The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, April 14, 1980 Page: 2 of 10
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Monday, April 14,1980
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The Lost Pines
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\ Foot-in-mouth disease:
ne of our more likeable
_ cal politicians was out
campaigning in the pine
forests a week ago.
Snowing road conditions
>eren’t the best, he explain-
ed how he wanted to help out
J>y getting a new road put
through the area. The lady
pf the house said that
pounded fine but where
£ould he put it? The office
)Oeker pulled out a map and
Showed her a line for the
jiew route. Horrified, the
lady said, “Why, that would
go right through my place!
Get out of here!"
;<• Randy Gautier said he
tieard this amusing slip of
the lip from a speaker at a
recent UT seminar: “Good
morning ladies and gentle-
men. It’s always good to be
addressing members of the
mess media.
***
We liked the tag hitched
to the rear pocket of a
sizzling Smithville lass at the
reviewing stand for the river
city’s big Jamboree Parade
Saturday: “This wiggle
declared lethal.” ....The
weather didn’t co-operate
last week for the annual
blowout but the mood of the
crowds did. Although there
were a few more arrests this
year than last and more
noticeable drunks, in general
the spectators had the kind
of mellow vibrations that
you feel at Bastrop’s
Homecoming, which occurs
in the good old summer heat
of August. Trici Welborn
from Victoria told us she
always enjoys the Smithville
event because, like the
Bastrop Homecoming, it is
obviously staged by ama-
teurs and the things that
always go wrong are what
appeals to her. “I like the
parade being late,” she said.
“Parades ought to be late so
you get keyed up waiting."
...It was so cold Saturday
that we saw two women take
quilts they were trying to
sell and wear them instead.
One young lady set to ride on
a float tried to use a paper
towel to ward off the chill...
The crowd also seemed to
enjoy the A&M mounted
calvary unit’s touch of humor
which utilizes a comely gal to
propel an orange wheelbar-
row with the letters UT on
it, right behind the horses....
Dwight Harris ran out of
chicken at his food booth but
it was a slow day for
lemonade sales. Also spotted
Barbara- Michna, Dr. Earl
Walborg, Gary Reynolds and
other worthies spreading
around some of Smithville’s
best vittles.... Jill Turner,
campaigning for Coiflfty Tax
Assessor-Collector, attract-
ed attention in a Model A
Ford driven by Mark Kelley.
***
Llano News Publisher Hal
Cunningham reports “tid-
ings of comfort and joy from
one of our playful friends:
'Eat a live toad every
morning and nothing worse
can happen to you all day'.”
•**
L.M. Boyd asks, “How
many of the five best selling
books during the last 60
years have been sex novels?
None have been novels of
any sort. These top five
include two cookbooks, a
dictionary, a child care
volume and a book of
records.”
***
“I tried to tell him,” Ray,
the taxi driver was saying as
he eased his vehicle on to
NorthjCaniparl Street. "I've
had live businesses, you
know, and each one was
successful. I just didn’t like’
t hem so I sold ’em.” Ray was
talking about A1 Hirt, the
trumpet great who always
seems to be topic number
two in New Orleans. (Topic
Number One is how late you
stayed up the night before).
According to Ray, Hirt had
fallen on tough times and
was scrambling to pay off
debts. "He opened a big
place down in the French
Market,” said Ray, "called
St. Cecile’s after his wife. I
said it wouldn’t go over
down there. Too far away
from other places like it. He
lost a bundle. Then he
turned it into a po’ boys
place and lost another
bundle. Now he's back on
Bourbon Street playing
every night. If he'd just
have listened to me..." But
people don’t pay much
crop harvested each year by
New Orleans. It used to be
that the scintillating mixture
of creole and haute French
cooking, perhaps the best
food in the United States,
could be obtained cheaply
and hotel rooms also were
reasonable. Inflation and too
much tourist business has
changed all that and prices
have climbed into the
stratosphere. Still it's worth
hoarding dimes and dollars
for a year to enjoy a few
days in the South’s most
endlessly fascinating town....
