The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1995 Page: 2 of 36
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Thursday, July 27,1995
Smithville police make arrests
Smithville Police Department
had several arrests during the
past week:
' * John Wesley Rosales, Jr.,
38, voluntarily came to the po-
lice department at 10:20 p.m.
July 18 and was arrested for as-
sault in a family violence case, a
Class A misdemeanor.
Rosales was released from
jail alter posting $ 1 ,(XX) bond.
* Edwin Frank Zimmcr-
hanzel, 35, was arrested at 3:50
a.m. July 19 at his residence for
assault with injury. The police
report said Zimmerhanzcl,
owner of Zimmerhanzel’s Bar-
B-Quc, pushed his wife, causing
her injury. She was transported
to the Smithville Regional
Hospital emergency room. Hos-
pital personnel said they
couldn’t release any informa-
tion.
* Alfred Lester Davis Jr., 17,
was arrested Sunday for resist-
ing arrest alter allegedly fleeing
from an officer who was arrest-
ing him on an outstanding war-
rant for burglary of a vehicle.
Davis was charged with
stealing a puise from a vehicle
and money from the purse, said
Smithville Police Chief Lee
Nusbaum.
“We were investigating some
stolen bicycles and during inter-
views his name came up,” said
Nusbaum.
Davis remained in Bastrop
County Jail Tuesday. Bond was
set at $1000 for burglary of a
vehicle and $2,000 for resisting
arrest.
* Barbara Anderson, 30, was
arrested for assault with injury
at 2:10 a.m. Sunday.
Chief Nusbaum said Ander-
son was involved in an alterca-
tion and hit someone in the head
with a beer bottle.
Anderson was released from
jail after posting $500 personal
bond.
* Toni Leigh Haynes, 20,
surrendered to the Smithville
Police Department at 12 p.m.
Saturday for theft of service
from the Video Shop.
Haynes was released after
posting $500 bond.
* Tommie Kemp, 20, also
surrendered to police at 12 p.m.
Saturday for theft of service
from the Video Shop, and for
two municipal traffic warrants.
Kemp was released after
posting $500 bond.
Bastrop man arrested,
accused of purse snatch
Police arrested a Bastrop man
July 19 for an attempted purse
theft July 14 at the Fina One-
Stop on Texas 71, said Bastrop
Police Investigator David
Board.
Delbert Limuel, 43, was ar-
rested at his job site on Texas 21
East for theft from a person, a
fourth degree felony, said
Board.
Limuel was released Thurs-
day after posting bond set at
$10,000.
The incident occurred ap-
proximately 4 a.m. when a man
approached a woman who had
stopped at the Fina One Stop on
Texas 71 for gas.
After giving the man direc-
tions to San Marcos, the woman
said he reached inside her car
for her purse. She grabbed it and
they tugged back and forth for
several seconds before he ran
off towards the Super S where a
female appeared to be waiting
for him, said police.
Limuel denied the charges,
said Board.
City
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Former BHS teacher of gifted
wins award for outstanding work
the proposed corporation. Its
governing board may be i im-
posed either of city council
members or other appointees.
In a letter to Talbot, the city's
bond counsel warned that appli-
cation fees and similar charges
by the corporation should be
sufficient to cover expenses as-
sociated with processing bond
issue proposals.
In the La Vista case neither
the city nor the corporation
would be liable for bond pay-
ments. “The corporation will
have no real function other than
to act as a 'conduit' for the real
borrowed, for the purpose of
providing exemption from fed-
eral income taxes for the interest
to be paid by that real borrower
on the financing,” wrote attor-
ney Rick Fisher.
If the proper documents are
drafted in time, the council indi-
cated it could endorse creating
the proposed corporation as
early as next week.
In other business Tuesday,
the council:
•Rezoned a tract in the In-
dustrial Park Subdivision to al-
low construction of a 32- to 40-
room motel on Texas 71.
• Retained Governmental
Service Agency, Inc. to prepare
grant applications this year for
the Texas Community Block
Grant program.
• Set new application and at-
tendance rules for appointees to
city boards, commissions and
committees.
• Adopted a written policy
that city sewer service is avail-
able only to city water cus-
tomers. The long-standing pol-
icy has never before been re-
duced to writing and adopted by
council vote, said Talbot
Betsy Carpenter, formerly a
teacher at Bastrop High School,
was recently named Outstanding
Teacher of the Gifted in Region
13. The award is given by the
Texas Association for the Gifted
and Talented. Carpenter’s
Region 13 win makes her a
finalist in the state competition.
