The Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1987 Page: 3 of 18
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Giddings, Texas, Times & Neus-Thursday, April 9, 1987-Page 3
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two separate traffic accidents
involving automobiles that hit
horses and the accidents happened
within 15 minutes of each other
DISMISSAI S
Edwin Ebner
Edna Rabun
August Blank
Edna Gloyna
Isaac Cooper
Jessica Conrad
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DISTRICT MEET - If you want to
see some good track action, tie sure
to attend the District 25AAA Track
Meet on Friday and Saturday at
Buffalo Stadium in Giddings
Along With Baskets,
Bunnies and Other
Happy Gifts
To Share Your Joy
We Will Be
OPEN
Good Friday
CONFIRMATION
Plaques Figurines and
Religious Jewelry
To Commemorate This
Special Occasion
AOP COMPLETES NO i
GOLDAPPWELI M NECHANITZ
AOP Operating Corp of Giddings
has completed the No 1 Goldapp
well, located 1 mile northwest of
Nechanitz The well is on he Wm
Burham A 142 survey in Fayette
County
in a test the well potentiated 2,006
mcf gas in the Wilcox formation at
4,460 to 4,461 5 feet
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Lee County Jr.
Livestock Show.
SURPRISE DISCOUNTS
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7:30 P.M. • COVER *3.00
DON'T MISS ENNIS' ELECTRIFYING
PF. R FOR MA NCE OF ELVIS!!!
EASTER
Crosses and Spring Jewelry
Then Select Your
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Check inside tor your
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PATIF NTS
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Adolph Zimmerhanzel, City
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SPRING CLEANING SPECIAL
MARCH 31 THRU APRIL 30
CARPET, UPHOLSTERY & DRAPERY
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A "Love Me Tender
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Both boys and girLs will
participating in this meet
DAI EC U RESOL K( ES F IN M.S
NO M VHP I WH KINS WEI I
Daleco Resources of Houston has
fl naled the No 5 Mabel Wilkins well,
located 5 miles East of Clay The
well is on the James Fisher League
A 23 in Burleson < ounty
In a test the well produced 1,252
met gas Production was from 11,471
to 11.620 feet in the Austin Chalk
(ormation
HORSING AROL ND
CONFIRM ATION - ( onfirmation
services are being planned at many
Lee County churches Sunday
morning, which is Palm Sunday
This is the beginning of Holy
Week which culminates with Easter
Sunday
C OF < MOV ING - The Giddings
Chamber of Commerce is in the
process of moving from its location
on Highway 290 in downtown
Giddings across from the Sweet
Shop
A deal has been worked out with
the City of Giddings to use the space
in the old police station on Highway
77 south, so that's where the office
will be located from now on
The Chamber has been in
downtown Giddings for a long long
time, so it's going to take a while to
get used to finding it at another
location
Giddings Garden Club
Annual Flower Show
The Giddings Garden Club Annual
Flower Show will be held on
Thursday April 23, at the First
Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
The horticultural division will be
open to the public for entries
If you enjoy working with plants or
gardening and would like to display
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HEMPSTEAD ST - Once again
the Giddings City Council has
reversed its thinking about the
extension of Hempstead St going
east
Although the Council had pretty-
much decided not to extend the
street through to the Giddings Plaza
shopping center since all they had
heard were negative comments
about it, they've now changed their
mind
What happened is that a lot of
people who were in favor of
extending the street, especially
older citizens, voiced their opinion
favoring the extension
So the Council then decided to vote
to go ahead with the extension as
originally planned
Many elderly people, as well as
others, find it difficult to pull out of
the shopping center on U S 290 east
because of all the fast moving
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Emil Nitsche, 65, f Giddings died
Sunday, April 5 at Lee Memorial
Hospital -
Funeral services for Mr Nitsche
were held Tuesday, April 7 at
Immanuel Lutheran Church with uza
burial at the Giddings City -#*4
Cemetery officiating at the service '•
was Rev Wilbern Michalk
Mi Nitsche was born March 12. 94
19/2 in (jidddting flu- bon of Herman E6
and Clara Polnick Nitsche 8
Mr Nits, he was pre eded ir death W
by his parents son Jimmy and ma
brother Rotert •
He is survived by his wife Evelyn, 3223
daughter and son in law Carolyn G2di
and Harold Galipp brother Louis
Nitsche all of Giddings sisters. #692
Emma Buedwig Pasadena Huth 2965
Sledge Houston Louise Stuessy of Hri2-
Giddings three grandchildren, 3E
KatL. Aridt Wavnetallup and wife Eed
Melissa i hristir (allup Also •
one great grandson Justin Aridt EF
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your plants at the show please call Irving Floeck at 542 3749 for more
Mrs Louis Knox at 542 3387 or Mrs details
began moving dirt bark to the site behind the hospital and for ail of
