Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1947 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, December 25, 1947
PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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Livestock Entries At Houston Fat
Stock Show Expected To Exceed 7500
Greater Com Yield
LAWSON
Radio Service
PHONE 280
More than 3500 livestock entries
for the 1!MH Houston Fat Stock
Show nnd Livestock Exposition
have been tabulated to date with
'ndiefltions polntin" to a final entry
list some tin p^r cent (treater than
that of 1047. W. 0. Cox, manager
of the stock show, said.
Last Monday, Dec. 15, was the
deadline for livestock entries
which flooded the stock show office
that the exact number will not be
known until tabulation is com-
pleted.
The total number of livestock,
including horses, poultry und rab-
bits is expected to exceed 7500
head, Mr. Cox said. The deadline
for entries in the latter divisions
are ns follows: quarter and palo-
mino horses, .Tan. 10; poultry. Jan.
15 and rabbits, Jun. 18, The Hous-
ton Fat Stock Show and Live-
stock Exposition opens Jan. 31 and
continues through Feb. 15.
A totoal of 431 Brahman cattle
entries have been checked, und of-
ficials estimate that the final figure
will be nearer 500. With only 234
of this breed entered last year, the
1948 Brahman show will be u fea-
tured attraction and also will be the
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largest exhibit of Brahmans ever
held anywhere,
The livestock count thus far
shows: 44 head of Shorthorns or
twice as many as last year; 165
Herefords with more to he count-
ed; 134 Aberdeen-Angus and an
estimated 175 expected; 126 Jersey;
57 (iuernseys, and 39 boys’ dairy
heifers.
The fat steer class will top any
previous year, officials believe. Thus
far 774 are entered in the hoys’
fat steer class and 126 in the open
fut steer eluss. Other entries al-
ready checked include; 248 in the
open sheep class or 43 over 1947;
219 lambs; 116 in the open swine
class; 438 in the hoys’ pig show
and 120 in the Negro boys’ pig
show.
Now nn event of national and in-
ternational interest, Houston’s six-
teenth annual exposition is expect-
ed to attract a throng of visitors
exceeding the 360,000 who saw the
show last year.
A major entertainment feature
will be the Gene Autry World
Championship Rodeo which will
stage 22 performances during the
16 -day run of the show. A number
of new specialty acts will be in-
cluded with the popular rodeo
events.
Rodeo tickets are on sale at the
Milby Hotel daily, except Sunday,
from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Another
downtown ticket office will open
Jan. 1 at Sam Houston Coliseum,
W. Albert Lee, acting president and
chairman of the rodeo committee,
announces.
The Milby ticket office can be
contacted by telephone, Mr. Lee
said. The number is C-1792.
Mail orders also arc being ac-
cepted. They should be addressed
to the Director of Ticket Sales, P.
O. Box 2371, Houston 1. A 25-cent
mailing charge should be added to
the price of the tickets.
Take a case of 7-Up HOME for
the Holidays—$1.00 per case (plus
deposit).
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AMERICAN LEGION
Me,ts First and Thirt Tuesda>
Nights at 8 P. M.
E. F. Adams, Commande.
C. W. Davis, Adjutant
Local Football Enthusiasts Present
Coach Saylor With Surprise Party, Gift
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HENDERSON, KY. — H. R. Jackson, county farm agent here,
shows how chemical weed-killer, 2,4-D, not only eliminated strangling
weeda in thia corn field but also produced stronger roots and larger
•***• Plant and ears at left were taken from field treated with Weed-
No-More, butyl ester of 2,4-D; smaller plant and ears at right are
rsom field weeded by hand and hoe. Ears of com from treated field*
gave an average field weight 23 oer cent above untreated areas.
By GUY STEVENS
(Hollywood National Syndicate)
STATED MEETING.".
PALACIOS LODGE
NO. 990. A. F. * A. M.
1st Thursday cadi month < ;30 P.M
Visiting Brethem Always Welcom
M. O. Burton, W. M
f. E. Friery, Set
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Half a million football fans will
be on hand New Year’s Day to
take in the various Bowl games
from coast to coast. Though 15
classics are scheduled for Jan. 1st,
only about four rate national at-
tention.
Perhaps the outstanding game
of the day will be the Rose Bowl
battle between Michigan and South-
ern California at Pasadena. Most
observers pick Michigan to win by
a fair size score but a few on the
Coast are so bold as to give the
Trojans an outside chance. Psycho-
logically, Michigan will be playing
Notre Dame. The boys from the
Midwest are not so much con-
cerned with beating the Trojans as
they are in bettering the 38 points
rolled up by. the Irish. A decisive
win might give the Wolverines the
national championship. It could
very easily turn out to be a re-
petition of last January’s rout
when Illinois handed UCLA a 45
to 14 beating. It’s all up to the
Trojans—if they click, it may be a
mighty hot contest.
