The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1988 Page: 1 of 26
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Aqua planning
History grants eyed
Judge visits parks
Bastrop
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Smithville
suspect
arrested
A 22-year-old Smithville man
suspected of leaving the scene of
an accident in Lee County was
charged with DWI and possession
of a controlled substance Sunday
after he was snipped near the in-
tersection of Chestnut and Texas
95 by a Bastrop County deputy
sheriff.
According to Chief Deputy
Charles Kothmann, Deputy Earl
Pence was near the intersection of
Texas 21 and Loop 150 when he
spotted a vehicle no more than five
minutes after news of the accident
was broadcast by the dispatcher at
the Bastrop County Sheriff's
Office.
Pence said he arrested Bobby Joe
Taylor after he noticed the car
weaving and that it also matched
the description of the vehicle
sought by Lee County authorities.
He said the car had extensive
damage on the passenger side and
the one involved in the accident in
Lee County had reportedly side-
swiped a car on Texas 21 near
Dimebox.
Pence said when he asked Tay-
lor to step out he noticed he
smelled of alcohol so took him to
the sheriff's office for a intoxyliz-
er test.
He said when the man failed the
test a search of his vehicle revealed
a vial containing suspected
methamphetamine in a tackle box.
Pence said the vial and its con-
tents was confiscated and sent to
the Department of Public Safety
laboratory in Austin for analysis.
Taylor was magistrated Monday
on charges of possession of a con-
trol led substance, DWI and driv-
ing while his license was
suspended. His bond on all three
charges was set at $10,800.
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Fire district
plan reviving
Proponents of a fire protection
district with taxing powers for
southwestern Bastrop County will
be back before county commission-
ers Monday.
The proponents hope to persuade
.commissioners to schedule a new
vote on the issue in August. If
voters approve again, the district
can collect up to three cents'per
$100 property value this year.
After voters in the proposed dis-
trict approved its creation in March
by a 125-99 margin, the vote was
declared invalid because there was
only one polling place when the
law apparently calls for two.
Opponents also questioned
whether original signers of a peti-
tion calling for the referendum
were both registered voters and
property owners in the district.
Artesian Oaks Volunteer Fire
Department chief James Bates said
113 petition signers have been veri-
fied as both property owners and
voters. The county can call an elec-
tion if there is a petition with 1 (X)
signers and they find there is a need
for such a district.
County Tax Collector Barbara
Brinkmeyer said she still has ques-
tions about the petition.
Before the March vote she told
commissioners the petition was in
order.
Last week she said her staff
helped verify voter registration and
property ownership at the request
of Bates. But she noted that many
signers are husband and wife and
own property jointly. —
She said she wants to ask Dis-
trict Attorney Charles Penick if that
qualifies both as petition signers.
Continued on Page 12, Section I
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Since March 1, 1853
Bastrop, Texas
Thursday,
HOME DESTROYED
under control the mobUft home,
located off FM 304, WM i total
loss. Photo by Cecil Johnson
Firefighters with the Bastrop that destroyed a mobile home
Volunteer Fire Department and near Hills Prairie Monday.
the 3-N-l Volunteer Fire Depart- Although the firefighters made
ment work to extinguish a blaze valiant efforts to fring the fire
Fire strikes near Hills Prairie
The cause of a lire that destroyed
a mobile home near Hills Prairie
Monday is still under investigation
by the Bastrop Volunteer Fire
Department.
Firefighters were called to the
house fire, off FM 304 approxi-
mately nine miles from Bastrop, at
approximately 4:23 p.m.
According to Bastrop Fire Chief
Mike Fisher the mobile home was
fully involved by the time firefight-
ers arrived. He said by the time the
fire was brought under control the
trailer was a total loss.
Fisher said he suspects the fire
started in a storage shed behind the
residence where several old tele-
visions and appliances were stored.
He said Marvin McLawrence,
the owner of the trailer, was out of
town and noone was believed to be
at the residence when the fire
started.
Fisher said the original call was
made to the 3-N-l Volunteer Fire
Department and immediately trans-
ferred to the Bastrop Fire Depart-
ment when it was determined that
the fire was in their area.
He said the fire was reported by
the owner of the Hills Prairie
Grocery.
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Russian coal mining engineer
Boris Sevostianov (right) visited
the Powell Bend strip mine north
of Bastrop Tuesday. Part of a
visiting delegation from the
Soviet Union, Sevostianov
learned about Texas lignite from
Powell Bend's mine engineer,
Don Buddecke (center), with the
help of interpreter Kim Pursley
of Austin. StafT Photo by Davis
McAuley.
Soviet engineer views Powell Bend
By Davis McAuley
Despite language differences
Russian engineer Boris Sevos-
tianov said Tuesday he finds little.
difference between people in t|te
U.S. and the U S S R.
Speaking through an interpreter,
he Said in substance: In my
hometown of Donetsk in the
k
Ukraine, no one could tell (without
asking) that you're American.