The Dukes of Dixieland are
still holding out atop the
restored Monteleone Hotel
where you might see
Elizabeth Bentley of Hous
ton, wjio installed her
82-year-old mother in a patio
apartment in the Quarter
she wouldn’t grow old
without music and friends
around (It also helped to
have Bentley oil money to
World War II, at (he edge of
the New Orleans County
Club. Mrs. Stern, still alive
at 85, has turned the house
over to a foundation and it’s
open, along with the
gardens, to the public. Fart
English manor house, part
neo-classical temple and part
old Louisiana plantation
house, the estate offers an
upusual and satisfying col
lection of rooms with the
influence of the 1940s
circles of light, colors you
don’t see used together
much now, such as black,
rose and green. In addition
to lucite art works and
Chippendale chairs, you can
also see bedrooms with
Murphy wall beds. Appar
ently a $2 million house
didn't have space for over
night guests in their own
rooms.... And in case you
think it’s all dark, rich coffee,
jazz bands blaring away at
free concerts in Jackson
®|jt Bastrop abucrtiStr
Published Monday and Thursday at the Bastrop Advertiser office, 1006 Main Street,
Bastrop, Texas 78602. Second Class Postage paid at the Bastrop, Texas Post Office
78602. An independent, home-owned newspaper, uon-sectarian, non-partisan, devoted
to the welfare of the people of Bastrop County. Subscription rates $8.50 per year,
p^ymblth advance. j«k Frmr - Pabiah.r
Jerry Appel - Business Manager
Davis McAuley - News Editor
Rob Riggs - Director of Marketing and Sales
Katherine Reynolds, Kathleen Claps, Jai Dev Kaur Khalsa - Production
Chris Cice - Photography, Production
Bob StandVer, Fay Pannel,
Richard Cochran, Janine Peters - Circulation
BASTROP ADVERTISER IUSPS 045-020]
MEMBER TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION 1980
A fire came in handy for these chilled bystanders waiting for the Smithville Jamboree
Parade.
attention to the advice of
others in old New Orleans
which dates back to at least
1721 and is mostly below sea
level. The city supports
around 1,100 churches
but the prevading philoso-
phy seems to be “eat, drink
and be merry." And Texans
seems to be the main money
Change of Address?
Write:
Bastrop Advertiser
Box 159
Bastrop, Texas 78602
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When the people elect
a representative...
they don’t expect
their elected officials
to talk one way
and vote another.
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Wilson VS. Wilson on Crime
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1979 - 66th Legislature:
John Wilson voted against a
motion which would have allowed a
committee to consider limited wire-
tapping legislation a vital part of
our anti-crime package necessary to
fight organized crime.
Wilson's vote helped kill the wire-
tapping bill.
1980 - Campaign Speech:
Wilson told an audience in Belton
that he supported electronic
surveillance legislation.
If he supports it... why did he
effectively kill the legislation in 1979?
Jimmy Carroll is running for the State Senate because
he believes the people deserve straight answers to
important issues. When Jimmy Carroll votes in
Austin , . . hell vote the way he talks . . . and
that's a promised
Vote lor Jimmy Carroll... a leader for the future... a
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for by the jimmy Orroll Campaign, Gerald M Brown, Treasurer, P.O. Box 307, Temple, Texaa 76501
-pay the bills)... Despite a
building boom in the 1970s
that added office towers and
gleaming hotels, New Or
jeans for many hometowners
remains a poor town
measured by per capita
income. Jim Glassman,
founder of the fiesty tabloid
Figaro, who is now an editor
of the Washingtonian maga-
zine, says New Orleans isn’t
a very good town for mass
media because “and I don’t
!f want to sound elitist, but the
truth is it’s not a very well
educated, not a very well-off
city..” ... But what a city!
