The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 95, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1989 Page: 2 of 28
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
Thursday January 26, 1989
Surprized burglar drops tools
A burglar was surprised by an
employee in the Aqua Water Sup-
ply Corp. building at 305.Eskew
Sunday, but escaped before police
could apprehend him, according to
Investigator David Board of the
Bastrop Police Department.
According to a report on the in-
cident, Aqua employee Kenneth
Hilbig was in the front office in the
northwest corner of the building at
approximately 4:30 p.m. Sunday
when he heard a noise coming from
the meeting room in the southeast
corner of the building.
When Hilbig entered the meet-
ing room and turned the light on
to investigate, he noticed a folding
door to a closet was off its track,
the report said.
The report said a white male then
stuck his head out "of the closet,
Hilbig asked him if he was a bur-
glar, and the man replied "yea."
LCRA
A "Tasting Bee" sponsored by
the Bastrop Senior Center drew
a crowd to the First National
Bank Community Room in Bas-
trop Friday. Participants were
treated to an array of delicious
cuisine ranging from casseroles
to dessert, and no one left the
luncheon hungry . Proceeds from
the event will be used for reno-
vations and furnishings for the
new Senior Center which will be
located in the old Bastrop Pub-
lic Library building when the
new library is completed.
to-organize opposition.
LCRA delivers power at 12.5
kilovolts, a measure of electromo-
tive power, to Bastrop, Smithville
and other small cities. Other LCRA
customers receive power at 69 kV
or 138 kV.
The rate structure proposal Bas-
trop is fighting calls for 12.5 kV
Pines
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. -
To Sponsor Youths on Washington, D.C. Trip.
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1988 Winners: Crystal Sherfy, Giddings High School and Neal Kelley, Lulirig High School.
Picture yourself in Washington, D.C. for a two week all expense paid
trip as the winner of BEC's Government in Action Youth Tour Con-
test, which is open to all high school students in the BEC service
area. Call the BEC Member Service Department for details, (409)
542-3151.
value. /
At Tuesday's council meeting,
Shelly Matthews said the group is
not demanding that no trees should
be removed for any reason.
• "Some may have to be cut," she
said. "But the highway department
should check all alternatives such
as pruning before they cut any."
"Some kind of compromise"
with the department about the num-
Hiibig told police he left the
building, went around front where
another employee was vacuuming
his truck, and he and the other em-
ployee drove to the Bastrop County
Sheriffs Office to report the
breakin.
Board said when police arrived
they could not locate the suspect,
but did find several tools he left
behind.
The report said the burglar ap-
parently entered the building by
prying the metal siding loose on the
outside and cutting through an in-
terior wall with a key-hole saw.
A lock-blade knife and a hole-
punching tool was found outside
the building near the point of en-
try, and a key-hole saw, hammer,
pliers and lock-blade knife was
found inside the meeting room,
police said.
Board said a rust-covered laun-
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utilities to pay higher capacity,
delivery, energy and fuel charges,
Cunningham said.
Larger utilities such as
Guadaloupe Valley, Bluebonnet
and Pedernales Electric Coopera;
tive, will also earn a substantial
"facilities credit" not available to
smaller customers, he said.
-Continued from Page 1, Section I
ber of trees to be removed seems
likely, she said.
Supporting the moratorium call
"is an important effort," said
Council Member Dock Jackson.
"The Lost Pines are a special part
of Texas."
The resolution won unanimous
approval by commissioners and the
city council.
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you
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opening of the Stress & Trauma
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dry bag, believed to have been used
by the burglar to carry his tools,
was also discovered.
fKlbig described the burglar as
a white male, probably in his mid
twenties, with a thin moustache and
sandy blond hair.
In a separate incident, police in-
vestigated the burglary of a motor
vehicle parked in front of a resi-
dence at 1507 Pecan Friday.
According to the police report,
the car was probably burglarized
sometime between 6 a.m. and 7
a.m. The report said the vehicle
was unlocked and the burglar or
burglars pried open the glove com-
partment and emptied the contents
onto the floorboard.
Police said a sure-shot camera
valued at $160 was taken from the
vehicle.
Park
Continued from Page 1, Section I
ments of $13,382.19.
About $40,000 is owed on the
FFA building in the park, which
translates into a 1989 annual pay-
ment on the present note of approx-
imately $9,000, the report said.
If the city could legally assume
responsibility for the existing notes
"the 1989 cash requirement would
be $40,047 plus any operating cost
deficit," according to the report.
The report said, however, "since
current interest rates wojjld be ex-
cessive for a city, and since a note
with a balloon payment would ap-
pear unusual, no further analysis
of this alternative was made."
"Since no grants are available
for the acquisition of park land, if
the city acquires the park it should
be through a bond issue or new
bank debt for the purchase price,"
the financial report said.
The sub-committee states that "a
bond issue does not appear to be
logical because of the high fee cost
of such a relatively low issue."
The sub-committee's projected
annual payment of $34,380 for 15
years is based on a 7 percent in-
terest rate "which may be low,"
said the report.
The finance committee said with
operating costs projected at
$30,200, income projected at
$26,000, and net costs projected as
$38,580 the 7-cent tax increase
would be required; and with oper-
ating costs projected at $30,200,
income projected at 0 and net costs
projected at $64,580 the 11-cent
tax increase would be required, as-
summing the city diverts no addi-
tional funds to the park.
The report also projects the need
for an additional 2 xh cents on the
tax rate for the first year to pay for
a tractor, equipment and a storage
shed needed for maintainance of
the park.
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 95, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1989, newspaper, January 26, 1989; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth395166/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.