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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, December
Palacios S^aco
THONE G8
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR -
MRS. J. W. DISMUKES
JESSE V. DISMUKES
Entered at the Post Office at Palacios, Texas, ns second class mail
matter, under the Act of Congress.
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WE STOP ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS AT EXPIRATION
The Beacon’s Platform for a
ERMANENT
ROGRESSIVE ^TEXAS GULF COAST
A ALACIOS y^/^j(2ue*i(d£bn
1. Completion of the Hug-thc-Coast Highway to Galveston.
2. A city zoning ordinance to govern future building.
8. A City Manager form of government.
4. A tax-supported Chamber of Commerce.
B. Street names and house numbers properly displayed.
6. Beautification of the bay shore.
7. Construction and maintenance of public rest rooms for men and
women.
8. Construction of a new City Hall and Fire Station.
9. Establishment of a city budget.
10. A housing program adequate to care for the city's needs.
What Are You Looking For?
“Isn’t this a grand fall day?” remarked one friend to an-
other on the street on a recent Friday morning. “Yes, but it’s
Friday the 13th, and you better not walk under any ladders,”
replied the friend.
Which brings to our mind the thought, that we usually
see just what we are looking for. If we look upon the bright
side of life, it’s to be a bright day; if we look on the gloomy
side, it’s pretty sure to be a gloomy dismal day.
If we extend the hand of good fellowship to a neighbor
and fellow associate, we are very liable to have the hand of
good fellowship extended us when we need it most. If we
boost the other fellow’s game, he’s very liable to boost ours
and if he prospers and succeeds in the community, we are
most liable to prosper and succeed with him.
Truly, after all, one usually finds what they are looking
for. If they look for mud, they are very liable to see mud.
If they search for beauty and grace, they are liable to see
beauty and grace. If they are spiteful, one to another, they
are liable to find others spiteful to them, while if they smile
and seek to make others happy, they are most likely to find
contentment and satisfaction in their own lives.
You no doubt recall the story that is told of Lincoln
Steffens when he was a boy. He watched an artist at work,
painting a picture of a muddy river. He complained that the
picture did not show the mud, to which the artist replied:
“You see the brush and the baked mud? All right, they are
there. Many things are there and everybody sees what he
likes in this and every other scene. I see beauty, the colors
and the light.”
And so there you are—mud and beauty—which do you
look for as you journey through life? If we look for mud and
ugliness, we will find them. They are there. If we look
for beauty, for goodness, for character, for nobility, we will
find them. They are there, too.
Just as the artist found beauty in the muddy river,
because that is what he liked to see there, we will find in the
stream of life, those things which we most desire to see.
Look for the best and to see the beautiful—that’s the
happy way to live and will bring satisfaction into your own
life.—Ex.
Our Safety Standards Are High
The United States today is the only country which per-
mits full publication of air accidents. Unfortunately some
readers jump to the conclusion that, in our haste to train
fliers, the United States has lowered safety standards, with
a resultant rise in the accident rate. This is not true. On
the contrary, according to a report by Robert A. Lovett, As-
sistant Secretary of War for Air, the accident rate for the
first seven months of 1942, in training per 1,000 hours flown,
was 15 per cent lower than the ten-year peacetime average,
in spite of the extraordinary expansion.
Remember, when you read reports of accidents to Army
and Navy planes, that the number of aircraft in the air is
many times what it was before the war. In the first seven
months of 1942, 45 percent more hours were flown than in
the whole ten-year period from 1930 to 1940.
Our safety standards still remain the highest in the
world.
Buy U. S. War Bonds and Stamps.—NOW!
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PUT "TOGETHER LIKE
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ARE ONE Of THE LATEST
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LATHER
*1<> SAV? VALUABLE
WAR METALS, GLASS
PLAQUES ARE NOW
BEING USED FOR.
MEMORIALS AND
COMMEANORATIVE
tablets
N'JTMESS
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PcACA LlrlL FRUIT
WrlCH IS NEVER
PICKED. THE
FRUIT SPLITS’OPEN.
ALICWIN6 THE NUTMEGS
TO FALL TO THE (GROUND
A NUMBER OF TE)4AS SHiP/ARDS
ARE USING &AHANAS FOR LUBRICATING
-THE WAVS IN LAUNCHING SHIPS
__FNlSlNEFRC HAVE TAKET4
^ .NATURE'S* ADVICE AND
DESIGNED THE TIRE’S OF THE.
