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OUTDOORS
WTTH JOHN R. WILSON
Deer season opens today (Thurs-
day^ and continues through De-
cember 31,
The bag limit is two bucks a
season.
No restriction is made as to the
type of gun.
Shooting hours are from one-
half hour before sunrise to one-
half hour after sunset. Sale of
deer hides is permitted.
It is unlawful to hunt deer with-
out a big game license; possess
deer carcass without deer tag
thereto attached, bearing date and
place of kill and name of hunter;
possess deer carcass or green hide
with all evidence of sex removed;
use the same deer tag on more
than one deer; kill doe deer, fawn
or spike buck; use a deer call, ex-
cept deer horns which may be
rattled; hunt at night with a head-
light in territory where deer are
known to range.
There’s a special law for the
means of taking deer in Brazoria,
Jackson, Matagorda, and Wharton
Counties: it is lawful to use dogs
during open season in hunting,
pursuing, or taking deer.
Open season for turkey gobblers is
same as deer. Bag limit is three
gobblers a season. If shotguns are
used they must not be larger than
10-gauge and must be permanently
plugged so that they will hold not
more than three shells, including
magazine and chamber.
Fishing has been somewhat less
than good this week. There were
few catches of note and many fish-
ermen were venturing out in boats.
Good catches were rumored taken
in the Tres Palacios River, but
names were hard to obtain.
Pat Wilson caught one red Sat-
urday night near the Turning Basin
before she gave in to the cold.
Mrs. Leroy Hogg caught a nice
three-pound trout out of her back
door Tuesday afternoon. (She lives
on the Tres Palacios River and it
runs right at the end of her yard.)
Wednesday Night
Banquet Honors
Junior Hi Hornets
Home Economics I class at Pala-
cios Junior High School honored
its football heroes, the Hornets,
with a banquet Wednesday night
in the dining room at the school.
Coach C. B. Roland, of the Class
A Bay City High School Black
Cats, was guest speaker.
Coach George Holst presented
awards to 17 lettermen and five
reserve lettermen on the 1950 Hor-
net squad, which won four and lost
four games this season. The let-
termen -are to receive blue coat-
style sweaters with white letters.
Ann Brandon gave the welcome
address to the group of footballers
and guests and Superintendent
Ralph Newsom gave the invoca-
tion.
After two songs by junior high
school girls, the banqueteers heard
Coach Roland’s address and wit-
nessed the presentation of awards.
Clinton Wratislaw issued the re-
sponse to the presentation on be-
half of the squad and Mary Al-
varez and Francis Chamblee sang
"Now is the Hour’’ to end the
formal part of the program.
Lettermen honored at the feast
were Alfred Manning, Wratislaw,
Eugene Zemanek, Dick Boling, Bill
Kennedy, Dean Blackwell, Charles
Simpson, Leroy Smith, Paul Gut-
tenberger, Tom Navarro, Donald
Johnson, Boyd Foltyn, Bobby Ba-
shaw, Hubert Bowers, Nelo Sea-
man, Pat McDonald, and Jerome
Kimball.
Reserve lettermen were Santos
Perez, Joe Beard, Bobby Partain,
Pete Martinez, and Don Marquess.
Guests included Mr. and Mrs.
Weldon Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. Shelton, Miss Thelma Beard,
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Johnson, Mr.
and Mrs. A. J. Willenborg, Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. Smith, Mr. and
Mrs Newsom, Sylvester Clark, and
Miss Belle McGlothlin.
Special guests were Dr. and Mrs.
E. B. Sanford, invited in appre-
ciation of Dr. Sanford's services
as team physician.
Other home economics girls re-
sponsible for cooking and serving
the chicken-spaghetti banquet were
Nalone Harvey, Dona Kay Paris,
Gwen Johnson, Dorothy Wickham,
Ima Jean Morgan, Josephine Johs,
F'a Flores, Yvonne Smith, Do-
r—.iga Rodriguez, Sue Treadway,
ITT
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1950
PALACIOS. MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS
VOLUME XLVIII NUMBER 46
HOMECOMING WIN WILL EARN 41-B
DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP FOR SHARKS
CHRISTMAS LIGHT
PLANNERS MEET
NEXT TUESDAY
Representatives Of
All Civic Clubs Are
Urged To Be Present
Every club and civic organiza-
tion has been asked to have a
representative present at the Cen-
tral Power and Light Company
office Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock for a committee meeting
on the rapidly progressing Christ-
mas lighting project for the bus-
iness district of Palacios.
