Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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For a Greater, Better Palacios Country—Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, Living
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PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1945
VOLUME XXXVIII NUMBER 46
Stores to Observe
Nov. 22; Community
Thanksgiving Service
USS TEXAS—SHE SERVED WELL
Community-Wide
Services To Be Held
Wednesday P. M.
President Truman has proclaimed
November 22, fourth Thursday of
the month as Thanksgiving Day.
His proclamation said:
"Give Thanks with the humility
ot free men, each knowing it was
the might of no one arm but of all
together by which we were saved.”
Gov. Coke Stevenson has also
proclaimed November 22 as Thanks,
giving Day, and Palacios will ob
serve this date. Stores have agreed
to close their places of business for
the entire day and schools will be
given a two day vacation next week,
Some of the surrounding towns
are preparing to Observe the last
Thursday of the month as their
annual holiday.
The annual Community-Wide
Thanksgiving Service will be held
this year at the First Baptist
Church on Wednesday, November
21, at 7:30 p. m.
An appropriate program has been
arranged by the ministers associa
tlon, who trust that all will take
advantage of this opportunity to
come and offer thanks to God for
victory and peace and the many
other bounteous gifts from Him.
The program is as follows:
Song Service ........... Congregation
Invocation Rev. L. W. Crouch
Special Music . Girls’ Sextette
Offering For Mexican Mission
Scripture and Prayer
i......Rev. J. F. Finger
Testimony Meeting.........Volunteers
Male Quartette
Sermon Rev. Robt. M. McGehee
Hymn.........................To Be Selected
Benediction 4... Rev. G. F. Gillespie
With Our Men
In The Service
Capt. Phil H. Hawkins recently
discharged from the Army accom-
panied by Mrs. Hawkins and son
came in last week for a visit with
her mother, Mrs. Carroll Cairnes.
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Mrs. Woodrow K. Ellis has re-
cently received a letter from her
husband informing her that he had
been ill and in a Marine Hospital
in Japan. T/4 Ellis had been a
pneumonia victim but was making
satisfactory recovery.
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Perry Everett arrived home last
week with his discharge after being
on duty in the CBI theatre for some
months.
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B. G. Faubion is another Pa-
lacios boy to receive his discharge
and return to civilian ilfe. Mr.
Faubion, wife and family are now
located in Houston and ask that the
Beacon be sent to them at their new
address.
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Mrs. J. O. Prunty had a long dis-
tance call from a port in Virginia
Saturday morning stating her son.
Sgt. J. 0. Prunty was ready to talk
to her. He had just returned to the
states and is expected home real
soon for a furlough.
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Henry Lawson, recently of Yuma,
Ariz., was here the first of the
week expecting to get his honorable
discharge from the Army Air Force
in a few days.
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J. M. Harbison arrived here this
week after receiving his honorable
discharge at Camp Shelby, Miss.
J. M. spent some months in the
C.B.I. Theatre as a member of the
Army Air Force.
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IWIITH THE 37TH INFANTRY
DIVISION O NLUZON.—Sergeant
Donald J. Amon, of Palacios, is
awaiting transportation home from
County E Bond Sales
Of $29,356 Is Only
10 Percent of Quota
Mr. E. O. Taulbee, chairman of
the Matagorda County War Finance
Committee, reported this morning:
The total of sales in the Victory
bond drive as reported to the re-
gional office on Saturday, Novem-
ber 10, E bonds, $29,356.25. This is
pnly 10 per cent of our quota he
said.
In the other sales, largely ac-
counted for by outside companies
'operating in the county—$91,234.00
or a total overall sales of $120,-
590.00, and this leaves us short
$600,000.00 of our quota of $720,-
000.00. The slow sales of bonds, Mr.
Taulbee said, is hard to understand,
as with cash deposits in our banks
of around $12,000,000.00 and a large
amount in safety deposit boxes, it
seems that our people are definitely
uninterested in finishing the job.