hospital grounds last week on behalf the landscaping
of HealthNtar. Inc The company will -Times A News Photo
pay for moving the dirt back in the
general manager, he has made it
clear that he is going to take a long,
hard look at things like lignite
mining, rather than continuing to
ship in coal from out west Up until
then, the LCRA seemed determined
to start using area lignite as quickly
as possible
Now even the lignite mining in the
Ledbetter area isn’t moving along
very rapidly another sign of the
change in attitudes
Mr Freeman says that the
Rockdale project definitely won't be
built until at least the mid 90 s
which is the soonest that any
additional generating capacity will
be needed
But growth projections for Central
Texas could push that date even
further out into the future as could a
lot of other options
Another option which could benefit
the Rockdale area sooner than the
mid 1990s would be it the 1.1 RA
decides to mine the lignite there and
ship it to its Fayette County project
However the bottom line is
always cost And right now western
coal is very cost competitive
Another alternative is what action
Shell (ill Company might take A
spokesman for Shell says it remains
committed to seeing the mining
project through
So the prospects of getting any
economic boost for the area from a
power plant near Rockdale or even
through the mining of lignite looks
speculative at best for the near
future
REVENUE
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streets in Lincoln with Hetty
Walthers
And they will sign the depository
contract with Lexington State Bank
The court will authorize bids for
paving and seal coating roads in Lee
County
They will execute a division order
with Tesoro Crude Oil Company. and
consider tax refunds to Scott
Rohloff John Gordan City of
Giddings Charles Mersiovsky and
Dean A Keng Paving Co
The meeting will tie held at 9 a m
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traffic •2 a»S MNe/
By opening of Hempstead Street.
this gives people a back way out of DIRT WORK A bulldozer
the center without ever having to get operator from Dean end Keng
out on the busy highway Paving smooths out dirt at Lee
Memorial Hospital The contractor
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A Fine Jewelry Store
154 W Ausvin Gidding. 542-2903
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NOT ANYTIME SOON Every
one in the Rockdale area has had
high hopes for the past several years
that a power plant would be
constructed near Rockdale real
soon
Now it looks like if that ever
becomes a reality it won’t happen
until sometime in the 1900s, if that
soon
What has happened is that the
Rockdale Power Project, previously
known as Texland, has been bought
out by the Lower Colorado River
Authority LCRA as we reported in
the Times & News last week
if you will remember, it was the
LCRA that was held in such low
regard by Pedernales and Blue
bonnet Electric Cooperatives that
they joined together to form Texland
a numtier of years ago in a joint
effort to generate their own power
rather than buy it from the LCRA
The coops felt the LCRA was
<charging them too much for power
But it seemed that at every turn
the joint venture met with
road blocks that had cost the two
coops millions of dollars in legal and
other fees and expenses it seemed
doomed to failure including finding
sufficient financing for a project
which was expected to cost over a
billion not million) dollars
Finally the coops and cities of
Hockdale and Caldwell who had
been backing the project when
Texland couldn't get any further,
apparently realized it was a hopeless
cause
The official end came when the
LCRA board finalized a settlement
in Austin with Pedernales and Blue
bonnet Electric l ooperatives
A key provision to the settlement
is the consolidation of Rockdale
Power Project power plant and fuel
supply plans with the LCRA s own
and reimbursement of approximate
ly $16 million to the coops for
expenses incurred in their quest to
construct the plant
of that amount. $13 million goes
to Pedernales and about $3 million to
Bluebonnet
Personally, I don t think that the
LCRA has any plans to build the
power plant in this century, If at all
Their main objective was to settle a
long standing feud with the two
co-ops and keep them in the LCRA
fold buying power from the LCRA
rather than generating it them
selves
I think even the LCRA with its
s.ze operation, is going to think twice
before investing over a billion
dollars in another lignite powered
plant at a time when power usage is
no longer grow ing very fast and they
have the Fayette Power Project to
pay for
David Freeman. LCRA general
manager is apparently changing
the entire thinking of the LCRA on
the future need of building additional
power plants or even mining for
lignite in the Lee, Fayette and
Milam county areas
Ever since Mr Freeman became
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Preuss, L. M., III & True, David G. The Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1987, newspaper, April 9, 1987; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1598437/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.