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Page 4-Palacios Beacon, Wed., June 19, 1991
5 YEARS AGO-1986
The Palacios City Council was confronted with a suggestion by
Police Chief Donny Gullett to adopt an ordinance banning topless
dancers from Palacios.
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board announced last week it
had no reason to deny Houston Lighting and Power an operating
license for the $5.5-billion South Texas Nuclear Project.
The Palacios High School Band was selected to be the Texas
Music Educators Association AAA Honor Band for Music Region
III.
25 YEARS A(i0-1966
Donald C. "Don” Chandler had been hired as City Administra-
tor for the City of Palacios and will fulfill die duties as secretary.
Mark Mayfield had been selected as a delegate to the 4th Annual
Texas Youth Conference in Austin 18-21.
Floyd DcLoach, conductor on the Southern Pacific Railroad,
will retire June 26 after more than 36 years of service.
John H. Fischer had been employed to assist in the prescription
department of the Palacios Pharmacy.
30 YEARS ACiO-1961
Ralph Bowers will be awarded a State Fanner Degree in Dallas
during die State FFA Convention in July.
Jimmy Koontz and Grady Wofford were issued building per-
mits for new brick residences in Green Acres at Monday night’s
meeting of die city council.
Many attended the dedication of Palacios’ new post office
Sunday afternoon.
35 YEARS AGO-1956
Branon Brother Construction Company’s bid fo $28,850 for
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Palais Beacon Earl? Files
11 miles of black topping city streets was accepted by the cily
council. Work was expected to start immediately.
The Rivers and Harbors Subcommittee of the House of Repre-
sentatives approved the Matagorda Ship Channel project Tuesday.
The bill provides funds covering one half the cost of dredging a
36-foot channel from the Gulf of Mexico through Pass Cavallo
into Point Comfort.
Tuesday night the Board of pircctors of the Palacios Chamber
of Commerce debated solutions for a financial crisis. It was re-
vealed that the membership dugs had been unable to pay the man-
ager’s salary and current bills, l
40 YEARS AC,0-1951
A weekend at the Shamrock Hotel in Houston was the grand
prize being offered by the Lions Club to the winner of the bathing
beauty contest scheduled in connection with the July 4th Commu-
nity Carnival.
Venezuela’s ambassador to the United States, Antonio Marlin
Araujo and a party of dignitaries from the South American republic
landed at the Palacios Airport Monday morning and motored to
Point Comfort to inspect Alcoa’s plant there.
Bids on the construction of Palacios’ new 500 x 1,200 foot
basin will be opened July 9.
45 YEARS AGO-1946
Airport Dispersal Engineer J.B. McDonell of the CAA was here
Wednesday morning to confer with the city council, wrapping up
the details in transferring the airport over to Palacios. The 2,500
acre tract and equipment will become the property of the city when
all trie titles arc cleared up.
Ml VFARSi AGO-1941
Contract lor additional construction at Camp Hulcn, totaling
more than half a million dollars, was to be let.
The Recreational Advisory Committee allotted $100 lor the
purpose of getting the local golf course project revived.
1 55 YEARS AGO-1936
Dr. E.r. Ryon of Scadrift located in Palacios. He T'.'rehased the
dental equipment of the late Dr. A.B. Caimes.
j.C. Wilkerson, an employee of the S.P. Railway for 48 years
and brought the first train into Palacios, died at his home in Whur-
Stillman Winfield became the owner of the home of Mrs.
George Williamson on Ritchie Avenue.
Bob Trull received his degree in Petroleum Enginccnng at the
Stale University.
60 YEARS AGO-1931
Mrs. Grace Barnett was installed as Worthy Matron of the local
chapter of the O.E.S. and J.L. Pybus was the Worthy Patron.
Dates for the Baptist Encampment were announced for June 29
to July 5.
65 YEARS AGO-1926
H. Ledtje of Houston purchased the building on West Main
Street at one time used as the Palacios Cotton Gin. He was having
it remodeled and equipped for a Sanitary Bottle Works.
70 YEARS AGO-1921
T.A. Anderson of San Antonio secured the contract for putting
in the sewer system and has started work.
Camp Palomar opened with the largest enrollment in its
history.
Letters to
the Editor
Seal saving unfair and rude...
Dear Editor:
On the week-end of June 1,1 attended two out-of-town
graduation ceremonies. Invitations were received about three
weeks in advance. Neither invitation included reserved tickets, I
assumed this was a first come, first serve arrangement.
We arrived 30 minutes prior to the beginning of the first
ceremony. We realized we might not we able to find a place to sit
and would take the first available scats. As we approached an area
of three scats which were empty, we were told that the scats were
reserved, as the lady reached over and placed her purse and arms
across these seats. We had to retreat out of the row and look for
other seating. The people in the row below heard the comments
and politely moved and made enough room for us to sit.
We arrived 90 minutes ahead of time at the second ceremony.
In this case, we were able to observe people who arrived early
enough to get good seats for themselves, as well as save, hold,
reserve and/or rope off anywhere from 3 to 12 extra scats for other
friends and/or relatives that might rudely show up late. We
observed a person who guarded scats as if they had bought and
paid for assigned seating. These seats were reserved with
handbags, programs, small children, pillows, cameras, etc. A
family of eight sat in four seats while there were five reserved
seals next to them in the same row.
If people could only see themselves and see how ridiculously
rude and selfish they look to those people surrounding them. The
performance displayed was anywhere from loudly announcing
that the scats were reserved, placing arms across scats, standing in
front of the row to prevent others from crossing and even
removing reserved signs placed by the school for honored guest.
