Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1955 Page: 2 of 8
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THIS WEEK
IN PALACIOS HISTORY
FROM OUR EARLY FILES
10 YEARS AGO
The Tres-Palacios Garden Study
Club with the American Legion
was planning a Memorial Planting
of palms and shrubs in honor of
our servieement and women.
Bay City had one of its most
diastrous fires Thursday when the
old Nuckols hotel was completely
destroyed by fire and the two story
brick building across the street,
the LcTulle Building, was badly
damaged.
Dr.-J. L. Guffey exhibited the
Champion hen at the poultry expo-
sition held on conjunction with the
Houston Fat Stock Show.
A'Negro Ministrel was to be
presented by Senior High Students
Friday night.
H. C. Campbell was appointed to
the Selective Service Board of
Matagorda County to fill the va-
cancy made by the death of Dun-
can Ruthven.
Fire loss for 1944 was reported
as $49,895. at the Firemen’s ban-
quet Monday night at the Green
Lantern Inn. Thirty three alarms
had been answered by the local de-
partment.
C. L. Gass, a former business
man in Palacios, died in Dallas.
15 YEARS AGO
W. H. Monahan and Lewis A.
James, deputy fire marshal and
chief of the safety division of the
Houston Fire Department were
guests speakers at the annual ban-
quet. of t.he Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment. Newly elected officers were
T. A. Elder, chief; John D. Bow-
den, assistant chief; J. B. Feather,
secretary and treasurer, D. D.
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WATCHES — BANDS
CAPITOL DRUG
Paulk, Ed A. Barrett and Hugh J.
Dismukes, squad foremen.
The engagement and approach-
ing marriage of Miss Glenn Reaser
to Robert Hartman was announced
by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Reaser of San Antonio, for-
mer residents of Palacios.
S. O. Eidman, county tax collec-
tor and assessor, reported 3,550
poll taxes paid, an increase of
1450 over 1939.
Charley H. Eddy announced as
a candidate for constable.
Miss Gertrude Koerber, who was
teaching in the Port O’Connor
school, visited home folks.
20 YEARS AGO
Mrs. S. J. Hill died at her home
near Palacios. Her husband and
nine children survive.
J. E. Legg, brother of E. R. Legg
of Palacios, was found dead in an
oil field where he worked near
Daisetta.
The Volunteer Fire boys held
their annual banquet and elected
officers as follows: John D. Bow-
den, chief; J. G. Walker, assistant
chief; J. B. Feather, secretary and
treasurer; D. D. Paulk, George
Hunter and Hugh J. Dismukes,
foremen of squads No. 1, 2, and 3
respectively.
25 YEARS AGO
Poll taxes paid for the entire
county were 3741, Palacios had 431.
The Price Lumber Company was
awarded the contract to furnish
lumber for the building of the new
hospital in Camp Hulen.
Marriages announced were Miss
Gertrude Stewart and Fred Thomp-
son-, Miss Honor McFarland and
H. L. Klennert; Miss Ruth Burnell
and George White.
30 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Appleton ar-
rived here from Denver, Colo, for
a visit with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Boyd of
Wharton announced the birth of a
fine boy.
Fire destroyed the frame house
on the farm of Mrs. Ruby Redman
west of town. J. E. Dorris and fam-
ily, who lived there, lost practical-
ly all their household possessions
and clothing.
35 YEARS AGO
The cottage at the corner of 5th
and South Bay Blvd., owned by
John T. Price, was moved to the
corner of 4th on South Bay Blvd.
and made into a beautiful home for
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Farwell.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Helmer cele-
brated their 50th wedding anniver-
sary.
Mrs. Carrie Baxter and M. A.
Nelson were married in Bay City
at the Methodist parsonage.
Mrs. J. H. Foley died at the fam-
ily home here and remains were
taken to Iowa for burial.
All stock for the city sewer sys-
tem had been sold and a mass meet-
ing of Palacios citizens celebrated
with a huge bon fire.
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OMMENTS FROM
Weekly Report Of Rep. W. T. McNeil
Dear Friends:
The Legislature is now in full
operation, and for the past week,
we have been considering bills in
the committees and on the floor
of the House at a rapid rate.
Before mentioning some of
these bills, I should like to define
a statement I made in my last
letter. In that letter, I mentioned
the fact that bills had been intro-
duced which would abolish the of-
fices of Constable and County
School Superintendent. I did not
introduce either of these bills, and
in fact, was in error in regard to
the bill abolishing- the office of
Constable. There is a bill which has
been introduced' which revises our
County Government System, and
as an incident of that bill, the of-
fice of Constable would be abolish-
ed. I am not in favor of the bill for
several reasons which I will dis-
cuss if the bill is passed by the
committee. There is, however, a
bill which has as its sole purpose
the abolition of the office of
County School Superintendent, and
as I stated, I intend to base my
action on this bill upon the will of
the people in my District.
The most important work which
I have done thus far is to hear
and consider six bills which have
been introduced for the purpose of
solving some of our water problems
ih this State. One of these bills
would create a new Water Commis-
sion with greater powers than that
which it now has. I think that the
major problem in the creation of
this Commission is the question of
making the Commissioners of this
Board appointive or elective. The
majority of the Members appear
to favor the appointive method1, but
I have not yet been convinced that
it would not be better to make
these very important and powerful
officials elective. The other bills
give the Commission the power to
take an inventory of our water
supply, making it mandatory for
those people using surface water;
by appropriation and otheriwse, to
report the amount of water they
are using, providing for the cancel-
lation of water permits which have
not been used in the past 10 years,
and give the Commission Author-
ity to deal with the Federal Gov-
ernment in building projects in
this state.