Spring brings lillies and
fresh green growth to
Longue Vue, the great city
estate built by Edith and
Edgar Stern (She was a
Sears Roebuck heiress. He
was in cotton) just before
Zone goes
to Council
Bastrop Councilmen Mon-
day night are set to consider
rezoning a parcel of land at
Newton and Jeffersons
streets-4buth of Highway 71
for a real estate office for
K.C. Land Co.
The city’s Zoning Commis-
sion last month approved the
change from A-0 to C-3
zoning although there were
some protests from resi-
dents in the area. The
commission’s majority said
the site was a logical
commercial, highway fron-
tage location.
The Council has also been
asked to reappoint James
Kershaw and John Weiting
to the Bastrop Hospital
Authority Board.
City Manager C.W. Patek
is also asking the Council for
Square and stars gleaming
above rooftops like no
others, New Orleans Super-
dome will see $284,000 this
fiscal year and two burglars
at 615 Dufessat Street last
week opened a jar and
tossed a cottonmouth moc-
cassin snake onto a woman
just to make sure she didn't
give them trouble. Even a
nice city, if it has 700,000
inhabitants, is going to have
its problems.
***
Our massive staff of
accredited press photogra-
phers was busy putting new
film into its cameras when
Texas A&M’s mounted cal-
vary came moving down the
Smithville Jamboree Parade
Saturday. The young riders
moved so fast on their smart
looking horses that we didn’t
get a picture. But another
A&M event is coming up
that we surely won’t miss.
It’s the Annual Aggie
Muster April 21 at the Magic
Mill Restaurant. There’s no
truth to the speculation that
the Battle of San Jacinto will
be re-enacted in the parking
lot of Sims Chevrolet across
the way, Aggie honcho
Chuck Holt reassured us.
But there will be plenty of
talk about the good old days
at College Station. What we
want to find out from any
visiting Aggie professor is
how the all-hamburger cow
is coming and when we will
be able to make gasoline out
of peanuts.
approval to submit an
application to Farmers
Home Administration for a
loan to pay part of the cost of
a new Piney Creek bridge.
The meeting is set to start at
7:30 p.m„ April 14 at City
Hall.
OK Sloan
Concrete Contractor
Foundations, Driveways,
Patios, Mobile Home Pads.
References furnished
321-3541
Joe Shirley
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MONDAY
I he Bastrop! ity ( oun
cil meets the second
Monday of each month at
7:30 p m. at Bastrop City
Hall.
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| he Smithville School
Board meets at 7 p.m. the
third Monday of every
month in the Board Room
of the Administrative
Building in Smithville.
OOO
I he Elgin School Board
meets the first and third
Monday of every month
at 7:30 p m. at the School
\dministrative Building
in Elgin.
OOO
I he Bastrop County
Commissioners’ (ourt
meets the second and
fourth Monday of each
month at 9 a m. in the
Commissioners’ (ourt-
room, Bastrop County
Courthouse.
OOO
’I he Smithville City
Council has their regular
meeting at 7 p.m. the
second Monday of each
month at Smithville City
Hall. I he Smithville
l ight and Mater Board
meets at 7 p.m. the third
Monday of each month at
Smithville City Hall.
OOO
Missionary Fellowship
Circle of U.M.VV. meets
the second Monday of
each month at First
United Methodist Church
OOO
The Bastrop Chamber
of Commerce meets at 12
noon the fourth Monday
of each month.
TUESDAY
The National Associa-
tion of Retired Federal
Employees meets the
fourth 'I uesday at 2 p.m.
at Citizens State Bank.
OOO
The Bear Barkers meet
every Tuesday night
during football season.
'I lye meetings are held in
the high school cafeteria
at 7:3(1 p.m.
OOO
I he Bastrop Lions
Club meets the second
and fourth Tuesday at
noon at the Castle
Restaurant.
OOO
Ihe Smithville Hospit-
al Board meets the fourth
’I uesday of each month at
7:3(1 p.m. at Smithville
Hospital.
