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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
.SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1945
VOLUME XXXVIII NUMBER 41
With Our Men
In The Service
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Word has been received from
Bob'Trull that he is on his way
baik to the good ole’ United States.
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Frank Sanders came in Wednes-
day With his discharge papers. He
had been stationed in California.
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S/Sjft. Frank Stewart arrived in
the States the first of the week and
Is expected home now most any day.
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Cpl. Willie Deadrich is home now
"having received his discharge from
the service at Palm Springs, Calif.
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Hugh 'Buffaloe writes his par-
ents, (MV. and Mrs. Frank Buffaloe,
.of his Uncling on Guam after a
most itneresting trip.
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T/Sgt and Mrs. B. G. Faubion
.and son, of "Lake Charles, La., are
here this wedk visiting his parents,
(Mr. and ‘Mrs. G. H. Faubion.
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Mrs. A. E. Uuffy of Houston ac-
companied by'her son, C/PO A. E.
Daffy, Jr., Visited her daughter,
Mrs. T. S. Brandon and family this
■week.
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Pvt John Estrada with the U. S.
Marines writes us from San Diego,
Calif., and encloses $2.00 subscrip-
tion for the Beacon as he wants the
news from Palacios.
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S/Sgt. Wilbur Powers writes this
week of his arrival on Luzon in the
Philippines. He says that the coun-
try in Germany was much more
beautiful than the Philippines, and
that it has rained almost every day
he has been there.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hockey
have received word from her son,
I. C. Prindle that he is in a camp
;n California awaiting his dis-
charge. Mrs. Prindle and daughter
are with her sister, iMrs. Post in
Richmond, Calif.
W/O J. B. Flock came in last
.Tuesday after service in Italy and
other places in Europe to visit his
wife the former Thelma Sanders.
After spending a few days here
they left for Melrose, Minn., where
his mother and sisters reside.
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Winfred Johnson writes back
from Okinawa that he and J. E.
Collier are occupying the same hut
and they have a lot of fun talking
about the days when they were
working mail back in the Palacios
post office. He said Collier’s big
smile was one of the first things
to greet him when he landed, and
since being on Okinawa he had seen
his brothers, George, of the Ma-
rines; Ballard, of the Air Force,
and Mack, who is in the Navy, who
stopped off there while enroute for
tother places.
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James Claude Warner, S 1/c, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Warner
has been serving his country in
the U. S. Navy aboard the Combat
Escort Carrier, Makin Island. His
duties included operating a range
setter, which was invaluable in
Warding off attacking Japanese
Kamikaze planes through the Ley-
te, Luzon, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
Operations and in repair and main-
tenance work. The excellence of
Warner’s work and that of the en.
tire crew, is shown in the Makin
Island’s Meritorious record. It was
never hit nor suffered any damage
from enemy action, though it was
engaged in a long list of perilous
operations. Warner has been with
the Makin Island more than a year.
He now hopes to get home soon and
finish school in his home town.
''Sharks” Win Opener
From St. Joseph, 19-0;
Go To Bloomington Friday
Atom Bomber
on Non-Stop. Flight
Duke and Duchess
of .Windsor
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NEW YORK—Soundphoto—Pic
tured aboard the troopship Argen
tins, which took them aboard, are
the Duke and Ducheaa of Windsor.
The Duke told reporters he would
'go alone to England in October to
aee his mother, the Dowager Queen
Mary, after he and the Duchess
had settled in their rented house
in Paris. The Duke has not seen
his mother since he abdicated nine
'years ago to marry the former
[Wallace Warfield Simpson.'
Mrs. George Denton, the former
Edna Moore, of this city, writes
us of the return of her husband’s
brother, Lt Dan Denton and his
wife Lt. Frances Denton, after be-
ing overseas for two years, serving
in France, Italy, England and Ger-
many. They were both at Camp Hu-
len and were married there in 1943.
Lt. Frances Denton was stationed
at the hospital. She received her
discharge upon her arrival in New
York. Lt. Dan Denton was with the
204th during his early training at
Camp Hulen. He will report to Fort
Bliss for reassignment.
