Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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PALAC BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, July 3, 1941
DOWN THROUGH THE AGES
PHONE 63
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Advertising Rates On Request
OWNER AND PUBLISHER -
EDITOR AND ADV. MANAGER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR - -
BUSINESS MANAGER - -
MRS. J. W. DISMUKES
- B. C. (JACK) NIVEN
JESSE V. DISMUKES
HUGH J. DISMUKES
Entered at the Post Office at Palacios, Texas, as second class mail
matter, under the Act of Congress.
SUBSCRIPTION P \TES
In Matagorda County:— Six Months, $1.00;
Outside Matagorda County:—
One Year $1.75
Six Months, $1.25; One Year $2.00
The Beacon’s Platform for a
P
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ERMANENT
ROGRESSIVE
ALACIOS
\TEXAS GULF COAST
1. Completion of the Hug-the-Coast Highway to Galveston.
2. A city zoning ordinance to govern future building.
3. City Manager form of government.
4. A tax-supported Chamber of Commerce.
6. Street naming and numbering.
6. Improved streets and maintenance.
7. Modern hotel.
8. Beautification of the bay shore.
9. Municipally owned and operated trailer camp.
10. Construction and maintenance of public rest rooms.
The USO And The Merchant
' 9 What we are about to say is not going to be pretty.
It is not going to please a great many people.
In fact it may make some people quite angry.
We hope it does.
' Practically every person in Palacios is deriving monetary
benefit from the pay roll of Camp Hulen. It may be in direct
benefits from the sale of merchandise to the individual
soldier. It may be in the sale of supplies to organizations.
It may be in payment for services rendered at the Camp or
it may be for salaries from merchants who cater to the
soldier trade.
On the other hand it may be in rents to families of
soldiers or to families who have come to Palacios because
of the fact that Camp Hulen has become an active military
center. Whatever the cause everybody is more or less de-
pendent upon Camp Hulen and the money which it has
brought to Palacios. That is except those who exist on old
age pensions or on the interest of money they have made
and invested elsewhere.
Now there is an opportunity to do something which will
not only aid those upon whose meager pay we are all making
a living but also to render material assistance to see to it that
they remain in this city sufficiently long enough to spend
that money. That may be a crass manner of expressing the
thought but it is the truth.
The United Service Organization, Incorporated, composed
of the six great social service organizations of the nation have
united to render service with a greater degree of efficiency
to the men in uniform. The government is going to construct
a building costing from $35,000 up for the purpose of pro-
viding properly supervised, wholesome recreation for the men
in uniform. The USO is to staff this building and to operate
the recreational facilities. A sum of money amounting to
some $11,000,000.00 (million) is now being raised through-
out the United States to finance the operation of these build-
ings which the government has, very properly, entrusted to
civilian agencies. This gigantic sum has been allotted in
quotas to the various communities of the United States and
Palacios has ben alloted a quota of $420. ONLY $420 from a
city that owes its bread and butter to the fact that the Fed-
eral government decided to place some 12,000 troops at Camp
Hulen for training.
The payrolls of the staff of civilian operators of the rec-
reational hall, those who will come to Palacios because of the
money raised by this drive to aid in providing proper enter-
tainment fer the men in uniform will more than off-set that
amount every month.
Individually every one says that it is a fine idea. It is
something to which every one should contribute. It is some-
thing that should receive the support of every person in
Palacios. Certainly, everyone except ME. “I do not have time.”
“I do not have the money to spare.” “I have to remodel my
place of business so I can take care of the additional trade
which will come because of the new recreational trade which
will come because of the new recreational building.” “Let
somebody else do it.” “I am not interested.”
Ralph P. Newsom, superintendent of schools, was asked
to accept the responsibility of handling the mechanics of rais-
ing this $420 for Palacios. He arranged his teams to call
upon the merchants and private citizens of Palacios. When
the day came not a one showed up. That is fine commentary
upon the public spirit of Palacios. It is a fine statement to
have to put before the public.
Who receives the greatest benefit from the soldiers and
their nearly three-quarters of a million dollars payroll every
month? Who is it that should be the first to contribute in
some manner to this movement to which the greatest stars
of stage, screen and radio have given of their time and talent,
the only asset they have with which to earn a living?
