Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 13, 1982 Page: 2 of 10
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THIS WEEK
FROM THl PALACIOS BEACON
15 YEARS AUU-1467
I wo proposed city ordinances.' one pertaining to
junkyards, the other to livestock, were tabled at
Monday night s city council meeting.
A hospital bond election, calling tor $350,000 of
which $100,000 will be allocated to Wagner General
Hospital, had been called tor Saturday, Feb. 11.
I wo area students will receive their degree at
Texas A&M January 21. They were Ralph Bowers,
BS. Agriculture Engineering and Michael Jagger.
Veterinary Science.
New parcel post rates and using Zip Code goes into
effect Jan. IS.
' 20 YEARS AGO-1962
Announcing tor re-election were J.J. (Jack)
Spurgeon tor county judge; Mrs. Hilma Huitt. county
clerk; and J.Gradv Walker, district clerk.
Receipts at the post office for 1961 showed an
increase of $1.220.74 over the previous year.
A reception honoring Mr. and Mrs. John W.
mmmmmmmimmmAmmmmm
Richards on (heir SUth wedding anniversary will be-
held Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall.
Mrs. Bertha Cunningham retired as postal clerk
January S after IK years in the local post office.
At their first meeting of the new vear. the city
council approved S4K.OOO in new building permits
and the extension of water and sew er lines to the new
schools west of Palacios.
25 YEARS AUU-1957
An average ot five to six tank cars of oil were
leaving Palacios daily by rail. I he oil was coming
from the Appling Field in the Carancahua area.
I hc west banks of the new turning basin changed
from a quiet scene to a busy bee hive last week when
Capt. Herman Landry, pilot of ihe tug Dallas, docked
a barge loaded w ith 750 tons of pipe coating.
After much discussing, the city council Monday
night sounded a warning to those owing delinquent
taxes on their property that it no effort is made to
pav. action w ill be taken on the properties.
30 YEARS AGO-1V52
Dr. L.A. Wilcox was elected president of the
Palacios Chamber of Commerce tor the ensuing year.
B.E. Sailor purchased the Humble Service Station
from Pat Lowrv.
s' V * -"A' WH'Wk • MNNMi
Kucl Foley, promoter ot Folcv Homesites, a
subdivision between highway 35 and Ires Palacios
Hav. had sold IK lots there during 1451.
•he city council was considering Southwestern
Assocation telephone Company's request tor higher
rates.
Only about half the total city tax bill of S25.USU.K0
had been collected so far and only three weeks
remained to pav before a penalty is assessed.
35 YEARS AGO-1947
I he Palacios High School Band had been chosen to
march in Ihc opening day parade of the Houston Fat
Stock Show on January 24.
R.B. Irull. as pilot, and Audry Sullivan, co-pilot,
will rake part in the Sixth Annual Gult Air four to
Florida.
A total ot 65.7K inches of rain w as recorded for the
vear|44h.
Palacios last week experienced the toughest siege
of cold weather since January I44U.
4U YEARS AGO-1942
L G. English reisgned as manager of the Chamber
ot C ommerce.
A county-wide blackout was scheduled for tonight.
Air raid wardens had been appointed to patrol
sections of the town.
’•y5 -s * * »ms ,
Plans were being -made for the President’s Ball
and Wm. Elderwas named chairman.
Entering the political race werer J.H. Boring,
county superintendent: J. Gradv Walkerr district
clerk; D.B. Hinton, county clerk: and B.E. Sailor,
sheriff.
John Lower, w ho had coached the Sharks to the
co-championship of this district, moved to barbers
Hill w here he was offered a better job.
45 YEARS AGO-1937
A 130 foot derrick was put up on the Foley tract
one mile north of Palacios for a deep wildcat test by
Glenn McCarthy.
Dr. J.R. Wagner was elected president of the
Rotary Club to till the unexpired term of H. V. Barr.
Births reported wer: Mr. and Mrs. MerfeWiets, a
bov: Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Blackburn, rboy; Mr. and
Mrs. Phillip Rodriguez; a bov.
60 YEARS AGO-1422
Miss Beatrice Bentler and Roy Wilkerson were
married at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and
Mrs. John Bentler.
Miss Lewellvn Fox and Percy Corporen were
married at the home ot the bride's grandparents. Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Fox.
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COLD
(Continued from Page 11
Compounding the problem for
some were frozen car radiators
where the hard freeze caught the
vehicles with their anti-freeze
down. Service stations reported
several calls concerning that prob-
lem.
It was not until 4 p.m. Monday
that the high temperature for the
.day was reached and even then it
remained below the freezing level
at 31 degrees. A light rain began to
fall after midnight, but luckily
temperatures had edged past the
freezing point, thus avoiding dan-
gerous icing.
A slight warming trend was
forecast for Tuesday before temp-
eratures are expected to fall once
again on Wednesday.