You will notice that these bills
refer to surface water, and have
no effect upon use of underground
water. I realize that one of the
major problems in our area is the
scarcity of underground water in
certain areas of this District. I
have studied this problem care-
fully and' have discussed it with
experts in the Legislature and
men who are experts in the field
of water law. I regret to say that
none of these people have any
solution to offer to the problem
of the use of underground water.
Before the State can regulate the
use of underground water, it ap-
pears it would be necessary for the
State to claim title to this water
and prorate its use. At the present
time, the law provides that the
owner of land is also the owner ot
the underground water and ma>
use it to any extent and in any
manner he may desire. The onlj
other solution seems to be that ot
creating a Water Control and Im-
provement District which District
is given the power to regulate the
use of under ground waters within
its boundaries.
Among the most important pieces
of Legislation which were passed
by the House last week was the
bill which abolishes common law
marriage. The far reaching effects
of this bill are not obvious on its
face. However, there is much more
involved than the moral and social
problems which the bill will con-
trol. The legal problems which
arise from common law marriages
are primarily those of property
ownership. I vdted for this bill as
did a vast majority of the House
I think that the social conditions
of this State have progressed fa:
beyond the point where common
law marriage need Oe recognized.
With my best regards to each of
you, I am
Sincerely yours,
W. T. McNEIL
State Representative
Trouble with the crew haircut on
nn older guy is that too many of
the crew have already bailed out.
Mankind never loses any good
thing, physical, intellectual, or
moral, till it finds a better, and
then the loss is a gain.—Theodore
Parker.
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Rom where I sit... Joe Marsh
Swifty Gets
Slowed Down
Swifty Fisher has a short
temper and really hit the roof
when he got a parking ticket
last week. He wasn’t near a hy-
drant or too far from the Curb.
There was a big sign saying “Onk
Hour Parking” and he’d only
been gone twenty minutes.
Running to Traffic Court, where
Hack Miller was on duty, Swifty
hollered how he hadn’t done any-
thing wrong... how he is the most
law-abiding driver in town.
But Hack examined the ticket,
and smiled. “Slow down, friend,”
he said. “You’re not guilty-ex-
cept of making a big fuas over
nothing. This tieket came from
some kid's polieemanplay ouifitl"
From where I sit, jumping to
conclusions can make anyone ap-
pear silly. Another way to look
foolish is to make a quick deci-
sion on a question of personal
preference. For instance, I like a
glass of beer occasionally. You
may be a buttermilk man. But
neither of us ought to “lay down
the law” about the other’s choice.
Copyright, 1955, United States Brewers Foundation
CONGRESSMAN
CLARK W. THOMPSON
9th TEXAS DISTRICT
Dear Neighbors:
Working well into the night wit]
a blizzard blowing outside, the Cot-
ton Sub-committee finally agreed
on a bill which, if enacted, should
relieve the worst of the hardships
among our cotton farmers. It is
designed first to take care of the
small group—those with five acres
or less. Then the group up to 10
acres, and then the 15 acre group,
and so on. About a quarter of a
million acres will be allotted to
Texas, and if they are distributed
with a reasonable degree of wisdom
the situation is going to be very
much improved.
This bill is by no means what
I would like to see. However, when
you write legislation you have to
consider the entire country in ad-
dition to your own folks. It wasn’t
easy to persuade some of the rep-
resentatives from the western
states to agree with the bill since
they do not have any family farms
as we know them. We finally all
got together though, and next week
we hope to ram the measure
through the full Committee and
through the Congress. We are not
out of the woods, but we are on
the way.
After the Committee finished, I
drove home through the blizzard.
It was precarious driving and the
traffic was badly jammed up. I
thought of what nice country we
live in down home.
One thing these hearings brought
out very clearly was that the small
farm troubles of the 9th District
are spreading all over the cotton
belt.. I said some months ago that
there was a danger of spreading
depression. Now it is coming to
pass, and I hope that the leaders
in our government will wake up to
DR. JACK KAHN
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the immediate need to put a stop
to it. There is still time.
And so the week wound up on a
hopeful note. The cotton relief bill
was on the way. The Texas City
claims bill was written and on my
desk, awaiting only for a day when
both the House and Senate were in
session so that it could be intro-
duced simultaneously by myself
and' our two Senators. My Congres-
sional District, with its large num-
ber of small farmers and its work-
ing people in the industries along
the coast, has at this moment a
lot of folks who need help. If I
can be of means of bringing it to
hem, the satisfaction that 1 shall
'eel will bo a very great reward.
Nex week the Rice Sub-commit-
tee will go into session to tackle
some problems which are as serious
to rice farmers as the cotton acre-
age troubles are to the cotton
farmers. Much of the background
was presented to us in the hearing
after the conference with rice in-
dustry representatives on February
3rd. Following the hearings next
week we will shortly have the re-
port from the Department of Agri-
culture as to what they have found
in their study of the so-called
“two-price” system. They are sup-
posed to submit various plans
which I in turn will pass on to you
for your consideration and advice.
Sincerely yours,
CLARK'W. THOMPSON
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