Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 27, 1989 Page: 4 of 8
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l'ace 4-l'alacios Beacon, Wed.,December 27, 1989
10 YEARS A (JO-1979
Leonard Lamar was elected president of the Chamber of Com-
merce lo succeed Chet Jones. Dale Porter was elected to serve as
vice-president, with Andrea Ellis and Fred Huitt continuing to
serve as secretary and treasure, respectively.
The City Council passed a resolution to apply for a grant from
the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department for the swimming pool
and voted to sign a lease from the Palacios Independent School
District for the land to be used for the swimming pool.
20 YEARS AGO-1969
Johnny Frankson was presented the "Mr. Woodman" plaque at
the annual banquet of members of W.O.W. Camp 2253 and their
families held Dec. 20 at Petersen's Restaurant.
The Sharks defeated Tidchavcn 52-35 for the first win of the
basketball season.
25 YEARS AGO-1964
Jcannic Bearsc was crowned Christmas Angel at the Christmas
Dance sponsored by the FHA Dec. 22.
A reunion of the A. A. Penland family was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. James Penland.
f erry Oglesby was among 27 Texas A&I lettermen announced
by coach Gil Steinkc.
30 YEARS AGO-1959
Superintendent Ralph P. Newsom was honored with a surprise
banquet at Crawford's Shrimp Net Dec. 18 by trustees who had
served on the Palacios School Board from 1927 to 1960.
The doors of the new St. Anthony’s Catholic Church will open
for its first service Dec. 24, preceding the celebration of the annual
Christmas Midnight Mass.
Sarah Berlin Was chosen to reign as freshman duchess of the
Sigma Theta Tau Coronation Ball at Trinity University in San An-
tonio.
35 YEARS AGO-1954
William E. Coffman resigned as pastbroF the local Church of
Christ to accept the pastorship of the church in Taylor.
The First Methodist Church will hold groundbreaking for their
new $45,000 educational building Sunday at 11 a.m.
The city council approved the placing of seven more new 100
candlcpower street lights at places about the city.
40 YEARS AGO-1949
J.B. (Jack) Cole of Bay City was the first candidate for
Matagorda County when he announced his candidacy for sheriff.
South Texas Construction Co. was low bidders on Farm Road
1095, a distance of 15.52 milcs’of grading, structures, flexible
base and duraco pavement. The road connects with State Highway
35 about 5 miles cast of Blessing and extends south to College-
port.
45 YEARS AGO-1944
The Ties Palacios Garden Study Club held their annual Christ-
mas party at the home of Miss Alpha Bussell.
Tom Friery, J.L. Kocrber and M.T. Brooking were new di-
rectors elected to the Chamber of Commerce.
Several business changes were being made. The stock of the
Ruthven Grocery was sold to Raymond Field; P.L. Fields and
A.S. Rowton purchased the Palacios Pharmacy from H.E. For-
retcr and the Charles Novak store was having a closing out sale
and would discontinue their business in Palacios.
50 YEARS AGO-1939
The Athena Club held a delightful Christmas party at the home
of Mrs. D.M. Green.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Graff, managers of the Palacios Pavilion
announced Arch Harley and his band would furnish the music for
the Christmas dance Monday night, Dec. 25.
55 YEARS AGO-1934
H.O. "Ona" Welch, an assistant keeper of Half Moon Reef
Light House was found missing when C.M. Teller went to relieve
him.
60 YEARS AGO-1929
Contracts were let for all the paved highway through Matagorda
County at the State Highway Commission held in Austin.
An airplane delivered bills advertising a big free barbecue at
Gulf, sponsored by the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company.
The Golden Rule Grocery announced a three years lease for the
Williams Building, at the comer of Commerce and Fifth Streets,
had been signed and their stock would be moved there soon after
the first of the year.
65 YEARS AGO-1924
J.H. Brotcmarkle and family moved her from Kirwin, Kansas.
The camp site at Palacios was accepted by the National Guards
according to a repot from Washington, D.C.
70 YEARS AGO-1919
Mrs. M.E. Knebcrg was s[xmsoring a drive for funds to pur-
chase the building to give the library a permanent home.
75 YEARS AGO-1914
Best granulated sugar was selling for $1.00 for 17 pounds; 3
quarts of cranberries 25 cents and Irish Potatoes 30 cents a peck.
