Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1942
VOLUME XXXV NUMBER 22
24-Hour Air
Raid /Alcrt/
Is Instituted
Volunteers Wanted
To Stand By Phone
During Night Hours
The war was brought a little
closer to home to the people of Pa-
lacios this week as this city joined
with others of South Texas in the
establishment of a 24-hour air raid
warning service under the general
supervision of the State Highway
Department with volunteers re-
maining at a special “blind” or
"muffled” telephone every minute
during the day and night to receive
warnings and transmit them to the
properly qualified officials.
This was revealed publicly Wed-
nesday at the Rotary Club when
William H. Clement, Jr., chairman
of the Civilian Defense Committee,
announced his need of volunteers to
take certain specified hours of the
“Alert Watch.” A special telephone
ha6 been installed at the City Hall
which can be used only for calls
coming from Houston where the
central coordinating station of Air
Raid Warning System is located.
Under the plan evolved by Clem-
ents and Mayor A. G. Skinner the
regular employees at the city hall,
Miss Bessie Belknap, City Secre-
tary, and Miss Martha Jean Koontz,
(See “VOLUNTEERS,” Page 5)
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Explanation Of
Credit Program
Set For Friday
Explanation of the details and
workings of the Consumer Credit
Program will be made in Bay City
at the court house Friday at 8:00
p. m. by W. D. Gentry, managing
director of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Houston, according to a
letter received here by the Chamber
of Commerce from E. O. Taulbee,
president of the Bay City chamber,
in which he urges as large an at-
tendance as possible because of the
importance of this subject to prac-
tically every person.
Gentry, who is in charge of the
Consumer Credit Program phase of
the war regulations for this sec-
tion, is thoroughly acquainted with
and competent to explain all the
various restrictions and obligations
of this program.
Mrs. Gladys R. Niven, secretary
of the local chamber, said that ef-
forts would be made to secure as
large a delegation as possible from
Palacios in order that detailed and
correct information may be avail-
able to all the citizens of Palacios.
All persons who expect to be able
to attend the meeting are requested
to call Mrs. Gladys R. Niven at the
Chamber of Commerce between 10
a. m. and noon or one and three
o’clock in the afternoon. A special
request for this information was
received from the Bay City cham-
ber. This information should be
turned in not later than Thursday,
Mrs. Niven said.
F. D. R. isn’t the only president
who has retained his office because
of the delicate international situa-
tion. Charlie Johnson, president of
the Alumni Association of the Pa-
lacios High School, is now going
into his third term. Last year con-
ditions were too much upset to hold
the annual meeting and banquet
and this year it has been cancelled
for the duration. Charlie is a real
“war time president.”
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Our congratulations to Irene
Claybourn, editor of “Ebb-Tide,1
the high school year book, and
her staff. The book is a decided suc-
cess. Full of pictures, seriousness
and nonsense, it will be something
which the members of the graduat
ing class of this year will enjoy
looking through with an increasing
fondness as the years pass.
3 • •
H. Frank, of the Camp Hulen Q.
M. laundry, who describes himself
as “Honest Frank, the Burglar,”
was the proud possessor of a 54
pound sea turtle Sunday which he
caught at Turtle Bay. He seemed to
be particularly proud of the fact
that he caught it with a rod and
reel which he had borrowed from
Sidney Blanchard. Sidney had just
purchased them and had not had an
opportunity to use them himself.
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Bill Clement says that he is hav-
ing a hard time getting rid of the
paper which has been collected by
the Boy Scouts. There seems to be
a glutted market. The mills can’t
handle it and transportation is also
proving difficult. However, they are
going to keep on collecting it for
a while and try selecting only the
better grades.
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Pvt. Grover Lawson,
Wallace visited homefolks and
friends over the week-end.
W, E. Sullivan, principal of the
Palacios High School, is now a
member of Uncle Sam’s fighting
forces since his enlistment in the
army last week. Granted a five-day
furlough to straighten out person-
al affairs he will report to the
Houston recruiting office this week
and from there will be sent to the
Ft. Sam Houston induction center.
From there he expects to be as-
signed to Sheppard Field in the Air
Corps. Good luck, Weldon.
• • •
Do you remember way back when
we used to think of an auto trip as
taking a lot of gasoline instead of
using a lot of rubber?
• • •
Jerome K. Kimball, Jr., seven, is
a young man of pronounced desires.
The possessor of two nickles which
had been given him by his father
for candy or soda he heard of the
USO War Fund campaign and de-
cided that it was more important
than his candy. Result: the odd ten
cents in the total raised through
Monday. His two nickles represent-
ed a definite sacrifice on his part
and is an example that many older
people might well follow. Those in-
terested in the USO sincerely ap-
preciate his contribution.