Representatives of nine civic or-
ganizations met Monday night at
the home of Mrs. Charles Luther
to map a campaign for funds for
the project.
Civic committees of various clubs
and organizations will work to-
gether to plan a pattern for the
overhead street lighting.
"Everyone in the Palacios trade
territory,” it was announced after
the Monday meeting, “is asked to
contribute to the fund so that we
may have a generous array of
Christmas lights that can be en-
joyed by every man, woman, and
child in and around the commun-
ity.”
It was stressed that it is not a
project for the business houses to
carry out alone, but “one hat ev-
ery civic-minded person can invest
in and feel repaid during the
Christmas season for their finan
cial and moral support.”
A committee will be at work this
week to contact as many people as
possible.
Checks and other contributions
should be mailed to Palacios Civic
Association, c/o M. M. Brooking,
City State Bank, Palacios. Mr.
Brooking has agreed to act as
treasurer for the campaign drive.
PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UP
PALACIOS SHARKS
CRESCENT BLUEJAYS
Name
No.
Wt.
Pos.
Wt.
No.
Name
J. Penland
30
170
E
152
31
D. Wuthrich
R. Markwardt
.38
140
E
165
40
.......R. Kallas
R. Wratislaw
...45
215
T
185
38
J. Krutilek
E. Newsom
43
210
T
180
39 C. Priesmeyer
D. Kitchen
33
140
G
155
25
J. R. Matzke
S. Wright.......
.28
140
G
160
34
.. . J. Mahalitc
T. Bolling.......
29
170
C
165
42
C. Mathews
J. Gayle...........
26
150
B
136
23
.......A. Kurtz
M. Rodriguez
22
125
B
147
27
..........C. Riha
C. Bowers
31
150
B
155
30.
J. Wuthrich
P. Sardelich....
24
150
B
155
37
E. Boatright
EXAMINATIONS SHOW POOR HEALTH
CONDITIONS IN JUNIOR SCHOLARS
109 Of 200 Need Emergency Dental Caref
90 Per Cent Are Under Or Over Weight
12 Florida Flyers Stop
Here Wednesday On
Return From Mexico
Aided by a 35-mile-an-hour tail-
wind, 12 people in six planes
dropped in at the Palacios Munici-
pal Airport Wednesday morning.
They were homeward bound from
a Florida-to-Mexico City flight.
Sandwiched in between the usual
flight shop talk was plenty of ro-
mance and adventure about color-
ful Mexico.
Among the entourage were Mr.
and Mrs. Richard J. Firestone of
Camp Hill, Pa., who were married
in Mexico during the tour, spon-
sored by the Jacksonville Aero
Club.
Jacksonville flyers stopping over
here were Robert M. Nangle, Wil-
liam H. Reaves, Dr. C. M. Hogan,
H. E. Zink, W. L. Getzen, secre-
tary-treasurer of the Jacksonville
Aero Club.
Others were Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Masters of St. Augustine, Fa., J.
H. Allen of Hastings, Fla., and
Dr. and Mrs. F. H, Kunzig.of Win-
ter Gardens, Fla.
Dr. Kunzig was thrilled over an
incident at a bull fight in Mexico
City. The day after attending he
spotted himself in the background
of a fight picture in a Mexican
newspaper. He’s taking it home to
show friends.
Mrs. Amy Hall of the Chamber
of Commerce, Mrs. Mildred Barr,
Mrs. J. L. Koerber, and Mrs.
Charles Luther provided sandwich-
es, cookies, and coffee for the hun-
gry flyers.
Mayor J. L. Koerber, Ronald
Harris, president of the Chamber
of Commerce, as well as Walker
Flying Service personnel and other
were on hand to welcome the group
to the airport.
They left here headed for Beau-
mont.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dow of
Houston were week-end guests of
her mother, Mrs. C. B. elson.
Benita Blackburn, Elsie Ringo,
Josephine Roach, Barbara Simp-
son, Nancy Kitchen, and Lavada
Lopez.
A party dance was held follow-
ing the banquet.
Shocking conditions of neglected
health among Palacios Junior High
School students was revealed last
week after screening examinations
conducted by their teachers, Prin-
cipal J. G. Smith declared.
No less than 90 per cent of the
200 students were either under-
weight or overweight, Mr. Smith
said, most of them tipping the
scales at less than the normal stan-
dard used by most doctors for
children of their height, age and
sex.
