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Page 4-Palacios Beacon, August 23, 1989
10 YEARS AGO-1979
Thursday, August 30 was slated to be the first day of school for
students of PISD. Immunizations were underway, and dress
codes for the school year were published.
The concrete foundation for the addition to the Matagorda
County annex at 403 Commerce was poured last week. Earlier in
the year, tylatagorda County Commissioners Court approved a
$223,490 contract with Marshall Lumber Company of Port Lavaca
for the renovation fo the old building and addition.
20 YEARS AGO-1969
The Palacios Independent School District will open the doors for
classes on Wednesday, August 27, with about 1425 students ex-
pected to report.
Ceitificates will be awarded at 4 p.m. August 26 to boys and
girls who have completed the requirements fo the Teas Reading
Club.
Major Jerome D. Kimball was awarded four medals for heroism
and meritorious service during his second tour of duty in Viet
Nam at ceremonies in Ft. Polk, La.
25 YEARS AGO-1964
The opening season on shrimp in bays began August 13.
Texas Construction Materials Co. had been awarded the contract
for construction of twin jetties in the $17.4 million Matagorda
Ship Channel project.
A budget totaling $641,866.05 had been approved by the Board
Of Trustees of the PISD for the coming school year.
Palacios Farmers Cooperative Gin reported at noon Tuesday
2954 bales of cotton had been ginned this season.
30 YEARS AGO-19S9
Texaco Inc. announced a dual completion made in its Evelyn
Harriman No. 1 well in Palacios Field. Several new ventures were
announced in the Palacios area, the hot spot of the Texas Gulf
Coast as far as drilling was concerned.
The budget for 1960 was approved by members of the city
council Monday night.
Word was received that the senate approved conference report
on Public Works Appropriation containing funds for project, bill
now goes to President for signature. This bill included $300,000
in construction funds for the Colorado River Channel project.
35 YEARS AGO-1954
The city council voted to purchase a tractor loader and mower, it
also granted B.W. Trull a 6 months extension on lease of airport
mineral; rights.
The new scoreboard was installed at the north end of Shark
Field.
Registration at Palacios schools will be held Sept. 2, 3 and 4
with class work beginning Tuesday, Sept. 7.
Over 1500 bales of cotton had ginned locally this season.
Football practice for the Sharks gets underway Monday and for
the Hornets, Tuesday.
40 YEARS AGO-1949
Lengthy discussions were held at the city council meeting Mon-
day night with the leasing of the hospital and additional sewer
lines drawing the most comment.
45 YEARS AGO-1944
One hundred and ten dogs were vaccinated ncre last week.
Leland L. Stevenson graduated from officers Candidate straining
school at Camp Lee, Va.
50 YEARS AGO-1939
Eldon Hill and Rosalie Nelson received B.S. degrees from
STST College at San Marcos.
55 YEARS AGO-1934
The Farmers Cooperative Gin, which had been operating only a
few days, was destroyed in an early morning fire.
A report from Washington, D.C. stated 1934 as the driest and
hottest year on record.
65 YEARS AGO-1924
Albert Miller sold his home on Pavilion Street to Mrs. C.M.
Fant.
Thirty Palacios people on board the launch Alamo went to Port
Lavaca for the Calhoun County Soldier's Welcome home Barbe-
cue.
The El Campo Record reported that of the 20 cars filled with El
Campo people who spent Sunday in Palacios, only one made it
home. The other 19 were stuck in the mud at Danevang.
70 YEARS AGO-1919
The W.C. Williams family moved into their new brick home on
South Bay Blvd.
County School Superintendent Thomas H. Lewis, reported
Matagorda County had 4,030 children of school age. Palacios had
530, Bay City 999, Matagorda 213, Markham 176 and 2,107 in
rural districts.
Ranchers uncertain whether
ranch will remain in family
Genuine concern drew folks to fire...
Dear Editor,
In response to Maxine Travers' letter to the Editor (Aug. 16), I
would alsolikejo get something off my mind.
While 111 agree with her that some people did indeed block the
there (because) »f a "sick need", but out of genuine concern.
I saw the ctKtm in the young man who rushed to use our
phone to report the fire. I saw the concern in neighbors who ran to
help. The fact that our houses are in such thickly wooded lots was
cause for concern when the trees started on fire.
Fd like to thank the Ties Palacios Fire Department for the fine
job they did in containing the fire. I'd also like to thank the
neighbors and friends that care and came by or called.
Too many times people are just out to see the bad in other
people and never see the goodness in them.
Yours truly,
Delfa Lucio
TPO Fire department comments on letter
Dear Mr. West,
In regards to the letter to the editor pertaining to the Ties Palacios
Oaks Volunteer Fire department on August 16,1989, this letter was
submitted without knowledge, nor consent of said fire department.
We are sony that this letter was written as though it was condoned by
the deportment and apologize to the people for the harsh statements
made.
The members of the department would be happy to have more
membeis and active participants and rely on cooperation of all
concerned. We do not condone statements of this kind.
Ray Owens, Fire Chief
Donny Claxton, Assistant Chief
Curtis Mooneyham, Captain
Lee Cook, Captain
INCIDENT
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Most South Texas ranchers
either are not certain or do not
believe that their children will
take over their ranching operation
when they retire. "Only 33
percent are certain that their off-
spring will operate the ranch
when the rancher retires," said
Dr. Gary Kemph, a management
economist'with thO TeXas Agri:
cultural Extension Service at
Corpus Christi.
According to a recent survey,
the average age of ranchers in the
33 South Texas counties sam-
pled, including the Coastal Bend
(District 14), Southwest (13) and
South (12), is 58 years old.