USO War
Fund Nears
Quota Here
$436.10 Is Raised
By Monday With
Many More To See
Progress made in the local USO
War Fund Campaign up to Mon-
day night gives every promise that
the quota of $700 tentatively as
signed Palacios will be met in a
very short time, Carlton Crawford,
chairman for Palacios, announced
Tuesday. Up to that time a total of
$406.10 had been raised or pledged
with many firms and individuals yet
to be interviewed, he said.
“We have been receiving a very
pleasurable response from every
body interviewed,” Crawford said.
‘iWe make no effort to ’high pres-
sure’ anybody but leave the amount
which they desire to give entirely
up to them. No amount is too large
or too small. Almost without excep-
tion the general response has been
made gladly as now the people can
see for themselves just what the
USO is doing through the Club be-
ing operated here in Palacios.”
It has been pointed out many
times that the United Service Or-
ganizations in this war is the an-
swer to the faults which developed
during World War I when the same
organizations operated on their own
(See “WAR FUND,’ Page 5)
Drivers’ License
Day In Palacios Is
Now Fourth Tuesday
In the future local motorists de-
siring to secure the new drivers li-
of Camp cengeg may do so on the fourth
Contribute to the USO.
xy
WAAC Applications
May Be Secured At
Recruiting Office
Applications for admission to
the Officers’ Candidate School of
the Women’s Army Auxiliary
School may be secured from the
U. S. Army Recruiting Office in
Bay City, Sgt. H. B. Luckemeyer,
in charge of that office announc-
ed here Thursday. All applica-
tions must be on file in thi dis-
trict recruiting office in Houston
not later than June 5.
omen between the ages of 21
and W49 inclusive desiring fur-
ther information relative to ser-
vice in this new branch of the
Army may secure such informa-
tion as they desire from Sgt.
Luckemeyer at the Bay City Re-
cruiting office in the post office.
Tuesday of each month at the local
Chamber of Commerce Building in-
stead of the fourth Friday as has
been the case in the past, State
Highway Patrolman, T. O. Ericson,
announced here this week.
The change in days was made
necessary by the institution of a
similar service for Richmond on
Fridays, he explained.
Under the new schedule as
amended to include Richmond, rep-
resentatives of the Drivers’ License
Division will be at Wharton on
Mondays and Saturdays, Tuesdays
at Bay City, except for the fourth
Tuesday when it will be in Palacios,
at Edna on Thursdays and at Rich-
mond on Fridays.
Patrolman O. A. Ullrich will have
charge of this duty in the future,
Ericson said, as he is being trans-
ferred to patrol duty.
He urged all those possessing
commercial drivers’ licenses which
afe about to expire to come in at
least a month before the expiration
date. It takes nearly three weeks
to process each license through the
department headquarters in Austin,
he explained.
37 Seniors Get
Diplomas Before
500 Spectators
Thirty-seven young people, 19
girls and 18 boys, all members of
the Class of ’42 of the Palacios
High School, received their di-
plomas last Thursday night at im-
pressive ceremonies in the school
auditorium attended by well over
BOO interested relatives and friends
of the graduates and supporters of
the school.
Following the valedictory and sa-
lutatory addresess by Misses Mary
Mildred Bentz and Dorothea Nel-
son, respectively, which were well
delivered and showed much thought
and care in their preparation, the
graduates and assembled guests
were addressed by Rev. M. M.
Wolfe, of Richmond .former Baptist
minister in Palacios and former
head of the old Baptist academy
here.
His address, filled with homily
philosophy and dry humor, warned
those who were leaving the en-
virons and hall of their high school
that in entering a world in which
they had had tiothing to do with
the making, they first must learn
to distinguish values—they must
learn to distinguish between those
things which are important and
those which are not.
“If you do not make some con-
tribution to the world into which
you are moving, you might just as
well not have lived,” he told them
and added, “If you do not you have
failed in your duty to the citizen-
ship which has provided your edu-
cation.” 's
He also warned them to cultivate
their minds, telling them that rich
minds, like rich soil, produce rich
crops while poor soil and poor
minds produce poor crops.
Rev. Wolfe concluded his address
by teljipg the graduates that there
(See'“SENIORS,” Page 5)
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China Relief Fund
Quota U Reached,
Mrs. Luther Reports
“The drive for the ‘United China
Relief’ has at last gone over the
top,” declared Mrs. C. Luther,
chairman of the campaign.
“It is with deep gratitude that I
announce the reaching of our goal
of $250. In fact it is to date
$251.52,” she said. “This could nev-
er have been accomplished without
the strong support of organizations,
friends and those interested ip
China’s welfare. I thank you all' '
for your support.”
Final contributors (names of oth-
er donors have already been pub-
lished) are Dr. J. L. Guffy, $25;
G. A. Harrison, $10; and one dollar
anonymous.
