The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [125], No. 18, Ed. 1 Monday, May 1, 1978 Page: 1 of 10
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Bastrop (Texas) Advertiser
Bastrop (]aunty's Leading Newspaper - Since March /, 1853
Since March 1, 1853
Monday, May 1, 1978
Number 18
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CAPCO announces
Area students subject
of drug abuse survey
Amigos
The Lost Pines Chapter of Amigos de las Americas held a fund-raising
bike a-thon Saturday, peddling from Smithville to Bastrop the long way!
The fifty-mile trek took the bicyclers over Upton Road, through Rosanky,
down FM 304 to Bastrop and more. The bikers took a hamburger breather
at the home of Jim and Marge Troublefield here. The local Amigos chapter
is planning to send four members to South America this summer.
Staff Photo by Jim Tisdale———
New clinic nearing
reality for Bastrop
BY CLYDE GRIFFIN
With the announcement
that local funding may be
available for the financing of
proposed new medical clinic,
the Bastrop Memorial
Hospital Board of Trustees
reviewed and approved
specifications for the new
facility when they met in
regular session early last
week.
According to Hospital
administrator Ben Snead,
the 5,000-square-feet struc-
ture is to be located on the
Northeast end of the
hospital, situated West of
Loop 150, across the
Colorado River.
In a conversation held
Saturday, Snead told the
ADVERTISER that four
doctors are expected to
practice medicine in the new
clinic, which will also house
some of the hospital's
medical records and a
laboratory.
Snead said that although
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he is not at liberty to
mention any names, local
financing for the new clinic is
available. The hospital
ministrator said that the
loan is anticipated, though
as-yet uncommitted.
The administrator also
told the Board that he has
spoken to one doctor who
expressed a desire to
practice medicine in Bastrop,
and added that he has had
many inquiries in the past
year or so. Snead told the
ADVERTISER that al-
though many are interested
in locating their practice in
Bastrop, "the new clinic will
draw them out," for sure, he
said.
In other business, Dr. Bill
Hauser, the hospital's
present radiologist an-
nounced that his San
Antonio radiology firm will
Nine years
BY CLYDE GRIFFIN
Although the results will
not be released for publica
tion for several months, the
Capital Area Planning Coun
oil (CAPCO) Drug Abuse
Planning Staff is planning to
make public a recent survey
of alcohol and drug use
among Bastrop County
youth, it was announced in a
recent newsletter from
CAPCO.
The survey was just
completed by two University
of Texas Social Work interns
under the supervision of the
Bastrop County Probation
Officer, Charles Lucas.
According to the CAPCO
release, the survey was
conducted after teachers and
probation officers had ob
served delinquent behavior
among the youth in the area
of alcohol and drug use and
determined that a survey
would be beneficial.
Approximately 150
students were randomly
selected to participate in the
study which asked the
students to answer ques-
tions concerning current use
of drugs and alcohol, as well
as attitudes about drug use,
reasons for use and ques-
tions about their home life.
provide nuclear service
through the use of a portable
nuclear scanner which he
plans to operate in Bastrop
two days each week. Snead
said the scan will be
available for local doctor's
patients and that four or five
patients a week are antici
pa ted for the new service.
Snead told the ADVER-
TISER that radioactive
matter is injected into the
bloodstream, and that "hot
spots" indicating trouble
areas will show up on a film
of the nuclear scan. Snead
indicated that patient's cost
for the nuclear scan will be
nominal.
Plans to convert all
medical and emergency
frequencies, those used by
doctors, key hospital per
sonnel and ambulance driv-
The newsletter indicated
that the survey results are
now in the process of being
computerized by the Texas
Department of Community
Affairs, Drug Abuse Preven
tion Division, where the
results will be compared to a
special adult survey which
included similar questions.
The Planning Staff of
CAPCO's Drug Abuse divi
sion will prepare an indepth
analysis of the results in a
special report which will be
made available to school
person net, probation offi-
cers, PTA members and
other interested individuals
in Bastrop County. Accord-
ing to the CAPCO newslet-
ter, the survey results will
be made public sometime in
August.
Stickup termed
professional job
BY CLYDE GRIFFIN
The Wednesday night
robbery of the Sigmor
Shamrock service station on
Highway 71 near Smithville
has all the earmarks of a
professional job,according to
Bastrop County Sheriffs
Deputy Frank Calabrese.
Calabrese related the
incident to the ADVER
TISER on Friday, stating
that several leads in the case
have developed, but there
have been no arrests to date.
Between 9:15 and 9:20
p.m. Wednesday, an armed
and masked gunman entered
the Shamrock station where
a seventeen year old Smith-
ville High School student,
Dora Salas was working
alone. The gunman order
Salas to put all the cash in
the register bag. When she
had complied, he ordered her
to rip the phone off the wall,
and then fled to the rear of
the station, making good his
escape in an undescribed
vehicle, with an undisclosed
amount of cash.
Calabrese said the fact
that the man wore a mask
and touched nothing himself
are evidence that the man
"knew what he was doing."
The alleged robber was
described by Ms. Salas as
being a white male, about
five feet, seven inches in
height, average weight and
wearing a red-checked,
long-sleeve shirt and blue
jeans with a green hood-
mask, which appeared to
have been homemade. Cala
brcse said the only way Ms.
Salas could tell the man was
"white" was by his hands as
the rest of his body was
concealed.
Elgin man killed
in Friday collision
BY CLYDE GRIFFIN
A 24-year old Elgin res-
ident was killed in a fiery
two-car collision on U.S. 290
near Elgin Friday morning,
bringing to four the number
of traffic fatilities in Bastrop
County highways this year.
