Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1978 Page: 1 of 8
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City ask
hew building
permit code
Hlevation approval on build-
ing permits for Arnold Serna
and Mr. Stonedale were grant-
ed a trailer park license for
Michael Viets approved at the
M%h 20th meeting of the
Palacios City Council.
Mr. Serna’s building permit
to construct a garage in an
area which is below the 14 ft.
level was approved as was Mr.
Stonedale's permit to con-
stat a porch and sun room.
A™zoval was also given Mi-
chael Viets for a trailer park at
the corner of Fourth and
Moore.
In other action, a motion
Highest
rating
£or band
■?/ie Palacios High School
Band was awarded a Division I
(Superior) rating in Sight-
Reading at the recent Inter-
scholastic competitioh held at
Industrial High School.
Although the band has
reived several trophies in
concert and marching, this is
the first time the band has
been given the coveted Sight-
Reading plaque.
All three judges awarded
the band the highest rating
possible. The judges com-
muted on the fine discipline
and appearance of the band.
The students’ concentration
while instructions were given
by director of bands Manuel
Garza, Jr. was also noted.
The Junior High School
Bo^d competes on April 12 at
SiJPeny.
Pasture,
beef tour
is slated
Persons interested in learn-
ing more about pasture and
beef cattle research-particu-
larly as it applies to the coastal
arcs of Texas-will want to
at*; id the program and open
house April 20 at the Texas
A&Kt University Agricultural
Research Station at Angleton.
Tours of research pastures
and plots are scheduled from 3
to 5 p.m. and will be followed
by barbecue dinner and
evdling program, announces
Marvin E. Riewe, professor in
charge of the Experiment
Station at Angleton.
Four tour stops are planned,
he said, and research results
will be presented at each site.
Cc&tity agricultural agents of
DisTrict 11, under the leader-
ship of Dr. O.B. Clifton,
district Extension agent, will
assist in conducting the tours.
Boy Scout
barbecue
fund raiser
The Boy Scouts of America
of J'roop 400 of Olivia and
Tt*p 109 of Point Comfort to
have joint venture.
The fund raising Bar-B-Que
will be to help acquire equip-
ment and supplies to help
teach the boys of our commu-
nities the true meaning of
sorting and help make better
leaders for our great country.
The Bar-B-Que will be held
at the Point Comfort Boat club,
Point Comfort, Texas.
They will serve Bar-B-Que
Beef and Pork with all the
trimmings for $2.50 per plate.
R-rving time will be from
11 a.m. til 2 p.m. Saturday,
April 8, 1978.
was passed to have City
Attorney Eli Mayfield draw up
a new building permit ordi-
nance, city reports were ac-
cepted and bills totalling
$7,122.50 okayed for payment.
Mayor Elliott told the coun-
cil members that he was still
waiting to hear from Commis-
sioner G.L. (Bill) Harrison to
see if the county would be able
to help the city by digging pits
at the landfill. Councilman
Howard suggested contacting
Mr. Harrison and calling a
special meeting of the council.
Councilman Heard asked to
have Hilbert Morales check
the sewer line between 10th
and 11 streets on Lucas. He
was told this would be
checked.
Council agreed to have
Hilbert Morales spread shell
in the alley on Humphrey be-
tween 10th and 11th streets.
The utilities were not in the
alley as first thought.
Paul Peters again ques-
tioned the council on the Bay
Vue Mobile Home Park im-
provements. Mayor Elliott as-
sured him that Clayton Lee,
the owner, was working on the
improvements at the mobile
home park.
Present at the meeting were
Mayor Cliff Elliott, Council-
men Johnnie Heard, Jim Ho-
ward and Ray Garza, City
Attorney Eli Mayfield, Recor-
der Andrea Ellis and visitors
Jess Kesseler, Erich Brenner,
Mr. and Mrs. John Castner,
Joy Richey, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Peters, Trinidad Constan-
cy 111, Jack Dooley, Leonard
Lamar and Sylvester Polk Jr.
Little
League
to meet
There will be a meeting of
all parents of boys and girls
planning to participate in the
Texas Mid-Coast Little League
(Palacios-Blessing) this season
Friday night at 7 p.m. at the
Palacios Library.
All persons interested in the
continuation of Little League
should attend this important
meeting. Officers for the com-
ing year will be elected,
registration and try-out dates
set.
The past few years the
program has been hampered
by the iack of people who are
interested in the program and
those who are willing to work.
