Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
SUBSCRIPTION $1.75 AND $2.00 PER YEAR
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY. AUGUST 14, 1941
VOLUME XXXIV NUMBER 33
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THOUGHTS ..
Of the Moment j
With apologies to Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen THOUGHTS
•will make a “Prediction of Things
to Come.” We predict that immed-
iately after the completion of the
present army maneuvers, if not be-
fore, the United States will occupy
Martinique. This is based on a ru-
mor to the effect that certain troops
(NOT at Camp Hulen) were issued
tropical equipment, just before leav-
ing for maneuvers, and in a very
hush-hush manner. Now let’s see
how good we are.
MAYOR’S ELECTION CALLED AUG. 30
Leslie “Monkey” Chiles who has
been called into service by the Se-
lective Service Board was given a
farewell party at the Gables in Bay
City last week by his Bay City and
Blessing friends. It will be some-
thing for him to remember when he
gets into the routine of army camp
life.
That Colter building is beginning
to take on the appearance of a real
structure. The freezing plant has
been moved from its former loca-
tion near the Crawford Fish Mar-
ket and is almost in its new loca-
is hoped that work will be
Building Permits Pass ’40 Total]^®^
For Filing
First .Cotton Ginned Here Monday
Local School Surveying Recreational
Will Open
September 1
Crowded Condition
Will Be Result Of
Population Influx
Vacations for several hundred
youngsters will come to an abrupt
months.
The Methodist church has been
re-roofed, for the first time in many
years, we were told, and is now
weather proof.
Work on the turning basin is still
waiting for the dirt thrown up by
the dredge to dry out so it can be
leveled off. It is still too soft to
support machinery. However, J. L.
Koerber, chairman of the naviga-
tion board directors, reports that
sufficient space has been leased to
industries to practically assure the
retirement of the bonds.
S. J. Hill is able to get down town
again after an
while visiting friends and relatives
in his old home in Georgia. He says
getting sick rather messed up his
visit but he enjoyed it anyhow.
Pvt. Albert Kilgore, Flight 33,
354 School Squadron, U. S. Army
Air Corps, has been transferred to
the Air Corps Technical School at
Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111., where
he is taking the air mechanics
course, according to word received
here this week.
a. m. for the beginning of another
school year, according to an an-
nouncement by Ralph P. Newsom,
superintendent.
Although no definite estimates
are available as to the number ex-
pected to register on the opening
day, school officials are expecting
to be operating under extremely
crowded conditions from the very
start of school. Lack of finances,
shortage of teachers and buildings
and the influx of students whose
parents have come to Palacios as
a result of the sudden increase in
business activity has brought about
a condition which unless relieved
through Federal assistance in the
■ii" S'U uu”“ l'J”“ I very near future may present a tre-
l ness con lac e men(jous handicap toward efficient
handling of the students, it has been
explained by school officials.
Courses of instruction will be the
same as last year, Newsom said,
and every effort is being made to
arrange schedules to best advantage
of the students.
Needs of Working Girls
Notice how much nicer the streets
look now since they were cleaned
up. All that dirt, trash and papers
is gone from the streets, BUT—
there is still plenty on these vacant
lots, not to mention lots that are
not vacant.
We are told that only about half
the soldiers at Camp Hulen have
left for maneuvers. Mebbyso—but if
that is right it sure must have been
the “biggest” half. That is judging
by the soldiers on the streets.
We have been assured that sever-
al important stories will break for
The Beacon next week so be sure
you get your copy. Just to be sure
maybe you better pay that delin-
quent subscription.
Two Colored, Five
White Registrants
From This County
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. (Dan) Paulk
left Thursday for West Texas where
they will spend a week or 10 days.
Dan says he has no definite plans
as yet but is just going.
Congratulations are due Dr. and
Mrs. J .L. Guffy on the birth of a
seven pound son last Saturday,
August 9, at the Nightingale II os
pital in El Campo. Mother and son
are doing nicely, it is reported. The
name has not yet been selected.
Mrs. C. L. Haynes and Mrs. Mary
Phillips accompanied by their sis-
ter, Miss Louise Billings, of Hous-
ton, are enjoying a vacation trip
visiting relatives in San Antonio,
Quanah and other Texas points.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Appleton had
as their guests over the week-end
their friends Mr. and Mrs. Steuart
M. Andrews and daughters, Barbara
and Carolyn, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who were enjoying a vacation trip.
They were delighted with Palacios
and the wide open spaces of Texas
and said their visit here would hold
many fond memories. They were
here about four years ago and could
note many changes.
Matagorda County will furnish
two colored registrants on Septem-
ber 22, according to Call No. 22,
and five white registrants on Call
No. 23 on September 30, the Local
Draft Board announced this week.
