Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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To Recall 150 Employees . . .
ALCOA Starts Barge
Shipments Of Bauxite
POINT COIMFORT.—The first
shipments of bauxite—the ore from
which aluminum is made—began
arriving by barge January 12 at
Aluminum Company of America’s
Point Comfort alumina refining
plant, according to A. B. Kalt-
wasser, works manager.
The bauxite is being transferred
from the ore carrier Avery C.
Adams to barges at the company’s
temporary transfer station near
the deep water channel at Port
Ajransas. The ore is then barged 70
miles through the intracoastal
canal and Matagorda Bay to Alcoa’s
newest and largest alumina refin-
ing plant at Point Comfort. The
alumina plant is scheduled to be-
gin processing this bauxite on Feb-
ruary 2.
The Adams, a 22,000 ton ore car-
rier leased by Alcoa Steamship
Company, arrived at Port Aransas
Friday loaded with bauxite from
Suriname, South America. Ship-
ments from new Alcoa mining op-
erations in the Dominican Republic
will begin later this month.
Alcoa built the ore transfer sta-
tion as a temporary expediency to
facilitate overseas bauxite ship-
ments until the Matagorda Ship
Channel, approved by Congress last
year, opens Point Comfort to ocean
traffic.
At the transfer station ore ships
berth alongside two floating barge
cranes, each capable of moving 350
tons of bauxite every hour.
The cranes transfer the bauxite
from the holds of the carriers to
Only One-Fourth
01 Motorists Have
Inspection Slicker
AUSTIN.—The Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety warned mo-
torists of the inconveniences of a
last-minute rush at safety inspec-
tion stations before the deadline,
April 15.
More than 3,000,000 of the 4,-
000,000 Texas motor vehicles have
yet to receive their 1959 safety
inspection sticker.
In urging motorists to “do their
safety shopping early" and avoid
the rush at the 4,400 inspection sta-
tions, the safety department warn-
ed that those who fail to do so will
be subject to traffic summons after
April 15. The average cost of the
safety inspection since the pro-
gram began six years ago is $1.19
for needed repairs and $1 for the
inspection fee.
The inspection stations check
such items as brakes, lights, horns,
mirrors and windshield wipers and
have found that 39 per cent of the
vehicles have needed some adjust-
ment or repair.
Col. Homer Garrison, Jr., di-
rector of the safety department,
said this is an improvement over
the general condition of motor ve-
hicles six years ago when the in-
spection program began. At that
time more than 50 per cent needed
repairs.
“We hope that owners of motor
vehicles will take advantage of
the inspection facilities now and
avoid the inconveniences of waiting
in line as the April 15 deadlirie ap-
proaches,” Colonel Garrison said.
“This safety factor is important to
safe driving on our streets and
highways—and that is -Our goal.”
Veterans Groups Make
Change In Meetings
Both Greenwood-Curtis Post No.
476 of The American Legion and
Lt. Wm. Lloyd Queen Post No.
2467 of The Veterans of Foreign
Wars voted at their last regular
meetings to hold only one business
meeting per month in 1959. The
Legion meets on the second Thurs-
day of each month and the V.
F. W. on the first Tuesday.
Both organizations voted to hold
social meetings in the latter part
of each month jointly with the
other Post together with both Aux-
iliaries. All veterans and their
families arc invited to stttend these
social meetings whether or not they
are members. A covered dish sup-
per is planned for later in Jan-
uary—the date to be announced.
Plan to attend and spend the even-
ing playing games of your choice.
Dominoes, checkers, chess and card
games will be available.
Both Posts have appointed com-
mittees to study the need for and
’■the practicability of sponsoring
.'jointly an Explorer Post of the
- Boy Scout* of America. Boys in-
terested in such an organization
and adults willing to participate in
sponsoring of an Explorer Post are
requested, to contact Ronald Harris,
joint chairman from both veteran
groups, phone 5171.
2500-ton capacity barges for the
twenty hour trip to Point Comfort.
Federal Barge Lines of Houston
has the contract for transporting
the bauxite from Aransas Pass to
Alcoa’s docks.