Matagorda County has had a per-
Proposed Hospital
ITo be of Brick And
Tile Construction
Sharks7 Play
Final Game
Here Friday
Pt. Lavaca Defeats
Sharks 7-0 In Hard
Fought Thriller
The Palacios Sharks will play
hosts to the Goliad Tigers here
Friday night at 7:30 in the final
. . , . , . , . game of the season. The Sharks,
feet record in every bond sale pro- coached by Charley Johnson, have
mwnm am/in hnrvlmminn* A ma «iia I
two wins and three defeats on rec-
ord and will be out Friday night
gram since the beginning. Are we
now to lose this fine record because
of lack of interest?
Humble Announcers
To Be Kept Busy
Saturday; 4 Games
endeavoring to make their season
standing 50-50.
All reports point to an evenly
matched battle between the two
teams.
The Port Lavaca Sandcrabs.
capitalizing on an 85 yard run for
Humble announcers will be kept Itheir on,y touchdown and followed
busy this Saturday afternoon b> their extra point, held the
bringing football fans the descrip- Sharks to no score and the game
tion of three crucial Southwest ended with the Sharks on the small
Conference clashes as well as a top eI,4 of a 7 to 0 score. It was a battle
intersectional tilt. from the opening whistle until the
_ , .. . . . . final gun was sounded, and with
One of these important confer' 1
ence battles will take place at Aus-
tin, where Texas U. and T. C. U.
will meet. Broadcast of this game
will take the air at 2:15 p. m. with
Kern Tips doing the play-by-play
and Jerry Doggett assisting with
color highlights.
In another of the crucial games
the exception of the one run the
game was as even as could have
been played. The win by the Sand-
crabs gives them the top rung in
the district race.
Friends of William Leslie are
pleased to learn he was able to be
Rice wiffbattie A.'VM.at lions-1 brought home Tuesday and is now
ton. Announcers for this tilt will | at the home of his daughter, Mis.
be Ves Box and Dave Russell de-1 ?■ C- Lee. Mr. Leslie had been in
scribing the play-by-play and color t*le hospital at El Campo the past
respectively. Broadcast time will be ^en “f*ant* 18 very muc“ im-
2:15 p.m. | proved.
The third of the “do or die” bat-
tles will pitt S. M. U. against I Bob Anders returned the first of
Arkansas. This game will take the week from a visit with his son
place at Dallas at 2:15 p. m. Char- and wife, Capt. and Mrs. Ray An-
lie Jordan will handle the play-by- ders, in Dallas. Mr. Anders also
play for this tussle while Dick Bush visiting in Alvarado with Oscar
will add color. Robinson and family, also Mr. and
The big intersectional tilt will Mrs. Robert Pope. Mrs. Pope was
bring Baylor to Tulsa Oklahoma to the former Jo Beth Robinson and
tangle with Tulsa U. This game lived in Palacios when her parents
will go on the air at 2:15 p. m. with | made this their home.
Bill Michaels on hand for the play-
Shown riding at anchor is the
battleship USS TEXAS, one of the
Navy’s oldest men-o’-war. Her age
did not prevent her from piling up
one of the war’s most enviable com-
bat records. The TEXAS was the
only American battleship that
fought off three continents—Eu-
rope, African and Asia. A drive
now being made to permanently
moor the TEXAS at the San Jacinto
battle grounds.
—Official U. S. Navy Photograph.
by-play and Alec Chesser describ-|
ing the color.
Mrs. Leland Stevenson and baby I
daughter and mother, Mrs. Ander-|
sin, who had been here visiting
their sister and daughter, Mrs. M.
O. Burton and family, left Wednes-
day for Johnson City where they
will visit the parents of her hus-
band, Lt. Stevenson, who is now in
the Philippines. From there they
will go to California where Mr. |
Anderson is now located.
