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Bastrop, Texas
Thursday, June 21* 1990
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Neighbors
upset by
logging
By Sherri Baker Bryant
Five acres of tall, stately pines
bit the dust this week on a private
acreage in a northeast Bastrop
County subdivision while
neighbors, who said deed restric-
tions prohibited this cutting, wat-
ched in frustration.
Property owner Roy Jones and
his renter Gaylon Hewing said the
trees were being “thinned out” to
allow grass to grow.
Jones contracted a commercial
logging crew from Commerce to
cut and haul the pines to a mill
there, he said. The mill is owned
by Louisiana Pacific Wholesale
Lumber.
Workers said Monday that three
and a half truckloads were hauled
away last week. They estimated
another two and a half loads would
complete the work.
An LPW Lumber employee said
the company currently buys quality
pine timber for supply lumber at
more than $100 per 1000 board
feet. Based on industry averages,
20 pine trees measuring 10 inches
by 22 feet might net the seller $100
to $150, depending on the quality
of the trees.
The number of trees taken from
Jones’ five acres is not known.
Another subdivision resident
Robin Hanson told the Advertiser
Tuesday, “It’s terrible. And it’s in
violation of the deed restric-
tions...He’s just plain selling (the
trees).”
Subdivision deed restrictions
read, “It is specifically agreed that
lot owners shall not...cut, sell or
remove timber other than
necessary for the construction of
residential and associated im-
provements upon the property and
Advertiser Photo/Sherri Baker Bryant
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Property owner Roy Jones said he “select cut” these pines from
his five-acre tract in the KC estates. Other property owners say
he has violated subdivision restrictions against cutting the timber.
as may be necessary for the
reasonable use, upkeep, and
maintenance of the property.”
Deed restrictions are binding for
25 years, according to Jones’
general warranty deed, dated
December 2, 1987.
“If developers and the local
community don’t do something, I
think this will happen over and
over,” Hanson said.
“This forest is an ecological
jewel; it’s Bastrop’s claim to fame,
and for it to be abused is a real
travesty,” Hanson continued.
She said a number of Jones’
neighbors were upset about the tree
Continued on Page 2
BISD approves new
policy on discipline
After a year of emotional con-
frontations between school officials
and parents over Bastrop School
District’s discipline policy, trustees
accepted changes to it at Tuesday’s
board meeting.
Board President Verlin Callahan
stressed to administrators present
that “implementation is important.
We need to review the handbook
with principals and administiators
so there is an understanding...Let’s
make sure that all concur.”
At earlier board meetings, the
Concerned Parents Coalition, a
group of approximately 40 parents
represented by Barbara Franco,
demanded review of the school’s
discipline policy.
CPC members said ad-
ministrators punished students in-
appropriately for minor offenses.
Some of the parents withdrew their
children from the Bastrop district.
Trustees asked for an investiga-
tion of the parents' charges. When
Interim Superintendent Ronald
Landrum reported on the investiga-
tion, CPC members challenged the
report’s accuracy.
Landrum recommended trustees
name a committee including CPC
spokeswoman Franco to review the
school’s discipline plan and recom-
mend changes. The board also ask-
ed the committee to conduct a
survey of parents.
Continued on Page 2
5 charged with cattle theft
Five men from the Elgin area
have been indicted for theft of 14
cattle near FM 1704 over a period
of six months.
The replacement heifers belong-
ing to Ricky Belz were taken in two
hsd|hes, Nov. 29 last year and
April 19 this year, and sold at the
Lockhart Livestock Auction, said
Bastrop County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment Investigator Jim Burnett.
The suspects were charged in
separate indictments handed up by
Bastrop County grand jurors last
week against Marlon Johnson,
Stephen Jones of Rt. 1 Box 102,
Elgin, Jarvis L. Mitchell, Clifton
Mcdonald of Rt. 1 Box 719, Elgin
and Scott Owens of Rt , 4, Box 156,
Elgin.
All five are free on bail.
Stephen Jones was charged in a
separate indictment for an October
6, 1989 burglary of the Dianne
Storer residence. Jones posted
$10,000 bail on the burglary
charge.
Clifton McDonald, 29. was also
charged separately with burglariz-
ing the Steven Storer residence and
posted $7,500 bail on that charge.
Investigator Burnett said the cat-
tle theft investigation was aided by
officials of the CaldwSll County
Sheriffs Department and Lockhart
Livestock Auction.
Belz, the victim, was able to
identify as his the cattle sold at the
auction barn, Burnett said.
In an unrelated livestock case,
two Bastrop County men were or-
dered to stand trial for allegedly
stealing 10 pigs from Otis Walker
near Bluebonnet Acres subdivision
May 3.
Reginald D. Jones of Rt. 1. Lot
6, Cedar Creek and Greg Younger
of 122 Fisher St., Elgin were
named in separate indictments.
Jones was released on $5,000 bail.
Younger is free on $15,000 per-
sonal bond.
Burnett said the pigs were also
sold through the Lockhart auction
barn.
In other indictments returned by
grand jurors last week:
♦Priscilla Augustine of Austin
and Scott Hampton Wright were
ordered to stand trial for the Feb.
11 knife point robbery of Felipe
Ramirez Adame. Both suspects are
being held under $25,000 bail.
