Bastrop Advertiser and Bastrop County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [118], No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1971 Page: 1 of 8
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"ONE MAN'S
MEAT"
By J. Troy Hickman
WHY DON'T I U'ltlTK
A ROOK?
When one of my friends wants
In moke me feel g'xid, lie may
say, "Why don't you write a
Ixxik?" I am always flattered
I thank him for being kind. Then
I explain why I am not now
planning to write a hook.
One or two were kind enough
to suggest that perhaps the best
of the "One Man's Meat" series
might just no as a book I doubt
it. With a book manuscript, you
aim cither at a local market, or
you dare to buck a national
market.
In the local ease, you have to
depend for purchasers mostly
upon your friends Which puts an
undue strain on friendship Or, if
you aspire to the big market, you
compete with real columnists like-
Art Huchwald, Krma Bromheck,
Buckley, Alsop, and a raft of
other very competent profession-
als. 1 am naive, but not that
much, to think I could make it
in this league.
Being a preacher is about the
only thing I know much about:
and I have spells of wondering
whether I know much about thai
Anyhow, would a book called,
"Reminiscences Of a Small Town
Preacher" hold ils own against
"All You've Wanted To Know
About Sex, But Were Afraid To
Ask"? If you walked into a book
store with a five dollar bill to
spend for a Ixxik. and you saw
these two titles, which would you
buy? Answer that, and you will
know why I am not trying to
write a Ixxik.
Next conies the publishing
problem Publishers somehow feel
that they must make some money
on a Ixxik They would like to
do some good in the world by
publishing nice books at a loss,
but they have to eat. So few
publishers are looking for manu-
scripts such as 1 would be likely
to produce, "unless." The condi-
tion, which comes back in small
print when you answer the "Man-
uscripts Wanted For Publication"
ad, is that the writer assume the
whole cost for the first printing.
Mosl of the In*ik.s you have seen
were written by a friend's bright
nephew "who always had a flair
for the literary", were paid for
by the nephew, or more likely
by his better-heeled kin And
Aunt Josey's volume of her own
poems were paid for, or sold by,
Aunt .loscy and her friends and
neighbors I am afraid to put my
friendship to such a test.
And I don't want to become a
salesman for my own hook, not
even for a few weeks or months.
If 1-ady Bird had to have auto-
graph parties to sell her book,
having had the advantage of be-
ing the wife of a recent Presi-
dent. what kind of salesman
would I have to be for a book
by a parson?
As the prospective author of
a book. I hang up on a third
stump, — I can't be sure today
what I will believe tomorrow,
or by the time the I took would
come out I am constantly revis-
ing my estimate of past events,
bewildered about fast-changing
present events, and not too clear
about the future. So. what would
I say in my book 1 I might be
like the designer of a new air-
craft llis creation was on the
designing boards, when he rushed
in and stopped the project in
midflight. saying, "Stop the
wheels, Ixiys The thing is already
obsolete!"
Nevertheless, at some lime in
the future, as yet undetermined,
and if the I/ird lets me keep
what health and mind I have,
and if enough friends keep sue
gesting that I write a book, and
if enough pixiple keep on being
careless about what they spend
their Ixxik money for. — well,
who knows? I jus! might try
sometime to write a book
We are complicated creatures,
aren't we? A friend of mine
used to say. "When someone lie-
gins to .state all the reasons why
be is not going to do something. -
watch out. for he is about to
do it!"
If I do write that hook, the
family may find it useful in un-
expected ways. The manuscript
would tie about ten or twelve in
cites thick. When it was relumed
ftt.rn the Inst publisher, tied up
in a bundle with twine, dog-
eared front handling, our chil
dren could use it for a door slop
lite grandchildren would see it
and be impressed by the fact that
their grandpa once "wrote a
book."
ON TOUH IN EUROPE
Dr. and Mrs. C. (i. Goddard
Icfl Saturday. June 111, to join
a group for a three-week tour
overseas which will take them
to England, Franc?, Italy, Switz-
erland, Germany and Holland.
