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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1987
PALACIOS, TEXAS/
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VOLUME 80, NO. 38
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state of most Texas beaches.' ’
"Since out last beach clean-
Figures up over 6%
City sales tax rebates
buck statewide trend
BY NICK WEST
Beacon Publisher
Bucking the trend in sales tax
rebates has become almost a
tradition for the Palacios econo-
my as it once again posted an
Shark pep rally
at park Friday
The pep rally Friday will be
held in the city park at 4 p.m.
Everyone is encouraged to
come out and cheer the Sharks
on.
Special services
at Living Word
Special services will be held
at the Living Word Church
Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
Brother Jesse Ruiz and Maria
Elena will be ministering in
Spanish.
Rebel Riders to
hold play day
The Rebel Riders are hav-
ing a play day Saturday at 1
p.m. at the David Anders’
home. Bring a covered dish,
refreshments and lawn chairs,
Price for all events is $5 cr
$2.50 for each one.
The Rebel Riders will not be
responsible for accidents. For
mo.c information call James
Gibson at 972-3369 or David
Anders at 972-2000 after 5
p.m.
Absentee voting
begins Monday
Voters are reminded that
absentee voting for the up
coming bond election will be
held from Sept. 21-Oct. 6 from
8 a.m.-5 p.m. at City Hall.
Trail Riders to
convene Monday
The Palacios Trail Riders
will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in
the Palacios Eagles Hall. All
members are urged to attend.
Booster Club to
meet Tuesday
The Palacios Athletic Boos-
ter Club will have a business
meeting Tuesday, Sept. 22 at
7:30 p.m. at the PHS Learn-
ing Resource Center. All
members are urged to attend
as final plans for the booth at
the BayFest will be made.
Work session on
museum Tuesday
There will be a work session
•t the Hill Building (Museum)
Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.
Xft need to get the building
' for the Quilt Show
rash and Treasure - Sale
held on BayFest day.
’one interested in help-
ing £s encouraged to pome.
Refreshments will be furnish-
ed.
Blood drive at
PHS Sept. 29
Tfcj public is encouraged to
atteqq the Palacios High
Scqqpl blood drive being held
e Fine Arts Auditorium
Sep(. 29 from 9:30 a.m.-3:30
p.m.
increase over the previous year
while most Texas cities register-
ed declines.
The city’s latest rebate check
of its one-percent sales tax
amounted to $8,319.43. That
brought the total rebates for the
year up to $99,610.75, a 6.70%
increase over the $93,354 re-
ceived for the same time period a
year ago.
That’s in contrast to the
statewide average where State
Comptroller Bob Bullock report-
ed rebates down an average of
6%.
The city sales tax is collected
by merchants along with the
state sales tax. The taxes are
turned in monthly to the Comp-
troller's Office which in turn
rebate: the local tax back to the
city in which it was collected. The
September checks represent tax-
es collected on sales made in July
and reported to the Comptroller
by Aug. 20.
As it has for most of the past
two years, Palacios’ percentage
increase was the highest in a
survey of nine surrounding
towns. The only other gain over
the previous year registered in
the survey area was in Seadrift,
with rebates up a slight 1.42% at
$33,465. All other reported de-
clines.
Edna saw its rebates for the
year drop one-percent to
$183,557. Bay City, the only
other city in Matagorda County
to levy a city sales tax, had its
totals decline 5.21% to $780,009.
In El Campo, rebates for 1987
have amounted to $515,
[See REBATES, Pane 4A]
City council tables
inspections in ETJ
An update on an economic
development study and inspec-
tion of construction within the
city’s extra-territorial jurisdiction
were among the items discussed
by the Palacios City Council
during its regular meeting last
week.
Although Mayor Leonard Lam-
ar reported that the Texas
Municipal League had advised
him that any city with a popu-
lation over 5,000 did not need an
ordinance allowing construction
inspection within its extra-terri-
torial jurisdiction (ETJ), the
council voted to table implemen-
ting the procedure. V
City attorney Eli Mayfield
pointed out that if the city shiiuld (
exercise its power in that area,
then it would also have added
responsibilities and must guaran-
tee purified water.
Lamar explained that the coun-
ty inspector does not do either
plumbing or building inspec-
tions. He said that he, along with
city building inspector Abel
Pierce, felt that any building
hooked up to city services should
[See COUNCIL, Page 4A]
Shark spectator
A TIRED and disappointed
Robert Slaughter takes a well-
earned rest along the sidelines
late In the fourth quarter uf
Friday’s game with the Yoa-
kum Bulldogs. Slaughter had a
busy night on both offense and
defense as he helped to fill the
slack after Palacios suffered
Injuries to key players, Rhette
Robinson and Phillip Pinkston.
