Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946 Page: 3 of 8
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j reday, March 14,1946
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS. TEXAS
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FOR YOUR PROPERTY
FOR YOUR BUSINESS
FOR YOURSELF
H. C. (Howard) CAMPBELL
GENERAL INSURANCE
Corner 4th 4k Commerce Phones: Res. 103, Off. Ill
OLIVIA
Pvt. Clifton Frankson and his
mother. Mrs. Maynard Frankson of
Carancahua visited in the L. B.
Griffith home one day last week.
Vernon Damstrom went to Ly-
ford last Thursday to visit his uncle
Richard and fumily.
A wedding of interest to many
friends here In Olivia was perform-
ed at the Methodist Ghurch at Pa>
laclos a week ago Saturday when
Miss Katie Gene Sells became the
wife of Emmett Chiles Jr. of that
city. Miss Dorothy Anderson, a close
childhood friend of the bride was
her only attendant, and Norval
Sells served as best man. The par-
ents of the bride and groom were
the only ones present. Miss Lillian
Seals of the iMid-way section gave
a wedding shower for Miss Sells
pn Friday, March 1.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hardy of
Palacios visited the Oscar Johnson
family last Thursday and Friday.
Willis De Bord the latest veteran
discharged from here had a pleas-
his grandparents from Palacios, and
his brother and aunt from Califor-
nia came in to spend the day with
them.
A group of Olivia folks attended
an entertainment at the Carancahua
school house, Friday night Some
of the young folks took part on the
program.
Mr. and .'Mrs. Lenus Peterson
spent the day in Port Lavaca Sun-
day, attending Church services and
visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon and Mrs.
Walter Hodges of Victoria visited
in Olivia, Sunday. Mr. E. Wilson
went home with them for a short
visit and also to receive doctor
treatment there.
Mrs. Chas. Peterson who has been
in Galveston for the past six weeks
returned to her homo here Satur-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Haakln and
the Perry Haskin family spent the
day, Sunday, on a picnic in the Co-
lumbia River bottoms.
Mr. Victor Damstrom and Ger-
trude visited “Pep and Millie’’ at
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ant surprise last Thursday when | Port Lavaca, Sunday.
Will You Be the Firtt?
An Invitation to every Texan to
be the first to buy the 1946 Easter
Seals is extended by Bobby Htrbf-
son, seven, of Odessa. The thir-
teenth annual sale of Easter Seale
finances the work of the Texas So-
ciety for Crippled Children in the
location, medital treatment and re-
habilitation of Texas’ handicapped
youngsters. Bobby, who fully ap-
preciates the helping hand given
crippled little bodies, is undergoing
treatment provided at the Texai
Scottish-Rite Hospital In Dallas.
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America has grown to its present size
and stature only because of the success of
the partnership that exists between labor
and management. America will continue to
progress and to lead the world in industrial
accomplishments because of the character
and quality of this partnership.
Differences hare arisen between these
partners. But there have been differences
before, yet the relationship between them
grows steadily deeper and stronger through
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the years. For there comes a keener under-
standing of each other's problems and a
growing realization of their dependence one
upon the other.
Now is the time to take stock of the good
things and bad things about this partnership
whose continued success is essential to
every American. Now is the time to weed
out injustice, pettiness, greed and narrow
thinking ... so that this mighty partnership
will be an enduring tribute to the American
way of life.
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PRODUCERS OF CRUDE SULPHUR
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Texas Has Own Fleet of
62 Ships in World War II
Led by a remarkable old battle-
ship and a plucky aircraft carrier,
62 ships represented with honor the
state of Texas during World War
II.
The battleship TEXAS was the
biggest man-of-war in the group.
This was her second war, and she
fought in the toughest battles in
two hemispheres.
But the ship that usurped the
title of “flagship of the Texas
Navy" was the doughty carrier
SAN JACINTO, renowned through-
out the Pacific Fleet for her spirit
and devastating record against the
Japs. She atyrays flew the state
flag of Texas beneath the national
ensign. Early in her career she
began to call herself the “flagship
of Texas,” and the name stuck
Texas was further represented
by two hard-hitting cruisers, the
HOUSTON and GALVESTON, and
a handful of gunboats, all named
for cities in the state: the Browns-
ville, El Paso, Orange, Corpus
Christi, Beaumont, and City of Dal-
hart
The bulk of the Texas “fleet”
was composed of transports, hard-
working ships that hauled troops
and supplies over all the oceans,
fought off enemy air attacks, sail-
ed into range of shore fire, and did
it all' quietly and anonymously.
