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Judge: Hospital should build nursing home
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Another smash up at the intersection of Texas Highways 71 and 21 sent two persons to
area hospitals Thursday shortly after noon. Lynn C. Hefley, 41, of Ft. Worth, being
examined by emergency medical personnel labove left] was taken for treatment to Austin’s
Brackenridge Hospital. Glenda Rhoades, 22, of Austin, driver of the pickup (at right] was
treated and released from Bastrop Memorial Hospital. According to investigators, Hefley
ran a stop sign as he approached the intersection from the south. Staff Photo by Davis
McAuley.
Smithville gets goals name
By DAVIS McAULEY
County Judge Jack A.
Griesenbeck Thursday called
for preliminary planning for
a nursing home to be
attached to the present clinic
and hospital in Bastrop.
A member of the hospital
board, Griesenbeck urged
other members “not to sit on
our haunches” now that the
hospital clinic is launched
and "it looks like it's going to
work out.”
The judge’s suggestion
came following a report by
Hospital Administrator Ben
Snead that the clinic is
operating near the “break
even point” after three
months and that hospital
occupancy remains high.
Hospital admissions hit an
all-time high of 111 in
January, he said. During
December, 1979, Snead
reported, a hospital occupan-
cy rate of 70.7 per cent
earned the hospital about
$9200. January’s occupancy
rate was 82.2 per cent.
Snead added that some
hospital admissions are
“seasonal" and he does not
expect such high occupancy
to continue indefinitely. Still,
he said the clinic and hospital
are now “doing pretty
doggone good” and the
situation is “very encourag
ing."
MORE BEDS?
Snead joined Griesenbeck
in urging the board to “think
of growth" for the hospital
complex. “We have an ideal
location for a pharmacy," he
pointed out, adding that the
board might consider enlarg
ing the hospital as well as
building or acquiring a
nursing home facility.
If the hospital owned a
100- bed nursing home now,
Snead suggested, it could be
immediately filled to 80 per
cent of capacity. He added
that if hospital operations
are still encouraging “in six
or eight months, then
planning for new construc-
tion might begin “seriously.”
Either an addition to the
hospital or construction of a
nursing home would have to
be preceded by securing a
“certificate of need" from
state health planning agen-
cies.
The Elgin Hospital Dis-
trict is already applying for a
certificate of need, Snead
pointed out, and health
planners would also look at
hospital facilities in Smith-
ville and surrounding coun-
ties.
Obtaining a certificate for
any new construction could
be “a two-year project” in
itself, Snead warned.
Bastrop already has one
nursing home called Bastrop
Nursing Center, located on
the Old Austin Highway
near the hospital. It opened
around nine years ago and
has space for approximately
97 patients. Around 87 were
in residence last^week. The
one-story facility is owned
by National Living Centers.
School candidate files
Jon Pollard of Bastrop
Hills last week became the
first candidate to file for a
seat on the Bastrop Inde-
pendent School Board at the
April 5 election.
Deadline for filings is
March 5 and three seats are
to be filled: those occupied
by Board President Hubert
Linenberger, Clyde Clardy
and Verlin Callahan.
IJnenberger has said he
expects to win.
Pollard is 27 and is a
Datsun auto mechanic, work
ing mostly on a house-call
basis and also at Thurba
Smith’s Fina station.
“I wish to become involved
in the future of the school
system here in Bastrop,” he
said Thursday.
He and his wife, Wendy,
worked as house parents at
the Texas Youth Ranch near
Sniithville’s community
wide effort to set goals for
the 1980s will be called
Communities Together.
The name was selected
last week by the Project
Coordinating Committee
over another suggested
name, PUSH (for People
United for Smithville's Hori
zon). At a meeting to select
the name and set up
standing committees, it was
pointed out that PUSH is
also the name used by a
national organization headed
by Rev. Jesse Jackson,
based in Chicago, and may
be a copyrighted name.
