Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1985 Page: 1 of 14
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Box 1050
Palacios, Tx 7 7^5
Jewelry, firearms taken
in burglaries recently
Palacios police investigated a
number of burglaries in the past
week which resulted in the
reported theft of several thous-
and dollars worth of jewelry and
firearms.
Nearly $5,000 worth of items
were listed as missing in a
residential burglary reported by
Vincent Garcia, 1013 8th Street,
on March 4. Garcia told police
that an intruder had ransacked
several drawers in the house and
broke a number of chairs.
The items which Garcia told
police were taken included a
$3,500 diamond and pearl ring, a
$275 tiger-eye ring, a $700 gold
wedding band, $470 in cash and a
pair of $20 ear phones.
In another burglary last Thurs-
day, Robert L. Schneider, 325‘/j
Koontz, reported to police that
over $3,000 worth of valuables
were stolen from his residence.
Among the items listed as taken
were a $300 Sears 35mm camera
and a telephoto lens, a $375
Remington rifle, a $90 Reming-
ton 700 Series 410 shotgun, a
$225 Remington 22-cal. revolver
and holster, a $1,009 diamond
engagement ring, a $150 gold
diamond necklace, a $170 gold
diamond necklace, a $60 22-cal.
rifle, a $130 Serpentine necklace,
a $400 Savage 12 guage shot-
gun, $70 worth of stereo cass-
ettes and $7 in quarters.
A business burglary was repor-
ted March 2 at Kim Yen's, 514
Main. According to police, a
shovel was used to break in the
rear door. Taken were a $500
Zenith VCR and $400 worth of
VCR tapes.
A vandalism incident was
reported at the Maytag Washe-
teria at 6th and Morton on
Monday. Vandals apparently pri-
ed open the coin box on a dryer
and took an undetermined am-
ount of money.
Two accidents were also inves-
tigated by police during the
week. A nine-year old boy
received injuries after the bike on
which he was riding was struck
by a car in the 1800 block of
Henderson around 4:16 p.m.
Sunday.
Robin Harvey, 12th Street, was
taken by ambulance to Wagner
General Hospital where he was
treated for facial and hip lacer-
ations and released.
According to the police report,
Harvey was riding his bicycle
(See POLICE, Page 2]
Soaring seaside seagulls.
A PALACIOS youngster looks
on while a flock of seagulls soar
over a small canal looking for
some tasty seafood. Although
the first day of spring will not
arrive until next Wednesday,
Palacios had a sneak preview
over the weekend. It was hard
not to eqjoy the outdoors as
sunny skies prevailed and
temperatures climbed Into the
80s. [Beacon Photo by Nick
West]
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THURSDAY. MARCH 14,1985
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PALaCTOS, TEXAS
FOURTEEN PAGES
Security seminar
slated Thursday
A free security seminar for
merchants and businesses will
be held at 7 p.m. tonight
(Thursday) at the Palacios
Library. The seminar is spon-
sored by the Palacios Cham-
ber of Commerce and will be
conducted by area crime pre-
vention officers. Topics will
include building security, in-
ternal theft, shoplifting and
robbery.
Survey issued
by Girl Scouts
Girl Scout surveys were
sent home this week with girls
in K-3rd grades. These forms
need to be returned to the
teachers by Friday.
Adult leadership is needed
for the ’85-’86 school year.
Anyone interested should call
Drury Callahan at 972-2256.
Babe Ruth sets
signup, cleanup
Babe Ruth registration will
be held Friday from 4-8 p.m.
at Hamlin's Minimax. There
is a $15 fee per child or a
maximum of $25 per family.
New players need to bring a
birth certificate.
A Babe Ruth field work day
will be held Saturday beginn-
ing at 9 a.m. at the ball field.
Baseball tryouts
are Saturday
Little League tryouts will be
held Saturday at the Little
League Park from 9 a.m.-? All
10, 11 and 12 year olds will
have to try out if they haven't
played in the Major League
before or been assigned to a
team.
