Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Thursday, October 15. iqks
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PUBLISHER ....
NEWS EDITOR - - -
ASSO. EDITOR & ADV. MGR.
BUSINESS MANAGER -
- MRS. J. W. DISMUKES
- - VERNON L. DAVIS
- - JESSE V. DISMUKES
- HUGH J. DISMUKES
Entered at the Post Office at Palacios, Texas, as second class mail
matter under the Act of Congress.
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One Year In County, $2.00 One Year Outside County, $2.50
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character,
standing, or reputation of any person, firm or
corporation which may appear in the columns
of the Palacios Beacon will be gladly corrected
if brought to the attention of the publisher.
THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
Two things began in Palacios to-
day. One was registering for Ra-
tion Book No. 4 and a drive to
reach our quota in the United War
Chest.
Lt. John S. Arant, Jr. of Hous-
ton was killed in a plane crash near
Palacios.
Mis& Cherry Price and Sgt Bur-
nell Waldrep were married by Rev.
Carroll B. Ray, Oct. 14 in the
Emanuel Baptist Church of Hous
ton.
Mrs. Brisbois of Eagle Lake re-
viewed "The Robe” at the Wednes
day Club meeting.
Howard Tanner GM3/C writes
from North Africa.
15 YEARS AGO
Rev. L. W. Crouch, of Blooming-
ton, was called to serve as pastor
of the First Baptist Church.
Miss Winifred Barrett enrolled
as a freshman at Mary Hardin-
Baylor College.
Edward Emanuel Burton died at
his home October 11 of a heart at-
tack.
Capt. Ernest Wehmeyer, of.the
game, fish and oyster commission
reported the Shrimp season was the
best this section had had for a
number of years. During the month
of September more than 934,000
pounds of shrimp were brought in-
to Palacios.
The Crawford Blue.iackets won
over Tri-Cities by a score of 14-6 on
the Baytown gridiron.
Sharks named to meet Port La-
vaca Sandcrabs in the first dis-
trict game for the season wnrs
Kenneth Partain, Houston Savage,
Delbert Whitley, Jasper Baldree,
Albert Kilgore, Eldon Hamlin, Lc-
Roy Ereckson, James Runklc, J. M.
Harbison, Nelson Norman, Choppy
Hamlin and Ballard Johnson.
Mrs. Minnie Hood anounced the
marriage of her daughter, Viola t
Mac Reader on Oct. 8. Rev. George
F. Gillespie officiated and they left
for Refugio where the groom was
employed in the schools as head of
the music department.
DR. JACK KAHN
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted
Phone 233 Collect for Vonr
A ppointment
Fifth Floor, National Bank Bldg
Victoria. Texas
20 YEARS AGO
Messrs. George Harrison, J. F.
Barnett and Carlton Crawford were
in Austin working for the Palacios-
Collegeport Seawall Aid Bill, be-
fore the House which had been
passed by the Senate.
Miss Minnie Legg and Cecil O.
Legg were married, Rev. Paine of-
ficiating.
Talacios Library Association
elected as follows; president, Mrs.
J. R. Wagner; vice-president, Mrs.
G, A Salsbury; treasurer, Mrs. A.
G. Skinner; secretary, Mrs. J. W.
Dismukes. Mrs. Elizabeth Russell
was re-elected librarian and Messr.
T. R. Brandon. H. B. Farwell and
Gillespie, trustees.
25 YEARS AGO
Miss Naomi Helander and Glenn
Stewart announced their marriage
which took place on Sept. 29.
John L. Logan, a pioneer citizen
of Blessing died at the home of his
daughter in Bay City, age 92 years.
Rev. and Mrs. John Campbell
were given a farewell party at the
Central Baptist Church.
The largest cotton crop for Pala-
cios in about ten years was about
all in and 3000 hales had been gin-
ned.
30 YEARS AGO
Miss Louise Stapp left for Pharr
to teach school and Miss Audrey
Clements began her school at
Mackey.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Claybourn of
Dallas announced the oirth of a
baby boy and Mr. and Mrs. B. W.
Trull of Midfield were parents of
a new baby girl.
Miss Loretta Reynolds was em-
ployed in a two teacher school near
Cuero.
HE'S A BIG BOY NOW, PUT HIM ON SOUD FOOD1
ATTORNEY GENERAL SHEPPERI)
LISTS OPINIONS LAST MONTH
35 YEARS AGO
Eugene Estes, Roy Bell and Clar-
ence Nelson passed their examina-
tions for entrance into the TJ. S.
Navy.
The flue epidemic had reached
Palacios and J. A. Partain and son
and Max Bruse were reported as
victims.