Communities Together
plans to have a series of
meetings in 17 neighbor
hoods to decide on goals for
schools, t ransportation,
housing, jobs, recreation,
health, law enforcement and
other topics. Ten of the
neighborhoo<ls will be within
Smithville. The other
neighborhoods, all belonging
to the Smithville Indepen-
dent School District, are:
Colorado Hill, Kovar, Salem
Jeddo Peach Creek, String
Prarie, Rosanky, Upton,
Alum Creek, Pin Oak,
Center Union and Lake
Thunderbird Indian Lake.
The neighborhood meet
ings are to behyld during
March, April and May.
Data collected at these
meetings will be compiled
into final reports that will go
to government agencies and
elected officials.
All persons helping orga
nize the neighborhood meet
ings will attend a training
session in developing skills
to set up the meetings and
keep them open for maxi
mum opinions and effective-'
ness, the steering committee
said.
In addition to (he steering
committee, other commit-
tees were established last
week: recruitment, public-
ity, speakers bureau, data
collection, finance, meetings
and logistics.
The goals effort started as
an idea within the Smithville
Chamber of Commerce and
has now been accepted by
numerous other groups and
individuals in the Smithville
area. Similar projects have
been completed in Dallas,
Austin and other U.S. cities.
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Austin before moving to
Bastrop. The couple has a
nine-month-old daughter
named Jena. Pollard
graduated from high school
in Teaneck, N.J.'and took
business courses at Lehman
College in the Bronx and at
Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry,
N.Y.
Pollard filed for Seat
Number 7, now held by
Clardy.
Scam
scheme
fails
Roll-over injures four
A one car roll over 6.5
miles west of Bastrop on
Highway 71 sent four
area residents to Bra-
ckenridge Hospital shortly
after 4 a.m. Sal urday.
The driver of the 1964
Rambler, 18-year old David
Mohr, told investigating
officers he fell asleep and the
car ran off the road, reported
Department of Public Safety
Trooper Robert Klaus.
Others injured in the
mishap were John Burns, 24,
Debbie Hawkins, 19, of
Smithville and Deidra Gantt,
18, of Bastrop.
None were seriously in
jured. A Brackenridge
Hospital spokesman describ
ed the injuries as “cuts,
scratches and bruises.”
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Mrs. Brookshire in race
The race for two seats on
the Bastrop City Council got
its second candidate Friday
when Bernadette Brook-
shire, 34, a title abstractor,
filed for the contest at City
Hall.
Restaurant operator
Robert Hoover had filed for
one of the two council seats
previously.
Mrs. Brookshire resides
on Pecan Street, north of
Mesquite.
In recent months she
joined opponents of a
proposed mobile home park
on north Main Street.
Previously she was critical of
the installation of parts of
the Pecan Street drainage
project north of Mesquite.
Spring elections will fill
the council seat presently
held by James DeBaun and
the seat vacated late last
year by Adren “Red” Long.
Deadline for filing for the
two positions is Marctro.
Bastrop Volunteer Firemen extinguished a blaze next to Alum Creek Cabinet Shop
Thursday afternoon. The fire swept around two acres at the shop, located between
Bastrop and Smithville on Highway 71. The shop was not harmed. Fire started when
burning trash got out of control. Staff Photo by Jack Fraser.
A pair of would be
“pidgeon droppers” passed
through Smithville Thurs-
day but failed to locate a
“mark” or victim who would
take their bait, reported
Police Chief Tommy K:
Simon.
The “mark” was contacted
in Wessels grocery, said
Simon, and was offered $20
for a ride to Smithville
Hospital. On the way, the
second member of the
con-artist team was picked
up.
The second man claimed to
have $5,000 in cash he did
not want to take with him
into the hospital. So the two
proposed that the “mark”
take $5,000 of his own money
and “hold” all the cash until
the business in the hospital
was completed.
The whole scam fell
through when the intended
victim refused to put up any
money, according to the
police chief.
“If he had, of course, he
would have been left holding
a red bandana full of cut up
newspaper,” suggested
Simon.
