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VOLUME 76 NUMBER 50
PALACIOS, TEXAS, OtLtMHtK 3, 1980
TWELVE PAGES
Councilmen accept
committee idea
f'K Ai.nLinu of tor cneir participation in tne Matagorda
Gumbo Cookoff to be held Satmday in Matagorda are
members of the Z-Gumbo Queens of Palacios. According
to the members, the only correct way to prepare their
“Pot-Au-Feu” is M have a black iron pot, some Justin
Wilson fiddling music, guitar s°e«mpaniment and dancing
witn a mop. as m wnetner an tnese ingredients win add up
to some delicious gumbo will be determined Saturday
when the food is served between ii a.m. io 7 p.m. in the
Matagorda firehouse. Members of the Z-Gumbo Queens
are Agnes Kur.efke, Virginia Sessmsn, Blanche Byred and
Glavds Murphy. [Beacon Photo by Nick West]
BY NICK WEST
The Palacios City Council voted unanimously Monday
night to approve acceptance of 12 committee titles
covering various city departments and areas of city
responsibility.
The dozen committee areas and a list of potential
committee members were presented to the council during
its regular session by Coiieen Clayboum, representing the
Citizens Awareness Group. Although the council
complimented Claybourn on providing the list of potential
committee members, it indicated it would use the list of
names only as a base to go by with actual selection of
persons to the committees resting with individual
councilmen.
“This is just an offer of help,” Claybourn told the
council. She noted that because of the many functions of
city government, it was difficult for individual councilmen
t&iandle everything that needs to be done.
||Tm not downgrading anyone, it's just that there is a
lot of work to do,” she said. "The idea was perhaps with
committees you have, that someone, not on the council,
could be co-chairman of each committee and these groups
could do ail or some of the groundwork for you. The
councilman at the head of each area would have to decide
on his own committees.”
The 12 committee titles submitted by the Citizen
Awareness Group and approved by the council were
Airport, Equipment. Housing, Industrial Development,
Law Enforcement, Parks/Recreation, Personnel/Office
Management, Public Relations/Grant Applications, Pub-
lic Works, Streets/Drainage, Taxes/Budget/Finance, and
Vietnamese in the Community. Each committee would be
headed by a councilman with a citizen serving as
co-chairman and four to five other citizens serving on the
committee.
Claybourn pointed out to the council that the list of
names submitted for each committee did not consist of just
members of Citizens Awareness, but other people who
might be willing to volunteer their time and expertise to
the city if needed.
"There is a wealth of free expertise in this town if you
call on them," Claybourn said. There is a lot of potential in
the people living in Palacios. Many groups and activities
here could not have gotten off the ground had it not been
area happenings<
Report cards due Thursday
Parents are reminded that report cards for the
second six weeks reporting period for Palacios ISD
students will go out Thursday.
Parents are also reminded that students must pass the
third six weeks of a semester in order to pass the
semester. Parents who have a question concerning their
child's progress in school should contact their principal.
Annual Bazaar set Saturday
The women of the Second Presbyterian Church will
have their annual bazaar Saturday starting at 10 a.m. in
the Church annex, corner of Morton and 9th Street.
The drawing for the homemade quilt will be at 1 p.m.
Transportation available to
Hu-Mar court case Monday
Palacios residents who would like to attend the
hearing on the contempt of court charges in the case of
State of Texas vs HuMar Chemicals, Inc. Monday are
asked to contact Glenda Detherow if they need a ride or
can furnish a ride.
The hearing is set for 9 a.m. in the 23rd District Court
in Angleton. Persons interested should call 972-5215.
AARP Christmas luncheon
Palacios AARP Chapter 2425 will hold its Christmas
pot-luck luncheon at 12:30 Tuesday at Episcopal Hall,
3rd and Main,
Members are asked to bring a covered dish and white
elephant gift for exchange with gifts marked for a woman
ora man.
All interested people, whether members or not, are
cordially invited to attend. The only admission is a
covered dish and a gift. Tommy Toleson will play
Christmas songs for entertainment.
Creative Handwork Mart
begins Saturday morning
The AARP sponsored suggested that participants
Creative Handwork Mart bring their own change
will open Saturday, Dec. 6 although the Committee
at 10 a.m. fut business, will try to have some
All those participating change available,
are again reminded to brine John Howarth is seeking
in their items from 8:30 donations of bake goods to
a.m.hFriday for set-up. All his Bake Table which bene-
tables will be marked with fits the Pa|ac|0s Medicd
the names of those regi- Foundation. Proceeds from
stered. As this is an all day this table given to the
affair, it is suggested parti- hound®,lon T
cipants bring their lunch, their goal of matching
There will be coffee sold at funds given through that
the bake table. It is also source to the Jav/s of Life.