They expect to return early
in July.
jVVM"I >
Smith Lauds Efforts of
Area Planning Council
AND BASTRDP COUNTY NEWS
ESTABLISHED MAIM.11 1, 1X53
BASTROP I TEXAS i ADVER'IISER, JUNF 21. 1971
NUMBER 17
Haynie Chapel Church To
Have 132nd Anniversary
The Haynie Chapel United
Methodist Church will celebrate
ils 132 Anniversary and Home-
coming on Sunday. June 27. with
the Rev Bishop O Eugene Slater
delivering the sermon at the 10
o'clock morning service. The oc-
casion will be in memory of the
Reverend John Haynie, founder
of the church in 1839 and its
first pastor, according to the
Rev. A.sa Avant, present pastor.
Assisting in the service will be
Dr. John Donaho and all of the
former pastors who are present
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
the Rev. Walter Haynie, great,
great grandson of Ri verend John
Haynie, will preach the sermon.
Mrs Jatne.s Shuffield will assist
with thi' music for lioth services.
'Hie descendants of Reverend
John Haynie, former pastors,
former and present members and
interested friends are expected to
attend
A covered dish dinner will be
served in the Fowler Annex fol-
lowing the morning services.
A cordial invitation has been
extended by Mrs E. W Schuli
mann. chairman of the invitation
committee, to everyone to attend
this day of celebration.
Auction To
Operate In
New Facilities
Thursday, June 24, will be the
grand opening of the new facil-
ities at the I.ockhart Livestock
Auction in Ixiekliart. The three
owners are Joe l.ee Kathman
of Bastrop, Kenneth Itiddle of
[.ockhart and Jimmy Schwertner
of Austin.
The auction barn is located
I mile south of Lockhart, High-
way 183. by the airixirt.
The new facilities consist ol
the following: completely air-
conditioned sale barn, snackbar,
steel pens, capacity— 1200 head
of cattle under shed, additional
pons for 000 head of cattle, 400
hogs under the shed, new 8 by
Iti Howe scales, four receiving
chutes.
llieir sales will be held every
Thursday, starting at 1 p. m.
Lockhart Livestock Auction is
bonded for your protection with
a bonded public weigher.
The owners cordially invite you
to come and visit the sale where
buyers and sellers meet. Also
bring your cattle or hogs to the
sale as they have plenty of buyers
for all classes of livestock.
Phones: 1 .ockhart 308-3478, 398-
9G15, or 398-2701 or in Bastrop
229-2304.
BISHOP O. EUGENE SI.ATF.lt
To Sponsor Lost
Pines Enduro
On July 11th
The Bastrop Jaycees will spon-
sor a Motorcycle Enduro Sunday,
July Uth Starting time is 9 a. m.
and the run will be started al the
American I-egion Hall.
An Euduro is basically an en-
durance run over a measured
course in which a rider tries to
maintain an average speed de-
spite obstacles which slow him
down and opportunities to exceed
the given average speed (usually
20 or 24 MPH). Riders are start-
ed in groups of four each minute
until all riders are out. Each
rider is, therefore, riding against
the clock rather than racing.
Riders times are taken at secret
cheek ixiints which nre usually
about fi-10 miles apart, The
checkers know what time the
rider is supposed to arrive from
the number on the rider's number
plate and helmet The course is
marked with cardboard arrows
and marking tape
Winners are scored by giving
each rider 1000 points at the
start and then substracting 1
point for each minute the rider
is late at a secret check and two
iKiints for each minute early
(Again to discourage sheer cross
country racing).
Most of an Enduro is run over
cow trails, up mountains, through
swamps and along power line
cuts Blessedly thrown in are n
f. w dirt roads and even a few
sections of paved road.
The challenge of Enduro riding
is to stay on time at all times.
All types of riders ride En-
duros, — doctors, lawyers, bank-
ers, construction workers, etc.
