The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 69, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1980 Page: 1 of 28
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TEXAS’ OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
THURSDAY EDITION
Two finalists vying for city manager’s post
Bastrop’s search for
new city manager has nar
rowed down to two candi-
dates and the Council hopes
to make a decision by next
week.
The finalists are Terry
Roberts and Jerry
McFadden.
McFadden is the admini
strator of community devel-
opment for the city of Fort
Arthur.
Roberts is the budget di
rector and purchasing agent
for the city of San Marcos.
Both men are highly quali-
fied, according to city of
facials who have met them.
Roberts has been with the
city of San Marcos for five
years.
McFadden has been with
the city of Port Arthur for
two and one half years. In a
previous job with the city of
Commerce, where he was
assistant to the city mana
ger, one of the departments
he supervised was a power
plant.
Bastrop has been without
a city manager since C.W.
Patek was forced out last
Sept. 15. He has since be-
come the city manager at
Navasota.
Salary range for the Bas-
trop city manager’s post is
expected to be in the
$17,000 to $18,000 a year
range.
Homicide charged in road death
A New Mexico man has highway death of William
been charged with criminally Barr near McDade last
negligent homicide in the week.
Ghosts due
Halloween merry making
is available at three places
Friday night with plenty of
scares and treats promised
for youngsters.
From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. a
parade of costumed goblins
is set to descend on the
yard of Mayor James P. and
Mrs. Sharp at 1200 Main St.,
Bastrop. Games and refresh
menus are promised at this
annual event for children
hosted by the Mayor and
City Council.
The Lake Bastrop Acres
Fire Station will be turned
into a haunted den with a
hay ride offered at 7 p.m.
Each family is asked to
bring snack food; drinks will
be provided.
The American Legion
Auxiliary in Bastrop Ls host-
ing a party for children aged
one to twelve from 7 to 10
p.m. and kids are asked to
dress up in a costume, "ugly
or pretty." The Legion
ladies are calling the affair
the Halkiween Spook House.
Department of Public
Safety Trooper Chris
Cannon said Barr’s 1969
Ford pickup was appar
ently waiting for east bound
traffic on U.S. Highway 290
to pass before turning into a
roadside park east of Me
Dade. Barr, 72, died when
the truck was struck from
behind by a late model Cadi-
llac and he was thrown into
the road, said Cannon.
The driver of the Cadillac
was not injured and could
give no account of the acci-
dent’s cause, according to
Cannon. “The best I can tell
it was just driver error,"
• «aid the Trooper.
Majed K. Ibrahim posted
$10,000 bond Saturday
and was released from
Bastrop County JaiL
Cannon said he could not
determine with certainty
how fast the Cadillac was
traveling at the time of the
accident.
Nolan Barr, 42, son of the
dead man and a passenger
in the pick up, suffered only
minor injuries in the 3:30
p.m. accident
According to Ibrahim, he
“just didn’t see” the car
stopped in the lane in front
of him; he looked up “and
there they were,” Cannon
reported.
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The elder Barr was a
retired Austin city
ployee.
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Where to vote
Election judges, polling places listed
^Explosion, fire guts house
Bastrop firemen ran with
both pumpers and both wa-
ter trucks to contain a resi-
dential blaze that threatened
to spread to other houses
about 9 p.m. Sunday.
The residence at 1304 B
Fayette SL was destroyed.
The fire started from an
explosion when the pilot
light on a gas wall furnace
ignited gasoline from a mo-
torcycle repair operation in
progress by a tenant inside
the house, reported owner
Jim Reed.
Reed credited firemen
with keeping the blaze from
spreading to nearby proper-
ty. Reed said heat from the
flames wrinkled vinyl siding
on the closest neighboring
house.
The tenant moved the
cycle repair project indoors
“when it got dark" Sunday,
said Reed. Only the pilot on
the furnace was burning, he
said, "but that was enough ”
to set off the explosion.
