The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 138, No. 80, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1984 Page: 1 of 24
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By Richard Goldsmith
If you’re lucky, you made one of the lists below showing
the top 20 taxpayers for the county, the school districts and the
cities.
If you did, then you’re paying more taxes than just about
everyone else in the County, but then you had more to tax, so
don’t complain.
The list, which appears thanks to the Bastrop County Ap-
praisal District computer and the courtesy of its keepers, con-
tains few surprises.
Most of those listed are large corporations, banks and utili-
ties. Also listed are the county’s largest landowners.
Changes included this year include a new law taxing banks
according to the value of their stock. That raised the amount
of their assessed value over the values for last year. But a court
has already overturned the law.
Bear in mind that the Appraisal District only taxes property
as of Jan. 1 each year, so that property which has been added
since then or which has changed hands since then will still be
calculated as of January. For instance, muchof the equipment
at the Lower Colorado River Authority’s Powell Bend Mine
(listed under Bastrop Mining Co.) will not be taxed in Bastrop
County until next year because some of the machinery was not
at the mine as of January.
To calculate the tax paid by each of the persons or compa-
nies listed below, divide the assessed value by 100 and then
multiply by the tax rate for the particular taxing entity.
ASSESSED VALUE
TAXPAYER
Bastrop County
1. Southwestern Bell
2. Elgin Butler Brick
3. Tahitian Villiage tynit 1
4. Bluebonnet Electric Coop
5. Tubular Finishing Works
6. First National Bank
7. Palmco Management Co.
8. MKT Railroad
9. Aqua Water Corp.
10. Lake Bastrop Acres Inc.
11 .Elgin Bank of Texas
12. First State Bank
13. Texas Power & Light
14. Matador Pipeline of Texas
15. Dan Duncan
16. Exxon Pipeline Co.
17. Phillips Pipeline Co.
18. Tahitian Village
19. Bastrop Mining Co.
* S & R Associates (Stanley Smith and Steve Rivers) were list-
ed number 12 at $2,228,841 for apartments located in Elgin.
However, due to a clerical error, the apartments were assessed
too high and are actually worth only about $503,399. S & R
Associates are no longer in the top 20 and the new 20th rank-
ing taxpayer has not been computed yet.
$10,670,186
$9,632,010
$5,269,263
$4,208,512
$3,558,878
$3,156,085
$3,100,480
$3,015,550
$2,782,343
$2,491,692
$2,375,319
$2,221,508
$1,802,540
$1,726,740
$1,665,481
$1,648,900
$1,623,290
$1,611,461
$1,578,956
Total assessed value: $700,928,789
Tax rate: $0.29 per $100 of assessed value.
Bastrop City
I. First -National Bank
2.Southwestern Bell
3. David & Betty Himmelblau
4. MCR Investments
5. Urban Housing Association
6. Tahitian Village
7. Citizens State Bank
8. Gerald R. Wagner
9.Stanley P. Smith Companies
10.ARA LivingodCetlter
II. Tahitian Village Inc.
12. W. Hugh Looney III
13. Raymond A. Long
14. Bartsch Inc.
15. Wendall Walton
16. Detlev E. Roemhild
17. Longs Food Market Inc.
18. Joe “Rocky” Paramore, et al
19. Lundgren Chevrolet ,
20. Curtis G. McDonald DDS
$3,089,102
$1,743,287
$1,551,064
$1,527,268
$1,499,109
$1,246,099
$1,215,073
$984,120
$859,741
$811,699
$553,760
$447,367
$431,179
$389,042
$325,515
$321,360
$311,647
$303,880
$275,000
$273,979
Total assessed value $82,366,093
Tax rate: $0,179 per $100 of assessed value.
