Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1961 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, March 9, 1961
PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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Money is what you’d get on
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people weren’t so crazy about it.
Internal Revenue reports there’s
the one about the seamstress who
filed a “mended” return.
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HEALTH
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State Health Department officials
«ay conditions are now right for
the usual spring upsurge in animal
rabies.
Since January 1, 5G animals have
been diagnosed by laboratory meth-
ods as being rabid. Included in that
number were 28 skunks, 18 dogs,
three cows, three foxes, three cats,
and one horse. And that’s just an
unknown fraction of the actual
problem.
The number of confirmed cases is
considerably under the number
registered at this tune last year
when 66 cases were diagnosed in
January alone, but it is still high
enough to pose a serious threat to
affected areas, Dr. H. E. Smith said.
Smith, head of the department’s
Preventive medical service section,
said pockets of infection exist in
Central Texas counties along the
Brazos River, but no area of the
state can consider itself immune.
He blamed abundant susceptible
wildlife for Texas’ perennial rabies
woes.
Health authorities have no way
of knowing the actual extent of
fhc disease among foxes and
skunks because only those which
come into contact with humans
come to their attention.
"For every rabid fox or skunk
we hear about, there might be 50
or 75 or more we don’t hear about
because they die in their burrows
or dens,” Dr. Smith said.
The obvious danger of wildlife
rabies, aside from the possibility
of direct exposure to hunters, and
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that wildlife might easily infect
dogs. Dogs thus could become
sources of1 human contact with the
disease.
“Large increases in rabid wild-
life will inevitably spill over into
domestic animals—livestock and
pets,” Smith affirmed.
Although humans are more of-
ten exposed to rabies by dog bites
than any other way, the disease
in dogs seems generally to be on
the decline. But Smith said this
condition could easily change if
ever the public lets up on vaccina-
tion of family pets.
Texas hasn’t experienced a hu-
man death from rabies since 1957.
However, the State Health Depart-
ment last year distributed 1,723
fourteen-day courses of anti-rabies
vaccine for human use, an indica-
tion of the extent of human in-
volvement.
Two human deaths have been re-
ported for the nation as a whole
so far this year—one in Kentucky
and one in California.
Smith said the three most im-
portant steps in community rabies
control arc pet vaccination, stray
dog p:ck-up, and thinning of wild-
l!fe—in that order.
Prairie Center Women
To Meet Fri., Mar. 17
The Prairie Center Women’s
Club met Friday. March 3rd, at
the home of Mrs. E. B. Hogg, with
15 members and two visitors pres-
ent.
The condition of the parking
space at the Club House was dis-
cussed and it was decided to have
add’t'onal shell spread over the
drive and park'ng area.
The program on gardening was
given by Mrs. R. C. Florip. She
talked on pruning trees and flow-
ers, for more and smaller blooms,
also for less and larger flowers.
She also discussed the flowers in
the tuber or bulb family.
The hostess served delicious
sandwiches, snacks, pickles, nuts,
cake and coffee.
Meeting adjourned until the next
meeting which will be held at the
Club House, March 17, at 10 a.m.
Th's mcet;ng will be a quilting bee
and covered dish lunch—so if you
like to qu it bring a dish and come
on out to the Club House.—Rep.
Building leaders
for tomorrow
From among today's young people will oome the leading
citizens of tomorrow. That's why the 4-H Club program
in which millions of American youngsters participate Is
so important to the future of the nation,
United Gas for more than a decade has sponsored 4-H
Junior Leadership programs in three states served
by our company. Our congratulations and thanks
to the splendid personnel of the State Extension Services,
the adult leaders and the boys and girls of 4-H.
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History Column Brings
Report Of Cliff Titus,
Chaplain Here In 1940
Marshall Claybourn of Wichita,
Kansas, senit us an article about
Cliff Titus, supervisor of manage-
ment development and community
relations for Beech Aircraft Corp.
who was stationed at Camp Hulen
in 1940 and ’41 where he served
as major in the Chaplain Corps
with the 203rd “Hound Dog” unit.
In his last year in the service, he
was stationed in Staunton, Va., in
the Woodrow Wilson Memorial
Hospital. He was released from the
Army in 1946 as a colonel, but
stayed on in Virginia for about a
year doing public relations for
Southern Associates.
Titus’ first wife died in 1946
and he did not desire to return
to Joplin but did return to Missouri
where he became public relations
director of the Micsouri State
Chamber of Commerce. His wife’s
sister’s husband had died and he
and the sister were married in
November 1949. At this time he
moved to Garnett, Kan., where he
went into business for himself.
Ha started to work for Beech as
a staff assistant and in 1955 be-
came director of training at Beech.
He went on to gain the position he
now holds ju3t about a year later.
Titus’ second wife died in 1955
and he married Lilah Few, of
Wichita, on Jan. 23, 1957 and the
couple resides at 8115 Momingside
Drive, Wichita.
The article above mentioned at-
tracted Mr. Claybourn’s attention
shortly after he had read of Cliff
Titus speaking in Palacios as re-
corded in our history column.
