Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1959 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, August 13, 1959
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
PHONE 5181 Advertising Rates On Request
PUBLISHER .....................................................MRS. J. W. DIS’MUKES
EDITOR & ADV. MANAGER.............................JESSE V. DISMUKES
BUSINESS MANAGER ........... HUGH J. DISMUKES
SOCIETY EDITOR & BOOKKEEPER.... MARY V, DISMUKES
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matter under the Art of Congress.
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of any person, firm or corporation which may appear in the columns
of the Palacios Beacon will be gladly corrected if brought to the
attention of the publisher.
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
The Palacios Pirates defeated
Ganado 12 to 1 in the last home
game of the season.
J. E. Ellis, caretaker of the city
disposal plant died Wednesday
while enroute to work. Other deaths
reported were Mrs. Sarah B. Rec-
tor, 72, on August 16: Isaac Marion
Linville, 84, on August 13 and
Mrs. Sam D. Seale on August 16.
Lengthy discussions were held
at city council meeting Monday
night with the leasing of the hos-
pital and additional sewer lines
drawing the most comment.
URGENT TASK
" There is nothing wrong with
America that the faith, love of
FREEDOM, INTELLIGENCE AND
ENERGY OF HER CITIZENS CAN-
NOT CURE.'1
Houston announced the birth of a
son, on August 11, named Charles
Nester Ames.
Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Kinard of
Pelly announced the marriage of
their daughter, Irene, to Carl
Smitherman.
Dr. and iMrs. T. H. Hood an-
nounced the marriage of their
daughter, Dorothy, to Roger J.
Marcy, Jr. of Chicago, 111.
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gray of Bal-
boa Heights, Canal Zone announc-
ed the arrival of their daughter,
Ouida Frances.
Roland A. Suggs was awarded
the Soldier’s medal in London,
England, for saving a fellow sold-
ier from drowning.
September 4 was announced by
Supt. R. P. Newsom as the open-
ing date for Palacios schools.
The marriage of Miss Carolyn
Slaikeu and Robert D. Coe in Los
Angeles was announced.
The 14th annual W. M. U. En-
campment closed today after a 10-
day successful camp.
Leland L, Stevenson had grad-
uated from Officers Candidate
training school at Camp Lee, Va.
One hundred and ten dogs were
vaccinated here last week.
20 YEARS AGO
Eldon Hill and Rosalie Nelson
received B. S. degrees from the
S.T.S.T. College at San Marcos.
Miss Ruby Bartlett and Milton
Anders were married at the home
of the officiating minister, M. H.
Keen.
R. P. Newsom, superintendent of
Palacios schools, announced Mon-
day, September 4 as opening day.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ames of
25 YEARS AGO
The Farmers Cooperative Gin,
which had been operating only a
few days, was destroyed in an early
morning fire.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baldwin an-
nounced the birth of a baby boy.
A report from Washington, D. C.
stated 1934 as the driest and hot-
test year on record.
The run-off campaign for gov-
ernor between Tom F. Hunter and
James V. Allred, was growing in
interest.
New cars registered in the coun-
ty for the first seven months show-
ed 225 had been purchased. Chevro-
lets led with 84 and Fords were
next with 78.
Major Ernest Cox here for the
T.N.G. Encampment was guest
speaker at the Rotary Club.
35 YEARS AGO
Albert Miller sold his home on
pavilion street to Mrs. C. M. Fant.
Thirty Palacios people on board
the launch “Alamo” went to Port
Lavaca for the Calhoun County
Soldiers’ Welcome Home barbecue.
The El Campo Record reported
that of the 20 cars filled with El
Campo people who spent Sunday in
Palacios only one made it home,
the other 19 were stuck in the mud
at Danevang.
A GUARANTEED
FUNERAL INSURANCE
POLICY
Low Monthly Premiums
Protects The Entire Family
Written By
TAYLOR BROS.
FUNERAL HOME
BAY CITY PALACIOS
PH. Cl 5-1613 PH. 5261
45 YEARS AGO
The W. C. Williams family mov-
ed into their new brick home on
South Bay Blvd.
County School Superintendent,
Thomas H. Lewis, reported Mata-
gorda County had 4,030 children of
school age. Bay City had 999, Pa-
lacios, 530, Matagorda, 213, Mark-
ham, 176, and 2,107 in the rural
districts.
Industry Gives Aid
To Higher Education
One of the happy developments
of the time has been industry’s in-
creasing support of higher educa-
tion in the United States,
Gifts from corporations to our
colleges and universities totaled
$40 million in 1953. They came to
$136 million last year. And the
1959 total is expected to reach
$150 million.
The American Economic Founda-
tion gives two reasons why cor-
porations feel more and more of a
responsibility toward higher educa-
tion. For one thing, business needs
the trained manpower thus produc-
ed. For another, corporation of-
ficers want to preserve and nourish
the traditional American ideal of
educational opportunity.
Still a third factor must also
play a big role in framing the atti-
tude of business. That is the desire
to keep education out of the hands
of federal bueaucats—who would
call the tune if the colleges and uni-
versities were supported with fed-
eral money. Keeping education free
of political dictation is the most
important need of all.
