Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1981 Page: 2 of 12
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THIS WEEK -j
FROM THE PALACIMACON
URLYFILES
15 YEARS AGO-1966 ,
Tuesday was election day wnen local voters will
vote for or against issuance of bonds tor construction
of a new sewer treatment plant aid other
improvements, tor lb constitutional amendments
and for U.S. Senator between Republican John
Tower and Democratic Waggoner Carr.
Palacios will host Industrial Cobras~in last home
game Fridav. Last Friday Sharks defeated Halletts-
ville 21-7.
Matagorda County A&M Mothers Club observed
its 45th anniversary at meeting at the Palacios
Recreation Center,
20 YEARS AGO-1961
The Palacios Emergency Housing Commission was
about ready to begin erecting tents for Carla disaster
victims who needed temporary shelter.
The mayors of 71 cities had been written letters
inviting their city to take part in the ’'Appreciation
Day” program on Nov. 19.
Grants totaling $18,465:20 for another 16 families
affected by the recent hurricane were approved by
the Red Cross Advisory Committee, bringing to
$139,987.12 the amount spent by the American Red
Cross to date.
Friday the- Sharks entertain Sweeny in their
homecoming game. Last Friday they downed a non
district foe, Bloomington, 25-0.
No. 1 L.P. Neuszer was completed by Tsxkan Oil
Company -for 1,260,000 cubit feet of gas plus 48
barrels of condensate daily.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shannon celebrated their 60th
wedding anniversary October 29.
The Junior High Hornets -return to Victoria
Saturday to play the Crain Comets. Last Thursday
they were held to a 0-0 tie by the Patti Welder
Termites.
25 YEARS AGO-1956
Palacios voters along with millions all over these
United States will go the the polls Tuesday to say
whether they like Eisenhower or Stevenson for the
President.
Bob Trail, Billy Harrison and Dr. N.E. Runyon
flew to Austin Thursday for a hearing-before the
Highway Commission that had been arranged by the
Highway Committee of the Bay City Chamber of
Commerce. Items of the agenda were replacing
bridges overthe Colorado River west of Bay City and
on FM road 521 and improvements on Highway 35
between Bay City and the Jackson County line.
30 YEARS AGO-1951
Phyllis Holsworth was to be crowned Homecoming
Queen Friday at halftime ceremonies of the Sharks
homecoming game with Yorktown. The Sharks were
defeated last week by Goliad 14-0. —
Open house was held Sunday -at the modernistic
private resort just completed on East Bay, "The
Little Shamrock.”
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Mothers oi Hornet football players will be honored
T uesday when the local teams plays Cuero In the last
home game, The Hornets last week handed the Bay
City Klttenrtheir first loss since 1948 when they
defeated them 7-0.
T he largest Greenhorn group, 30 high and junior
high students, were initiated into the Palaicos
Chapter of the FFA.
Representative Clark Thompson will be in Palacios
Nov. 13 to appear on the Community Get-Together
program.
35 YEARS AGO-1946
Earl Huitt of Bay City was Matagorda County’s
first hunting fatality for the year. He was accidentally
shot and killed by his own weapotr while on a hunting
trip south of Collegeport.
Petersen’s Cafe had reopened after being closed a
week to enlarge and remodel.
Manuel Glares, who had "been in business here
since 1920, and family moved to Houston.
Rev. L.M. Greenshaw was returning as pastor of
the Methodist Church for his fifth year.
The Shi rks suffered their first defeat-of the season
at the hands of Yorktown 18-0.
Mr. and Mrs. E.N. Falks mere moving into the
home-they had purchased from Dr. Guffey on East
Bay.
40 YEARS AGO-1941
T he Gulf Bithulithic Co. of Houston was awarded
the contract to build a road from Camp Hulen to
Palacios.
W.L. Ansel, district governor of Rotary: was to
visit theiocal club Wednesday.
Editorial Page
PAGE 2,
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1981
STATE AMENDMENTS
water quality and tlood control, as determined by the
T exas Water Development Board.
Texas voters in the past have-rejected massive
water funding projects but have OK’d more limited
bond issues for water needs.
Proponents of the change say that water will be the
state's greatest need in the future and the time to
plan for it is now. T he pledge of the state’s credit will
allow local governments to spend less on local water
projects, and raising to 12 percent the interest, rate
that can be paid on future bond issues will allow
needed revenues to be raised for worthy state
projects, they say .
The bond retirement feature of the proposed
amendment, say proponents, would allow the state to
pay back outstanding obligations under favorable
financial circumstances and make money that now
goes to pay for bonded debt available for other
purposes.
Opponents condemn the proposed water fund as a
blank check drawn on tax money that will dedicate to
water projects unknown millions that may be
urgently required for other state purposes.
Putting the money in a water pot,“says the
opposition, will only make future tax increases more
likely if other purposes must be funded and the
dedicated water fund cannot be touched.