They will be part of the 2,571
trainees to be selected for Texas by
the 351 local boards. There will be
344 colored trainees and 2,227
whites. The former will report to
the induction center at Ft. Sam
Houston and the later will report
to the induction center at Houston.
Since the first call last November
Texas has furnished 36,202 trainees
which has been pro-rated between
whites and colored registrants, ac-
cording to a statement issued by
General J. Watt Page, State Selec-
tive Service Director. There have
been 30,505 white trainees selected
and 5,679 colored registrants have
been called.
“It is going over with a bang,”
Mrs. William M. Caffee, who is
conducting the survey of recrea-
tional needs among the employed
girls in Palacios under the spon-
sorship of the Recreational Advis-
ory Council said in making a report
at the regular meeting of that body
Wednesday, after just two days of
work of interviewing the girls in
various business houses in town.
“Some of those girls are fairly
desperate for something to do dur-
ing the hours off duty,” she contin-
ued. “and they are avid to get
started as soon as possible.”
Although first plans were some-
what tentative when the idea of the
survey was first suggested by Mrs.
Caffee, the Council, after hearing
her report, decided that something
should be done as quickly as possi-
ble instead of waiting for the con-
struction of the recreation center
as was first considered.
One phase of this program will
be dramatic instruction and the
formation of an organization among
the girls patterned after the Little
Theatre movement. With that end
in view the Council decided to ap-
proach the school officials relative
to securing the use of the auditor-
ium of the grammar school for this
purpose. If permission for its use
is secured it is expected that workj
on that type of recreation will be
started at once.
Other activities suggested by the
girls already interviewed include
home making, infant care, dietetics
and home decorations. With the dra-
matic activities instructions will
also be given in play and short
story writing, stage craft and cos-
tume making.
Mrs. Caffee is being assisted in
her survey by Mrs. J. L. Koerber,
Mrs. Charles E. Bear, Mrs. Gerhardl
J. Luebben and Jdi's. Tom Caffall.
It is expected thit it will take the
better part of two weeks or longer
before each of the working girls of
Camp Hulen and Palacios have been
interviewed Mrs. Caffee stated that
although they had no definite esti-
mate as to the number of girls to
be contacted they expected that it
would be in the neighborhood of
300.
Other action of the Council in-
cluded the approval of all outstand-
ing bills which when paid will leave
a balance of $116.25 from $1000
originally appropriated by the City
Council to finance the summer rec-
reational program. This balance, it
is expected, will be more than suf-
ficient to carry the program on to
a successful conclusion.
First Bale
Is Grown by
Ed. Buffaloe
Premiums Donated
By Merchants And
Individuals, $32.80
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Jimmy Phillips
Tells Rotarians
of Past Session
Producer of the first bale of cot-
ton in this section Ed Buffaloe, cot-
ton farmer from west of town, re-
ceived premiums totalling $32.80
in cash and trade from various mer-
chants of Palacios. Of this $13.25
was in cash and $19.55 in trade.
The cotton which was ginned
Monday by the Palacios Farmers’
Cooperative Gin weighed 479 pounds
and was of good quality.
Since then Buffaloe has brought
in his second bale.
The names of merchants and in-
$85,298 Is
Total For First
Six Months
Does Not Include
Buildings Erected
Outside Of City
A. G. (Art) Skinner
Is Only Candidate
Filing To Date
Building permits for the first six
months of 1941 exceeded those for
the entire year of 1940 if allowance
With less chan one week left inr
which to file their names as candi-
dates to fill the unexpired term of
Mayor J. L. Deutsch, resigned, only
one candidate has as yet entered his
name for a place on the ballot in
the election which has been order-
ed for Saturday, August 30, Miss
Bessie Belknap, city secretary, an-
is made for an estimated $10,000 .nounced Thursday,
for which permits were issued but A city ordinance requires that all
no valuation given, according to'.
records in the office of Miss Bessie
Belknap, city secretary. Even so,
those permits for which valuations
candidates must place their names
on file with the city secretary not
less than 10 days preceeding the
election if they desire to have their
were listed show over five times as names placed on the official ballot.
much building was done during the
past six months as was accomplish-
ed during the first nine months of
1940.
From January 1 to October 1,
1940, these permits totalled $18,485.
At that time it became known that
Camp Hulen had been designated a
military training center in the na-
tional defense program and during
the next three months $79,935 in
Palacios-Station
Hospital Teams
Play For Title
Mrs. J. D. Greenwood arrived
home Wednesday from St. Louis
where she was one of the 130,000
to attend the Convention of Je-
hovah’s Witnesses.
The Palacios-Camp Hulen Soft-
ball Tournament was scheduled for
a championship game Thursday
night at the High School Athletic
Field with PBlacios playing the
Hospital Detachment, according to
Joe Staley, W. P. A. Recreation
Supervisor. The tournament which
Is being run off through “double
elimination” was composed of
Quartermaster’s Detachment, Bat-
tery “B” 203rd, Battery "F” 203rd,
Hospital Detachment, La Ward,
204th Regiment, 69th Regiment, and
Palacios.