If the Little League program is"
to continue, it is imperative
that you attend the meeting
Friday night.
Hornets
win big
in track
After winning first place in
the Industrial Track Meet with
158 points and first place in
the Van Vleck Track Meet with
an impressive 238 points, the
7th grade Hornets kept the
winning spirit alive once more
as they won first place in the
Ralph P. Newsom Relays with
139 points.
Those placing in the events
were as follows:
1st in the 440 relay and 5th
in the 880 relay were Henry
Serna, Robert Sanchez, Mark
Rodriguez and Leroy Jewell.
70 yd. high hurdle: 1st Larry
Perez; 2nd, K.D. Crowell.
880 yd. run: 4th, Rudy
Constancio.
100 yd. dash: 3rd Leroy
Jewell; 4th, Brian Streams;
6th Eloy Garcia.
440 yd. dash: 2nd Craig
Jewell; 3rd, Rudy Constancio.
300 Int. Hurdle' 5th, Larry
see page 3
VOLUME 71 NUMBER 14
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PALACIOS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1978
EIGHT PAGES
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SCENES OF PLANE CRASH that occurred Friday, July 13,
1928, In downtown Palacios, in which three persons lost their
lives.
Girls make
all-district
Linda Landers of Tidehaven,
Sharon Kacer of Ganado a..d
Jackie Sohrt of Louise were
unanimous picks for the girls
26-A All-District baske’oall
team selected by the coaches.
Seniors Landers and Kacer
were unanimous selections as
guards along with seniors
Cynthia Davis of Royal and
Allison LeCompte of Danbury.
Other first team guards select-
ed were Evelyn Andrews of
Royal, Debbie Bullock of In-
dustrial and Sheila Vajdos of
Louise.
Sohrt, a junior, was a
unanimous choice as the first
team forward along with junior
Barbara Small of Royal and
senior Sherry Burney of Dan-
bury. The other forwards
named were senior Linda
Savage of Tidehaven, junior
Linda Shelton of East Bernard
and junior Marilyn Mayberry
of Danbury.
Named forwards on the
second team were Sherry
Brown of Tidehaven, Judy
Edwards of Industrial, Monica
Tegeler of Ganado, Kathy
Johnson of Royal and Donna
Janecka of Brazos.
The second team guards
were Margaret Dannel of
Tidehaven, Cynthia Stewart of
Ganado, Donna Kutach of
Industrial, Beverly Lakes of
Royal and Sandy Frank of
Danbury.
Dee Ann Frick and Vanessa
Price of Tidehaven and An-
nette Galow of Ganado were
picked as honorable mention
forwards while the guards
were Lee Ann Seale of Indus-
trial, Cheryl Zgarba of Dan-
bury and Kathy Veselka of
Louise.
WEATHER
City, school
votes Saturday
Qualified voters of the City
of Palacios and the Palacios
Independent School District
will go to the polls Saturday,
April 1, to cast their votes for a
mayor, three members of the
council and two school trus-
tees.
For Palacios voters, both
elections will be held at the
City Hall. Voting boxes for
school trustees will also be at
the Deutschburg Community
Center in Deutschburg for
persons living in the Caranca-
hua - Deutschburg - Midway
area and at the Mopac House
in Collegeport.
BBQ awaits
local voters
Saturday is Election Day—it
is also the day the Palacios
Volunteer Fire Department
holds its barbecue.
Members of the department
will begin serving at 11 a.m. in
the fire station, the building
south of the city hall. Tables
will be set up for those
wanting to eat there, or you
can get plates to take home.
The plates will include juicy,
savory beef brisket barbecue
with all the trimmings and will
sell for $2.75 each.
An annual affair for several
years, the barbecue on Elec-
tion Days and the fire seal
campaign in October are the
projects the department has
for raising money to purchase
new and needed life saving
and fire fighting equipment.
Your support of these projects
in the past has helped to make
*******
VOTE
| SATURDAY!
*******
Luna promoted
it one of the best equipped
departments in the state for a
city the size of Palacios. But
equipment doesn’t last forever
and each year some has to be
replaced.
Day or night, in all kinds of
weather, the fire boys are
ready to help you if you need
them, now it is your turn to
help them by supporting their
barbecue.
Not only will you enjoy a
delicious meal but you will be
helping your fire department
purchase equipment you may
need some day.
Polls will be open from 7
а. m. to 7 p.m.
A mayor and members of
the council for Position 1, 2
and 4 are to be elected in the
City Election.
