The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Monday, April 9, 1979 Page: 1 of 8
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Bastrop County's Leading Mcicspaper - Since March I. 1853
Monday, AprU 9,1979
Bastrop. Texas
NUMBER 12
Neef, Rathman win Bastrop school seats;
Wesson, Haisler are elected at Smithville
School Board election results
BASTROP INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
PLACE# 1
Karol Callawav
232
25
16
18
6
297 |
Jerry W. Neef
248
82'
54
23
14
421 |
122
26
11
15
5
179 j
PLACE#2
Robert H. Carp^pt^
264
46
7
14
6
1
337 1
■
Joe Lee Rathman
342
87
75
42
21
567
SMITHVILLE
SMITHVIL
INDEPENDEN1
LE PIN OAK H
r SCHOOL DISTRICT
.OSANKY TOTAL
.
PLACE# 3
Jack A. Poole, Jr.
289
3
11
303
1
532
37
74
643
■
PLACE#4
Lawrence Wesson
395
35
66
496
W illiam Breeden, Jr.
425
5
19
449
By DAVIS McAULEY
and JACK ERASER
Voters Saturday returned
incumbent Joe Lee Rathman
and former trustee Jerry W.
Neef to the Bastrop School
Board and seated two new,
economy-minded trustees,
Henry Haisler and Lawrence
R. Wesson, on the Smithville
School Board.
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■■■MP
Joe Lee Rathman
At Smithville, incumbent
Aldermen Charles H. Mr
Keown and Renee D.
Blaschke won re-election and
Pat Starns, a retired
railroad workers union re
presentative, topped five
other challengers to get on
the council.
The Bastrop City Council
election was not contested so
incumbents O.K. Glenn,
John Sanders and Henry
Schuyler won new terms
without a campaign.
In the Bastrop Indepen
dent School District Ballot
ing, Rathman and Neef
carried the Bastrop city
precinct plus the rural Cedar
Creek, Red Rock, Watterson
and Paige boxes.
In the Smithville Indepen-
dent School District election,
incumbent Board Chairman
William Breeden, Jr. won
the city box but lost to
Wesson in the Place Four
seat at voting boxes in
outlying Rosanky and Pin
Oak".
For the Place 3 seat,
Haisler outdistanced Jack A
Poole in all three boxes.
VOTE COUNTS
Rathman, a rancher and
livestock auctioneer, out
polled Dr. Robert H.
Carpenter, a University of
Texas Veterinarian, 567 to
337.
A
Jerry Neef
Neef, a public accountant,
regained the seat he had lost
three years ago to Jimmie
W. Cottle, a mortician. The
vote count was 421 for Neef,
297 for Karol Callaway, a
housewife and nursery
school teacher, and 179 for
Cottle.
COUNCIL VOTING
Vote totals for the
Smithville council were:
Mrs. Blaschke, co-owner of a
pharmacy, 476, McKeown, a
claims adjustor for Ford
Motor Co., 370; Irvin (Chub)
Davis, rancher and part of
Billy Davis' Texaco staff,
298; Patrick G. Psencik,
laundromat operator and
mechanic, 161; Harold R.
Hughes, mortician, 159; Joni
Scoggins, hank employee,
136 and Willie Ferrell,
retired, 110.
In the Bastrop Council
balloting, O.E. Glenn, re-
tired oil company employee,
received 113 votes to 111 for
clothing store owner Sand-
ers and 105 for Schuyler,
retired bottling company
co-owner.
Smithville Independent
School District voters put
Wesson, who was ousted last
year as the district tax
Continued to Page 2
Grand Jury issues nine
felony indictments
Nine felony indictments
returned by the grand jury
meeting in Bastrop Wednes-
day included charges of
aggrivated armed robbery,
arson, burglary, possession
of a firearm by a felon and
driving while intoxicated.
Ronnie J. Litchfield and
Gary L. Jackson were both
indicted for aggrivated rob-
bery with a deadly weapon.
They are charged with the
February 24 armed robbery
of the Drive Inn Liquor
Store'in Smithville in which
more than $2000 was taken,
according to police.
Police have also recovered
a pistol they believe was
used in the heist.
Smithville and Austin
police, plus Bastrop sheriffs
officers, made the arrests in
Austin after Litchfield was
arrested there on a rape
charge, authorities said.