Mr. Kaltwasscr said the trans-
fer operation of the Adam’s baux-
ite cargo from Port Aransas to
Point Comfort will require two to
three days. The barges are being
unloaded by the gantry cranes at
the alumina plant ore dock, which
will eventually be used by the
ore carriers when deep water is
available at Point Comfort.
To man the start-up of alumina
operations Alcoa is recalling ap-
proximately 150 employees laid off
when the company’s smelting op-
erations were reduced several
months ago.
When in full operation, the new
alumina refining plant will provide
jobs for more than 600 people. The
operation’s ultimate cost will be
$45-million, and the plant is so
designed as to make possible a
future doubling of its capacity.
GRASSY POINT
By LORRAINE BASFORD
There is an area of the year
round world of sport fishing that
badly needs a woman’s touch. Not
a tender touch. A tough, fist-like
touch. That area is conservation
and all of the related matters that
the word covers.
But aren’t women already quite
active there? To be sure, many
are. They chime i»to the discus-
sions of many of our most active
angling clubs. They play a vital
role in conservation groups such
as the Izaak Walton League, the
Wilderness society, and so forth.
They are, in short, quite active
right alongside of the men folk
in such groups. No, that’s not the
area that needs their touch, their
angling touch, their conservation
touch.
What the poor male angler bad-
ly needs is to have the influence of
women anglers felt more definitely
in those amazing, sometimes mad-
dening, (almost always to the male)
baffling bastions of power known
in this country as ‘Women’s Clubs.’
Before laughing or chuckling, pause
to ponder an awesome fact. The
pressure of organized women in
this country has been held respon-
sible for everything from victories
in stock proxy battles to elections,
to weird changes even in the mili-
tary service. For some reason, the
comparison of a mixed pressure
group with an all-woman group is
very often akin to the comparison
of a Model T with a Deisel loco-
motive.
In a New England state, for in-
stance, all of the pleas of regular
sportsman clubs regarding water
pollution went unheeded, or nearly
so. Then the girls got busy. The
streams suddenly became a prime
matter of political interest and a
clean-up campaign went into high
gear.
There is another point in this.
When regular conservation socie-
ties, angling clubs or other sports-
man groups make a fuss for or
about an issue, some politicians
may feel that the arguments are
too familiar, too predictable.
Let a woman’s group, out of
the blue as it were, begin to ham-
mer away at some politicians’ con-
sciousness on a conservative mat-
ter, and he is likely to perk up and
take notice. The effect is to sud-
denly confront him with the fact
that what might have seemed like
specialized arguments are sudden-
ly being tossed at him from a
quarter that strongly suggests gen-
eral voting interest. The stimula-
tion effect that this might have on
certain political nervous systems
could be wonderful to behold.
Perhaps the only thing wrong
with all of this is that it does
smack of an unsportsmanlike at-
titude. So long as politicians con-
tinue to hear most of the argu-
ments regarding conservation in
the same familiar male tones, they
at least have a chance to say no.
The same arguments voiced by a
few million women could make the
chance to say no as remote as the
chance indeed, to say anything un-
til the ladies made their point.—
Editorial from Fisherman’s Maga-
zine.
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If you tow an outboard run-
about from your cabin cruiser for
week end camping trips or other
fishing purposes, be sure your boat
pulls evenly so it is not difficult
to handle.
This will help even the pull-
put a towing eye (%-inch eye bolt)
(See "FISHING,” Page 4)
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Wharton County Tops
Oil Activity In Area
Anderson & Cooke's No. 1 T. P.
Jones north of Louise in the Mene-
fee area has been finaled for an
absolute open flow of 2,050,000 cubic
feet of dry gas daily from produc-
tions at 4,562-67 feet, registering
a shut-in tubing pressure of 1,545
pounds and a bottom-hole shut-in
pressure of 1,710 pounds. Total
depth is 5,546 feet.
Meanwhile, testing operations
were last reported for six other
Wharton County ventures: Inland
Oil & Gas Company’s No. 1 M. P.
Wilbeck southwest of Pierce in the
Pickett Ridge area, Texas Com-
pany’s 98-B Pierce Estate at Mag-
net-Withers, and Moroil’s Nos. 1-
2-3-4 Floyd Estate at Boling.