Kemph and five other Extension
Service specialists conducted the
survey in the counties south of a
line along U.S. Highway 90
from nearLaGrange to Del Rio.
Kemph speculated that be-
cause 43 percent of the ranchers'
low $50,000 gross annual in-
come is from non-ranching
sources, the sons and daughters
might be reluctant to leave non-
farm jobs.
"We usually see a lot of opti-
mism when cattle prices are high
and pessimism when the prices
are lower," Kemph said.
"However, we now have high
cattle prices and a lot of pes-
simism."
The severe drought is one
likely factor in the pessimism.
Other possible reasons may be
that the children are no longer
interested in agriculture, or per-
haps the families have never sat
down and discussed what is go-
ing to happen when dad finally
retires, Kemph said.
The average ranch size of
about 3,400 acres has not de-
creased, so larger holdings are
not apparently being divided
among childrea
These hypotheses will be
tested when Kemph and his team
move from the mail-out surveys
to personal interviews with some
of the survey respondents early
This Week In History
This week In 1776, Washington
and his 10,000 men lost the Battle of
Long Island and fled New York on
Aug. 27 ... In 1858, the Lincoln-
Douglass debates began on Aug. 21
... In 1859, the first commercially
productive oil well was drilled near
Titusville, Pa. on Aug. 27 ... In 1920,
women were given the right to vote
as the 19th Amendment was ratified
on Aug. 26 ... In 1944, a U.S. Army
B-25 hit a school in Freckelton,
England, killing 76 people on Aug. 23
... In 1950, under President Tru-
man’s orders, the army seized all
railroads in order to prevent a
general strike on Aug. 27... In 1984,
President Ronald Reagan and Vice
President George Bush were
renominated at the Republican
National Convention on Aug. 23... In
1986, the Soviet Union released a
report blaming an April nuclear
accident at the Chernobyl plant on
human error on Aug. 21.
© 1989 by Kins Fenlures Synd.
Building
for Safety
BY ABEL PIERCE
City of Palacios Building Inspector
Walker, but any radiation level at
that particular location is cause
‘ for concern.
Walker said, "There was no
release into the environment. We
didn't release any water, there
was not anything that got out.
There was no threat to anybody,
no hazard to equipment or per-
sonnel-certainly not to the pub-
lic. It was not cause for any
concern."
Investigation continues into
factors leading to the contamina-
tion. Plant officials don't con-
sider design failure as a probable
cause, but they haven't ruled it
out as a possible cause. It's
possible that a faulty valve line-
up created the situation, or there
was a leak-through back in one
of the other systems.
"The engineers typically look
at every possibility," said
Walker. "If they find, for
example, that there was a
misalignment of the valves, they
won't stop there because they
want to be sure that, for
example, there are no valves that
would be leaking back and that
there was no other possible
source."
The auxiliary boiler system
operates only when one of the
reactors is in its start-up pnase
and often sits idle. As a conse-
qiience, the investigation is com-
plicated by plant officials not
knowing exactly when the con-
tamination occurred. The ex-
tremely low level of contamina-
tion also makes it hard to trace.
Gean-up of the contamination
continues, and is being accom-
plished by back-flushing the liq-
uid to a location where routine
clean-up is carried out
Refueling has been delayed
by roughly 80 hours, largely due
to difficulties in removing man-
way (man-hole) covers on the
boilers; bolts holding the covers
proved difficult to remove.
Fifty-five days was originally set
aside for the refueling and main-
tenance procedures on the boil-
ers, with the reactor back on line
on September 28. Plant officials
feel there's a good chance the
lost time can be made up before
that date.
As of Monday morning,
August 21, all man-way covers
had been removed and the head
was being lifted off the reactor
in preparation of refueling,
which was expected to start
Tuesday evening.
Last Thursday evening I was
privileged to meet with a group
brought together by Joe Dial of
Victoria and Willie Younger of
Matagorda County to form a
committee to work with a group
from all the Gulf Coast area. The
aim is to bring many ideas and
plans together in one central
place under the Gulf of Mexico
Program. This is already in the
formatting stage at the U of
Miss, and his representatives
from the Corp. of Engineers,
E.P.A., Texas Water Commis-
sion, etc. involved in gathering
information.
There was a good turnout
from the Palacios area and the
five members picked to represent
Matagorda County were mostly
from our group including Cathy
Porter, Tom Landry, and Pete
Aparicio. It is really wonderful to
see people from all our diverse
society willing to get together
and talk things over.
Governor Clements asked
Dial to kick off this program a
couple of years ago, and this is
the start of a five year effort to
arrive at a solution to some of
our coastal problems. Of course
we know that quite a lot ot our
pollution comes from far inland
and is carried to the Gulf by the
rivers and streams. Excess
fertilizers and other chemicals,
water from treatment plants, and
just plain dumping wind up in
our bays and estuaries. If we kill
all the fish and shrimp, we won't
have to worry about T.E.D.S.
anyway.
Another way this group can
benefit our area is by bringing
information about aquaculture
together and helping to sell the
end product.
These hard working folks can
accomplish little without the help
of all of us. Let's face it, our
lawmakers are good at lots of
things, but best at counting
votes. If a proposal has the
backing of a few million voters,
you can bet it will go over.
When you see any of these
folks around, tell them you are in
their comer. We have heard so
much fighting lately about
T.E.D.S., oysters, etc. that it
would be a welcome change to
hear some positive solutions to a
few of our many problems.
next year.
The Agricultural Extension
Deadline For Submitfin<j
group will be looking for an-
News and Ads
swers to questions about the fti-
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