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The council authorized city mana-
ger George Rogers to come up with
bids for the painting of the interior
and exterior of the 100,000 gallon
water tank on Llano's northeast side.
In the only other business. Rogers
updated the council on park im-
provements. Paving has been com-
pleted and work is now underway on
the hike and bike trail. The next
major project is the playground, and
it is hoped they can substitute pipe in
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vice chalrman, Bart Larremere; tremsurer, Mandy
Hardim; chakrman, Cemtney Oebourm; reporter, B.J.
Hardin; secretary, Jeff Kuykendal and guest speaker
by probating men guilty of rape,
sexual abuse of children and drug
dealers. He also found fault with the
management of the court, specifi-
cally civil cases.
Llano County Attorney, L.T. Des
Champs. questioned what his posi-
tion would be if new district lines
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now underway
Absentee voting in person began
Wednesday, October 19 at the
Llano County Courthouse and
also the Highland Lakes Bank in
Kingsland. Absentee voting will
continue through November 4.
according to County Clerk Her-
man Raesener.
"From all indications, there will
be a heavy turnout this election,”
Raesener said Tuesday morning.
"To date, I have mailed out about
225 requests for ballots. In person
voting starts Wednesday.”
Voters are reminded to bring
their voter registration card when
voting.
Highlighting the ceremony will be
the unveiling of the marker by
longtime Acme employee Janet
• Hackworth. New owner Gene Chol-
lett will read the marker.
grant funds along with other cities
with similar projects. The Texas
Department of Commerce apparen-
tly will decide which city is most
deserving of the available funds for
such improvements.
arrive Tuesday
Free government commodities
of milk, butter and flour will
arrive in Llano County, Tuesday,
October 25. The distribution sites
are Llano Senior Citizens 1:30 to
2:30, Kingsland Lion’s Club 10
a.m., Tow Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment 10:30 and Buhanan Dam
Volunteer Fire Department 2
p.m.
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No burning will be allowed; ground
water will have to be monitored; gas
probes will have to be installed as
well as drainage controls. Even if a
dump should be closed, its condition
will have to be monitored for 30
years.
State and federal landfill opera-
tions will be exempt, according to
the report.
speaker, Eric Zimmerman, president
of District 7 4-H Council.
Gold Star Bay
The 1988 Gold Star Boy is Will
Larremore of the Prairie Mountain
4-H‘Club. Will is the 16-year-old son
By Walter L. Buckner
Long-time Llano County resident
and family doctor, Dr. Henry J.
Hoerster of Llano, 83, died Monday.
October 17.
"Dr. Henry" as he was affection-
ately called by a host of friends and
patients was buried Wednesday,
October 19, 1988 in the Llano City
Cemetery. The funeral was held at
Lutie Watkins United Methodist
Church with Dr. John Gibbs officia-
ting.
Dr. Henry was born February 8,
1905 in the Art community in Mason
County to Henry Hoerster and the
former Amelia Leifeste. He married
Estella Zesch April 26, 1933 in St.
Paul Lutheran Church in Mason.
The doctor came to Llano after
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State Representative Anne Cooper
will give the dedication address and
Llano historian Sarah Franklin will
read a history of The Acme. Ross
Bauman, Llano County Commission-
er and a history buff, will be master
of ceremonies and will introduce
special guests. The Rev. John Gibbs
will give the benediction.
An’ open house will follow the
Saturday morning ceremony and
everyone is cordially invited to
attend.
Another cause for the loss was
identified as a 15 percent drop in
in-patient numbers, that is, the
number of patient days over the
previous year. On the other hand,
out-patient service has increased
nearly 27 percent and according to
most recent figures is continuing to
increase.
The directors carefully reviewed all
of the bad debts and specifically
of Gary and Jeanie Larremore, and
he is a junior at Llano High school.
Will has served as an officer in the
Cloverleaf, junior high and Prairie
Mountain 4-H Clubs. He has been
4-H Council vice-chairman and a
representative to District 4-H Coun-
cil.
Will has had projects in beef,
swine, and foods and nutrition. He
has exhibited livestock in the Llano
County Junior Livestock Show and in
major shows at San Antonio, Hous-
ton and Fort Worth.
