The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Monday, April 9, 1979 Page: 3 of 8
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Poets invited too
Monday, April 9,1979
THE BASTKOP ADVERTISER
P«e 3
Club for local writers organizing here
A writers club for Bastrop
County is forming.
An organization-workshop
meeting of area writers will,
be held on Friday, April 27
at 7 p.m. in the Community
Room of the First National
Bank of Bas^-op. All persons
who are interested in
creative writing and/or
poetry are invited to attend.
No age limits. Wanda
Houser, local poetess puts it
this way:
Be ye tyro or neophyte,
Our goal is to get together
and write right.
For further information
contact Mrs. Jack Fleshman
Houser at 321-5876.
Several regional writers
from the state of Texas will
be speaking on various
aspects of writing today.
Writers organizations
from the cities, Austin,
Houston, Pasadena and
Dallas with whom Mrs.
Houser is associated will be
participating from^time to
time.
Mr. and Mrs. Houser
moved to their new lake
home on Circle D Country
Acres in November of last
year. Mrs. Houser, originally
from Ozark, Arkansas, was
immediate past president of
Scribblers in Houston and a
treasurer of the Pasadena
Writers Club. She is also a
member of the Poetry
Society of Texas, Houston
Chapter, and is in Who's
Who in International Poetry.
She attended the University
of Houston.
Mrs. Houser is a member
of Bastrop's Histoi ical Socie-
ty and is presently serving
on the board of Home
Owners Association with
Circle D Country Acres.
Mrs. Houser has had
poems published in Poet
Lore, and articles and poetry
in the LaGrange Journal,
Ozark Spectator and South-
west Times Record in Fort
Smith Arkansas and Mor-
man News.
Mr. Houser was employed
at Methodist Hospital in
Houston for 19 years, and is
now working for Capitol
National Bank in Austin.
Polly Kitchen and Don
Gilbreath, published writers,
will speak at the meeting.
Polly A. Kitchen, creative
writer, was born in Bell
County, on a farm five miles
west of Belton. She attended
schools in Austin, and
graduated from Austin High.
Undergraduate and post
graduate work at the
University of Texas. She
graduated with a degree in
geology from the University
of Wyoming, and lived on a
ranch in Wyoming for many
years. She worked for
various publishers in New
York City, and was a
correspondent for Author
and Journalist Magazine.
She was a technical editor
and engineering writer for
Capehart Corporation in
Richmond Hill, New York,
and worked as an editorial
assistant for MeCall's Fore-
cast and Home Economists, a
magazine for Home Econo-
mics teachers, and was a
Councilmen inspect budget
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improvements, plus $10,000
each for bridge work and
drainage along Gill's Branch.
Those are expenses the
city won't have to bear this
year, said Patek. The budget
also calls for transferring
only $120,000 from the
utility department to the
general budget. This is a
sharp reduction from the
$342,000 transferred in 1978.
The proposed capital
.outlay for the library is more
than double last year's
$1,245 allotment. This in-
crease will make the library
eligible for an extra $1,200 in
federal and state money,
said Patek.
Patek also pointed out
that the city's garbage
services are losing money.
Charges for garbage collect-
ion plus collections at the
dump came to $47,135 in
1978, he said. But 1978
expenditures for labor,
equipment maintenance and
maintenance at the dump
come to more than $73,000 in
the same period.
Schuyler said the council
should "continue to look at"
the garbage operation and
try to make it "break even"
in the future.
Patek estimated that the
city's income from the sales
tax would be up in the
coming year because bus-
inesses along Highway 71
are now inside the city,
following the recent annexa
tion of the area. The tax
should bring in at least
$10,000 more, he said, and
might yield as much as
$15,000.
The city's gross receipts
tax take could also go up
from 1978's $9,953, he said,
once Cable TV Company
begins operation in October.
The cable operation will
return three per cent of its
sales to the city.
