Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 7, 1991 Page: 4 of 12
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Page 4-Pa!acios Beacon, Wed., August 7, 1991
5 YEARS AGO-1986
Batchcldcr Farms earned the honor of harvesting the lirst bale
of cotton in the area last week. The 502-pound bale of cotton
brought $2 per pound from the buyer's coalition.
Two Palacios students graduated from the University of
Houslon-Victoria. Donna Johnston Maciorowski received a
bachelor's degree and Barbara Geiger Greenlaw received a mas-
ter's degree.
Leon Bullock, Vocation Administrator for the Palacios ISD, re-
ceived the school administration award during the Annual In-
Service Education Workshop and Meeting held in Dallas.
6 YEARS AGO-1985
Montgomery Ward headquarters in Chicago had announced it
would discontinue its catalog sales and catalog sales agencies by
the end of 1986.
Casey's Plumbing Supply on Commerce Street was under go-
ing a facelift.
26 YEARS AGO-1965
St. Anthony’s 2nd Annual Shrimporce was a great success.
Miss Teresa Espinosa, crowned at coronation dance Saturday
night, reigned as Shrimporce Queen.
A total of 1303 bales of cotton were ginned here last week
bringing the total to 2800 for the season.
31 YEARS AGO-1960
Greenwood-Curtis American Legion Post No. 476 is making
available a 5-acrc tract of land to the Palacios FFA chapter to be
used for the purpose of aiding FFA boys to improve their project
program.
Head football coach Toney Carr was well pleased with the
turnout of candidates for the Sharks football team at their get to-
gether meeting.
Bay Chevrolet Co. was low bidder on the chassis for a new
county fire truck for the use in this area.
Members of the city council met in special session Monday
night to discuss ways and means of purchasing a backhoc ma-
chine and a zoning ordinance.
36 YEARS AGO-1955
Whether or not there will be a Water Control and Improvement
District created within Commissioners" Precinct 3 is yet to be de-
cided- according to a ruling of the State Board of Water
Engineers, after approximately 10 hours of testimony.
Grady Reynolds, former head football coach at El Campo, was
named football and track coach at Louise.
Marilyn Johnson was named to the University of Texas spring
semester honor roll.
41 YEARS AGO-1950
Season tickets for the Sharks five home games went on sale
this week.
Over 480 registered for the annual District 3 two-day encamp-
ment at the Texas Baptist Encampment Grounds.
46 YEARS AGO-1945
Major Chester D. Bintliff spoke to the directors of the Chamber ;
of Commerce about plans for a canal line from Mobile, Ala. to
Brownsville.
Construction bids for the Quick Freeze plant arc to be opened
August 27 at City Hall.
Duck season opened November 2 and closed January 20,
Real estate transfers were: Dick Ray purchased the Aubin
Building on Main Street; Guy Clayboum, the Glenn Pore property j
on South Bay Blvd. and E.F. Adams, the Ralph Hood property <
northwest of the city.
51 YEARS AGO-1940
The Baptist Women's Missionary, which includes Harris and
seven surrounding counties, was holding its eight annual camp at J
the Texas Baptist Encampment Grounds
The first meeting of the County Planning board was held in
Bay City with J.F. Barnett as chairman.
Texas National Guardsmen were at Camp Hulcn and Elliott ;
Roosevelt, eldest son of President Roosevelt, visited with Major j
General John A , Hulcn.
66 YEARS AGO-1925
Cotton was coming in and 400 bales had been ginned.
Letters to
the Editor
How you vote toil! affect your taxes...
Dear Editor,
When I voted absentee on Friday, Aug. 2nd only 13 citizens
had cast absentee votes in the Special Election set for Saturday,
Aug. 10. With all the changes made by the last session of the
Texas Legislature concerning school taxation, it is very important
to understand the issues and vote.
Do you, the Palacios Independent School District taxpayers,
realize we could lose the property exemptions that we now enjoy
and that your automobile, pleasure boats, travel trailers and other
tangible personal property could be put back on the tax roll?
The Aug. 10 Special Election ballot is very confusing. You
should understand that a vote “For" proposed Constitutional
Amendment No. 1, and votes “For" County education District
Propositions No. 1 and No. 2 will provide a tax exemption of
20% of the market value of your residence homestead from ad
valorem taxation and for the exemption of $10,000 of the market
value of the residence homestead of any individual who is
disabled and $10,000 of the market value of the residence
homestead of any individual who is 65 years cf age or older.
A vote “Against" Proposition No. 3 would mean you do not
want your tangible personal property taxed.
I urge voters to read the ballot carefully before they make their
votes.
Under the new “socialistic, Robin Hood” method of school
taxation law, voting correcting now will save each taxpayer more
as school taxes are forced up by the State of Texas.
I thank you very much for your sincere voting, just be sure to
call your friends’ attention to the importance of how they cast their
votes.