The pair was originally
placed under $50,000 bond
each. Bail for Jackson has
been reduced to $20,000. An
attorney for Litchfield has
filed a petition to reduce his
client's bail to $500. A
hearing on the motion will
possibly be held April 16.
Iverson G. Austin, 63, of
Elgin was indicted on a
charge of arson. He was
arrested in connection with a
blaze kindled in some leaves
piled up behind Ramsey's
Drug Store in Elgin, said
Elgin police chief Dan
Gibson. Prior to that, a
similiar fire had scorched a
rear door to the offices of the
Elgin Courrier.
Gibson said he expects the
court to order a psychiatric
examination for Austin.
In another El ?in case,
Frank Robinson, Jr., was
indicted for the February 20
burglary of the home of
Willie G. Proutt of Elgin.
Another man, Rudel Brandy-
burg, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to two years in jail
for the same alleged offense
last month.
Leland Miller, Jr., was
indicted by the grand jury
for felony driving while
intoxicated. The alleged
offense took place on
February 26. The indict
ment cites an earlier
misdemeanor conviction for
DWI against Miller.
The earlier offense was
alleged to have happened in
July of 1978 and conviction
in county court became final
on February 12, according to
the indictment.
Indicted for possession of
a firearm by a felon was
Two killed in
dune buggy
A line formed Saturday afternoon at Smithville City Hall for voting on three City Council
seats. Shortly after 7 p.m., the results were in: Renee Blaschke, Charles McKeown and Pat
Starns were elected. .
Donnie Ray Hoodye of
Bastrop. The indictment
charges that Hoodye had a
shotgun "away from his
residence" and that he was
Pot charge nets fines
An Austin couple was
fined $153 each for posses-
sion of marijuana in Bastrop
Friday after being stopped
by county and city officers
near the intersection of
State Highways 71 and 95,
according to Sheriff I.R.
Hoskins.
Some Smithville high
school students reported to
police that the pair was
offering to sell "narcotics"
near the school, said Police
Chief Tommy K. Simon.
Simon notified the sher-
iffs office, he said. Then
Hoskins ordered out depu-
ties Verlin Hemphill and
Willie Dabney and called in
Bastrop Police Chief Adell
Powell to watch for the
suspects on the road and at
Bastrop schools.
Hemphill spotted the car
"Three miles below Smith
ville," said Hoskins. The
officers converged on the
pair as they approached
Bastrop, he said.
Fined were Norman Cal-
ton, 25, of Smithville and
Austin and Frances Castillo,
49, of Austin, said Hoskins.
previously convicted of a
felony burglary in 1976.
Three other indictments
were returned against per
sons not yet under arrest.
Two other cases of note in
the county were passed over
until a later meeting-of-the
grand jury, according to
County Attorney Neal
Pfeiffer.
Pfeiffer said he was
waiting for the arrival of an
"offense report" from Hous
ton police before presenting
the cases of Edward Sexton
of Ft. Worth and James
Speights of Cedar Creek to
the grand jury. The pair was
arrested early last month
when officers from Houston,
Bastrop and the Austin
Organized Crime Unit seized
a quantity of chemicals at a
hoase near Cedar Creek
which police say was
sufficient to make 32 pounds
of methamphetamine or
"speed."
Also passed over was the
case of Darcy Jean Bell, 23,
of Cedar Creek, who
allegedly shot Mark Wayne
Mason, 21, of Big Springs, in
the abdomen with a 22-
calibre rifle when he tried to
enter her home las week
after she warned him to stay
out.
A truck driver wanted as a
witnesses in the case was not
available Wednesday, said
Pfeiffer.
Kenneth Kahanek. 20, of
Smithville and Allan Wes
sels, 18, of Creedmore, died
early Sunday when they lost
control of the topless
dune-buggy they were riding
in on State Highway 71, and
down an embankment and
landed in about eight feet of
water in Shipp Lake some
two miles east of Smithville,
according to police reports.
The two were westbound
and they had passed One
vehicle and were attempting
to pass another when the car
went out of control, said
Bastrop Deputy Jim Gifford.
The bodies were recovered
with the help of Smithville
Volunteer Firemen and City
Police near the car, some 50
to 75 feet from the shore,
said Gifford.
Both were pronounced
dead at the scene by Justice
of the Peace O.B. Werneke.
Officers got the call at
12:44 a.m.
The car was recovered
first, said Gifford, then
volunteer firemen began
searching the shallow waters
with hapd lines from the
bank and with boats brought
to the scene. The first body
was found in about 30
minutes, said Gifford, and
the second not long after.