] Alcohol, drug
workshop Friday
A workshop on “Alcohol
and Drug Abuse, A Com-
munity Responsibility'',
will be held Friday, from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wharton
Junior College, Fine Arts
Auditorium. This workshop
is coordinated by the
Houston-Galveston Area
Council. The fee is $3.
The panels will include
doctors, law enforcement,
school superintendent,
clergy, social service, em-
ployers and parent groups.
The emphasis is on how all
these areas must work
together.
Because of the impor-
tance and success of a
modern technique called
“Intervention with Chemi-
cally Dependent Families",
this program is scheduled
for 12:30 p.m. for the
convenience of doctors and
others. There will be no
charge for attending just
this session.
The Palacios City-County
Alcohol and Drug Commit-
tee is one of the sponsors of
this workshop as is the
Wh arton - Jackson - Matagor-
da-Fort Bend Medical So-
ciety. Booklets on the work-
shop are available at the
Palacios Library and the
Matagorda County Annex.
CP&L streamlines billing
to avoid ‘fuel’ confusion
The separate fuel ad-
justment item that has been
shown on Central Power
and Light Company bills
since early 197/ will be
eliminated beginning next
week but it will not change
the price of electricity.
The practice of showing
fitpl as a separate itemized
part of electric bills was
established when rules of
the Public Utility Com-
mission of Texas first be-
came effective. Because of
continuing customer con-
fusion over fuel charges the
PUC in July of this year
modified their rules to
make such itemization op-
tional with utilities.
According to John C.
Richards CPL’s manager at
Palacios, "This will not
change in any way the
methods used to calculate
monthly bills; the bills will
still recover fuel costs
based on the cost of fuel
used to generate each
customer’s electricity. We
have always felt that to
show fuel as a separate-
item was confusing and
frustrating to many of our
customers. This change
could streamline bills and
make them easier to under-
stand.”
Larry Perez wins VFW
Voice of Democracy
LARRY PEREZ
Larry Perez, sopho-
more at Palacios High
School, was the winner of
the Voice of Democracy
Broadcast Scripwriting con-
test, sponsored by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Other contestants included
sophomore Peggy Tuli-
bach, Junior Randy Samora
and senior Isidro Castanon.
The VOD contest was
supervised by Glora Walt-
er, Director of speech and
drama at Palacios High
School.
"My Commitment To My
Country" was the theme
used in the contest. The
script was written, com-
posed and recorded by each
individual student. Judging
of the tape was based on
speech delivery, content
and originability.
Larry will represent PHS
and VFW Post 2467 at the
16th District contest in
December. The District
winner will compete in the
State contest In January at
Austin. Larry is the grand-
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Aparicio. He is the
son of George and Connie
Canto of S
for volunteers and outside help.''
She pointed out that in the area of taxes and finance, the
city council could possibiy use some help.
"That is or.e area you are very short in. No one (on the
council) is experienced in that area,” she said. "Your
budgets are very poorly written and hard to read."
Claybourn said that one of the people suggested for the
Taxes/Budget/Finance committee is knowledgeable in
that area and would be of benefit to that department as a
volunteer.
The council agreed that the various committees could be
of use but underlined the fact that it would be the
responsibility of the councilman heading each area to
guide the committees and outline the tasks to be worked
upon.
"There is no question about the fact that committees
are good, but we have to have someone give them
something useful to do,” commente'l councilman John
Howarth. “There is no question that we could use some
help."
He added that it would be up to each councilman to
contact people to serve on the committees.
Trinidad Constancio voiced his agreement with the
[See COUNCIL, page 9]
Children invited to
send Santa Letters
To help inform Santa
Claus what youngsters
want for Christmas this
year, the Palacios Beacon
will accept and publish
"Letters to Santa” in the
Dec. 24 issue of the Bea-
con.
Youngsters of all ages
are invited to bring or mail
their "Letters to Santa” to
the Palacios Beacon, 450
Commerce or mail them to
Drawer 817, Palacios, Tex.
77465. It is requested that
all letters be written as
neatly as possible and
contain a return address.
Letters must be received
no later than Dec. 19 in
order for them to be
published in the Beacon
and forwarded to Santa
Tinsel for
Antonio.
DOWNTOWN PALACIOS is taking on the Christmas
atmosphere as members of the Chamber of Commerce and
other volunteers helped to string Christmas lights and
other decorations over the weekend. All the decorations
i , are expected to be up this week. The only thing missing
tile holidays now Is some snow and the arrival of Santa Clans. [Beacon
J Photo by Nick West]
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