North of New Taiton, Acco Oil
& Gas Company’s No. 2 M. S. Pry-
or was waiting on a potential test.
Dry and abandoned at Boling
were Texas Gulf Sulphur Com-
pany’s Nos. 7 and 9 W. J. Woytek,
the former only 417 feet and the
later at only 524 feet.
More late drill reports, field-by-
Want An Oil Well!
Can Be Profitable,
May Be Expensive
Did you ever say, “I wish I had
an oil well?’’
Most of us have. For oil, gush-
ing out of the graund, has become
a symbol of big money.
Great fortunes, of course, have
been made in oil. But the propor-
tion of successes is a great deal
smaller than most people think.
For one thing, finding oil is an
extremely expensive and risky
business. A large majority of wells
turn out dry. Huge sums of money
have been sunk in the ground and
will stay there forever, returning
nothing.
That isn’t all. Petroleum Week
has carried a special report on
problems now confronting oil. Ac-
cording to it, in the oil industry’s
coming fight for profits, the vic-
tors will be those with the sharp-
est competitive weapons—the new-
est and most efficient drilling rigs,
refineries, pipelines and service
stations.
Industry leaders surveyed by the
magazine said the main need to-
day is not for more tools—it is for
better tools. This year will go on
record as one the U. S. oil industry
spent polishing its tools and tech-
niques for the rough competition
that is expected in the 1960’s. Mod-
ernization will be the big word—
in drilling gear and methods, in
the refineries, in transportation by
the pipelines.
That phrase “rough competition"
pretty well tells the story in itself.
There’s nothing easy, nothing sure,
nothing simple, about the oil busi-
ness-today.
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Co. T.B. Assn. Board
To Meet January 22
The meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of IMatagorda County Tu-
berculosis Association scheduled for
Thursday, January 15th, has been
postponed until Thursday, Janu-
ary 22nd.
A very interesting and enlight-
ening program is being planned and
it is hoped that all can attend this
meeting at 7:30 p. m. at the Ser-
vice center in Bay City.
field, area-by-area:
l’alacios — Tidewater Oil Com-
pany reported completion data for
No. 1 P. A. Richman, et al, from
the Frio “E" sand at 8,878-8,884
feet: 15,800,000 cubic feet of gas
plus 139 barrels of 58.7-gravity
distillate daily on absolute open
flow, the gas-liquid ration being
38,100-1, shut-in tubing pressure
3,378 pounds. Total depth is 8,928
feet with seven-inch pipe set at
total depth. . . . Christie, Mitch-
ell & (Mitchell’s No. 1 Otto Frick
Unit, bottomed at 9,075 feet, was
last reported testing, as was Rus-
(See “OIL ACTIVITY," Page 8)
Brooking Elected
President 01 Bank
A meeting of the stockholders of
The City State Bank of Palacios
was held Thursday, January 8 when
G. T. Brooking, M. M. Brooking, T.
S. Brandon, R. B. Trull and P. R.
Hamill were re-elected directors
for another term.
M. M. Brooking was elected presi-
dent of the bank, succeeding his
father, M. T. Brooking, who die
recently. Other officers elected
were T. S. Brandon, inactive vice-
president; Mrs. Bemeice Bolen,
cashier; Stillmarr .Winfield, assist-
ant cashier.
The bank showed a total re-
source of $2,999,599.11 at the bank
call December 31, 1958.
C. Of C. Women
Complete Plans
For Grid Banquet
Plans are near completion for
the third annual Football Banquet
to be held next Monday evening,
January 19 in the Junior High
Cafeteria honoring the Palacios
Sharks of 1958 and their coaches.
The banquet, sponsored by the
Women’s Division of the Chamber
of Commerce, fe for all boosters of
the Sharks and sports fans.
Tickets to the affair are $1.50
each and will be on sale through
Sunday. If you have not yet got-
ten yours you are advised to con-
tact Mrs. Pat Raplee, Mrs. Esther
Smith or George Holst at the Jun-
ior High School.