All the teams have been elimi-
nated now except Palacios and Hos-
pital Detachment. These two teams
go into the championship playoff
with Palacios not having lost a
game and Hospital Detachment hav-
ing lost one game. If Palacios wins
the first game, the series will be
over; but if Hospital Detachment
wins the first game, another game
will be necessary to determine the
champion, said Staley.
ium for the first bale are listed be-
low:
Palacios Farmers Co-op Gin $6.50
G. G. Lawson 5 00
Le Roy Barnett, N. B. C. bread 1.00
Ramsey Gro. and Mkt. 1.00
Dan Paulk ................................ .50
G. H. Hamlin...............................50
Expressing the belief that therr ’^jJeil^Cafe 50
will be a special session of the leg- 01‘dham.s Cash Store .50
1 ne names Ul IIICIUIUIIIS mm III-. me iicai mice iuuiM.ua «piiin
dividuals contributing to the prem- building permits were issued. This
:— t— w_i_ — made a total of $88,485 for that
year.
Goppert’s 6 and 10c Store
islature early in September and that
the much discussed Bond Assump- ArnoTd’s Grocery
tion Law will be re-enacted, Jimmy
Phillips, who represents Matagorda
and Brazoria Counties in that body,
talked to the Rotary club here Wed-
nesday on the work accomplished
by the session just ended.
Tracing briefly the history of the
law he told the club that it was first
passed in 1936 when a one cent per
gallon tax levy was put on gaso-
line for the purpose of retiring the
unpaid bonded indebtedness of coun-
ties which had voted bonds to build
roads that were later designated as
state highways. Each succeeding
legislature was to re-enact the bill.
At first, Phillips explained, these
bond payments used all of the
money so received amounting to
nearly $11,000,000 per year but as
bonds were retired a surplus was
established.
“Three factions then developed,”
Phillips told his listeners, “One fac-
tion wanted the date for assump-
tion limitations made later to in-
clude numerous bond issues voted
during the past four years with the
expectations that they would be
included in the law. Another wanted
the money to be returned to the
counties as intended under the first
Bond Assumption Act and the third
faction wanted it turned over to
the State Highway Department.
He stated that early in the ses-
sion the House of Representatives
passed the law in the same form
as it had been re-enacted by each
(See (ROTARY,” Page 5)
1.00
.60
Palacios Grocery, S. Parsuitt 1.05
Western Auto Associate Store 1.00
Tex’s Cafe .60
Central Power and Light Co. 1 00
Crescent Drug Store 1.00
R. F. Buffaloe 1.00
J. C. Countryman 1.00
H. L. Carroll, Coca-Cola 100
Palacios Tailor Shop ................ 1.00
Palacios Shoe Shop .25
Price Cash Hardware 1.50
H. J. Ledtje...................50
Helen M. Ledtje .50
Ruthven Grocery Co. 1.00
Petersen’s Confectionery 1.00
Muriel’s Shoppe ....................... 1-00
Charlie Dickey.............................50
B. F. Belknap .50
Sinclair Service Station Wash and
grease and oil change
S. B. Buffaloe, Southport Station
10 gals. gas.
Art Skinner Comes
Out For Mayor In
Election Aug. 30
A. G. (Art) Skinner, real estate
dealer and former postmaster, has
announced his candidacy for the
unexpired term as Mayor of the
City of Palacios left vacant through
the resignation of J. L. Deutsch.
Mr. Skinner decided to enter the
race after being urgently requested
to do so by his friends.
Mr. Skinner has resided in Pa-
lacios for a number of years and
In 1941 from January 1 to June
30 permits aggregated $85,298. July
saw $9,150 in permits issued for a
total of $94,448 for 1941 to date.
Most of this building was homes,
garage apartments, a few duplex
types and remodeling of older
homes into apartment houses. Two
new theatres and complete remodel-
ing and redecorating of a third
tended to swell the total. It also
included five new brick and tile
business structures and a tile ad-
dition to The Beacon and Brandon
buildings.
Construction figures for several
projects outside of the city limits
are not included as these costs are
not available. The Colter Corpora-
tion is building a new and exten-
sive processing plant including the
dredging of a greatly enlarged
channel and turning basin for their
fish boats. Neither does it include
the dredging of the turning basin
for the Intracoastal Canal recently
completed by the local navigation
district.
In addition to these out-of-the-
city structures and projects there
also have been many small homes,
largely rental properties, constr uct-
ed in areas outside of the city limits
including one boat-house-garage
apartment now being constructed
by the Palacios Bay Development
Company on their private channel
just north of the city limits.
