The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 88, Ed. 1 Monday, February 12, 1979 Page: 1 of 10
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Two killed, dozen injured in wrecks
Midland couple dies
when car hits truck
By DAVIS McAULEY
Two Midland residents
were killed at the intersec-
ion of Highways 71 and 21,
about six miles west of
Bastrop, when a late model
Mercury Cougar apparently
failed to stop and slammed
into an eastbound 18-
wheeler.
Pronounced dead at the
scene by Justice of the Peace
Howard McGee were Carl
Gregory Allen, 18, and
Pamela Jean Forest, 19, both
of Midland.
McGee said the couple was
traveling north on Texas 21
when the collision occured.
"They must have been
going at terrific speed," said
McGee.
The car hit about the
middle of the trailer.
The driver of the tractor-
trailer rig was identified as
Steven Hare Egbert of
Colorado City. He was not
hurt.
AT SAME SITE
Three co eds from Tex-
as A and M University
escaped serious injury at the
same intersection Friday
morning about 10:30 a.m.
when a 1975 Dodge Colt
driven by Kathy Hauschild,
20, collided with an 18-
wheeler loaded with "top
ping rock."
The driver of the Colt said
she was turning from
Highway 71 onto 21, headed
for San Marcos. The
occupants were members of
an A and M debate team on
the wav to a debate
tournament at Southwest
Texas State University.
"1 didn't see the truck at
all," she said. She suffered a
cut on her left hand.
Passengers in the Colt
were Lydia Johnson and
Valencia Smith, both 20, of
Houston.
Driver of the tractor-
trailer rig was Larry Duane
Johnson, 31. The truck,
owned by Dean Word
Company, was on its way to
Wharton, he said. Johnson
was not injured.
This Mercury Cougar collided with an eastbound lN-wheel
tractor-trailer right about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, killing the
two occupants, both from Midland. The car apparently
faik'd to stop as it approahced Highway 71 going north on
State Highway 21 at a high rate of speed.
Photo by Jim Tisdale
Bastrop school bus
pushed into ditch
A Bastrop school bus was wrecked in a collision near Paige
as children were going home Thursday. None of the eight
children aboard at the time were seriously injured.
Photo bv Jim Tisdale
Eight school children
escaped serious injury Thur
day afternoon when the
Bastrop l.S.D. school bus in
which they were riding was
knocked into a ditch along
side U.S. 290 East near
Paige, about 4: 30 p.m.
Superintendent C.H.
Evans, Jr., said it was a
"miracle" some were not
hadly hurt when the bus was
apparently struck in the rear
by a truck.
Renee Richardson, driver
of the bus, had almost
stopped to let children off,
but had not opened the door
when the collision occured,
said Evans.
The truck, driven by
Charles Webb, 36, of
Guthrie, Oklahoma, went on
past the bus, through a fense
and came to rest in a field
Webb was still in Lee Count
Memorial Hospital in Gid
dings on Sunday.
Marilyn Mechura, 16, of
McDade, who was "badly"
shaken up in the mishap and
hospitalized in Giddings, had
been released by Sunday.
Most of the students were
enrolled in the Bastrop
Primary School, said Evans.
They walked into the
Giddings hospital for treat-
ment of minor cuts and
bruises Thursday before
being released, said a
hospital spokesman.
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Man thrown
from tractor
See picture Page 10
C.E. Ford of Bastrop was
listed in serious condition
and was being treated for
"multi trauma" in Bracken Ford rammed through a
ridge Hospital in Austin, gate. Both vehicles were
after being thrown from a driving Fast when the
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Monday, February 12,1979
Bastrop, Texas
Number 88
North Main site
Planners table mobile home park
by DAVIS McAULEY
The application by Barry
Moncure and Wayne Smith
to rezone 5.06 acres on the
north east corner of Main
and Mesquite Streets to
allow a mobile home park
was hotly opposed by some
residents Thursday night at
a public hearing by the
Bastrop Planning and Zoning
Commission.
After hearing from area
residents, the commission
voted to table the matter, to
hold a special meeting to
duscuss the issue on
February 22 and to come to a
decision by its next regular
meeting March 8.
"We object to it," said
Margie Lee.
