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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Thursday, November 16,1995
Issues & Opinions
The Editor's
UNEASY
CHAIR
By Davis McAuley
Bring on the Guard
Texas Land Commissioner Gary Mauro had a
good idea the other day, though some folks in
Austin didn't much like it. As caretaker of state
lands, the commissioner suggested selling or
leasing a big chunk of Camp Mabry in Austin-
Texas National Guard headquarters-for com-
mercial development.
The state has already turned a pretty penny
with other land in the area. No doubt commer-
cial developers would be equally eager to put
together a project along 35th Street and Mo-Pac.
Of course Camp Mabry's residential neigh-
bors are far from pleased. They've become ac-
customed to enjoying the open space and free
use of some of the camp's amenities.
But it's hardly the state's job to provide recre-
ation for an Austin neighborhood. Let them put
it on the block and see what kind of offer floats
to the surface.
In fact Mauro and company might go even
further and study the advantage of offering all of
Camp Mabry for development and relocating the
headquarters functions-say, to Camp Swift.
It's close enough to Austin that keeping in
touch with the Capital should be no problem.
Certainly there's plenty of room at Camp Swift.
I'd be surprised if the cost of new buildings
out here would not be far less than the mid-town
Austin property is worth.
Besides, Bastrop would certainly go out of its
way to make more National Guard folks wel-
Sanders responds to Rosenkrantz
Dear Editor:
come.
In response to the
Rosenkrantz letter:
1.) Who's Jack?
Jack Taylor has been used as
contract labor to bring several
bridges and low water crossings
into compliance with Texas De-
partment of Transportation
standards. School buses were
unable to cross two of these un-
til corrective action was taken.
Jeff Howell of the Texas De-
Psychologists pinpoint indicators Pfrtment f ^P0*3^" was
•' ° r r the inspector. This work was
cover better. Positive thinkers approved by four commission-
Are you happy?
my budget. I believe in putting
every penny possible into the
roads. It would be hard for me
to answer to a constituent on a
dusty rub board road why I was
saving $100,000 of their tax
money and not working on his
or her road.
My budget for this year
started October 1. Until rev-
enues start arriving I have bor-
rowed without any interest
against my budget.
4.) Here are the budgets:
Bastrop - Pet. 1 - $573,596
Smithville - Pet. 2 - $764,236
Cedar Creek - Pet. 3 -
$672,201
Elgin - PcL 4 - $519,680
I stand firm when I say I have
improved and paved as much or
more miles of road than any
Commissioner and with less
money to do so.
Sincerely,
John A. Sanders
Commissioner Pet. 1
Bastrop
Halloween
event termed
a success
Dear Editor:
The members of the Lake
Bastrop Acres Volunteer Fire
Department would like to thank
the LBA and Bastrop Commu-
nity for making our Halloween
festival a wonderful success.
In spite of rain everyone had
a lot of fiin (even with having to
cancel the hayride). We ate chili
dogs, played games, ate candy
and had a costume contest and
everyone seemed to really enjoy
themselves.
Congratulations to the fol-
lowing people for winning the
most original costume contest.
They were: ages 0-1 -Amanda
Noska (7 months old), who was
a clown; ages 1-2 - Matthew
Kogwin (2 years old), a Dalma-
tion dog; ages 3-4 - Dominic
Lamponi (3 years old), Goliath
the Gargoil; ages 5-6 - Mariah
Walker (five years old) Poca-
hantis; ages 6-8 - Andrea
Klockman (8 years old), a bride;
ages 9-12 - Candice Klockman
(10 years old), a devil; ages 12-
adult - Fred Priddy, Jr. (ages
13), Dracula.
Again, congratulations to all
the winners.
The LBA VFD would like to
thank Wal-Mart, HEB, McDon-
ald's, Little Caesar's and all who
donated cakes, pies, cupcakes
and candy to make our festival
the great success it was. Thank
you to our volunteers who
worked to make the evening a
great time for kids of all ages.
Be looking for coming events
for our community.
Marsha Priddy
Lake Bastrop Acres
Some of the most popular
ideas about what makes people
happy are incorrect.
Studies by psychologists
have measured little difference
in happiness between teenagers,
males and females, the middle-
aged and the elderly. Knowing
whether someone is rich or
poor, black or white, healthy or
handicapped, does not make it
possible to predict how happy
that person is likely to be.
Generally, people are as
happy today as their parents
were 30 years ago. Researchers
say that external circumstances
have little effect on psychologi-
cal well-being. They agree that
the following four inner traits
foster happiness:
• Sclf-Esteem-Those who
are happy like themselves. They
protect themselves from anxiety
and depression by feeling good
about themselves. Those who
believe positive things about
themselves suffer less from ul-
cers and insomnia and are less
likely to abuse drugs.
They tend to be more resis-
tant to pressures to conform and
arc more persistent at difficult
(asks.
• Personal Control-Ameri-
cans who have a strong sense
that they control their own lives
and feel satisfied with them-
selves are twice as likely to be
very happy as the national aver-
age. Those who agree with
statements like 'what happens to
me is my own doing' or 'the av-
erage person can influence gov-
ernment decisions' typically do
better in school, cope better
with stress and live more hap-
pily than those who lack that
sense of personal control.
Those given little control
over their environment such as
prisoners or even people in
nursing homes suffer from
lower morale, greater stress and
worse health.
•Optimism-Optimistic peo-
ple tend to be healthier as well
as happier. They suffer less
from illnesses and tend to re-
get positive results, succeeding
better in business than pes-
simists.
However, unrealistic opti-
mism can make people believe
they are invulnerable and stop
them from taking sensible steps
to avoid danger.
• Socializing-Those who are
more sociable and outgoing tend
to be happier and more satisfied
with life than introverts. Extro-
verts are cheerful and high-spir-
ited people who like themselves.
When they meet strangers, they
are confident the strangers will
like them as well.
ers, the county judge and the
county auditor.
2. ) Why have a secretary?
I have a secretary to respond
to problems. She handles dis-
patch (radio and telephone)
many times for all four
precincts. She makes street
signs for all four precincts and
handles 911 grant reimburse-
ments.
She does not make $16,500.
She makes $14,300.
3. ) Why am I borrowing
money?
I have never in my seven
years in office ever overspent
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