Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1976 Page: 1 of 14
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City hears
plan for new
subdivision
The City
Palacios
By The Sea
Beacon
VOLUME 70 - NUMBER 46
PALACIOS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1976
FOURTEEN PAGES
Meeting in regular session
Oct. 18, the city council heard
plans for a new subdivision,
approved a new franchise and
accepted bid for the old city
hall building.
Stanley Tegge appeared
before council to talk about
bulding a subdivision north of
Green Acres. After he was
questioned about his plans for
drainage and the width of Fifth
and Sixth Streets, council
asked him to work with his
engineer on a new set of plans
with the above ideas in mind.
The motion made by Council-
man Kenneth smith to approve
the new franchise for Palacios
Television Cable Corporation
was approved, the proposed
new franchise was pumulgated
by federal government FCC.
Only one bid was recieved for
the old city hall building. This
bid submitted by Homer
Palacios goes Democratic
Aparicio in the amount of
$3,150.00 was accepted.
Councilman Smith asked if
anything had been done on the
old ice plant. Mayor Jackson
said if he had not heard
anything in the next few days
from Mr. Weirich of Port
Lavaca, he could call him.
George Hovar, new chief at
the FAA Flight Station at the
airport, was introduced by Bob
Christianson.
Present for the meeting were
Mayor W.C. Jackson, council-
men Ivan Najvar, Ray Garza,
Johnie Heard, Kenneth Smith
and Clifford Elliott; city
guests Lester Morton, Hilbert
Morales, Jess Kesseler, G.W.
Hovar, Bob Christianson, Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Tegge and
Dale Porter.
Palacios treats peace delegates
to real Texas hospitality
iWHW 'saam _ rfSHH Sunday fish fry
opens week’s events
Voters follow
state trend
The majority of the 1313
voters casting their ballots
locally in. last Tuesday’s
general election followed the
statewide trend of favoring the
Democrats.
Weatherwise the day was
ideal for getting out and voting
and records were set in many
polling boxes. Palacios had245
more votes cast than in the
1972 presidential election and
365 more than in 1968.
The record vote disputed the
pollsters' prediction of voter
apathy, as local voters gave
the nod to the Democratic
presidential team of Jimmy
Carter and Walter Mondale
with 745 votes to President
Gerald Ford and Robert Dole's
524.
Palacios voters also gave the
edge to incumbent Democratic
Senator Lloyd Bentsen with
779 votes to Republican Alan
Steelman's 432.
Democratic Congress-
man John Young survived a
challenge from Port Lavaca
radioman Dean Holford, 782 to
411.
Local voters gave Democrat
Jon Newton 808 votes against
his Republican opponent Wal-
ter Wendlandt’s 334 in the
Texas Railroad Commissioner
race.
A write-in campaign fell short
here, as well as statewide,
when Democratic nominee
Don Yarbrough received 680
votes for Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, Place 2.
Write-in candidates Sam
Houston received 62 and Tom
Lorence 90.
Local voters also voted
against the two constitutional
amendments on the ballot.
The amendment authorizing
an increase of $400 million in
the amount of Texas Water
Development Bond that could
be voted by the legislature was
defeated 306 to 521.
The amendment authorizing
an increase of $400 million in
the amount of Texas Water
Development Bond that could
be voted by the legislature was
defeated 306 to 521.
Amendment that would in-
crease from $100 million to
$200 million the amount of
Texas Water Development
Bonds that may be issued for
water quality enhancement
also went down locally 419 to
420.
LOTS OF FISH was served up by the Palacios volunteer fire
department at Sunday night’s welcoming fish fry (or delegates
to the YMCA World Peace Conference. Here Fire Chief
Trammel Hunter shows off a sample of firemen’s cooking. From
left: Ken Smith, assistant chief; Delfln Hllario and Daniel
Dellma, delegates from the Philippines; Hunter; Marcel
Neumann of Peru and All Korkmaz of Lebanon, and Karen
Kelly, Palacios High School student.
Essay contest starts
The Matagorda County Soil
and Water Conservation Dis-
trict is sponsoring an Essay
Writing Contest for boys and
girls, 18 years or under. Cash
awards will be given to the
winners.