Mushroom hunt
leads to jail
Bastrop budget review
Council considers adding $7000 street sweeper
Four young men were
rounded up from a pasture
near McDade, jailed over-
night and then fined $100
each by Justice of the Peace
Cody Lentz for trespassing.
One of the men also put up a
$300 bond on a charge of
possession of marijuana.
"I guess they was looking
for mushrooms, frog stools
we call them," said Sheriff I.
R. Hoskins. One deputy and
a highway patrolman an
swered the land owner's
complaint, he said.
But one of the four
trespassers bolted for cover
when the law approached,
and it took about two hours
and two additional deputies
from Bastrop to corral the
fleeing intruder off the Old
McDade road between Mc-
iDade and Paige, said
Hoskins.
Paying fines for trespass
were Konrad Kelly III,
Charles Gitsinger, Paul L.
Martel and Antonio F.
Garcia. Gitsinger was also
charged with possession of
marijuana.
Deputies found "two little
bags in his pocket," said
Hoskins.
Judge Lentz guessed that
the men were between 20
and 30 years old and "not
local."
Bastrop -councilmen ques-
tioned City Manager C.W.
Patek at some length at a
public budget hearing Fri-
day morning about the
Budget he has drawn up for
the city's 1979 fiscal year
operations.
Patek's budget calls for
spending almost $200,000
less this year than last, but
that difference may be
smaller before councilmen
are through with it.
In the afternoon, the
council re-convened behind
clrwed doors to discuss the
pay of city poli<v and
administrator*. No frwmal
action on the budget was
scheduled before the regular
city council meeting at 7:30
p.m. Monday
The draff budget <oum j|
men were studying call* t,n
a sharp redueltoii in capital
outlay# ("f I In nest fisi.il
fi.ii I be <H> laid oUf kuiiii
1)44 on improve
ments in 1978. Only some
$60,000 is called for in 1979.
But councilmen discussed
adding possibly as much as
$14,000 to the capital
improvements proposals.
Councilmen Henry Schuy
lerand James DeBaun urged
the city to acquire some type
of street sweeper. That
could run as high as $7,000
said Patek.
Schuyler also suggested
that an additional pickup
truck might be useful for
hauling brush out of the city
and that a "street tamper"
could help in repairing
potholes. He also suggested
a large type roto rooter for
clearing drains nd sewers.
Patek estimated a user)
pickup at 11.<><*), a tamper m(
$2,000 and a roto rooter a(
IWUO
lingular city expenditures
are projected a' t'W4,700 lm
|tfl't do»n very slightly
ftnih lite | I'Jh liit) exliiiiaU'l
expenses for 1978.
Projected capital outlays
for 1979 include $27,000 for
additional street improve-
ments, $22,000 for a storm
sewer extension all the way
to Piney Creek, $5,000 for
street and bridge "heavy
machinery," $3,000 for li
brary books and equipment,
plus another $3,000 ,for
street signs and street
lights.
l^ast year's heavy outlays
included about $78,000 for
street improvements,
$87,000 for the recently
dedicated fire house, $24,000
for a new garbage truck,
$13,000 worth of "solid waste
Continued to Page 3
Aqua Water gets loan
Aqua Water Supply Cor
poration won final approval
for $546,000 in low interest
loans from the Farmers
Home Administration
week, accrwding to
announcement from
office of tenth district
Congressman J. J. Pickle in
Washington
Headquartered in Ha*
trop, Aqua pumps water lo
homes in rural *r»as
Bastrop, J/**, It a vis
I ■ild*ell I 'ouDlte*.
I hi* K«i«d news," »0nl
last
an
the
of
and
Pickle. "Now we know the
loaas we were expecting are
official," he said.
With the 40 year loans at
five percent interest, Aqua
plans to add an additional
100 families to the system
and make other improve-
ments, extend existing lines
and install new outlets. Aqua
officials espcct that when
installation is completed in
the neal year, some :un»i
families will be served by the
system,
I Hill ploud Ui have been
part of Aqua's initial
progress," Pickle said. "To-
day Aqua is one of the
largest rural water systems
in the U.S. It is vital to the
proper development of rural
and urban areas of Central
Texas. Consequently, I have
a personal interest in
observing how the corpora
Hon it run and developed,"
Pilule explained
Pickle also coiitiueiwleil
Bill Piei ati ni | he Fin If A
office in Temple fur his
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