Officers Are Elected at
Meet Of Deutscburg-
Carancahua Sec. Club
The Deuitschburg-Carancahua Se-
curity Club met Tuesday, Feb-
ruary 28, in the Deutschburg Com-
munity House with a good number
in attendance.
Election of officers was held. Os-
wald Kubecka was elected presi-
dent; Virgil Farley, vice-president
and Mrs. B. J. Wesselman, secre-
tary.
Appointed on a committee to
study and report on our By-Laws
was Arvid Loff, Frank Johs and
Edwin Stuhrenberg.
The Security Club will meet
quarterly, the fourth Tuesday of
every third month, at alternate
meeting places. Unless need arises
for a special call meeting, the next
meeting will be in the Carancahua
Community Center the fourth Tues-
day in May.
Our club voted for Oswald Ku-
becka to have his name entered on
the Palacios Independent School
District ballot for school trustee.
Refreshments were served.—Mrs.
B. J. Wesselman, secretary.
Tex. Eastern Directors
Vote To Split Stock
HOUSTON—Directors of Texas
Eastern Transmission Corporation
has voted to split the common stock
of the Company two for one sub-
ject to the vote of stockholders at
the annual meeting to be held in
Wilmington, Delaware, on April 24.
Stockholders will be asked to in-
crease the authorized common stock
from 15,000,000 shares of $7 par
value to 30,000,000 shares of $3.50
par each.
Orville S. Carpenter, president,
in aanouncing the action stated
that it is the intention of the Board
to maintain an annual dividend
rate of 80 cents per share on the
new common shares. Record and
payable dates for the stock split
will be announced later.
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"DESK 83"
By Rep. John A. Huebner, Sr.
In an over-time session lasting
until nine o’clock last night the
House showed strength in an un-
expected place. By a narrow but
consistent majority they slapped
down three of the proposed deficit
retiring measures which were the
first tax bills to hit the floor of the
House.
Working under pressure of lock-
ed doors, where no warm body
could leave the House Chamber,
these bills which carried the bless-
ing of the Governor and the Speak-
er were rejected. Two of the bills
were directed at business. The oth-
er, the abandoned properties act
or escheat bill. The latter I would
have given an aye vote had it not
carried an element disturbing to
the sanctity of depositor confidence
in banks.
The other two I voted against be-
cause I am basically opposed to col-
lecting taxes from people through
business. People finally pay the
taxes, so why not collect directly
from them and keep our business
climate healthy and attractive. Af-
ter all full employment through a
strong economy is the only way
people can pay taxes at all.
The opposition strength shown in
this first joust causes me to change
my predictions a little. I had been
giving a general retail sales tax
plan only a very remote chance in
this session. Now it has gained sup-
port to the point where I believe it
has a 50-50 chance to be enacted.
I am only afraid we will pass one
with so many exemptions and ex-
ceptions that it will be extremely
costly and unwieldy to collect. Afe
I have said before, it should be
straight across the board at a very
low rate.
Old “Desk 83” is having a pretty
hard time to keep from trying to
play two or three positions on the
team at the same time. In my posi-
tion of considerable responsibility
on the Appropriations Committee I
could be termed a guard or a sec-
ondary defense man. Now I catch
myself wanting to play quarter-
hack in the Rvenue and Taxation
fic'd when the coach has already
told me where to play. I just know
that I could call a play that would
score the winning touchdown if I
were calling the signals. I’m sure
there are at least one hundred and
twenty-seven other members who
feel the same about themselves.
That number includes all members
of the House except the twenty-one
members of the Revenue and Tax-
ation Committee.
Before this little donnybrook is
over many tax bills will come and
go. If I can just restrain myself a
while, I’m sure one will come along
to which I can hitch my wagon. In
the meantime it’s pretty hard for
me to just sit and whittle and spit.
Texas has 68,000 miles of gas
pipelines.
The U. S. A.’s three classes: the
Haves, the Have Nots and the
Charge-Its.
When Behind Wheel
Its Wise To Consider
'Self-Preservation'
SELF-PRESERVATION—a fun-
damental law of nature. But what
happens to it when you slide behind
the wheel of your automobile? This
is the question posed by the Texas
Safety Association.
One would have to question the
validity of this “basic urge” when,
we are killing upwards of 38,000
Americans a year—89% of this
figure representing human error.
The cost of accidents in terms,
of lives and suffering is obvious^
But we are also literally robbing
ourselves blind in terms of dollars,
and here the bite is directly the
result of how strong this urge of
self-preservation really is: “When
claims costs go up, rates must fol-
low.
Where does it all stop? The an-
swer may come with public recog-
nition that lip service to safety
campaigns, slogans and platitude®
won’t do the job—a job that will
require such action as: Overhaul-
ing of our Texas Driver’s Licensing
laws; strengthening our highway
patrol force to meet minimum
standards of other states with simi-
lar population growth and road
conditions; and a “No-fix-No-fdV-
or” crackdown on speeders.
In the words of Governor'Price
Daniel, “The legislature has the
best opportunity in years to help
reduce the toll from death by auto-
mobile in Texas to an absolute min-
imum within the next few years.”
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or headachca? Do you notice that
he holda a book too close to hi*
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Dismukes, Jesse V. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1961, newspaper, March 9, 1961; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth710120/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.