Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 25, 1983 Page: 1 of 12
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Plates + stickers = 15 Bucks!
The pink-colored Palacios Bucks
are coming back--this time as
spending money for lucky motor-
ists who have one of those red and
yellow Palacios bumper stickers on
their car or truck.
Beginning today, a motorist
whose license plate number is
pictured in the Beacon, with one of
those Palacios bumper stickers also
on the vehicle and showing in the
picture, will win $15.
The prize money, sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce, will be
in 15 Palacios Bucks, each spend-
able the same as $1 on the
purchase of any merchandise or
service at any ot the 27 retail
businesses listed on each Buck that
are business members of the
Palacios Chamber of Commerce.
The Bumper Sticker-License Pla-
te fun game will be sponsored by
tlie Chamber, in cooperation with
the Beacon, over the next few
weeks with the $15 in Palacios
Bucks offered as a weekly prize.
The game is easy. The motor-
ist whose license number and
bumper sticker is pictured in the
Beacon on Wednesday will have
until the following Monday noon to
bring the pictured vehicle to the
Beacon, identify himself (or her-
self) as the owner or member ot the
owner's family and claim the $15.
If there is no winner for that
particular week, the prize money
will be added to the following
week.
Once the prize money is award-
ed, the winner will have 10 days in
which to spend the Palacios Bucks
for merchandise or service at one of
the listed retail business members
of the Chamber. The Bucks cannot
be converted into cash, except
where change due is less than $1.
Oniy vehicles where both the
license place and Palacios bumper
sticker can be seen in the picture
will be eligible for the fun game.
The red on yellow bumper
stickers, being sold at $1 each to
help raise funds for the Chamber's
promotional activities, are avail-
able at K. Wolen's Dept. Store,
Pier Drive Inn Grocery, Fountain
Terrace Motel, Bayside Camper,
Palacios branch of Bay City Federal
Savings & Loan, Petersen's Res-
taurant and at the Beacon.
The Bucks can only be spent at
retail businesses that are members
of the Palacios Chamber of Comm-
erce. Merchants accepting the
Bucks can redeem them by taking
[See BUCKS. Pace 4]
IF THE owner, or member of the
owner’a family, of the vehicle with
the license plate and Palacios
Bumper Sticker pictured above
brings the vehicle to the Beacon
office before noon next Monday
with Identification, he or she will
win SIS in Palacios Bucks-spend-
able just like cash at local
businesses. All vehicles wSth a
Palacios Bumper Sticker am eligi-
ble to be pictured in this weekly
$15 cash contest sponsored by the
Palacios Chamber of Commerce. If
there Is not a winner this week, the
prize will double next week.
Weather
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VOLUME 76, NO. 21
PHS Gass of 1983
gets diplomas Friday
Sixty-six students will be conclu
ding their high school careers
Friday during the commencement
exercises for the 1983 gradua-
ting class of Palacios High School.
The graduation ceremonies will
begin at 8 p.m. in the High School
Fine Arts Complex.
The program will begin with the
Processional by Gina Floyd and
fdlcwcd by the Invocation and
devotional given by Father Law-
rence Matula of St. Anthony's
Catholic Qturch. Susan Bolling,
president of the senior class, will
give the President's Welcome after
which Kim Corporon will deliver
the Salutatorian Address and Pat-
ricia Machacek the Valedictorian
Address.
Paiacios High School principal
Travis Washington will present 15
high school awards to students for
English, boys and girls Athletics,
Spanish, Speech and Drama, boys
and girls Citizenship, Mathema-
tics, Science, Commercial Agri-
culture, Social Studies, Sr. Class
President, Valedictorian and Salut-
atorian.’
Counselor Bernard Uolliei will
bestow the Scholarship Awards.
The graduating class of 1983 will
be presented by P1SD superinten-
dent George Holst with school
board president Cara Heriin awar-
ding the diplomas.
Following the presentation of
diplomas, the class wilt sing the
school song followed by the bened-
iction by Craig Miller and the
recessional
Graduates will meet in the band
hall following the ceremony to
receive congratulations.