Stringent requirements which de-
mand that all building in the busi-
ness or “fire-” zone be constructed
of fire-proof materials has prevent
ed the erection of numerous “shack”
type structures.
Public comments and street corn-
er conservations have mentioned
many possible candidates but most
of these have been stopped abrupt-
ly by the persons mentioned. The
result is that so far A. G. (Art)
Skinner is the only candidate of-
ficially listed.
The position of mayor was thrown
open last week when J. L. Deutsch
without warning presented his res-
ignation to the City Council stating
that he would be forced to be out
of town about two-thirds df the
time on business. The coming elec-
tion is to select his successor who
will hold office until the regular
elections in April of next year.
NOTICE OF
SPECIAL ELECTION
By virtue of the authority vested
in me by the City Council of the
City of Palacios, Texas, I hereby
call an election to be holden in the
said City of Palacios in the City-
Fire Station on the last Saturday
in August, 1941, the same being
the 30th day thereof, for the pur-
pose of electing a mayor to fill the
unexpired term of the Honorable
J, L. Deutsch, who has resigned
from said office.
The electing shall be held under
the general laws of the State of
Texas providing for the election of
city officers.
All persons qualified to vote un-
der the general laws of this state
and who are residents and citizens
of Palacios are qualified to vote «t
this election.
C. L. Haynes is hereby appoint-
ed presiding judge of said election.
H. C. LEWIS
Mayor pro tern of the City
of Palacios, Texas.
is well acquainted with the problems
and resources of the community and
his friends believe him to be well
qualified for the position. His an
nouncement has elicited much fav-
orable comment.
Grand Finale of Summer Recreational Program Planned
Plans for a Talent Night, Friday,
August 29, to culminate the sum-
mer recreation program are now
being prepared by Joe Staley, WPA
Recreation Director, under the spon-
sorship of the Recreational Advis-
ory Council which has guided the
policies of the program since its
start July 10, it was announced this
week following a council meeting.
The summer program which has
been using the grounds and facili-
ties of the high school will be com-
pleted September 1 in accordance
with the plans adopted at the time
the program was started. With the
opening of the school year on that
date the school activities will re-
quire the use of the gymnasium,
grounds and other facilities for
their own use.
Although no definite plans for
the Talent Night have been made
Staley expects to secure the ser-
vices of a military band and several
individual numbers from Camp Hu-
len and from among the civilian
population of Palacios. These num-
bers will include musical selections,
songs, dances and other acts and
a huge community sing. Every ef-
fort will be made to secure as large
an attendance as possible of both
civilians and soldiers.
The summer program, Staley re-
ported, has reached approximately
11,000 people from July 10 to Aug-
ust 10 through its softball tourna-
ments and leagues, volleyball, play-
ground activities, dances, parties,
band concerts and other activities.
Of this number, he said, about 7000
were participants and 4000 were
spectators. Of the 7000 participants
about 3300 were children and the
rest were adults, both civilians and
soldiers, he said.
It was hoped at the time the pro-
gram was first instituted and funds
appropriated by the City Council
to finance the recreational work for
the summer that the recreation
center to be built by the govern-
ment would be completed and that
the regular recreational program
could be started as soon as this pro-
gram was completed. However, de-
ls; in the passage of the bill au-
thorizing the construction of these
buildings and subsequent delay in
the allocation of funds has precluded
such a possibility, members of the
Advisory Council explained.
As a result nothing definite has
been decided about future activities
in the recreation line. It is fairly
certain, however, that some sort of
activity will be maintained.
With reference to the Talent
Night program, Staley, requests
that any person with entertainment
ability such as tap dancing, musical
ability or any other means of pub-
lic entertainment get in touch with
him at the Chamber of Commerce
building as soon as possible.
Runs Out In Front
Of Car; 4-Year-Old
Receives Injuries
Freddie Welch, son of Don Welch
and about four years of age, suf-
fered a broken leg, an injured arm
and severe bruises and lacerations
Thursday noon when struck by an
automobile at the corner of Main
and Eighth streets.
The accident was apparently un-
avoidable according to statements
of those who witnessed the accident
as the child is said to have run out
directly in the path of the oncom-
ing car. The driver stopped his car
in about 10 feet, it is said, other-
wise the child would probably have
been killed instantly.
Rushed to a doctor’s office for
first aid treatment by by-standers
the child was later taken to the hos-
pital at Bay City.
Ed Aughstein was said to have
been the driver of the automobile.
Mrs. C. C. O’Brien, son, Charles,
and daughter, Ollie Joe, and Mrs.
Rhodes and son, of Port Arthur are
guests of their uncle Capt. Wm.
Hill.
Mrs. J. G. M. Ramsey is recuper-
ating nicely at her home after her
return from Herman Hospital, in
Houston, last Thursday.
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