AMENDMENT 5: “The constitutional iuneiidaient
to provide for the inclusion of livestock and poultry
with farm products as exempt tfom taxation,’’
Exempting livestock and poultry from "property
taxes while they are in the hands of the producer:
T he Constitution now provides a tax exemption for
farm products, but that has not been construed
narrowly to apply only to crops - not chickens and
cows.
Proponents of a change say it's unfair to give a tax
break io soybean producers while withholding one
from goat raisers. Texas feedlots holding cattle being
fattened for slaughter, they note, are at a competitive
disadvantage with other states where feedlot
operations get a total or partial tax break on cattle
being raised for slaughter.
Opponents note that taxes on livestock and poultry
raised $6 million last year and protest that extending
an exemption to livestock and poultry producers is an
inequitable favoring of them over commercial
businesses and homeowners.
AMENDMENT 6: “The constitutional amendment
authorizing a political subdivision to to provide
property tax relief for owners of residence
homesteads and changing certain property tax
administrative procedures.”
Permitting local governments to grant residential
oropertv lax exemptions to ease the pain of property
BeautifuIx^Baby
---------CONTEST
The Palacios Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a
"Beautiful Baby Contest" as part of the Palacios Bay
Fest activities Nov. 7.
The event will beheld at City Park starting at 10:30
a.m. Categories will be Best All-Around Baby Girl
and "Boy, Baby with the Best Smile, Saddest Baby
Award, Baby -with the Most Hair. Baby with the
Least Hair, Youngest Baby and Baby with the
Biggest Eyes.
ihlrents who wish to enter theirbaby may use the
entry blank below or may pick up entry blanks at the
park on Nov. 7 as late as 10 a.m.
Parents should bring their beautiful tyiby to the
sound stageat the park by 10:30 a.m.
BEAUTIFUL BABY CONTEST
at the SAY FEST on N0»,jj
Baby's Name
Age
Parent's Name
Address
Entry Fee: $3.001$5.00 on Nov. 7J, payable to
—Bay Fest, Inc. — « * 4
Box 1050,328 Commerce
Palacios, TX 77465
|512] 972-5241
NOTE: All babies must be 12 months old or younger
SPONSORED BY THE
PALACIOS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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value reappraisals:
Local governments would have to exempt at least
$5,000 of the value of residence homesteads from
taxes, and could grant greater exemptions on a
sliding scale.
From 1982 to 1984, the amount of the exemption
could be as high as 40 percent of the appraised value,
up to 30 percent for 1985-87 and up to 20 percent for
1988 and thereafter.
Statewide reappraisals mandated bv a 1978 "tax
relief" amendment approved by voters have caused
a shift in the tax burden from commercial and
industrial property to residential property. On the
average, that would mean a 27.5 percent increase in
the burden borne by homeowners and a 6 percent
decrease in the share paid by business and industry.
T he same amendment also would change what
many have complained is a confusing requirement of
notice to taxpayers of property reappraisal.
Proponents of the exemption say that a likely shift
in tax burden to residential property owners is too
much to absorb at one blow, particularly for
individuals with fixed or low incomes, and a gradual
easing-in ot the increases is fairer. • s-.
Opponents counter jhat local governments t^iat
have in the past done a fair and equitatile job!of
appraising residential property are not likely >fo see a
shift in iheir tax burden, and providing a statewide
formula for tax changes is apt to result iq-Some cities
and counties extending unnecessary tax relief to
homeowners.
AMENDMENT 7: “The constitutional amendment
authorizing the issuance of additional bonds to
finance the veterans’ land program and to Increase
the maximum interest rate allowable on veterans'
land fund bonds."
Authority to tssue an additional $250 million in
bonds to continue the Veterans Land Program, and to
raise the maximum interest rate that may be paid on
bonds sold to support the program.
Since 1946, the state has provided as a benefit to
its nten and women who served in the armed forces
an opportunity to obtain low-interest loans to. buy
property.
T he amount of bonds and their interest rates -
which do not require tax money -- have been
periodically increased, and now all but $74 million of
the $700 million in authorized bonds have been
issued.
To continue the program and to sell the remaining
bonds, the interest rate would be increased from the
current 6 percent to a maximum ot 10 percent, and
$250 million would be added to the total bond
authorization.
Proponents say that eligible veterans who could
benefit from the successful and popular program
cannot participate because tht; fund has been
depleted and the maximum interest rate makes
further issues unmarketable, unless it is raised.
Opponents say that all veterans who wanted land
have had time enough (since Vietnam) M" apply for
loans under the program, and that benefits to U.S.
military veterans are a federal responsibility, not the
state's. A higher interest rate means money to
support the program will cost more, and less would
be available to loan to veterans.
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Plenty if football was in store for the weekend.
T he Sharks would play their first conference pamr
Friday night against Vanderbilt on the local gridiron,
and on Saturday the 203rd Regiment would play the
Randolph Field teem.
45 YEARS AOO-1936
W.O. Frosch, who had been with the Palacios
StaterBmk and Trust Co. since Feb. 1932, resigned
to accept a position as teller in the Liberty State Bank
in Dallas.
