The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1980 Page: 3 of 18
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Thursday. April 17, 1980
THE l»AS IIIOI* ADVERTISER
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Door to Bastrop County history opening
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Spring show by
garden club
The Lost Pines Garden
Club presents "Splendor of
Spring”, a standard place
ment (lower show. In the
home ol Mr. and Mrs. Paul
E. Schneider, 1006 Hill St.
Bastrop , on Saturday, April
19, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The public is invited.
Mrs. Lisa Cleveland is
General Flower Show Chair
man. Mrs. Betty Lehn and
Mrs. Oren Eskew is Co-
Chairman. Mrs. A.E. Jones
is president of the Club.
Sausage Fest
planned at Elgin
Elgin is getting ready to
celebrate spring with the
first Annual Sausage Fest
next week, including variety
shows, a novice tennis
tournament, bike and foot
runs, baseball and a dance.
Most events are set for
Saturday, April 26 although
the tennis competition will
start on Wednesday, April
23 and a Tiny Tot Revue is
set for Tuesday, April 22.
Saturday's festivities start
with 5,000 and 10,000 meter
runs at 9 AM from Elgin
High School. A Bike-a-Thon
to raise money to combat
Cystic Fibrosis is to start at
/?:30 AM. A children’s
fiesta, with face painting and
other events, is scheduled
from 12 to 6 PM.
Food booths with plenty of
Elgin sausage will stay open
from noon to 9 PM at City
Park. The variety show and
dance will be held in the
evening.
Courthouse to get
ramp for handicapped
At the urging of Precinct 1
Commissioner Wilma Wiley,
commissioners agreed Mon
day to install a ramp on the
courthouse steps to make it
possible for disabled persons
to get into the building to
conduct their business.
"We need to have a ramp
poured" agreed County
Judge Jack A. Griesenbeck.
The ramp could also be of
help to some older citizens,
noted Precinct 3 Commis
sioner Jerry Alexander.
After some discussion,
commissioners seemed to
favor installing the ramp on
the east courthouse entrance
facing Pecan Street.
“I'd hate to see it on the
front," said County Clerk
Lucille Fraim.
Watterson spring meet
By GRACEKUNKEL
Doors to the High School
cafeteria will open Sunday
afternoon, April 20, at one
o'clock sharp for Bastrop
County's second annual
Celebration of the Frontier.
At this time members of the
Bastrop County Historical
Society will conduct a guided
tour into the colorful
yesteryears of the county.
During a four-hour exhibi
tion of individual show-and-
tell displays, the Historical
Society will pay homage to
their ancestors, the front
iersmen who helped make
our county and our state
what it is today.
In addition to serving the
Society as a necessary fund
raiser, the event will
commemorate the coming to
Bastrop County of adventur
ous men and women who
believed in its promise and
dared to cling to their
Utopian dreams.
Utilizing their ample lunch
tables, over 30 of which have
already been reserved, des-
cendants of our early trail
blazers will preside over
displays reminiscent of their
family’s way of life long ago.
Displays will contain col
lections of all kinds of
heirlooms, relics, pictures,
Bibles, documents and attic
keepsakes. But the most
important items on exhibit
will be the anecdotes, small
stories and tales of advent
ure which will come straight
from the lips of direct
descendants of old families.
These narratives have been
handed down by word of
mouth from generation to
generation and, though
seemingly inconsequential,
will comprise a vital part of
the Celebration because they
constitute an additional
source of untold and
heretofore unwritten docu
mentation of the life style,
the hopes and loyalties of
early day Texans as they
4 grappled with a new
environment and finally
came to comfortable terms
with the fulfillment of their
destined purpose.
NELIA KERR
In order for visitors to
focus more specifically on
The Watterson Cemetery
Association is holding its
regular Spring Meeting
Sunday, April 27 at the
Watterson Community Cen
Ralph's
Auto Repair
and Mobil Service
General auto and truck repair
Guaranteed work
Tune-ups Brake repairs
Electrical systems
Air-conditioning
815 Chestnut 321-5592
the assembled historical data
offered them during four
brief hours, the planning
committee reluctantly will
forego, at least for this year,
an art show, a formal
program of entertainment
and all music with the
exception of a few appropri
ate solos hy Miss Nelia Kerr
which will signal the close of
Bastrop’s Celebration of the
Frontier, 1980.
In addition to exhibits of
individual families the event
will feature a number of
miniature historical muse
urns, set up on the cafeteria
tables, depicting the various
frontier periods of some of
the county’s communities:
Alum Creek which was once
known as Craft's Prairie and
again as Elm Creek; Rockne,
a community with a compar
atively new name but with
ancient ties to the early
European immigration ex-
peditions which came by way
of Indianola to this county;
Elgin which was once stuck
with the unromantic identifi-
cation of Hog Eye; Smith
ville, a railroad boom town
which was recently awarded
historical marker by the
Texas Historical Commis-
sion; McDade, a town which
deserves, and claims, histor
ical remembrance for better
things than their notorious
lynchings. For one thing,
McDade pottery is now a
rare collectible, sought na-
tion wide by antique
collectors. Cedar Creek, Red
Rock, Hills Prairie, Watter
son and Piney Creek all will
ho represented with table -
top memorabilia, as wdll
historically interesting Black
History collection which will
be presided over by histor-
ian T.C. Franklin, and a
Mexican table is reserved.