Mr. and Mrs. Pasal
Honored On Fifthielh
Wedding Anniversary
The many friends of Mr. and
Mrs. Pasal greatly enjoyed the
open house last Tuesday afternoon
.October 2, celebrating the consum-
mation of fifty years of walking
together as man and wife.
Among the beautiful flowers
decorating the spacious home was a
cluster of fifty red roses and a
large sheaf of golden chrysanthe-
mums.
Mr. E. C. J. Pasal and Miss
Emma Doss were married at the
farm home of the bride's parents
hear Tolono, Illinois, October 2,
1895. After living in Urbana more
than eight yeans, they with Mr. and
Mrs. Doss, came to Palacios in
June, 1904, Mr. Doss was appointed
the first postmaster, and Mr. Pasal
was assistant for more than eight
years.
With Mr. Doss, Mr. Pasal opened
the first lumberyard and Mrs. Pasal
opened the first restaurant. As
they began they have remained in-
timately connected with the pro-
(See “FIFTHIETH,” Page 5)
First Conference
Game Scheduled
Friday Afternoon
“They feel good—They are ready
to go,” were the words of Coach
Charlie Johnson just before the
opening whistle blew in the open-
ing game of the Palacios High
School Sharks Fridley night, and
“go” they did against the twice
victorious St. Joseph “Flyers.” The
Flyers coached by Father Ralph
Thayer and assisted by Sgt. Shuch-
mati had previously defeated the
Ganado “Indians” and the Goliad
“Tigers.”
Opening with fast charging line
plays the Sharks pushed over a
score In the first quarter and kept
charging until the final whistle was
blown and the score reading 19 to 0
in favor of the home team.
Coach Charlie Johnson placed a
team of eleven men on the field
against the St Joseph boys, and
that team playing as a unit pro-
duced what some thought was im-
possible the big end of the score.
There was no single man outstand-
ing—no one tried to be. On every
play each man played his position,
and got his man which enabled the
Sharks to gain on practically every'
play they pulled and hold the Fly-
ers to very little gain and no ser-
ious threat to score.
The score in the first quarter
was madefy Ellis Jensen with the
attempted conversion by Freddy
Burdick no good. The Sharks scored
in the second quarter with Car]
Watson carrying the ball and the
plunge for the extra point good,
being made by Jensen. They did
not score again until the fourth
quarter with Lloyd Ellis carryiag
the ball and Phillip Manning at-
tempting a drop-kick for extra
point which was blocked.
Only a few penalties were assess-
I against either team. All in all
was a clean, hard-fought battle
from beginning to end.
The officials for the game were:
Referee, Buddy Rogers; Umpire,
Glenn Buffalo; Head Linesman,
Glenn Claybourn.
The school band under the direc-
tion of Robert Stewart and the Pep
Squad1 under the direction of Miss
Bing gave their usual pep and en-
thusiasm to the Sharks, also giv-
ing a drill between the halves.
These organizations plan to follow
the team to Bloomington Friday.
The Sharks go to Bloomington
Friday afternoon for their first
conference game to be played at
2:30 p. m. Very little is known of
(See “SHARKS,” Page 8)
CHICAGO, ILL.—Capt. Kermit
K. Baahan of Houston, Texas
(shown above), is one of the crew
members of a flight of three
planes, which (scheduled to fly
non-stop from Hokkaido to Wash-
ington) were forced to change
course due to head winds and
land here for re-fueling. Capt.
Beahan was the one to drop the
atomic bomb on Nagasaki. He is
shown stepping from his plane up
on landing at Chicago municipal
field.
County 4-H Clubs
Enter Exhibits At
Youth Fair, Houston
The ten 4-H girls’ clubs of Mata-
gorda County had exhibits at the
Youth’s Fair in Houston, Friday
and Saturday sponsored by Hous-
ton Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Eighteen counties sent exhibits and
out of this Matagorda County girls
took nine prizes including two
firsts.