Jailhouse News
Byl.R. "Nig" HOSKINS
BASTROP COUNTY
SHERIFF
March 23
•Unit to Cedar Creek; lady
called needing help. Two
units to check on family
disturbance. Released pri-
soner to U.S. Marshals. Put
out APB on four subjects
wanted on felony charges.
City arrested subject on
- public intoxication and
jailed.
March 24
Call out on Hwy 304 -
family disturbance. Visitors
for prisoners. Arrested
subject on mental commit-
ment.
March 26
Deputy served citation at
hospital. Deputy took pri-
soners to JP for rights
warning and fines. Fined
$103.00 for City of Bastrop.
Doctor to jail to see mental
patient for commitment.
Two deputies to take subject
to Austin State Hospital.
Two deputies out on Pool
Rd. Report of two suspicious
characters hiding in brush.
March 27
Sheriff out to North Shore
Lake to deliver death
message. Deputy to take
commissary for prisoners.
Deputy to District Court to
act as bailiff - trial being
held. Deputy on call in Red
>; Rock, man reported damage
to tractor last night. Elgin
deputy to check on reason
why jury summons was not
answered -- party did not
appear in court. Deputy to
check on report of dog bite.
Sheriff to District Court.
Deputy to Smithville to
serve two subpoenas. Depu-
ty to pick up commissary for
prisoners.
March 28
Deputy to District Court
to act as bailiff. Elgin deputy
to Austin State Hospital to
take mental patient. Deputy
to Smithville to serve two
subpoenas. Deputy to Bryan
P.D. to pick up subject on
mental commitment and
take him to State Hospital.
Subject ran off from
courthouse when with his
mother. She having papers
drawn up in Judge's
Chambers. He wound up in
Dripping Springs and a
deputy is bringing him to
meet two of our deputies in
Austin.
March 29
Sheriff and Smithville
Chief of Police to Austin to
pick up prisoner arrested for
Aggravated Robbery. Sher-
iff and deputy on Hwy 304 to
look for suspicious person.
Deputy to Austin with
Smithville Chief of Police to
pick up prisoner arrested on
Aggravated Robbery. He
accomplice of prisoner al-
ready picked up. Smithville
deputy to get stray cows off
road. Deputy to serve Writ
of Exectuion. DA Investiga-
tor to jail to talk to prisoner.
Deputy to Pope Bend Rd. to
check on report received of
suspicious looking car in
area. Then deputy went out
to house to work on burglary
investigation. Smithville P.
ChanKV of Address?
Write:
Bastrop Advertiser
Box 159
Bastrop. Texas 7N602
Bastrop Advertiser
(USPS 046-020)
D. brought prisoner to jail on
DWI. Sheriff took papers to
Smithville to be served. Two
deputies out on truck turned
over on Hwy 21.
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reviewer for several news-
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Wyoming. She is currently
at work on several books and
is the owner of Adelante
Press, which published a
book of poetry by Elton
Runneberg, "The Gentle,
The Base, and The
Unbeholden."
Don Gilbreath, creative
writer and versifier, grew up
in Houston. He attended
Houston Baptist University.
He won several drama
awards and is treasurer,
Houston Chapter, Poetry
Society of Texas. Member
Pasadena Writers Club.
Free lance writer. Gospel
singer who has also ap
peared in Playboy Magazine.
Bridge
bids due
Bids for the reconstruction
of a bridge on Farm to
Market Road 1704 in Bastrop
County will be received in
April by the State Depart-
ment of Highways and
Public Transportation.
Austin District Engineer
Bob Brown said the existing
structure over Wilbarger
Creek is only 20 feet wide.
The new bridge will be
widened to provide two
13-foot-wide travel lanes.
The bridge also will be 10
feet higher than the old
bridge so as to place the
traffic above flood level.
Bobby Nauert of Bastrop
is the department's engineer
in direct charge of the work.
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The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 12, Ed. 1 Monday, April 9, 1979, newspaper, April 9, 1979; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601962/m1/3/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.