Lauds USO
Major General Richard Donovan,
commander of the Eighth Corps
Area, lauded the USO as building
American unity "which will make
certain our final victory.”
City, Gulf Health Department
Start Clean-Up Campaign Here
With Prosecution For Violations
Survivor Of Dunkerque
Tells Hulen Soldiers Of
His Experiences In Battle
Saddles Satisfy
Soldiers Sunday
At Tom Slone's
The army may now be riding on
wheels but you would never have
known it judging by the soldiers
who were in the saddle at Tom
Slone’s ranch near here, Sunday
afternoon. The occasion was the
first of a series of Sunday after-
noons devoted to horseback riding
sponsored by the local USO and at-
tended by soldiers from Camp Hu-
(See “SADDLES,” Page 4)
Speaking with a very pronounced
accent but keeping his listeners en-
thralled from his opening words,
Adolphe Pervy, former French Liai-
son Officer attached to the British
army during the German “break
through” to coast, Thursday, told
an audience composed of practically
every available man and officer at
Camp Hulen of his experiences at
Dunkerque when the British saved
their army at the expense of prac
tically every piece of their mechan-
ized equipment and ordnance.
Many of his discriptions of things
which had happened to him drew
chuckles and hearty laughter from
the soldiers as in many ways sold-
iers are soldiers regardless of the
army in which they serve and they
could appreciate many of his stor-
ies where a civilian would be left
unmoved. Among these was his dis-
cription of the manner in which he
received his instruction as a truck
driver from an “old-timer.”
His discriptions of the attacks
of the dive bombers were particu-
larly vivid, as were his discriptions
; PROCLAMATION 2556
^LAG DAY, 1942
BV THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
For many years it has been our American custom to set
aside June 14 in honor of the flag, the emblem of our freedom,
our strength, and our unity as an independent nation under
God. Now we are fighting in the greatest cause the world
has known. We are fighting to free the people of this earth
from the most powerful, the most ruthless, the most savage
enemy the world has ever seen. (We are dedicating all that we
have and all that we are to the combat. We will not stop this
side of victory.
We as a nation are not fighting alone. In this planetary
war we are a part of a great whole: we are fighting shoulder
to shoulder with the valiant peoples of the United Nations,
the massed, angered forces of common humanity. Unless all
triumph, all will fall.
For these reasons it is fitting that on our traditional Flag
Day we honor not only our own colors but also the flags of
those who have, with us, signed the Declaration by United
Nations, paying homage to those nations awaiting liberation
from the tyranny we all oppose, to those whose lands have
escaped the scars of battle, to those who have long been
heroically fighting in the blaze and havoc of war.
It is also fitting in this time of stress that we express
our devotion to our courageous mothers, many of whom are
sending out their sons to do battle with the enemy and all of
whom are so loyally contributing to the waging of the war
on the home front.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT,
President of the United States of America, do hereby ask that
on Flag Day, June 14, 1942, the people of our Nation honor
the peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
China, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czecho-
slovakia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guate-
mala, Haiti, Honduras, India Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, the Union
of South Africa, Yugoslavia—knowing that only in the
strength and valor of our unswerving unity shall we find the
force to bring freedom and peace to mankind.
I direct the officials of the Federal Government, and I re-
quest the officials of the. State and local governments, to have
our colors displayed on all Government buildings on Flag Day,
and I urge the people of the United States to fly the ^n^eqciui j
flag from their homes in honor of the Nation’s mothers and
their valiant sons in the service, and to arrange, \*here
feasible, for joint displays of the emblems of the freedom-
loving nations on that day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States of America to be
affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 9th day of May, in
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-two, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the
one hundred and sixty-sixth.
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(Seal)
By the President:
CORDELL HULL,
Secretary of State.
of the battles between the tanks
of the Germans and the French. In
this respect, he said that the French
people were primarily a nation of
farmers. For that reason they were,
not mechanically minded and al-
though they turned out beautiful
hand tooled products they were
pitifully few and even then there
were but few men trained in their
use. It was because of their pre-
dominate agricultural characteris-
tics, he said, that while they were
not so good with mechanized equip-
ment, they made excellent infantry
soldiers.
At Dunkerque, the British di-
vision to which he was attached
was ordered to establish their lines
just west of the canal to the east of
Dunkerque to cover the evacuation
of the other British units. Through
use of the water and locks of the
canal they managed to flood the
fields over which the enemy tanks
(See “DUNKERQUE,” Page 8)
Poppy Day Sale
Described As
Grand Success"
Poppy sales during the annual
American Legion Auxiliary annual
Poppy Day last Saturday was de
scribed by Mrs. George L. Hunter,
chairman of the poppy committee,
as a “grand success.
