Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1975 Page: 6 of 8
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PAGE 6 - THE PALACIOS BEACON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1975
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project say they felt there has
been a minimum of trouble.
There is every reason to
believe that this next hearing
STUDENTS
LEISURE LODGE RESIDENTS proudly display projects recently
completed as handcraft activities. Seated are Mary Wolf and
Mollle Zlckhor. Standing are Jolla Goevare, Vlolene Hebert,
Mable Stredlc and Ima Cooper. The Items Include afghans,
decorative bird booses, Dutch girl qollt top and yarn covered
coat hangers.
Tigers host
tough Boling
The Tidehaven Tigers, who
won their season opener
against Bloomington 21-14 but
lost on their home field last
Friday to Needville 51-0, hope
to get back in the win column
this Friday when they host the
Boling Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs opened the
season with a 19-9 win over
Needville, lost to Wharton
32-7 and last Friday were
defeated by Rice Consolidated
7-6.
Boling, tri-champs of Dis-
trict 26-AA last year along
with Van Vleck and Industrial,
lost many of their starters to
graduation but most vacancies
have been filled bv members
of last year’s strong junior
varsity.
The Bulldogs assets are
probably their strength and
quickness and Coach James
Stafford will be taking advan-
tage of these. He has two six
foot tackles in senior Reggie
Kemp and junior Newell At-
kinson, a six foot center,
senior Doug Herschap and a
six foot slot back, senior David
Laws. The heavy weight of the
team is James Harris, 230
pound junior halfback.
The Tigers coach, Tom Joy,
will probably go with the same
starting lineups as in past two
games. The Tigers will run
from the veer offense and
operate from several defense
formations. They will rely
heavily on the passing of
quarterback Ricky Curnutt to
Cedric Lewis or Matt wil-
liams.
The Tidehaven Tigers were
trounced by the Needville Blue
Jays Friday night by a score of
51-0.
Needville scored 14 points in
the first quarter, added 23
more in the second to lead 37-0
at halftime. The Blue Jays
second team came back in the
second half to taly 7 more in
the third quarter and 8 in the
final period.
Tidehaven made 7 first
downs, rushed for 136 yards
and passed for 18, completed 2
of 18 passes and had 3
intercepted, punted 6 times for
a 42 yard average, fumbled 7
times, losing 2 and were
penalized 6 times for 40 yards.
Needville racked up 12 first
downs, rushed for 234 yards
and passed for 60, caught 4 of
10 passes and had no inter-
ceptions, punted 4 times for 36
yard average, lost 1 of 3
fumbles and were penalized 6
times for 60 yards.
YHT marks
special week
The Palacios Chapter of
Young Homemakers of Texas
is presently observing YHT
Week from September 21-27.
Activities have been scheduled
throughout the week which
include church worship, ma-
crame lessons, and the Rice-
Dish Roundup.
The local chapter of YHT
was established in August,
1974 when sixteen interested
women from the community
met at Palacios High School
with homemaking teacher,
Mrs. Barbara Curtis. Officers
were elected at that meeting.
Those women elected were:
Wanda Harvey, president;Ei-
leen Wesselmen, vice pre-
sident; viv Witte, secretary-
treasurer; and Connie Hamlin,
reporter.
The constitution and by-laws
were then drawn up by the
executive committee which
was composed of the officers.
Many interesting programs
were given by local people
throughout the chapter’s first
year of organization. Programs
included arts and crafts de-
monstrations, holiday decora-
tions, interior decorating, flo-
ral arrangements, cake de-
corating, a slide presentation
of missionary work in Haiti,
demonstration on antiquing
furniture, a nuclear power
plant presentation, and a mar-
riage counseling session.
The Young Homemakers
have been active in community
affairs by participating in or
sponsoring different projects.
Projects included bake sales,
parties and a film festival for
the Leisure Lodge, the dis-
tribution of a food basket to a
needy family, the collection of
toys and sheets for the Day
Care Center, a spring fashion
show, the sponsoring of a
Valentine Sweetheart candi-
date, and the Rice - Dish
Roundup.
