Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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.AW SUIT AGAIN
TY DROPPED
GRASSY POINT
Crawford Pkg. Co.,
Luther Properly
To Go On Tax Rolls
By LORRAINE BASFORD
Spring fever and boating fever
seem to go together. So for days
the prospective boat owner reads
literature on all the new boats,
kits, new motors and such. But if
he is a family man, he sometimes
finds that the old reliable budget
will not stand the strain of a com-
pletely new rig.
So he begins looking around for
something in the used line, figuring
a used boat and new motor might
answer the purpose. In looking at
used outfits, be sure and check
these details:
Look it over carefully, try it out
for handling to your own satis-
faction and requirements, and if
you feel its a buy, have it hauled
out and check the bottom. Check
the keel for hooks, which are con-
cave indentations in the bottom
caused by improper weight distri-
bution during storage. Hooks cause
bad performance. Be suspicious of
small cracks that may become big-
ger ones in time.
Dry rot is unusual in well venti-
lated boats, but be cautious and
check. Look under floor boards,
and if wood is soft and tears loose
easily, dry rot is evident.
Do not be fooled by a new paint
job—for it can cover a multitude
of “sins”.
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME LII, NUMBER 20
Attorneys for the City, Craw-
ford Packing Company, and Luther
Investment Corporation have
agreed that the lawsuit filed by
Crawford and Luther against the
CITY MAIL DELIVERY
city will in effect be dismissed.
A Am iE E I Crawford and Luther filed the
w ■ ssrY lawsuit
W A SEE EEtCyfromcolerin
AAEDG EYE the property South of Duson
• . • W • Street and West of 6th Street.
Now all parties agree that the
Locations Of Coast
Salt Water Plants
To Be Announced
ALCOA ADDS ANOTHER LINE
A formula by the Outboard Boat-
ing Club of America explains how
to compute the carrying capacity
of your boat—a fact worth know-
ing for it may save your life.
Remember to make adequate al-
lowance for the weight of the mo-
tor and equipment.
Length times maximum width,
times maximum depth, time 0.6
divided by 12, multiplied by 150,
except where the beam measure-
ments are 48” use 19” as maximum
depth; 49” to 52”, use 20” as
maximum depth; 53" to 56”, use
21” as maximum depth; 57" or
over use 22” as maximum depth.
Clarence Cox, Irving and Howard
Wells had good luck Sunday morn-
ing fishing on Carancahu Bay:
Clarence got two nice reds and
one flounder; Howard, three gaff-
topsails, and three reds around 11
lbs. each. Later Irving got two
dozen big crabs at the Tres-Pa-
lacios River.
Margarite and Leon Arlla lo-
cated a few redfish at Collegeport
Cove Thursday morning.
Clarence Cox and Ernest Wright
waded out at Wells Point, and us-
ing live bait, they landed a few
small gafftopsails, trout and drum.
As long as conditions improve,
even if slowly, fishing will im-
prove also. And when there are
shrimp moving into the Bay, the
fish will be there also.
* * *
Cut Bait: You buy success or
failure on the installment plan.
Success is seldom achieved by a
master stroke but results from a
series of well executed progressive
steps.
The Washington News Letter
from Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
this week has the following report
on the salt water conversion plants
to be located on the Gulf Coast:
Location of the first of five
experimental plants to test various
salt water conversion theories will
be determined in the next two
weeks.
The decision will be made by a
Department of Interior site selec-
tion board which will meet May
16-19.
One of these plants will be built
somewhere on the Gulf coast, a
second will be on the Atlantic coast
and a third on the Pacific coast.
The remaining two of the five
plants will experiment with con-
verting brackish water to fresh wa-
ter. One of these will be built in
the Southwest and another in the
Northern Great Plains.
In all, 40 Texas cities are repre-
sented in applications seeking eith-
er a coastal or an inland plant.
Interior Secretary Fred Seaton
said the other day the government
is seeking a process that will con-
vert salt water to fresh water at a
cost of $1 a thousand gallons—or
even less.
Experts seem to believe the
promise of achieving a remarkable
breakthrough in saline water con-
version is now a definite possi-
bility.
The problem is to develop a pro-
cess that will make salt water use-
able in quantity at a cost low
enough to make it practicable.
Think what this would mean for
the future of Texas.
Vast areas of non-productive
land could be opened to irrigation.
Brackish or gyp water could be
made drinkable.
