Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 28, 1995 Page: 4 of 16
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Page 4A-Palaeios Beacon-Wed., June 28,1995
DEADLINE 5 P.M. FRIDAY
PalaK Beacon Earl; Fite
YEARS AGO-199C
The Palacios Beacon earned second place for news coverage
among Division 6 weekly newspapers in the statewide 1990 Texas
Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Texas Press Association.
Mr. aid Mrs. John H. Rinks will celebrate their golden wedding
anniversary on July 3. m im
After a marathon oftough bridge playing the team of MyraBrhlik
list place. In second place was Gloria
and Elnora Oglesby took Brat
Walters and Barbara Curtis and third was Emette Sanford aid
Kathryn Hayes. The Bridge Marathon raised over $1000 for toe
Palacios Senior Center.
10 YEARS AGO-1985
Rowan Churchill, A FS exchange student, left Palacios to return to
his native country Australia.
The Palacios c’ty council voted to adopt a $1,672,538 operating
budget for fiscal year 1985-86 during a special meeting Monday
night.
30 YEARS AGO-1965
The 16th annual Lions Club’s July 4th celebration will get
underway at noon Sunday. Kidding off the weekend celebration will
be a dance Saturday night cm the open air pavilion sponsored by the
Volunteer Fire Department.
Rev. Leslie E. Webb and family had moved here from Falfurrias.
Rev. Webb will assume duties as pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church July 1.
Mrs. Robert Heriin and daughter,.Margaret, returned from a three
week visit in Europe.
35 YEARS AGCM960
Mayor Marvin Curds and Alderman Homer Aparicio attended the
first annual seminar for city officials in Austin Friday and Saturday.
40 YEARS AGO-1955
Eli Mayfield was installed as president of the Rotary Club,
succeeding Dr. J.C. While, Jr.
45 YEARS AGO-1950
Ten dvic organizations in Palacios had joined forces with the
Lions Gub in staging a community carnival here Monday and
Tuesday, July .3-4.
The 49th annual Baptist Encampment opened Tuesday with more
than 800 registered.
50 YEARS AGO-1945
The Women’s Missionary Union of the Corpus Christi district
was at the Baptist Encampment fois week.
M.T. Brooking took over the presidency of the Rotary Gub from
Matthew Burton.
The summer recreational program was scheduled to begin Mon-
day.
55 YEARS AGO-1940
Twenty-seven Masons from Lockhart were guests of the Palacios
Lodge over the weekend.
A family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.P. Benz,
honoring his parents who were leaving for Missoula Mont, to make
their home.
60 YEARS AGO-1935
The seawall project was about one-half completed.
Dr. Charles Nester left for Detroit to do one year of intern work
M Gty Hospital.
Miss Bell McGkXhlin left for Chicago to do special work at
Northwestern University.
65 YEARS AGO-1930
The paving of the business square was completed.
Koerbcr’s new filling station at the comer of 4th and Main was
formally opened.
70 YEARS AGO-1925
H.C. Lewis accepted a position as principal and coach in the
Angleton High School. He had held a similar position in the Palacios
school the last two years.
80 YEARS AGO-1915
A movement was being started to place an electric light on top of
the water tower. : ,
Palacios and Bay Gty were planning a joint celebration on July 5 :
to be held in Palacios.
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Perspective
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Keeping an eye on Texas
Texas Dept, of Health: outbreak backstop
Ijome like It hot
Picanteand
of 1881. Sdlas Mm hMM upaacSh yaar,
growing at an annual rate of 13 paroertt from
1983 to 1983, whan 1hey hit
Killer viruses raid deadly bacteria have new-
found stardom. They are the subjects of best-
selling books, such as The Hot Zone. They toe
current box-office lets in movies, such as Out-
break. And they are featured on this season’s
top television shows, such as the highly ac-
claimed ER and Chicago Hope. But the real-
life drama of these microbial villains unfolds
daily to the Texas Department of Health
(TDH) laboratory—under microscopes,
inside test tubes and whirling through high-
tech analytical machines.
It is here, in the sterile gleam of the
quency throughout the world.
The laboratory’s ability to respond is criti-
cal. The quick and definitive identification of
the cause of an illness or disease is what keeps
cases from becoming outbreaks and outbreaks
from becoming epidemics. As new disease
threats arise, the laboratory serves at a back-
stop—to keep the dangers fenced out
laboratory, not under the brigti lights of
eriesfne
! solved
Hollywood, that real mysteries I
and real lives are saved.
Public health’s interest in microorgan-
isms isnot new. The first TDH (
was opened in 1912. Backthen, i
CAPITOL
COMMENT
U S. SENATOR
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
-8.
Welfare Reform Plan Must
Include the Growth Factor
! diagnostic tests
s, such as diphtheria, typhoid
fever, tuberculosis and malaria—helping to
provide the highest quality analytical services
for the protection and improvement of the
health of all Texans. Butnowthelaboratoiy is
even more important to your health and mine.
Rapid global transportation means that each
of us is rarely more than 24 hours’ travel time
from exposure to deadly bacteria, viruses and
other microorganisms—such as Ebola vims
now wreaking havoc in Zaire. New and re-
emerging diseases such as Legionnaire’s’,
filovirus infections, diphtheria, leprosy, pi ague,
drug-resistant tuberculosis and invasive strep-
tococcus A—the so-called flesh-eating bacte-
ria—are being discovered with increasing fre-
COMMISSIONER'S
COMMENTARY
BY DAVID R. SMITH, M.D.