The City Council has
"voted no trailers in Bas-
trop," she said, "and we sure
Taxpayers set
Smithville unit
A citizens group, newly
organized to combat rises in
local tax rates, is expected to
show up at Monday night's
Smithville Council meeting
to express opposition to any
tax hike.
The taxpayers league is
being organized by Eugene
Hoskins and other local
residents.
Smithville councilmen last
month said they expect to
levy a tax rate this year of 45
cents per $100 of assessed
property value, based on 100
per cent of the value. The
current tax is $1.20 per each
$100 but based on only 25
percent valuation.
In addition, the city is
considering joining the
Smithville Independent
School District in a joint
revaluing of all the property
in town. In some cases, this
could result in higher taxes
for land and building owners,
the school district has
indicated, although no final
determination would be
made until the study is
completed. The revaluation
work could take two years,
School Superintendent
Donald Hestand has said.
don't want a trailer park
next to us." She predicted
that in "three or four years"
the park would "be a big
junk pile" overrun with dogs
and cats.
"It would devaluate all
that area," she said.
Marlin White said he knew
the "city is trying to
beautify" the area north of
Mesquite and that the
extended drain pipe is
"needed" but that he and his
wife are "fixing to build a
home there" in the area and
"people in parks don't keep
them up."
Karl Sutton of 2502 Pecan
Street said a mobile home
park as proposed "is going to
ruin us." Besides, he
predicted such a develop-
ment would increase traffic
on Mesquite. "Our road is
gone" already, he said. It is
"washed out."
Smith said the park
proposal came in response to
City Council's suggestion
that "nice mobile home parks
were needed" in Bastrop
since mobile homes are no
longer allowed in residential
districts.
The proposed park would
have space for 30 mobile
homes, he said, with a
possible expansion to 45
Laboratory rules
urea killed cattle
Kubota L175 tractor in a
collision on State Highway
21 Friday afternoon, about
eight miles East of Bastrop.
A Brackenridge Hospital
spokesman interpreted the
term "multi-trauma" as
meaning "all kinds of
different injuries."
Also involved was Harry
Thornton, driver of the 1973
Porche 911T which slammed
across a ditch and through a
fence.
The small garden type
tractor and trailer driven by
accident took place.
School board
filings open
With about four weeks to
go before the March 7
deadline, nobody had filed as
of Friday for two seats on
the Bastrop Independent
School District Board.
The four-year terms of
Jimmy Cottle and Joe Lee
Kathman are expiring.
The election will be held
Saturday, April 7.
The sudden death of 31
head of cattle belonging to
C.A. Eskew has been classed
as "a clear-cut case of urea
poisoning" in a telephone
report from the Texas
Veterinary Medical Diagnos-
tic Laboratory to Bastrop
veterinarian W.J. Clampit.
The urea content of the
feed pellets found in the
stomachs of the four animals
tested was "way out of
proportion," said Clampit,
and the "unusually high
level" was far more than
could be considered safe.
The sudden jolt of urea,
used as a "protein substi-
tute" in cattle feed, would
upset the acid-base balance
in the stomach, said Clampit.
A cow's stomach is normally
acid, he said, but the urea is
strongly base.
The cattle were probably
"dead within ten minutes,"
said Clampit. Normally urea
can be substituted for only
about one third of the daily
protein requirement in feed
because of possible toxic
effects, he said.
Of the four outbreaks of
cattle poisoning in which one
lot of feed is implicated, the
one at S Q Ranch is the
"most severe," Clampit said.
Clampit said he believed
the other outbreaks were in
the Waco area.
New doctor admitted
to local hospital staff
slots.
Present sewer lines are
within 100 feet of the site,
said Moncure, and Entex,
Inc. would provide gas
service. "Full service" of gas,
electricity, water and sewer
would be provided, he said.
Moncure said he planned
to equal or exceed FmHA
standards. Fm'ha required
spaces 35 by 75 feet, but he
plans 40 by 80 foot lots, he
said.
Also opposing the new
park was Mrs. Sonny
Continued on Page 10
Permission to practice
surgery and general medi-
cine at the Bastrop Hospital
was granted to Dr. Harvey
Worchel Thursday by the
hospital's Board of Direc-
tors.
Hospital Administrator
Ben Snead presented Wor
chel's application to the
board and said the doctor
was "anxious to get out
here" and "wants to get into
practice as soon as possible"
in Bastrop.