♦Jesse James Husemann of
McDade was indicted for aggrivat-
ed assault for allegedly shooting
Michael Lawhon on April 22.
Husemann is free on $7,500 bail.
♦Roy Solis Jr. and Armando
Soto were named in separate indict-
ments for the April 18 burglary of
the Lucille Delgadillo residence.
*John Swartz, 19, of Rt. 3,'36A
Eskew Lane, Cedar Creek and
James Len Tabor, 19, of Rt. 3 Box
263E, Bastrop were charged in
separate indictments with the May
2 burglary of the Ken Robinson
residence and the May 11 burglary
of a building belonging to Don
Constance. Both are free on bonds
totaling $9,000 each.
Fire danger’s soaring
in Bastrop County area
Fire crews stand vigil, ready for
inevitable calls as the grass dries,
humidity drops and grass fires ex-
plode randomly around Bastrop
County each day.
Texas Forest Service crews
answered 12 fire reports since June
13, according to District Manager
Hugo Koenning. On Tuesday after-
noon by 2 p.m., four more fires
were sparked in Bastrop County-
two off Texas 95, one in the Lake
Bastrop Recreational area, and one
off Texas 21, TFS employees
reported.
Four to six separate fires dotted
the railroad right-of-way south of
Elgin June 16 when a brake on a
passing train overheated, throwing
sparks into the dry grass, fire of-
ficials reported.
Bastrop Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, Elgin VFD, Lake Bastrop
Acres VFD and two Texas Forest
Service crews and an airplane
worked on the Saturday fire which
started at 12:30 p.m. north of
Sayers Road, according to Bastrop
Fire Chief Mike Fisher.
Fisher said he has had a
^bulldozer crew on standby since
June 14, and they will remain on
standby each afternoon “until we
get rain.”
He noted there has been at least
one fire every afternoon and
sometimes as many as t\yo or three
since humidity fell below 40 per-
cent last week.
A graph in Fisher’s office ad-
vises “caution” when humidity
drops below 40 and winds are 8 to
10 miles per hour. When winds are
beyond 15 miles per hour, the
graph warns “extreme danger,”
Fisher notes.
Koenning, who has two TFS
crews on standby, said the Bastrop
. area has had no significant rain in
seven or eight weeks. Fires that
were burning slowly two weeks
ago “are now running on us,” he
said.
“We want to discourage people
from outdoor burning,” he em-
phasized, and said the upcoming
July 4th celebrations could be “a
real problem.”
A 19-year Forest Service
veteran, Koenning said this is the
earliest fire season he has ex-
perienced. Remarking on the
previous dry year, he shrugged,
“We never got much of a break.
Mid-March to mid-May was our
green season, and now we’re back
into (dry weather).”
In Bastrop, Fisher noted that
fires pop up in dry windy weather
from burning cigarettes, careless
trash burning, and even through the
magnifying effects of glass bottles
in the dry grass. “Without rain,
we’re really going to have major
fires,” he said.
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Bastrop County Sheriff Con Kiersey, left, led county officials including County Judge
Jimmy Copeland, Commissioners Elaine Seidel and Pat Meuth, Auditor Jim Wither and
Jail Administrator Robert Cook on a tour of the nearly complete jail Monday.
Junkyards debated
County readopts license, fee regulations
ing), but the ordinance was never es, but firms already in operation
written. We’re doing now what we can continue to do business,
thought was done in the past.” Other regulations require screen-
“We live next to a junk yard be- ing junkyards from public view and
ing made,” said Yvonne Valdez, abatement of vermin or other
“and we don’t want it. We don’t health hazards, Smith said,
want a junk yard next door.” Commissioners said the health
and sanitation office will enforce
The licensing law, adopted the new county regulations which
unanimously, gives the county
some control over the location of
new junk or salvage yard business- Continued on Page 2
During a public hearing Monday
on junkyard regulations, Bastrop
County officials said they can’t
help neighbors objecting to an auto
salvage yard going up near Wyld-
wood on Texas 71.
“We thought we had this co-
vered but we didn’t,” said county
sanitation officer L. C. Smith.
“We’ve goofed,” Smith said.
“Several years ago commissioners
court voted on it (junk yard licens-
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Bastrop ok’s
purchase
of 12 acres
Bastrop’s city council Tuesday
agreed to pay $60,000 for an un-
developed 12-acre site on north
Hill Street for a public works
storage facility.
The site adjoins Little League
playing fields on the east side of
Hill and includes an area suitable
for a detention pond which could
help retard the flow of storm water
runoff from the north and east, said
City Manager Henry Cunningham
Jr.
The purchase was negotiated
with Bastrop attorney Robert
Jenkins who owns the property
jointly with relatives.
Developing a new storage area
for road materials and equipment
for the electric and street depart-
ments will <jllow the city to con-
solidate facilities currently located
at the wastewater treatment plant
south of Texas 71 and the well field
on Loop 150 East, Cunningham
said.
Access for trucks delivering
asphalt, gravel and similar road
materials to the new storage site
will be from Texas 95 to help keep
heavy traffic off city streets, he
added.
Eventually the site will include
equipment storage sheds and office
space for the street and drainage
department, currently located at the
wastewater treatment plant.
In other business Tuesday the
council:
♦Set June 26 to consider a reso-
lution authorizing $1.5 million in
revenue bonds for city water sys-
tem improvements. Cunningham
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