Taxas Commlssionar of Health
* irt- mm
In recent months, the laboratory has been
instrumental in identifying and controlling a
meningitis outbreak in East Texas and a bo-
tulism incident in El Paso, ruling out Legion-
naires’ disease in a cluster of sick office work-
ers in Austin, plus confirming hundreds of
cases of tuberculosis, HIV infection, influenza
and other infectious diseases.
The demand for laboratory services to sup-
port environmental health has increased enor-
mously in the past five years and will continue
during the next decade. Public appreciation of
the consequences of indifference to foe envi-
ronment mid foe increasing recognition that
many diseases, such as cancer, are caused or
exacerbated by environmental contaminants,
will continue to expand TDH’s role in moni-
toring foe state’s soil, air and water—and our
food, drags and cosmetics.
All this is done with documented cost-effi-
ciency. Fbr example, about $9 in medical treat-
ment are saved for every dollar spent on our
newborn screening program—which tests
every Texas baby for four treatable but
potentially disabling diseases. And a $50
lab test to rale out rabies in animals saves
hundreds of Texans the $1,500-$4,000cpst
for rabies post-exposure treatment. :
The TDH laboratory is a national and
international resource with recognized pro-
ficiency in the use of several techniques!—
including newborn screening and molecu-
lar technologies, such as polymerase chain
reaction procedures, for faster and mdre
complete identification of viruses and bac-
teria based on their DNA/RNA characteristics.
With foe support of the Texas Legislature,
we plan to modernize our current lab facilitjes
to keep up with the mushrooming demand and
to be prepared to identify and contain—br,
better yet, predict and prevent the inevitable
new threats to human health. We hope;to
anticipate, not just react to the latest “plagufc.”
Maybe our lab technicians do not come• to
work zipped into protective spacesuits like foe
one Dustin Hoffman wears in Outbreak, but
TK "To one ever said fixing our abysmally flawed welfare system would be
[VI easy. White the 104th Congress has made historic progress on this
JL V repair project, the finishing touches remain to be drawn.
I am convinced that foe block-grant approach, which both the House and
Senate have approved in principle, offers the best hope of accomplishing
what we’ve set out to do. It is designed to provide states with foe flexibility
to create programs that meet their individual needs — programs which wifi
encourage their welfare recipients to make responsible choices.
But there remains to be settled an issue of basic equity. Simply put, there
is no reason why the federal government should subsidize poor children in
fast-growing states less than those in slow-growth states. The block grant
funding formulas, as now written, do not take into account the needs of fast-
growing states such as Texas.
The current reform plans would freeze Texas welfare funding to foe
current level over the next five years despite the fact that Texas is expected
to witness a population increase of nearly 20 percent over that same period
offline.
Meanwhile, states with stagnant or negative population growth would
receive, in effect, more funding for each child on public assistance than would
states that are growing.
The Senate has not yet finalized its welfare block-grant formulas. But
under the House-approved bill, Texas’ allocation for family assistance would
equal current federal welfare spending in Texas — about $440 million
annually. That amount would increase by only $11 million over the five-year
period of the program.
It is unfair to force Texas or any other state to bear the burden of
disproportionate population growth. The needs of high-growth states must be
part of the equation.
One way we see to achieve this would be for the Congress to set aside,
out of the overall welfare block-grant pie, supplemental grants to high-
growth states.
And I’ve been woiking with other senators from high-growth stales to
develop a better basic formula, one which includes credit for stale’s growth
rates and the number of children they tetve living in poverty. We have
succeeded in getting the Senate Finance Committee to adopt a formula that
increases Texas basic block grant from $440 million to $507 million — an
increase of $67 million a year.
We must not lose sight of the fact, however, that the underlying objective
of welfare reform is to reduce long-term welfare dependency and bring about
lower rates of growth in die programs. t
Eventually, our ovethaul should make the welfare system shrink —
successful reform by anyone’s definition.
Letters to /S
the Editor
Criticism and praise for county hospitals
Dear Editor,
If you live in paradise, you may die injparadi
of your own; with no fault of the County Commi
no fault of foe doctors and Nurses.
June 25,1995 a patient was taken to Wagner General Hospital
for emergency care. At foe time, we did not know foe was hav-
ing a heart attack. We did know foe was near death.
iise with no fault
Commissioners; with
There was quite a quandary as to what they should do with foe
foe was to be taken to Matagorda General Hospi-
patient. First,
tal in Bay City. Matagorda General Hospital said the patient
should be taken to Houston, the Methodist Hospital, where a
heart specialist was on duty. At this time the decision was made
to take the patient to Houston by ambulance. At this point we
; the Palacios ambulance service did not go out of town.
were told
Now we should have known this. There would be no one there to
watch the ambulance.
Bay Gty paramedics were called to Wagner General to lake
the patient back through Bay City, up route 288 to Houston.
May I say the people at Wagner General Hospital were the
kindest, finest people in the world. The people to Matagorda
General Hospital were also the kindest and the finest
The whole point to this is that neither hospital had any service
for a patient in need. I ask you, what are they there for?
Evelyn L. Morrison
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