The sad thing about these two situations, after all the fussing
and fighting over empty seats, is that, some remained empty. Had
I been the first to take a scat, I would have politely, said "Excuse
Me" and proceeded to take a scat, regardless of whom it may have
displeased. This type of behavior should not be encouraged, for
we have just as much right to seal in any vacant seat as tlicy have
die right to leave. We arc not obligated to ask or receive
permission to sit at any public function.
Had I wanted to get a good seat for the purpose of being with
friends or relatives or taking good pictures, I would have arrived
early and if we arrived late then we would respectfully assume that
we would have to settle for the seats that remained.
I did not attend the Palacios graduation and hope that those that
did attend, did not behave in this inconsiderate and embarrassing
manner.
The next time you are invited or plan to attend a graduation,
school sponsored event or public event, where you have not paid
money for an assigned seat, have the courtesy to arrive early or at
the same time as your friends/family and don't volunteer or expect
others to do the dirty work of saving seats that you may or may
not use.
Judy Garza
Missing members of Class of iH6 sought...
Dear Editor,
The PHS Class of 1986 will hold its five-year reunion on July
6,1991. There arc several members of our class we arc unable to
contact. If anyone has seen or heard from any of the following
people, please contact Linda Wilson at 972-3821 or 972-3800. We
need address for Regina Sellers, Sara Schmidt, Lisa Sauseda,
Carmen Morales, Ngoc Anh Thi Nguyen, Howard Dindorc,
Darrell Barnett, Shane Wright and Brett Wright.
Seniors arc reminded to RSVD to Linda Wilson ASAP.
Linda Wilson
they won’t
• COUNCIL
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Jones and Ncusc plan to repre-
sent them.
Councilmcmbcr David Rolen
said he thought it was
"premature" to enter into a con-
tract now, and recommended the
city not enter into one until Jones
and Ncuse has it clear exactly
what tests arc to be performed.
Other members agreed.
"What we need to do is work
on a new contract," said Coun-
cilwoman Lucy Mata.
While Councilwoman Chris
Woll said she agreed the city
should not make a hasty deci-
sion, she stressed some urgency
towards the end of the meeting.
"1 know we tabled this. But
we need to pick it up off the table
pretty quickly," commented
Woll.
At the workshop last week,
Peters had told the council the
purpose of this testing is to
determine which way ground
water near the landfill is moving
so it will not get contaminated.
Once tests arc made, "We would
not do any sampling or
monitoring," Peters said.
But Peters did say the city
might have to install one or two
additional wells to comply with
Texas State Health Department
regulations. The city would have
to monitor the wells for a two or
three-year period, "until the
health department is satisfied,"
commented Peters.
Movement of groundwater is
very slow. So even if some con-
tamination were detected, Peters
said "it would be fairly easy to
install some wells and pump it
out.”
He added that most munici-
palities are not being "hassled”
as much about their landfills as
Palacios, noting that Palacios is
in an "unusual" situation because
the city shut down its landfill
many years ago.
"There are only a few munici-
palities being hassled by the
health department and you arc
one of them," Peters remarked.
Palacios Mayor Leonard
Lamar said the city wanted to
find a local drilling company that
could install the wells but said,
"the health department would not
allow just anyone to do it."
Jones and Ncusc has its own
geologists and drillers. How-
ever, Peters told the council that
"if you can save $2,000 or
$3,000 on each well, that is fine
as long as we can supervise the
company doing the work."
If all regulations are followed
strictly to health department
codes, Woll said the health de-
partment should be satisfied for
five years.
"If we don't follow them 1
think we will be hearing some-
thing else,” she said.
Since many of these studies
Jones and Ncusc has been per-
forming has cost $400 each time,
council agreed it would be good
if the testing could be limited to
once every three months.
"It would be advantageous to
get our own employees to learn
how to do this," Woll said.
Peters also told council during
last week’s workshop that there
are two irrigation pumps about
three miles from the landfill that
cause his company's test results
to be off just a little. But coun-
cilmembcr Dave Rolen said that
should net be a problem. "Those
(wells) have been there for years
and it's common knowledge
around here that when you turn
those on you don't have water
for a while," he said.
While Peters said it is some-
thing that needs to be looked at,
Rolen commented that "to put a
lot of money into a study now
would not be a good cause.”
Peters said testing could cost
the city $18,000 annually. He
said Jones and Ncusc has esti-
mated the landfill docs not need
more than five wells unless some
of the wells are running in dif-
ferent directions.
"We hope that estimate which
we put in there for the next five
years is way high. We just
wanted the city to be prepared,"
he had told the council last week.
While Peters is out of the
city's landfill issue now Lamar
said he docs not think it will hurt
the city's timetable on getting the
landfill closure started because,
"A lot of it is cut and dried," he
said.
In other business, council:
•Unanimously approved to
table appointing someone to the
unexpired term of the Matagorda
County Seawall Commission.
•Unanimously approved to
advertise for bids on fuel for a
tank at the airport.
•Unanimously approved to
enter into an agreement with
R.G.S. Associates for emer-
gency board preparation services
for the Palacios Volunteer Fire
Department. The cost is to be
paid from a $500 grant, which
the city is receiving from the
Palacios Area Fund.
•Unanimously approved a
Palacios Lions’ Club request to
use the Pavilion Park July 3rd
and 4th for the 42nd July Fourth
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celebration.
•Unanimously approved to
send an apology letter to the.
owner of Affiliated Driving,
Schools for not informing him
when the city went out for bids
to get a company who would
teach defensive driving to city
employees. Lamar said he
thought this company had gong
out of business. r
•Finally, unanimously ap
proved to hire Beverly Watson |s
a fulltime dispatcher, and adver-
tise for a standby dispatcher. ,
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