Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1983 Page: 1 of 14
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Meeting held
for final details
A final preparations meet-
ing for this weekend’s Fishing
Tournament and Holiday By
The Bay activities is sched-
uled for 3 p.m. Tuesday (Sept.
30) in the City Hall. All
Chamber of Commerce direc-
tors and others interested
and/or involved in the prepar-
ations are urged to attend.
Arts membership
drive started
The Palacios area drive for
membership in the Festival
Arts Association for 1983-84
ends this week, Margaret
McEirath reports. There will
be six performances this sea-
son. For more information
contact either Mrs. McEirath,
972-3095; or Richard Shanks,
972-3874.
Jaycee meeting
set Wednesday
All area young men in the
18-35 age bracket interested
in joining the team of the new
Palacios Jaycees are invited to
an organizational session of
the group, set for 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at Regency Ford.
BayFesi meeting
on Thursday
There will be a BayFest
meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thurs-
day at the Palacios Library.
Family Night
at Lodge set
Palacios Masonic Lodge 990
will have a family night on
Thursday from 6; 45-7:45 p.m.
at the lodge on Hwy. 35 north
of Palacios.
Visitors are welcome to
attend.
Flea Market
space available
Requests for seller space at
the tent-covered Palacios Pav-
ilion Flea Market this Satur-
day, $10 per space, must be
received by 5 p.m. Wednes-
day. Spaces are limited on a
first come, first serve basis
and sellers should provide
their own tables. All items
except drinks may be sold.
CofC meeting
is postponed
The regular first Thursday
membership luncheon of the
Palacios Chamber of Comm-
erce will not be held this
week, due to members involv-
ed in preparations for this
weekend’s Fishing Tourna-
ment and Holiday By The Bay
activities. The membership
luncheon has been reschedul-
ed for Thursday, Sept. 8 at
Petersen’s Restaurant.
Regular garbage
pickup Monday
Due to the Labor Day
Holiday all state, federal and
local governmental offices will
be closed Monday. This in-
cludes the post office, city hall
and City State Bank.
The City of Palacios howev-
er will conduct regular garb-
age pickup on Monday.
Beacon holiday
deadline Friday
Dm to the Labor Day
Holiday, an early deadline wffl
be In effect for all news,
pictures, want ads and display
advertising to appear In next
week’s Beacon, with this
Friday noon the deadline.
AH Items should be In the
Beacon office no later than
12-noon this Friday, Sept. 2.
Palacios hosts Holiday By The Bay
Fishing tourney, dance, flea market
Palacios will play host to a major
final holiday weekend fling of the
summer when the three day
Holiday By The Bay festivities
begin Saturday.
Headlined by a nearly $9,000
prize-filled fishing tournament for
both offshore and inshore fisher-
men, the Labor Day weekend event
is expected to draw several hund-
red visitors into Palacios from
Friday evening through Monday
afternoon.
Sponsored by the Palacios Cha-
mber of Commerce, the weekend
also includes a flea market, dance,
barbecue and awards ceremony.
All events, including the head-
quarters weigh station for the
fishing tourney, will be on the
south bayfront pavilion and pier.
Although the participation eve-
nts do not start until Saturday,
Chamber officials and many of the
fishermen will be on the pavilion
Friday from 5-10 p.m., when a
reception for the anglers is held
and the final sign-up of contes-
tants takes place.
A pull-out section filled with
details, the prize list and other
Information for the fishing touma-
PALACIOS volunteer firemen put
out the remaining fire In the
wheelhouse of a Vietnamese shri-
mp boat which burned Thursday
night In Turning Basin No. 2. The
Turning basin boat fire..,
vesael, along with one docked next caused by faulty electrical wiring,
to It, received heavy damage after Authorities did not have the names
the blaze caused two butane tanks of the owners of the two boats
to explode. Fire Marshall Kenneth Involved. Prompt action by three
Smith said the fire was believed
other persons helped prevent the
fire from reaching other nearby
boats. [Beacon Photo by Nick
West]
ment and other events Is Included
In today’s Beacon.
In brief, the fishing tourney
officially starts at 12:01 a.m.
Saturday and continues through
12-noon Monday. The public is
invited to visit the weigh station
during fish weigh-in hours, 9 a.m.
to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sun-
day; and 8 a.m. to 12-noon on
[See FISH, Page 13]
Enrollment
figures for
PISD 1,356
Initial enrollment figures for the
Palacios Independent School Dis-
trict indicate that 16 more stu-
dents are attending classes this
year than at the same time a year
ago.
According to Superintendent Ge-
orge Holst, figures as of Friday
show 1,356 enrolled in the PISD,
up from the 1,340 registered at the
same time during the 1982-83
school year.
“We had expected about 1.375.
but we probably will get a few
more, especially right after Labor
Day,” Holst remarked. “There will
probably be another 25 who will
enroll.”
