Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 3, 1987 Page: 4 of 14
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Page 4-Pml«clo8 Beacon, June 3,1987
Area News Briefs.
Jury convicts former officer
PORT LAVACA-A federal
jury convicted former Victoria
police officer Steven Wayne
Slovacek of the robbery of two
couriers for the First State Bank
and Trust Company of Port
Lavaca last August.
Slovacek was convicted of
robbing the two couriers at
gunpoint while they were ser-
vicing an automatic teller mach-
ine.
According to the federal
indictment, Slovacek and an-
other bandit approached the
courier's automobile, disarmed
a security guard and fled in the
Residents footing paving costs
bank’s vehicle containing the
money for the machine.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office
dropped charges against John-
ny Ayce McNeill, in the Port
Lavaca robbery, after U.S.
District Judge Hayden Head
disallowed the testimony of a
key witness. The disallowed
testimony would have involved
another alleged robbery unrel-
ated to the federal charges.
McNeill and Slovacek still
face state charges in the First
State Bank robbery in Calhoun
County.
EL CAMPO-The El Campo
City Council formally adopted a
new paving policy that will
allow property owners to pay $5
per frontage foot for paving on
streets the city chooses.
Adoption of the policy cul-
minates two months of deliber-
ations by the council. Discuss-
ions on the subject began in
March with the council intent on
speeding the paving of the
city’s 242 blocks of dirt streets.
Under the new policy proper-
ty owners on each side of a
street chosen by the city to be
paved will pay $5 per frontage
foot for a street 20 feet wide.
The policy applies to strip
paving only.
In cases where the street
needs to be wider than 20 feet,
the city will pay 60 percent of
the cost and the property
owners on each side of the
street 20 percent.
The new policy does retain
the petition method of getting
streets paved. Under that
method, the city will pave a
street when two-thirds of the
property owners sign a petiton,
subject to the availability of
funds and time.
Jackson County cleanup campaign starts
EDNA-A clean-up and beau-
tification campaign has been
labeled “top priority" for the
Jackson County Chamber’s Co-
mmunity Development Commit-
tee.
Smaller committees will be in
charge of identifying and work-
ing to complete specific clean-
up projects in their own home-
towns.
The main goal of the project
is to promote pride in the
individual communities in Jack-
son County and to give people
Store expansion now underway
an incentive to clean up and
beautify their homes and bus-
inesses.
“In order to develop badly
needed jobs in our area and to
help expand our tax base, we
need to attract new industrial
and business development,”
explained Linda Shutt. "I can't
emphasize enough how impor-
tant that first impression is to
an industrial prospector during
their initial visit to a comm-
unity.”
PORT LAVACA-H.E.B. Sto-
re Manager Don Goodwin said
that the company’s new Port
Lavaca store will be open in
about three weeks.
"We're planning to open for
business on June 17," he said.
“On June 16, we will hold an
open house and ribbon cutting
ceremony from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m.”
Goodwin estimated that the
Moon samples displayed in El Camp
new store will be 15,000 square
feet larger than the old store in
Viking Mall.
The San Antonio based
H.E.B. chain purchased the
inventory and fixtures of the
Port Lavaca Safeway store in
February of 1987 for an un-
disclosed amount.
H.E.B. also took over the
lease of the store.
EL CAMPO-A piece of the
moon will be in El Campo
during June. This does not
mean the sky is falling, but
rather that Lunar Sample No.
60010,123 (004) will be on
display at El Campo Museum.
A chance to view a “moon
rock” will be afforded visitors to
the museum from May 30
Robbers receive sentences
BAY CITY-Two men accused
of robbing a Midfield busi-
nessman earlier this month
were sentenced to prison Thur-
say in district court after
pleading guilty.
Robert Lee Montalvo, 18, of
Bay City was sentenced to 25
years in prison while John
Andrew Sliva, 17-aIso known
through June 30 during regular
museum hours (10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday
and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday).
The lunar sample is part of a
traveling display program that
consists of moon rocks that
range from 70 to 160 grams in
size and are encapsulated in
clear lucite pyramids.
as Fahbacker-was sentenced to
20 years in prison. Sliva also
peaded guilty to an unrelated
burglary charge and received an
additional five years in prison.