Sevostianov talked with report-
ers during a tour of the Powell
Bend lignite strip mine north of
Bastrop. Afterward he headed
toward Elgin with,his hosts from
the Lower Colorado River
Authority for an introduction to hot
sausage and beef barbecue for
lunch.
In Donetsk Sevostianov has been
chief engineer for an underground
coal mine since 1965. Deep in the
mine shafts it gets as hot as it was
Tuesday under clear Texas skies,
he said.
After a glance into the 80-foot^
Continued on Page 2, Section 1
BISD trustees
pick Woodruff
for high school
By Cecil Johnson
After less than 30 minutes
deliberation trustees for the Bastrop
Independent School District voted
unanimously Tuesday to offer Bob-
by J. Woodruff the job as principal
of Bastrop High School.
Only five of the seven board
members were present for the vote
but those absent, .school board
President Verlin Callahan and
Trustee Robert Miller Jr. who were
both out of state, were contacted
by telephone and voted with the
rest of the board on the selection.
Woodruff, 51, is currently prin-
cipal of Magnolia High School near
Houston. If he accepts the position
with BISD he will be paid $45,0(X)
a year and $2,(KM) for moving and
travel expenses.
Woodruff was one of two final
applicants considered for the po-
sition. The other applicant was
John Mason Chubb, principal of
Sulphur Springs High School in
Sulphur Springs.
Woodruff previously served as
principal of Longview High School
from 1981 to 1984 and principal of
Spring High School from 1975 to
1981.
With a steady work record, he
was also employed as assistant
principal of Spring High School
from 1973 to 1975, a teacher at
Deer Park High School from 1971
Continued on Page 12, Section 1
Cow set to help out
at River Bend Park
With the deadline for the next
mortgage payment upon them a
handful of Smithville residents will
be working overtime this summer
in an all out effort to save Crock-
ett River Bend Park.
The park, located off of Texas
71 on the Colorado River, will be
buzzing with activity this weekend
with a dance Saturday night, a fried
chicken dinner Sunday and a
poopourri Sunday afternoon.
Yes, a poopourri.
Fred Cooper, president of the
Crockett River Bend Park Associ-
ation, said the softball field will be
sectioned off into squares for the
event and then a cow will be turned
loose.
He said for $5 a square par-
ticipants can gamble that their
square will be the first one the cow
leaves a patty on.
Cooper said the winner of the
event will not have to clean up the
patty and will get the money for
half of all the ticket sales. He said
the other half will go to pay off
some of the debt for the park.
Cooper said organizers will
make sure the cow has plenty of
time to graze beforehand so she,
too, will be ready for the event.
Cooper said the fried chicken
dinner Sunday will be free of
charge but free-will donations' to
the park will be accepted. He said
organizers will start serving at I I
a.m. and the poopourri will com-
mence later in the day.
A dance to the music of Johnny
Aztlan and Memories will be held
at the park on Saturday from 9
p.m. to 1 a.m.
According to Karen Bell, chair-
person for the "Catch a Falling
Park"' committee, only ahout
$2,300 has been collected toward
the June payment on the $250,000
mortgage on the property.
She said although the $13,000
payment is due Friday it will prob-
ably be made next week after this
weekend's activity.
Bell said everyone is hoping for
a good turnout at all the events.
C(x>per said the parks board met
Tuesday with professional grant
writer Rudy Ruiz to see if the park
may be eligible to apply for grant
money through the city of
Smithville.
He said the group will probably
approach the Smithville City Coun
cil Monday lo see if they would be
willing to support such an en-
deavor.
"It's going to be up to the city
whether they want to take us in, if
they can take us in as far as annex
the park and make it a part of
Smithville, or maybe call a bond
issue or something," said C<x>per.
"We just, have to see mainly
what this grant writer says and see
what our options are there, and see
basically what the city of Smithville
is going to tolerate," he said
Cooper said in the "Catch a Fall-
ing Park" campaign the board is
Continued on Page 12, Section I
Bastrop Hospital may need
tax district aid, doctor says
Before leaving to stitch up an
emergency room patient at Bastrop
Hospital Monday, Dr. Bill Mar-
shall told a public meeting that a
hospital taxing district may be the
only long term cure for the ailing
25-bed medical facility.
"Be ready to think about a hospi-
tal district," Marshall said. Keep-
ing the hospital ope'n "won't be
inexpensive but it won't be as ex-
pensive as you might think."
Changes in the federal Medicare
program mean it's, "not easy to
support a hospital with a few pa-
tients and outpatient services,"
Marshall said.
When he began his Bastrop prac-
tice in 1970 it was much easier, the
doctor explained.
Marshall made his remarks to a
crowd of about 100 gathered at
Bastrop High School's lecture hall
to hear from Bastrop Hospital
Authority and City of Bastrop offi-
cials about progress toward
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1988, newspaper, June 9, 1988; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth391013/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.