Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 3, 1982 Page: 1 of 23
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Palacios will become the center of
activity along the Gulf Coast this
weekend as BayFest ’82 opens up with
its annual variety of contests, food,
dances and entertainment.
Expected to be the largest ever
Prizes to
be drawn
Don’t forget to register for three
very special prises to be given away
this weekend at the BayFest.
Raffle tickets will be on sale at the
ticket booth at the park, with tickets
priced at $1 each or six for $5. First
place winner will receive a beautiful
Snark sailboat with the second place
winner receiving a set of his and her 10-
speed bikes. Drawing will be held at the
Airport Dance Saturday evening.
A lucky couple will also win a free
weekend in New Orleans at the
Fairmont Hotel, including plane tickets
and limousine service. All that is
necessary is to sign up (limit
ISee PRIZES, Page 2]
BayFest underway this weekend
BayFest '82 will have plenty of new
attractions for the hundreds of visitors
as well as plenty of the favorite events
from BayFest past. Proceeds from this
year’s ' festivities will go to two
worthwhile organizations in Palacios.
The Friends of Elder Citizens Senior
Center will receive 65-percent of the
money raised with the remaining 35-
percent going to the Palacios Parks &
Recreation Committee to be used for
restoration of the Palacios Pavilion.
The kickoff dance for the weekend
will beheld Friday from 9p.m. to 1 a.m.
at the Recreation Center. Country
Glaze will be the featured band with
tickets priced at $4 per person.
A second dance will also be held the
following night, Saturday, at the
Palacios Municipal Airport. The KILT
Longneck Band will perform for the
outdoor dance with tickets priced at 85
per person
Jogging, running and walking along
>ne bayside avenues of Palacios will gel
the Saturday BayFest schedule off to a
running start. Three races are slated
this year: 3-Mile Run, 10,000-Kilometer
Run and a One-Mile Celebrity-
Challenge run. Registration for both the
3-Mile and 10,000-kilometer run will
begin at 7:30 a m. at City Park.
Advance entry fee is )5 with
registration on the da.v of the race set at
$7. A total of 42 runners have thus far
signed up for those two races.
Age groups in the 3-Mile Run are 0-13,
Tit11';19_29' 3d-39.40-49, and 50 and over.
The 10,000-Kilomter breakdown is 0-18,
19-29, 30-39, 40-49, and 50 and over.
First, second and third place trophies
will be awarded in each group.
The Celebrity-Challenge one-mile run
has drawn plenty of interest from local
avance enlry fee 18 »5 w,th has drawn plenty of interest from local ■
Air Show joins BayFest
At Palacios Airport Saturday-Sunday
While City Park will be the site for
: most of the BayFest contests, games
: and booths on Saturday, a very special
I event is also being staged elsewhere.
: This year an airshow will also be a part
: of the BayFest activities. The airshow,
coordinated by Ernie Desautel, airport
manager, will be held on both Saturday
and Sunday afternoon, beginning at 2
p.m.
Over 30 airnlnnpc nrp eynected
take part in the airshow on both days,
along with stunt flyers, static displays
and parachute jumps. A $2 per car
Darking fee will be charged.
The LaPorte parachute team will
start the show both days with jumps
scheduled at 2 p.m. At 2:30 p.m.,
“Debbie" of H&R Aviation in LaPorte
will perform a stunt flying routine in a
Taylor Craft. TheU.S. Coast Guard will
give a demonstration of a sea rescue at The resumption of the ARC scale
2:45 p.m. using H-52 Helicopters. model demonstration starts up at 4:45
At 3 p.m., the 18 members of ARC will p.m. to complete the airshow.
pul their scale model aircraft in the air Throughout the day, various static
for a dog fight show, A combined flyby displays of homebuilt, experimental
of military aircraft is slated for 3:30 and corporate aircraft and helicopters
p.m. "Doc” of LaPorte will then show will be available for visitors to view,
his stunt piloting skills as he takes off at Exxon Oil Company will also have a
3:45 p.m. in his Pitts stunt aircraft. The display set up at the airport. A variety
LaPorte parachute team takes another of refreshment booths will be at the
dive at 4 p.m. airport.
............. ........... airport.
residents. Persons may challenge
another individual to run the race by
pledging $5 if the individual completes
the race either by running, jogging,
walking or even crawling. Entry forms
for the challenge race are
(See BAYFEST, Page*)
Hydroplane
on display
The “Miss Budweiser" unlimited
hydroplane display boat, sister ship of
unlimited hydroplane racing’s 1981
world and national champion, has been
scheduled for public display at the
Palacios BayFest Saturday and
Sunday.