Miss Jessie Billings left for
Washington^D. C. to accept a posi-
tion in the Civil Service Commis-
sion.
40 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mi's. D. W. Grant took
over the Wylie House and changed
the name to Park Hotel.
M. C. Vaughan of Oklahoma be-
came owner of the electric light
and ice plant also the cotton gin,
purchasing them from Mr. Cover.
Mrs. Augusta Wilks, age S3
years died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. J. C. Wilkerson.
BEATON AD<5 GET RESULTS
Austin (Spl.)—Attorney General
John Ben Shepperd has released
a list of all opinions of his office
during the month of September.
The office received 190 requests
for advice or opinions and closed
194 opinion files during the month.
The office has won 97 per cent
of all cases tried or appealed since
the first of the year. A total of
959 cases have been won out of 988
tried. During the month of Septem-
ber 41 cases were tried, none of
which were lost.
Opinions of general interest in-
cluded the following:
A veteran is not entitled to regis-
ter in Texas schools as a “resident”
simply because he was stationed
in Texas for one year. However, if
he moved his family to Texas or
bought a home in this State, the
school receiving his application for
enrollment should consider these
facts in deciding whether or not he
is a resident of Texas and there-
fore entitled to use the smaller
registration fee.
The county service officer, coun-
ty librarian, county health officer,
county health nurse, deputy county
clerks, deputy sheriffs and deputy
county tax collectors are county
employees and are covered by the
County Workmen’s Compensation
Act.
The county agricultural agent
and the county home demonstra-
tion agent are State employees and
are not included by the County
Workmen’s Compensation Act.
However, they are covered by the
Federal Workmen’s Compensation
Act.
The county welfare ease worker
employed by the commissioners’
court to help determine which per-
sons should receive county support
as paupers, idiots or lunatics, is a
county employee, and as such is
covered by the County Workmen’s
Compensation Act.
Tank trucks used by farmers to
haul water over public highways
are entitled to the 50 per cent
reduction in registration fees as
farm trucks. Their drivers must
bringing the world
to your doorstep
Wherever you see him working,
America is on the march. Building,
growing, progressing!
He’s a General Telephone
lineman... part of the
privately owned and operated
telephone industry that
brings you the finest, most
economical service on earth.
That’s a point to remember
when someone suggests
public ownership
“might do it better."
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General Telephone Company
of the Southwest
One of the Great Telephone
Systems Serving America
have driver’s licenses, and if their
gross weight exceeds 6,000 pounds,
the drivers are required to have
commercial operator’s licenses.
The University of Texas may
air-condition its existing buildings.
The county commissioner’s court
may contract with a city within
the county to operate fire-fighting
equipment owned by the county.
This equipment may be used to pro-
tect rural areas in the county. The
city may use such equipment with-
in the city limits to an extent equal
to the services rendered the rural
areas.
State legislative restrictions on
travel expense do not apply to of-
ficers and employees of the Texas
Employment Commission, if they
travel under regulations approved
by the proper federal agency. The
Commission may also authorize
reimbursement for laundry, clean-
ing and pressing tips by issuing ap-
propriate regulations.
LIVE WITH PEACE OF MIND
Bv KIRBY PAGE
The New Testament is filled with
warnings against conformity to
this world. Its challenge is: Come
ye out from among them, and be ye
different. And Jesus inquired, What
do ye more than others ?
Perhaps no portion of God’s
message appears to our generation
as more foolish than the injunction,
Do not be overcome by evil, but
overcome evil with good.
What is good? The purpose of
God is good, the procedure of God
is good, the mind of Christ is-good,
the spirit of our Lord is good, to
follow the Prince of Peace is good
to be compassionate and merciful
is good, to forgive is good, to lose
one’s life for Christ’s sake and the
Gospel’s is good.
Obliteration bombing with block-
busters and fire bombs is not good,
the use of atomic bombs is not
good, the use of hydrogen bombs
is not good, the use of disease
germs as weapons of warfare is
not good, hate is not good, total
war is not good.
It is good to have faith in God,
in Christ, in the power of the spirit,
in compassion and mercy and for-
giveness, in the power of vicarious
suffering, in the way of the cross.
It is not good to trust what we
acknowledge to be evil it is not
good to have faith in our power to
destroy, it is not good to trust the
obliterating weapons of total v ar.
It is good to follow the way of
Jesus our Lord; it is not good to
•follow Joseph Stalin in his trust in
the power of armed might. It is
good to do the will of Gtd with in-
tegrity and fidelity; it is not good
to act in accordance with the doc-
trine that the end justifies the
means.
It is good to run the risks and
take the consequences of doing
what you know to be right; it is
not good to run the risks and to
take the consequences of doing
what you know is wrong.
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Did you know we had a real
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