Anyone interested in watching
parts of the run may contact
Jimtnie Jones for information.
Elgin National
Bank President
Dies June 16
Funeral services for William
Howard Rivers III, 50. president
of the Elgin National Bank, were
held at 2 o'clock Saturday at the
Elgin Methodist Church, with the
Rev. Robert I. Blackwell officiat-
ing. Burial was in the Elgin
Cemetery under the direction of
Miller-New by Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Roy L. Tur-
ner, Francisco Vizcarra, Vernon
Smith, Kenneth Danklefs, Robert
Larson, James Bryant, Ray Ar-
bucklc Jr., and Galen Savage.
Honorary pallbearers named were
Lawson Rivers, Sid Davis, Otis
Schanhals, Ned Fails, J. T. White,
Eugene Pruess, Roy Rivers Jr.,
Wayland Rivera, Pat Daley and
Clem Boettcher.
Mr Rivers died Wcdnesduy
night. June 16, in a Hallettsville
hospital after suffering an ap
parent heart attack while attend-
ing it rodeo in that town.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Betty Timblin Rivers; his
mother, Mrs. Lucy B. Rivers;
three daughters, Mrs. Rebecca
Williams of Dallas, Mrs. Ruth
Rathbun of Houston and Jane
Rivers of Elgin; a son, Ed Rivers
of Elgin: a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth
Caudill. and one grandchild.
Mr Rivers was Ixirn on Jan-
uary 1, 1921, tile son of Mrs.
W II Rivers Jr. and the late
Mr. Rivers. A graduate of Elgin
High School and New Mexico
Military Institute in Roswell,
N M., he served with the U. S.
Air Force duting World War II,
and began his career with the
Elgin National Rank in January,
1941 He became president of the
bank in 1961
He was a member of the board
of stewards of the Elgin Molho-
dist Church, a director of the
South Texas Chamber of Com-
merce, a director of the Texas
and Southwestern Cattle Raisers
Association, a director of the
National Cutting Horse Associa
tion, a director of the Austin
Livestock Show and past presi-
dent of the Alamo Culling Horse
Association.
Past chairman of the third dis-
trict of the Texas Bankers Asso-
ciation. he was president of the
Central Texas Cutting Horse As-
sociation and a past president of
the Frontier Cutting Horse As-
sociation.
Lake Bastrop
Fishing Report
For Week Ending June 13
A lot of fine folks showed up
again this week for a few days
of camping fun at Lake Bastrop.
One of our regular fishermen,
Huff Smith of Luling. had a lot
of fun this weekend. He caught
7 carp weighing 13 pounds.
Buster Sohnefer of Austin and
sons, Ken and Dale, didn't leave
Like Bastrop disappointed. They
had a string of 11 catfish and
one 3'.i pound bass.
Steve Hinojosa and Larry Cox
Bastrop Boys
Go To Camp
Hoblitzelle
To Conduct Tour
This Saturday
The Directors of tlie Bastrop
County Soil and Water Conser-
vation District will conduct their
annual Conservation Tour on
Saturday, the 26th of June.
The group will meet at 3:00
p.m. at the Smithville City Hall
and the tour will Include var-
ious conservation practices of
row crops, fishpond development,
recreation facilities, and green-
house tomato production on the
Alvin Camp farm.
The tour will also Include visits
to business places in the city
of Smithville.
After the tour the group Is
invited to a barbecue supper
sponsored by the Smithville
Chamber of Commerce to be
held at the American legion Hall
at 7:30 p.m. All interested per-
sons are Invited to attend.
Wins State
Championship
At Rodeo
Karen Bennight placed first
in tlie barrel race at the State
Championship High School Hodeo
in Hallettsville last week, making
her state champion. Her time
for the overall average of three
runs by which the winner was
judged was 53.75. She received
a silver Nelson buckle engraved
with "State Championship High
School Kodeo. Hallettsville, Tex-
as."