We would be opening the door on
a new horizon of development that
would embrace both agriculture
and industry. Through a use of re-
sources undreamed of now, would
come new jobs, increased pros-
perity and a better life for all of us.
Aluminum Company of America
announced Monday it was stepping
up its production of primary metal
by 40,000 tons a year through the
reactivation of two idle potlines.
T. F. Anderson, smelting works
manager, said that one potline
would be re-started at Point Com-
fort on Thursday of this week and
that approximately one hundred
employees would be recalled im-
mediately.
The Company will also re-start
a line at its Vancouver (Washing-
ton) operations. Each of the re-
started lines has a capacity of
approximately 20,000 tons of pri-
mary aluminum annually. They
were among the facilities made idle
in 1957 and early 1958 when smelt-
ing operations were cut back to
bring metal inventories into bal-
ance with a sharply reduced fabri-
cating rate at plants of Alcoa and
its customers.
John D. Harper, manager of Al-
coa’s Smelting Division, credited
steadily improving demand for the
light metal with the increase in
the company’s operating rate to
approximately 82 per cent of its
installed capacity of 798,250 tons.
In January, 1958, Alcoa cut back
its production at Point Comfort
for the first time since starting the
operation. Two additional potlines
were closed in March and May of
1958.
The start-up of idle Alcoa smelt-
ing equipment marks the continua-
tion of a trend which began late
in 1958, and which has progressed
at intervals since that time as de-
mand for aluminum has evidenced
gradual improvement. Point Com-
fort re-started the first of its three
idle potlines on October 15, 1958.
Three Routes Will
Be Started When
Facilities Installed
Local Completions
Keep Even With
Area's Dry Holes
TIDE SCHEDULE: Courtesy
of Grassy Point Bait Camp, Pala-
cios. Tides are Galveston Time,
listed consecutively, high and low,
morning and afternoon tides, with
an occasional hyphen to designate
low tide, next following is high,
then low, etc. Add three hours 40
minutes for Carancahua Reef, Pa-
lacios Bay, and other fishing loca-
tions in this area. The number is
date, letter day of week;
15F; .2:39 a.m.; 11:08 a.m.; 7:07
p.m.; 9:43 p.m.
16S: -3:50 a.m.; 11:41 a.m.; 6:26
p.m.; 11:37 p.m.
17S; -5:10 a.m.; 12:11 p.m.; 6:41
p.m.
18M: 1:01 a.m.; -6:29 a.m.; 12:42
p.m.; 7:13 p.m.
19T: 2:08 a.m.; -7:39 a.m.; 1:10
p.m.; 7:51 p.m.
20W: 3:09 a.m.; 8:43 a.m.; 1:41
p.m.; -8:30 p.m.
21T: 4:02 a.m.; 9:38 a.m.; 2:16
p.m.; -9:16 p.m.
Band Boosters Elect
Officers For ‘59-‘60,
Plan Party For Sunday
The Band Booster Club met
Tuesday, April 14, at the Junior
High cafeteria. Mrs. Joe Anthis
presided at the meeting.
Officers for 1959-60 were elected
as follows: Mrs. J. B. Gillett, presi.
dent; Rex Cooper, vice-president;
Mrs. Julian Jenkins, secretary-
treasurer and Mrs. Mary Griffin,
parliamentarian.
A party was planned for Sunday
afternoon, May 17 from 2 to 5 at
the junior high school. The John
Phillips Sousa and other awards
will be presented to the outstand-
ing students at this time. Parents
and friends are invited. Refresh-
ments will be served.
Arrangements have been made
for a twirling school to be held the
first week in June. A qualified
teacher of the National Twirling
Association will conduct advanced,
intermediate and beginner classes
at the Palacios Band Hall. All in-
terested persons contact one of
the high school twirlers.
My Neighbors
389 Register At Grand
Opening Of Denker's
Furniture & Appliance
Denker Furniture and Appli-
ances culminated its grand open-
ing week with the awarding of a
new clothes dryer to Joe Hart.
lOther winners of door prizes
were Mrs. Thurmont Carter, floor
lamp; Oleganie B. Vargas, electric
clock; and Dr. N. E. Runyon, set
of dishes.
“I can see the old gal now-
stomping around in her flat
heeled shoes, kicking at the
dog, snarling at the cat...”
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rowton and
two children spent the holiday
week end in Leroy with her mother
and visited relatives in Waco.
By BOB WILKINSON
Dry holes caught up with the
completions this week.
