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Page 4-Palacios Beacon, May 31, 1989
20 YEARS AG0-1969
The Historical Maiker, RA Lodge and other new dormitories
at the Baptist Encampment will be dedicated Friday, July 11.
Holly Harrison was recipient of the Texas Chemical Council's
slide rule.
Hamlin's Minimax was totally destroyed by fire early Thuisday
morning.
A reunion of the 1919 graduating class of PHS will be held
Saturday at the home of Miss Victoria Elder.
One hundred ten participated in the second annual Palacios In
viiational Golf Tournament Saturday and Sunday.
Promotion exercises will be held at East Side Elementary at
2:30 Thursday afternoon and for the Ninth Graders at 8 p.m. Fri-
day.
Collcgcpon Day will be celebrated Saturday 21 the Mapac.
25 YEARS AGO-1964
Palacios schools will officially close this week. Sixth grade
promotion exercises will be held Thursday afternoon, commence
mem exercises for 53 seniors and ninth grade graduation will be
held Friday nighL
Full assistance (torn the U S. Army Corps of Engineers toward
reopening Brown Cedar Cut from East Matagorda Bay to the Gulf
had been requested by Slate Paris and Wildlife Commission.
The annual banquet of the Athena Chib that ends the club year
had as its theme, Africa-The Cross Roads.
30 YEARS AGO-I959
Or. Guy Newman, president ol Howard Payne College, gave
the address at commencement exercises Monday evening at which
43 seniors received their high school diplomas.
Saturday night, vandals entered the Y Cafe and wrecked the
place.
Texaco was moving in to drill No. I Evelyn Harriman, a
northeast Palacios Held extender.
With this issue, the Beacon completed 40 years of publication
under the Dismukes family.
Burglars raided the Crown Central Petroleum Co office in the
Carancahua Community Sunday.
35 YEARS AGO-1954
Mayor Ja D. Bowden, elected by a wide margin in the April 6
election, died of a heart attack Wednesday, May 26, in his place of
business, the Crescent Drug Store.
Colter Corporation, one of the three leading shrimp producers
in Palacios, had closed down.
40 YEARS AGO-1949
Memorial services will be held at the First Methodist Church
Monday with Rev. Mouzon Bass giving the address.
Rev. A.G. Bright, Jr. of Corpus Christi was speaker at bac-
calaureate services Sunday and R.E. (Bob) Smith of Houston will
give the commencement address Thursday. Roberta Peterson was
valedictorian and Jimmy Henson salutatorian of the class of 1949
which had 32 candidates for graduation.
45 YEARS AGO-1944
Twenty-three seniors were to receive their diplomas tonight
Pupils ol 4-A had sold enough War Bonds to purchase a train-
ing place.
50 YEARS AGO-1939
Twenty-eight PHS graduates received diplomas at commence-
ment exercises. Rev. G.F. Gillespie gave the baccalaureate
sermon and Rev. M.M. Wolf, the commencement address:
D.M. Green sold his building on Main Street o Fred S. Clop-
pert.
Houston Savage won the A.A. It. championship in Houston
when he won over Chester Slaughter of Humble. Leo Brown lea
his match in the lightweight class.
Nearly 300 guests registered at the Flower Show, sponsored
by the Trcs Palacios Garden Club. Maty rare and beautiful flow-
ers were exhibited.
55 YEARS AGO-1934
A cooperative gin for Palacios was being organized.
Palacios senior class had 22 members and Rev. Carl B. Ray
delivered the baccalaureate sennen.
60 YEARS AGO-1929
A class of 10 graduated ftom Palacios High School.
65 YEARS AGO-1924
All grade schools in Matagorda County united for graduating
exercises held iti the auditorium of the BYPU grounds. A pageant
depicting the history and industries of the county was one of the
features.
Letters to
the Editor
Grain sorghum contest
'Shop at home' fiir city attorney,
Dear Editor
I cannot believe that I am the only one in Palacios who "saw red*'
while reading about a Bay Gty attorney being hired as our new city
attorney.
For $650.00 a month he win travel twice a month to Palacios, sit
4-6 hours a month, with our city council looking to him for guidance.
And, believe me, the city council members have a habit of always
looking to the attorney instead of using their own intelligence.
Do we want an attorney leading us that does not have a monetary
slake in our town? Doesn't live here, own, pay real estate taxes? Yes,
I know he is to interpret the law and that’s all. So you say, that's
(me, it doesn't matter who is the attorney as long as the mayor and
council make proper oedsions.
Our former city attorney, Eli Mayfield, devoted many years to our
town government. His recommendations made in the past too nu-
merous to mention-have truly become a part of town's government.
If your sorghum crop looks
like a winner, you'll want to en-
ter the 1989 Grain Sorghum
Yield and Management Contest.
Sorghum producers from across
the nation arc entering the contest
which is sponsored by the Na-
tional Grain Sorghum Producers
Association (NGSPA).
Tap producers in each divi-
sion, irrigated and non-irrigalcd,
will win a trophy and a cash
award of $1,000 from NGSPA.
Pat George, contest committee
chairman, said that many seed
companies and agri-businesses
arc showing their support of the
contest by offering prizes to
winners who use their products.
"We're pleased with the posi-
tive response the contest has re-
ceived from agri-business this
year. The 1989 contest is going
to be the best ever.”
Winners will be named at the
county, state and national levels.
harvest of the contest field. Har-
vest repot forms must be mailed
by December 1, 1989 and re-
ceived by NGSPA by December
11.1989.