Both teens were arrested
May 14 in a town outside of San
Diego, Calif., and were charged
with the May 10 robbery of
William Richardson of Midfield.
Proposed seafood plant announced
PORT LAVACA-D.D. Hamil-
ton, doing business as L&L
Seafood Company shared Thur-
sday night, with members of the
Port Lavaca Port Commission,
plans to build a wholesale
seafood company in the Port
Lavaca area.
Hamilton indicated interest in
locating on 13.5 acres owned by
the City of Port Lavaca at the
Harbor of Refuge.
He indicated he would initia-
lly be investing about a quarter
of a million dollars in the
proposed seafood plant, would
be digging a channel for his
boats and would be constructing
a wharf.
The property currently has no
water or sewage facilities on it.
The port commissioners said
they would recommend to the
city council that it build a road
and extend water and sewage
lines to the seafood company, if
it leases the property.
Weather spawns tornado reports
BAY CITY-Tornadoes repor-
tedly touched down near Mark-
ham and Wharton last week and
funnel clouds were spotted in
the Bay City area, according to
a Matagorda County Sheriff’s
Department spokeswoman.
A fast-moving thunderstorm
moved through the area at
around 10 a.m., causing power
outages, spawning funnel cloud
and tornado sitings and chang-
Putting waste to good use
ed high school graduation
plans.
The National Weather Ser-
vice reported the tornado sit-
ings and issued a tornado
warning for Matagorda and
Wharton counties Friday morn-
ing, the spokeswoman said.
Sheriff’s deputies dispatched,
to the scene were unable to
confirm the tornado siting near
Markham.
BAY CITY-City council un-
animously agreed last week to
cooperate with the county's
effort to build an electricity-
generating, wastj-burning fac-
ility and agreed to furnish
garbage to the plant.
CompiW torn Port Lovoco Vov», Ooy City Tribune. B Campo Newrteoder. Edno Herald
That support came in the
form of a resolution sought by
Process Design Inc., the firm
which is now in the process of
obtaining state permits needed
to build the plant.
Beacon Early Files
20 YEARS AGO-1967
Edwin Hunter was named to
be Palacios High School’s rep-
resentative at the Texas Nuclear
Symposium, sponsored by CP&L
at University of Texas June
11-14.
Miss Raybeth Blackburn, sen-
ior music major at North Texas
will be director of recreation and
youth work at the First Methodist
Church this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Johnson
were the parents of a baby boy.
25 YEARS AGO-1962
Rev. John Berkley was named
to succeed Rev. Clinton Harris as
Pastor of the First Methodist
Church at the Southwest Texas
Conference held in San Antonio.
Joy Jensen was valedictorian
and Margaret Smith, salutator-
ian.
Receiving Bachelor degrees
were William Stuhrenberg and
Mike Seaquist at Texas A&M.
Oren Byron Hamlin received his
at Baylor University and Edwin
Ray Anders at Oklahoma State
University.
Cheryl Milam will be installed
as Worth Advisor of the Order of
Rainbow for Girls.
30 YEARS AGO-1957
James D. Sartwelle, Jr. of
Houston addressed 51 seniors
and 61 junior high graduates.
Sabina Contreras and Harry
Hulen were named winners of
the junior high school American
Legion Awards.
Bob Lowrey received his bach-
elor degree from Texas A&M on
May 25; Marilyn Johnson receiv-
ed hers from the University of
Texas on June 1 and Neil
Haubold, from the school of
Mines and Metallurgy on May
26.
35 YEARS AGO-1952
Memorial Day services were
held at the First Presbyterian
Church with Rev. R. Earl Price
delivering the address.
Twenty-eight members of the
Class of '33 gathered for a class
reunion.
40 YEARS AGO-1947
Miss Lucille Tolleson was
valedictorian of the South Texas
College of Law and Commerce in
Houston.
Members of the senior class
enjoyed a party at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Clayboum.
Horace Quinn won the Jeep
given away by the fire depart-
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ment.