Carpenter is completing her
University of Texas doctorate
and will spend next year
working on her dissertation.
Elgin
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EISD
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inventory by Records Consul-
tants, Inc., for a fee between
$8,800 and $9,500. The com-
pany will put bar code num-
bered labels on items costing
$500 or more, do a physical in-
ventory of all items not bar
coded, and install a database of
all inventoried items.
Additional cost for the dis-
trict will be $2,500 per laser
scanner to read the bar code
numbered labels.
Board member Jo Frazier
voted against the motion be-
cause she said she couldn’t jus-
tify the spending. “I have a
problem with this when we’re
not providing teachers at some
of our schools,” said Frazier.
The board tabled two items
on the agenda until the Monday
meeting: an energy management
grant bid and a bid for perfor-
mance contracting.
Air conditioner stolen
from Bastrop window
Toungate
because he was old enough to
vote and be subject to the mili-
tary draft, the school district
could not dictate to him how
long he could wear his hair.
Austin Barber brought suit with
the help of his father, an attor-
ney.
The Bastrop case drew na-
tional attention in 1990 when a
third grader, Zach Toungate, re-
fused to cut a wispy “rat tail” of
Trespass
“This is a gross abuse of tax
dollars,” she said.
Another protester's sign re-
ferred to taxpayers as endan-
gered species, referring to the
attention given to the endan-
gered species which lives within
the park, the Houston toad.
Bastrop County Concerned
Taxpayers has been fighting the
nine hole golf course expansion
since January 1994 in part be-
cause the Lost Pines Golf Asso-
ciation, which handies the con-
cessions for the course, is a pri-
vate, nonprofit organization.
“This is a public course, but
it is a private organization,” said
BCCT President Rosalind
Brinkley. “I’d like for them to
pay their own way and pay in
advance,” she said, referring to
Lost Pines.
A videographer from the en-
vironmental group was allowed
to stay and film the negotiating
process between Dolinger and
hair which fell below his shirt
collar and was placed in a room
by himself for lessons and de-
nied participation in playground
and other school activities. His
attorney, Charles Beall of
Austin, charged that Bastrop's
school hair rule, which applies
only to male students, violates
the state constitution and other
state laws.
After hearing testimony in
A window air conditioning
unit and a pair of Justin ostrich
skin boots were stolen from Pete
& Son Shoe Repair sometime
after 2 p.m. Friday, said police.
Business owner Gilbert Cer-
vantes reported to police he had
the case last year, Visiting Dis-
trict Judge Norman Lanford
agreed with Toungate and or-
dered school officials not to en-
force the controversial rule.
School trustees appealed.
Bastrop School Superinten-
dent Dr. Paul Fleming said the
parallel Barber case appears to
settle Toungate's constitutional
claim, but the appeals court still
must decide if state laws forbid-
left the boots inside the 7-fbot
wooden fence on the north side
of the building at 908 Water St.
Cervantes reported the air
conditioning unit belongs to
Rob Hunt, who owns the build-
ing.
ding discrimination based on
sex apply in the way Judge Lan-
ford ruled.
Beall said the supreme court's
Barber ruling is not helpful be-
cause it concludes that fee state
constitution's protection against
sex discrimination does not ex-
tend to children in school.
But the facts in fee Toungate
casft are quite different from
Barber, he said. Barber, for in-
was estimated for fee cost of a
portable building feat could
serve up to 60 students. How-
ever, the district has no room on
its primary school campus to put
a portable building and no open
classroom space on any of its
campuses, said Bradford.
The pre-kindergarten pro-
gram would be similar to fee
Head Start program which will
serve 4^year-olds in a portable
building on fee elementary
campus next school year.
The Head Start program is a
federally funded program that
teaches about nutrition, health
and parental involvement,
whereas the pre-kindergarten
program is state funded on the
sflHim, was a disruptive student
who challenged sdrool author-
ity, according to Beall. But
Toungate was a cooperative
student who merely wanted to
continue wearing his hair in the
camp way he had as a second
grader, said his attorney.
In addition Beall noted the
high court's stress in the Barber
decision on school rules which
reflect community values. Evi-
basis of average daily atten-
dance, more academically
geared, said Bradford.