NEW 1/4 TON JEEP TO
RESEMBLE THE CAMEL’S TREAD.
A CAMEL'S FOOT IS NATURE'S
DESIGN FOR THE BEST SUPPORT
ON SHIFTING SAND
This fanner Is like many around
here. He knows that a good way to
save money is to keep his farm Sin-
clair-ized with a full line of Sinclair
products. For example, in buying
kerosene, it pays to ask for Sinclair SuperFlame. This kero-
sene will save you money over a season. That’s because it
burns clean in incubators and brooders. There’s
no odor or gases to kill the hatch. Let me sup-
ply you with Sinclair SuperFlame Kerosene
and other Sinclair products when my truck
calls at your farm.
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HEALTH NOTES
AUSTIN.—Commenting today on
the control of communicable dis-
eases, Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health Officer, said that whooping
cough is one of the hardest of the
so-called children’s diseases to con-
trol. This is because it is a highly
contagious disease which begins as
an ordinary cough and is often not
recognized until the child has ex-
posed other neighborhood children.
Whooping cough is contagious dur-
ing the week or ten days preceding
the easily recognizable symptom
known as the “whoops.” Even when
the disease has been recognized, of-
ten a physician is not called and
children are allowed to play with
others when they are known to be
sick.
In children under the age of three
years, whooping cough can be very
dangerous and is often fatal. Fre
quent spells of coughing and vom-
iting weaken the child to such an
extent that he easily becomes a vic-
tim of some complicating disease
such as pneumonia. Whooping cough
complicated by pneumonia is
dangerous to young children that
it is advisable to call a doctor as
soon as the childs becomes sick.
“Do everything you can to pro-
tect children from whooping cough,”
Dr. Cox said. “Keep them away
from playmates who have colds,
especially when whooping cough is
prevalent in the community. Teach
children not to put into their
mouths objects which have been
handled by others and be sure that
they wash their hands before eat
ing. If, in spite of your precaution,
your childs appears to be catching
whooping cough, call your doctor
at once.”
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War Bonds must be first on the
family budget.
Let me deliver to your farm
Agent Sinclair Refining Company (Inc.)
T. A. CASTLETON, Agent, Bay City
WINFRED JOHNSON, Station, Palacios
PHONE 170 FOR WASHING AND LUBRICATION
Don’t Wait Until
Pyorrhea Strikes
Gums that itch or burn can be-
come mighty trying. Druggists will
return your money if the first
bottle of "LETO’S” fail to satisfy.
Palacios Pharmacy
PUNCHES CLOCK
AGAIN..FOR BOY
IN JAP PRISON
Retired machinist back
in harness puts 20%
in War Bonds
Oscar used to be a first-class
machinist. Five years ago he re-
tired to live out the rest of his life
on a pension.
The other morning he showed up
again at his old plant, which now
makes war equipment, and asked
for his old job back. When payday
came, he signed up with the Pay-
roll Savings Plan to put 20% of
his pay in War Bonds.
Seems Oscar’s boy was on
Bataan.
The Most You Can Save
Is the Least You Can
With people like Oscar making
real sacrifices to help win the war,
is it too much for you to put aside
as little as 10% of your pay for
War Bonds? Sign up for at least
10% at your place of business
today!
Keep Liberty Ringing!
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THIS WEEK 1
IN PALACIOS HISTORY f
FROM OUR EARLY FILES l>‘
:;.,i <*>:’ , n . a
20 YEARS AGO
The home of Mr. and Mrs. S. T.
Best wns the scene of n pretty wed-
ding when their oldest daughter,
Hattie Sam became the bride of
H. C. Lewis.
Miss Alma Sealock and Albert
Brock were united in marriage in
Bu\ City, County Judge officiating.
Word wns received here of the
death of Miss Francesca Taylor,
daughter of Mrs. Alice B. Taylor.
Officers for the Palacios Library
Association were elected at regular
board meeting as follows: Presi-
dent, Mi's. F. G. Berger: Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. John Traylor; Second
Vice-President, Mrs. Earl Grant;
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Feather;
Treasurer, Mrs. A. G. Skinner. Di-
rectors, Messrs, J. F. Barnett, H.
B. Farwell and M. K. Feather.
15 YEARS AGO
The announcement list was in-
creased by the addition of the fol-
lowing candidates: W. S. Leslie,
County Attorney; I. F. Taylor,
County School Superintendent; Mrs.
Ruby Hawkins, County Clerk.