The Palacios Chapter was
represented at both the Area
III Convention held at Gear
Lake, Texas last October and
the state convention in Fort
Worth last January.
At the end of its first year of
existence, the Palacios YHT
Chapter had 32 members and
became Area Ill’s iargest
chapter.
Newly elected officers for
1975-76 are: Lynda Lenz, pre-
sident; Paige Eggemeyer, vice
president; Connie Hamlin,
secretary; Sherry Kalas, trea-
surer; and Helen Callais, re-
porter.
Programs scheduled for the
present club year include a fire
prevention and first aid pro-
gram, a presentation on spiri-
tual values in the home, a
bicentennial program on the
history of Matagorda County,
a demonstration on cosmetics
and the showing of new hair
styles, the methodology of
home canning, the picking of
crabs, the development of a
child and the cutting of meats.
Women 35 years of age or
younger may become active
members of The Young Home-
makers; however, a woman
beyond the age of 35 may join
the chapter as an associate
member. Visitors are always
welcome and new members
are appreciated. Come join
us at our next meeting on
Tuesday, October 28 at the
high school at 7 p.m.
ALCOA
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Darril Franzen.
Representatives for the
Sophomores are: Theresa Gar-
cia, Eric Young, Erma Ortiz
and Herbert Ressler.
We discussed many acti-
vities and calendar events for
the coming year. The idea of
getting a new Shark mascot
was brought up, as well as
asking other clubs to help in
the cost. Your help in sup-
porting our projects will be
sincerely appreciated.
Shark, Edna
film slated
Films of the Sharks-Cowboy
1 'game will be shown at the
Palacios Athletic Booster Club
meeting Tuesday, September
30, at 7:30 p.m. at Petersen’s
Restaurant.
The coaches will give some
of the high points of the game
and tell a little about the
upcoming game.
Everyone is invited to attend
these meetings. Be a Shark
Booster by joining the Booster
Club, attending the meetings
and supporting the Sharks at
the games.
will result in the issuance of a
construction permit some time
in the first quarter of next
year.
The plant, known as the
South Texas Project, is a joint
venture of Central Power and
Light Company, Houston
Lighting and Power, City Pu-
blic Service Company of San
Antonio and the City of Aus-
tin.
Officials representing the
companies and Brown and
Root were present at a lunch-
eon Monday in the Oasis to
announce that construction
was underway.
Bob Noster, site coordinator
for the project, said “This
meeting is as near to a
groundbreaking ceremony as
we will get.”
He said officials felt it would
be better to meet together and
"breakbread” instead.
Noster and Ed Turner both
noted that the companies were
taking a calculated risk in
starting work now under the
limited work permit.
But they are reasonably sure
a construction permit will be
granted so there will be no
interruption in project work.
The plant will have a 7,000
acre closed-cycle cooling res-
ervoir and should go into
operation in 1980 with the first
of two Westinghouse pressu-
rized water reactor systems.
A second 1250-megawatt
unit will follow in 1982.
The permanent work force
at the plant, when complete,
will be about 125.
At Monday’s meeting offi-
cials prised the cooperation of
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people in the area and said
much of the success of plant
plans so far was due to their
“wonderful attitude.”
During a question and an-
swer session following brief
talks by Noster and Turner, it
was learned that:
Housing “will be a little
tight”, but the Nuclear Regu-
latory Commission figures it
will be adequate. There will
likely be some mobile homes
coming in. It was pointed out
that many potential workers
for the plant are already in the
area. There have been 300 job
applications since the first of
this year. Palacios and Bay
City have already made plans
for providing housing.
Highway 521 will be re-
routed as planned previously,
going north of the plant site in
a semi-circle.
Some technical details on
plant construction have not
been resolved at this point, but
will probably be complete for
the safety hearing.
Financing for the plant work
is in excellent shape.
Deferment of the Allen's
Creek project will make more
manpower available to work on
the South Texas Project.