The topic for this year’s
contest is "Soil and Water
Conservation - Present and
Future”. Up to 300 words are
permitted and should be
turned in to the office of the
Matagorda County S&WCD,
3107 Ave. F., Bay City, Texas
77414 or mailed to P. O. Box
789, Bay City, Texas before
the deadline date of January
16, 1977.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER- His Excellency D. 0. Mills (second born
left), Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United Nations, was the
keynote speaker for the opening session of the YMCA World
Youth Peace Conference in Palacios. He Is shown at Sunday's
fish fry , from left: Fire Chief Trammel Hunter,
Ambassador Mills; Mayor W.C. Jackson; Bert Miller, chairman
of the Palacios conference steering committee; and Dan Tucker,
member of the committee. Ambassador Mills is the leading
spokesman for third world nations in the UN.
New gas plant to employ 1200
PORT LAVACA - Plans for
a $300 million facility between
the entrance to Powderhorn
Lake and Port O’Connor for
the importing and conversion
of liquified natural gas from
Algeria were announced here
Wednesday by El Paso LNG
Co., a subsidiary of the El
Paso Company.
The facility, where specially
designed ships - up to 12 per
month - would deliver the
liquified natural gas by way of
the Matagorda Ship Channel
and a special channel and
turning basin to be construct-
ed, would include storage and
vaporizing units which are
expected to require four years
for construction.
Construction is expected to
get under way in 12 to 18
months, after approval of the
project- known as Algeria II -
has been received from
Federal Power Commission
and other governmental agen-
cies.
Also included would be a
pipeline to link up with
existing pipelines of the El
Paso Company.
During the construction
phase, up to 1,200 persons will
be employed after the plant is
in operation a maintenance
and operation force of 120 will
be needed.
Plans for the project were
announced Wednesday at a
press conference called jointly
by El Paso LNG Co., Calhoun
County Navigation District and
Port Lavaca - Calhoun County
Chamber of Commerce, where
it was noted that the specially
designed tankers can carry
600 cubic feet of natural gas in
one cubic foot of space when
the gas is liquified.
Thus, ships arriving at a rate
of one ever two and a half days
will be able to feed one billion
cubic feet of gas per day
through the vaporization facil-
ity and into the pipelines.
development for the Houston
based subsidiary, also stress-
ed that the plant will have a
high safety factor. It was
explained that if liquified
natural gas is spilled, it will
evaporate into the air within
minutes.
Federal government agencies
adready have approved El
Paso Company’s plans for
Algeria I. which will bring
Officials, including Vice liquified natural gas from
President Jim Lister who will North Africa to the U.S. East
Plans for Algeria II will go to
Federal Power Commission
about next March.
Lister said preparation at the
Matagorda Bay site ■ a 2,100
acre tract partially on the
Powderhorn Ranch on which
an option has been obtained
will include deepening and
widening the channel at the
site, dredging of the channel
and a turning basin at the
berthing site for unloading
ships.
be in charge of the new Coast, and that project is now
Conference workers |
MANY HOURS OF DEDICATED work were given by these v
women in preparation of YMCA’s World Youth Peace |;I
Conference Meeting in Palacios this week.
I
The 250 delegates to the
YMCA World Youth Peace
Conference, representing 85
nations, got their first taste of
Palacios hospitality this week.
And if the success of the
opening events planned by the
people of Palacios is any
indication, complete harmony
should reign throughout the
conference, which lasts
through this Sunday.
The delegates were treated
to a fried fish and French fry
supper in the Palacios
Recreation Center Sunday
with the firemen doing the
cooking and their wives the
serving.
Next was a Texas style
barbecue Monday at the Carl
Hansen ranch. Tuesday the
delegates were guests in
various homes for an evening
meal.
Friday night they are
scheduled to see the Tide-
haven-Louise football game.
Saturday at 7 p.m it will be
international night in the
Recreation Center with dele-
gates demonstrating their
native customs either in dance
or song or recitation.
Tours are also planned of
industrial sites, ranches, rice
farms and the oil fields. A
shrimp boat ride is planned
too.
Refreshments during one of
the tours will be served by the
Deutschburg Community at
the Kubecka farm.
Besides enjoying the won-
derful hospitality of the people
of Palacios, the delegates will
face a full schedule of
meetings during the confer-
ence.