The boat joins the seaport celebration
which combines crab races,
games, food booths and a Budweiser-
sponsored fiddlers’ contest into a lively
weekend.
The “Miss Budweiser” display boat
will be set up for public viewing
Saturday on the BayFest grounds. The
Budweiser-BayFest
(See BUD, Page 2)
Industries ask for “break ” on bills
Council in hot water
on waterfront rates
High volume water users among
the industries along the waterfront,
upset over high water bills,
appeared before the Palacios city
council Monday night seeking
relief.
The action by the high volume
users was prompted after an error
in the previous 18-month water
billing was discovered and correct-
ed by the city water department
recently, causing the industries’
bills to increase.
Previously the city had given
volume users a break over the
50,000 gallon mark, cutting the
rate of SI .26 down, to 50-cents per
gallon over 50,000 gallons. However the
break was in violation of the city’s own
rate ordinance set a year and a half
ago. That ordinance did away with the
break and charged all customers,
regardless of useage, a flat 81.26 per
1,000 gallon rate. That ordinance was
adopted to guarantee repayment of
loans the city received from the state
for its sewer projects.
According to Mayor Leonard Lamar,
a clerical error in the water
department billing, left the break in
effect. Only recently, Lamar said, the
mistake was caught, and the break
THE NEW Senior Citizens Center
at 808 Commerce officially opened
its door for the first time Monday.
After a morning of various activi-
ties, the elderly e ployed their first
meal In the beautiful new facility.
The Friends of Elder Citizens
which is helping in the operation of
the center has set Nov. 13 as the
date for the formal opening cere-
monies. The new facility was
funded through donations and
grants from local sources. It Is also
the recipient of 65-percent of the
proceeds raised from this week-
end’s BayFest. [Beacon Photo by
Nick West]
Cheese, butter add
to Christmas project
Halloween pranksters strike
Duo arrested in check
theft by Palacios PD
A burglary and the passing of
stolen checks were the major items
reported by the Palacios Police
Department during the week.
, Beverly Watson reported to
police that Pic-n-Pac Drive-Inn
Grocery, 1st and Henderson, was
broken into sometime late Friday
night. Entry was gained by break-
ing out a side window. Several
cartons of cigarettes and several
cases of beer were taken.
Two 17-year old Palacios men
were arrested last week in connec-
tion with the theft and passage of
stolen checks. Arrested and charg-
ed with theft of checks were
Anthony Gonzales, 611 4th Street,
and Steve Rodriguez Chavez, 525
Welch.
Complaints had been filed with
the police department by the
owners of two businesses, Leonard
Lamar of Pier Drive Inn and Billy
Hamlin of Minimax. According to
police, the checks had been stolen
and passed at those two stores
along with other local establish-
ments. Police Sgt. Emmett Greene
said several hundred dollars were
involved in the passing of the
stolen checks during the past
several weeks.
Police ajso investigated a hit and
run accident which occurred at
10:50 p.m. Friday at 450 Comm-
erce. According to police reports, a
pickup truck was seen backing into
the rear of a 1977 Chevrolet Monte
Carlo parked in front of the
Palacios Beacon office. After dam-
aging the rear of the parked car,
the pickup truck fled the scene.
Officers were able to obtain a
license number of the truck involv-
ed. The Monte Carlo belonged to
Nick West, 401 East Bayshore.
Officers were also busy Hallo-
ween night, Sunday. Numerous
eggings of houses were reported
city. Police also
incident which
throughout the
investigated an
involved a 1977 Toyota belonging
to Susan Higgins, 301 East Bay-
shore, which had been pushed into
a canal behind the residence. A
boat and trailer on the same street
had also been pushed partway into
a canal.
Operation Santa Claus, the local
community project to provide food
and toys to needy families this
Christmas has received over 3,000
lbs. of surplus cheese and butter to
be added to the canned and dried
foods that are being collected
locally.
These surplus dairy products
were donated to the Palacios Area
Fund for distribution in the Pala-
cios community. Storage space is
being provided by Hamlin's Mini-
max. The Palacios Ministerial
Alliance and several local church-
es. including the First Baptist
Church. First Presbyterian Church,
First United Methodist Church
and Trinity Baptist Church are
collect items for distribution.
All churches, clubs, organiza-
tions and individuals are urged to
join in the project that will bnghten
the Christmas season for so many
in the community. There are
several ways to help. First, dona-
tions of food, toys, clothing or cash
(which is tax deductible) are
needed.
These may be dropped off at one
of the churches, at City Hall or at
Brewer's Amoco on First Street.
