The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 85, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1992 Page: 1 of 31
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Basketball Results:
Taylor 67 Del Valle 56 I 1
Bastrop 56 Elgin 53 OT
Liberty Hill 62
Lady Tigers 32
See Pages 14-16
Banks hold annual
festive open houses
See Pages 8, 9
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Vol. 139, No. 85
Texas* Oldest Weekly Newspaper
Since March 1, 1853
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Bastrop, Texas
Thursday, December 24,1992
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Valve fails, BASTROP’S
pipe breaks
in Bastrop
A broken water main in
Bastrop Monday evening sent a
gyser shooting into the air in
Alley A and cut water pressure to
businesses and homes west of the
Colorado River for more than an
hour.
City officials blamed the inci-
dent on the failure of a pressure
reducing valve at the intersection
of Texas 95 and Mesquite Street.
The valve’s failure sent
pressure soaring on lines at lower
elevations in the city and caused
the failure of a 40-year-old eight
inch line which feeds Bastrop’s
west bank business and residen-
tial area, said Mike Fisher, direc-
tor of water and wastewater.
A more widespread result of
Monday’s incident was the ap-
pearance of brown-stained water
across the city early Tuesday.
Water crews spent much of the
day flushing discolored water
from the system by opening fire
hydrants.
By early afternoon the problem
appeared largely under control, if
not entirely eliminated, said
Fisher.
He blamed the valve problem
on lack of maintenance.
Because of their critical role in
regulating water pressure bet-
ween elevated storage facilities
on Loop 150 East and lower eleva-
tions in Bastrop, the valves should
be inspected daily, said Fisher.
See WATER, p. 2
Police recover
stolen vehicle
By E. Perez, Jr.
Special to the Advertiser
A 37-year-old Giddings man
was arrested in Smithville Dec. 15
on multiple charges after he was
seen driving a stolen car.
Lonnie Ray Greene of Giddings
was arrested on warrants from
Lee and Brazos County as a result
of actions by a Smithville
patrolman.
According to Police Officer Jeff
Daugherty, who made the arrest,
he saw a vehicle in Smithville just
before midnight. Daugherty said
See ARREST, p. 2
By Don Trepagnier
Special to the Advertiser
Freedom is just another word
to Cubans Miguel Hernandez and
Jose Valdez. Both remain locked
up in the Bastrop County Justice
Center.
But there may be a ray of hope
on the horizon.
Two things could help
free Miguel and Jose and many of
their 50 fellow Cuban inmates
held in the county jail by the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service, according to Atlanta,
Georgia legal aid lawyer Gary
Leshaw.
“President elect Bill Clinton
could soften relations toward
Cuba and Cuban detainees, or
(Cuban leader) Fidel Castro
could die,” Leshaw said.
The Cubans are actually
prisoners of the president under
a 1798 law that says aliens may,
at the discretion of the president,
be detained or expelled from the
country.
The new administration could
decide it won’t detain Cubans any
longer and release them in the
United States. Or if Castro dies a
new Cuban government could ac-
cept the 1980 Mariel boat lift peo-
ple back, making it possible for
the U.S. to deport them.
Short of something of the kind
taking place, many Cubans will
likely remain locked up with no
due process rights, viewed as “ex-
cluded aliens,” and the United
States will continue to pay
Bastrop County $38 a day to house
each prisoner that INS considers
“not here,” according to lawyer
Leshaw.
While INS detainee Valdez was
old enough to know he would be
a traitor when he left Cuba in 1980
at age 16 to join 125,000 other
Cubans who fled the island that
year, his motive was more per-
sonal than political. He wanted to
be with his mother who left Cuba
a month before him.
Neither he nor Miguel Her-
nandez, who was 11 when he
came to the U.S., could have
known they would be spending
Christmas this year in a Bastrop
jail cell, caught in a political
crossfire between communism
and democracy.
Miguel and Jose are convicted
felons who have served out their
sentences in state prisons and
have been released for good
behavior. Miguel was released by
Florida and Jose by Texas.
But instead of being free again,
both were detained by the INS.
which can hold them indefinitely.
See CUBANS, p. 5
Bastrop teen turns in jewelry trove
City council
vows to pave
road to plant
By Davis McAulay
Editor
Advertiser Photo/Patty Green
With Christmas rapidly approaching, downtown Bastrop was aglow with gay holiday lights outlin-
ing historic buildings and spanning Main Street.
Cubans in jail
New plans hint at hope for future freedom
Bastrop’s city council formally
pledged Tuesday to carry out
street and drainage work sought
by owners of a proposed elec-
tronics assembly plant near
Texas 95.
Tuesday’s action confirmed
committments voiced by Mayor
David Lock and other council
members earlier this year at an
unposted meeting with Bastrop
native Zeke Jackson, owner of
NavCom.
The council acted in the
absence of information about the
possible cost of opening a section
of Fayette Street to the former
Lower Colorado River Authority
steelyard.
“I’d hate to guess” what the
work might cost, said Public
Works Director Marvin
Patterson.
City Manager JoAnn Wilcoxen
said Jackson wants a binding
committment to complete the
road work by September 1995
before formally closing the land
transaction with LCRA on Dec.
28.
Only Council Member Tommy
Goode voiced doubt about the ci-
ty’s committment.
“I disagree with paving Fayette
within two years for anybody,”
Goode said. “In the future, yes.
But in two years?”
The council readily agreed with
two additional Jackson requests.
•lb maintain a drainage ease-
See NAVCOM, p. 2
A 13-year-old Bastrop boy found
and turned in a bag of what
sheriff’s investigators believe
may be stolen jewelry.
Daniel Robert Kincheloe of
Thhitian Village found the bag
. Sunday afternoon near Alele
Classified......................p. 2(1 Street, according to Bastrop
Coming Up......................p. a County Sheriff’s Investigator
Deaths................. p. i Earl Pence, and turned it over to
Letters...........................*p. 4 Bastrop County authorities.
People...........................p. id “We’re hoping somebody will
Religion.........................p. 1a come *n anc* describe to us what
Spirts .........................p J jewelry they may have lost,” said
The investigator said he will
ask people who come in to first
describe jewelry they have lost. If
it matches any of the items found,
they will be returned.
There are watches, a jewelry
box, bracelets, ear rings,
necklaces and four coin collec-
tor’s books.
Among the items found with
names inscribed are:
• A charm bracelet with
charms for Jason, Sandra, Carl,
Kathy and two pictures of young
children.
• A charm with the name
“Nanny.”
•A charm inscribed with “Ebb
tide” and “Kiva 68.”
The origin of the items is uncer-
tain although Pence suspects that
burglars who were working in the
Tahitian Village area may have
ditched the goods.
“I think we got too close to
somebody and they stashed it,”
he said.
Individuals who believe they
may have items among those
found car. contact the sheriff’s
office.
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Adwrtiser PhottVE. Perez, Jr.
Woric on Bastrop’s Northeast Drainage Project, now moving south
from Mesquite Street, will halt this week until after Jan. 1, the
city council learned Tuesday.
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