DOCTORS TEACHERS
Additionally, there will be
a Doctor’s table and a
Teacher’s table assembled
bv legatees of the traditions
of those special professions.
There will be a collection of
old City Hall minutes with a
rare 1887 city map of
Bastrop, a gun collection, a
display of antique farm tools
and an exhibit of early
registered cattle brands in
ter at 2 p.m.
Dues may be paid at this
time, according to Wallace
Hefner, Treasurer.
Chili Supper
& Cake Auction
$150 Donation
to benefit
The Rosanky
Community Club
for upkeep of the
Community Center
in Rosanky
April 19th 6 PM
Rosanky
Community Center
ANOTHER SHIPMENT OF BOATS
HAS ARRIVED AT MILTON’S
this county along with some
of the original branding
irons. A.A. Sanders will talk
about Bastrop’s seven post
masters and show pictures of
the gas-lit old building.
As a colorful backdrop for
the entire Celebration Becky
Nyc will again sit at her
spinning wheel, exactly as
our grandmothers did, and
spin thread like that which
was woven into homespun
cloth for shirts and childrens
clothing which, we are told,
never wore out. And Mrs.
Anton Beck will be quilting a
hand patched quilt on a
quilting frame, reminiscent
of the intricate finger skills
mastered 'long ago by the
women in every home.
Mrs. James P. Sharp will
display a very old .collection
of pk-tures of people and
places now forgotten or
unknown. She offers them to
persons identifying them’ for
a small donation to the
Historical Society. Judy
Hoover has volunteered to
be on hand with her camera
to take pictures of every
exhibit. These will be placed
in the museum's archives for
future reference.
Light refreshments will be
served by the Citizens State
Bank. The First National
bank will supply the printed
lists of exhibits and the
admission tickets which are
on sale now for $1.50. They
may be bought from
Historical Society members
or at the door on Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Williams,
president of the Bastrop
County Historical Society,
and Mrs. Grace Kunkel,
chairman of the committee
on arrangements, anticipate
a heavy turn-out for this
unique show because of the
financial success of last
year's Celebration and the
many expressions of appreci-
ation it prompted from
viewers with countless re-
quests for “more of the
same" again this year.
Council orders trailer out
The Bastrop City Council
voted unanimously Monday
to cite real estate developer
Rocky Paramore and a
tenant of Paramore’s indus-
trial park on Loop 150 East
for a violation of the city’s
zoning rules unless a moblie
home is removed from the
property within 72 hours.
Paramore appeared with
attorney Allen L. McMurrey
to appeal a resolution passed
last week by city’s Planning
and Zoning Commission
asking that Paramore and
Rainbow Oilfield Trucking
Co. be “cited for violation" of
the ordinance which bars
mobile homes from the city
except in designated mobile
home parks.
The ordinance, passed last
year, provides for fines of up
to $200 a day for violations.
« SECURITY
McMurrey told the council
fhat the mobile home was
moved into Rainbow’s stor-
age year yard "for security
reasons” and that a watch
man stays there at night.
Paramore presented peti-
tions urging the council to
leave it in place since theft
losses have been reduced.
The petitions have 47
signatures, he said.
McMurrey noted that
“permitted uses” in areas
zoned for general commer-
cial use include “mobile
home sales and storage."
According to owners, the
mobile home in Rainbow’s
yard is for sale, he saii.
McMurray added that the
city’s zoning code does not
define what “storage” of
mobile homes means.
Zoning Commission mem-
ber Dr. Curtis McDonald
said the structure was
moved onto the property
after the zoning board
denied Paramore a permit
to locate it there. It is
hooked up to city utilities, he
said.
But “a mobile home does
not reduce crime” or
provide security for goods
stored in the area, he
argued. The guard is the key
to that, he said.
Referring to the zoning
board’s unanimous vote to
cite Paramore and Rainbow
for code violations,.
McDonald said "it is our
opinion” that the building is
“definitely a violation."
He said that a citation for
a code violation should be
handled much like a speed-
ing citation.
“I have complete faith in
the Planning and Zoning
Board,” said Councilman
John Sanders, “and I’m
going to back them up."
Councilman James
DeBaun agreed that Para-
more was "wrong” to allow
the mobile home to be moved
in. He also suggested that
the controversy may have
uncovered “some places in
the zoning code” which
“need to be looked into.”
Bastrop council
Continued from Page 1
ment fund in the black.
•Approved hiring Smith-
ville's half-time dog catcher
to work another half-day five
days a week in Bastrop. The
“animal control person” will
be responsible for catching
strays and keeping records
on impounded animals.
•Authorized Police Chief ;■
Adell Powell to buy another i
radar unit so that each of the '■
city’s patrol cars will be j
equipped to nab speeders, j
Cost of the “rebuilt” unit is i
$895, said Powell.
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1980, newspaper, April 17, 1980; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth735942/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.