Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 18, 1989 Page: 2 of 12
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Page 2-Palacios Beacon, Jan. 18, 1989
Uher appointed to House
redistricting committee
State Representative D. R.
"Tom" Uher, (D-Bay City) was
appointed .Chairman of the
House Committee on Redistrict-
ing for the 71st Legislature last
week. Rep. Uher is beginning
his 11th term in the Texas House
of Representatives and currently
ranks third in seniority among
House members, considered one
of the more powerful house
committees, the Redistricting
committee will have the task of
redrawing the boundaries of the
congressional, state senatorial,
and stale representative districts
after the 1990 census.
Uher was also appointed to
serve as a member of the House
committees on Higher Education
and Judicial Affairs. About his
committee appointments, Uher
said, "I am very pleased to have
the opportunity to serve on these
committees. As chairman of the
Committee on Redistricting, it is
important that we do the prelimi-
nary work now to insure the in-
tegrity of the process by which
we draw our legislature districts.,
It is especially important to pro- ,
tcct the representation of our ru-
ral communities."
The Higher Education com ,
mittee will be following matters
concerning the state's institutions
of higher learning, while the Ju-
dicial Affairs committee will
tackle the tough issues which
now face the Texas judicial sys-
tem.
TOXINS
New restaurant opens
PALACIOS' NEWEST, flashiest, fanciest, bestest (and onlyest) oriental food
restaurant opened on a cold day in January, the 10th. Chamber of Commerce Vice-
President and cut-up John Lenihan wields the scissors while (from left) Guy Clay-
bourn, Colleen Claybourn, Nellie Rockenbaugh, Margaret McElrath, Ruby Penland,
Esther Smith, Chris Woll, Linh Chau, Kim Chau, Connie Huit (and granddaughter),
Mayor Leonard Lamar, Fred Huit and Bert Ripke cheer him on.
"cut"
Two men reported
Suspect arrested for assault
following chase by police
A 29-year old Palacios man
was arrested and charged with
aggravated assault following a
fight in a tavern which allegedly
resulted in two men suffering
kflife wounds. The suspect re-
mained in jail Monday morning
pending arraignment.
-^According to police, the inci-
dent occurred in a tavern in the
800 block of Main around 12
midnight Sunday. One of the
injured men had received a cut
on his right hand. Police said
they had not found the second
man who witnesses reported had
been stabbed in the abdomen area
and had left the scene before
police arrived.
Police officer Melvin Belcher
said he had been driving down
Main Street when he observed a
car speed out of the tavern park-
ing lot. He followed the vehicle
to the police station where the
two male occupants of the car
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reported that there had been a
"cutting" at the tavern. One of
the men said he had been cut on
the hand and the other man said
the second victim had been his
father. ^
Belcher said when he, ac-
companied by the two men, re- Sfc
turned to the location with the
two men, he saw two suspects *f [
walking in the 300 block of 9th
Street and ordered them to stop.
According to the officer, al-
though one of the men stopped,
-the-s'Jie.^Medza.da.so despitex
repeated warning, chasing the
suspect down an alley on the 900
block between Main and Welch,
Belcher said the man was finally
apprehended when the two men
who had accompanied him tack-
led the suspect.
Police said a knife, believed
used in the assault, was recov-
ered in the alley from nearby
weeds.
Despite a search of the area,
police said they had been unable
to locate as of Monday morning
the man who had been reportedly
stabbed in the abdomen.
In other police news, a resi-
dent reported seeing several ju-
veniles breaking out windows in
the 800 block of Humphrey with
paddles Jan. 15.
A 24-year old man was ar-
rested for public intoxication in
14.
A resident reported that sev-
eral juveniles had been going
onto his property and had taken a
horse brush and tongs.
INDUSTRY
(Continued From Page One)
Noting the disappearance of
jobs and exodus of workers as
STP construction slowed, Kirk
spelled it out clearly; Matagorda
County and Palacios must attract
other businesses to fill the void.
"First, if you're going to be in
the running, if you're going to be
in the money, you've got to con-
sider some sort of tax abate-
ment."
He estimated the Formosa
expansion will be about 1/4 or
1/5 the size of STP in terms of
dollars spent, but about 1/2 the
size of STP in numbers of con-
struction workers. "If you want
some of those people to live in
Palacios, you should be there
talking to them right now," Kirk
said.
The toxin is not inactivated by
cooking, freezing, drying, salt
ing, smoking, or marinating the
affected fish. Unusually large
fishes that are exposed to the di-
noflagellate tend to accumulate
more toxin than smaller ones.
A wide variety of fish have
been implicated in outbreaks of
ciguatera intoxication. In the
Caribbean and off the coast of
Florida, fish that have been most
often implicated include
groupers, snappers, kingfish,
amberjack, dolphin, and bar-
racuda. This observation may be
due to consumption patterns or
the variable existence of G.
Toxicus in tropical or subtropical
reefs.
The exact reasons why the in-
gested barracuda contained
ciguatoxin are not clear. While
no systematic survey for the
presence of the dinoflagellate or
the toxin has been conducted,
there is no evidence of significant
public health threat. The
distribution of G toxicus in the
Gulf is poorly understood but
may be related to new out-
growths of soft corals or to eco-
logical disturbances in tropical or
subtropical reefs. It is unclear
how one fish may be unsafe to
eat and another of the same type
and from the same area could be
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symptoms described above and
should consider ciguatera intoxi-
cation in the differential diagno-
sis. Further information is avail-
able from Texas Poison Control
Centers (1-800-392-8548. 1-
800-441-0040) or from refer-
ences listed below.
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M.D., M.P.H., Director, PH .
Region 4, and Dennis M. Per- .
rotta, Ph.D., Director, Epidemi-
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