The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1988 Page: 1 of 18
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The LLANO
Deer Capital of Texas
No. 25
Volume 97
Thursday, April 21,1988
18 Pages in 2 Sections
TSGRA district
meeting in Llano
Formation of merchant
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Zoning decision sent back; gas rate lowered
West expressed the
Absentee voting underway; ends May 3
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an added item on their ballot, either
for or against raising their ad
Name-calling and questions con-
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Absentee voting in city elections
are at the Llano utility office and
Sunrise Beach City Hall. Municipal
Utility Districts — Kingsland Lake
LBJ (Horseshoe Bay) and Llano
County No. 1 elections are at their
business offices.
The Llano American Legion will be
hosting the district convention be-
ginning Friday through Sunday.
April 22-24. according to Comman-
der Norman Stehling.
grandson’s wife could have a day
care center.
At the original zoning hearing, of
attend the council meeting, not the
zoning meeting. Aiderman Jimmy
Walker was also one of the neighbors
opposing the change and could not
vote on the issue.
Opponents cited such problems as
a dangerous intersection where few
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Sports, Baseball
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Church........
The event opens Friday at 6 p.m.
with a social hour at 6 p.m. followed
by games and a movie.
The. convention officially opens
Saturday with registration at 9 a.m.
and the first business meeting at 1
should go ahead and make a decision
regardless of the recommendation of
the zoning board.
The discussion came up in the
regular meeting of the city council
Monday night. It was based on a
request by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
project because he wanted to
Llano prosper and grow.
A short engineering report
Saturday, April 30 will mark the
second renewal of the Cecil Smith
Cup and Polo Reunion. The 20-Polo
game will be played near San Saba,
while the rest of the program will
take place at the Llano County
Museum where a portion of the
building has a complete display of
the polo accomplishments of Llano's
own Cecil Smith, a member of Texas
Sports Hall of Fame.
Smith and his teammates made
equar daactag. By Saturday, M moblle units had
checked Ito the ramping ana. This is Just part of the
crowd enjoying the Saturday night Hanre.
Absentee voting is now underway
for the May 7 elections for city,
school and municipal utility districts.
Voting began Monday, April 18 and
will continue through May 3.
Those wanting to vote absentee in
the school board race can vote at the
Llano Courthouse, County Clerk’s
office, and at the Kingsland Munici-
pal Utility District office in Kings-
land.
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p.m. From 5 to 6:30 p.m. will be
another social followed by a buffet
meal which will be attended by both
Legion and auxiliary members. A
country-western dance will begin at
8 p.m.
Sunday registration will be at 8
a.m. followed by a joint memorial
service at 8:30 a.m. Another busi-
ness session will begin at 9:30 a.m.
and continue until all business has
been completed.
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ted before the zoning board.
"I think we should send it back to
the zoning board for its reconsidera-
tion,’’ said alderman Leland Kassell.
"It’s quite obvious we are hearing
two completely different things."
Aiderman Jimmy Walker expressed
the opinion that the city council was
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The City of Llano Zoning Board
had made two recommendations for
rezoning two lots from residential to
commercial, but will have to rethink
their decision because of a delega-
tion that appeared in opposition to
one of the requests. None of the
opponents had appeared as reques-
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Pecan Spraying Time
By John Kuykendal
Pecans should be sprayed with foliar applications of zinc in the
spring to enhance growth and the production of large healthy leaves.
Research has shown that absorption of zinc is much greater in young
immature leaves. This is the reason for spring applications.
Either powdered zinc sulfate or liquid NZN can be used as a source
of zinc. Zinc sulfate should not be sprayed on fruit trees as it can
cause defoliation.
Early computer models of temperatures in this area indicate our
casebearer spray dates to be around May 15. Producers can watch the
newspaper or call the extension office for casebearer spray dates as the
time approaches.
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association considered
The need for a Llano Merchants Association will be discussed at a
meeting of local merchants, Tuesday, April 26 at 7 p.m. at the First
Federal Savings Community Room at 907 Ford Street.
All merchants of Llano are invited to attend and join in the
discussion of forming an association. Come prepared to make any
comment you may have regarding a future Llano Merchants
Association.
A merchants association will enable the merchants to organize and
work together to encourage shoppers from out-of-town; to help
promote shopping-at-home; to enable the merchants to capitalize on
special events (Bluebonnet Trail, July 4th, Llano rodeo and parade.
Boom Days, Santa’s Big Night in Llano, tourists traveling to and
through Llano to Enchanted Rock State Park etc.); to help unify the
shopping areas to make them more attractive and appealing to
shoppers and tourist; to help promote community unity and spirit; and
to promote Llano merchants.
If there are any questions call Bill Rinke at 247-4457, Dodie Vierus
at 247-5934 or LaNell Weber at 247-4902.
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people obeyed the stop sign, exces-
sive noise and the disturbance
caused by a day care center.
Kassell made a motion to send it
back to the zoing board, which was
seconded by Roy Goff. Joining them
in favor of the motion was alderman
Eugene Russell. Opposing the mo-
tion was aiderman Jeffrey Hopf with
Walker abstaining.