Dap Rather, sports announcer
and news broadcaster for KTRH
Houston, will be guest speaker.
At The Bayview
Patients In Hospital:
Mrs. M. S. Winfield, Mrs. R. D.
Chamblee, Rev. Dave Hughes, Mrs.
G: W. Gallien and baby girl, Mrs.
R. L. Price, Albeno Ybarra, Robert
Hendricks, John Beard, Mrs. G. W.
Benham, G. W. Benham, Stella Ann
Nelson.
Patients Dismissed:
Genero Cano, Lupc Cano, Jerome
Kovar, Pete Rocha, H. A. Bales, A.
F. Greenawalt, Mrs. A. A. Penland,
Robert Phillips, E. H. Abraham,
Eugene Barnes, Mrs. Eugene
Barnes.
There is not one single authenti-
cated record of the earth’s having
opened up and swallowed anyone
or anything during an earthquake.
FREEDOM FIRST
“I love America, and I
don't want to live anywhere
else. . . I feel so many Amer-
icans don’t appreciate it. . .”
These words were not from
the lips of a person wanting
to make over everybody and
everything; they were spoken
by a beautiful refugee Ro-
manian girl. Her childhood
record included starvation,
floggings, three gun wounds
while being used for target
practice in prison camps in-
cluding Dachau.
This girl and her family,
including a brother in the
Air Force, are not finding it
easy to make a living in this
country, but they put the
right to be free ahead of
everything else.
We should never forget or
belittle the right every Amer-
ican has to be free. This free-
dom should not be forgotten
when pressure groups, in or
out of government, seek to
submerge the individual un-
der mass regimentation. In-
fringements on individual op-
portunity can destroy the
America the Romanian girl
loves. The right to work, the
right to vote, the right to
worship, the right to speak,
are not just trick slogans—
they mean liberty.
Time For Everyone
To Start Full-Time
Safely Program
AUSTIN.—“The arrival of the
New Year is the signal for Texas
communities to take a good, hard
look at their traffic safety picture,
and make a realistic appraisal of
their safety efforts.”
This statement was made, today,
by J. O. Musick, General Manager
of the Texas Safety Association, as
he discussed community responsibil-
ity in the state’s overall traffic
program.
“Many towns and cities are al-
ready engaged in a fulltime safety
program for its citizens. And, in
town after town the story is the
same: Wherever vigorous action is
taken, traffic accidents are reduced.
“The conclusion is obvious. We
can lick our state’s traffic accident
problems by community-action,”
Musick said.
The safety expert said he thought
Texas was headed in the “right
direction” in its traffic accident
program, and that when final fig-
ures are in for the twelve months
of 1958, he believed the state could
show at least a six percent reduc-
tion in total traffic fatalities.
This would amount to a savings
of about 152. lives, since 2,539 per-
sons were killed in traffic accidents
during 1957.
Musick credited this improve-
ment to more widespread, commun-
ity interest in local accident pre-
vention programs.
Deutschburg Seafood
Supper Will Benefit
March Of Dimes Drive
‘ Thdfe'will be a Seafood Supper
served at the Deutschburg Com-
munity Center on Saturday, Jan-
uary 17 for the benefit of the
March of Dimes. Serving will be-
gin at 6 p.m. and plates will sell
for $1.00 for adults and 75c for
children. A cake auction will be
held after the supper.
Everyone is cordially invited to
come and partake of the delicious
food and suport the March of
Dimes. All proceeds will go to
Jackson and Matagorda counties.
Change In Name Only . . .
Formerly CAA-How Known As Federal Aviation Agency
On January first, with the be-
ginning of this new year and a new
era in. aviation, the newly created
Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)
took over the facilities, functions,
and personnel of the Civil Aero-
nautics Administration.
For twenty years, the CAA en-
joyed the cooperation of . the avia-
tion industry in general and of
flight enthusiasts both in and out
of the industry as well. This mu-
tual development of aviation and
dedication to safety of flight has
resulted in phenomenal growth and
our leadershhip in world aviation.
You are to be congratulated.