Miniature "Oil Field”
Foretells Future
Palacios to be Without
Services of Gulf
Health Department
The city commissioners of Pa-
lacios, Texas, having ceased to ap-
propriate finances to carry on the
work of the office of the Gulf
Health Department in Palacios, it
will be necessary to discontinue the
services rendered by this depart-
ment to the people of Palacios as
formerly done. The office of the
Gulf Health Department will be
closed. Venereal disease patients
will report to the Bay City office
of the Gulf Health Department.
e county. sanitarian will only be
able to spend one day a month in
Palacios, and will do what work
he can during this time, such as
the inspection of restaurants, cafes,
grocery and meat stores, and gen-
eral sanitary complaints. The coun-
ty health nurse will do only emer-
gency work which may arise in con-
junction with communicable dis-
eases. The rat-poisoning campaign
will be carried on the same as sched-
uled the latter part of November.
We regret, very much, that it is
necessary for us to curtail our pro-
gram to this extent, but the people
must know that all these services
cost money, and it is necessary to
raise part of this money from local
sources through the city commis-
sion, and these officers do not see
fit to continue their contribution
toward this work.
Chester P. Brown, M. D.
Director
W. H. Clement, Jr.
Talks On Scouting
At Rotary Meeting
Bill Clement, pinch-hitting for a
program which never arrived, gave
some interesting facts on the Boy
Scout camp located on the Pierce
Estate north-west of Bay City, and
known as Camp Pierce. He listed
the many improvements that had
been made and others that were to
be completed in the hear future.
Mr. Clement also told the Rotar
fans of the work being accomplish-
ed by the local troop, and praised
the work being done by the new
assistant Scoutmaster, Glenn Dale
Claybourn.
Mr. Clement, in behalf of the
American Legion and the V. F. W.
thanked the club for the coopera-
tion they rendered at the Sunday
The American Legion and Vet-1 memorial services and the barbecue
of Foreign Wars jointly | on Monday. In this phase of his talk
he told of the work the two posts
were doing for the returning ser-
vice men, and stated that all they
wanted was a glad hand-shake and
a job.
Visitors were Frank Shaw Tay-
Armistice Is
Observed by
AL,VFW
With Memorial
Services Sunday,
Barbecue Monday
crans
sponsored Armistice Day celebra-
tion in Palacios this year, with a
memorial service on Sunday and a
welcoming home free barbecue on
Monday.
The memorial services Sunday
were held in the auditorium of the I lor, Rotarian of Bay City, and Rev.
Elementary school at eleven o’clock I J. R. Finger, pastor of the Naza-
and were opened with the tradi-1 rene Church,
tional silent prayer and Taps. Rev.
L. W. Crouch offered the Memorial
prayer and the Girls Sextette ren-
dered two impressive numbers.
Reading of the scripture by Rev.
J. R. Finger followed. Rev. Elroy
Wcikel, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church of Angleton, was I Volley ball nights have proved a
Will Be Equipped
With X-Ray And
Other Equipment
As we announced last week the
City Council has called an election
for Saturday, November 24, to vote
a $25,000 Bond issue for the pur-
pose of constructing a City Hos-
pital.
Present pluns are to construct a
building of tile and brick in which a
there will be two reception rooms,"
operating and X-Ray rooms, two
wards and a few private rooms,
also quarters for a dentist, and built
in such a way as can be added to
when needed.
We also learn a doctor is ready
to lease the building and applica-
tions from a dentist also X-Ray ex-
pert have been received. There will
be no extra tax levied and those
who are in the know feel certain the
rental will be sufficient to pay off
the indebtedness.
A committee from the Chamber
of Commerce working with the City
Council has aided in every way pos-
sible to bring to our city this very
much needed service and feel the
taxpayers will not reject the issue
when they have the opportunity to
vote for it Saturday, November 24.
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Volleyball Games
Draws Interest In
Recreation Program
Luzon, with the 37th Division.
Atnon is a veteran infantryman
with 18 months of overseas service.
He saw actoin wth the 148th Regi-
ment, of the 37th Division on Lu-
zon, and served on New Caledonia
and Bougainville.
