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Page 4A-Palack»s Beacon-Wed., Jan. 24,1996
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5 YEARS AGO-1991
It was a rare bii of good news to sun the year for the City of
Palacios as the city sales tax rebate check was up a healthy 56.49%
compared to a year ago. '
The attention, concern and apprehension of Americans, as well as
the entire world, was focused on the Persian Gulf area last week as
war broke out between the U S. led United Nation’s coalition and
Iraq over the latter country’s refusal to withdraw from Kuwait
following the Jim. 15th deadline.
10 YEARS AGO-1986
Claire Hansen was chosen Woman of foe Year and Jimmy
Shearer, Man of foe Year during the annual Palacios Chamber of
Commerce Awards Banquet. Also honored were Mary Eggemcycr,
Citizen of foe Year, Wallace Barr, Marine Related Business; Pam
and Phil Connis, Merchant of the Year, Carl Hansen, Jr., Farmer of
the Year, and Dave Boling, Rancher of foe Year.
30 YEARS AGO-1966
Helen Dolezal, a senior, was designated as PaladosHigh School’s
1966 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow.
The Palacios High School Future Nurses Club established the
Freddie Jean Laurence Memorial Scholarship Fund.
35 YEARS AGO-1961
A large crowd of Palacios citizens and out-of-town visitors
myivtftri foe dedication and formal opening of Matagorda County’s
new hospital, Wagner General Hospital, Sunday afternoon. Mrs.
Frar* Cervenka, transferred from Bay View General Hospital, was
foe first patient admitted of foe new hospital.
40 YEARS AGO-1956
Carlton Crawford'announced as state representative of the 32nd
district composed of Matagorda and Jackson Qnintks. Also entering
the political race were Fred P. Holub for county attorney and George
L. Harrison, commissioner of Precinct 3. M
45 YEARS AGO-1951
Col. Marvin Hurley, speaking at foe annual Chamber of Com-
merce banquet Tuesday night, tmd foe audience that foe “Golden
Bend was entering the Golden Era”. -
n Stevenson, high school ag teacher, received orders to report
for active duty Feb, 19 at foe Utah General Depot in Ogden.
Jean McDonald was a candidate forgraduation from North Texas
State College, Demon. . . ,
Mrs. Christine Huffman was elected president of foe Junior
Garden Club.
50 YEARS AGO-1946
D.M, Green was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce.
Arthur Harris, Jr. of Bay City announced his candidacy for county
JUdgC 55 YEARS AGO-1941 . ( i
The Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet was postponed to
Feb. 13 as several other affair had already been planned for foe
TheAthena Chib was making plans to landscape foe lawn of foe
Phamher of Commerce building.
CRnal plans for foe President^ Ball on Jan. 29 at foe pavilion and
foe Junior Ball at foe high school gym on Jan. 31 were nearing
completion. L~
^ - 60 YEARS AGQ-1936
The first killing frost and ice for foe year was reported and
temperatures dropped as low as 26 degrees.
County Commissioner’s Court, in response to a petition, ordered
an election be held in every voting precinct in the county on
Saturday, Feb. 1, fo provide for foe legal sale of liquor throughout
Matagorda County.
- 65 YEARS AGO-1931 W
Miss Gladys M<£lothlin was presented a string of crystal beads,
expressive of her 186 percent attendance during 1930of foe commit-,
tee women of the Rice Belt District of antral Power and Light
Company.
70 YEARS AGO-1926
Ellis Jensen and family moved to Palacios from the Carancahua
community.
Rowland Burton and Carlton Crawford went to Louisville, Ky. to
attend foe National Canncrs convention.
75 YEARS AGO-1921
Mrs. A.B. Caimes, secretary of the Civic League, reported an
intensive program of planting shade trees in the city.
Work on the city sewer project was progressing and it was hoped
contracts could be let the first of March.
Capt. John Richards took a crowd of visitors to foe Gulf on his
tdeasure boat Eleanor C. -
A Mother’s Club in connection with the Boy Scouts was orga-
nized with Mrs. J R. Elliott as president.
Letters to
the Editor
supports 16% flat tax rate
u c c*nutnr phii rtwmm ic would be indexed for inflation, hensive economic package economic growth can delitU
s« s&r»s£US£;
Trying to view the *Big Picture’.,..
Dear Editor,
Who is making the decisions, What are we getting for the
money spent and 1 Don’t Know is accounting for foe funds.
This is what we, foe taxpayers, are seeing as the big picture.