Respectfully,
Geo. Holst
Supt of Schools, Ret.
Palacios I.S.D.
City survey volunteers needed...
Residents of Palacios:
The City of Palacios intends to apply for a federal grant from
the Texas Department of Commerce Community Development
Block Grant Program. As one of the requirements of that
program, the City will be conducting a door-to-door income and
census survey on Saturday, Aug. 10 between 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The
area to be surveyed will be limited to residents located on Lucas,
Welch and Morton Streets between Eighth and Eleventh Streets.
The City extends its appreciation to all residents of this area, and
thanks them for any and all cooperation they are able to give City
surveyors.
Any person interested in volunteering to survey, to serve as
block captain, or to assist the City with the development of this
project is invited to attend an organizational meeting which will be
held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 10 at City Hall in the City Council
Chambers.
Leonard Lamar, Mayor
Cards Of ‘Thanks
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Samora and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Duran would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to all our
friends and relatives that attended Janel and Andrew Duran’s
wedding. Special thanks to Judge Franguillc for performing the
ceremony and to all that helped cook and serve at the reception.
Also to Pete Duran for taking the photographs, and Richard Duran
for video taping. Janel and Andrew would also like to thank
everyone for the gifts they received.
(32-Up)
We express our gratitude for all the flowers and caring shown at
the time of our father's passing.
The Family of Martin Ragusin.
(32-Up)
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On August 9, 1673, the Dutch recaptured the colony of New
Netherlands from the British ... August 6, 1815, a U.S. flotilla
finally ended piracy by Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli ... August 9,
1842, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed, fixing the U.S.-
Canada border in Maine and Minnesota ... August 6, 1890,
William Kcmmlcr was the first man to be executed by electrocution at
Auburn Prison, Auburn, N.Y., for murder ... August 6, 1934,
U.S. troops pulled out of Haiti ... August 7, 1942, U.S. marines
landed on Guadalcanal ... August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the
atom bomb on Hiroshima ... August 9, 1945, the U.S. dropped
the atom bomb on Nagasaki ... August 11, 1964, Congress ap-
proved the War on Poverty bill ... August 6, 1965, a new Voting
Rights Act was signed ... August 11, 1972, the last U.S. combat
troops left Vietnam ... August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon
resigned ... August 9, 1974, Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the
38th U.S. president ... August 5, 1981, most of the 13,000 ille-
gally striking federal ais traffic controllers were dismissed by
President Reagan ... August 11,1984, President Reagan signed a
law prohibiting public high schools from barring students who
wished to assemble for religious or political activities outside of
school hours ... August 9, 1989, legislation passed by Congress
to rescue the savings and loan industry was signed by President
Bush ... August 10, 1989, Army General Colin Powell was
nominated by President Bush to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff; he became the first black man to hold the post.
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VOTE
It's your privilege.
It's your duty.
SPECIAL ELECTION
SATURDAY, AUG. 10
•ELECTION-
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ments are: Proposition 1 which
would allow certain property tax
homestead exemptions and taxa-
tion of certain tangible personal
property by the CED; and
Proposition 2 which would al-
low the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board to issue up
to $300 million in general obliga-
tion bonds to fund student loans.
The CEDs local option elec-
tion will address issues related to
Proposition 1. The school ballot
will be in three parts: 1) whether
to adopt a homestead exemption
of 20% of market value; 2)
whether to adopt an additional
exemption of $10,000 for the
elderly and disabled; and 3)
whether to tax non-income pro-
ducing tangible personal prop-
erty such as cars, boats, air-
planes and RVs.
If the constitutional amend-
ment Proposition 1 fail,
statewide, the school district
election where the voters autho-
rize the exemptions will be dis-
regarded. However, the govern-
ing body of the CED might adopt
these exemptions under existing
provisions of the Constitution,
according to Secretary of State
John Hannah, Jr.
The voting results in each in-
dividual school district for each
of the three local propositions
will be added together for the
CED as a whole. If the questions
fails in once district, but passes
the CED as a whole, it will still
be adopted by the CED.
Although a vote against con-
stitutional amendment
Proposition 1 would be a vote
against allowing the CED to tax
tangible personal property, it
would also be a vote against
voter-authorization for the CED
to use homestead exemptions
and elderly and disabled exemp-
tions. Even then, however, the
CED governing body might
adopt the provisions following
procedures set up under current
law.
Further questions about this
election may be directed to the
Secretary of State’s Elections
Division: 1-800-252-VOTE.
•GRANT
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go for safe drinking water.”
Councilman David Rolen
said he does not not know where
the city will find the money for
matching funds. Nevertheless,
he said, “We’re working oil it
(the grant) to sec what we can
come up with.”
The city has three watpr-
wells, all of which can be Re-
paired accoiding to Paladios
Mayor Leonard Lamar.
“Our problem with the wa
tcrwells can be fixed with
$30,000, and that’s not an
emergency,” said Lamar.
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