Tills qualified her to compete
for the national championship to
be held August 2, in Twin Falls,
Idaho, when 24 states will take
part.
Karen is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice Bennight.
others from Bastrop riding in
the rodeo were Connie, Kobert
and Margie Frerich, whose par-
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Frerich.
If you listen to the baseball
fans, the problems of the world
can be solved on a baseball dia-
mond
For most young boys, the
arrival of summertime means
daydreaming about hiking, swim-
ming and horseback riding at a
summer camp, and for 2 boys
from Bastrop that dream is com-
ing true this summer at Tlie
Salvation Army's 370-acre Camp
Hoblitzelle.
The boys, sponsored by the
Bastrop Salvation Army Service
Unit Committee, are spending a
full week exploring the wonders
of camp life. They joined the
800 boys from 326 Service Unit
cities across Texas who are at-
tending one of the four Service
Unit camps.
Mrs. Thurba Smith, camp
chairman, said the youngsters
left by Greyhound on Sunday and
will return June 27.
Attending camp from Bastrop
are Larry Cox and Steve Hino-
josa.
"The camp offers boys this
camping experience tit no cost to
them, and most of these boys
would not otherwise have the op-
portunity to attend a summer
camp." said Mrs. Smith.
Camp Hoblitzelle, located seven
miles south of Midlothian, was
built through the generous gifts
of more than one hundred men
and women of Texas. Each year
approximately 3,500 people at-
tend one of the sixteen different
camp sessions.
The camp features a 25-acre
lake for fishing and boating.
Campers are boused in attractive
brick and redwood cabins and
enjoy well-prepared meals serv-
ed in the camp's own dining
room.
Activities vary from swimming,
sports and horseback riding to
crafts, games, Bible study and
worship sendees.
It's just like any boy ever
dreamed it would lie!
NOTICE
The Lost Pines Lumber Co.
will be closed June 28 through
July 5.
Gov Preston Smith recently
strongly endorsed the concept of
regional planning as the most
likely means tor l<x'al govern-
ments to kn p abreast of the
myriad problems and responsibili-
ties that they face. "There is a
growing necessity," Gov Smith
asserted, "for approaching com-
mon problems on an areawide
basis."
Speaking before the General
Assembly meeting of the Capital
Area Planning Council, the Gov-
ernor nob d that "needs and de-
mands ton iiK'al governments!
have changed so drastically in
recent years thai there is a need
for new methods of attacking
local problems.
"For this and other reasons,
we have found ourselves drawn
toward regionalism." Gov. Smith
said "Tlie need for comprehen-
sive planning: the need for co-
ordination and cooperation among
area governments; the increased
emphasis placed upon regional
organizations by the Federal
government: These ate all im-
portant reasons for regional plan-
ning organizations."
Smith noted that one of the
first programs he championed as
Governor in 1969 included pro-
visions of $1.3-million in State
financial support for regional
councils, adding that in the ses-
sion of the legislature just com-
pleted that same State support
was nearly tripled al Ins request
to some $3.2-million
"The State of Texas, after long
and careful consideration, has
encouraged the regional council
concept." the Governor observed.
"Tlie State has invested a signi
flcant amount of its resources to
aid these organizations in helping
local government perform its
many and varied tasks to satisfy
the demands of society, Texas
has probably the finest and most
comprehensive regional planning
statutes of any state in the na-
tion."
Asserting that Texas "has gone
the extra mile," the Governor
challenged the local government
representatives to insure the con-
tinued success and growth of the
concept of regional planning:
"Regional councils are not gov-
ernments. They are associations
of governments. As such, their
task is difficult and their path
largely unexplored. If regionalism
Plans Made For
Homecoming
Kiddie Parade
The Kiddie Parade will kick
off Bastrop's 25th Annual Home-
coming this year at 10 o'clock
Thursday morning. July 29, ac-
cording to Mrs. Jack Clark,
chairman. "Since this is the 25th
Anniversary of the United Na-
tions," Mrs. Clark said "Our
theme this year will be 'United
Nations' Mothers are encour-
aged to dress their children in
costumes or decorated float of
any of the countries that com-
prise the United Nations.