Area law enforcement
Continued on Page 2
Group here to push census
111* Wilson Family provided Gospel and popular music to entertain at the annual Foster
Parents Appreciation Banquet Friday night, held at First Baptist Church in Elgin. See
story on Page 3. Staff Photo by Jack Fraser.
In an effort to entourage
everyone to be counted in
the 1980 census, County
Judge has appointed a
special Complete Count
Committee made up of
Bastrop County residents.
Coordinator of the com
mittee is Mrs. Peggy
Walicek, Bastrop County
District Clerk.
Bastrop County officials
hdrVe said in the past they
don’t think an accuarate
count was made during the
1970 Census and the county
lost federal funds as a result.
“The success of the 1980
census count in Bastrop
County is vitally important,"
Judge Griesenbeck said.
"Not only does our county’s
political representation in
the U.S. Congress and in the
State legislature rest on
census campaign totals, but
large amounts of Federal
and State funds are returned
to Bastrop County each
years based on census
statistics.”
"For example,” he contin-
ued, “in the current budget
year, we are receiving
$165,468 in Federal revenue
sharing funds. The Office of
Revenue Sahring of the U.S.
Treasury uses census popul-
ation and per capita income
figures to allocate these
payments to each commun
ity. If everyone is not
counted, it means our
community will be short-
changed and we will not
receive our fair share of
these tax funds which, after
all, come from our residents
in the first place.”
EDUCATION CAMPAIGN
Judge Griesenbeck said
the Complete Count Commit-
tee will undertake an
Intensive public education
campaign to inform all
resident about the import-
ance of cooperating with the
census. Cenesus questionn-
aires will be delivered to
each household on Friday,
March 28, 1980. Household-
ers are requested to answer
the census questions and
mail them back in the
enclosed preaddressed en-
velopes on Tuesday, April 1.
If a preaddressed envelope is
not provided, householders
are asked to complete the
questionnaire and hold it
until a census worker visits
to pick it up.
Mrs. Walicek, coordinator
of the committee, said
members will be distributing
census flyers and posters to
Bus firm seeking
commuter forms
The Austin-based firm
considering providing com-
muter bus service between
Bastrop and Austin is still
accepting questionnaires
from Bastrop area residents
to determine need for the
service.
Questionnaires can • be
obtained at the offices of The
Bastrop Advertiser or you
may telephone Sheri Nall at
1 928-1660 to tell you of her
interest.
Transportation Enterpris
es, Inc.% (TEI) is the firm
eying service to Bastrop.
The company plans to
depart Bastrop in morning in
time to reach several
convenient locations in Aus-
tin between 7:15 and 7:30
A.M.
Exact time for leaving
Bastrop depends on the
information from the ques-
tionnaires, according to Mrs.
Nall, who works in TEI’s
central office.
The bus would leave
Austin between 5 and 5:15
P.M. to return to Bastrop at
theend of the day.
residents and groups, and
generally endorsing public
cooperation with the census
at every opportunity.
Members of the Complete
Count Committee represent
a broad cross section of the
county. Others appointed to
serve on the committe are:
ALSO NAMED
James P. Sharp, Mayor,
City of Bastrop; Arthur
Johnson, Mayor, City of
Elgin; William R. Davison,
Mayor, City of Smithville;
John W. (Bill) Barton,
County Health and Sanita-
tion Officer; Mrs. Richard
Burdick, Rosanky; Mrs.
Leon T. Miller, Bluebonnet
Acres; Mrs. Quintis Hoer-
man, MsDade; Mrs. Arthur
Goertz, Rockne; Allan Mar-
berger, Paige.
Also, Jewel Taylor, Myr-
tle McMahan, Thelma Davi-
son and Steve Quitta,
Smithville; Rebecca John-
son, Frances Williams and
Blanche Robinson of Eight
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 102, Ed. 1 Monday, February 25, 1980, newspaper, February 25, 1980; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth738050/m1/1/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.