Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 22, 1992 Page: 1 of 12
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1992
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PALACIOS, TEXAS
VOLUME 85, NO. 4
TWELVE PAGES
l her speaks at
WISE meeting
next Tuesday
Representative Tom Uhcrwill
address the Women In Seafood
Enterprises (WISE) at their Jan.
28 meeting to be held at the
Navigation District Building
from 7-9 p.m.
The topic for discussion will
be. How to Become More In-
volved in Political Activities
Concerning the Seafood Indus-
try."
Uhcr will also answer any
questions of this topic and others
concerning present and proposed
legislation concerning Texas
shrimping activities.
All women interested in join-
ing WISE arc invited to attend.
For further information contact
Pam Seaman at 972-3275 or any
member of WISE.
Blood drive set
Jan. 30 at PHS
The National Honor Socieity
and Student Council at Palacios
High School will sponsor their
annual blood drive on Thursday,
Jan. 30.
The drive will be from 9
a.m.-3 p.m. in the Fine Arts
Building. Donors who would
like to setup an appointment
should call 972-2571.
Trustees vote 5-2 to extend
Ready to take your used oil
THANKS TO the Matagorda County Soil Conservation Service (MCSCS), the Con-
cept Recycling Center at 1411 1st Street in Palacios is ready to accept your used
motor oil. C.M. Balik, (left) of the MCSCS, and Mike Brunnemann. who operates
the recycling center, show off the center’s sign advertising the new service. The
MCSCS placed a 220-gallon tank at the center to hold the oil. However, Balik said
if people respond heavily to the new service, the MCSCS will put a 500-gallon tank
there. Palacios residents can help the community in many ways by recycling their
oil. According to Balik, all the money which the MCSCS gets for the recycled oil,
4-cents a gallon, will be given to the Palacios Independent School District. (Beacon
Photo by Marc Alley)
contract of Superintendent
BY MARC ALLEY
Beacon Staff Writer_
At its regular meeting last
Monday (Jan. 13) the Palacios
Independent School District
(P1SD) Board of Trustees, by a
5-2 vote, approved a one-year
extension to Superintendent
William Reaves’ contract.
Trustees Travis Washington
and Irene Lucio voted against the
contract extension. Washington
See Page 3
said he voted against it for the
same reason he voted against it
last year.
“I don’t think it should be ex-
tended every year, 1 think there
should be some time in be-
tween,” said Washington.
When asked, Lucio said she
had no comment why she voted
against the proposal.
According to state law, a dis-
trict the size of P1SD is allowed
to give its superintendent as
much as a three-year contract.
There may not be any more than
three years on the contract at any
time, but the district may extend
it after one or more years if they
choose.
Working off a light agenda,
the board, in its other action:
•Unanimously accepted em-
ployee resignations, and to em-
ploy teachers to fill the mid-year
vacancies left by the resigna-
tions.
•Unanimously approved
additions to the substitute list.
•Unanimously authorized the
administration to continue the
use of the Palacios Junior High
School counseling consultant for
up to 30 days during the remain-
derof the 1991 -‘92 school year.
•Unanimously approved the
use of school district facilities.
•Unanimously approved the
appointment of members to the
Palacios High School Scholar-
ship Committee, to serve through
1994. The new committee is
composed of: Bernard Rother,
E H. Hutto, Barbara Cunning-
ham, Mary Ann Shimek, billy
Hamlin and Jackie Holt.
•Unanimously approved the
appointment of members to the
Vocational Advisory Committee.
This year’s committee consists
of: Homer Aparicio; Vernon
Bates Jr., new member; Linh
Chau; Bob Colura; Susie Con-
stancio; Bobbie Cude; Virgil
Farley; Jimmy Flores; Dawna
Frankson, new member; Irene
Garcia; Lynn Hewitt; Thomas
Holsworth; Kathy Le; Mary
Martinez; Martha Matthews;
Medicare reimbursement workshop
Jan. 27 at WGH conference room
A tree workshop about how to tile for reim-
bursement from Medicare has been set for 2-4:30
p.m. Monday (Jan. 27) in the conference room at
Wagner General Hospital.
Silver Key Coordinator Jan Sims will explain
the 1992 deductible, what it means if a doctor
accepts "assignment” of benefits and the process
of Medicare reimbursement. She will also talk
about filing for reimbursement from carriers of
Medicare-supplement policies.
Though the Medicare class is free and open to
the public, pre-registration is required. To regis-
ter, call (41W) 245-6383. Ext. 1441.
To help individuals keep up with paperwork.
Sims will show a system for filing papers in an
orderly way and pass out copies of record sheets
used to track claims. She invites participants to
bring their own Explanation of Benefits fonns if
they have any questions about them.
“1 encourage not only people covered by Medi-
care, but also their adult children or other rela-
tives to attend the training,” she said. "Then
they’ll be able to help their mothers, fathers or
otherolder relatives with the tasks of filing claims
and keeping track of paperwork.”
This educational session is sponsored by Sil-
ver Key, a free membership program of the MCHD
for persons 55 and older.
David Maus; Roosevelt Morales,
new member; Robert Taylor;
Manuel Tobias; and Neva Wil-
son.