Pancake breakfast
held Saturday
The West Palacios Church
of God of Prophecy, 808 9th
St., will hold its annual
Pancake Mission Breakfast
Saturday beginning at 8:30
a.m. Everyone is invited to
attend.
Homemakers to
meet March 21
The Carancahua Extension
Homemakers Club will meet
Thurs., March 21 at 1:30 p.m.
at the Community Center.
Egg hunt set
at Carancahua
The Carancahua Commun-
ity Easter Egg Hunt is plane,
ed for Thursday, April 4 at 3
p.m. at the Edwin Olson
Home.
One school, two city races contested
Ballots set for council, school elections
A last minute addition and one
deletion among city council can-
didates occurred last week on the
final day of filing for the April 6
city elections.
The final result on the ballot
facing city voters will be one
uncontested and two contested
races. Voters within the Palacios
ISD, who will also be going to the
polls April 6, have two candidat-
es to choose from for Position 2
and an uncontested race for
Position 1.
Absentee voting for both elec-
tions begins March 18 and will
continued through April 2. Ab-
sentee voting for both the city
City sales tax
rebates show
14% increase
Palacios sales tax receipts
continue to surge upwards based
on the monthly rebates issued by
the state comptroller's office.
The March check received by
the city, which represents taxes
collected on sales made in
January and reported to the
comptroller by Feb. 20, totaled
$12,064.63. That is a significant
increase over the $7,658.26 check
the city received for the same
period one year ago
To date Palacios is running
14.20 percent ahead in sales tax
rebates compared to last March.
The percentage increase surpass-
es the average for a nine-city
area. Altogether the city has
received $33,262.20 in rebates of
the one-percent local sales tax,
up from the $29,126.88 reported
in the third month of 1984.
The city sales tax is collected
along with the state sales tax by
merchants and sent monthly to
the State Comptroller’s Office.
The city's tax is then rebated to
each city from which it was
collected.
Bay City, the only other entity
[See REBATES, Page 3]
and school elections will be
conducted at Palacios City Hall.
COUNCIL-PLACE 3
What had been a contested
race for the Place 3 seat being
vacated by veteran councilman
Johnnie Heard, has ended up as
a solo campaign. Former city
councilman Gary Hafemick, who
had filed for the two-year term,
withdrew his candidacy last
Wednesday. That action leaves
Herby Gonzales, a self-employed
welder, unopposed in his first bid
for governmental office.
COUNCIL-PLACE 5
Incumbent Johnny Sardelich,
who had been unopposed for
re-election to Place 5 going into
the final day of filing, will now
face off against Billy Waitman in
the April election. Waitman is
also a veteran of city elections,
having been involved in a
three-way race with Pam Connis
and eventual winner Cliff Elliott
for Place 1 last year.
Elected to a one-year unexpir-
ed term, Sardelich is seeking his
first two-year term on the
council.
COUNCIL-PLACE 4
The only other ace in which
voters will have two contenders
to choose from will be Place 5
where Adrian Watson faces
Jimmy Claybourn. The two are
seeking the seat being vacated by
one-term councilman Tom Tem-
pleman.
An employee at STP, Clay-
bourn is making his first run for
the council. Watson, an Ebasco
employee at STP and co-owner of
Pick-N-Pack Grocery, is another
veteran of last year’s council
race. He had challenged W.L.
Jones and Sardelich for Place 5.
TRUSTEE-POSITION 2
The lone contested race in the
PISD trustee election will be
between incumbent Nancy Bow-
ers and former trustee Homer
Aparicio for Position 2.
Bowers is completing her first
three-year term on the board,
having won a runoff election in
1982.
Aparicio had served two terms
(six years) on the school board
from 1965-71 and another 4'/i
years from 1975-80.
TRUSTEE-POSITION 1
Unopposed in her bid for a
fourth term on the board is school
board president Cara Herlin.
Elected to Place 1 in 1976, she
was named board president in
i982.
County livestock show
Auction nets $5,500
for grand champion
Top calf and bidder.