The Injuries, along with a rash
of turnovers and penalties
contributed to the Sharks’ first
loss of the season 25-6. Paia-
clos will host the powerful
Boling Bulldogs this Friday.
More sports In Section B.
Volunteers to
participate in
beach cleanup
Carol Allen will serve as
county coordinator and Sandy
Schmoker and Pat Ratliff will be
zone captains for Matagorda
County during the Texas Coas-
tal Geanup scheduled for this
Saturday.
The Coastal Cleanup is being
coordinated by the Texas Gen-
eral Land Office Adopt-A-Beach
program and the Center for
Environmental Education. The
cleanup is the third statewide
cleanup this year.
"Let’s keep our Texas beach-
es from being inundated in
garbage,” Texas Land Comm-
issioner Garry Mauro said.
I
up, public awareness about
marine debris has inerfased
greatly. We must work on
changing the way people handle
their trash at sea and while
visiting the beaches,” said
Linda Maraniss, Regional Dire-
ctor of the C.E.E. in Austin, and
state coordinator of the Texas
Coastal Cleanup.
“Our county coordinators and
C.E.E.’s zone captains will
make sure everybody knows
where to meet in their area,”
Mauro said.
The aim of the Texas Adopt-
A-Beach program is for spon-
sors to “adopt” at least one
mile of Texas beach by agree-
ing to have regularly scheduled
cleanups at least three times a
year.
Those interested in taking
part in the beach cleanup
operations should contact Caroi
Allen at (409) 245-4990, Sandy
Schmoker at (409) 245-9518 or
Pat Ratliff at (409) 244-3840.
Over $380*000 in grants awarded
PAF begins 7th year supporting Palacios
BY NICK WEST
Beacon Publisher
What do the Palacios senior
center, swimming pool, “Free
Enterprise Day”, paint-partner-
ship program, street paving,
park improvements, police re-
serves, historical association, Fe-
stival Arts Association, boy
scouts, golf association, youth
baseball, Economic Action, Rain-
bowland Day Care, Texan’s War
on Drugs, County War Memorial
and the Women’s Crisis Center
all have in common?
Those are just a few of the
community activities, non-profit
organizations and charitable cau-
ses which have been financially
aided in the past six years by
grants from the Palacios Area
Fund [PAF).
Beginning its seventh year, the
PAF has distributed over
$384,000 in grants to a variety of
causes which in their various
ways have neiped to increase the
quality of life in Palacios and the
surrounding area.
The PAF came into existence
in 1981 as the first branch office
of the Communities Foundation
of Texas. Headquartered in
Dallas, Communities Foundation
of Texas is the sixth largest
community foundation in terms
of assets and ranks fifth in the
amount of aunual grants awarded
among the nation’s more than
200 community foundations.
The PAF was established when
over a half-million dollars was
received from donors interested
in enhancing the quality of life in
the Palacios area. Roberta Ripke
currently serves as director of the
PAF which is located in the
renovated Williams Building at
458 Commerce.
The goal of the PAF is to serve
the local area in a broad way by
meeting the community's chari-
table needs. It helps to respond
to long-standing, as well as new
and emerging, local needs. Act-
ing as a catalyst, a convener and
an implementor, the PAF can,
and has, undertaken a variety of
projects under its broad charit-
able mandate. Over the years
those needs have included such
areas as education, cultural,
health, social sciences and wel-
fare.
A five-member Distribution
Committee is directly responsible
for receiving grant and project
requests and deciding how the
resources of the Palacios Area
Fund are best utilized. Each
proposed project is reviewed on
the basis of merit to the
community, feasibility, continui-
ty and the number of people that
the project will benefit. It has
been the practice of the com-
mittee to set priorities for fund
use by choosing projects that
would generally benefit the most
citizens.
The Distribution Committee is
chaired by Ed Fjordbak, execu-
tive director of Communities
Foundation of Texas. Currently
on the committee are Colleen
Claybourn, Bert Miller, Myra
Brhlik, and Joe Kana.
In addition, an Advisory Coun-
cil consisting of local citizens
chosen from a broad cross-sec-
tion of Palacios is utilized to
provide service or advice on
current or proposed projects.
Members of the Advisory Council
are Fredia Hester, Don Hyett,
[See PAF, Page 4A]
New distribution members
THE PALACIOS Area Fund
marked the beginning of Ita
sixth year with Its annual
report banquet held last week.
Pictured above with PAF direc-
tor Roberta Ripke and CFT
executive director Ed Fjordbak
[centerl are new distribution
committee members Bert Mill-
er and Myra Brhlik [left). At
right are new advisory com-
mittee members Stella Martino
and Donnlo Horton [right].
Also [ ^pointed to the 20-mem-
ber advisory council were Jean
Heriln, Craig Wallis, Mary Kay
Oglesby and co-chairman Cara
Heriln and Doris McCarley.
[Beacon Photo by Maty West]
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