The Matagorda County Federa-
tion of Women’s Clubs mot in the
Community House at Blessing.
Palacios merchants were adver-
tising for Christmas to such an ex-
tent the Beacon carried two extra
pages.
OLIVIA
Our school closed last Wednesday
for the Thanksgiving holidays and
all the teachers spent their vaca*-
tiiin in their respective homes.
The W. M. S. Society had the ma-
nual social at the school house
Thanksgiving evening.
Lt. and Mrs. Glenn Peterson and
family of Louisiana spent last week
here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs
C. E. Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Ohlert and son ami Mrs. E. E.
Burke and son from Galveston were
Thanksgiving day visitors in their
parental home also.
Mr. and Mrs. Steger of Port La-
vaca spent the weekend witli her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. II. Wilson.
David Peterson spent the holidays
in Edna with Emmett Colo Jr.
The Oscar Johnson family visit-
ed Mr. and Mrs. Hardy in Palacios
Sunday afternoon.
The G. A. Swenson family visit-
in El Campo Sunday.
Carl Jr. Anderson will leave this
week to answer Uncle Sam’s call.
The Living Room Demonstration
for the Home Demonstration Club
was given at the home of Mrs. P. I,.
Haskin. She had a very lovely new-
ly worked over living room.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Cows and
children from Boling spent the
weekend with friends in Olivia. Mr.
Coers is now Band Director in the
Boling School.
The G. A. Swenson family hud in
a number of friends for a “Big Tur-
key Dinner” on Thanksgiving.
Mr. and Mrs, S. T. Swenson ac-
companied Mrs. Rnlph Swenson of
Bay City on Saturday to visit Ralph
at an air port in San Antonio.
Mr., and Mrs, Lcnus Peterson
spent all week in San Antonio.
Perry L. Haskin of San Antonio
spent u week here with his parents
lie is on a 15 day leave.
You will have your chance to buy
luxury goods when the war is over
and you have been fore sighted
enough to have accumulated a stock
of War Bonds,
Set aside your War Bond pur-
chased in an envelope really la-
belled: “For Use When the War
Is Over.”
Send Some Cheers to Freedom’s-
Frontiers 1
AT FIRST
SIGN OF A
USE
666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS
10 YEARS AGO
Word was received here of the
death of W. M. Miller, in Oakland,
California.
Mrs. M. Bonner died at her home
in this city. She had been a resi-
dent of Palacios since 1900.
County Federation of Women's
Clubs met in Wadsworth. Officers
elected were Mrs. A. R. Matthis,
president, and Mrs. C. A. Lucas,
secretary. Both were members of
the Blessing Library Association.
“The Flapper Grandmother” was
presented by home talent for the
benefit of the P.-T. A.
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ISN’T HE WORTH IT?
npHIS message is written to you
J. from your government.
_______ 0 mothers —
from your government.
It concerns the most precious thing in all
the world to you — your child.
It asks you to help protect that child — froni
fear, from starvation, from death — the fate
that has befallen millions of children under the
rule of Nazi and Jap tyrants.
It asks you to urge your husband to join the
Payroll Savings Plan—the easy way to buy
War Bonds that will furnish the ships and
guns and tanks and planes so desperately need-
ed to guard you and yours from the horrors
of defeat.
Or, if your husband is already buying War
Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan — it
asks you to urge him to buy more, to increase
his savings to at least ten per cent of his
salary or wages.
Remember. Millions of your brothers, hus-
bands, sons, friends arc risking everything. You
are asked to risk nothing. War Bonds are the
World’s Safest Investment.
As you buy them through the Payroll Sav-
ings Plan — today, you are doing your part
to help protect your child todayl And at the
same time setting up a savings fund to help
bring up, educate, and develop that child —
tomorrow.
Talk it over with your husband tonight. And
resolve to put at least ten per cent—not 6%,
or 7%> or 8%—into War Bonds through the
Payroll Savings Plan. Do it for that child of
yours. Isn’t he worth it?
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
If you arm . 11
Already setting aside 10% of your hay in War
Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan — boost
that 10% if you can.
Working in a plant where the Plan is installed,
but haven’t signed up yet — sign up tomorrow.
Working in a plant where the Payroll Savings
Plan hasn't been installed, talk to your union head,
foreman or plant manager — and aee if it can’t be
installed right away. Tne local bank will be glad
to help.
Unable to get in on the Payroll Savings Plan for
any reason, go to your local bank or wherever
bonds are sold. They will be glad to help you start
a Plan of your own.
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