After examinging the teeth of
the school’s 200 students, Dr. John
W. Hart reported 109 are in need
of emergency dental treatment. Mr.
Smith and the teachers noticed that
boys’ teeth were noticeably worse
than the girls’, according to Dr.
Hart’s report.
Another astonishing develop-
ment was revealed when it was
shown that 60 of the 200 students
suffer from defective vision, as
determined by teachers using the
school’s electric eye-tester. That
does not necessarily mean that all
of the 60 need glasses, for some
may have defects that are non-
correctable.
The teachers believe, however,
that the defects are serious enough
to have an effect on the children’s
school performance.
AT THE AIRPORT
The Murphy brothers, Ben and
Leonard, were putting their pri-
vate licenses to good use Sunday,
taking some of their friends for
passenger rides.
C. D. Bradley from El Campo
has been here the past two Sun-
days to help with aircraft repair.
Stephen Hopkins flew to Hous-
ton Friday in Stanley Kubela’s air-
plane to pick up Mr. Kubela’s
nephew.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Porter are
back from Brownsboro after a hur-
ried trip there to be at the bed-
side of Mr. Porter’s father, who
recently underwent serious sur-
gery.
Lieutenant Gilbert Herman, sta-
tioned in Kentucky, is home on a
21-day furlough.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McDonald of
York, Nebr., are here to spend the
winter and be with her mother and
sister, Mrs. Nellie Chambers and
Mrs. G. A. Salsbury.
Three cases of color-blindness
were also uncovered.
During the ear examination with
the county audiometer, furnished
by the Matagorda County Chapter
of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, it was
revealed that one child was totally
deaf in one ear without knowing it.
Parents of every child in the
school have been notified of the
results of the examination of their
children. The Palacios Lions Club
has been furnished with a list of
all children with defective vision
whose parents are unable to pro-
vide proper care. (The national
project of Lions clubs is to im-
prove vision among children,)
Hornet Bees Seek
Revenge Against
Lolita Here Tues.
Palacios Junior High Hornet B
gridders will be out for revenge
Tuesday night at 7:45 here when
they play a return engagement
with Lolita’s junior aggregation.
Two costly second half fumbles
cost the local juniors a 20-6 loss
Tuesday in Lolita.
Lolita scored first in the initial
period from about 15 yards out and
added the extra point to go ahead,
7-0.
Fullback Danny Longoria basted
through the middle for 88 yards
and a touchdown in the second
period to almost even things up.
The Hornet Bees failed to convert,
however, and the score at half-
time stood at 7-6 in favor of the
hosts.
At the opening of the second half
the Hornets fumbled the ball upon
receiving the kickoff from Lolita
and yielded up another touchdown.
Practically the same thing hap-
pened in the final period. Lolita
recovered another Hornet fumble
and added another touchdown to
wind up the scoring.
Longoria was the standout for
the junior Bees, both offensively
and defensively, according to Coach
Holst.-----------------------------------------
The return engagement nere
Tuesday, which the junior B team
will enter with blood in their eyes,
will be the final contest of the
season for them.
PALACIOS TO ENGAGE CRESCENT
FRIDAY NIGHT IN CRUCIAL TILT
Mary Lee Bell To Be Crowned Queen
At Half Time; Dance To Follow Game
With the district 41-B champion-
ship dangling before their eyes,
the Palacios Sharks are all set to
thrash the Crescent Blue Jays here
tomorrow night before a home-
coming crowd. Kickoff is at 8
o’clock.
Odds-on favorites to dash the
Blue Jays giant-killing aspirations,
Coach Sharkey Shelton’s charges
must win to claim undisputed lead.
Miss Mary Lee Bell will be
crowned Palacios High School’s
first homecoming queen at half-
time ceremonies and the band
will perform for the entertain-
ment of the queen and her two
attendants, Misses Phyllis Hols-
worth and Barbara Gayle.
The Homecoming Dance (ad-
mission 50 cents) will be held in
the gym immediately after the
game.
Homecoming pins, bearing the
legend “Conquer Crescent,” are
on sale for 25 cents each at Gop-
pert’s Hardware and Petersen's
Cafe.
ership in the district, for that 25-
12 score the Sharks pinned on the
Ganado Indians is still the tribe’s
only loss in loop play.
Sharks Favored
On the surface it looks like the
Palacios gridders will win in a
breeze, if you discount how badly
the Crescent lads want to win this
one.
Last week the Sharks soundly
drubbed the Louise Hornets, who
just the previous week had run
up against an underdog Blue Jay
team, and came away on the small
end of a 20-0 score.