Dusters:
1. Texaco’s 9-E N. R. Myers in
Markham Field, plugged at 2,211
feet.
2. Otis Russell’s No. 1 C. T.
Kountze in Markham Field, plug-
ged at 3,597 feet.
3. Brazos Oil & Gas Company’s
No. 2 Lena S. Harrison, et al, in
Harrison Field, plugged at 9,200
feet.
4. J. P. Petkas’ No. 1 Mildred Fry
Gary on the south flank of Boling
Field, plugged at 7,515 feet.
5. Southern Minerals Corpora-
tion’s No. 2 W. M. Holland, et al,
northwest of Old Ocean, plugged at
11,496 feet.
More late drill reports, field-by-
field, area-by-area;
Palacios—Christie, Mitchell &
Mitchell are preparing to complete
No. 1 J. R. Ressler Unit and No. 1
Richard Carlson Unit. , . The op-
erators are digging No. 1 E. Wag-
ner.
Northwest Palacios—Out near
the Jackson County line, Christie,
Mitchell & Mitchell have finaled
No. 1 Effie Gillespie for 1,000,000
cubic feet of gas plus 20 barrels of
distillate per million on a %-inch
choke from perforations at 8,556-
582 feet. The new producer is about
one and three-fourth miles south-
east of Francitas.
Pheasant—Michel T. Halbouty’s
No. 1 McDonald Gas Unit No. 3 is
drilling around 9,000 feet.
North Collegeport—Sinclair Re-
fining Company’s No. 1 Nelson Gas
Unit ran an electrical log.
Southeast Francitas — Ernest
Cockrell Jr., No. 1 L. P. Neuszer
is drilling past 10,000 feet.
El Maton—Monsanto Chemical
Company’s No. 1 Clarence Mehrens
is drilling past 10,000 feet.
South Lissie—At last report,
George R. Brown was testing No.
1 David Winterman, bottomed at
2,915 feet.
Southwest Bonus—Acco-Colora-
do-Amurex apparently have a gass-
er in No. 1 Carl N. Reynolds, bot-
tomed at 7,350 feet. It is waiting
on a potential test.
Northwest El Campo—R. J. Mc-
Galliard’s new try is No. 1 C. T.
Zapp, et al, about seven miles
northwest of El Campo, to go 7,000
feet. . . Midhurst Oil Corporation’s
2-A Edith Herrmann was last re-
ported testing. . . Gilcrease Oil
Company’s No. 2 E. H. Swanson,
about three miles northwest of El
Campo, is digging around 3,000
feet.
Southwest East Bernard—San
Jacinto Drilling Company’s No. 1
G. H. Northington will go 7,500
feet.
South Allenhurst — Arkansas
Fuel Oil Corporation’s No. 1 S. A.
Matthews had only a few feet to
go at last report. Its projected
depth was 12,000 feet.
Southwest Bay City—J. M. Hu-
ber and Lion Oil Company have
reached their projected depth with
No. 1 Louis Wolf.
South Bay City—Harry Hurt, et
al, have installed a pumping unit
on No. 1 Schaefer Unit.
A COLUMNIST
COMMENTS ? ?
A columnist in a neighboring
Wharton County newspaper came
out with this last week:
“When it breaks, and some-
time it will, the developments in
Matagorda County will shock
many people who think Duval
County was a bad situation.”
1959 Little League
Season Gets Grand
Start Tuesday Nile
Rotarians Hear
Favorable Report
Deep Water Pass
Carlton W. Crawford, president
of the Texas Mid-Coast Water De-
velopment Association, made a re-
port of the recent visit of a dele-
gation from that Association in
Washington to the Rotary members
Wednesday noon.
The delegates met Senator Ralph
Yarborough and Con. Clark W.
Thompson who appeared with them
before the Sub-Committee of the
Rivers and Harbors.
The progress on the deep water
pass to the Gulf through Matagor-
da Island is favorable, Mr. Craw-
ford stated.
Visitors were J. K. Mattox and
Rayford Kay, of Bay City; and Dr.
Cable of Palacios.
Revival Starts Monday
At Trinity Baptist Ch.
Rev. Jerry Lyons, of the First
Baptist Church in Sandia, Texas,
will conduct a revival at the Trin-
ity Baptist Church beginning Mon-
day, May 18 through Sunday, May
24. Services will start at 8 o’clock
each evening.
Kirk Richardson of Bay City
will be song leader during the re-
vival services.