Entries in the parade should
be pro-registered, stating whether
the entry will be walking or rid-
ing (tryke, bike, etc., or horse-
back).
Registration deadline for the
Kiddie Parade is Wednesday,
July 28th, at 12 o'clock noon.
To pro-register your child,
please call one of the following
Mrs. Jack Clark. 229 3948; Mrs
Sonny l<ewis. 229-399!), or Mrs
Larry Mundine.
is to continue to grow, if local
government is to rely more and
more mi etxipera'ion and coordi-
nation through regionalism, then
it must be the decision of the
local governments themselves."
'Die Governor s address was the
keynote "f the Capital Area Plan-
ning Council meeting and bar-
beque which was held at the
San Gabriel Community Center
in Georgetown Attending were
some 350 city county government
officials and elected school board
personnel from the 10-counties
which comprise the CAPCO re-
gion Bastrop. Blanco, Burnet.
Caldwell, Fayette. Hays, l*ee,
Llano. Travis and Williamson.
Chairman of the Council is Bas-
trop County Judge Jack Griescn-
heck
Those from Bastrop attending
were County Judge Jack Grii sen-
beck. John Wieting. Mrs. Wilma
Wiley, Dr Neil R Gurwilz,
Charles Evans and Bill Maynard
Win State Title
In Tournament
In Abilene
Tommy Burse teamed with
Judson Wroe, Jr., of Ausvin to
win the doubles title in the 14-
and-under division of the Texas
Jaycee State Tennis Tournament
played in Abilene, June 17 - 18.
Tommy brought home a beauti-
ful trophy emblematic of hi steam
victory.
Despite the heat and having
to play almost the day long on
Friday, Burse went to the semi-
finals in singles also, and lost
after a 3 set match. His next
competition will probably be in
the Waco Open, July 2-5,
Annual High Grove
Homecoming Will
Be On July 4th
The annual High Grove Home-
coming will be held Sunday, July
4th, and everyone is cordially
invited to come out.
Lunch will be served at 12:30,
and all proceeds go for the bene-
fit of the High Grove Cemetery.
Homecoming In
Rosanky June 27
The Eleventh Annual Cemetery
Homecoming will be held in
l(osailky on Sunday, June 27, at
the Community Center.
Coffee, bread, tea and silver-
ware will be furnished. Visitors
are asked to bring their favor-
ite covered dishes. Donations will
be accepted.
"Kool Chicks" Are
Winners Again
The Rastrop "Kool Chicks"
continue their success. This time
they demolished a good Smith-
ville team by a resounding score
of 25 to 5.
Henrietta Houston struck the
first blow for the "Kool Chicks"
She hit a double and a triple to
kttrx'k In five runs Tlie whole
team was consistent at the plate.
The hitting was led by Ann Tipps
with 5 hits.
The "Kool Chicks'' will he on
the road this week. They played
Wednesday at San Marcos and
will play Friday at Luling and
Sunday at Taylor
The K<x)l Chicks record is 13
wins, 2 losses and 1 tie. Both
losses were by one run.
Life Is Dr. Betty Maynard's Research Laboratory
liy Mury llrinkvrlmtf
In The Dallas News
SMU's new sociology chairman,
silling at her office window in
I Iyer Hall, overlooks a green
scene all the way to Hillcrcst.
It's a view as open-ended ;ts her
field of study
Furthermore, Dr. Betty Janctte
Mavnntd says with true sociologi-
cal relish, in case of such cross-
campus action as a protest
march, she could watch all the
way
But good-looking, blond Dr.
Belly, one of three women cur-
rently heading SMU departments,
would likely he out mingling as
a participant observer, to Ihiitow
ine of her trade terms
For her, the frustration and the
fascination of six'tology stem front
one fact: You can't set up ex
lieriments with groups of people
in the way a meteorologist sitn
ulatcs we.ithi r in miniature.