Taking first prizes were Lillian
Pecha, of Midfield, for canned dew-
berries and Alice Herman of Mid-
field for canned tomatoes. Second
place for canned tomatoes went to
Margaret Ann Holisworth, of Col-
legeport, a member of the Palacios
Club, and Dorris Slaughter also of
Palacios Club, got third place on
tomatoes.
Exhibits of shell jewelry were
also shown, and in this handiwork
three second places and one third
went to iMatagorda. County girls.
Mrs. Alma Hale, County Homo
Demonstration Agent, states the
county exhibits have been placed in
Taylor Brothers display window in
Bay City, and are well worth going
to see. 'Mrs. Hale also stated that
only two of the prize winners be-
long to the senior division of 4-H
Club work, including ages above 12
years, and all the others are 12
years of age and under, and she
was very much pleased with the
showing these young workers made
and the recognition they received.
New Postoffice Is Listed
Among Federal Projects
Recreational
Program Proves
Decided Success
Future Plans
Depend on Meeting |
Friday Night
Although the Community Recre
ation Program last summer was
rather an experiment, it was quite
successful. Miss Elizabeth Sisson,
Miss Mary Baines, and Mr. Charlie
Johnson were our leaders and their
reports show that a great number
of Palacios children and quite a
goodly number of adults took an
active part in the program. Those
of us who acted as promoters of the
project would like to express our
appreciation to all who in any way
contributed to the success of the
undertaking. Below is a brief re-
port of the financial transactions
the program.
Total Receipts, all sources $511.84
Total disbursements .......... 245.G0
Present cash balance.......... 266.24
The disbursements included the
following items:
Salaries for the 3 Supervisors
at $25 per month......... $150.00
Supplies and equipment........ 39.30
Electricity for ball field....... 51.30
Advertising........................... 5.00
TOTAL......................- -$245.60
What Is The Plan For The Future?
We are not in a position '4>
present the entire plan for the com
ing year but we can say that on
Friday night of this week there
will be an open meeting at 8:00
the Education Building of the
Baptist Church for the purpose of
Gas Rationingis Back $no,000 Building
Included In Billv'
Before Congress;
City Should Have.'
Location Ready
When Bill Passes
TOLEDO," OHIO^-Soundphoto==
Because of strikes in the oil indus-
try, essential users are given-gas'
ration carde. Above is shown a)
school bus driver getting his gas
ht: Mrs. Louis*'
card. Left to right:
Milter, Charles Wertz, Sec’y to the
city manager holding card and Ed-
ward Pawlaczyak, bus driver. This
is just one instance showing th*
effect <}f strikes, which are spread-
ing throughout the country.^"
Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
Smith Celebrate 25th
Anniversary Sunday
On Sunday, September 30, Mr.
and Mrs. F. E. Smith celebrated
their 25th wedding anniversary and
were honor guests at a tea in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Garland T.
Brooking, given by Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Brisbois and son. Millard, of
Eagle Lake.
Refreshments were served from a
table covered with a Maderia lace
JKUsVin^'toe Vs“sibili:ties“of a“pro-1 «lo‘h and centered with a beautiful
gram during the winter months.
Suggestions have been made that|
promote Volley Ball games in
the high school gym. If this is to
be done we will need a leader who
arrangement of pink chrysanthe-
mums and roses. Pink candles in
crystal candlebra graced the sides
of the floral arrangement. Mrs. G.
T. Brooking presided at the punch
will organize such teams as can be b°w> aad “rs. Robert Thomas Sr.
of Eagle Lake served the cake.
Millard Brisbois, grandson of the
honorees had charge of the guest
found and handle the games. Then
may be that we could install
lights on the tennis court at the.
high school so that tennis could be book,
enjoyed there at night. If you are Many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
interested in these projects or some Smith called during the afternoon
other that would benefit the folk to wish them many more happy
our city, join us in the meeting years. The honor guests received
Friday night M. O. Burton, many beautiful gifts, but the best
Chm. Recreation Committee | gifts of all, they said, was the
friendship of so many wonderful
Aubrey E. Allen and sister, Mrs. I people, as friends are far more
F. Williams, were here over the precious than silver and gold,
week-end visiting their grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Mollie Wilkerson. | Follow The "SHARKS” Friday.