Mayor Cliff Elliott, seeking
re-election is being opposed
for the seat by T.J. (Jack)
Dooley.
Two candidates have filed
for Position 1 on the council,
they are incumbent Ivan Naj-
var and Trinidad Constancio.
Dr. James Howard, who was
appointed to the council sever-
al months ago, is running
unopposed for Position 2.
The race creating the most
interest is for Position 4, the
post being vacated by Kenneth
Smith, who recently resigned.
Filing for the 1-year remaining
of his term are Leonard Lamar,
Joy Richey, Jess Kesseler,
Dennis E. Smith and Manuel
Tobias.
Trustees for Position 6 and 7
on the school board will also be
elected,
W.A. (Billy) Stuhrenberg,
seeking re-election to Position
б, is being contested for the
seat by A.J. Hebert. Dan
Tucker is the only candidate to
file for Position 7, the post now
held by Jimmie Smith, who is
not seeking re-election.
Top citizens
to be named
DATE
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Rainfall
for the
year
8.98
Plane
crash
recalled
These pictures of the plane
crash of Friday, July 13, 1928,
that fell in the middle of the
street in the 300 block of
Commerce were sent by G.C.
Branum of Houston with the
enclosed note.
“My father, W.C. Branum,
and I were in the Luther Hotel
(then called the Palacios Ho-
tel, I believe) at the time of the
plane crash mentioned in your
recent articles.
Dad grabbed his camera and
we arrived at the scene as the
fire department was putting
out the flames.
I was 13 at the time and the
horror of the crash was
indelibly printed in my memo-
ry, particularly since 1 had
spent many hours with Dad
flying in his plane over the
area in connection with our
summer home and his real
estate development on Caran-
cahua Bay."
The U.S. Air Force has
promoted Edward Luna, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dionicio Luna
Sr. of 802 Lucas St., Palacios,
to the rank of staff sergeant.
Sergeant Luna is serving at
Bitburg AB, Germany, as an
inventory management spe-
cialist.
The sergeant is a 1969
graduate of Palacios.
Whimsical remarks, sweet
music, good food and recogni-
tion of two outstanding citi-
zens will highlight the annual
Palacios Chamber of Com-
merace banquet Thursday,
April 6, at the Palacios Recrea-
tion Center beginning at 7
p.m.
C.O. Shaw, a humorist
associated with the Toastmas-
ters Club of Houston, will be
the guest speaker. Musical
entertainment will be provided
by the Palacios High School
Stage Band and Choir.
Highlighting the affair will
be the naming of the Man and
Woman of the Year.
Tickets are $5 per person
and can be purchased at the
Chamber of Commerce office
in the city hall or from any
member of the chamber.
No runoff
The City Attorney says
that state law does not provide
for cities our size to hold
run-off elections.
Therefore, the candidate
receiving the highest number
of votes will be declared the
winner in the Place 4 Alder-
man’s race.
School to replace
five at Tidehaven
Members of the Tidehaven
Independent School -District
board of trustees will meet
Friday in executive session
Friday to begin filling the
vacancies on the Tidehaven
High School faculty after the
resignation of five of its
members.
The resignations of the five
were requested by the board
after it received complaints
from many patrons of the
district.
Resigning during the reg-
ular March .board meeting
Set-aside signing
urged for farmers
^•ven those Matagorda
County farmers who may still
be undecided about planting a
set-aside crop in 1978 should
sign up in the set-aside
program,” Wayne C. Buss, an
official of the Agricultural
Sttpilization and Conservation
(ASC) committee, said.
Buss said, ‘‘There’s no
penalty if set-aside partici-
pants decide not to plant a
program crop, such as barley,
wheat, corn, or grain sor-
ghum. But, by signing up
there is an assurance of
program benefits for farmers
who decide to plant set-aside
crops.”
“The sign-up period ends
on May 1. The program calls
for taking out of production
one acre for every ten (10
percent) planted to barley,
corn or grain sorghum and two
acres (20 percent) for every ten
planted to wheat for grain.
Farmers who participate will
be eligible for price support
loans, target price and disaster
payments. To receive more
detailed information and to
sign up, farmers should come
to the county ASCS office in
Bay City, Texas.
Applicants for ASCS pro-
grams will be given equal
consideration without regard
to race, color, sex, creed
or national origin.