A new era is upon us. Carrying
some 42 million passengers last
year, civil airline are recognized
as the principal long-haul passen-
ger carriers; the vast armada of
65,000 U. S. private and business
aircraft outflew the domestic air-
lines by more than one million
hours; and U. S. military air power
is recognized as the most formid-
able guardian of our security.
Cognizant of this impressive ree.
ord, the entry of the civil jet air-
liner into regular service, and the
unprecedented rise in air traffic,
the Congress created the authori-
tative Federal Aviation Agency to
give guidance to the new era. The
President appoin ad E. It. Quesada,
a veteran of 34
of aviation expe
consecutive years
■fence, as Admin-
istrator of the new agency, and
James T. Pyle, formerly head of
CAA, as Deputy Administrator.
Essentially, in addition to en-
couraging and fostering the de-
velopment of. civil aviation, the
FAA will have the task of mod-
ernizing the Federal Airways, di-
recting air traffic control of civil
and military aircraft, controlling
the allocation of the diminishing
airspace, and both issuing and en-
forcing air safety rules.
There’s a big job ahead for us
aid we of the FAA need your
strong help and cooperation. ;We
feel confident of your support and
look forward to many years of
fruitful association.
President Announces
C. Of C. Committees
Directors of the Palacios Cham-
ber of Commerce voted to rejoin
the Intra-Coastal Canal Associa-
tion at their regular meeting held
Tuesday night.
President Norman E. Runyon an-
nounced his appointment of com-
mittees and the chairmen at the
meeting.
The Chamber will sponsor Miss
Marion Wilson as a candidate in
the Harmonie Club’s Valentine
Sweetheart race.
Committees appointed by Presi-
dent Runyon follows:
Agriculture: Myron Spree, Chair-
man, Billy Hamlin, Billy Halfin,
Frank Stewart, Jack Partain and
Victor Kahlich.
Education & Recreation; Ralph
Newsom, Chairman, and R. B.
Trull.
Finance: Fred Huitt, Chairman,
L. A. House and C. H. Chatham.
Highway: George L. Harrison,
Chairman, J. A. Partain, Jack Mad-
dox, A. H. Petersen and R. B. Trull.
Hospital: S. W. Wilson, Chair-
man, Dr. E. B. Sanford, Dr. L. A.
Wilcox, Ralph Newsom, George
Harrison, Jimmy Hayes, Mary
King, Dr. John Hart, R. B. Trull
and A. II. Petersen.
Industrial: Irvin Petersen, Chair-
man, J. C. Richards, Jack Maddox,
Robert H. Neeley, A. H. Petersen
and A. Rioux.
If you are one of those who failed
to send in your contribution for
TB Christmas Seals, please do so
today.
Rotarians Appoint
Contest Committee
For Hospital Name
, President Claud Chastain ap-
pointed a committee at the Rotary
meeting Wednesday noon to work
out rules and to take charge of
a contest to name the new county
hospital to be built in Palacios.
The club voted $50 for prize money.
The rules and instructions for sub-
mitting a name for the new hos-
pital will appear in the Be con
next week.
Dr. John Hart brought the pro-
gram and spoke on the “Hustler”,
Convair B-68, new plane which is
predicted to be the main line of
defense in the near future. Dr.
Hart in quoting President Eisen-
hower's statement that some planes
were worth their weight in gold
said that the “Hustler” was actual-
ly more expensive per pound than
gold.
The "Hustler” was put on the
drawing board about 1953 and was
flown three years later, Nov. 11,
1956. A short time as compared
with about 6 years on the drawing
boards for most planes.
Among the many outstanding
features of this plane is its ability
to fly at supersonic speeds over a
period of time. Most planes can
fly at these speeds for only a few
seconds or minutes at most. The
“Hustler” has flown at supersonic
speeds for VA hours. The plane
undergoes extremely high tempera-
tures at this speed. It has a cool-
ing system capable of cooling a
30 story office building.
Visitors at the meeting were Bill
Massey, John Vail, V. R. Good and
Bob Anderson, Port Lavaca; Cecil
Kinard, El Campo; Frank Seerden
and J. K. Kainer, Houston; Jess
'Williams and Gene Taylor, Bay
City; and Jimmy Hayes, Palacios.
