Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1987 Page: 1 of 12
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Area site eleminated from SSC consideration
BY NICK WEST
Beacon Publisher
The area between Midfield and
El Campo lost its bid to be the
site of the proposed Supercon-’
ducting Super Collider (SSC)
after failing to make the first
round of site cuts on Monday.
The site, officially called the
South Houston Site, was elimina-
ted along with eight other
proposed sites across the state
when the Texas National Re-
search Laboratory Commission
trimmed their list from 14 to six
finalists. The state eventually
will cut the field to one or two
sites that will be submitted to the
Department of Energy by Aug. 3.
The failure to make the first
round cuts brought to an end the
1 Vi years of work on the part of a
seven-county coalition called the
South Texas Commission to bring
the $4-billion atom smashing
project to the area between El
Campo and Midfield. The mass-
ive scientific project is expected
to generate nearly 4,500 con-
struction jobs and employ 3,000
staff personnel on a fulltime
basis. With completion expected
in the 1990s, the project is
expected to have an initial
operating budget of S250-million.
The six Texas finalists in the
race for the SSC are now the
Dallau-Fort Worth area, the
Austin area, a region near the
Sam Houston National Forest
north of Houston, the Panhandle
Region near Amarillo, Lubbock
and Garden City south of Big
Spring.
Despite the elimination of their
proposed site, the South Texas
Commission willremain active in
efforts to promote economic
development in its seven-county
area which includes Matagorda
County. From its initial formation
last year under the name Coastal
Bend Coalition, members have
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VOLUME 80, NO. 20
THURSDAY, MAY 14,1987
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“Significant^ve^n^,
TEAMS test math results
BY DONNIE HORTON
P1SD Information Coordinator
“The percentage of Palacios
Independent School District stu-
dents passing the math section of
the Texas Educational Assess-
ment of Minimum Skills this year
was significantly higher than last
year’s percentage,” announced
Bill Reaves, Superintendent of
the Palacios Independent School
District’s schools.
Reaves told patrons and board
members that “before the curr-
ent school term opened, a group
of teachers on each campus met
with administrators and set goals
for expected student achieve-
ment on the TEAMS test for the
1986-87 school year. “We are
very excited to see the results of
this planning in the form of
increases in the number of
students passing the TEAMS at
all grade levels,” Reaves said.
Eighty-nine percent of the
third graders in Palacios passed
the math section of TEAMS. This
is an increase of 24 percent over
the number who passed last year.
A significant improvement was
seen also in the number of third
graders passing the TEAMS
writing test this year. The scores
rose 21 percent as 71 percent
passed in 1986-87 compared to 50
percent in 1985-86. The percen-
tage who passed reading this
year rose from 63 percent to 71
percent, a slight eight percent.
Although the most dramatic
change in TEAMS scores was
made at the third grade level,
achievement levels for the fifth
grade climbed also. The greatest
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improvement made by the fifth greatest strides on the reading
grade was in the area of writing ~f TClu' Tl“ 04
where there was an increase of
eight percent. The numbers of
students passing went from 48
percent in 1985 86 to 56 percent
this year. The numbers passing
the math and reading test were
considerably higher than writing
but the percentage of improve-
ment was not so broad.
Eighty-eight percent of the
fifth graders passed math this
year as opposed to 85 percent
passing last year. In the area of
reading there was a slight decline
this year a'k 77 percent of the
students taking the fifth grade
TEAMS reading test passed, a
decrease of three percent from
the 81 percent who passed last
year.
Seventh graders made their
PHS band concert Thursday
The Palacios High School Band
will present their annual spring
concert tonight (Thursday) at
7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts
Auditorium.
The band will perform a
variety of music including music
from the movies, Dixieland, rock
and roll, and a light classical
number.
The program will begin with a
medley titled “Where No Man
Has Gone Before”, which in-
cludes music from the movies
“Star Trek”, “Superman”, and
“Star Wars”. A contemporary
setting of the spiritual “The
Battle of Jericho” will be per-
formed and a Dixieland combo
will be featured in “Dixieland
Jamboree”.
“Reck and Roll Hall of Fame”
will feature a medley of 60s tunes
and the concert will conclude
with selections from the academy
award winning movie “Top
Gun”.
There is no admission charge
for the concert and the public is
cordiallyjp^ited to attend.
nained^City
section of TEAMS. The 94
percent who passed the TEAMS
reading this year is an increase of
16 percent over last year. The
seventh grade passing rate of 97
percent on the math test was
outstanding. The increase in the
percentage of students passing
math this year came up 13
percent.
Writing reflected a drop of two
percent in the passing score this
year as 70 percent passed the
writing test.
On the high school campus,
this year’s ninth graders netted
ain eight percent increase on the
TEAMS math over last year as 85
percent passed this section.
Reading and writing achieve-
ment did not fare as well for
ninth graders. Seventy-nine per-
cent of the ninth graders passed
the reading section last year,
while this year 76 percent
passed. Mastery of writing fell
from 66 percent last year to 56
percent this year. This can be
explained partially by the fact
that the standards for grading
the TEAMS test were raised this
year.