PROM THE EXCHANGES
• • •
Port Lavaca Construction Hits Million;
First Rice, Colton Harvested In Area
Port Lavaca passed the million-
dollar mark for new construction
during the past week. Permits
through July totaled $998,928 and
enough permits were issued during
the past week to lift the total
above the million figure.—Cal-
houn County Times.
Jackson County’s first 1959 bale
of cotton brought 51 cents per
pound at the public auction held
Saturday. Co-buyers of the num-
ber one bale were the First Na-
tional and Jackson County State
Banks.—Edna Herald.
First rice of the season was
brought in Monday to Texas West
Indies Company in El Campo for
drying and sacking. The rice, an
experimental C. I. 9416, medium
grain, was farmed by Emil Olson
of El Campo and Blue Creek Rice
Farms on approximately 76 acres.
Brought in Monday was a total of
1100 barrels, with more to be cut.
—El Campo Citizen.
The first bale of cotton of the
1959 season at Ganado was ginned
by the Farmers Co-Op Gin Friday
evening at 5:30. It was produced
by Ganado farmer Isaac Reyes and
the bale weighed 500 pounds.—Ga-
nado Tribune.
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“It isn’t your position but
your disposition that makes
you happy or unhappy.”
The first bale of cotton ginned
for Wharton was brought in by
Harold Earls to the Marek-Vincent
Gin Thursday, July 30 at 5:30 p.m.
—Wharton Spectator.
Taxpayers in water control and
improvement district No. 1 will
vote Monday on a $340,000 bond
issue to improve drainage in some
25,000 acres of Calhoun County
land.—Calhoun County Times.
The long awaited Lolita-to-Point
Comfort farm-to-market road has
been completed by Brown and
Root, the contractors. The road ex-
tends from the railroad crossing
in downtown Lolita to State High-
way 35 at Point Comfort and is a
distance of about 10 miles.—Edna
Herald.
LOW COST FINANCING;
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Ready for a new, or better car? We’ll help you get it!
Our personal loan department cuts out red tape,
gives you the money you need, usually in a matter of
minutes. And, you’ll appreciate the courteous, dig-
nified service we offer. . . Come in for full details!
THE CITY STATE BANK
OF PALACIOS
The Chamber of Commerce will
request a meeting of the City Coun-
cil, the Commissioners Court, the
Port Commission and the Calhoun
County Navigation District to con-
sider plans for a pleasure boat
harbor on Port Lavaca’s water-
front.—Port Lavaca Wave.
Another leak has been discovered
in the Edna High School gym,
this one caused by water seepage
from outside, not from indoor
plumbing. School board members
found water coming through the
northeast wall of the gym onto the
floor. It was only by chance that
You’d think the government still
needed scrap iron the way some
people drive.
Some wives are affectionate only *
when they want spending money
which really seems often enough!
Runyon CHIROPRACTIC Offices
OFFICE HOURS: 9 A. M. TO NOON — 2 TO 6 P. M.
—AIR CONDITIONED—
THE OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED TUESDAY
MORNINGS AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS
413 MAIN ST. PHONES: OFF. 5011; RES. 2901
—Good Health Doesn't Cost, It Pays!—
the seepage was found, since it oc-
curred at a place normally below
tlhe floor level. Since the top
two layers of wood floor had been
taken up, the water could be de-
tected.—Edna Herald.
Virtually complete, Calhoun
County’s harvest of maize averaged
well over 2,000 pounds per acre on
the estimated 35,000 to 40,000
acres devoted to the small grain
this year. The crop was slightly
(See “EXCHANGES,” Page 3)
DR. JACK KAHN
OPTOMETRIST
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PLAIN AND RELIGIOUS
DESIGNS
EL CAMPO MEMORIALS
CALL US — VISIT US — WITHOUT OBLIGATION
See our Big Display of Finished Markers and Monu-
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Between 400 and 500 Lions and
their Lionesses are scheduled to
be in El Campo the afternoon of
next January 27 for the annual
Mid-Winter Conference for District
2-S4. This event is second only to
the annual district convention in
importance.—El Campo Leader-
News.
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Every time another federal “publio power” proposal
goes through Congress, you are taxed to pay the bill.
Most people, according to national opinion polls,
don’t want the federal government in the electric
business. Yet everybody—including you—is taxed
to pay for such federal “public power.”
Already $5,500,000,000 of tax money from
you and other Americans has gone into this federal
“public power.” And now the “public power” pro-
moters are pushing hard for $10,000,000,000 more.
Is there a need for all this tax spending for
more and more “public power”? None at all — for
America’s independent electric light and power
companies — like Central Power and Light Com-
pany — are ready and able to provide all the low-
price electricity people will need without depend-
ing on your taxes.
These companies have doubled the supply of
electricity in the past 10 year1?, and will double the
present supply in the next 10.
Spending for more “public power” goes on
because most people don’t know about it. The best
way to stop it is to tell your friends and neighbors
what’s happening. As soon as enough people under-
stand, you can be sure something will be done to
halt this unnecessary spending.
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