Dr. George Talley recom
mended that the board
approve the application,
saying he "had gotten to
know" Worchel who was
from Austin and knew
people in the Bastrop area
already.
Talley said Worchel had
already bought about 15
acres near Shilo and hoped
to move there as soon as he
could get a house built.
Currently Worchel is
finishing a five-year residen
cy program at Brackenridge
Hospital in Austin, and
hopes to begin practice in
Bastrop possibly by July 15,
said Snead.
"We're pleased to have
him" said board president
Cecil Long, who added that
the board would do what it
could "to help him" become
established in Bastrop.
The most pressing prob^
lem may be to provide space
for the new doctor to
practice in until the new
clinic is established.
The board discussed vari-'
ous possibilities, including
"temporary" space in the
present clinic, leasing space
elsewhere for a short time,
and finding some space for
Opera House group
sees use for plays
Citizens working to re
store Bastrop's historic 1889
Opera House decided last
week that the main focus of
the renovation will be to
turn the structure into a
stage hall for plays and
music, but other uses such
as dances and meetings
will also be accomodated
"It will Iw easier to get
restoration money from
foundation* and others il we
have h cull oral purpose in
tiiiftfl thill's just thi *<iy ii
is ' km id hi ( in lis (i
M< leifhild *ho is iiivi siiy.H
r'M f l I'll Ih'thfi
But while the association
seeks outside help, "Basical-
ly we've got to get most of
the work done ourselves
now. Once we get the
facility in shape to have it
open to the public, we'll be in
a better" shape to get grant
money, he said.
"The Opera House is what
will make it go," said Stanley
Smith
"The key to maintaining
the building once it is
renovated," and paying the
uiiliins and othii ongoing
i ii*t», "will I hi In gel nil
.ill i. hi ion llm i bung* pcupii'
in," said Steve Rivers.
"For the building to stay
alive, someone has to depend
upon it for a living," said
McDonald. "We'd like the
building to function ultimate
ly in a stage capacity. That
might be several years off.
But in the meantime, we
want to have the building
usi«l for meetings, art
shi»ws, dance* and other
things,"
Mrs. Then Townsend and
Mrs Dorothy Diekson, who
were at live in (he I een
Towei nrgaiii/alioii thai ran
a youth recreation cunUif Hi
the Opera House in the
1950s, said to keep faith with
the purpose of Teen Tower,
events for young people
should be encouraged. "I
think it should be restored
but used for multiple
purposes," said Mrs. Dick
soa
The group agreed that the
fliar should be left flat so
that seating could be moved
to make way for dances and
other events
Architect Richard Temp
lin was asked to draw a plan
I laillnurd MM Pa*« *1
Itirharri leinplin I left I discusses possibly emending the stage and other improvements
si die Bastrop Opera House, now under renovation, with Gardinei Seymour ol Hluebonnel
Aires who wauls to donate s pipe urgsn the struiiure. Irmplin is the srrhilerl on the
)ob
hlsll Pluiiii In iaik I iiM'i
him in the hospital.
Snead also presented to
the board an agreement
Worchel had signed. The
document specified that the
Bastrop Hospital Authority
would provide the doctor
with office space and
facilities to practice medi-
cine, necessary personnel,
except for an office nurse,
and the "active support" of
local physicians.
In return, the uew doctor
agreed to "full time" medical
practice, "full service" to the
community, including "on-
call coverage" to the
hospital, to provide his own
office nurse and to assist the
hospital authority in deliver-
ing health care to the
community.
Worchel "would be a great
asset to the community,"
said Snead.
In other action Thursday
the board voted to raise
laboratory charges by 10
percent and to raise the
minimum operating room fee
from $60 to $80.
Snead, in recommending
the increases, said they had
been suggested to him by
the Blue Cross representa
tive who thought Bastrop's
charges were "low." "When
he says you're low. you're
low," said Snead, who
pointed out that Blue Crossd
had an interest in keeping
hospital costs as low as
possible.
Snead also reported that
"year end expenses" in
December had left the
hospital with a deficit o|
li'tfM) ft* thai month.
Special expenses included
$2<1N) in "accounting lees"
lor an audit and income lat
report. fT'JU in dues to the
t oftitMurd on I'smi' III
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