Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 3, 1982 Page: 2 of 23
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PAGE 2-PALACIOS BEACON, WED., NOV. 3,1982
-— CITY
for the city to sell water at a loss to
12 industries.
Bob Jones, of the engineering
firm of Jones and Neuse pointed
out that regardless of the break
volume users would like, the city
legally could not grant one under
the present ordinance. He noted
that the only way it could, would be
by passing a new ordinance.
However, he stressed the fact the
city’s revenue from water service
must be enough to repay loans
from the state with an additional
25-percent revenue margin. All of
which is mandated by the state as
part of its loan agreement with the
city.
' Jones went on to note that there
is presently more than enough
revenue under the existing SI.26
across the board rate and that an
alternate rate schedule might be
feasible, allowing a break for high
volume users.
Councilman Terry Oglesby, voic-
ing concern over the rates charged
industry, questioned whether the
rates of local utilities could dis-
courage future growth.
“There is no revenue coming to
the city from a solid tax base. If we
continue to tax high users, how are
we going to attract industry,"
Oglesby asked. “Right now we
have no tax base. We need to do
something to become more attract-
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ive.”
He added however, that the city
could ill afford to go up any higher
on homeowner rates.
John Howarth remarked that
under the present $1.26 flat rate,
the city would unlikely have to
increase rates for several years.
However if the rates are revivsed to
meet just the minimum required by
the state at the present, the future
may dictate that the rates would
have to be increased.
“They (homeowners) are not
going to like that,” Howarth
observed.
Saying that he felt that water
rates were not holding back
industry from moving to Palacios,
Gary Hafernick said he was also
against raising the rates of home-
owners to cover the cost of 12 high
volume users.
Wilson said that giving breaks to
industry was justified. While indi-
vidual homeowners only had their
family, he said, industries at the
water front employ about 25
people each. He noted that each of
those spend money in town and it is
from their earnings at the indus-
tries with which they pay their
water bills.
“You can’t put us on the same
level as homeowners,” Wilson told
the council.
Based on the remarks given by
Jones, the city agreed to study
alternate rate schedules to deter-
mine if high volume breaks are
feasible without causing the rates
of small users to increase.
In other action, following a
presentation by Cora Goodner and
Mitzi Malone about traffic condi-
tions near the elementary schools,
the council agreed to place four-
way stop signs at the intersections
of Fourth and Ritchie and Fourth
and Perryman. Lamar also sug-
gested that the schools help out by
providing school patrols at inter-
sections.
The council also discussed ways
and means of reopening Ruthven
Street which had been blocked and
partially rerouted evet since Hurri-
cane Carla in 1961. Because the
orignal easement of the dedicated
road would be right next to a home
built since the closing, the council
agreed to discuss tne matter with
the homeowner and an adjacent
one to see if a solution could be
worked out that would not be
disruptive.
The council once again denied a
a request from Cliff Elliott for a
trailer permit on Craymer Street,
becasue it would violate the flood
plain ordinance prohibiting indivi-
dual trailers, aside from trailer
parks and trailer subdivisions, in
the V-Zone.
THE PICTURE which appeared In the Beacon last parades and took top commercial honors In each. It
week of the Chamber of Commerce float fell far from won in the Calhoun County Fair Parade and the Rice
doing justice to the award winning float. The Festival Parade in Bay City recently. Riding atop the
Chamber’s recently purchased float has entered two float Is Miss Palacios Kim Corporon.
Fiddlers' Contest will be held
Saturday afternoon, offering cash
prizes for first through third-place
winners in each age division. The
boat and other festivities will be
moved to the Palacios airport
Sunday.
The 1981 world and national
champion, “Miss Budweiser” is
one of the fastest racing boats in
the world. She is owned by
Anheuser-Busch beer distributor
Bernie Little of Lakeland, Fla., and
is sponsored by Anheuser-Busch,
Inc. and its Budweiser brand. The
Palacios appearance of her sister
boat is sponsored by Mid-Coast
Distributing, Inc., El Campo area
wholesalers of Anheuser-Busch
beers.
The 1982 “Miss Budweiser"
gave up her national crown in a
heartbreaking loss during the
recent Budweiser World Champ-
ionship Race on Clear Lake near
Houston. Only 50 feet from the
finish, the thunderboat ran out of
gas and stalled.
"Miss Budweiser" captured the
1981 Unlimited Hydroplane Na-
tional Championship with a victory
in the Sea Galley Gold Cup on
Seattle’s Lake Washington.
MISS BUD
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Her first-ever world victory also
came last year, with a first-place
finish at the Union of International
Motor (UIM) Boating's World Cup
in Acapulco.
The new “Miss Budweiser”
sports radical design changes and a
huskier Rolls-Royce (Griffon) en-
gine which packs an additional
1,000 to 1,200 horsepower.
Her overwhelming domination of
the circuit in 1981 and the near
victory in 1982 is evidence that the
“Miss Budweiser" racing team is
serious about winning.
Unlimited hydroplane racing is a
high-speed motor sport regulated
by the Unlimited Racing Commis-
sion (URC) of the American Power
Boat Association (APBA). Racing
season begins in May and contin-
ues through October, with indivi-
dual race winners amassing points
toward a season's total in national
championship competition.
Powered by rebuilt and “hopp-
ed-up” World War II fighter plane
engines, unlimited hydroplanes
may reach a straightaway speed of
175 miles per hour. On turns,
drivers are forced to slow to 80 fflph
and slide through curves before
accelerating into the waterway
straightaway.
The 1982 “Miss Budweiser,”
powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon
V-12 engine, has in 18 years of
racing won six national champion-
ships, five APBA Gold Cups, the
1981 (UIM) World Championship
and victories in every race on the
unlimited hydroplane circuit.
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group talks goals
Citizens Awareness met last
week and discussed goals for
the coming year. Mentioned
in special were the following:
Holding a voter registration
drive before the spring elec-
tion and assisting Palacios
Information Network with its
Candidate Forum by sponsor-
ing the Forum and by helping
with personnel.
Membership renewals will
be mailed in the next week or
Saturday, 10 a.m.
Register for free prizes to
be given away Nov. 20
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During the eight-week
training cycle, trainees
studied general military
subjects designed to pre-
pare them for further
academic and on-the-job
training in one of the
Navy’s 85 basic occupa-
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Included in their stud-
ies were seamanship,
close order drill, Naval
history and first aid.
Personnel who complete
this course of instruction
are eligible for three
hours of college credit in
Physical Education and
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ticket booth or at the airshow. The
drawing will be held at the airshow
Sunday afternoon.
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