Smithville City
1. First State Bank
2. Lost Pines National Bank
3.Smithville Gardens LTD
4.Southwestern Bell
5. Coates-Schantz Partnership
6. Marhil Manufacturing Inc.
7. Cen-Tex Machine
8. Milton Mutschink
9. MKT Railroad
10. Dwight Nance
11. Edith Wessels
12. Walter Bazarsky
13. Entex Inc.
14. Adolph Ryza Jr.
15. Dr. F. J. & Frances Weishuhn
16.Ivan H. Webb
17. T.J. Herrington
18. W.L. Dawson
19. Rabb & Rosanky
20. Geo S. Woodress
$2,221,508
$1,406,241
$1,227,368
$1,191,672
$783,139
$429,022
$425,675
$411,310
$334,615
$331,635
$302,363
$285,260
$282,200
$272,554
$269,894
$237,020
$231,098
$213,438
$198,532
$184,956
Total assessed value: $61,905,263.
Tax rate: $0.35 per $100 of assessed value.
Elgin City
I. Elgin Bank of Texas
2.Southwestern Bell
3. Texas Power & Light
4. Elgin Cotton Oil Mill
5.S & R Associates
6. Williams Grocery
7. Mrs Roy H. Morris i
8. James Biggers
9.Senior Citizens Aid Inc.
lO.Otto Gruetzner Sr.
II. Entex Inc.
12. Barker True Value Hardware
13. Helen D. Stach
14. Farrell W. Meyer
15. City Cafe
16. Mogoyne & Son Lumber
17. Med Dental Clinic of Elgin
18. Federated Savings & Loan
19. Harold & Betty Lee Dildy ;
20. Dahyabhai & Laxmiben Patel
Continued on Page 2, Section I
$2,315,487
$1,109,027
$865,510
$617,060
$503,399 *
$430,879
$426,723
$425,493
$400,263
$342,705
$302,320
$293,490
$256,003
$254,087
$250,068
$248,506
$246,521
$245,615
$236,186
$222,636
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Bastrop, Texas
Thursday, December 6, 1984
Shopping center planned
A shopping center with up to 30
stores and two major chain retail-
ers is planned for 18.4 acres on
Highway 71 next to Lundgren
Chevrolet-Oldsmobile.
Owners of the valuable property
have agreed to sell to Carter Invest-
ments of Austin which is negotiat-
ing with two large retailers to serve
as anchors for the project.
Wal Mart Stores of Bentonville,
Ark. and H.E.B. grocery stores
based in Corpus Christi are the two
main retailers sought for the project
which could start next year.
Sale of the property has not fi-
nally closed, pending the cus-
tomary 60 day examination period
in which soil will be tested and
other checks made but it’s under-
stood the terms have been ac-
cepted.
Dale Ligon of Carter Invest-
ments in Austin Tuesday confirmed
widespread reports in the Bastrop
business community about the
project. “It’s true serious negoti-
ations” are underway although no
final papers have been signed, he
said.
The center would have access
from Highway 71 and from the Old
Austin Highway via a new
boulevard planned on the west side
of the property.
Ligon said population growth in
the Bastrop area make the site ideal
for a shopping center that would
draw consumers from all over the
county. Neither H.E.B. or Wal
Mart now have outlets in the
county. The closest stores of both
chains are 30 miles away in
Lockhart.
Bill Bothwell, real estate
manager for Wal Mart at its Ben-
tonville, Ark. headquarters, said
Tuesday the chain would like to
come to Bastrop and has studied lo-
cations here for several years.
However, he said he has “nothing
concrete, nothing solid” to report
yet.
Real estate managers for H.E.B.
were not available for comment
Tuesday.
The planned shopping center
would be the buildings closest to
Bastrop within a larger triangle of
land stretching from the Chevro-
let dealership to Bert’s Drive-In.
Last April owners of the proper-
ties announced they would try to
bring the whole area into Bastrop
city limits at one time as a planned
unit development, with streets and
utilities established and accepted by
the city. That plan did not work out
and now it appears the area will de-
velop piecemeal.
First National Bank, Bastrop
Hardware and Citizens Bank at the
April announcement all said they
would locate at different parcels
within the triangle. It’s believed,
according to real estate sources,
that all three still plan to erect
buildings in the area but the firms
have not said when.
F ight leads to SV murder
A Smithville man is dead and his
drinking companion is in Bastrop
County Jail charged with his murd-
er after the two got into an argu-
ment early Monday morning.
Paul C. Jacobs, 28, died at 7:23
a.m, Monday after he suffered
multiply gunshot wounds from a
.22 caliber rifle at about 4:30 a.m.