Nevertheless the Blue Jays are
more or less an unknown factor to
Palacios fans, and upsets are the
enigma of all football teams, even
potential champions.
Blue Jays Heavier
Crescent will field a slightly
heavier starting eleven than Coach
Shelton can muster. The Blue Jay-
starters will average almost 160
pounds per man to 154 for Pala-
cios.
In the line Crescent will have
a four-pound margin per man—
166 to 162. In the backfield the
weight advantage will be about two
pounds per man in the Blue Jays
favor—148 to 146.
J. Wuthrich and E. Boatright, a
couple of 155-pounders, anchor the
Blue Jay backfield, assisted by A.
Kurtz, 136 pounds, and C. Riha,
147.
Despite their slight weight ad-
vantage and reputation for rugged
type of football, the Crescent
squad has never yet this season dis-
played the brand of ball it will
take to defeat the Sharks.
As usual the Sharks will bank
on a stout defensive line, fine run-
ning and excellent passing to be-
fuddle the Blue Jay».________
Palacios In Fine Shape
The Palacios line that blanketed
the Louise running game last week
will be in fine shape. Billy Ham-
in, 135-pound reserve guard, was
A NOVEL WAY TO SEND CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
Ex-navy buddies of Theo Cox
of Route 1 will receive an unusual
Christmas card this year.
After his discharge from tho
navy in 1946, Theo had a strong
desire to keep in touch with his
buddies, especially those he knew
at the Fleet Post Office in Pearl
Harbor.
For a couple of years he sent
out Christmas cards in the form of
a mimeographed sheet with news
of the men with whom he served
at the FPO in Hawaii.
The appreciation of those on the
receiving end of those earlier new-
sy Christmas missiles was so great
that many responded with items
about themselves and their buddies.
Some even sent financial aid, says
Theo.
This year the project had grown
so that Theo decided that it would
be much easier to have the letters
printed.
The result is on display at the
Beacon office. It’s an attractive,
green-inked newsletter containing
names, addresses, occupations and
varied information about nearly
100 men who served at the FPO
at Pearl Harbor.
Faced with an eye-catching cover
—Merry Christmas—1960 news of
that old Pearl Post Office gang—
the card has four pages in all. The
two inside pages are set in reg-
ular newspaper width.
All the news contained in those
pages would fill about two and a
quarter columns of this newspaper,
set solid.
Nearly all veterans at some time
or another express a desire to keep
in touch with friends they made
while in the service of their coun-
try, but Theo is one of the few
who has done something about it.
He had 200 of the newsletters
printed and he has names and ad-
dresses of almost enough buddies
to send every one of those out,
come Christmas time.
It is an unusual enterprise and
one that has meant a lot of work
to Theo in writing innumerable
letters, compiling the information
and mailing the letters. But there’s
no doubt he will be well paid in
gratitude and appreciation from
scores of ex-sailors who will re-
ceive information from almost-for-
gotten buddies.
Since serving a three-year hitch,
Theo has spent his time as a
commercial fisherman, carpenter
and shrimper. He has built a home
on a five-acre tract two miles from
Palacios.
last week’s only casualty and he
suffered only a turned ankle.
The line from Penland on one
end to Markwardt on the other
will be raring to go.
Gayle, Sardelich, Rodriguez and
Bowers, should be just effective
as ever. Sam Seale may see more
spine-tingling action again this
week.
If the Sharks make it their ninth
victory in 10 starts without a
loss, the homecoming dance im-
mediately after the game in the
high school gym will be a tremen-
dous success. If they don’t . . .
Ganado could clinch the title by
defeating Bloomington and Tide-
haven.
Kickoff Breakfast To
Start Local Girl Scout
Fund Drive Tuesday
The annual fund drive for Pala-
cios’ 90 Girl Scouts is scheduled to
get under way Tuesday morning at
7 o’clock with a kickoff breakfast
at the Alamo Cafe, the Rev. Wes-
ley Schulze announced Wednesday.
Glendale Clayboum, second vice-
president of the Palacios Lions
Club, Girl Scout sponsors, will act
as master of ceremonies and as
acting president.
All Lions, several Rotarians, and
many others interested in girl
scout work are expected to ap-
pear for the early morning break-
fast.
Immediately following the cof-
fee hour, the group will scatter to
contact individuals all over town
asking for contributions to the
fund.
Those who think they might not
be called on may send contributions
to Girl Scouts, Palacios.