Palacios was chosen be-
cause youth leaders from all
over the world wanted to
gather in a rurai setting to
discuss the problems of
achieving world peace.
The delegates have no
illusions that the resolutions
they make at the conference
will have an immediate world
impact.
However, they know that
meeting and talking with each
other, in itself, will help set a
pattern for peace within the
World Alliance of YMCAs.
The hope is that the
atmosphere that prevails in
the Alliance will spread among
the nations represented.
Dr. Fred Franklin, secretary
general of the World Alliance
of YMCAs, said it is hoped the
conference, "in some small
way will lead to a movement
toward a united effort of world
peace.”
Conference sessions for the
delegates, aged 18 to 30, will
CROP walk
Young people of Palacios
will be walking for CROP next
Saturday, November 13. They
are scheduled to leave from
Eastside Elementary School at
8:00 a.m.
Between now and then, they
will be seeking sponsors in the
community. This year, it is
planned to bus the participants
from the Eastside School to
McAlester Junior High in Bay
City, where they will join the
Bay City Young People.
They will all walk to the
Celanese Recreation Area,
where they will enjoy a
barbecue before returning
home.
Applications may be ob-
tained from Mrs. Marvin
Curtis, Mrs. O. R. Kubecka,
Jr., or Miss Teresa Gallien at
the Palacios High School.
The initials CROP stand for
Christian Rural Overseas
Program, an organization of
Church World Service that is
dedicated to the relief of
hunger and other emergency
needs in the world.
If you would like to help in
be headquartered at the
Baptist Encampment, but
meetings are planned in
various areas of the city.
Theme of the conference in
"Towards Peace: YMCA
Initiatives.”
At the fish fry Sunday night,
which drew a crowd of more
than 300, it was clear from the
laughter and the happy chatter
that the YMCA already has the
initiatives for peace.
If this mood can be spread
somehow throughout the
world part of the problems of
achieving peace will be solved.
Sunrise
service
planned
The Y’MCA Sunrise Wor-
ship Service Sunday morning
will be open to the general
public and an invitation
extended to all to attend.
The service will be held at
Sunrise in the amphitheater in
the Baptist Encampment.
This is the only activity of
the conference that is open to
the general public.
Delegates
to view
grid tilt
For better or worse, with the
accent hopefully placed on the
former, Tidehaven turns a
wandering eye towards Louise
Friday. The Tigers will mingle
with the Hornets in the District
26-A finale for both clubs at
Tiger Stadium in a 7:30 p.m.
kickoff.
As short as it may seem
from beginning to end, the
1976 season has not been one
short of excitement and
disappointment for both
teams.
From a 0-0 tie with Palacios
in their season opener,
Tidehaven has rolled to a
respectable 4-4-1 season re-
cord and 3-3 in district
standings. Louise defeated the
Sharks in their first game of
the season, has an overall
record of 3-6-0 and 2-4 for
district.
Getting by the Hornets
when the 7:30 p.m. whistle
blows will be no easy trick for
the Tigers. Louise is big and
dangerous when it puts its
mind to the business at hand.
And no one likes to close out
the season on the short end of
the stick.
An added incentive for both
teams to make their best
showing of the year, they will
be playing before people from
all over the globe as delegates
and staff members at the
YMCA World Youth Peace
Conference in Palacios will be
at the game.
The Hornet offense, di-
rected by quarterback Chris
Loveloy, runs out of a full
house backfield.
Defensively, the Hornets
will be more experienced with
5 returning lettermen from last
year's team that defeated the
Tigers 33-12. And size is no
problem as five starters weigh
in at over 200 pounds.
Weather
It you would like to help in
____________________ _______________________ . ..... „ . ... SECRETARIES- Lynda Richter and Nlta Flores, secretaries at this worthy project, you can do
shows scrapbook being prepared during conference to Mrs. Bert M"'1 Wanda Miller, third and fourth from left are shown witn city State Bank, have put in many extra hours taking and so by sponsoring one or more
Miller (left) wife of the chairman of the Steering Committee. ‘he11, co-workers, left to right Connie liultt, Tony Garcia and handling correspondence. young people in the Walk.
Doris Heard. •• -
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