With 500 of the little red flowers
of remembrance purchased from
disabled veterans of World War I
now in the Veterans Administration
hospital at Legion, Texas, every
one of them were sold by the mid-
dle of the afternoon on the day of
the sale and many additional re-
quests were received after the sup-
ply had been exhausted, she said.
Total receipts from the sale this
year amounted to $59.94.
“The people of Palacios are to
be complimented upon the way they
respond to the annual Poppy Sale,”
Mrs. Hunter declared. “Their gen-
erous donations and their willing-
ness to buy these flowers make the
sale a pleasant task for the Auxil-
iary ladies.”
Poppies were first worn in Amer-
ica in New York City on November
10, 1918, the day before Armistice.
They were adopted as the official
memorial flower of the American
Legion in 1920 and one of the first
acts of the American Legion Auxil-
iary when it was organized in 1921
was to name the poppy as its
memorial flower.
This year the poppy not only
honors and aids the men who de-
fended Americans 24 years ago and
their families, but also those de-
fending America today and their
families,” Mrs. Hunter explained.
“Funds collected on Poppy Day
will be used in the work the Legion
and Auxiliary are doing for the
disabled of both wars, and for
needy families of men in the ser-
vice as well as those of veterans.”
A partial report of the relief ac-
tivities: of the Auxiliary since the
Ast1 annual Poppy sale shows that
Survey Started
This Week By
Sanitarian May
Property Owners
To Be Notified Of
Work To Be Done
Palacios is going to clean-upf
That fact became apparent this
week as Lilburn May, sanitarian
for the Gulf Health Department,
acting in conjunction with the City
Council began a survey of all busi-
ness and residential property in the
city to determine which places
should receive notices concerning
conditions which must be corrected.
Owners of property which con-
tains accumulated trash or garbage,
unnecessary weeds, fly and mos-
quito breeding places or any other
condition which might affect the
health of the community adversely
will be notified that they must cor-
rect such conditions with least
amount of delay possible. Failure
to affect such corrections as are
needed within a limited but rea-
sonable length of time will result
in charges being filed against the
owner of the property.
“This action is being taken by
order of the City Council and the
City Health Officer,” Dr. G. G.
Howard, director of the Gulf Health
Department, stated. “There are suf-
ficient city ordinances and state
statutes to enable us to enforce this
order. People will be given suf-
ficien time to make such corrections
as are deemed necessary but if they
fail to cooperate with us in this
matter or if the conditions arc not
rectified prosecution undqr the
existing laws will follow.”
“The city will cooperate with the
Federal and Army officials up to
the hilt in this matter,” A. G. Skin-
ner, mayor, declared. “Persons who
fail to comply with the instructions
relative to conditions existing on
their property will be prosecuted
and if found guilty will be fined.
We intend to make this clean-up
campaign 100 percent effective.”
All tin cans and trash will be
picked up by the city if placed in
containers which will enable the
men to dump it easily. Such collec-
tions will be made at regular inter-
vals, the mayor announced. Citi-
zens are urged to secure proper
containers and place them where
they will be easily accessible at col-
lection time.
The clean-up order applies to al-
leys and vacant lots as well as
business houses and residences, the
officials declared. Vacant lots must
be mowed and all trash removed as
a means of relieving health and fire
hazards as well as for the purpose
of making the city more sightly.
The action was taken largely at
the request of military authorities
in order to remedy conditions ad-
jacent to Camp Hulen which might
affect the health of the men in
camp.
Alumni Banquets
Are Cancelled For
Duration of War
Cancellation of the annual ban-
quet of the Alumni Association of
u - - - the Palacios High School for the
$68 35 was disbursed. This 'amount duration of the war was announced
waa• distributed as follows: To the1
Veterans Hospital at Legion, Tex-
as, for the Christmas Cheer Fund,
$10.00; Groceries purchased for
four local veteran families who
were in need at Christmas time,
$21.29; To the Hospital “Treasure
Chest,” a box of supplies, at Le-
gion, $10.00; American Red Cross
War Relief Fund, $5.00; purchased
material and made 10 bed jackets
for Hospital at Legion, $7.06; China
Relief Fund, $5.00; total money
spent by this Auxiliary Unit, $58.35
since the last sale.
this week by Charlie Johnson,
president, following an informal
poll of as many members as could
be contacted.
First scheduled for June 1, it was
found that many local members
would be unable to attend because
of the increased press of business
usually immediately following the
first of each month. Another con-
tributing factor to the decision to
change the date and to the final
decision to cancel the meetings' for
the duration was the. fact that the
tire situation would.keep many out
of town members froup attending.
Late reports from C. L. de St. A plan for an out-dpor picnic or
Aubin say he is somewhat improv- barbecue was tentatively discussed
ed. Mr. Aubin is in the General but later abandoned.
Hospital at Bay City and has been j---—
critically ill since Sunday. Give to the USO Wnr Fund.
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