A qualified supervisor must
be present during harvest of the
contest field. Supervisors can be
vocational agricultural instruc-
tors, county extension agents,
senior Soil Conservation Service
staff persons or Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service office managers.
The contestant's score will be
the amount by which his yield
exceeds his county's five year
average yield. County averages
Sorghum futures
trading opens
-Here we go again. Shop at home! Use our local talents and abili
til?! Support your own hometown! And, we proceed to go out-of-’ ' National and stale winners will
town-of all places to Bay Gty. be recognized at a banquet
'rVVemer Bowers, Jr. and Kent Mayfield both practice here. Why, during the NGSPA winter
CUy Council, this decision to hire J.L. Ziegenhals? ...and, don't get
me stalled on (he new city park!
X Pat Christianson
library open house a big success...
Editor.
-The Friends of the Palacios Library extend thanks to everyone
who attended the Palacios 1 .ibrary Open House on May 6 in order to
honor Bob Hcriin and to show support for the library.
-We appreciate the Library Board for aD their hard work and for
inviting the Friends to participate in the Open House.
-We are grateful to die Athena Gub for graciously allowing the
Friends to help with the refreshments. Hunks to Everyone who
brought goodies and to those who helped sctve and clean up.
'We certainly appreciate the efforts of those who organized and
conducted the Friends' used-book sale, and we thank everyone who
bought books and magazines.
; Many thanks to the persons who worked at the Friends' member-
ship table and to our new members. We invite anyone who is not a
iflcmbcrtojoinus. Membership forms are available at the library.
| We are very grateful to Jacque and John, who, as usual, helped us
ip every way possible and made our job much easier.
i Again, the Friends want to thank each and every person who
Ifclpcd to make the Open House a success.
* Sincerely,
l Jan Steinmeyer, Pres.
: Friends of the Palacios Library
Appreciates coastul erosion coverage...
0car honor.
’ Please send me one (1) copy of Fishing Texas. Enclosed is my
dheck in the amount of $15.45 which includes $2.50 for postage and
fondling.
; After leaving Palacios, my father started giving me a subscription
tb the Beacon on my birthday. When he passed away, my mother,
horene Treacy, has continued this traditioi. I've always considered
tfiis as one of my best gifts and look forward to receiving the Beacon
epeh week! It is a very good local newspaper-keep up the good
work!
: We appreciate your coverage of the Texas coastal erosion prob-
lem, as more public awareness is a vital key in this issue. My
husband, Louis Nataro, is Manager of Regulatory Affairs with
ijjollywood Marine, Inc. of Houston, Texas. Due to your notice of a
hearing in the May 11th edition, we were able to attend and
[anticipate in the Congressional Subcommittee on Water Resources
Hearing on Texas Coastal Erosion and Welland Losses along the
Qulf of Mexico which was held in Port Lavaca on May 15th.
• Sincerely,
; Colleen T. Nataro
meeting at the Wyndham Hotel in
Corpus Christi on Feb. 10-12,
1990.
are supplied by the National
Agricultural Statistics Service.
Contest entry forms and rules
arc available from NGSPA, P.O.
Box 530, Abernathy, Texas
79311, Phone (806) 298 2543.
Winners will also be featured
in the Results and Data handbook
which is published each year.
The handbook contains manage-
ment information of all contes-
tants.
The deadline for entering the
contest is 30 days prior to the
National Grain Sorghum
Producers Association Executive
Director Elbert Harp was on
hand at the Kansas Gty Board of
Trade (KSBT) to ring the open-
ing bell to officially start trading
on grain sorghum futures. Ap-
proximately 25 KCBT members
crowded into the sorghum fu-
tures pit to witness the reactiva-
tion of futures trading. In the
initial flurry of bids and offers,
the first trade of the new contract
was for 15,000 bushels at $2.35
per bushel.
The buyer was Randall Wal-
lace, Farmers Commodities Cor-
poration on an order from
Crawford Grain Company, an
Illinois elevator. The seller was
David W. Gibson, Wolcott &
Lincoln, Inc., a Kansas Gty ele-
vator and grain commission firm
Building
for Safety
BY ABEL PIERCE
City of Pxlxclox Building laipectoc
11k Palacios schools seem to
be doing better all the ttime. The
choir groups are really out-
standing. Of course, 1 can't carry
a tune and would be lost at the
opera, but do love to listen.
From what I hear, we also have
an unusual number of outstand-
ing students this year, academi-
cally speaking.
Maybe the rest of the city, and
adjoining area, can get its ducks
all in a row so we can attract
more folks to our community.
Surely would like to see a few
fishing guides around to take the
"suckers", pardon-customers
for a ride. Seems as if this is go-
ing on in other areas. I wonder if
the fish could be handled like (he
wild hogs in the hill country.
Turn them loose around the cor-
ner, then charge so much for
each one.
mg up a little. I know I'm al-
ways running a little late! Must
be a lot of concrete poured
around as it seems to be difficult
to get a small porch or drive
poured.
You folks please don't go on
vacation all at one time, so
someone will be around for
Shrimporcc, Fourth of July, and
BayFest, and all the other barbe-
cues and banquets in between.
The trash piles seem to be
disappearing and many lots arc
cleaner. The cleanup campaign is
accomplishing something. Just
have to take a step at a time.
Let's all get in there and make
Palacios a cleaner and healthier
place to live. All hail the
mosquitoes and sand fleas!
Judging by the activity around
city hall, business must be pick-
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