Charged with his murder is Jim-
my Ray Cordova, 18, of Smith-
ville, an unemployed construction
worker.
Investigator David Lewis, with
the Bastrop County Sheriff’s
Department, said Jacobs was hit at
least three times' by rifle fire --
once in the left thigh, once in the
left arm and once in the left side
of his head.
Dr. Robert Bayardo, Travis
county medical examiner, said the
shot to Jacob’s head was the fatal
wound. Jacobs was also shot in the
Coal train
ready to roll
left forearm for a total of four gun-
shot wounds, Bayardo said.
According to police, Cordova,
Jacobs and a third compainion
were out drinking Sunday night at
a bar in Smithville. They left the
bar in the third companion’s car
and drove around for a while after
which Cordova and Jacobs were
dropped off at Jacob’s mobile
home on Loop 230 just east of the
Smithville city limits.
Jacobs and Cordova drank some
more at Jacob’s house and then got
into a fight. Lewis said Cordova
and Jacobs were friends and the
dause of the fight is not known at
this time.
Cordova told police that Jacobs
hit him in the nose. After that, Cor-
dova went to his home across Loop
230 from Jacob’s home, and got
the rifle. He went back to Jacob’s
mobile home where they argued
Jimfny Ray Cordova (right)
some more and the shots were
fired.
Lewis said that Cordova had a
bloody nose at the time of his ar-
rest indicating that he had been in
a fight.
After the shooting, Cordova
went to a nearby 24-hour con-
venience store and asked the clerk
to call police because he had been
involved in a shooting. He was still
carrying the rifle.
Smithville police were first on
the scene, but determined that the
shooting had occurred outside of
the city limits and called in
Sheriff s Deputies.
Jacobs was still alive when
police arrived He was taken to
, Smithville Hospital and from there
was transported to Brackenridge
Hospital in Austin where he died
Cordova was charged with at-
tempted murder at the time of his
arrest. The charge was later
changed to murder and bond was
set at $100,000 b y Justice of the
Peace Bill Hendersom
Rail shipments of lignite from
the Lower Colorado River
Authority’s Powell Band mine
should begin next week barring
rain delays.
A spokesman at the mine said
five railcars have been loaded so
far as a test, but full scale loading
will not begin until the loading fa-
cility is tested further. That may be
completed by Wednesday and if so,
a full shipment of 40 railcars will
be loaded Thursday and Friday.
The first shipment of lignite will
roll out from the mine Monday if
all goes well.
TTie lignite will be shipped on the
MKT tracks to the LCRA's Fayette
Power Plants I&II were the lignite
will be mixed with western coal
and burned.
Bastrop may get planner
Bastrop Councilmen are discuss-
ing the possibility of hiring a
trained city planner, either as a new
city employee or on a contract ba-
sis to come to the city periodical-
ly, to draw a master plan.
Councilmen have already talked
about the possible new position
during closed personnel session
and the idea could come up again .
at the Council’s Dec. 11 meeting.
The item is not on the agenda so
far for the meeting, however, City
Manager Marvin Patterson said
Tuesday. I
Councilman Stanley Smith said
he thinks the city needs a profes-
sional planner because of explosive
growth in commercial projects and
possibly mutiple family housing.
He said one possibility is to hire
4 ‘a good professional planner and
have him also be an assistant to
City Manager Patterson,” working
on other assignments.
Patterson said he would prefer
having the planner on a contract
basis because he doesn't think there
is enough work for him fulltime.)
A possibility, said Patterson,
would be to expand the Work of
Randy Hankammer who already
has been hired at approximately
$11,00 to update the city's zoning
map and land use studies. Patter-
son conceded that for $ 11,000 a
full master plan won’t be obtained
“but some of the elements will be
done and they could be added to. ”
According to Patterson,
Hankammer, of the Community
Land Resources Inc. firm, will
study the triangle between Loop
150, Highway 71 and Old Austin
Highway where several large com-
mercial projects are planned and
where the city faces annexation arid
utility questions.
Hankammer “is a professional
planner'' and ftiHy able to assist the
Continued on Page 10, Section I
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