It is the retail merchant, the beer-parlor operator, the
drug store proprietor, the owner of the dry good store, the
hardware store, the soda fountain, the picture show, the cafe,
and the grocery. These are the men who derive the most im-
mediate benefit. But others also reap their profits in a more
indirect manner. The total result is that every man, woman
and child is receiving in some manner monetary and economic
benefits from the army camp just outside our door. Owners
of rental property are not exempt from this classification
either.
A measly little sum of $420 is requested from Palacios
and Mr. Newsom can not even get people to give enough time
to solicit funds to meet our part of this great program.
If Palacios as a whole does not meet this responsibility in
the manner which it should and fails, not only to meet the
quota but to go far beyond it, it will stand as an everlasting
indictment of the grossest ingratitude, personal selfishness
and self-centered, egotistical, “nickle-grabbing” avaricious-
ness of every citizen and merchant of Palacios.
‘Boom Towns’ In
Military Areas Gives
State Health Problems
JULY 4th
THIS BANK WILL BE
CLOSED
FRIDAY, JULY 4th
(Legal Holiday)
The City State Bank of Palacios
—Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation—
AUSTIN, TEXAS.—“Expansion of
the national defense program in
Texas has transformed normal pop
ulation areas into ‘boom towns'
faced with a multitude of public
problems never before witnessed in
this State” declares Dr. Geo. W.
Cox, State Health Officer.
Local governmental agencies,
hard pressed to provide minimum
public health protection to this in-
creased population, have been faced
with problems of inadequate hous-
ing, insufficient water and sewer-
age supplies, and lack of environ-
mental sanitation to offset the pos-
sibility of communicable disease
epidemics.
Requests for immediate assist-
ance to provide public health pro-
tection to these areas deluge the
State Health Department day after
day. Fortunately a number of coun-
tained standard city and county
health departments in cooperation
with the State Health Department.
Using these existing departments
as a nucleus, additional personnel
were added to adequately care for
pressing needs in the matters of
public health protection. El Paso,
Dallas, Tarrant, Nueces, and Cam-
eron were among the counties whose
public health problems were solved
in this manner.
Brownsville, Harlingen, Midland,
and Texarkana, where new defense
projects, totaling millions of dol-
lars, have recently been located,
were equally fortunate in already
maintaining city-county units.
The location of military camps in
other areas duplicated problems of
the above cities. In setting up pub-
lic health protection to serve both
the civilian and military population,
sanitation zones were set up in a
five to fifteen mile radius adjacent
to the military reservations. Coun-
ty health departments were estab-
lished at Brownwood, Victoria, Min-
eral Wells and Abilene. Personnel
of these health departments devote
special attention to environmental
sanitation within the sanitation
zones. The production and distribu-
tion of milk and food supplies is
carefully checked. Water supplies
and sewerage disposal facilities have
been enlarged to care for added
population and housing conditions
improved to minimize sanitary haz-
ards. Permits are required for the
construction and operation of retail
establishments within the zone area,
thus securing compliance with nec-
essary sanitary regulations.
All of these measures have been
Cotton Farmers Get
Full Payments If
U. S. Takes Over
Farmers with cotton in the gov-
ernment loan will receive full pay-
ments for their equities if the gov-
ernment should take title to the cot
ton.
This was emphatically pointed
out today by II. T. Mast, County
AAA Secretary, when he was ad
vised by the United States Depart'
ment of Agriculture that title will
not be taken to loan cotton with-
out prior public notice.
If the government should take
title to loan cotton, the cotton pro-
ducers would be paidj any amounts
by which (1) the redemption costs
of their notes (which include prin-
cipal. interest, and carrying charges
on the pledged cotton) were exceed
ed by (2) a fair value for the cot
ton at the time, which would be de-
termined by the Secretary of Agri-
culture on the basis of the then
prevailing average market prices
for cotton with reasonable allow-
ances for differences in grades
staple lengths, and locations.
“Don’t be misled by false repre-
sentations to the effect that the
government will not give full value
for cotton equities when and if it
is necessary for the Commodity
Credit Corporation to take title to
the cotton,” the AAA official warn-
ed.