While the school system started
off with 1,340 last year, it finished
the term with 1,361.
The total is far below the all time
high for the PISD which occurred in
the mid-1960’s when enrollment
topped 1,500. The largest number
of students in recent years was
1,419 in September of 1981, shortly
before Brown & Root left the South
Texas Project.
Although the district recorded a
gain of 16 students, the only
campus reporting an increase was
Central Elementary (kindergarten-
second). That campus counted 378
students compared to 350 a year
ago.
Both East Side Elementary (third
- fifth) and High School (ninth-
twelfth) declined in first week
students while Junior High (sixth-
eighth) remained the same.
East Side had 313 students,
down from 327 a year ago. At the
High School complex, enrollment
was at 334, down two from 336 in
[See SCHOOL. Page 131
Fire heavily damages two shrimp boats
... . , _ ... , 11.1.^.. nuccino whn was ratrhinu hait said that while the blaze appeared minutes to get the
Two shrimp boats sustained
heavy damage following a fire
which broke out onboard one of the
vessels last Thursday night and
threatened a number of other
nearby boats at Turning Basin No.
2.
The two boats were docked on
the eastern side of Turning Basin
No. 2. Although authorities could
not provide the names of either of
the Vietnamese boat owners, one
was reportedly from Palacios and
the other from Seadrift.
Prompt action on the part of
three persons who arrived on the
scene shortly after the fire was
spotted, helped prevent the blaze
from reaching at least two nearby
boats. Henry Into and Randall
Price were both near the grain
elevator when they saw smoke and
then fire rising from one of the
shrimp boats. John Knebel of
Blessing, who was catching bait
across the basin, also saw fire
coming out of the boat. All three
rushed to the scene and found fire
emerging from around the exhaust
pipes and heard a loud hissing
sound.
While Knebel hurried to pick up
a nearby water hose to contain the
fire, Into and Price cast off two
shrimp boats docked alongside and
sent them adrift in the basin. Into
said that while the blaze appeared
relatively small initially, it sudden-
ly mushroomed, engulfing the
entire wheel house. He said one
butane tank on board exploded and
went flying across the harbor and
later, when police arrived, a second
one exploded which helped ignite
the other boat that remained
docked along the north side.
It took firefighters almost 30
minutes to get the fires on both
boats completely extinquished. In
his followup inspection the follow-
ing morning, Fire Marshall Kenn-
eth Smith said that he believed an
inadequate wiring system contri-
buted to the start of the fire and
that a hose to one of the butane
tanks had burned in two, releasing
the gass and causing the fire to
spread rapidly.
82-Bills used to make point
Collins Seafood questions rate increase
BY NICK WEST
The once uncommon $2 bill is
becoming a much more common
sight in Palacios in recent weeks
due to the actions of one local
businessman.
Concerned that a 400-percent
increase in landfall rates is jeopar-
dizing his company’s competitive-
ness in the seafood processing
business. Cliff Elliott, president of
Collins Seafood, is employing the
use of the $2 bills to make his
plight known to the rest of the
business community.
Elliott has generated
over
$40,UUO worth of the odd demon-
inations into the community throu-
gh payrolls to his employees in
recent weeks. Elliott took the
action in order to demonstrate to
the business community how much
of an economic impact his process-
ing plant has on Palacios and how
that impact is being threatened by
the 400-percent increase he is
being charged by the city for
disposal of crab vaste at the city’s
new landfill.
Expressing the opinion that he
felt the dramatic increase is out of
line, Elliott says the additional cost
might cause him to be less
competitive with others in the
processing business, and possibly
leading to less business for Collins
and subsequently less revenue
being generated into the local
economy. Not discounted by Elliott
was the prospect that Collins may
have to move its operations else-
where in order to stay competi-
tive.
“We’re trying to make the
community realize by using the $2
bills that we are putting money into
the Palacios economy and what
kind of impact there would be if we
left,” Elliott explained.
Until the new landfill opened for
business, Collins was being charg-
ed $1 per square yard to dispose
and bury its crab waste. With the
closing of the old landfill site and
the opening of the new one, that
rate has jumped to $4 per square
yard. The charges incurred by
Collins for landfill use in the
preceding three years were $1,485
in 1<>80. $2,084 in 1981 and $1,188
last year. If the processing plant
has a normal year, Elliott said his
charges would skyrocket to over
$7,000.
He questions why the increase
was so large, pointing out that
other landfill operators such as
Matagorda County, Bay City and
Port Lavaca charged much less.
“We (Collins Seafood) have
competition to compete with and
that’s what hurts. The competition
pays much less for disposid, like
those in Matagoarda which pay
only $1 per square yard,” Elliott
remarked. Although admitting that
the increase will not necessarily
"bankrupt me”, Elliott pointed out
$2,000 a:
that the recent
annual
[See LANDFILL, Page 13]
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