Will was on the senior rifle team
that competed at the district level
last year, and he has been in the
share-the-fun contest at Texas 4-H
Roundup for the past two years with
the Llano County team. He has
attended District 4-H Camp at the
Texas 4-H Center, Cloudcroft, New
Mexico, and at Fort Davis, Texas.
This past summer. Will was a
delegate to Texas 4-H Congress in
Austin, participating in legislative
sessions with the 4-H legislature.
Will has always been a willing
worker at fundraising events and
(See 4-H, Page A-14)
graduating from the University of
Texas Medical School in Galveston in
1931.
Dr. Hoerster is survived by his wife
and a son, Jay Hoerster, of Llano. A
sister. Mrs. Dessie Millington, lives
in Bastrop. There are a number of
nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers included Dan Hoers-
ter, David Hoerster. Jimmy Hoer-
ster, Jerry Hoerster and Skipper
Martin. Honorary pallbearers were
Mick Dalchau, Charles Ratliff, Idus
Flowers, Wilburn Oatman, Tom
Harrison. John Pearson. Dr. Charles
Klanke. Bill Williams, Carlos Ash-
ley, Sr., Russell Osborn and Henry
Buttery.
Dr. Henry was a member of Lutie
Watkins United Methodist Church in
The Llano County 4-H achieve-
ment banquet was held Saturday,
October 15. Highlights of the event
included recognition of Gold Star
Boy, Friend of 4-H and outstanding
leader. County and year pin awards
were also made.
Courtney Osbourn was chairman
of the meeting, which had the 4-H
motto, pledge of allegiance and
prayer led by B.J. Hardin. Jeff
Kuykendall, 4-H secretary introdu-
ced guests, along with the guest
would be drawn. Jones pointed out
there would not be an redistricting
decisions until 1992 and the legisla-
ture would handle the problem.
Sheriff Gale Ligon gave the shortest
presentation, accenting his 24 years
of service, adding, "I think I have
made a good sheriff. If the time ever
comes when I think I can’t do the job,
I will step aside. I enjoy the work and
I am sure I can continue to do the job
in the future.
Republican challenger Tom Hall
took more time to expound his
qualifications and his plans if
elected. He cited more training for
officers; hands on supervision by the
sheriff; refinement of the budget and
establishment of a good maintenance
program.
"Crime prevention is my pet pro-
ject." Hall said.
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tion of some of the equipment.
Rogers also read a letter detailing
some of the changes coming in the
next 18 months for sanitary landfills
(dumps) and predicted that Llano, as
well as many other communities,
will be seriously hurt by what it will
cost in the future for having a landfill
operation.
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The last of a three-part series of
public meetings sponsored by PLAN
(Protect Llano Area Needs) was held
Tuesday, October 11, in the Llano
County courthouse in a nearly filled
district courtroom. Guest speakers
were candidates for election in Llano
County who were each given 15
minutes to express their own points
of view, followed by a 10-minute
question and answer session from
the public.
Opening the meeting was Jim
Rowe, the new president of PLAN
who then turned the meeting over to
Phil Parmer, who acted as the
mediator. The audience was Instruc-
ted to identify themselves first and
then select the candidate they
wanted to answer any question.
Candidates for three races were
invited. They included the 33rd
District Judge, Llano County Judge
and Llano County Sheriff. Introduced
but not participating were Commis-
sioner of Precinct 3, Rex King and
challenger J.T. Dotson. They did not
particiapte since none of the Llano
voters would be participating in the
Precinct 3 (Kingslangfelection.
Jackson Jones, Republican challen-
ger against Disfict Judge Clayton
Evans had the floor all to himself.
Evans was reported to be too ill to
participate. Jones challenged Evans’
record, calling it "alarming” and
saying he wouldn't be running if he
thought Evans was doing a good job.
He contended that Evans was not
exercising “community conscience”
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Llano. He was a charter member of
the Llano Lions Club, a longtime
member of the Llano Chamber of
Commerce, Llano Golf Club and was
named to the Llano Hall of Fame in
1979. He was a member of the
American Academy of Family Physi-
cians. He was past president of the
Tri-County Medical Society. He was
an avid sportsman, golfer and bird
hunter.