He is authorized to wear the Dis-
tinguished Unit Badge, as a mem-
ber of a company, cited by the
President, for gallantry in action,
the Combat Infantry Badge, the
Philippine Liberation ribbon, and
the Asiatic-Pacific campaign rib-
bon.
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Capt. and Mrs. John Glaros were
here from Camp Hood to spend
Armistice Day with homefolks and
friends.
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James E. Smith who received his
discharge at Fort Sam Houston
last week has gone to Newgulf
where he has employment with the
Humble Oil Company.
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PITTSBURGH, PA__Physicist
H. G. Botset, of Gulf Oil Corpora-
tion’s Research Laboratories, plans
oil production on the "Electrolytic
Model Oil Field” he invented. The
device, which duplicates actual oil
field operations on a laboratory
scale, will substantially increase
the world’s usable oil resources.
The "Model” can foretell results of
various production methods in
Iven oil flelde up to 20 years in
gh
the future, assuring more scientific
advance planning and a greater
percentage of oil recovery. The
young lady assistant holds a tray
of miniature "oil wells”.
Mrs. H. A. Clapp
Friends of Mrs. H. A. Clapp of
Collegeport were shocked and griev-
ed when they learned of her sudden
passing on. She had come to Pa-
lacios to spend the week end with
friends and Friday evening com-
plained of being ill when stricken
with a heart attack and died before
a doctor could be summoned.
Widow of Harry Austin Clapp,
well known citizen of the county
for many years and resident of Col-
legeport she continued to make that
place her home after the death of
her husband seiveral years ago.
She was known throughout the
County having worked with the
Federation of Women’s Clubs and
other organizations.
She loved her home, her friend-
and her cheerful disposition and
charitable qualities endeared her in
the hearts of those who knew her.
A lover of music and gifted pianist
her taelnt was often used for the
entertainment and pleasure at manj
gatherings, especially Church and
Club programs.
Her only survivor is a daughter,
Mrs. Oscar Crane, of Bryan, Texas,
to whom the sympathy of the entire
community is extended.
Funeral services were held from
St. John's Episcopal Church Sun-
day afternoon with Rev. Aubrey
Maxted officiating and burial made
in the Palacios cemetery.
Mrs. W. E. Sullivan enjoyed talk-
ing to her husband Lt. Weldon
Sullivan, Saturday, when he called
her from London to give her his
new address as he was being re-
turned to Germany but had no idea
how long h^ would be stationed
there.
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guest speaker and delivered a time- great success so far in the recrea-
ly message on the Necessity of tional program planned this year,
Humility Before God, at this time, The first Tuesday night there were
when national pride is rampant, to several games in which the adults
a large and attentive congregation, participated. The second Tuesday
The service closed with the audience it was mostly Junior High and Sen-
singing, “America” and Rev. Crouch ior High teams participating,
giving the benediction. I It seems that interest is growing
The free barbecue Monday inland more adults are wanting to
honor of returning veterans of thelplay. So no matter what your age
war was served on the grounds ad- if you would like to try batting that
joining the Palacios Commission old ball around come on up to the
Company’s sales barn, where tables I gym next Tuesday night, Nov. 20,
and seats had been arranged. The and you will have a chance. Specta
hungry crowd stood in line to be I tors are also invited to come and
served the usual menu of barbe-1 see the fun that these people are
cued meat, pickles, bread and cof- having.
fee and everyone seemed well satis-1 The first round of the tourna-
fied with the feed so generously ment will be completed next Tues-
served. day night and then you will see
The Palacios farmers and cowmen some hot competition, especially be-
Iived up to the tradition of the the returned Veterans and
“Texas Cowman” so far as their high school boys, also the
liberality was concerned. When they| J'oung adult women s teams,
learned that the Legion and V. F.
