Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1967 Page: 8 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TL'XAS
Thursday, March 2, 1967
Infant Llanes Buried
Graveside services for Noel
Llanes, infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Demetrio Llanes, were conducted
by Rev. Michael Harrold at 5 Sun-
day afternoon in the Palacios Cem-
etery.
Surviving are his parents, four
sisters, Sylvia, Lacinda, Julia Ann
and Kimberley; five brothers, Vic-
tor, Johnny Richard, Daniel, De-
metrio, Jr. and Mark Anthony all
of Palacios.
VEHICLE INSPECTION
Vehicle defects that cause bad ac-
cidents go undetected under the
present Texas Motor Vehicle In-
spection Law, according to “Texans
for Traffiic Safety.” Governor Con-
nally is proposing expansion of
this law to permit inspection of
any part of a vehicle designated by
he Texas Department of Public
Safety.
Tourists who go to Russia for
kicks really get them.
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EARLY TIMES
By JACK STEWART
LEAD
I have somewhere, or at least
had, as I havcnSt looked for it in
some time, a little round ball that
war. white when it came into my
possession; About twenty years ago
I talked the caretaker of the Fan-
nin Battlefield out of it. He used
to find them quite often after a
rain, so the fact that this was one
of quite a few that he had found,
it did not take too much sincere
talking to convence him of my need
of this particular little found ball.
The white, which was caused by the
minerals in the soil, scraped dff
and underneath was bright, soft,
lead. This was a rifle ball that was
carried by either the good or bad
guys in that encounter that was
turned into a tragedy later1 at
Goliad when all but a handful of
the Texicans were shot. I don’t
believe that this ball was ever
fired because of its near perfect
roundness but rather was dropped
by one or the other of the forces.
Quien sabe? Who knows?
To get back to the purpose of
this windy, lead, at times, was
worth more than its weight in gold.
The original bravos that settled
the frontier had to have it for bul-
lets. Back in Daniel Boone’s time
each and every rifle made had its
own size bullet and thus its own
bullet mold. So thus there had to be
a metal that could be made molten
easily to pour—thus lead. In fact,
Daniel was captured by the In-
dians: Herons, Mohawks, Shag-
nastys or some breed or another
and affected his escape1 by saving
lead. He finally gained the con-
fidence of his captors to the extent
that he was allowed to hunt, under
supervision, but had to account for
each and every load slug. Brainy
Boone would cut his slugs in two
pieces, shoot one, save the other.
Finally he escaped to get back to
civilization.
Now here’s a weirdo. Jackson
County does not have any indica-
tion of any minerals other than
oil, but there is. There’s lead.
Along in the 1850’s, a Dutchman
named Van Litsen who lived in
the northern part of Jackson Coun-
ty began supplying the neighbors
with lead. This was pure lead that
did not have to be refined; only
melted down and used. He was
never known to leave home and
no major roads came through his
area so people had to believe his
story that he had a lead mine. At
any rate he furnished all the lead
that the newly settled area needed
until one day he was found on the
floor of his cabin With a small
round hole in his head, made un-
doubtedly from the product of his
own mine. The killing, like so
many others of those days and
times, went unsolved.
About ten years later an unsav-
ory character began supplying lead
in the same neighborhood. It was
also good, pure lead, ready for
melting. Now this character was
unique in the annals of Jackson
County history as he was known to
deviate from the truth at times.
Something unheard of then or
since. He claimed he had found the
old Dutchman’s mine by accident,
and of course was keeping his own
council as to where on the Lavaca
it was located.
Course he may not have ever
found a mine as a pack train had
been knocked off on Chicolete Creek
in that area about the time he ap-
peared. This train was believed to
have been carrying either gold,
silver or lead.
Now get your slide rule and tell
me how much lead this is: The buf-
falo hunters of the Staked Plains
of Panhandle Texas literally kill-
ed every buffalo in the southern
herd; some eight million. It was
said that it took an average of
five shots per animal and the bul-
lets weighed out to fourteen bullets
per pound. How much lead did it
Ul*e ? What happened to all the
Matagorda Co. Soil
Conservation News
Cari-JIansen “as completed plant-
ing about 100 acres of Gordo blue-
stem on the Stanley Kubela Farm
near Tin Top. This warm seasoned,
introduced bluestom grass is well
adapted to the soil and climate in
Matagorda County Soil and Water
Conservation District. Locally
grown seed is available for plant-
ings this year.
L. W. Chappell lias completed
about one mile of drainage field
ditches on his 500 acre stock farm
two miles North of Midfield. These
ditches were constructed with a
motor grader to drain pasturelmid
that was formerly planted to rice.
Chappell has been a cooperator
with the Matagorda County Soil
and Water Conservation District
for several years.
The World Of Paper
. . . Then And Now
Paper may have been invented in
China in the First Century, but to-
day, annual consumption of the
indispensable, disposable material
in that country averages a mere
six pounds per person, says the
American Paper Institute.
Russia is doing a bit better, with
an annual per capita usage figure
of 42 pounds. In Sweden and Can-
ndn. two large paper producing na-
tions, the annual per capita figure
is about 300 pounds.
Highest of all, however, is the
figure for the U. S.—approximately
530 pounds per person during 1966.
That year the U. S. paper industry
spent $1.2 billion on new mills and.
equipment in order to produce the
estimated 100,000 different paper
and paperboard products that are
on the market.
The saplings in our forests are
the sawlogs for tomorrow’s lum-
ber.
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SCHOOL MENU
MARCH 6-tO, 1967
Monday: Roast Beef with Gravy,
Whipped Potatoes, Green Beans,
Tossed Salad, Hjt Rolls, Butter,
Milk, Butter dake with Chocolate
Icing.
Tuesday: Enchiladas, Cole Slaw,
Pinto Beans, Fruited Jello, Bread,
Butter, Milk.
Wednesday; Cheeseburger, Let-
tuce, Tomatoes, Pickles, Onions,
French Fries, Ice Cream, Milk.
Thursday: Fried Chicken, Butter-
ed Rice, English Peas, Combination
Salad, Hot Bread, Butter, Milk,
Cherry Cobbler.
Friday: Tuna Salad on Lettuce
Leaf, Kernel Corn, Hash Browned
Potatoes, Turnip & Greens, Bread,
Butter, Milk, Prune Kolachi.
womout shell cases ? Do farmers in
that wheat, milo, cotton area—the
former home of the buffalo—still
plow up those relics?
Just think, when a hunter went
out to hunt he fought about five
hundred pounds of lead, one hun-
dred sheets of patch paper, and
about five 25-lb. cans of DuPont
powder. A lot of lead.
Palacios Police Phone 824-3112.
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Dismukes, Jesse V. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1967, newspaper, March 2, 1967; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726373/m1/8/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.