GAIL MURPHEY of Blessing
collected $5,500 for her grand
champion calf during Satur-
day’s auction of the 41st
Matagorda County Livestock
Show. David Sikes of Sikes
Building Company was the top
bidder at $5 per pound for the
1,100-pound calf. [Beacon Photo
by Nick West]
Gail Murphey of Blessing
ceived $5,500 from Sikes Build-
ing Company for her grand
champion calf during the 41st
Matagorda County Livestock Sh-
ow Auction held Saturday.
The $5 per pound bid made by
David Sikes was below the $6.25
($6,812,50 total) figure which la3t
year’s grand champion brought.
Stanley’s of Bay City paid $1,750
for the grand champion lamb of
Ramsey Richards of Bay City.
The grand champion swine rais-
ed by Tina Mehrens of Bay City
brought $2,000 from Diamond
Petro & Mini Mart. Dean Rush of
Markham received $1,850 from
Bay City Bank & Trust for his
grand champion fryers.
Stacey Stuhrenberg led the
Palacios contingent of young-
sters. She took reserve champion
lamb honors in the medium
weight division. Her entry was
bought for $1,300 by City State
Bank of Palacios.
Palacios area Youngsters also
did well in the showmanship
competition. Sweeping the lamb
division, Linda Shimek took first
place showmanship honors and
Stuhrenberg second. Traylor Le-
nz of Collegeport placed second
in the calf showmanship behind
Stephen Krobot of Van Vleck.
Lyun Forrest of Palacios won the
top showmanship trophy in the
swine category with Mitch Ab-
shier of Wadsworth second.
The trophies in the showman-
ship competition were provided
by Petersen’s Restaurant, Camp-
bell-Huitt Insurance, City State
Bank and Palacios Pest Control.
Sharia McMuIlan was first and
Tracy Hayden second in the
senior division of the home
economics awards. In the junior
division, Anna Harvey was first
and Jeff Miller second.
Overall Palacios area young-
sters brought home five blue
ribbons in the calf competition,
six for lambs and nine for
[See AUCTION, Page 8]
PHS band “sweeps” regional UIL contest
BY DONNIE HORTON
PISD Information Coordinator
History was made last week
when the 55 member Palacios
Senior High Band became the
3-A Sweepstakes winner of the
University Interscholastic League
(UIL) Music Region XIII, Class
A, AA, and AAA Band Concert
and Sightreading Contests. It
was their outstanding perfor-
mance of a march by Karl King,
"Lieutenant Commander”, "Ov-
ertude for Winds” by Charles
Carter and “Cliff island Suite"
by Robert Jager which earned
the PHS band a "first" rating
from each judge.
This honor was achieved Mar-
ch 5 in Vanderbilt where the UIL
contests were held. At no time
since Palacios High School Bands
began entering UIL band cont-
ests has a PHS band captured a
first in all three areas being
judged-marching, concert and
sightreading. The first in march-
ing was achieved in November.
When asked why he thought
this year was the year that the
PHS band accomplished such an
outstanding feat, the elated
director, James Marioneaux, re-
sponded that after the band won
the first division in marching in
November, band members saw
the dream, of winning a first in
the two remaining contests as
being nearer a reality.
"We set winning the Sweep-
stakes as our goal and the
students combined a lot of hard
work and dedication," comment-
ed Marioneaux. "A lot of the
credit also goes to our assis-
tant directors, Vicki Cribbs and
Mike Petrisky. Their help was
invaluable as was the support of
the entire community."
Students remembered that it
had been six years since the
school band had won a first in
marching. Marioneaux praised
them for putting in a lot of hard
work, much of which took place
in early morning practice sess-
ions.
The hard work paid off when
the band earned comments from
judges like Doug Williamson
from Universal City, whose com-
ment was, “A very fine reading
band today I Congratulations on
your performance." Another jud-
ge, Dan Schreiber, band direc-
tor at John Jay High School in
San Antonio, had this to say,
“This is a VERY WELL prepared
performance-I thoroughly en-
joyed it-definitely the way to end
the day. Mr. M-you and your
fine kids have done an out-
standing job today-Keep it up.
This is the finest Palacios baud 1
[See BAND, Page 3]
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