TWO SPECIAL awards were
presented during the Palacios High
School annual All-Sports Banquet
held Friday night. The awards
were named In honor of two former
PHS coaches, Sharky Shelton and
Shelton, Shreves awards winners
Collegeport birthday:
75th Anniversary celebration Saturday
Charles Shreve and were presented
by two alnmnl of the 1964 state
champion football team. Paul
Fields, left, presented the Charles
Shreve Memorial Award for ded-
Icatlon to Jesae Caatsnen. Robby
Shelton, right, awarded the Sharky
Shelton Fighting Shark Award for
enthusiasm to Mike Shhnek. Other
top Shark and Sharketie athletes
were also honored daring the
evening. ______
The Women's Club of College-
port is sponsoring the 75th Anniv-
ersary of the founding of College-
port, Saturday at noon, at the
Mopac House. As has been the
custom all these many years,
everyone brings a covered dish to
compliment the meat, tea and
coffee provided locally.
This is a time when former
residents and friends get together
to renew friendships and get the
news of the folk who live far away
and locally.
The Women’s Club of College-
port was organized in 1910 and has
sponsored Collegeport Day and the
activities at the Mopac House these
many years.
GTE rings-up increases
In monthly basic service rates, new repair charges
.. . ......... .... cinnio.linA an inrrpase nf $2.05. The charoe is onlv for sendine the responsible tor the
Palacios residents will find their
phone bills increasing once again
after new telephone rates became
effective May 19 for General
Telephone customers.
E.L. "Buddy" Langley, presi-
dent of General Telephone, said
rates changed for most types of
service under the order issued by
the Public Utility Commission.
Included is a new charge,
brought about by deregulation of
telephone instruments and tele-
phone systems earlier this year,
which levies a fee when a customer
with a company-owned single-line an increase of $2.05.
telephone requests the company to The new charge for sending an
send an employee to a residence employee to a customer’s premise
for a phone repair, rather than the to repair a company-owned single-
customer bringing the phone to a line telephone is required due to
repair center.
The local basic service monthly
rate for residential one-party lines
in Palacios increased 90-cents to
$8.35 per month. The old basic
service rate was $7.45. For one-
party business phones, the month-
ly basic service rate increased even
more, going from the old $19.75
per montl to a new rate of $21.80,
deregulation of telephone instru-
ments on Jan. 1 as well as other
regulatory decisions which encour-
age competition and require indiv-
idual services to be most cost-
based.
The charge for sir.gle-line tel-
ephone repair at a residence will be
$17 while the charge for single-line
business telephones will be $22.50.
The charge is only for sending the
employee to the customer’s prem-
ise.
"Customers can purchase tele-
phones from General Telephone or
other vendors,” Langley said.
"Under the fully regulated envir-
onment of the past where we
provided all the phones, the cost of
sending an employee to a cus-
tomer's premise was paid by all
customers through higher local
basic service rates.
"Now that more customers are
providing their own phones and are
Summer recreation program
offers activities for youth, adults
Tlie Palacios Summer Recreation
Program for youngsters 6-14 years
of age will be held June 6-July 15 at
the East Side campus.
Registration for the program,
which offers arts, crafts, reading
and athletics, will be held May
31-June 3 at the East Side Gym
from 10 a.m.-noon. Registration
fees are $5 for F1SD students and
$7.50 for those not in the PISD
system.
The summer youth program will
be conducted Monday thru Friday
and will be divided into two
divisions. The Playground Program
for youngsters 6-8 will be from 9
a.m. to noon, and will offer
playground games, arts and crafts,
table games, creative crafts and
reading.
The Intermediate Summer Pro-
gram is designed for youngsters in
the 9-12 years of age category and
will be held from 9 a.m.-11:30. A
different athletic activity will be
featured each week beginning with
hot spot basketball and followed by
badminton, tennis, softball, tumb-
ling and trampoline.
A new offering this year will be a
Summer Track program with five
age divisions, 6-7,8-9, 10-11,12-13
and 14 and up. Workouts for track
will be held Monday thru Friday
from 9-10 a.m. Track meets for
participating youngsters have been
scheduled for Sweeny June 9, El
Campo June 16, Lake Jackson June
23, West Columbia June 30 and
Palacios July 5.