W. were going to have a barbecue | MotCS-Oldham
for the boys who have returned'
from the service, they began to do-1 Mr. Ney Oldham, of San Marcos,
nate calves and eight were soon I announces the marriage of his son,
given for that purpose. Those who Lt Ney Oldham, Jr., and Miss Vir-
were too late for this donation came gjnia Nell Motes, of Blountsville,
Carey Smith, editor of the Bay
City Tribune in his “Mirth” column
says, “I see where Palacios is go-
ing to vote on the issuance of bonds
Th the amount of $25,000 to build
a hospital in Palacios. This is a
long time need for the city by the
sea.”
with their pocketbooks opened and
wanted to know how much cash was
needed. To these and all donors and
those who helped in any way to
make this party the huge success
it was pronounced, the American
Legion and V. F. (W1. wish to extend
thanks.
To Change Name
Ala., in the Navy Chapel at Wash-
ington, D. C., on Friday, October
19. The bride was a member of the
WAVES. The groom was in the
service three and one half years.
He was overseas 22 months, land-
ing in Normandy on D-Day and
went all the way across Germany
with the 1st Army. Ney has receiv-
ed his honorable discharge from
the Army and with IMrs. Oldham
is now in San Marcos
Mr. Oldham writes us that they
are coming down to Palacios soon
and plan to go fishing as well as
visit with their many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stewart havo
gone to Corpus Christi where tljpy
will spend a week or ten days with
their daughter, Mrs. Fred Thomp-
son and family.
Mrs. F. L. Harper will present
her class of music pupils in a re
cital at the First Presbyterian
Church on Monday, November 19
at 8 p. m. Friends and the general
public invited.
HAMBURG, GERMANY —
Soundphoto — Alois Hitler, 64,
step-brother of the infamous
Adolf, wants to change his name
to Hiller—but fast. He haa ap-
plied for permission to blot out
association the name carries to de
fuehrer after his restaurant busi-
ness was ruined when people
turned on him because of his name.
Mrs. George Harrison enjoyed
having all her children here with
her over the weekend in celebration
of her birthday. She was also given
a surprise visit by her sister from
Pasadena, and brother John B.
Dickert, of Van Nuys, Calif., and
son and wife, A/S and Mrs. J. T.
Dickert of San iMarcos.
You Have Paid The
War, What Will You
Lend For Peace?
Urging county residents to scrape
together money for an extra bond,
Mr. E. O. Taulbee, Matagorda
County War Finance Chairman
made this statement and asked this
question:
“You have helped to pay for the
most expensive war in history.
Now, in the Victory Loan—what
will you lend to pay for peace?”
About investing in peace, the
county chairman said:
“When you have $18.75 or $37.50
or $75 burning a hole in your purse,
think in terms of 10 years hence.
“An E Bond will insure you $25,
$50, or $100 if you salt it away for
10 years. Maybe that’s the year
Johnny will be 17 and Nancy 16,
an expensive year. Buy an E Bond,
the best investment in the world
today for the world of tomorrow.
It’s registered in your own name
and safeguarded so you can’t lose.”
Declaring that Victory Bonds
help to pay for peace and can buy
peace of mind for you, he spoke
about the less publicized Series G
bond, as follows:
“For older men and women the
G Bond is the perfect answer. It
comes as low as $100, sells at par,
brings you an interest check every
6 months, and has a 214 per cent
yield over a term of 12 years.
“In case of death the Series G
Bond is redeemable at par—but
millions will live to enjoy their G’s.
Remember, you don’t have to be
old before you can invest in G
Bonds. If you want regular income,
this is the ticket to peace of mind.
And at the end of 12 years, Uncle
Sam hands your money back, in-
tact.”
H. W. Darst, Manager of the
East-South Texas Region for the
state War Finance Committee, em-
bracing this and 36 other counties,
joined the county chairman in urg-
ing citizens of the county to “buy
yourself freedom for tomorrow
while you pay for peace today. Vic-
tory bonds give you a backlog of
security against any day of need.”
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Dr. J. R. Wagner has returned
from a trip to California where he
had the pleasure of visiting his son,
John, in San Francisco. He was ac-
companied by his daughter, Mrs.
L. E. Twillegar, of Houston.
HELP THE "SHARKS" DEFEAT GOLIAD HERE FRIDAY NIGHT
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