Frosh Local delegates due at QIC A
El Campo
festival set
seeking
3rd win
This Thursday night the
Palacios Freshman team will
be going for its third win of the
season. They will be meeting
the Edna Cowboys here on
their home field at 5:30 p.m.*
In posting their second win,
the Freshmen defeated the
Bay City Freshmen 20-6. Lead-
ing the offense were Mike
Hansen and Kenny Lee, who
had touchdown runs of 1 yard
and 15 yards. Steve Garcia
caught a 35 yard pass from
Michael Roy for a touchdown,
and added a 2-point conver-
sion.
Opening good offensive
holes were Robert Taylor,
Mark Lovell and Elmo Duke.
Leading the defense were
James Moerbe, Hans German,
Eloy Segovia, Paul Hunt, Mike
Hansen and Robert Flores.
Come out Thursday and
support the Freshmen to con-
tinue their winning streak.
Eli Mayfield, a member of
the Board of Directors of the
Gulf Intracoastal Canal Asso-
ciation, George Harrison and
Ralph Newsom will attend G!
CA's 70th Annual Meeting in
New Orleans on September 28
and 29.
Not only will Gulf Intracoas-
tal Association be holding its
own significant meeting, but
othe r important waterways
organizations have scheduled
their own conventions to coin-
cide.
The National Waterways
Conference and the American
Section of the Permanent In-
ternational Navigation Asso-
ciation Congresses will hold
their meeting concurrently. In
addition, the Water Resources
Congress has called a meeting
of its Executive Committee for
the same time and place.
All programs are being co-
ordinated, with the important
events being shared by the
memberships of all.
Registration for the GICA
convention will take place dur-
ing the day on Sunday the 28th
at the Monteleone. That eve-
ning their New Orleans hosts
have scheduled a gala harbor
cruise on the new steamer
Natchez, complete with Dixie
land Band and entertainment,
plus a light buffet.
On Monday morning the 29th
business session will feature
the informative progress re-
ports of the four U.S.District
Engineers from across the
Gulf Coast, also the reports
of GICA officials, giving up-
to-date reports on current and
future problems. At noon the
annual luncheon will be held
featuring a speakerofnational
prominence.
As noted above, the member-
ships of the other waterways
organizations will be joining
GICA, assembling together
many leaders of national and
ternatlonal prominence.
The Pastor and members of
St. Philip Catholic Parish in El
Campo invite you to attend
their annual Harvest Festival
on Sunday, September 28. The
all day picnic will be held at
the American Legion Recrea-
tion Center on Armory Road
south of El Campo.
A delicious boneless beef
barbecue and sausage dinner
will be served at $2.00 per
plate with serving starting at
11 .m. Barbecue on the bun
will be sold after 4 p.m.
Rope the Cowboys, Sharks!
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Ranches
in area
honored
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though the price of natural gas
has been rising during the past
decade, the sharp increases
since 1971 have had the most
impact.
At full production Point
Comfort Operations had an
employment peak of 2600 per-
sons in mid-1974. During the
past nine months declining
markets for aluminum has
result ed in temporarily sus-
pending production of five of
the smelters seven potlines.
Only one of the Operations’
five refining digester units has
been affected and layoffs in
both plants have totaled ap-
proximately 800 persons at
this pont.
The primary aluminum pro-
duction being cut at the Point
Comfort smelter will be picked
up at Alcoa’s Massena (N.Y.)
Operations where production
costs are about half of this
Texas plant
“We regret that circum-
stances have placed Point
Comfort in a position where it
cannot produce metal at a cost
which will allow us to compete
for our share of the market,”
Kuerner said. He re-empha-
sized that the overwhelming
cost factor was the enormous
increase in the cost of gas.
“Point Comfort Operations
remains an important facility
in the Alcoa system,” Kuerner
emphasized. “The alumina re-
fining plant is the newest of
the domestic refineries. It
produces alumina from bau-
xite imported from the Domi-
nican Republic, Jamaica, Sur-
iname, Africa and Australia.
