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Palacios, IX 779-6?
Inside This Week
Write-Ins: Realy & Unreal.........................................Page 2
24-Hr. Emergency Doc at WGH...............................Page 3
Police Officer Assaulted..........................................Page 3
Schools Get Reprieve..............................................Page 4
Golden Anniversaries......................................Pages 6 & 7
Sports Picnic Banquet Set......................................Page 9
Youth News..................................................Pages 10 & 11
Recalling Palacios Early Years.............................Page 14
Tour May Pay Dividends........................................Page 14
Hidden Name Game
Loot Goes Unclaimed;
Prize Now Worth $10
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PALACIOS, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1990
VOLUME 83, NO. 19
Lamar wins 6th term
Woll elected to
Council Pos. 1
in city election
BY NICK WEST
Beacon Publisher
Chris Woll, a retired school
administrator and editor, un-
seated incumbent Winfrey Hor-
ton in a three-way race for Posi-
tion 1 on the City Council in
Saturday's city election which
also saw Palacios voters re-elect
Leonard Lamar by a margin of
210 votes to a sixth term as
Mayor.
Also returning to the council
will be Lucy Mala who ran
unopposed for her first full two-
year term at Position 2 and re-
ceived 680 votes out of 724 cast
for that position. She had been
appointed last year to fill the un-
expired term.
Of the citv's approximately
1300 registered voters, 906
voted in the 1990 election, a
slrong turnout of 69%. Of that
number, 119 cast absentee bal-
lots while 787 went to the polls
on Saturday despite intermittent
drizzle and rain. The figures are
based on unofficial totals pend-
ing canvassing by the City
Council.
Woll received 44.17% of the
votes in the three-way race for
City Council Position 1. The city
election does not provide for
runoffs in races were a candidate
fails to receive at least 50% of
the votes, instead the winner is
elected by a simple plurality.
Horton, who was seeking his
(See COUNCIL, Page 2)
(UNOFFICIAL)
•CITY ELECTION RETURNS*
Lamar
61.47%
557 |
Thompson
38.30%
347 |
Horton
26.14%
229
Kimball
29.33%
257
Woll
44.17%
387
] Other
| 6.07% |
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Beacon wins awards
in South Texas Press
newspaper contest
The Palacios Beacon won a total of five awards, including those
in the categories of best news coverage, sports, feature pictures,
headlines and best overall in the 1990 Better Newspaper Contest
sponsored by the South Texas Press Association (STPA),
The awards were presented to the Palacios Beacon at the STPA
annual convention in San Antonio last Friday and marked the
fourth time in the past six years that the Palacios Beacon has been
honored by die Association. The awards were accepted on behalf
of the Palacios Beacon by cditor/publishcrNick West.
“It’s always gratifying to have your efforts recognized by your
peers,” commented West. “We try to give our reaoers and the
community a good paper week after week. It’s not always easy and
sometimes we fail. With the limited amount of advertising sources
we have available wc can’t always afford to cover as much as we
would like to. We may not have the resources or staff that other
newspapers may have, but like them, wc try tc do our best.”
In addition to West, the Palacios Beacon staff includes Elaine
Templcman (office manager), Lucy Wltitc (advertising) and Mi-
chael Sclteib (writer).
Competing against till other Division 1 weekly newspapers in
South Texas, the Palacios Beacon captured three first place awards
(See AWARDS, Page 2)
Awaiting the results
A MIX of candidates and interested voters crowded
into Palacios City Hall around 8:30 Saturday night, all
eagerly awaiting the announcement of voting results
from both the city and school elections. Although there
were the customary winners and losers, there were also
some who were neither. Those are the ones who will
now have to go through again for the May 19 runoff
elections for two school board positions. (Beacon
Photo by Nick West)
Lucio unseats Holsworth
Runoff elections to decide
two school board positions
Wilson-Holt, Washington-Tucker to go head-to-head
BY NICK WEST
Beacon Publisher
Two of the three hotly con-
tested races for Palacios 1SD
Board of Trustee positions will
go back before voters in the form
of runoff elections May 19
following the outcome of last
Saturday's regular election
voting. In the third trustee race,
incumbent Mason Holsworth lost
his bid for a third term.