According to Department
of Public Safety officers,
Charles William Nickel, an
oil field .worker was killed
when his automobile and a
truck collided head-on about
a mile East of Elgin around 9
a.m.
Nickel was reported to
have been living with his
mother, Mrs. Fay Rhodes,
and family of 19 N. Main
Street in Elgin.
The driver of the truck,
26-year-old Austinite Henry
Guzman was treated for
minor injuries at Fleming
Memorial Hospital in Elgin.
Funeral services for
Nickel were held at 3 p.m.
Sunday at the First Baptist
Church in Elgin, with burial
following in the Elgin
Cemetery.
Survivors include his
father, William Eugene
Nickel of Edna; his mother;
three brothers, Robert,
Ronald and Michael Nickel,
and a sister, Doris Nickel, all
of Klgin.
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Kleasen nets
short sentence A
U.S. Representative Bob Krueger of Texas, senatorial candidate took time
to meet and greet Bastrop democrats at the Pine Forest Inn late Friday after-
noon where politics and the needs of Bastrop County were discussed. Bastrop
County District Attorney Neal Pfeiffer and County Judge Jack Griesenbeck
were among those present to greet the Representative.
Staff Photo by Jim Tisdale —
Poth returns to
hometown turf
BY CLYDE GRIFFIN
At a special called meeting
April 25, the Smithville
Independent School Board of
Trustees accepted the
resignation of Head Coach
Barry Poth, approved in-dLs-
trict transfers and con-
sidered applications for
the position of superinten
dent.
Coach Poth listed personal
reasons for resigning from
the position he has held for
one year. Poth had double
duties at the Smithville
school as he aU" taught
American history.
|*oth told the ADVER
TUMBit there ha* been "*urh
a mu up in the m-HmoI that I
4 n't think I ran work
t'HT §fH*tjMf superintendent
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have kept its superinten-
dent, but added, "With a
new superintendent coming
in, he'll want to bring his
own coach and probably a
new principal."
When Coach Poth made
his appearance at the
"Liftathon" held in Smith-
ville Saturday, he will have
completed his assignment
with the Smithville school.
Coach Poth is now leaching
with the Poteet Independent
School District.
Poth told the ADVER
tiser he owns land near
Poteet, which he calls
"home," and he added, "I've
told them since I came that
I'd be going home if the job
ever came open," Poth
added, "I'm not leaving
lifiwui* the Tiger* had • 10
ilHlUti'MWl., 1 think they'll
probably have a great ytar,
m (i year M
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transfer of students into the
district and heard acting
superintendent Jimmie
Stacy report that estimated
costs of projects including a
sidewalk awning for Central
School and an addition to the
junior high school had not
been reported at that time.
Stacy also told the board
that approval for a sewing
room by the building trades
students had not been
received. Stacy said he
hopes to have the estimates
for the school additions by
the next regular meeting in
May.
For the thud time in two
week* the board reviewed
applicant* for the position of
superintendent of school*,
and no decision* were made
in the eni'iutive wiii'in of
the hoariJiiieetilitf. The board
Mr<11 have riiwn a *uperin
tenrieui hy May SB, ii ***
elated,
BY CLYDE GRIFFIN
A U.S. District Judge
formally sentenced Robert
Elmer Kleasen to serve nine
years in prison on six federal
firearms violations Friday in
Austin.
Judge Jack Roberts
sentenced Kleasen to serve
three consecutive three-year
terms for making false
statements in acquiring the
firearms, and to three
two-year terms on the other
three charges, run concur-
rently with the other three.
Though Kleasen asked, in
a statement he read before
sentencing, for consideration
for the four years he has
spent in various jails on a
conviction which was over-
turned, Roberts' sentence
may be considered lenient,
considering the maximum
punishment in the federal
firearms violations might
have netted the one time
convicted murderer 30
years.
According to Kleasen's
defense attorney, Marvin
Teague of Houston, a
VOTE
candidate for the Court of
Criminal Appeals in the
Demorcatic Primary, he will
appeal the firearms convic-
tions. Sources close to the
case told the ADVERTISER
that the basis for the appeal
will be that at least one of
these firearms violations had
been dismissed three years
back, when Kleasen was
tried for murder.
Kleasen was convicted at
that time, of the murder of a
nineteen-year-old Mark
Fischer, one of two Mormon
missionaries missing since
visiting Kleasen at his trailer
home near Austin in 1974.
Late last year the courts
overturned Kleasen's convic-
tion for murder, but it was
stipulated he may be tried in
the death of twenty-year-old
Gary Darley, the second
missionary.
The evidence used to
convict Kleasen of the first
murder may not be used in
the second case. That
evidence includes human
remains found on a bandsaw
in a taxidermy shop near
Kleasen's trailer home and
several articles of peraonal
beiongings of the mis
•lorutrie* along with a
manuscript describing how
Kleasen disponed of deer
raH'sske*, recovered from
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In Smithville Saturday school age boy* between the age* of 13 and 17-year*
of age < ompeted in a I ift a Ihon fund raiting ellort for the ( y*ti< tibrosi*
foundation, a<<ording to ktadiuith Marry Poth Poth officiated at the week*
end affair before tomulefing hi* move to Poteet Iropfty* were awarded to
first *e<ond and third plate winner* in «a«h age grwufi Appro* imafely Ml
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Griffin, Clyde. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [125], No. 18, Ed. 1 Monday, May 1, 1978, newspaper, May 1, 1978; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth335038/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.