Other facilities included in the
operations are a caustic and
chlorine plant, an aluminum
fiouride unit, a cryolite plant
and a carbon briquette plant.”
The Ace of Clubs Ranch and
Live Oak Farm Cattle Co.,
settled in 1865, owned by Lee
M. Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
H. Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. M. E.
Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Pierce and Mr. and Mrs. A. B.
Pierce, Jr., all of Blessing and
Moore's Land, settled in 1875,
owned by Layton Moore, Miss
Martha L. Moore, Mrs. Thel-
ma Moore Jackson, all of Bay
City, Mrs. Lois Moore O’Bri-
an, Fort Worth; Jerome
Moore, Columbus; and Dolph
Beadle Moore, Houston, are
two farms and ranches from
Matagorda County having
qualified for the 1975 Family
Land Heritage Program, ac-
cording to Agriculture Com-
missioner John C. White.
They are part of 383 families
ihat qualified this year, and
help bring the two-year total of
recognized farms and ranches
to 943.
These families will be hon-
ored in special ceremonies at
the State Fair, October 14,
where Commissioner White
will present their Certificates
of Honor.
1 am very pleased that the
program generated the same
kind of enthusiastic response
this year that it did when we
started it last year,” White
said. “And 1 am looking
forward to our Awards cere-
mony which will be held in the
Hall of State this year.”
The Hall of State, constru-
ted in 1936 for the Texas
Centennial, is operated by the
Dallas Historical Society and
serves as a museum.
THE FIGHTING SHARKS OF 1975 - Front, from left: Manager
Vayne Hunter, Gary Orsak, Tommy Orsak, Hud-
son Bates, Wade Newsom, Charles Tresselt. Second row: James
Kim Kocurek, Wayr
Heard, Byron Amboree, Eric Young, Alan Janak, James Ku-
becka, Rodney Cooper, Mark Greenawalt, AnthonyGrlcfi.Third
row: Head coach Charlie Melsmer, eighth grade coach Gary
Hafernlck, offensive backfleld coach Larry Russell, Kenty Bar-
nett, Roy Seaman, Eulalio Flores, offensive and defensive line
coach Ron Wright, assistant varsity and freshman coach Roy
Golan and seventh grade coach Tim Freeman. Not shown: Mark
Vargas Russell Schneider, David Bullock, Steve Capak, Miquel
Segovia, Chris Garcia.
PALACIOS
vs
EDNA
Friday Night - Sept. 26
in Edna
SHARK SCHEDULE 1975
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THERE
OCT. 3
RICE
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OCT. 10
TIDEHAVEN
HERE
••••DISTRICT GAMES
OCT. 17
INDUSTRIAL
HERE
OCT. 24
BOLING
THERE
OCT. 31
VAN VLECK
HERE
NOV 1
BLOOMINGTON
THERE
NOV. 14
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Savings & Loan Association
223 - 5th Street 972-3336
PALACIOS
SHAMROCK
HWT. 35 NORTH
1500 FIRST ST.
KANA
UPHOLSTERING & FURNITURE
439 MAIN PHONE 972-2500
PALACIOS
WESTERN WEAR
Jimmie Shearer, Owner
445 COMMERCE ST.
Bill Harrison
and Family
TERRY’S
ART & HOBBY SHOP
509 COMMERCE
H&H
204 - 4th St.
Phone 972-2519
SEARS CATALOG
MERCHANT STORE
GERALD i BETTYE WELL., Omti.
453 Commerce
972-2549
HOUSTON NATURAL
GAS CORPORATION
Serving The Gulf Coast Area
317 MAIN _972-2315
HAMLIN'S
MINIMAX
709 Mom St. 972-2534
500 MAIN
PALACIOS
972-2915
ALLEN SALES
972-2524
Doug McMullen W. E. Alen
Res. 972-2182 972-3178
501 Mom
PALACIOS
PHARMACY
972-2561
PALACIOS FLORAL AND GIFT
424 Main
972-2596
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416 Main Street 972-2713
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420 Main
972-2622
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901 Handartan Phone 972-2135
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