OOO
The Bastrop Volunteer
Eire Dept, meets the
first, third, and last
1 uesday of every month
at 7:30 p.m. at the fire
station in Bastrop.
OOO
'Ihe PI A meets' every
third Tuesday at the
High School Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m.
OOO
The Elgin City Council
meets the first Tuesday
of each month at 7:30
p.m. at Elgin City Hall.
OOO
'Ihe Elgin Volunteer
Fire Dept, meets the
fourth Tuesday of each
month at 7:30 p.m. at
Elgin Fire Dept.
OOO
Band Boosters Club
meets the second Tues-
day of each month at 8
p.m. in the High School
Band Hall.
OOO
The Bastrop School
Board meets at 8 p.m. the
second and fourth Tues-
day o* each month in the
Administrative Building
Board Room in Bastrop.
WEDNESDAY
Ihe Hospitality House
Senior Citizens Center,
I (Ml Villa View Drive,
Smithville, has meetings
(he first and third
M ednesday of each
month. Covered dish
lunch; “12" begins at 10
a m. On alternate Med
nesdays there are crafts,
"12,” and a pot-luck
lunch.
OOO
Ihe Smithville (ham
her of Commerce meets
(he third Mednesday of
each month at 7:30 p.m.
at Smithville ( ity Hall.
OOO
Ihe Improved Order of
Itedmen meets the third
M ednesday of each
month, at 8 p.m. at the
Itedmen Lodge.
OOO
The Improved Order of
Redmen Auxiliary meets
the fourth Mednesday of
each month at 8 p.m. at
805 Main Street.
OOO
Conway Diet Class
meets each Mednesday
at 7:30 p.m. in the Baron
Room. Citizens State
Rank For more informa
(ion. call 321-2608.
OOO
THURSDAY
Smithville DAV ( hap-
ter 207 and Ladies
Vuxiliarv meets the third
Ihursday each month at
7:30 p m. at Smithville
Hospitality House.
OOO
Calvary Baptist Ladies
Bible class meets the first
'I hursday of every month
at 2:30 p.m.
OOO
Ihe Bastrop Hospital
Board meets the second
Ihursday of each month
at I p.m. at Bastrop City
Hall.
OOO
Ihe Elgin Hospital
Board meets the second
Ihursday of each month
at 7:30 p.m. at the Elgin
Bank Conference Room.
OOO
The Smithville Volun-
teer Fire Dept, meets the
■ econd and fourth Thurs-
day of each month at 7:30
p.m. at Smithville Fire
Station.
OOO
Ihe Elgin Chamber of
Commerce meets the
first I hursday of each
month at 7:30 p.m. at
'lexas Power & Light
Civic Room.
OOO
Itastrop American Le-
gion Post 5,33 Ladies
Auxiliary meets the
second I hursday of each
month at 7:30 p.m. at the
Post Home.
OOO
Rastrop American Le-
gion Post 533 meets the
first I hursday of each
month at 7:30 p.m.
, OOO
’I he Sons of the
American Legion meets
the third Tuesday of each
month at 7:30 p.m. at the
American Legion Hall
Post 533 in Bastrop
OOO
FRIDAY
Ihe Bastrop County
Historical Society meets
every fourth Friday at
the Bastrop Museum.
OOO
Ihe Senior Citizens of
Bastrop meet the second
and fourth Friday of each
month at 2 p.m. at the
Combined Community
Action Agency Center,
703 Spring Street.
OOO
Citizens Bank Ladies
Coffee is held the first
Friday of each n.onth in
the Baron's Room from
9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
COME ENJOY
ENERGY-SAVINS
ONE-STOP
FRIENDLY BANKING!
----J Member F QIC
P O Bom 457 Battrop. T#its 79602 (512) 321 2516
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, April 14, 1980, newspaper, April 14, 1980; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth738861/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.