You've got to station yourself at
the eye of the storm.
She puts it this way: "You
ean't throw people into the tnid-
llc of a hurricane and sec how
tlii y react, hut you can ask what
it was like after it's over . .
if you're there, or if you can
gel there in time."
As an urban sociologist inter-
ested in everything from popu
lation problems to what ever he
came of the old fashioned neigh
!x>rltoixl, she aims to be on hand
Dallas lo her is "really a fnsci-
nat ng laboratory " Gesturing past
the campus, she declares, "Thai's
life out there."
Dr Maynard has worked with
Dr Barbara Reagan on a study
of Mexican-American industrial
workers, a pro ject finanaei d by
the 1' S Office of Economic
Opportunity through SMU's Insti
lute of Urban and Environmental
Studies
Coming up on her schedule is
a demotigraphie study for the
Jewish Welfare Federation of
Dallas — a profile of the lix'al
Jewish community measured by
characteristics like age, sov si/.e
of families, degree of Jewish
dentity
tDr Betty, who maintains she
•sn't really qualified as a spis'-
ialist in demography, translates
that term literally as "the gra-
phics of people, statistics on peo-
ple 'Die dictionary agrees, de-
fining demography as "the sta-
tistical study of the characteris-
tics of human population."!
The youthful assistant professor
also has an interest in a Dallas
Public Library "outreach pro-
gram."
"There arc many ways in which
we can connect up with the city,"
she says "Research is certainly
our bag."
Clearly, leaching is her bag
also, since her selection for a
turn as department chairman was
based on an informal sampling
of student as well as faculty
opinion
Students serve on the depart-
mental council and have a voice
in the shaping of policy, to Dr
Maynard's satisfaction "I'm all
fur shall I governance We ro
Ixmttd to have differences, but
it's so much belter lo get them
aired."
Speaking of students, there may
lie only one on record who got
less than he expected from her
leaching lie gave her course In
population problems a high mark
in his written evaluation How-
ever. he complained, "She raised
problems, but she didn't give
any solutions."
Dr Maynard. a cheerful realist.
laughs al that objection without
denying its truth.
"Problems are really my stock
in trade." she says "If there
were fixed solutions to all our
problems, they would he solved
already It's their job as students
to be aware of the problems and
to help work toward creative
solutions."
There was a time, though,
when she did give answers —
during four or five years abroad
with the U, S Information Ser-
vice.
Betty Maynard. a fourth gene
ntion Texan from the historic
town of Bastrop, earned her first
v'ogn e from Baylor University
with a Spanish major She threw
in a couple of summers at the
National University of Mexico.
She joined the foreign service,
went lo Managua. Nicaragua,
"behaved myself tor a couple of
years and got to go to Paris."
Then came designs on a career
tn personnel work, a master's
di gree from Stanford University
and work in behavioral science
at the separate Stanford Research
Institute which "turned me around
again"—this time toward soci
logy.
Her next slop was Austin, for
a University of Texas doctorate,
some population research and a
couple of years of teaching. She
joined the SMU faculty in 1968
Officially, her new post took
effect June 15. That's when
she joined Dr Peggy Harrison,
expert in communication disor-
ders. and dancer Tom Beck as
the third female department chief
on a faculty more than 700 strong.
Betty Maynard, a spellbinding
talker who insists she has no
talents, doubtless will go right
on challenging students and off-
campus audiences to ponder
questions like what the word
neighborhood means to mixlent
oily dwellers
She'll go right on not giving
answers, loo. however much this
pains some listeners At the start
of her course in urban theory, she
tells students that there are "a
lot of hypotheses on urban social
relations hut no grand theory.
It may be n long time before
urban sociology gets to that
stage."
I>K. HETTY JANETTF MAYNARI), new chairman of SMU's
sociology department.
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