Maurilo Rodriguez defeated
Lonnie Rae Grover Jo be champ-
ion marble playerofPalcios.
45 YEARS AGO-1942
Cancellation of the annual
alumni banquet was done for the
duration of the war, announced
by President Charles Johnson.
‘ 50 YEARS AGO-1937
Charles Luther was preparing
to build a modem filling station
at the comer of 4th and Main.
60 YEARS AGO-1927
Virginia Wylie was valedictor-
ian and John Johs, salutatorten
of the class to graduate Palacios
High School. .
65 YEARS AGO-1922
The senior class had 19
‘graduates, Audrey Clement was
Valedictorian and Erie Starr,
salutatorian.
Educators now facing
2 seperate agendas
Letters To
The Editor
Team’s accomplishments
Dear Editor; • " :
My congratulations to Coach
Rick Calhoun and the Palacios
Shark baseball team for a terrific
season. Defeating a top-rated
Sweeny team and competing for
a play-off berth in only the
second year of the program were
MAJOR accomplishments. The
improvements over last year's
program were significn.it, and
though play-off hopes were dash-
ed in a tough season-ending loss
to Hitchcock, the team’s play
generated a lot of excitement for
next year.
I am very proud Of our baseball
team and their success this year.
Their progress is directly attri-
buted to the hard work and
dedication of Coach Rick Calhoun
and his players. In my opinion
they deserve only the praise and
encouragement that comes with
improvement. I hope that fans
will take the time to extend these
players and their coach a well
deserved "pat on the back”.
Sincerely,
William E. Reaves
y,„, „. ^(iperintendent, PISD
Educators are facing different
conductors today and receiving
different messages.
“The nation is giving us two
agendas,” contends Scot Thom-
son, executive director of the
National Association of Second-
ary School Principals (NASSP),
the nation's largest school ad-
ministrator organization. He
made his comments in a recent
newsletter to NASSP's 38,000
members.
One agenda calls for student
achievement and is being pro-
moted by governors, newspaper
editors, CEOs of major corpor-
ations and the parade of reform
reports. The other focuses upon
student needs and deals with
many of society’s current prob-
lems, including suicides and
drug use.
"Fail at the business of know-
ledge, goes the argument, and
America will fail at the know-
ledge of business,” Thomson
wrote about the first priority.
“A second agenda, however,
is at the very same moment
walking through the schoolhouse
door. This slate demands a
different emphasis. It requires
attention to teen pregnancy,
AIDS, drug abuse, suicides, fam-
ily disintegration, and dropouts.
These problems require a diff-
erent emphasis, one aimed at
providing emotional support and
value base necessary to provide
stability for students.”
Many people contend that the
second agenda must take priority
because students who are en-
gulfed by such serious society
problems can’t concentrate on
their lessons.
Given the two agendas, and
the considerable force behind
each, many schools face a serious
contradiction in priorities,” he
wrote.
Communities must provide i
clear direction to educators as to
which of these two challenges are
their highest priority. Principals,
teachers, and superintendents
can’t be asked to give the highest
attention to both unless large
amounts of additional resources
are provided.
“We (educators) must demand
that the community not be simply
cheerleaders admonishing us to
try once more to win one for the
Gipper,” urged Thomson. "Fra-
nkly, we are becoming ‘gippered
out’ by past attempts to accom-
plish far too many diffused task:’,
with far too few resources and far
too little real understanding by
constituents of the scope of their
expectations.”
Thomson is calling for comm-
unities, through their locally-
elected school boards and advi-
sory groups, to let their views be
known regarding the most impor-
tant direction for schools to take.
“The central question to ask
must be, ‘What is the priority
relationship in this community
for the two agendas, and what
resources are you willing to
allocate to each?’ This issue is
especially important because so-
me citizens will insist that the
two agendas are not mutually
exclusive.”
“They are, in fact, not mutual-
ly exclusive. But neither are they
mutually supportive, either in
program emphasis or in resource
allocation. Providing a secure
environment for a pregnant teen
mother, or mounting a suicide
counseling program will not
significantly raise reading or
math scores. That reality is a
starting point for understanding
the scope of the problem.”
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