Palacios’ Little League program
got underway Tuesday night with
the Thunderbirds jumping out to
an early lead by drubbing the Car-
dinals 16 to 5 in the season’s open-
ing game.
The game was proceeded by open-
ing night program including the
introduction of teams, their players
and other officials; invocation by
the Rev. W. F. McCollum; the
Little League pledge; and the toss-
ing of the first ball by Robert
Wayne Hendricks.
Two games will be played Thurs-
day night with the Lions playing
the Cardinals in the opening game
at 6:15 p.m. and the Red Sox and
Blessing playing in the night cop.
Friday night the Thunderbirds
will be after their second win with
the Red Sox their opponents in the
first game and Blessing and Lions
in the night cap.
Tuesday night the Red Sox meet
the Lions in the first game with
the Thunderbirds taking on the
Blessing Bluejays in the second
game.
For the revised schedule see
page 6.
C. Of C. Women To
Meet Tuesday, May 19
The May meeting of the Wo-
men’s Division of the Chamber of
Commerce will be held Tuesday,
May 19, at 12 noon at the Shrimp
Net.
Mrs. Gladys Runyon, the new
president, will announce her com-
mittees for the ensuing year.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEACON.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Harbison
spent the Mother’s Day week end
with their daughters, Mrs. C. S.
Jefferies and family in Corpus
Christi and Mrs. Wayne Tate and
family in Aransas Pass.
PALACIOS HIGH AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL CHOIRS
present
A SPRING CONCERT
DIRECTED BY HELEN ROBERTS
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
FRIDAY, MAY 15 — 7:30 P. M.
Ode To Starlight
Prayer from Hansel & Gretel
Ever Homeward ..........................
GloriaPatri ...........................
Brother James Air.....................
Lamb of God ...............................
Music by Johannes Brahms
Englebert Humperdinck
......arr. Gladys Pitcher
....................Palestrina
......................Tradional
Old Lamplighter
Kalinnikof-Overby
(soloist Judy Lothridge)
Nat Simon
(soloists Blanche Halstead and Linda Hunt)
My Blue Heaven....................................
Laura.....................................................
Selection ..............................................
Without A Song ....................
Friendlly Persuasion...................
I’m Always Chasing Rainbows
Autumn Serenade ............................
If You Were The Only Girl
I Got Shoes.........................
Li’l Liza Jane
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Walter Donaldson
.........David Raksin
..........Boys Group
Vincent Youmans
.... Dimitri Tiomkin
.........Harry Carroll
.......Nat D Ayer
Peter De Rose
arr. Hall Johnson
arr. Countess Ada De Lachau
.............arr. Rob Roy Peery
Reception following in Junior High Cafeteria
The Post Office Department has
approved the establishment of city
delivery service, and attention is
now being given to acquiring the
necessary equipment.
All patrons who are interested in
having mail delivered to their resi-
dence or business establishment
should be sure that the establish-
ment is correctly numbered.
All residences and places of busi-
ness to be served by carriers must
be equipped with suitable mail re-
ceptacles. Inauguration of city de-
livery service will not begin until
85% of the patrons have provided
such receptacles.
On the mounted route the pa-
trons will receive curb service in
front of the residences and will
have to provide a receptacle at the
curb line, erected 312 to 4 feet
above the roadway. It is expected
that these boxes will be of the
rural delivery type.
At business houses the mail may
be deposited at the office on the
desk of the manager, but a re-
ceptacle accessible from the street,
or a slot in the door must be pro-
vided for mail delivered when the
building is closed.
Parcel post too large to be de-
livered by the foot carrier will be
delivered by mounted carrier.
If you desire city delivery ser-
vice, you should begin now to
notify your publishers and corre-
spondents of your street address,
and you should request that all
mail be addressed to your street
address. If you- will call at- the
boundaries of the City as defined
by J. C. Carrington in his survey of
1909 is correct and that therefore
Crawford Packing Co. and Luther
Investment Corp. must pay taxes
on their properties as assessed and
valued by the board of equalization
of the City. J. G. Smith, the City
Engineer, established the southern
boundaries of the city, by re-run-
ning the original field notes of the
J. C. Carrington Survey.
A judgment by the District Court
establishing the J. C. Carrington
field notes as the southern bound-
ary of the city will be entered in
the near future, City Attorney Eli
Mayfield said.
This action will conclusively set-
tle the issue and argument as to
the true boundaries of the city.