Plans for the construction of a lock and dam across
Tres Palacios Bay, extending from Collegeport to a
point north of Palacios as proposed by Burton Hurd
of Collegeport. were approved by Secretary of War
Woodring.
Duck Hanting season, Nov. 2 to Dec. 25, was
designated by the Texas Game, Fish and Oyster
Commission.
T he Sharks"lost their first district game Friday to
Goliad by a score ot 2 /-b.
50 YEARS AGO-1931
T he Girl Reserves had a public installation service
in the high school auditorium.
Texas Highway 71 was nearing completion and the
El CampO Chamber of Commerce was planning a big
celebration.
55 YEARS AGO-1926
The Palacios gfn had baled 1400 bales of cotton for
the season.
Mrs. Minnie Hood moved her laundry to the
corner of 3rd and Ritchie.
The Sharks defeated the Gulf Giants by a score of
19-13. ,
THS
HOMECOMING
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,cess Regina Fisher es-
corted by Daryl Hadden,
sophomore princess Lea
Jalutka escorted by Eric
Saha and junior princess
Brenda McKissick es-
corted by Billy Jalutka,!
The new queen willjbe
crowned by the presidfitit
of the Tidehaven Booster
Club Robert Mauch. The
coronation of the home-
coming queen will take
place during halftime
ceremonies of Friday’s
Tidehaven - Brookshire
Royal football game.
Announcement of-the
superior float award will
be made Thursday at the
bonfire.
The "1950-52 classes
will be recognized home-
coming night.
BIRTHDAYS
OCTOBER 28
Gabby Garcia, Palacios
OCTOBER 29
Michelle Solis. Palacios
OCTOBER 30
Helen M. Ward, Palacios
OCTOBER 31
Mary Hunter, Palacios
Bobby Bickham, Houston
Lillie Jackson, Palacios
Ginger Biskup. Austin
Ramon Harvey, Palacios
NOVEMBER 1
Patrick Solis, Palacios
NOVEMBER3
Roberta Buckley, Palacios
Donald Hyett, Palacios
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JETTY BOND ISSUE
bulk of the opposition has come from
Pet. 3 which includes Palacios.
Opponents to the navigation project
m the Palacios area cite several reasons
for their stand. They have stressed that
passage of the bond issue would
jeopardize Pet. 3’s plans for a third
"industrial" turning basin in Palacios
because of double taxation. They note
that the other three precincts m the
county comprising the Port of Bay City
Authority did not volunteer any assis-
tance when Pet. 3 built its own two
turning basins, but that Pet. 3 is now
asked to help pay for the river project
which they claim would be of little use
to the local area.
T hey have argued that they were not
against the navigation channel itself as
long as the Port of Bay Authority (Pet. 1
2, and 4) funds The project as Pct."3 did
with its own Turning Basin project.
They are. however, against inclusion of
the diversion channel which they claim
would have an adverse effect on West
Matagorda and Tres Palacios Bays.
Opponents also point to the flood
diversion channel which they claim
would funnel debris and sediment into
West Bay which could subsequently
threaten Tres Palacios Bay. They also
cite the fact that maintaining the
diversion channel would fall back on the
county government.
Also pointed to Is the Corps’ own
assessment that the diversion channel
and accompanying sediment deposits
would ultimately lead to a several
thousand acre delta building up in the
bav over the years.
The Corps of Engineers specified in
its agreement that they would not
maintain the diversion channel saying
there would be no need to do so.
However, a report issued by the U.Sr
Geological Survey pointed out that
sediment flowing down the river and
into the channel would result in
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clogging the channel up.
Opponents have also charged that the
proponents of the project have led area
shrimpers to believe that a turning
basin at Matagorda could be used by
them as part of the project. The turning
basin, however, is not part of the
proposal being voted on but is a project
planncJ by the Port of Bay City. The
Port Authority has already flatly stated
that the Port docs not "want a single
shrimp boat in there". It has stated the
turning basin is being geared primarily
to recreational boats.
Proponents have also been charged
with misleading voters into thinking
that the navigation channel would open
Bay City into becoming a type of deep
water port. Opponents point out that
the channef. currently nine feet deep,
would only be dredged to a depth of 12
feet which could hardly be used by
anything larger than luxury fishing and
pleasure boals. Because the channel
would end at Matagorda, opponents say
that it would offer nothing that the
intracoastal Waterway already fur-
nishes.
The Tort of Bay City Authority and
Matagorda County, co-sponsors for the
project, say that the navigation channel
would increase boat traffic. Saying that
they followed the advice of state and
federal agencies, the diversion channel
was included in the project because it
would increase the flow of fresh water
into Wes! Bay resulting in an increase
in seafood production and provide more
job opportunities.
Pointing to the number of dams being
built upstream on the Colorado and the
volume of water needed at STP,
opponents say that the diversion
channel would provide little fresh water
to the bay. Tiger Island cut currently
furnishes most of the fresh water,
however that source would be closed by
the project.
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