Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1986 Page: 4 of 12
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Page 4-Palacloe Beacon, Dec. 4,1986
20 YEARS AGO-1966
More than 400 members and
friends of the Texas Bay Fisher-
man’s Association attended the
second annual meeting at the
high school cafeteria Monday
night. State Senator William
(Bill) Patman was guest speaker.
Donald Washington was nam-
ed to the District 26-AAA All-
District offensive team:Thurman
Roy, Ben Blackburn and James
Henry, the defensive team. Sh-
arks receiving honorable mention
were Roland Jenkins, Gary Hunt-
er, Charles Polk and Dionicio
Luna.
Jodie Anthis, Janet Drastata,
Theresa Espinosa, Dorothy Ham-
lin, Barbara Harvey, Gary Hunt-
er, Robert Jackson and Dianne
Johs, members of the senior
class, qualified as candidates for
two $3000 college scholarships
given annually by Alcoa.
City Council tabled requests
from National Geophysical Co.,
inc. requesting survey on airport
From the Palacios Beacon Early Files
nd certificates to members <
ie local Ground Observer Post,
t’alacios played three men o
property and city streets.
25 YEARS AGO--1961
Palacios w^s a st-p nearer
deep water following a release
from the U.S. Army Engineer
Division recommending a chan-
nel 12 feet deep and 125 feet
wide extending from the main
channel of the Gulf Intra-Coastal
Waterway in Matagorda Bay to
the turning basin in Palacios.
At the City Council meeting
Monday night, action was delay-
ed on rate increase asked by
Houston Natural Gas and 30
permits for roof repair, rebuild-
ing and new construction were
approved.
Bruce Erekson(offensive back)
Terry Shelton and Terry Oglesby
(defensive backs) were named to
the District 26AA All-District
Team.
30 YEARS AGO-1956
Captain White of the Houston
Filter Center of the Ground
Observer Corps, will be in
Palacios Monday to award wings
and certificates to members of
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the District 26AA All-District
football team. They were Jack
Crawford and Paul Taylor on the
defensive team and Kenneth
Countryman on the offensive
team.
Eight area teams will be
competeing for honors in the
Second Annual Palacios Girls
Basketball Tournament Friday
and Saturday.
The City Council voted to
obtain a licensed surveyor to
make a survey as to obtain the
correct boundries as set aside by
the original plat of the City of
Palacios.
35 YEARS AGO -1951
After a small boy was bitten by
a vicious dog Sunday, the City
Council Monday night passed an
ordinance making it a misde-
meanor to allow a bad or vicious
dog to run at large punishable by
a $100 fine.
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three bands and two choruses
will present a concert Friday
night in the elementary school
auditorium. Band director was
A.O. McGuffie.
Harry Burghardt, linotype op-
erator for the Beacon, was one of
the season's first hunting casual-
ties wliwrtr charge from his
shotgun struck him in the leg
while hunting at John Merck’s
farm Saturday morning.
40 YEARS AGO-1946
The local V.F.W. Post voted to
sponsor a Senior Sea Scout unit.
Audry Sullivan sold his inter-
est in the Palacios Pharmacy to
Phillip Mannering.
45 YEARS AGO-1941
A group of local citizens were
in Houston trying to secure
contracts for the construction of
government boats here.
City Council refused the offer
made by the telephone company
to install a second-hand switch-
board until a new one could be
secured.
KAnreic Pronlr nf HDllctnfl hflH
accepted an invitation to be
emcee at the football banquet
held Dec. 15. ,
The City Council adopted
zoning laws at the meeting
Monday night and a seven
member commission was named
to formulate plans to govern
development.
50 YEARS AGO--1936
Coach Sullivan and his football
boys were guests of honor at the
Rotary luncheon. Captain of the
team, Chester Barrett, spoke
words of appreciation from the
Sharks.
Two businesses firms changed
ownership when Mrs. Mildred
Barr purchased the “Howdy"
from Mrs. Minnie Helander and
Mr's. Louise Sharp took Over the
City Fish Market from Mrs. Eva
Parsutt.
55 YEARS AGO-1931
R.E. Lindsey reported 20,038
bales of cotton ginned in the
county for the season up to Nov.
14.
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60 YEARS AGO-1926
Palacios hadja croquet ground
on which sevdaT lpads of shell
had been placed so vie many who
enjoyed the game could keep on
playing regardless of the weath-
er. S a ■ ■
The local agenty for the Pierce
Petroleum Co. was transferred
from W.A. Bailey to,John Fox.
Plans were undearway for the
construction of a filling station at
the corner of 4th and Ritchie.
65 YEARS AGO-1921
Asst. Scoutmaster Wm. Clem-
ent Jr. took the scouts for a
camping trip over the Thanks-
giving weekend.
J.F. Barnett, P.F. Campbell,
W.H. Clement and T.A. Bullock
went to Orange to attend the
convention of the Intra-Coastal
Canal Association.