This section was experiencing some winter weather and ice one
inch thick was found by many citizens of water tanks and barrels.
IWIPfl
COLD
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( rigid wind chill factor in the neighborhood of minus 20-degrees.
The severe cold front was reminiscent of the "Big Freeze of
'83 which saw the thermometer bottom out at 14-degrees on
Chrisunas Day. While this past weekend's cold snap was colder
by far temperature-wise than that of 1983, its duration was not as
long. Six years ago the temperature stayed below freezing levels
for six consecutive days. This time around, however, the freeze
last only two days before the temperature climbed to above 32-de-
grees around noon Sunday.
ii was tiie length of the freeze of '83 which killed dozens of
palm trees throughout Palacios and also resulted in a rather sub-
stantial fish kill. Although young palm trees have only recently
been planted to replace those killed in 1983, just how much dam-
age the severe low' temperatures of the past few days will inflict
remains uncertain. Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept, is optimistic that
the rather short duration of last week’s cold weather will not do
great harm to bay water fish.
Area residents prepared for
V \/ raf> i |r ! h rp rs» Q the Arctic blast protecting their
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iqg pipes in preparation for the
low-teen temperatures expected
by Friday morning. Many of
those who didn't, or those
who thought leaving the water
taps running would suffice,
awoke Friday only to find that
they had frozen water pipes and not water.
For many, it would be several days before their lines began to
thaw and water was available. Unfortunately, many residents also
found that their pipes had busted once the temperature had
warmed up. The lack of plumbers in Palacios-whether on a
holiday or any day of the year-did not help things at all. Even
thi >■ without frozen lines or broken pipes had to put up with low
water pressure off and on as a result of broken city lines or the
drain caused by other lines. Despite the weekend holiday, it was a
bt
for Mayor Leonard Lamar and a handful of city
mixture of sleet and snow fell throughout Friday
x . : and remained on the ground throughout the weekend.
■T 14-dcgrees was recorded at midnight with the
'■m;1. 'tu p 9-degrees recorded at the airport from 6-8 a.m.
w on Sunday was 13-dcgrces at 7 a.m. before the
ieiiij'vri'Kuv warmed up to the balmy high-30's in the afternoon.
Even with Christmas Day's heat wave of temperatures in the
high 30's, Palacios was able to retain at least partially a "white
Christmas" with traces of the frozen sneet along the roadways and
even an occasional "iceberg" floating on the shallow, tranquil and
brilliantly blue waters of Ties Palacios Bay.
FILE
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community."
Frangullie retired from the
federal government in January
1988 after 22-ycars with the
Drug Enforcement Agency, a
branch i/thc U. S. Justice Dept.
He has also been a member of
the Houston Police Dept, and the
U. S. Custom Service.
Since joining the DEA in
1968, Frangullie had served in a
variety of posts. He served as
Chief of Operations for Mexico
and Central America from 1978-
80 and was Regional Director for
Latin America from 1980-82
with the task of supervising 13
country offices.
From 1982 to 1984 Frangullie
had been Special Agent in
Charge based in Seattle, Wash-
ington with the responsibility for
directing the DEA's drug en-
forcement mission in a five-state
area.
As Country Attache for the
DLa in Bogota, Colombia tram
1984 until his retirement last
January, Frangullie was the sc-
GEORGE FRANGULLIE
.IP 3 candidate...
nior U.S. law enforcement rep-
resentative assigned to the U. S.
Embassy.
9-1-1
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and Matagorda County Sheriff Sam Huna. Their alternates are
Sammy Davidson of Palacios, Stephen Zapalac of the Markham
Volunteer Fire Department and Chief of Police Mike Baker of Bay
(M®or am Psikcio:;
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t, i
Icicle tree
PUT A GARDEN
hose high in a
tree, turn on the
water and add
temperatures in the
teens and the re-
sult is this shim-
mering icicle tree
at the corner of
Fourth and Mor-
ton. For others
however, frozen
water was not as
enjoyables, espe-
cially when it re-
sulted in buster
water pipes.
Temperatures
recorded over the
weekended were
made worse by
strong, gusty
northerly winds
which made for
wind chill factors
of minus 15-de-
grees and more.
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SNEET (combination of snow and sleet)
Driving in a Winter Wonderland
shoulders.
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