COUNTY ATTORNEY TO VISIT
County Attorney Fred Holub will
be at the County building on Com-
merce Street Wednesday, January
21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to accomo-
date those who find it impossible to
see him in Bay City.
C. James Proud, president of the
Advertising Federation of Amer-
ica, says: “Government officials
who seek to tax advertising are
like amateurs who try to remove
an appendix. They are very apt
to lose the patient. It is important
to remember that advertising has
traditionally been considered a cost
of doing business, and not a pro-
duct in itself. All businesses us-
ing advertising pay their fair and
full share of taxes.”
Membership: Mrs. Patricia Rap-
lee, Chairman, C. H. Chatham, S.
D. Barber, Jack Partain and Irvin
Petersen.
Municipal Improvement: Mary
Dismukes, Chairman, Mrs. Patricia
Raplee, Mrs. Esther Smith.
Legislative: Eli Mayfield, Chair-
man, Ralph Newsom, Robert H.
Parker, Charles H. Faktor and
Billy Halfen.
Publicity: Jesse V. Dismukes,
Chairman, Mrs. Jack Basford, and
Charles H. Faktor.
Tourist Development: S. D. Bar-
ber, Chairman, Irvin Petersen, Carl-
ton Crawford, M. M. Brooking and
J. L. Koerber, Jr.
Waterways; Earnest 'Whhmeyer,
Chairman, Eli Mayfield, Carlton
Crawford, Ralph P. Newsom, L. G.
Margerum.
Welfare: Billy Hamlin, Chair-
man, Mrs. Pearl Koontz.
Boating & Fishing: Hugh Wal-
lace, Chairman, Buddy Crawford
and M. M. Brooking.
Rate Adjustment
Allowed Light Co.;
Gas Hike Is Tabled
At a called meeting of the City
Council Thursday night the pro-
posed rate increase asked by the
Houston Natural Gas Corporation
was tabled, however, the council
did approve the rate adjustment
offered by the Central Power and
Light Company.
The gas company’s proposal was
tabled until the next regular meet-
ing of the council when a full s»-rr
tendance of the councilmen was
hoped for.
Central Power and Light Com-
pany has revised its residential
electric rate schedule to eliminate
the demand feature. Under the
new rate, the cost of service to
some customers will be lower and
in no instance will the cost for
any number of kilowatt hours be
increased.
Under the new rate residential
customers will be billed entirely on
a volume of use basis, without
regard to capacity requirements.
Watt hour meters having demand
registers already installed may re-
main in use for a period until oth-
er meters are available, but de-
mand measurement will no longer
have any effect upon the custom-
er’s electric bill.
The new schedule also reduces
the lowest step of the winter use
rate to IV* cents per kilowatt
hour, making the 1% cent step
applicable the year round to all
residential use over 10,000 kilo-
watt hours per month.
Coastal Transmission
Corp. Seeks Permit For
8-Inch Pipeline In Co.
Coastal Transmission Corpora-
tion, 520 Bank of Commerce Build-
ing, Houston 2, Texas has made
application to the U. S. Army En-
gineer District, Galveston, for a
permit to place an 8-inch pipe line
across the creek at Peyton’s Creek,
at a location approximately 1 mile
northeast from Texas Highway
521 bridge across the creek and
VA miles east from Wadsworth,
Matagorda County, Texas.
The pipe line would be placed a
minimum of three feet below the
bed of the creek. According to the
plans submitted the creek had a
width of approximately 146 feet
and a maximum depth of 22 feet
at the stage prevailing on Jan-
uary 1, 1959. The spoil from the
crossing would be placed on shore.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEACON
The Weather
Date
Max. Min.
Free.
Jan. 6
58° 39”
0.13
Jan. 7
65* • 53°
0.30
Jan. 8
60° 40“
trace
Jan, 9
47“ 33*
0.00
Jan. 10
68“ 32“
o;oo
Jan. 11
70“ 43“
0.00
Jan. 12
69“ 57“
0.00
Jan. 13
73“ 54“
0.00
Total rainfall for year: 0.48
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