Sharing the national spotlight
with the Rose Bowl, the Cotton
Bowl tussle down in Dallas, Texas,
between Southern Methodist and
Penn State will be another major
attraction to watch. Eastern follow-
ers claim the undefeated and untied
Penn Staters were not forced to
show their real strength in any
game this season. That may be so Leo Durocher resumes his job as
but they did have some trouble in the Brooklyn pilot but, he won’t
defeating little Temple 7 to 0. The be the Leo of old. He’s on the spot,
Mustangs, too, are undefeated but more or less, and he knows he’ll
have been tied once—a 19 to 19 j have to keep himself toned down a
even terms so a terrific battle
should be in the making.
No. 4 game on the list will be
Miami's Orange Bowl game be-
tween undefeated Kansas and once-
bcaten Georgia Tech. The fact that
Georgia Tech gave Alabama a hard
battle before losing should make
them the favorites. On the other
hand, Kansas has been undefeated
in 14 stiaight games. Flip a coin
and take your pick.
* * •
Other Bowl games offer Texas
Tech and Miami (O.) in the Sun
Bowl at El Paso, Texas; Mississippi
and Texas Christian in the Delta
Bowl at Memphis, Tenn.; William
& Mary and Arkansas in the Dixie
Bowl at Birmingham, Ala.; Mary-
land and Georgia in the ’Gator
Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla.; College
of Pacific and Wichita in the Raisin
Bowl at Fresno, Calif.; North Tex-
as and Nevada in the Salad Bowl
at Phoenix, Arizona; Catawba and
Marshall in the Tangerine Bow! at
Orlando, Fla.; Hawaii and Red-
lands in the Pineapple Bowl at
Honolulu; San Diego State and
Hardin-Simmons in the Harbor
Bowl at San Diego, Calif.; Wilber-
force and Grambling in the Vulcan
Bowl at Birmingham, Ala.; and,
the Shrine Game at San Francisco
with the Western All-Stars meet-
ing the Eastern All-Stars.
(Port Lavaca Wave)
Once in the lifetime of every man
'’ere is a moment, and Coach Billy
"vlor had his last Monday night,
when the football fans of Port La-
’nca and CaL'oun County banded
ogolher to show their appreciation
f a fine coach und a fine man.
A committee headed by Morgan
Daniel, Larry Gilbert, Billy Zwer-
schke began a campaign to raise
'unds to purchase a car for Coach,
nd almost faster than it can be
"’’ten over a thousand dollars
was raised to buy the car. And all
was done silently, quietly, without
Saylor knowing about it.
Then to present the money to
Conch a surprise party was planned
at Morgan Daniel’s home. And here
was the real problem of keeping
he secret, for Coach made several
ns out to Daniels. Finally in
sheer desperation Morgan told him
hey were giving him a surprise
arty.
W.F. Tanner was asked to break
he news to him, and after men-
me season. In the Grape Bowl
ame played recently, the Pacific
■ Tigers defeated the Utah State
Aggies, 35 to 21. On New Year’s
Day, they will meet Wichita in the
Raisin Bowl battle. If they win,
it’ll make two Bowl winners in one
season. Something to really boast
about.
* * *
Joe Louis will fight again next
June. But the big question is—
who is he going to fight? They’re
mentioning Lesnevich, Tandberg,
the Swede, and one or two otohers.
Walcott certainly should be the
man, if only to settle this “we
wuz robbed” business. Jersey Joe
orobably won’t fair quite as well
next time. If there was anyone dis-
gusted with that last fight, it was
Louis. There’s no doubt he’ll be out
to redeem himself in his next fight,
i As long as he has that punch,
Louis is always dangerous. That’s
why Walcott bicycled around the
ring in the last few rounds.
In the meantime, Tandberg will
meet Joey Maxim at the Garden,
Jan. 9th. Should the Swede put on
a slashing battle and scores a kayo,
he may nose Walcott out of the
title fight. Maxim fought Walcott
out on the Coast last summer and
he looked like a fourth rater. Tand-
berg should be good enough to
knock him out.
tinning a few fine points about the
well loved Coach, he said he would
present a gift through the Cap-
tain of the Football Team, Leroy
Key. Captain Key then presented
u check for $1005.00.
Coach was too overcome at the
time to speak, but finally, and then
not until the Football Banquot
Tuesday night, he expressed hi*
thanks to the football fans for
their generosity. In his words “I’d
like to thunk the funs for what
they’ve done for me. The car means
everything, but it is more wonder-
ful to know that I have that many
friends.’’