Experiences of Belleau Wood In Last Days of War
With Japan Related In Letter From Tommy Caffall
Since the Emperor has hollered
“Nuff”, it is now possible to tell
you the part that the old gal, BEL-
LEAU WOOD took in helping
clinch the victory. When the of
ficial order to cease attack came
through the morning of the fif-
teenth, that was the 46th eventful
day of the cruise. Our last wartime
cruise was also our longest—and
a most unhappy one for Honorable
Opponent,
Our Task Group under command
of Rear Admiral T. L. Sprague,
part of Vice Admiral McCain's
Task Force 38, left San Pedro Bay,
Leyte Gulf, the morning of July
1st. As always, the BELLEAU
WOOD was traveling in some pret-
ty famous company, but, in all
modesty, so were they—hy sailing
with us. Just one part of the Task
Force was imposing enough to give
the Emperor nightmares. There
was the San Jacinto another light
carrier which has been our fighting
partner for a long time. Among the
big carriers was the new Lexing-
ton. Also traveling with us this
cruise, were the battleships South
Dakota, Massachusetts, and Indiana
plus several cruisers—more about
them later. All these, combined
with our screening destroyers made
a wonderful sight, but it was no
comfort to the Jap planes who
were so unfortunate as to get in
range of all these guns.
Until July 9th we conducted the
familiar training exercises, with a
little more emphasis on defense
against those Jap suicide attacks
you’ve read so much about. We also
spent a good amount of time get-
ting acquainted with our new Air
Group, which had come aboard in
Leyte. Then we fueled at sea, an
jold routine to us now, and began
our high speed run in to the target
. . . TOKYO.
Our planes struck airfields in the
Tokyo Plain, along with the rest of
the Task Force and British Fleet
Units, all day the 10th. |We knock-
ed out many planes and airfield in-
stallations —(the first clean-up
blows that left us in complete con-
trol of the air over the Empire by
the time the cruise ended. The lit-
tle Yellow Men were taken com-
pletely by surprise and only one or
two “snooper” search planes came
out toward the Fleet all day. They
joined their ancestor^ shortly, as
usual.
We retired that night and refuel-
ed the next day letting the Japs I air force. But our best blow in
worry about where our next attack I those two days was against the last
would be and we think we fooled I modern battleship in the beaten
them completely, because we next|JaP Navy, the NAGATO. She was
hit the northernmost home island battered beyond use and our
of Japan, HOKKAIDO. The foggy
weather up there, which reminds
me of the North Atlantic in the
summer, held us up the first day,
but we hit them hard on the 14th
and 15th. We knocked out many
planes and hangars and factory
buildings over the island. Our Air
Group capitalized on its specialty,
rocket firing, and blew up a num-
ber of locomotives and sank a 1,900
ton cargo ship.
Those two days, as you prob-
ably remember from the big broad-
casts, were the days the battle-
wagons first bombarded Japan. Our
battleships went in the night of
the 14th to blast the steel mills at
KAMAISHI on northern HONSHU.
The next morning the big boys
from one of the other groups in
the force went in to blast industrial
areas on HOKKAIDO itself.
We then moved south and hit the
aiifields of Honshu, north of Tokyo,
on the 17th and 18th of July. An-
other slice was taken out of the
Emperor’s rapidly disappearing
Group got several hits of the ' tany
landed on her. The pilots said it
looked like half the anti-aircraft
guns in Japan had been planted in
the hills around the harbor where
the NAGATO was concealed and
heavily camouflaged, but they could-
n’t stop our "Fly Boys.” On the
17th the battlewagons again made
history by bombarding the shores
of the Empire north of Tokyo at
midnight. The cruisers ATLANTA
and DAYTON from our group were
in the bombardment group.
For our next strikes we fueled
and moved far south and around
to the island sea area of Japan.