He served in the U.S. Medical
Corps during World War II in the
Philippines.
An article in the Austin American
September 27, 1976, by Kay Powers
describes Dr. Henry as a “country
doctor” who likes practicing medi-
cine in a small town like Llano. “He
likes the size,” the article says,
“Likes getting around conveniently,
likes the lack of parking problems,
the pleasure of first-naming just
about everyone he sees, in or out of
his office.”
The article goes on to say:
Still vivid in his mind is the time in
1935 when the bridge over the Llano
River went out. All the town's
doctors happened to be on the south
side of the river, and when an
emergency call went out for help on
the north side of the river, Hoerster
was the one who climbed into a boat
and inched his way across the raging
torrent while clinging to an overhead
cable.
While everything in those “good
old days" wasn't good, a whole lot of
it was, Hoerster says. “The most
rewarding thing to me is the fact that
you can practice medicine here for
three generations and still retain the
close association — prescribing for
the oldster in the family even as you
are taking care of his grandchil-
dren."
The physician admits, almost gruf-
fly, that he still makes house calls,
although he’d just as soon people
didn't know that. "When you have
known some of these people as long
as I have, you can't really turn them
down, not if that’s the only way
they’ll get to see the doctor.”
What would Dr. Henry Hoerster
say to any young doctor who might
inquire about practicing today in
Llano?
"I'd tell him the truth — that if he
wanted to work and be dedicated in
that work, there’s no finer place to
be,” he replies.
Llano is a better place to live, to
work, and to be a part of because of
Dr. Henry J. Hoerster — we shall all
miss him.
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The Llano Memorial Hospital
board of governors with three county
commissioners present received a
“clean audit,” which showed that
the hospital was keeping good
records. Presenting the audit was
Cass Sansom who went into fine
detail of every facet of the audit.
A loss of $44,000 in earnings for the
past year was described more as a
"book loss” with much of it being
o through depreciation. The EMS
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'Dr. Henry' dies
In the question and answer
session, Frank Aaron of Kingsland
went into fine detail with some of the
problems he had been having in
Kingsland, contending the sheriff’s
department, particularly Deputy
Kenneth Poe failed to follow through
on his complaints. Both Ligon and
Hall pointed out basic procedures
(See DEBATE, Page A-14)
earmarked some for legal action.
During the month of September, the
profit margin was $4,500 which cut
the overall deficit for the fiscal year
to $28,000.
"We are in much better shape than
last year at this time," said
administrator James Alexander.
“The fiscal year begins at our
slowest time of the year. Last year at
this time the deficit was $43,000.”
The county has approved the
purchase of a new modular ambu-
lance for the EMS but has requested
holding off on the purchase until
more taxes have been collected.
The agenda called for an executive
session, but none was held.
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Cematy Cemaunity Center had this group preelding
over varlous pertloms ef the meetlug. From the left are:
A Texas historical marker for The
Acme Dry Goods Co. will be
unveiled during ceremonies Satur-
day, October 22, beginning at 10
a.m. at the store on historic
Courthouse Square in downtown
Llano.
service reportedly accounted for
about $20,000 of the loss, even with a
$6,000 a month subsidy from the
county. It was pointed out the service
was trying to be operated on a
break even basis.
With only a six-point agenda, it took
the city of Llano council less than an
hour to wrap up business and head
home. The only vote came on a
resolution for a Texas Development
Program application to be sent to the
■ Texas Department of Commerce.
The purpose is to obtain a grant for
construction of new sewage lines for
the northeast portion of the city. The
city’s share of the project would be
$37,500 and the city penned in the
requirement that it be paid through
in-kind labor and equipment. The
city has no desire to come up with
cash for their share of the project.
The application does not mean the
city will automatically get a grant for
the project. It does mean that the city
is now placed in competition for
DEBATE TIME - Standing at the podium with presentations and ware in the question and answer
moderator Phil Palmer is Democratic Llano County session. A good crowd turned oat for the last debate,
Judge W.R. (Bill) Miller and Republican challenger sponsored by PLAN.
Howard Coleman. Both men had completed their
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1988, newspaper, October 20, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585772/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.