Plans For Hospital
Nearly Ready For
Contract Bidding
County Commissioner George L.
Harrison reports that the Com-
missioners’ Court has received a
progress report from Caudill, Row-
lett & Scott, Architects and Engin-
eers, on the new county hospitals.
The report stated that working
plans would be available by June
26 when bids could be advertised
for construction.
Commissioner Harrison said he
hoped that construction could get
underway the latter part of August.
Annual F.F.A. Banquet
Held Tuesday Night;
Awards Are Presented
Post Office you will be furnished
with cards to notify your publish-
ers of your correct mailing address.
At the Post Office there is a
marked map showing the proposed
route of each carrier. If you are
interested in seeing how and when
you will be served, you are invited
to call at the Post Office for this
information.
Below is a brief description of
the territory served by each car-
rier:
Foot Route I; Serves all terri-
tory east of 6th street and north
to and including Magnusson Ave-
nue, except the 400 and 500 blocks
on Main and Commerce Streets and
the 500 block on Duson Avenue.
Auxiliary Foot Route II: Serves
400 and 500 blocks on Main and
Commerce Streets and the 500
block on Duson Avenue and all ter-
ritory west of 6th Street north to
Moore Avenue except the west and
south sides of the 1000 block of
Moore Avenue.
Mounted Route III: Serves Foley
Village; Moore Avenue blocks num-
bers 900-1000; Humphrey Avenue
block number 800; Ritchie Avenue
block numbers 700-1100; Johnson
Avenue block numbers 700-1100;
Perryman Avenue block numbers
700-1000; Magnusson Avenue block
number 700-900; Rorem Avenue
block numbers 200-900; Henderson
Avenue (Highway 35) block num-
bers 100-800; East County Road
block numbers 100-200; 12th Street
block number 900; 11th Street
block numbers 600-700; 10th Street
block number 1100; 9th Street
block numbers 700-1300; Sth Street
block numbers 700-800; 7th Street
block numbers 1000-1200; 5th
Street block number 1300; 4th
Street block numbers 1300-1600;
State Highway 35 block numbers
1400-2300; and East Bayshore block
numbers 1800-2100.
Examinations Slated
For Clerk-Carriers
At Local Post Office
The U. S. Civil Service Commis-
sion has announced examinations
for Substitute Clerk-Carrier at
$2.00 per hour for employment in
the Palacios Post Office.
Further information and appli-
cation forms may be obtained at
the Post Office or from the Re-
gional Director, Eighth U. S. Civil
Service Region, Room 103, 1114
Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas.
Verner Bowers, Charles Johnson,
George Stubblefield, and M. M.
| Brooking were honored by Pa-
1 lacios F.F.A. boys at their 11th
annual banquet Tuesday night at
the Junior High cafeteria and were
presented the honorary Chapter
Farmer Degree to the Palacios
F.F.A. chapter.
Awards won by F.F.A. boys for
outstanding work were received by
Milton Tyler, the baby beef award;
David Bolling, beef cattle; Jessie
Ellis received four awards, swine,
sorghum, cotton and record keep-
ing and was named outstanding
F.F.A. boy for the second straight
year. Dennis Jensen received the
scholarship award by being top
ranking boy in the high school
graduation class. The attendance
award went to Gilbert Ellis. Rus-
sell Corporon carried home the
"Outstanding Greenhand” or first
year award. The awards are an-
nually made possible by the City
State Bank of Palacios.
Dewey Compton spoke to the
group on the subject of “Don’t
blame the farmer for the cost of
groceries.” He pointed out that
the farmer only receives 40 per-
cent of the food dollars and the
processor and other handlers of
food 60 percent. He gave examples
that the farmer receives three cents
for the ingredients of a loaf of
bread that is sold for 26c. The cost
of food for the average family has
increased $247 in the past 10 years
and the farmer only has received
$3.00 of this increase, the other
$244 is going to the middleman
handling the agriculture product.
Yet many housewives blame the
farmers for the high cost of food.
Hensley Weaver introduced the
Chapter Sweetheart, Miss Betty
Ann Friery, and presented her a
corsage with the initials of F.F.A.
Corbert Brocker introduced the
speaker, Dewey Compton.
(See “BANQUET,” Page 5)
The Weather
Date
May 5
May 6
May 7
May 8
May 9
May 10
May 11
May 12
Max. Min.
80
82°
82°
82°
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82°
87°
72'
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72°
73°
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63°
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1.43
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Total rainfall for year 16.85
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