Tanner then spoke about the fine
work of Assistant Coach E. E. Dea-
son, und thru co-Captain Jimmy
Cannion presented him with a Bul-
ova wrist watch.
Delicious refreshments were then
served to ubout fifty guests.
battle with T.C.U. So Dallas will
have the honor of presenting the
only Bowl game in the country in
which two undefeated teams will
clash.
The next game in importance will
be the Sugar Bowl meet in New
bit. He can’t be too boisterous.
When Burt Shotton replaced Du-
rocher last spring, many thought
the attendance would drop. But
Shotton did all right. In his quiet,
easy-going manner of handling the
boys, the Dodgers drew 1,800,000
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Orleans. Alabama and Texas will customers at home—a new all-time
do the honors in this major event | record. On the l oad, the Dodgers
that will attract the second largest Played t° 1,860,000—another new
crowd of the day, 74,000. Alabama all-time record. So Durocher wasn't
lost close games to Tulane and m'ssed too badly at the gate. He'll
Vanderbilt. After that, they mowed haveto keep those customers corn-
down all opposition like true inS next season. And to do that,
champs. They showed so much he’s Sot to keep himself popular
power that many rated them right w'th fans as well as the players,
up there with the best. Texas had * * *
a perfett record with the exception. College of Pacific will have the
of a one-point defeat, 13 to 14, by distinction of being the first team
S.M.U. Both teams appear to be on to appear in two Bowl games in
The Mexican League lost so
much money this past season that
they are all through trying to lure
big-time American players south
of the border. According to reports,
the League suffered a $300,000 loss
for 1947. It seems the only thing
Jorge Pasquel got out of his base-
ball venture was publicity. The
League is rigging up a new deal
now in which to better relations
with organized ball.
...
JUST GAB—One thing about
Texas—it produced a bumper crop
of Bowl teams. ... no less than 9
Texan teams have or will play in
some Bowl game this season. The
Cleveland Indians and the New
York Giants will train in Arizona
again next spring. Colorado U. is
now a member of the Big Six Con-
ference in the Missouri Valley.
Santa Anita will open its big rac-
ing season Saturday, Dec. 27th.
Army will meet four new teams
in 1948. . . . Lafayette, Harvard,
Cornell and Stanford. . . . the
Stanford game will be played in
New York, replacing the Irish tilt.
Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn
Dodgers, was scheduled to referee
a wrestling match in Los An-
geles last week. . . . but Commis-
sioner Chsyidler said nothing do-
ing. The playoff for the National
Football League championship will
be held in Chicago. Sunday. . .
the Cardinals should win.
Highway Engineer
Gives Recipe For
Safe Driving
AUSTIN.—One way to assure a
safer holiday motor trip, says
State Highway Engineer D. C.
Greer, is to drive by any garage
or wrecking yard to view the re-
mains of the latest automobile
brought in from a highway colli-
sion.
The stark mental picture of its
unfortunate occupants as it crash-
ed headlong into an approaching
truck; the horror of those few
seconds while the ill fated vehicle
bounced end over end and down
the embankment; these and similar
impressions can serve to emphasize
the importance of careful driving.
‘As seasonal traffic volume spurts
upward, it is more important than
ever that the highway signs and
dC
markings be carefully observed?,
Greer emphasizer.
“This applies especially to the
'No Passing Zones’ which are plain-
ly marked by a double stripe laid
down on the pavement,” he adds.
The no-passing zones were mark-
ed after engineers figured out with
slide rules and instruments exact-
ly where they should begin and end.
They allow a bare minimum of time
to get over the hill or around the
curve before an approaching car
can make yours another basis for
an insurance claim.
"Besides being dangerous,” Greer
points out, “it’s now against the
law to attempt passing another ve-
hicle where the double traffic stri- -
means Don’t try to pass him het
Other road hazards are mark
with signs. The yellow octagon:
“stop” sign at road intersection,
may ■save many a painful day in the
hospital if observed with the meti-
culous care with which it was plac-
ed.
Yellow “Caution” and “Slow”
signs warn of approaching hazards.
If overlooked or disregarded, a
driver may face an emergency he
cannot handle without mishap.
“Observe the highway signs and
markings,” urges the veteran road
builder again and again.
“It’s the best way I know to as-
sure accident-free travel.
Want Ads are increasing in the
Beacon. There must be a reason.
Take a case of 7-Up HOME for
the Holidays—$1.00 per case (plus
deposit).
LT. WM. LLOYD QUEEN POST
Veterans of Foreign Wars
NO. 2467
Regular meeting on the First
Monday night of each month at
8:00 P. M. at the American Legion
Hall.
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Clyde Crenshaw. Post Adjutant
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1947, newspaper, December 25, 1947; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726289/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.