The primary targets were aircraft
and the remnants of the Japanese
Navy which holed up in the big
Jap Naval Base at KURE on the
Inland Sea. Here our boys, tor-
pedo bombers, really made the sons
bf heaven duck. On the 24th our
Air Group alone registered at least
five direct hits and that many near
misses on the old Jap battleship
ISE, which had been partly con-
verted to a carrier by adding a
flight deck on the stern. The
weather held up the KURE strikes
on the 25th, but we continued to
strike at airfields and on the is-
lands of SHIKOKU and HONSHU,
getting more planes and locomo-
tives, plus hits on factories and
hangars.
Also on the 25th our Fighter
Squadron got its first crack at air-
borne opposition. Fifteen of the
Jap’s fast new fighters jumped a
flight of ten of our Hellcats—most
unfortunate for the wily Nips.
When the dust cleared, seven Japs
had gone down flaming, and the
rest were suddenly needed at home
it seems. One of our veteran aces,
in the Pacific for his second tour
of duty, ran his score up to 19 Japs
by shooting down four of the sev-
en. He is Lt. C. N. Nooy of Smith-
town, N. Y. The day would have
been perfect, but for the loss of
bne of our pilots who was crashed
head-on in the dog-fight by one
smoking Jap.
On the 28th we returned to the
same area and launched more
strikes against the Bhips at KURE.
There was little left of the Jap
(See “EXPERIENCES,” Page 5)
•Four hundred and twenty-one
Texas projects at a total cost off
$36,945,900 are eligible for inclu-
sion in the new government build-
ing program now before congress.
Only about one-fourth of those
in the list can be constructed. Ia
all, there are 4020 projects planned
in the United States. Cost of the
program would total $774,795,000.
Congress has been asked for only ,
$193,000,000. I
From the list, according to terms
bf the legislation proposed by the
Public Building Administration, it
will select “those projects which are
most essential to efficient opera-
tion of the federal establishment.*
Passage of the bill is urged to
prepare a backlog of projects “ia
case it is judged in the public ia-
tcrest to undertake a large-scale
federal building program to combat
a recession,” officials said.
The proposed projects include
Public Health Service hospital**
federal court houses, post offices
and other office buildings.
The Texas list consists mainly off
post offices and among the townB
in which post offices are planned
with cost was Palacios, $110,000.
Others in this section were Port
Lavaca, and Ganado.
In the issue of May 19, 1938, the
Beacon carried a news item that a
new post office building for Pa-
lacios was among the 94 Texas pro-
jects which the house appropria-
tions comfnittee of Congress listed
in the new spending-lending bill as
eligible under the proposed $60,-
000,000 appropriation for federal
buildings. The committee, in intro-
ducing the bill, explained that the
postmaster general and the secre-
tary of the treasury would select
from the list the projects actually
to be constructed.
'Other Federal buildings listed for
this section were new post office
buildings at Port Lavaca, Alvin*
Angleton and Freeport.
This building program was halt-
ed when World War II became evi-
dent, however, we learn a survey
had been made here and Palacioa
was slated among the first group
selected.
Just what Palacios may get now
we are unable to say, but believe
if our citizens or the City Council
would take steps immediately and
secure a suitable site, we would
stand a much better chance of being
one of the first places selected.
Dr. Wagner Has
Interesting Program
At Rotary Luncheon
The Rotary program Wednesday
at noon was in charge of Dr. J. R»
Wagner, who had as his program
guests Miss Claire Joy Luther and
Rev. Geo. F. Gillespie. Miss Luther
played two numbers on the piano,
‘Navajo Trail,” and "Rustles off
Spring.” Rev. Gillespie spoke on
“Shintoism” the State Religion off
Japan until last week. He drew
upon information from news reels,
and from a set of books on Ethica.
“4,234 ships were downed on Oki-
nawa,” he quoted from the news
reel. He also referred to an edi-
torial in Time Magazine for August
20, as follows; "We need to fear*
not the atomic bomb, but the natuis
of man.” He also referred to ths
Samurai caste in Japan, and to ths
caste’s Kamikaze behavior.
Besides the above guests on tbs
program, Thomas Brandon had for
his guest, his brother-in-law A. E.
Duffy. Lawrence Greenhaw, vics-
president, presided in the absenos
of the president, Millard Brooking
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