked with
the county TB association in case
finding and follow up, maintained
immunization clinics every Wed-
nesday in Bay City and each Thurs-
day in Palacios. Miss Ayers stated
that a nurse would continue to
come to Palacios every Thursday
to give immunization shots.
As a public health nurse, Miss
Ayers has performed many duties,
such as control of tuberculosis and
communicable diseases which in-
cluded immunization, a venereal
disease program, an epidemiology
log and maternity service were
maintained, chronic diseases in-
vestigated as were nursing and
homes for the aged also foster
homes.
Cancel1 control, heart diseases,
mental health and crippled child-
ren’s sendees were all part of her
work os public health nurse.
Miss Ayers, who was cited by
Dr. Rry G. Reed, director of the
county health unit, for her long
and faithful service, and high de-
gree cf efficiency, will be missed
by many.
An ordinance creating a city
planning commission, the accept-
ance of work on the uirport hangar
and approval of building permits
were tops on the agenda at the
regular meeting of the City Coun-
cil Monday night.
Present at the meeting were
Mayor Marvin Curtis, Secretary
Hesse Belknap, Water Superintend-
ent M. O. Cavallin, and Aldermen
Homer Aparicio, Norman Brote-
markle, Walter Milam and John
Raaseh.
The following ordinance was
adopted; “Creating a City Plan-
ning Commission for the City of
Palacios, Texas, prescribing the
powers and duties thereof, adopt-
ing the provisions of the general
laws of Texas in relation thereof;
providing for the appointment and
term of office of the members of
said commission; providing for the
removal of members of said com-
mission and for the filling of va-
cancies thereon; providing the ap-
pointment of a chairman of the
planning commission for yearly
terms, and empowering the com-
mission to elect such other offi-
cers as are deemed necessary and
adopt all rules necessaiv for the
transaction of business; providing
for the holding of meetings and
keeping of records and reporting of
the minutes of such commission;
repealing all ordinances, resolutions
and motions in conflict with this
ordinance.”
The council accepted the repair
work done on the airport hangar.
It is in better condition now than
at any time since the city acquired
it from the government.
The council also approved final
payment on the “back-hoe" equip-
ment purchased some months ago.
Building permits totalling near-
ly $25,000 was approved by the
councilmen as follows:
Aurelio Alderete, lot 12, Mock 60,
value $2,000; Jimmy Flores, Jr.,
lot 1, block 97, $16,000; J. Sewell
Two To Elect In School
Election Saturday
Little interest is being shown
in the School Election to be hold
Saturday, April 7.
Two trustees are to be elected.
Those filing for re-election are Dr.
John Hart and Frank Stewart—
they were the only ones to file.
At Wagner General;
Patients In Hospital:
Mary Ellen Rojas, Mrs. Mary
Hanzelka, Matilda Daville, Mrs.
Nancy Williams, Mrs. Curtis Har-
vey, Julian Jenkins, Robert Sisson,
Helen Smith, Mrs. Edward Garcia,
Miss Effie Singleton, Mrs. Floy
Davis, I,airy Griffin, H. H. Can-
trell, John Toellner, Josephine
Solis, Noah Broussard, Car! Ehlers.
Patients Dismissed:
Curtis Ellis, Larry Griffin, Luis
Rubio, Lupe Rojas, Donald Shimok,
G. C. Garcia, Everett Gaddis,
Nancy Bonds, Mrs. Jimmie Mor-
gan, Rita Rogers, Stanley Perkins,
Henry Gisclair, Mrs. Grace Jack-
son, Mrs. Nellie Slone, Mrs Gladys
Cepak and boy, Mrs. Mollie Chiles,
Robert Glenn, Dora Valentine,
Rowland Hicks, Nancy Lee Byrd,
L. W. Schneider, Pamila King.
Lawson, lot 27 Grassy Point Add..
$2,500: Mrs. L. O. Hill, lot 2R,
Grassy Point Add., $3,500; Albeit
Barrera, lot 10, block 93, addition
$250; J. A. Taylor, lot 12, block
57, carport, $100; Andrew Junuaiy,
lot 2, block 88, addition, $600.
Author, Lecturer
To Speak At P-T A
Meet Mon,, 8 P.M.
Miss Helen Poc, author, lectuneii
of Dallas, will speak at the Pa-
lacios Parent Teacher’s Associa-
tion on Monday, April 9, at 3 pan.
in the Junior High gymnasium.
Miss Poe uses World Travel to
infoim, inspire and entertain. 9k
is much sought after as a lecturer
by churches, luncheon clubs, public
schools, national and regional con-
ventions, international forums and
service clubs.
Her latest venture has been:
you’.h groups: high school, col legs
and junior high audiences. Misa
Poe believes teen-agers in modem
America are a very important auo-
lence.
Monday evening Miss Poe win
deal with a subject uppermost in
our thinking, “World Tension”..
Since 1949 she has spent many
months abroad studying world
problems in Europe, Middle East,
Japan, and, most recently, four
trips behind the Iron Curtain.
She not only informs but in-
spires and entertains as well.
Lot’s fill the auditorium Mi rviaj
night.
Surplus Food To Be
Distributed April ID
The monthly distribution Of sur-
plus food by the State Department
of Wc-ifare will be held Tuesday,
April 10 at the City Hall, formerly
used as Bay View General Hon- 1
pital.
All persons receiving surplus
food are advised to come between
2 and 4 p.m. for their food.
March Is Quiet Month,
Police Report Shows
March was a comparably quiet
month for the local police, Chief
Tom Hill reported as he issued the
month-end report to the Beacon.
There were five arrests, for dis-
turbing the peace; one for drunk-
enness; 29 traffic violations, and
four 2-car accidents.
The Weather
Date
Max.
Min.
Free.
Mar. 23
77°
61’
000
0.00
Alai'. 29
75?
66*
Mar. 3d
77* 57°
0.10
Mar. 31
65"
45”
0.07
April 1
73°
38c
0.0C
April 2
69'
40'
0.00
April 3
72°
55“
0 00
Total rainfall for year: 1.65
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