The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1982 Page: 4 of 27
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
Thursday, April 1,1982
SV candidates: Supervision of city missing
No matter who wins,
Smithville will have two
new City Councilmen after
Saturday’s election and
most of the six candidates
favor hiring a city ad-
Around 1,000 persons may
vote.
Although candidate
James Caldwell, 50, an
electrical engineer, told the
Smithville Community
Emil Vacek, 79, retired
pharmacist and former
Council Member, said he
thought outgoing Mayor
Lawrence Skelley had
maneuvered the issue.
eliminate some of the
headaches of the mayor.
Let’s look at what we’ve
got and improve it first.”
All of the candidates,
said they back an annual
for several years and needs-
repairs.
Shoestring
Catherman said “Our
city government has
operated on a shoestring”
support a genera!
obligation bond because it
would add to property'
taxes but he could favor a
revenue bond to be repaid
out of city utility income.
/
Faulkner Addition but for
Mt. Pleasant, Bunte
Town, The Flats
w herever you live.”
He said, however,
“Folks, we can’t afford a
bond issue. I don't think
any of them (existing
councilmen) have studied
the city’s program in dep-
th.” He said he favors first
“rearranging the money.
Then we’ll look at hiring
outside help” to operate.
“We need something for
our young people,” he ad-
ded. “We have no
recreational area. We have
forgotten them.”
McCullough also said,
“Our landfill is a
disgrace.”
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Willie Ferrell
ministrator or making
other changes in city
operations.
Councilman Robert M.
Smith is retiring and
Councilman Roy Adams is
running for mayor so two
seats are open Saturday.
Charles McC ullough
Corporation candidates
forum Monday night, state
law prohibits Smithville
from downgrading the
mayor’s job, three other
candidates said they still
support setting up the post
ofcity administrator.
Mr% mm
Two vying
for BISD spot
Bastrop voters have only
one choice to make Satur-
day in the race for the
Bastrop Independent
School Board, and that’s
for Place One between
incumbent Jerry Neef and
challenger Marian Jones.
The other candidate,
Robert Miller, is running
unopposed.
Neef, who has .served on
the board for several terms,
believes the school has
“unfinished business,” in-
cluding acquiring land with
money left over from the
bond Issue. “We need to
bring to a conclusion acq-
uisition of this portion of
land,” he said. “We are
planning a new building
program that will be need-
ed in the very near future.”
Jones, a resident of the
Cedar Creek area, has a
young grandchild in the
Bastrop sdiool system, and
believes “hiring competent
teachers should have a very
high priority.” She also
would like “to see pro-
grams for the gifted child
included’’ along with
greater stress on math and
reading skills in the early
grades.
“I’m mainly interested
in the primary and elemen-
tary' .schools,” she reported
..in an.earlier interview.
Emil Vacek
“The mayor knew if he put
it off until after Jan. 1,
he’d have the law on his
side,” Vacek said. Vacek
noted voters had approved
the idea of an ad-
ministrator and he still
favors it w hen the technical
restraints can be worked
out. Don Catherman, 39,
also backed the ad-
ministrator. Rosemary
Adams Garner, 23, a nur-
se, was not at the forum.
Charles McCullough,
37, a construction com-
pany supervisor, said “He
(the administrator) can’t
be everywhere. We need
the people in the field who
can do the work. That will
Rosemary Garner
appropriation to help the
Combined Community
Action Agency transport
the poor and elderly to doc-
tors and shopping.
Catherman added: “But
I question how some of
that money is spent, for
example, on personalized
license plates.” Ferrell said
the city should give more
than S3,000a year.
Caldwell said the city
needs a diligent search lor a
sanitary landfill dump and
a program of street repairs.
“It seems a shame to let
that defunct swimming
pool go to waste,” he ad-
ded of the city plunge
which has not been open
Bastrop
Memorial
Hospital Patients
as of March 30:
Amie Mac Neely
Amber Voigt
Mary Allen
1 redonia Adams
Ethel Taylor
Jerry Jackson
Jackson Byrd
George Alexander
John Mayes
Joe B. Long
Plonie House
Amie Raemsch
James Caldwell
.and that citizens must
“speak up” to help the city
get direction and set
priorities.
Ferrell said he could not
support a bond issue for
needed capital im-
provements because so
many Smithville residents
are retired arid living on
fixed incomes.
“1 can’t see where the
city’s money went” over
the past several years, he
added, referring to holes in
streets so large “you can
bury a cow in some of
them.”
Revenue Bond
Vacek said he could not
Johnson
in race
Elgin businessmen arc-
staging a last-minute write-
in campaign to reelect pres-
ent mayor Arthur F.
“Bubba” Johnson for an-
other term, though with-
out much enthusiasm from
the candidate. WAV. Cot-
tle, presently a council
member, was running for
the mayor’s position un-
opposed until this latest
development.
Don Catherman
“You all know our city
has been on the dow rtgrade
- due to poor supervision”
of staff and equipment, he
said. “The mayor didn't
give it enough super-
vision.”
McCullough said “This
is the time for positive
growth. Not only for the
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