With a 96 percent exit-level
achievement in math, Palacios’
eleventh graders placed seven
percentage points above the state
average for passing scores in
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Celebration spectator
THE PETITE Yolanda Casten-
ado looks on with Interest as
students from Central Elemen-
tary bilingual classes perform
dnrlng a Clnco de Mayo
program at the school last
week. [Beacon Photo by Mary
West)
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k president
A 21-year veteran of the
banking industry, Neil Gregg
“Toby” Yows, Jr. has been
named the new president and
chief operating officer of The City
State Bank (CSB) of Palacios.
The announcement was made
Tuedsay by CSB chairman of the
board Bruce Herlin.
Yows, who will assume his
serving as interim president, will
continue his position as vice-
chairman of the board.
Prior to coming to Palacios,
Yows, 52, had been president
and chief operating officer at
Texas American Bank Tyler in
Tyler, Tex. for the past five
years. fAt>V
affairs and ought to be a real
asset to the community.”
Yows and his wife, Jane, a
school teacher, are the parents of
three children: Neil 15, Windy 13
and Edward 8. Although Yows
will begin work at CSB on
Monday, his wife and children
will be moving to Palacios after
school is out.
Yows received his BBA from
the University of Texas in 1960
and earned his MBA from West
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duties Monday, fills the position very fortunate to get Toby. He’s
vacated earlier in the month by one of the top men outtnere in
Jack Goodner who resigned to the banking industry,” comm- ana earnea ms man uuu n«i
take a position with the Federal, ented Dan Tucker, chairman of Texas State University the foll-
Deposit Insurance Company. the bank’s search committee, owing year. A graduate of South-
Max Rotholz, who had been “He is extremely active in civic western Graduate, School
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ring year. A graduate of South-
sstern Graduate, School ^of
Banking at SMU, he also comple-
ted the American Bankers Asso-
ciation National Commercial Gra-
duate Lending School at the
University of Oklahoma and the
Senior Bink Offi*« School at
Harvard Graduate Business Sch-
ool. He graduates) in 1984 from
the Community Bank Executive
Officers School at'Baylor Univcr-
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Yows began his banking career
in 1965 at Capitiil National Bank
where he remained until 1972.
He then joinetyTexas American
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BY NlClt WEST
Beacon Publisher
Surveys of any sort usually
result in two things: good news
and bad news. That outcome was
no different in the recent “Try
Rating Palacios” survey conduc-
ted over the past two weeks by
the Palacios Beacon.
The survey reveals how Pala-
cios is perceived by some resi-
dents and also points out some of
the community's attributes as
well as seme of its short-
comings.
For the most part, there were
very few surprises in the final
tally of the unscientific, informal
poll among newspaper readers.
The questions ranged from street
repairs to teacher salaries and
included a special section on the
evaluation of city services.
The good news was that
respondents felt that Palacios has
good ambulance and fire service
along with good garbage collec-
tion. All three were among those
questions receiving the most
j. ^ favorable (yes) responses. In
addition, an overwhelming num-
ber of respondents recognized
the fact that teachers within the
Palacios' ISD receive salaries
above the state average.
The bad news was not unpre-
The majority also felt that the
lack of well-stocked stores was
failing to keep local shoppers in
Palacios.
The survey was broken into
two parts. The first section dealt
Complete Survey Results...Page 3
dictable. Over 90% of those
taking part in the survey agreed
that not all streets were in good
shape and that few young people
chose to remain in Palacios after
high school graduation.
with the Palacios community
overall and asked respondents to
provide either a “Yes” or “No”
answer to each question.
The second part of the survey
was devoted to evaluation of city
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services. In that section, re-
spondents could grade specific
services as “Inadequate”,
“Passable” or “Good”.
As with most urveys, several
individuals supplemented their
“Yes” and “No” answers their
own written opinions or comm-
ents.
TOP 10“YES”
The highest percentage of yes
responses in the overall comm-
unity survey went to the question
of whether there was prompt,
reasonably priced ambulance
Bank in Amarillo where he
served as senior vice-president or
marketing.
From 1975-1980 he served a>_
senior vice-president, correspon- \
dent banking/marketine at Rep-1
ublic Bank-Austin before joining]*, ■
Texas American Bank in Tyler. |Af
While in Tyler he was active in V
theJfotMjt- Club, United Wav
Tyler Chamber of Commerce,
Bov Seouts and Texas Society to
Prevent Blindness. His hobbies
include tennis, restoring classic
automobiles and boating^__
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service available. Ninety-seven
percent of those responding
agreed that such service is
available.
Sharing the same percent of
“yes” responses (97%) was the
question of whether there was an
annual clean-up week. Ninety-
three percent agreed that P1SD
teacher salaries were better than
the state average while 90 % said
that Palacios volunteer firemen
take regular training. Palacios
ISD also rated high in regards to, u
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