This letter to the editor was prompted by foe response to a re-
quest for funding from the Palacios Regatta Team.
It seems foe bis picture is taken with the one holding the
camera seeing stars after the flash from trying to take a picture
of their own dream, not what is wotting in Palacios and not
what is making a definite impact on tourism and foe local
economy. At foe same time, foe taxpayers are seeking dollars
from their pocket making no positive impact on the local
economy. There is definitely something wrong with “The Big
Picture” from foe taxpayers’ view.
As a taxpayer, I would like to know what Palacios Eco-
nomic Development has spent our taxes on, what goals they
set for the long range plan, how far along the goal line we are
today and what short range gods are in place to reach foe
long range plan. Most of all. whit is foe positive economic we
can expect to see in the short range plan.
Beverly Watson
“Leave our Navigation District HI as it is...”
DCln my opinion, the Palacios Seawall Commission and Navi-
gation District #1 are two governmental, taxing entities which
have used my tax dollars wisely and have made tremendous
im Tbere^ri*R^recent Stictefo foe Victoria Advocate covering
seafood industry is to our local economy. Continuing to im-
prove the facilities and services for this industry will surely
^lu^^wCo^^nere'court to leave our Navigation
District #1 Board as it is — with its proven track record
The Advocate article referred to the assets this board has
accumulated through their responsible managemeitt of our tax
dollais. What concerns me is that Commissioner’s Court wants
control of so much money.
Let’s not forget that, should we have a hurricane, these as-
sets would be readily available to do a great amount of clean-
up and restoration within the limits of jurisdiction.
Let’s not forget how much we rely directly or indirectly on
^Let’snot fora? what happened with the Matagorda County
Hospital District - we don’t need a Matagorda County Navi-
gation District' __ Veda C. Dale
anHiE'S Ann
tss^SSSSSf W^os
“Think of it as a kitchen butions, and the standard de- Tax reform is crucial .f we
Jfiwrss *&£ ttMiSSSiR ,rc “ ^" RmU
adding that “foe federal gov- and foe personal exemption
eminent should have to make rises from $2,500 to $5,000.
the same tough decisions that “I want to change the
families make every day American ^ RggL Gramm
around their kitchen table.” said. “I want to adopt a simple
Under UK prapoaa,
ISA
ily of four "earning up to and I want It to apply to all in-
$32,000 would pay no taxes, come no matter how you earn
Incomes exceeding that it.”
amount would be taxed at a Gramm’s flat tax plan
flat 16% rate. Capital gains comes as part of a compre-
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Railroad Crossings Shouldn’t Be
Marked With Skull and Crossbones
f hni/fc hugging riyhtt to more miles of railroad and more miles of
X. ^Birt foedownride erf our impressive railroad infrastructure it that
we have more fatalities at our high way railroad crossings them any other state,
as well. Even more tragically for Texans, these kinds of accidents are tbe most
avoidable * v- * * —
1 first became aware of the need to highlight this safety issue when l wm
Acting Chairman of tbe National Transportation Safety Board m 1978.
Although the numbers of highway-rail crossing collisions and injuneshave
gone down irattooally since then, over the last several years the sad feet is that
in Texas, those numbers have risen ;
In 1994,58 Texans tost their lives in this senseless way.
We Texans have a dangerous tendency to disregard those flashing
warning lights and crossing gales
A poll taken by “Operation Lifesaver” last year showed that 45 percent
of Texans are willing to cross railroad tracks in the face of flashing warning
lights; 30 percent of Texans said going around a lowered crossing gate can
be justified" and 20 jssresa! said it is mm acceptable to go through a gated
railroad crossing than to run a red light.
We Texans casH keep en racing with desfo _ .
Last week, in conjunction with the Association of Areencasi Railroads,
I helped to launch an information campaign to remind Texans of the potenual
for tragedy at every railroad crossing.
The “Highways or Dieways” public information program is a hard-
hitting attempt to raise the level of public awareness of this safety problem—
and to save some Texans’ lives.
We want Texans and other Americans to know that it’s smart to act
responsibly at railroad crossings. And we want to make Texans more aware
of their 10,681 miles of railroads and nearly 20,'000 rail crossings.
Nine out of every 10 rail-related fatalities result from vehicle-train
collisions or involve illegal trespassing on railway private property.
By reminding people of the very avoidable dangers inherent m ignoring
railroad crossing warnings. I hope we can change the high-risk behavior
Texans have been indulging in—wc want to make them more cautious the
next tune they approach a railway crossing.
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