Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 1991 Page: 1 of 12
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City Garbage Pickup
Dates Are Changing
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Local VFW Honors
Desert Storm Group
A VAN rides the waves through a flooded street after last Friday's downpour.
Iliyli winds also swecn area
Eight-plus inches of rainfall
swamps Palacios on Friday
BY MICHAEL SCHEIB
Beacon Staff Writer
Many Palacios motorists found the aftermath
if last Friday's torrential 8-inch rain and wind-
torm a bit hazardous as virtually every street in
own experienced some Hooding. For others, it
deep ditch between the street and the station; he
found it, however.
The most potential serious mishap involved the
two new 8,000-gallon gas tanks partially buried
at the Palacios Drive In; doodwaters floated them
out of the hole, breaking concrete and gas lines
and releasing a minor gasoline spill in the ncigh-
wn expenenceu suiuc nuuuii.g. i <ji uuivy>, ii ^rhood. Bcfore lhc day was out, owncr Randy
as a great °PP°nun'ly.1° underc uri ice of Davis had heard from a numbcr of stalc aUcncics
hitcwalls and the mud ol the undercarriage of rcgarJing lhc spill jnduding Texas Parks and
Wildlife, the General Land Office and the Texas
Water Commission. While Davis says "there's
no way of knowing' exactly how many gallons
of gas was spilled, reports of 1,500 gallons were
grossly exaggerated. "1 doubt that we had that
many gallons in the tanks," said Davis.
One unlucky boat owner discovered his boat
sunk in the canal near the East Bay Yacht Harbor
after it filled with rainwater.
Strong winds which accompanied the storm
knocked down several signs and tree limbs and
also ripped the sheet metal off the facade at Scars.
icir cars.
The downpour left many people unable to get
a work as high water blocked roads and forced
dc cancellation of several events slated for Pala-
ios over die weekend including the Stale Marine
iducation Symposium and the Great Texas Beach
’rash-Off. (The latter has been reset for this Sat-
irday from 9 a.m.-12 noon.)
Some drivers discovered that sparkplugs do
tot respond well to washing and found thcni-
clvcs stalled in the street. The most dramatic
vas a motorist who drove through the sheet ol
vatcr towards Pam's Comer gas station at 1st and
"Yaymcr and forgot (if he ever knew) dierc was a
Seafood business caters
to "red-liner" gourmets
Soft-shell crabs find a maket in Houston
BY MICHAEL SCHEIB
Beacon Stall Writer__
The old crab plant in Palacios
changed directions when the
owncr found it loo expensive to
get rid of the crab shells; but
there's a new crab operation at
the old site and the crabs get rid
of their shells themselves.
As any old salt can tell you, a
crab's shell is hard. A growing
crab finds this hard shell very
confining and must shed it in or-
der to become a bigger crab.
This moult happens fairly rapidly
in the wild; a crab may literally
back out of his old shell and
grow a new, hard shell in a mat-
ter of a couple of hours. But
until the new shell hardens, the
crab is said to be a "soft-shelled
crab," and is coasidcred by many
to be a delicacy. One simply
boils the soft-shelled crab and
munches it down--lcgs, claws,
eyeballs, guts and all.
Yum!
Well, at least some people
think so. And for the last two
weeks, Fred Harr's Palacios
Seafood has been sending soft-
shells to Houston for those
Absentee
voting to
start Mon.
The absentee voting period
for the May 4th city and school
district elections will begin
Monday, April 15 and continue
through April 30.
Voters in both the Palacios
city election and the Palacios 1SD
school board election may cast
their absentee balloLs at Palacios
City Hall between the hours of
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jane Day is
serving as absentee voting judge
for both local elections.
Palacios city voters will dc-
(See VOTE, Psge 12)
Lions Tree Sale
reset for April 20
Heavy waters changed a lot of
plans last weekend. The Lions
tree sale was cancelled because it
appeared impossible to find a
place to dig a hole. However,
barring another cloudburst, the
Lions will have their tree sale at
Winn's parking lot on April 20.
seeking a novel dining experi- watchful eye, the red-iincr sits in
cncc. Crabbers, both local and a shallow tank until a hairline
from as far away as Seadrift, crack is felt at the rear of the
bring Harr "red-liner" crabs shell. Then it's moved to an-
which carry a tell-tale red line on other tank until the crab's shell
their rear legs. The red line indi- has split open; this crab is called
cates the crab is apt to moult in a a "buster." The busters arc
couple of days Under a (See CRAB, Page 12)
l dripping delicacy
IDA LIICKENBAUGH wears a glove to feel around the
crab tanks at Palacios Seafood. Wouldn't you? When
crabs come to Palacios Seafood, they still have hard
claws and a nasty disposition. By the time they leave,
they've cast off their old shell and have become abso-
lutely lethargic and object not at all when they're
packed away for a gourmet's table. [Beacon photo by
Michael Scheib 1
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"Change for Change" to help fund detox center
Drive underway for Waller County facility to service six- county area
Gail Susick addressed the Palacios Chamber of
Commerce last week. Like so many who ask to
address the Palacios Chamber of Commerce, Ms.
Susick had a motive-money.
This is Gail Susick's story: She works with the
Riceland Mental Health Authority, the public men-
tal health facility which serves Matagorda, Whar-
ton, Colorado and Fort Bend Counties. Located in
the ’town of Wharton, the operation has served "all
sectors” of the region's population for the past two
and a half years, treating schizophrenia, major
depressions and other serious mental illnesses and
does not refuse service on the basis of the ability
to pay.
Although Riceland docs not treat chemical
abuse patients, per sc, Susick explained that often
the hospital has to "detox someone before we
know if they have a mental health problem, or if
it's just an adverse reaction to drugs or alcohol."
She continued that this area follows the national
figures fairly closely; "a large population about
one-third of all American families are affected by
alcohol or drug abuse in some way, shape or
form, and this area is fairly true to that."
While the need may be there, she says it's been
difficult to send people to detox because "there's
nost no public program available lor people with
:se problems and Matagorda and Wharton
•unties have no program at all." There is a state
:ility, but access is limited and a total of only 16
ds were used by area residents last year.
So Riceland is going to establish a detox center,
ey have applied to the Texas Council on Alcohol
d Chemical Dependency Abuse lor a $1.2 mil-
n grant to staff such a center. Riceland’s medi-
I director will also be the director of the detox
ater, but will hire another 40 staff people to op-
Uc it. The grant will cover those personnel
Two other counties, Waller and Austin, have
asked to join the project meaning the detox center
will serve a total of six counties. Each of the
counties has pledged money towards an operating
budget and the proposed center is assured of ade-
quate funds to stay open.
However, Waller County has contributed a
building in the form of the currently abandoned
Waller County Hospital in Hempstead. The
building was constructed in the 1950's, but was
closed a few years back. And while Riceland feels
they have the finances to staff and operate the
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