Hospital News
Patients in Wagner Gen-
eral Hospital during the past
week included Winnie Gainer,
Elnora Ervin, Emily Marger-
um, Arthur Mays, Ira White,
Katie Schulte, Lillian Peter-
son, Carrie Snider, Bobbie
Watts, Irene DeLaGarza, Mar-
gie Schmock, Ted Bates,
Merle Graham.
Patients discharged include
Beverly Watson, Dorothy Rag-,
usin, Leonard Kunefke, Theo-
dore Dannels, Katherine Rag-
usin, Lenora Martin, Vick
LeFcvre, Grace Stapleton,
Margarita Serna, Alexander
Guerrero, Lucille Claybourn,
A. T. Oliver, Gilbert Zepeda,
Joseph Chanik, Randolph He-
bert, Thomas Hamlin, Ru-
dolph Wratislaw, Sonia Tijer-
ina, Barbara Wilson, Juan
Alvarez, Clara Jenkins.
Electric group
plans for meeting
Jackson Electric Coopera- District 7, Mr. David Peterson
five, Inc. will hold it’s annual and Mr. Leo Kainer. Districts
membership meeting on June 2 and 4 are located in
3, 1978 in the Jackson County Matagorda County, District 6
Services building, Edna, Tex- jn Jackson County and District
as. In preparation for this 7 in Calhoun County,
meeting a committee on Jackson Electric Coopera-
nominations met last week for five provides electric service to
the purpose of selecting approximately 9,300 consum-
nominees for the director ers in the rural areas of five (5)
districts who will be up for counties,
election during this meeting. The cooperative serves
Serving on the nominating approximately 4,800 members
committee were Mr. George j„ Matagorda County 2,800 in
Hejtmanek, Chairman of Bay Jackson County, 700 in
City; Mrs. T.O. Henry of Calhoun County, 900 in
Palacios and Mrs. Vernon Brazoria County and 100 in
Damstrom of Olivia. Nominees Lavaca County. The coopera-
selected were: District 2, Mr. five's office is located in Edna,
Mabin Laird and Mr. Norman Texas and a branch office is
G. Bissett; District 4, Mr. Carl now under construction in Bay
Jensen and Mr. E.F. Vavra; City, Texas which should be in
Distict 6, Mr. Jerome Peters operation by August of this
and Mr. Ruben Kramer; year.
were Athletic Director Tom
Joy, Girls Athletic Coordinator
Jerri Emmons, Varsity Assis-
tant Coach Duane Coulter,
Band Director Dennis Olsov-
sky and Mrs. Cynthia Bennett,
home economics teacher.
According to school board
meeting minutes of February
6, a motion was passed to
authorize Superintendent Del-
vin Taska to inform the
teachers and coaches their
contracts would not be
renewed at the March board
meeting.
None of the board members
will give a specific reason why
any or all of the teachers were
informed that their contracts
would not be renewed.
At the March meeting it was
agreed that the vacancies
would be filled as soon as
possible by the school
On honor roll
415
been
Wesley Batchelder of
Green in Palacios, has
named to the President's
Honor Roll at Texas State
Technical Institute in Waco.
He is enrolled in the
agricultural and industrial
equipment mechanics pro-
gram and has maintained a 4.0
grade-point average for the
winter quarter.
TSTI is a state-supported
technical and vocational insti-
tute offering more than 54
training programs in every-
thing from drafting and design
to underwater welding. The
institute includes four cam-
puses, located in Waco,
Harlingen, Amarillo and
Sweetwater,
administration office. Applica-
tions for the coaching position
will be considered at Friday’s
meeting.
Tobias seeks
council post
Senor Manuel Tobias an-
nounces his candidacy for
Alderman, Position 4 for the
city of Palacios.
Tobias has lived in Palacios
since 1942, and has been
involved with city and county
government in the past. He
worked as a constable in the
Sheriff’s Department for 4
years, and afterwards worked
for the Police Department.
While serving in this capaci-
ty, Tobias became aware of
the great need for more
recreational facilities for our
youth.
Tobias owns his own plumb-
ing business which provides
for him another means to be
aware of the city's water and
drainage system.
At the same time, he is also
aware of the drastically need-
ed street paving and repairs.
He states that if elected, he
intends to help in every way
possible to the best of his
ability to make the city of
Palacios a much better place
for everybody.
Tobias, who served in the
U.S. Army during the Korean
War, is married to Mrs.
Rosalie Tobias. They have 3
children and one grand-
daughter.
Your vote and support will
be very much appreciated.
Pd. Pol. Adv. by Manuel
Tobias, Palacios
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