“The problem that Head Start
has right now is they don't have
a place to serve fee 3-year-
olds,” said Bradford.
The Head Start program can
only serve 12-15 3-year-olds *
because they have to go to the
children’s homes, which limits ,
the number they can serve, said j
Bradford.
Bradford suggested visiting
campuses wife similar programs
to develop a program for EISD
wife the director of learning, the
primary principal and one or
two of the 4-year-old pre-
kindergarten teachers.
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dfcnce iri the Bastrop case
showed a school board-ap-
pointed citizen panel recom-
mended easing the hair rule in
the wake of the Toungate con-
troversy. But school trustees
rejected the panel's recommen-
dation and refused to modify (he
rule.
That evidence shows the
Bastrop rule does not reflect the
community's values, said Beall.
law enforcement officials. Near
fee end of negotiations,
Dolinger said he would turn
over fee key if a photographer
from fee Associated Press were
allowed to take a picture of fee
unlocking. A photographer from
The Daily Texan, fee student
newspaper for the University of
Texas at Austin was allowed
back, said David Board, Bastrop
Police Investigator who did
much of fee negotiating.
Dolinger also tried to negoti-
ate for a reduced charge, but
was told by officials they had no
power to do feat, said Board.
“Our main purpose there was
to keep the peace,” said Board.
After unlocking Dolinger,
police took him through the
woods to Texas 21 and he was
taken to jail in an unmarked po-
lice car.
Joan Russell, president of the
local chapter of the Audubon
Society, called this effort by the
different groups their “last
gasp.”
“I know it's not going to
change anything,” she said.
Russell said she has a differ-
ent view toward opposing the
golf course expansion than the
taxpayer groups and environ-
mental and conservation groups.
“Park visitors don't want this,”
she said.
Out of 50 park visitors she
interviewed, 85 percent were
very much opposed to the ex-
pansion, said Russell.
“Everyone knows why this is
being done,” said Russell. This
was a political favor asked for
by State Rep. Robert Saunders
for negotiating a sporting goods
tax to fund the Texas Parks &
Wildlife Department, said Rus-
sell. He exerted pressure on the
Texas Parks & Wildlife De-
partment, she said.
“That's the only reason,” she
said.
' The nine-hole expansion is
expected to cost $1,000,000.
Texas Parks & Wildlife will
pay $250,000, fee Lost Pines
Golf Association will pay
$250,000, and a federal grant
from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund will make up the
differenee~$500,000, said
Dwight Williford of fee Texas
Parks and Wildlife and head of
the park masterplan for the pro-
ject.
The golf association will pay
$5,000 up front and can get up
to 30 percent of their share in
in-kind services, said Williford.
“In other words, it can be do-
nated,” he said, which would
amount to $75,000. The hand
clearing that has been done by
county jail inmates is an exam-
ple of in-ldnd services, said
Williford.
The rest of their share will be
paid over the long-term under
terms of an amended contract
\
which Park Superintendent
Brent Leisure said is expected to
bring $55,000-$65,000 per year
to the state.
Leisure said under the
amended contract the state will
receive $3.25 from every green
fee paid: $1 will go toward con-
struction, $1 will go toward the
toad habitat fund for the loss of
die toad habitat, and $1.25 will
go toward the park. Also, 10
percent of all other revenues
will go to the state, said Leisure.
Leisure said Tuesday he will
nv»pt today wife the Lost Pines
Golf Association to get the con-
tract signed. He attributed the
delay of the signing, expected
last month, to the attorneys who
drafted it and to the golf associ-
ation board members who all
had to be present for the sign-
ing.
Leisure said he believes the
environmental assessment done
of the park was adequate and
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fairly extensive because it al-
lowed for the loss of fee toad
habitat Under fee agreement
4.000 acres will be set aside for
the Houston toad habitat.
Williford said 3,000 of feat
4.000 acres are in the park, and
the other 1,000 acres will come
from conservation easements
outside fee park, which means
land not owned by the park will
be reserved for use by the
Houston toad.
Leisure said he knows of no
political pressure to get the golf
course project completed, other
than from the people who woe
familiar wife the commitment
made to the city in 1966 by the
executive director of the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department
Leisure said although he is
bothered by having to cut down
trees for the project, he believes
tiie community will benefit from
the golf course both financially
and recreationally.
“There’s no pretty way to do
this,” he said
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