For further information on the
Summer Recreation Program, per-
sons should contact Jerry Greer at
972-5127.
ADULT AEROBICS
An Adult Aerobics Class will be
offered as part of the Palacios
Summer Recreation Program.
The classes will be held Monday
thru Thursday from June 6-Juiy 15
at the East Side gym. The fee for
the 32 lessons, to be given from
12:30-1:30 p.m., is $25. For further
information contact Jeri Todd at
972-2833.
Farewell Sunday for Rev. McRae
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The public is invited to attend a
farewell open house being given in
honor of Rev. Murdoch McRae
starting at 2 p.m. Sunday in the
First Presbyterian Church Fellow-
ship Hall.
Rev. McRae, who has served the
Paiacios church and community for
the past four years, will be moving
ch near Birmingham, Ala.
Along with his ministerial duti-
es, Rev. McRae has been an active
and important part of the
community. He has served on the
Palacios city council and was also
instrumental during the organiza-
tional phase of the Friends of Eider
Citizens and the subsequent Senior
me 1UU1 J'caia, will UV vnttvito bum —
to assume the pastorial duties of Center. One of the founders and
the Forest Dale Presbyterian Chur-
volunteers of the Palacios Ihfor-
mation Network, Rev. McRae was
also active in the Palacios Chamber
of Commerce. BayFest and numer-
ous other community organiza-
tions.
He and his wife. Beth, and sons
Mac, Daniel and John, arc sche-
duled to depart Palacios for
Alabama late Sunday afternoon.
responsible tor the maintenance
and repair of those phones, the cost
of sending employees to premises
must become cost-based and be
applied only to the customers using
the service.”
He pointed out the company has
expanded its GTE Phone Marts,
Local Service Offices and Local
Service Agency network to provide
convenient locations for all custom-
ers to take care of their phone
business, including repair service.
"By bringing their company-
owned single-line telephones to our
service locations, the customers
can avoid the charge and have the
repair made at their convenience
rather than requesting we send an
employee and pay the charge, in
addition to waiting at the premise
for service personnel to arrive,” he
said.
He pointed out that similar
premise visit charges were initiat-
ed last yesr when the Federal
Communications Commission cha-
nged the accouting procedure for
station connections, which includes
new installations, moves and chan-
ges of service, and the install-
ation and repair of house wiring.
House wiring is the wire that
connects the customer’s telephone
to the local and long-distance
network'.
"Under the changes last year,
customers were given the options
of doing some of the work them-
selves, such as wiring, jacking and
picking up telephones, thus saving
the costs if we do the work;
contacting a third party to do the
work; or pay the appropriate
charge to have the telephone
company do the work,” he said.
Charges for the repair of wiring are
$54.50 for each single-line business
outlet needing repair, and $42 for
each single-iine residential outlet.
(See PHONE, Page 4]
Facility bids on
trustee agenda
The Palacios ISD Board of
Trustees will meet in special
session Thursday night to
accept and act on bids for its
facilities improvement proj-
ects. The meeting begins at 8
p.m. in the new adminis-
tration building at 12th and
Henderson.
Singspiration
slated Sunday
The Church of the Naza-
reue will sponsor a Sing-
spiration Sunday at 3 p.m. at
the church.
Special singing and instru-
mentals will be presented.
Blessing VFD sets
events May 28
The Blessing Volunteer Fire
Department is sponsoring a
Street Dance and Beer Girden
on May 28 from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. in downtown Blessing.
Memorial Day
closings set
Ail federal, state and local
government offices will be
closed Monday in observance
of Memorial Day. Along with
City Hall and the Post Offices,
other businesses closed wiii
be City State Bank, Entcx and
CP&L.
Moms-day-out at
Church Tuesday
The First Baptist Church of
Palacios will have a Mother’s
Day Out beginning Tuesday,
May 31. Children ages 1st
through 3rd grades only are
eligible.
For more information call
the church office.
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