•Unanimously authorized the
schools to reinstitute the Parent
Teacher Organization (PTO) at
the discretion of the principals
and Campus Improvement
Council.
•Approved, by a 6-1 vote, an
overnight band trip in May for
the Palacios High School Band.
Washington voted against it.
•Unanimously authorized the
district’s continued membership
in the Texas Association of
School Boards (TASB), and
TASB’s Administrative Services
Resource Center.
•Unanimously accepted the
only bid to demolish one house
on school property.
•Approved, by a 5-2 vote, to
re-elect W.C. "Chipper" Holt
and Travis Washington as repre-
sentative and alternate to the
Houston-Galveston Area Coun-
cil. Holt and Washington voted
against the proposal.
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Inside This
Week
Political Announcements. Page 2
Police Reports...................Page 2
Early Files.........................Pag® 4
Lifestyles.....................Pages 6 7
Youth.................................Page 8
Sports.............................Page 9
Classifieds................Pages 10-11
Thought For The Week:
A man who is always satisfied
with himself is seldom satsi-
fied with others.__
Beacon Deadline: 2 p.m. Monday
Beacon Ollice Closed Wednesdays
Lack of funds
curtail talk on
drainage work
BY MARC ALLEY
Beacon Staff Writer_
What had been planned as a
City Council workshop last
week to discuss repairs to the
city's alleys, instead became a
futile discussion on the city's
drainage woes and the lack of
funds to make improvements.
At the last regular council
meeting, (Jan. 6) Councilwoman
Chris Woll had suggested coun-
cil have a workshop to discuss
repairs to the city’s alleys. But
Woll sat there frustrated when
council spent most of the time
discussing how it could repair
the city’s drainage problems, if it
had the money.
Assistant Public Works Su-
pervisor, Manuel Quintanilla in-
formed the council that if the city
ever installs a new drainage sys-
tem some residents’ driveways
would have to be replaced. While
Quintanilla said there are many
people who would like their
driveways replaced, he said there
are not many people willing to
pay for it.
Councilwoman Karen
Bishop, however, said she
thinks residents in some parts of
the city are ready to pay.
“1 would say their checkbooks
arc hot,” Bishop said.
Regardless Bishop said the
city can’t waste time getting peo-
ple to pay. With area ditches
flooding due to the heavy rains,
she said people will feel it needs
to be fixed more now than in the
summer, when those ditches
have dried up.
“I would get one street to pay,
then it would be easier to get
other streets to pay,” commented
Woll. She then asked whether
the city even had the money in its
budget to undertake a drainage
project.
Palacios Mayor Leonard
Lamar said there were no funds
available in the budget and added
that “There is no way you can
raise enough money for such a
big project like drainage.” He
said it would require floating a
bond issue. "That’s the only way
(See DRAINAGE, Page 3)
Deutschbiirg Community
Seafood Dinner Jan. 25th
The Dcutschburg Community Club will host its 39th annual
famous Gulf Coast Seafood Lunch and Dinner this Salutday (Jan.
251 from 11 a.m.-7:30p.m. at the Dcutschburg Community Center
on FM 1862 (Blessing cutoff).
Tickets are $5 per plate and includes a drink. The menu will
consist of shrimp, oysters and fish served with rice salad, beans,
pickles, onions, hot rolls and coffee ortca. A "lo-go” window will
also be available.
An auction, including cakes, pies, kolachc?, craft items, oysters
and otiter donated items will be held around noon and again at 6
p.m. Eugene Krcnck of Boling will serve as auctioneer.
The profits from this event will benefit the Senior Citizens
groups, nursing homes, volunteer fire departments, scholarships
and various other charities in Jackson and Matagorda Counties. ^
City seeking solutions for
upgrading city water wells
BY MARC ALLEY
Beacon Staff Writer
Palacios City Council met
with its grant consultants and
engineers last week to discuss
application for state grants and
solutions to the city’s water
wells.
Gandolf Burrus, representing
R.G.S. Associates, which spe-
cializes in municipal develop-
ment, started his presentation to
council by stating the various
funds available from the state for
municipal development.
Burrus said there are five
funds, community block devel-
opment, public housing, urgent
need, small business and Texas
capital. He said the city’s appli-
cation for funds to fix the city’s
water wells will be sent to what
he called the "urgent need fund"
because, "the water pressure has
dropped to the point where it
could be considered a danger to
human health.”
T he last time Buirus spoke to
council, he bad told the council
that there might be a chance that
state funds could be exhausted in
helping recent flood victims in
surrounding counties. But now,
he said that might not be the
case.
“I don’t, at this point, see
funds being wiped out,” he said.
"But there are no guarantees."
Representatives from
Testcngeer Engineering were
present to discuss the various
solutions to fix the city’s wells.
They suggested an overhaul on
Well #5, a renovation on well #2
and #3 and drill a new, smaller
capacity well, so the city would
have a back-up well in the future
if there were problems with a
well.
Councilman David Rolen said
there is a gas tank about six feet
from Well #2. While that well
has not been used since 1969,
council agreed tests need to be
performed to see if the well can
be renovated.
The council agreed to a sug-
gestion to wait for all lest results
before starting any work.
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