W. B. Williams Buys
80-Acre Farm Under
Veterans' Land Act
Willard B. Williams became the
second known veteran in Mata
gorda County to buy farm land
from the Texas Veterans’ Land
Board, it was learned this week.
Records at the courthouse in
Bay City show that Mr. Williams
bought 80 acres out of the Ace of
Clubs Ranch on the east side of
Tres Palacios Bay near College-
port.
The land had previously been
purchased by the Veterans’ Land
Board from Mrs. Hattie Kundinger.
Purchase price was listed as $8,000.
The Weather
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Gerard
B. Viets
from
Lackland Air Base near San An-
tonio spent the week-end here vis-
iting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sevcik and
children, Edward Joe and Patsy of
Port Lavaca were visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. John Michalik and
family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Powers and
sons, Butch and Johnny, of Port
Neches, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Cleddie Harvey and family
last week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Ross spent
three days in Fort Worth last
week attending the Baptist Gen-
eral Convention of Texas and vis-
iting with their son, Gilbert Ross,
and his wife.
You tan’t expect $1 an hour for
your working time if you spend
your leisure hours like they were
worth a dime a dozen.
DR. FREDERICK K. STAMM
Nationally Known
Minister To Speak
Here November 29
Dr. Frederick K. Stamm, known
to millions of Americans through
his “Highlights of the Bible”
broadcasts, will speak in Pala-
cios on November 29 at the First
Methodist Church.
During the past summer Dr.
Stamm received about 100,000 let-
ters from his radio listeners. His
programs have been broadcast on
the NBC network for the past 19
years.
For a number of years Dr.
Stamm served as minister for the
historic old Clinton Avenue Con-
gregational Church in Brooklyn,
and was for six years at the First
Congregational Church in Chicago.
He has served as exchange pastor
for England and Scotland.
Dr. Stamm has contributed fre-
quently to such magazines as The
American, Readers Digest, Your
Life, Good Housekeeping, The
Christian Century, and has written
a number of books, including “See-
ing the Multitude” and “Keeping
Men on Their Feet.” His latest,
“If This Be Religion,” was pub-
lished in October by The John
Day Company.
His topic in Palacios will be
“Facing the Fifties with Faith.”
The two-session conference U set
for 7:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. He will
be speaking in Louisiana and Texas
under the auspices of the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee.
The public is cordially invited.
Dr. Stamm will also
Palacios High School.
Mayor Issues
Proclamation T<
Back Seal Sale
Declaring that “no home is safe
while there is a single case of
tuberculosis in the community,"
Mayor J. L. Koerber today issued
a formal proclamation urging ac-
tive support of every Palacios res-
ident of the 1950 Christmas Seal
Sale to be conducted by the Mat-
agorda County Tuberculosis Asso-
ciation from November 20 to De-
cember 25.
“Tuberculosis is a communicable
disease and therefore a public
health problem which should be
the concern of every community
resident, as well as Palacios offi-
cials,” the mayor said in issuing
his proclamation. “The work of
the Matagorda County Tubercu-
losis Association toward prevent-
ing and controlling tuberculosis in
this area has helped city officials
to improve the health standards of
the community.
“The Matagorda County Tuber-
culosis Association works tirelessly
the year around to free this com-
munity from tuberculosis. Yet it
makes but one appeal a year for
funds to finance its twelve-month
lirbgTam^aimed IiYhhVprotection"
of all of us against this dread dis-
ease. I urge every Matagorda Coun-
ty resident to buy and use as many
Christmas Seals as he can and
thereby make an investment in
health for the coming year" Fol-
lowing is the text of Mayor Koer-
ber’s proclamation:
“WHEREAS, tuberculosis kills
more young adults between 15 and
35 than any other disease, and
“WHEREAS, no home in the
community is safe while a single
case of tuberculosis exists in Pala-
cios, and,
“WHEREAS, the Matagorda
County Tuberculosis Association is
waging a year-round battle against
tuberculosis to bring it under com-
plete control in Palacios, and,
WHEREAS, the sale of Christ-
mas Seals constitutes the sole sup-
port of the association and all its
projects,
“THEREFORE, I, Mayor of Pa-
lacios do strongly recommend that
all residents of Palacios buy and
use as many Christmas Seals as
they can in support of the Mata-
gorda County Tuberculosis Asso-
ciation’s efforts toward making the
community a healthier one in which
to live.” J. L. Koerber, Mayor
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