Such ships as these were the Du-
val, Hidalgo, Midland, Tarrant,
Starr, Uvalde, Montague, Clay,
Fayette, Knox, Lamar, Leon, Bris-
coe, Burleson, Dawson, Presidio,
Shelby, Hansford, Haskell, Ban-
dera, Bosque, Collingsworth, Cottle,
Crockett, Bowie, Dickens, Eastland,
Freestone, Grimes, Karnes, Lavaca,
Lubbock, Menard, Navarro, Ran-
dall, Rockwell, San Saba, McLen-
nan, Bexar, Cameron, and Nueces.
All were named for Texas counties,
Ten tankers, named for rivers,
sailed with Service Squadron 10,
the so-called “secret weapon” that
permitted the fleet to fuel and re-
plenish at sea and remain in action
for protracted periods of time. In
this group were the Brazos, Trinity,
Sabine, Guadalupe, Neches, Pecos,
Atascosa, Concho, Navasota, and
Rio Grande.
One other transport, the Mata
gorda, took its name from a Texas
bay.
The battleship Texas has been
known as a "shooting ship” for 30
years. She took to the seas in 1914,
the most deadly dreadnaught afloat
at that time. Soon after joining the
fleet her prowess in gunnery was
well-known to Navy men.
With the start of the first World
War, she sailed to Europe with oth-
er American battleships as protec-
tion against any naval maneuvers
that might be attempted by Ger-
many.
Between wars the Texas was
modernized, and she furthered her
shooting reputation. World War II
found her in the Atlantic, a veteran
of “neutrality patrols” across the
cold northern seaways. She contin-
ued to escort convoys across the
Atlantic until the North African
invasion. There her t4-inch rifles
pounded ammunition dumps, shore
installations, and Nazi troops.
Those big guns were needed for
the Normandy invasion, too. The
Texas approached Pont du Hoe, a
promontory just east of Grand
Camp, France, in the early hours of
the morning of June 6. 1944, and
conducted a pre-invasion bombard-
ment while standing 12,000 yards
from the beach. She literally de-
molished the promontory with 250
projectiles.
Only once in her long history
was the Texas damaged by the
enemy. It happened in June, 1944,
off Cherbourg, France. In company
with a force of battleships, she was
engaged in a three-hour gun duel
with German shore batteries. She
was straddled at least 30 times, and
finally hit by two shells. One struck
the top of the conning tower, and
the other penetrated the side of the
ship, but did not explode.
The Iwo Jima operation was in
progress when the Texas arrived
for duty in the Pacific. She bom-
barded the Japs there, and after a
short rest, moved to Okinawa tc
support that bloody invasion. There
she expended four complete ship-
loads of ammuntion. She shot down
one suicide plane unassisted and
helped bring down half a dozen
others. .
There probably was no prouder
ship in the fleet than the SAN
JACINTO. She began her fighting
life in May, 1944, and finished the
war at the gates of Tokyo.
She was given her name by the
citizens of Houston, Texas. When
the old cruiser Houston was lost
off Java in 1942, the citisens of
Houston held a bond-selling cam-
paign to raise money for a new
cruiser to carry that name. The
drive ended and enough bonds had
been sold not only to pay for a
cruiser but also for a light aircraft
carrier. The Navy Department ask-
ed Houstonians for a name, and
they gave it SAN JACINTO, which
commemorates the decisive struggle
in Texas’ battle for independence.
This fast, small carrier, which
had only a fraction of the number
of planes that were on the big car-
riers with whom she operated, de-
stroyed or damaged 712 Japanese
aircraft, sank or damaged six Jap
aircraft carriers, two battleships,
four cruisers, 10 destroyers, and
200,000 tons of auxiliaries, mer-
chant ships and small craft
She was subjected many times to
enemy suicide attacks. Torpedoes
once bracketed her stem and bow.
Kamikazes missed by less than a
plane’s length on three different
occasions. Her guns shot down 12
planes, and had afcAjsts on eight
others—more kills tn«ip any ship
of her class. v
As the war reached the relishing
stages, with the east carrierlbrces
roaming more or less unopposewteff
the Japanese coast, planes from tlL
San Jacinto evolved a technique for^i
“digging out” hidden aircraft. At
this time her task group commander
called her the “Little Giant," a new
nickname that her crew has per-
petuated.
She fought at Marcus, Wake, the
Marianas, Falaus, J-«vte, Luzon,
Iwo Jima. and Tokyo. Twice she
rode out tremendous typhoons. At
the end she was still fighting.
The only person ever known to
die of fallen arches was Samson.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946, newspaper, March 14, 1946; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725626/m1/3/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.