The Economy Oil Co. of
Kentucky closed a deal for a
block of oil leases near Palacios.
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Texans favor cutting spending;
frown upon state income tax
When it comes to dealing with
the state’s budget problem,
Texans feel strongest about state
spending-cut it--and a state
income tax-forget it.
Those are the findings of a
survey conducted by the Institute
for Communications Research
(ICR) at Texas Tech University.
Survey participants were given
six options for dealing with the
state’s fiscal problems and more
than 75 percent favored cutting
state spending and opposed insti-
tuting a state income tax.
Other fiscal options put to the
387 Texas residents in a mail and
telephone survey during Septem-
ber and October included cutting
college and university spending,
increasing sales taxes, instituting
a state lottery and initating legal
parimutuel betting.
Participants were given the
fiscal options and asked how
strongly they agreed or dis-
agreed with them “in order to
reduce the state’s budget prob-
lem.”
Of the respondents, 75.3 per-
cent favored cutting state spend-
ing. Of those, 50 percent agreed
with the option and 25.3 percent
strongly agreed. Only 14 percent
did not favor state spending cuts
.while 10.7 percent of those
surveyed were unsure.
Though persons making above
$20,000 a year were more than
twice as likely as persons earning
less to favor a cut in state
government spending, persons in
all income categories approved a
spending reduction.
Males and females favored
spending cuts in comparable
percentages. And, comparison of
responses by education level, age
and length of residency in Texas
shows across the board support
for spending reductions.
Initiating a state income tax
was frowned on by 75.3 percent
of the respondents with 38.2
percent strongly disagreeing and
37.1 percent disagreeing it was a
viable option. Only 12.8 percent
favored a state income tax while
11.9 percent remained unsure.
While most respondents oppo-
sed a state income tax, the older
they were, the wealthier they
were or the longer they had
resided in Texas, the more
opposed they were to initiating
the tax.
The survey’s closest division of
opinion was over increasing the
state sales tax. On the issue 45.7
percent of the participants ag-
reed it should be increased while
45 percent disagreed with the
option. Another 9.2 percent
remained unsure.
Responses to increasing the
sales tax broke down by ege with
26.7 percent of those 45 and
under opposing it, compared to
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only 18.7 percent approving. By
contrast, 27.2 percent of those 46
and over favored increasing the
sales tax, compared to 18.4
percent opposing.
Though participants in the
survey favored cutting state
spending, they generally felt
those cuts should not come at the
expense of the state’s colleges
and universities. Only 17.5 per-
cent of the respondents favored
college and university cuts. By
contrast, 69 percent were against
cuts in higher education. Unsure
responses came from 13.5 per-
cent of the participants on the
option.
The greater the income, the
more likely respondents opposed
cutting college spending. Female
respondents were more likely to
oppose college spending reduc-
tions than male survey partici-
pants.
On issues related to gambling,
about two-thirds of the parti-
cipants approved of revenues
generated by those methods.
Some 66.6 percent favored a
state lottery and a slightly
smaller number, 62.7 percent,
liked parimutuel betting to gen-
erate funds. Only 21.9 percent of
those questioned opposed a
lottery and 28.2 percent opposed
horse race betting as a way to
reduce the state’s budget prob-
lem.
:Men favored the gambling
issues more than women, ln-
stituing a lottery drew favorable
responses from 70.9 percent of
the men and 63.2 percent of the
women. Horse betting was favor-
ed by 68.2 percent of the men
and 58.2 percent of the women.
Survey results were announced
by ICR Director H.J. Hsia. The
survey had a margin of error of
plus or minus five percent.
Letters To
The Editor
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Scouts thank participants
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Editor:
At this time the members of
Pack 3047 would like to take the
opportunity to thank all those
who participated in career
month.
Special thanks go to Vemer
Bowers, Jr., Rick Calhoun, Don
Lori to be missed at Library.
Editor:
For the past ten years a great
many in Palacios have come to
know im3:ap^ciate I^:lTwint.
During this time she has been
assistant librarian for the Pala-
cios library, Inc. Children and
young people, especially, have
come to love her for the many
programs she has involved them
in, particularly the summer read-
ing program. She has been the
creative driving force behind all
the children’s programs.
Lori is retiring at the end of
Gullett, Joe Houpt, Maxine
Kubecka and Jacques Moore.
It is through fine community
spirit that scouting is possible in
Palacios. Thanks again.
Cub Scouts Pack 3047
November from full time library
work. She will be missed by all
our library patrons, bv the staff
andUy the Hoard 6f Directors.1?
She has gone so many extra miles
oyer, the past ten years, there is
no way we can repay her.
When you next see Lori be
sure to say “Thank you, we’ll
miss you", as we on the Board
do.
R.G. Herlin
President for the Board of
Directors, Palacios Library, Inc.
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