I hc city's water service had a
delayed reaction to the cold
weather. The ground storage tanks
went dry early Tuesday morning
and pumps had difficulty maintain-
ing pressure because of the many
people who had left their faucets
running. City hall said that water
service was expected to resume
later Tuesday.
Editorial Page
PAGE 2,
by Barry McWilliams
-SCHOOL-
(Continued from Page 11
amount to be raised to cover both
areas is approximately $45,000
more.
It is to be emphasized that any
additional sums raised not needed
for the total building project, will
be. placed in an "operational"
account for operation of the center.
The Palacios Library. has, com-
munity tetter forfns at tne book
checkout counter tor anyone wish-
ing to donate to this project and
have either lost their letter or did
not receive one.
Reward is offered
A $500 reward is being offered
bv a private individual for infor-
mation leading to the arrest and
convection of the driver involved in
a hit-and-run accident which occur-
cd on 12th 5t. New Year's Eve.
The names of person or persons
supplying information will be kept
confidential, t hose with informat-
ion should contact the Palacios
_Police Department at 472-3112.
BIRTHDAYS
JANUARY 15
Joyce A. Harvey, Palacios
David Harvev. Palacios
Robert Losova. Palacios
JANUARY 18
Deborah Rocha, Palacios
Sarah Penland. Palacios
Bcttic Hagaman, Palacios
Pat Solis. Palacios
JANUARY 14
Rhoda Penland. Palacios
Billy Barnett, Palacios
Olivia Ripke, Palacios
ANNIVERSARIES
JANUARY 18
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Clary. Paleios
CONGRESSMAN BILL PATMAN
REVENUE ENHANCEMENT’:
A NEW WAY TO SAY ‘MORE
TAXES ARE ON THE WAY’
REPORTS FROM W ASHINGTON.
Bake sale
Saturday at
Hamlin’s
A bake sale will be held
Saturday at Hamlin's Mini-
max to aid Isabel (C'havela)
Gmntamlla. I hc money raised
will be used to help buy a
protliesis for Mrs. Quintanil-
la who had her foot ampu-
tated in October. Donations
will he accepted.
—a n* ***
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ABvirmiim Bal»»wtt»qitul
It’s sad, but true, that ever since the
first tax was levied to pay for govern-
ment, efforts have been made by some
to keep people from knowing they're
being taxed.
For example, the withholding tax
— taking taxes out of a person’s salary
before he gets his pay check — is an
effort to “sugar coat” the tax . . .
make it easier to swallow.
A sales tax, too, is camouflaged. It
gets to be just part of what you pay for
when you buy a product. You hardly
think about the fact you’re being
taxed.
Nearly all taxes are disguised in
some way — except property or real
estate taxes. They’re paid in lump sums
. . . there’s no escaping what THEY
are!
Gobbledygook was born in
Washington. It means talking in words
and phrases that are hard to under-
stand ... or calling a sow’s ear a silk
purse.
Some Administration advisors have
now invented a new gobbledygook
phrase: “Revenue Enhancement."
In plain talk it means “RAISING
TAXES."
The same word-makers have coined
another phrase: “Scrubbing
numbers.”
Scrubbing numbers is what the
President’^ men say they do when they
take budget deficits, play with them
and juggle them about . . . until,
finally, they say what the number
scrubbers want.
Number scrubbing probably got the
Adtninisiraiionviiiiu the fix they're in
right now — the prospect of the first
triple digit deficit in history. Their
latest figures are vastly different from
those they projected last spring. The
new, “UNscrubbed" numbers indicate
that the deficit will climb well above
ihe $100 billion mark for 1982 . . . with
deficits of $150 billion in 1983 and
1984.
When the President's tax cut
measure passed last summer, there was
a lot of talk about how the cuts would
make government revenue grow. Most
of the Administration’s cuts went to
the biggest businesses and to indi-
viduals with the largest incomes. The
theory was that, since these people
clearly didn’t need the extra money to
live on, they would promptly invest it
in productive enterprise. This would
spur the economy, create more jobs,
and increase productivity. And im-
provements in the economy would
generate the huge new tax revenues
needed to prevent deficits.
It isn’t working that way.
Instead of a perked up economy,
we have a deep recession.
Instead of more jobs, we have
fewer. The number of unemployed has
risen by I million people since January
of 1981.
Business failures have jumped from
277 to 380 each week.
In contrast with last January, now
only half as many persons arc begin-
ning to buiid homes.
instead of more productivity, our
annual rate of real GNP growth has
(alien, over the past 12 months, from
just over 8 percent to only 1 percent.
And so, less than a year after the
President pushed through the largest
tax cut in history, we hear the new
phrase from the White House —
“revenue enhancement.” And we hear
rumors of the tax increases that may be
recommended by the President.
One is to decontrol natural gas,
then raise taxes on natural gas by a
windfall profit tax.
Drew Lewis, the President’s
Secretary of Transportation, is pushing
for a Federal gasoline tax of at least 9
cents a gallon. It would, of course,
raise the price of gasoline at the pump.