The notes secured by 1938 crop
cotton, the maturity date for which
was extended to July 31, 1941, are
not callable on demand. The notes
securec) by 1939 crop cotton matur-
ed on July 31, 1940. The notes se-
cured by 1940 crop cotton do not
mature until July 31, 1941, but they
are callable for payment on de-
mand at any time. It is possible
that the government may find it
desirable to take title on August
1, 1941, to any cotton remaining
pledged to secure notes which are
overdue at that time. In the event,
however, that the government
should take title to any of the
stocks of loan cotton, at least ten
days public noice of such cotton
would be given by a press release.
designed to control communicable
diseases within the five to fifteen
mile radius of the camps and avert
possible epidemics.
It is noteworthy that during this
time of national emergency, as dur-
ing normal times, county health de-
partments continue to offer the
most satisfactory, comprehensive,
and economical solution to the local
Jk
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILE8
10 YEARS AGO
Marvin Gibson, son of Mrs. Ros-
coe Bolling was married to Miss
Mary Louise Karn, in Houston.
The Brewer home on south bay
was slightly damaged, by fire.
The Texas Baptist Encampment
was in session. Mr. Earl Meade of
Dallas, was president.
Rev. O Winterstein who had serv-
ed as pastor of the Lutheran Church,
for four years left for Albany, Ore-
gon to take charge of the church
there.
IS YEARS AGO
C. D. Sanders, officially began
his work as carrier of the U. S.
mail on the Palacios-Blessing route,
taking the place of Clarence Pad-
gett, who had held the job for three
years.
The S. P. was arranging to handle
the bringing of the troops to Pa
laeios for the annual encampment
of the Texas National Guards. Some
20 trains would be required to bring
in the troops and equipment.
Rev. J. A. Derrick, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, was conduct-
ing a Young Men’s Down Tbwn
Bible Class every Sunday morning
in the City Hall.
A rodeo was to be staged during
the two weeks of the T. PL. G. En-
campment and a carnival on the
bay shore looked like a miniature
Luna Park.
20 YEARS AGO
The old college building was be-
ing removed from the Baptist Col-
lege grounds to the B. Y. P. U.
grounds.
A gulf storm visited the coast
section reaching from below Cor-
pus Christi to Freeport. The great-
est damage was done in Corpus
Christi.
All day electric service was in-
augurated by the City plant.
Miss Fairy Graham and Harold
Barber were married in Bay City.
All things were ready for the
4th of July celebration. Plans were
made to entertain 15,000 people and
Gov. Neff was to be guest speaker.
government function of providing
adequate public health protection
for its population within the bounds
of any given area.
HEALTH NOTES
Austin.—Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health- Officer, today issued a warn-
ing to Texas housewives to guard
against food spoilage and resultant
human food poisoning during the
summer months.
Sum-mer heat and food, spoilage
were closely coupled together in
Victorian days as a sure sign of
summer, and the association con-
tinues today, unless scrupulous care
is taken to avoid food spoilage.
“Long hot days in July and Aug-
ust necessitate keeping food clean,
covered, and refrigerated, plus ad-
ditional hot weather safeguards,”
Dr. Cox stated.
It should be kept in mind that
food, poisoning is more common- in
summer than in winter. The sum-
mer menu usually includes smaller
helpings of cooked food and in-
creased amounts of raw and cold
food which may be more subject
to spoilage or contamination. Vege-
tables and fruits which are eaten-
without peeling should be washed
carefully to avoid possible contami-
nation with mineral poisons from
chemical sprays.
Harmful germs which may be
harbored in raw dairy products or
imperfectly cooked food cause by
phoid fever, dysentery, summer di-
arrhea, scarlet fever, diphtheria and
other disases. Perishable foods
should be handled carefully and
kept under constant regrigeration,
until time to serve.
Special care should be taken with
milk and milk products, since milk
is an excellent mediumi for bacter-
ial growth.
Miss LHIian Wheeler is assisting
at the Central Power ami Light
office while Miss Gladys McGloth-
lin is taking her annual vacation.
DR. W. D.
POINDEXTER
DENTIST
OVER RUTHVEN’S
PHONE 233
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J. B. Feather, Sec.
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