The other lot change from residen-
tial to commercial for a day care
center passed unanimously. This
was located at 1007 Cedar Street,
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new Llano River Channel Dam
project would cost city taxpayers
highlighted the "Town Meeting"
held last Thursday evening at the
Llano American Legion Hall. About
50 interested citizens attended the
two-hour affair.
An explanation of concerns about
the future water supply for Llano
came from Gene Fischer, who
backed the $60,000 engineering
study of the proposed Llano River
dam and from Jim Andrews, who
acted as moderator for the meeting
and said he was in favor of the
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Beef producers are reminded of the upcoming beef referendum.
The County Extension Office will serve as a voting place for the
referendum which will be held on May 10. Voting will be from 8 a.m.
until 5 p.m., and the office will be open over the noon hour.
Requests for absentee ballots can be obtained at the County
Extension Office, or at the Llano Livestock Auction Co.
cents. The increase would only be
one percent per year for the next five
years as the cost of operating the
police department would be trans-
ferred from the Property Owners
Association to Lake LBJ MUD. POA
fees would decrease an equal
amount until the funding transfer
would be completed five years from
approval of the voters.
Districts 7, 9 and 10 of the Texas
Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association
will meet Saturday, April 23, in the
Llano Community Center. Registra-
tion will begin at 9:30 a.m.; the
meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m.
Several local businesses will host
the meeting.
There will be two guest speakers at
the event: Jack Vick, a supervisor for
the Texas Employment Commission,
will speak on the issue of the HZ-A
program, which is concerned with
the employment of illegal aliens.
Topic of the talk by Dr. Lynne
McAnelly of the Texas Department
• ' -ofAzriculture will be "Patents for
the Genetic Engineering of Farm
Animals."
Also attending will be Senator Bill
Sims, executive secretary of the
association.
The public is invited, and members
of the association are urged to
attend.
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live. "We're not Gypsies. I’m not
ballyhooing anybody or a vigilante of
any sort," he said.
Bryan Miiller, chamber of com-
merce president, suggested that
alternate solutions might be studied,
such as piping water to Llano from
Lake Buchanan, a separate water
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valuation. The city has set next
year's rate at 7 cents because of the
one-half percent city sales tax
income which goes toward ad
valorem relief.
A home assessed at $50,000 in
Llano currently costs its homeowner
$93.75 in city texes; in 1989 the 7
cent rate would cause the tax to fall
to $35 a year; under the proposed 36
cent rate to construct the dam, the
yearly tax cost would jump to $180 on
that $50,000 home in the city.
During the question and answer
period, a citizen asked how long it
would take the third lake (new lake
formed by the new dam) to silt up.
No answer was available from the
engineer or others in attendance.
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made by consulting engineer Mack
Stoeltje of Austin, who said the new
dam would be designed to hold 664
acre feet of water and would just
about quadruple our current water
supply.
Brent Branham, a public finance
consultant from San Antonio, said
the anticipated $1.6 million project
could be financed in several ways
and suggested project bonds at
perhaps 8 percent and a 19-year pay
back at $166,912 annually, based on
an assessed city valuation of
$65,034,000.
This project would add 29 cents to
the 1989 city tax rate of 7 cents, for a
total of 36 cents.
The current city ad valorem tex for
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the 11 residents owning property
within 200 feet of the site, there was
only one who sent a letter of
objection. Based on this, the zoning
board went ahead with the recom-
mendation. At the council meeting,
five opposers showed up. Mada
TOWN MEETING — Mack Stoeltje, Austin engineer. Legion Hall. Onyeniver of the meeting. Gene Fischer, la
explains the good points of the Llano River dam she in the foreground.
during last week’s town meeting at the American
polo history that has yet to be
matched. He earned a handicap of 10
goals which he maintained for a
25-year period.
Contending for the Cecil Smith
Cup on the Tommy Lee Jones Ranch
will be the same two teams that
battled last year. For the Llano side
will be Cecil’s son, Charles Smith,
who was high scorer last year.
Charles’ son Matt, who got the
winning goal last year, will be joined
by Bill Walton of Fort Worth and
Tom Goose.
The San Saba squad will include
Tommy Wayman as captain, who has
an eight-goal handicap; Stewart
Armstrong and Joseph Fitzsimmons
of San Antonio along with host
Tommy Lee Jones. The polo game is
by invitation only, to which Jones
added, "Everybody gets invited.”
As a result, more than 800 showed
up for the first game. Trophies are
provided by Jack Love of Llano.
After the game, all will return to
Llano for the barbecue and recep-
tion. Proceeds from the party go to
the museum. Entertainment in-
cludes the demonstration of basic
polo shots with music provided by
the Llano High School band.
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Llano is 1875 cents per $100 Philip Smith, a native of Llano,
then said that he felt our elected city
council could make the necessary
decisions about our water and not
leave those decisions to outsiders
and newcomers who seemed to be
"ballyhooing us and by a vigilante
sort of thing."
Andrews retorted that he and his
family had chosen Llano in which to
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1988, newspaper, April 21, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585902/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.