PRECINCT
1 - South Bn strop
ELECTION JUDGE
VOTING PLACE
Mrs. J. P. Sharp
1200 Main, Bastrop, Tx. 78602
Mrs. David Swenson
Rt. 4, Box 326, Elgin 78621
Granville Bunte
Rt. 2, Box 259, Bastrop 78602
Mrs. L. Shubert
Rosanky, Tex. 78953
Olivia Alexander
Rt. 1 Cedar Creek, Tex 78612
Annie Lee Haywood
Rt 2 Box 30, Elgin, Tex 78621
Alternate C. L. Gruetzner
Rt. 1, Box 49, Elgin, Tex 78621
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Earl Stein back
Rt 2 Box 79 Smithvilie Tx 78957
Henry Grimes
Box 465, McDade, Tex. 78650
G. B. Hefner
Rt 1 Box 72, Bastrop 78602
Mrs. Emmitt Hendrix
Red Rock, Texas 78662
Arthur Marburger
Rt. 1, Paige, Texas 78659
E. 0. Sharp
Box 599, Smithvi1le Tx. 78957
Stanley Smith
Piney Ridge Rd., Bastrop 78621
nm Good Shepherd Lutheran
201 N. Perkins, Bastrop, 78602 Church Bastrop
June Murchison Union Hill Baptist
Rt 1 Box 153-K, Elgin,Tx 78621 Church
:l"b,Tt Schroeder sacred Heart Church,
*06 West 11th, Elgin, Tx 78621 Elgin
August Hajdik
Rt 2, Flatonia, Texas 78941
Alex Waugh
Box L, Bastrop, Tex 78602
*3~ West Smithvilie
Alternate Judge Lillian L. Howard
B-7 Ranch, Rosanky, Texas 78953
2 - Pleasant Grove
* 3 - West Smithvilie
4 - Rosanky
5 - Cedar Creek
6 - East Elgin
7 - Pin Oak
8 - McDade
9 - Watterson
10- Red Rock
11- Paige
12- East Smithville
13- North Bastrop
14- West Bastrop
15- Utley
16- South Elgin
17- Kovar
Absentee
County Courthouse
Fire Station, Elgin
City Hall, Smithville
Rosanky Community
Center
Cedar Creek School
Building
TP&L Civic Room
25 N Main, Elgin
Pin Oak Church Hall
Historical Building,
McDade
Watterson Community
Center
Red Rock School
Old Paige School"'House
Old Gymnasium
Jr. High Cafeteria
Dispatchers first
Smithville workers get pay hike
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By MARK HAMPTON been hired bringing that
Salary increases for some staff to full complement. The
Smithville City employees fifth dispatcher will start at
were approved at Monday the increased salary figure,
night’s council meeting and Skelly also told the coun-
Mayor Lawerence Skelley ca"A very serious look is
said a “serious and hard
look" must be taken at other
city salaries.
Smithville’s four city dis-
patchers received a blanket,
fifty cent salary increase
from $3.10 per hour to $3.60
per hour.
Alderman Roy Adams
told the city council that a
raise was long over-due and
pointed out that one dis-
patcher, Steve Burns, had
been with the city for over
eight years.
Other dispatchers are
Delores Burns, Virginia
Fulmer and Louise Massey.
Mayor Skelley told the coun
cil that a fifth dispatcher had
going to have to be taken,
by the council on salary
schedules in all depart-
ments.”
According to Skelley,
Smithville “is losing men,"
because of the salary sche-
dules and said,“Merit raises
are a must to keep these
people.”
Following his motion to
increase the wages for the
dispatchers, Alderman
Charles McKeown proposed
that when the council discus-
ses the new budget, "We
should take into considera
tion longevity and merit in
creases.”
A special use permit was
approved by the council for
Kay Sellers to open a
beauty shop at 306 Cleve-
land.
The council’s approval fol-
lowed a report from the
Planning and Zoning Com
mission, a move to return
the matter to the Planning
Commission and an extend
ed council discussion.
Planning and Zoning Com
mission member Fred Stone
told the city council property
owners J.T. and Mae
Kimbrough had applied for
a zoning change from R1 to
Cl in order for Sellers to
open the shop.
At the commission meet-
ing to consider the change
Stone said, “There was a lot
of objections to this change."
Most of the objections cen-
tered around on-street park-
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Oil well tested
Another oil strike
east of Smithville was repor-
ted to the Texas Railroad
Commission this month.
Energetics, Inc. has com
pletod a 24 hour test on the
Walter T. Kieschnick Well
No. 1A three miles north
west of Winchester on the
G. W. Whitesides League,
A-69.
The well produced 156.94
barrels of oil 150 mef of gas
and 7.5 barrels of water
during the test. Top of the
pay was at 5956 feet Total
well depth is 7904 feet
Kovar Community Center
Courthouse
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School this week. Staff Photo by Davis McAuley.
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 69, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1980, newspaper, October 30, 1980; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736545/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.