Help will also be needed in
cleaning, repairing and wrapping
toys and in the final bagging and
distribution of the food.
For more information on Opera-
tion Santa Claus or for donation
organizing food, toy and clothing t!?” ->anta Uaus or tor donation
drives, and also acting as drop-off P'ckup, please call Kathie Moore,
noints for donations. Palacios Area Fund at 972-3960 or
points for donations.
Many of the local church youth
groups have also ioined forces to
Mayor Leonard Lamar, City Hall at
972-2414.
Sponsored by Palacios/Tidehaven VoAg
Pasture course is offered
A Pasture Short Course for adult
farmers and others will be held
November 15-18 under the spon-'
sorship of the Palacios/Tidehaven
High School Vocational Agriculture
Department, according to George
Holst, Superintendent, and Erwin
Janszenn and Billy Miller, teachers
of Vocational Agriculture.
Tom Bowers, Pasture Specialist
with the Agricultural Education
Adult Specialist Program and the
Department of Soil and Crop
Sciences of Texas A&M University,
will do the instructing in the
course.
Bowers holds a B.S. degree in
Agriculture from Texas Tech Uni-
versity and a M.S. degree in
Agronomy from Texas A&M Uni-
versity. He has had nine years of
experience as a County Agricultur-
al Agent and served as Forage
Agronomist and Pasture Specialist
with Texas A&M University for
four years. He was employed as
Agronomist with Pennzoil Corpor-
ation for six years planning and
supervising a large scale farming
and ranching operation in Texas
and Louisiana. He also served as
Executive Director of Texas Agri-
cultural Limestone Association. '
The short course at Tidehaven
will begin Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. in the
Vocational Agriculture Building.
During the four day short course,
Bowers will be available to assist
farmers with individual problems
ana to provide nn-thc farm instruc-
tion.
Persons may pre-register by
contacting the teacher of Vocation-
al Agriculture at Palacios or
Tidehaven, or register at the start
of the short course. Certificates will
be presented to each enrollee who
attends all four of the training
sessions.
The short course will be adjusted
to the wishes and interests of
farmers and ranchers enrolled, but
such subjects as adapted grasses
and legumes, fertilization, weed
control, grazing management and
grazing systems will be covered.
The primary purpose of the course
is to help producers maximize
profits from their pastures.
Short courses in pasture man-
agement, as well as in other
subject matter, are available to
adults throughout the state under
this cooperative program between
the Texas Education Agency and
Texas A&M University. This pro-
gram is designed to make the
services of specialists available to
conduct short courses under the
supervision of public schools. Hie
program enables teachers of voca-
tional agriculture to provide im-
proved educational services to farm
people.
Specialists are available in the
fields of Beef Production, Farm Arc
Welding, Farm Electric Wiring and
Safety, Horticulture, Oxy-Acety-
lene Welding, Pasture Manage-
ment and Tractor Maintenance.
discontinued.
According to Lamar, there are
roughly 12 businesses that are
considered high volume users, out of
the total 1,452 customers the city has.
Bob Wilson, representing Gold Coast
(Considered a volume user) questioned
why volume users did not continue to
receive breaks. He said that it does not
lake much to service the industries at
the waterfront, as compared to
residential users.
It was pointed out that the cost to the
city for providing water is $1.01 per
gallon. Eric Brenner, a local residential
user, countered by asking why the
small homeowners should have to pay
more in order
(See CITY, Page 2)
-Area Happenings—
Boat Show on
Chamber agenda
The regular membership
meeting of the Palacios Chamber
of Commerce will be held at noon
Thursday in Petersen’s
Restaurant. Items to be
discussed include the upcoming
Houston Boat Show, annual
spring Chamber banquet and
other committee projects. All
members and interested persons
are urged to attend.
Honor Society'
selling turkeys
Palacios High School National
Honor Society is once again
selling smoked turkeys for
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The turkeys average 9 to 10
pounds and sell for 815. Turkeys
can be ordered from any N.H.S.
member before November 15.
The proceeds will go to the
Midcoast Association of National
Honor Societies’ service project
and Rainbow Land Day Care
Center.
AARP Chapter
to meet Nov. 9
The Palacios AARP Chapter
2425 will meet Tuesday at 2:30
p.m. at Episcopal Hall, 3rd and
Main. The business meeting with
nominations for 1983 officers will
be held first.
At 3 p.m. Peggy Mott, United
Way Director, will tell of other
areas of the United Way which
will focus on special situations
helped in this county.
This is a continuation of
informing the community of all
United Way areas of assistance
while the drive is in force until
Dec. 1. The public is invited.
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