Incumbent Roger Wilson and
W. C. "Chipper" Holt emerged
as the top two vote-getters in the
three way race for Position 6,
but neither managed to gain a
majority of the votes cast. The
two will now square-off in a
runoff election May 19.
The same is true in the three-
way race for Position 7 where
incumbent Dan Tucker and
Travis Washington were the top
two finishers, neither gaining
more than 50% of the votes.
They will also be on the ballot in
the runoff election.
(The absentee, or "Extending
Voting Period" for the May 19
runoff is set to begin this
Thursday and will continue
through next Tuesday, May 15.
Absentee voting will be at Pala-
cios City Hall during regular
business hours. Voting on May
19 will be at the same ballot box
locations as last Saturday: Pala-
cios City Hall, Collegeport
MoPac House and Deutschburg
Community Center.)
The only race to be decided
last Saturday was that for Posi-
tion 5 where challenger Irene
Lucio defeated two-tenn incum-
bent Holsworth. Based on unof-
ficial returns, Lucio received 655
votes (56.75%) to Holsworth's
499 (43.24%).
•Although Lucio dominated the
Palacios box by getting 623
votes to Holsworth's 412, the
incumbent won the other two
boxes, carrying Deutschburg 44-
30 and taking Collegeport 42-5.
The PISD Board of Trustees
will met Monday to officially
canvass the returns and to call for
the runoff election for Positions
6 and 7. The PISD requires a
candidate to receive at least 50-
percent of the votes cast to win
an election. All the school board
trustee positions ere for three-
year terms.
An unofficial total of 1,159
voters cast ballots in the election
where the topics of censorship
and sex education were among
the issues raised during the cam-
paign.
In both races slated for
(See TRUSTEE, Page 2)
(UNO f HCIAI)
•P.I.S.D. ELECTION RETURNS*
P
O
8,
Holsworth
43.24%
413
44
42
499 I
.5
Lucio
56.75%
623
30
5
655
P
0
Colling
12.85%
134
13
2
149
s.
Wilson
38.65%
400
28
20
448
6
Holt
48.49%
506
33
23
562
P
O
Tucker
32.98%
328
22
31
381
8.
Garcia
20.25%
225
7
2
234
7
Washington
46.75%
482
46
12
540
MCHD board appoints review committee
Physician reapplies for WGH staff privileges
BY MICHAEL SCHEIB
Beacon Stall Writer____
Palacios physician Dr. Kerry vancc, whose
resignation from the staff of Wagner General was
accepted by the Matagorda County Hospital Dis-
trict board on February 22 of this year, has now
asked to rejoin the staff and has applied for
temporary privileges at Wagner. The application
for hospital privileges was a Aguiar item on the
agenda at the board's most recent meeting, April
30.
As part of the re-application procedure the hos-
pital district board appointed a three-member panel
of physicians to investigate the circumstances
which culminated in Vance's earlict decision to re-
sign from the WGH staff.
Vance had resigned in the face of an board in-
quiry into allegations that he had refused to sec
emergency room patients on at least three occa-
sions on February 15 and 16 of litis year. As the
board had no power to conduct an investigation of
a doctor while that doctor was not on die staff, the
resignation effectively halted any investigation,
and until a few days before the meeting, Dr. Vance
had made no request to rejoin die staff.
About 20 or so Palacios area residents were
present at the board meeting to hear die discussion
regarding Dr. Vance's application. Palacios
Mayor Leonard Lamar had hand-delivered Vance's
application to the board, saying, "1 came here to
offer my support, as I have through the whole
thing, and encourage the board to make a decision
one way or die other. 1 delivered the application.
1 did this as a courtesy to y'all; 1 hope you under-
stand that. We're ail neighbors and friends here.
It's been my purpose all along to work with y'all
and the community to do what we can to u -olve
this situation."
(See PHYSICIAN, Page 14)
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