Another proposal is to withhold 5
percent of an individual’s dividend and
interest income.
Some Administration advisors
PUBI.ISHER-
OFm’E MANAGER.
.NICHOLAS M. WEST
-ELAINE TEMPLEMAN
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PALACIOS CHAPTER NO. 125 O.E.S...3rd
Tuesday of each month. K p.nrr: Masonic Hall. 3
miles north on Hwv. 35.
PALACIOS LODGE NO. 940 A.F.«tA.M..,lst and
3rd Thursday of each month, 8 purr Masonic Hall.
3 miles north on Hwv. 35.
QUEEN HAMLIN POST 2467 VFW...men meet
3rd Thursday of each month. Ladies-Auxiliary
meets 2nd Monday each month. VFW Hall.
PALACIOS VF’i)...2nd and 4th Mondays. 7:30
p.m.. Fire Hall on Commerce Street
PALACIOS ISD SCHOOL BOARD ..2nd Mon
day of each month, 8 p.m.. Tax Office on 2nd
Street.
PINK LADIES...1st Monday of each month. 2
p.m.. Wagner General Hospital.
PALACIOS 4-H CLUB...2nd Monday of each
month. 7:30p.m.. Ag Building
PALACIOS BAND BOOSTERS...4th Monday of
each month. 7:30 p.m.. Band Hall-
CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS...!st Wednesday ot
each month. 7:30p.m.. St. Athom ’sCCD Building.
TOPS ITAKE OPE POUNDS SENSIBLYI...EV
erv 'Tuesday at the Palacios Library, 6:00 p.m.
WOMEN’S DIVISION CHAMBER OP COM-
MERCE...3rd Tuesday of each month, Petersen’s
Restauranrrl2 noon.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMHUS...4th Thursday of
each month. St. Anthony ParistrHall, 7:30 p.m.
PALACIOS CITY COUNCIL... 1st and- -3rd
Mondays. K p.m.. C’itv Hall.
PALACIOS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE... 1st
and 3rd Thursdays. 12 noon. Petersen’s Restaurant
CITIZENS AWARENESS...2nd Thursday. 7:30
p.m.. First Presbvterian Churetr.
AAKP | AMERICAN ASSOC. OF RETIRED
PERSONS!'...2nd Tuesdays. 2:30~p.m.. Episcopal
Hall, 3rd antFMain.
WEDNESDAY CLUB... 1st and 3rd Wednes-
days. 3 p.m.. Athena RoomrPalacios Library.
PALACIOS MEDICAL FOUNDATION..;c..2nd
Tuesday. 7:30 p.m., Athena Room, Patarios
Library.
PALACIOS LIONS CLUB...1st and 3rd Tues-
days. 7 p.m.. Palacios Recreation Center.
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warn to treat an employer’s contribu-
tion to his employees’ health insurance
as part of the employees' taxable in-
come — another bite on the working
taxpayers.
Most often mentioned as a
“revenue enhancer” is a value-added
tax — a fancy national sales tax.
I am disturbed about the growing
tax burden on our people. But as we
work to lower this burden, let’s be cer-
tain that our approach is even handed
and fair. The middle-income American
must not bear all the tax burden — nor
should the small businessman.
I also hope, when we make tax cuts
in the future, that we do it in a
thoughtful, carefully considered, and
prudent way that won't create moje
problems than it solves. It hardly helps
the taxpayer to put money back into
one of his pockets. . . and, then, just a
few months later, start taking it out of
his other pocket.
To control the huge deficits
generated by the failure of “Supply
Side” theory, the President is expected
to ask for an $80 billion to $85 billion
increase in taxes by 1983
No one knows now what tax in-
creases the President will recommend.
They could be all, any, or none of
those ! have mentioned. We in Con-
gress need to be thinking about our
response to his recommendations. 1
want and need your opinions. Please
write me your views to 1408
Longworth Building, Washington,
D.C. 20515.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS & -ALANON
FAMILY...Sundays. 3:30 p.m., Episcopal Ha!!, 3rd
and Main.
DRUG AND ALCOHUL COUNSELING...Fri-
days, 1-8 p.m., Matagorda County Annex,
Information 97T-2W4.
SQUARE DANCE-CLUB...Tuesdays, 8 p.m.,
Episcopal Church Hall.
EAGLES |MEN|...2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7:30
p.m., Eagles'Hall.
EAGLES |WOMEN|...lst and 3rd Tuesdays, 7:30
p.m.. Eagles Hall.
SOCIAL SECURITY...1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 10
a.m.-12 noon, Palaciosttbrary.
■PALACIOS RECREATION ASSOC...2nd Thurs-
day of each month. 7:30 p.m., PalaciotrKecreation
Center.
Clubs, groups or organizations wishing to have
their meeting schedule listed In the Community
Calendar free of charge should contact the Beacon
office at 450 Commerce or call 972-2610.
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