The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1990 Page: 3 of 48
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Elgin police solve
single vandalism
Thursday, March 1, 1990
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Elgin police announced they
have solved one of a recent string
of vandalism incidents which has
plagued Elgin High School.
In the past two months vandals
have broken glass windows and
doors at the school.
from 14 to 17, were brought be-
fore Municipal Judge Charlie
Smith who remanded them to the
custody of their parents.
The case is now with juvenile
authorities.
Elgin police also arrested a man
According to a police investiga- Saturday who was wanted in two
tor, one of the vandals of the Jan. other counties on charges of theft
22 incident confessed to police re- by appropriation.
cently.
Police say their investigations are
continuing.
Another recent crime was solved
when seven juveniles walked into
the Elgin police headquarters last
Tuesday and confessed to bur-
glarizing the concession stand at
the Wildcat baseball park last Mon-
day evening, said an investigator.
According to a police report, an
Elgin Elementary school P.E.
teacher was jogging along the 1000
block of N. Ave. F when he no-
ticed a group of juveniles carrying
bags of candy and walking away
from the baseball park.
He yelled at them and chased
them, but they dropped the candy
and fled.
The teacher called police, who
contacted the manager of the con-
Michael Ward Shagart, 30, of
Barton was initially stopped on
charges of exhibition of accelera-
tion of a motor vehicle, making an
unauthorized U-turn, public intox-
ication and resisting arrest.
Police later found out about the
warrants issued in Matagorda and
McKinney counties.
Shagart was released on $3,000
bail and paid fines on the Elgin
charges.
In other police business:
*A home at 801 McDade Road
in Elgin was burglarized between
Feb. 24 and Feb. 25. The thieves
made off with a VCR valued at
$600 and a piggy bank containing
$30 worth of pennies.
♦Burglars at 140 Jackson Street
made off with goods valued at
Section I, Page 3
Richards receives
Smithville award
Mayor Vernon Richards
received Smithville’s Outstanding
Citizen Award at a well-attended
Chamber of Commerce banquet
Saturday night.
Chamber President Margaret
Mick said it was very successful
with about 350 people attending
this year compared to about 300
last year.
Richards later said about his
honor, “It is gratifying to receive
such an award. However, awards
like this are usually not resting on
one person’s contribution but those
of many people...In my case as
mayor, it was not an individual
effort.”
He cited an outstanding city
council, good city employees and
the contribution of the time, talents
and resources of many citizens for
the achievements credited to him.
Mick listed among Richard’s tri-
umphs the city beautification
project, the progress of the Rail-
road Historical Park, completion of
the City Hall Annex, an addition
to the public library and helping set
up the Roving Volunteers in
Christ’s Service retirement com-
munity in south Smithville.
She noted that during Richard’s
administration Smithville won first
place in the Lower Colorado River
Authority Environmental awards
and fourth in the Keep Texas Beau-
tiful awards.
Richards, in his second year as
mayor, was a former director and
president of the Chamber, and is
a member of the Methodist Church
and Lion’s Club.
Mayor Vernon Richards
Brehm attends barbeque
Raymond C. Brehm of San An-
tonio, a grand trustee of the Order
of the Sons of Hermann in Texas,
will represent the Grand Lodge
a.m., the event will be held at the
Paige Hermann Sons Hall, an-
nounced Norris Harmon, lodge
resident. Cost is $4 for adults and
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cession stand. He confirmed that $3,725 which included a computer, Sunday, March 4, at the annual $2 for children age 12 or under,
the candy did come from the con- a VCR and firearms, some time on March barbeque sponsored by the
cession stand and that it was all
there.
The stand had been forcibly
entered.
The suspects, ranging in age
Feb. 23.
* A TV valued at $210 was taken
by burglars from a home at 413 S.
Ave. C, during the morning of
Feb. 19.
Home Association of the Paige
Hermann Sons Family Lodge No.
154.
Beginning with dinner at 11:30
Stabbed prisoner flown
by Star Flight helicopter
Elgin
A Bastrop prison inmate suffer-
ing multiple stab wounds was
flown to an Austin hospital
Saturday.
Eulaio Vasquez-Lopez, 46,
received stab wounds to his right
thigh, left shoulder and right rib
cage around noon Feb. 24. He was
allegedly stabbed while in the
recreation yard of the Federal Cor-
rectional Institute, according to
Public Information Officer Tony
Forum
Medellin.
Vasquez was taken by Star Flight
Helicopter to Brackenridge Hospi-
tal where he is in stable condition,
Medellin said Monday.
Medellin said the Federal Bureau
of Investigation is looking into the
incident.
A detainee of the Immigration
and Naturalization Service,
Vasquez has been held for two and
a half years, Medellin said.
■ Continued from Page 1, Section I
BISD
resort.
Griesenbeck disagreed. “Tax
abatement is used to encourage in-
dustry (to locate here) to give 50
or 100 jobs to people.” He empha-
sized that bringing in jobs was an
important concern for the county
judge.
When questioned on protecting
the loblolly pines, Blaschke noted
the county’s limitations on private
property, “Landowners have a
right to cut down their trees. ’ ’ He
said to encourage people to raise
trees, growing them would have to
be a profitable operation.
Responding to questions about
the subdivision laws, Blaschke said
the county is paying for non-
compliance to early subdivision
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have put that in the regulations to
start with, we would just have to
maintain those streets now.’’ He
said new residents now want the
county to pave those streets.
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An auction is scheduled at 2
p.m., and a free dance will follow
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It is similar to equipment found
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• Continued from Page 1, Section I
In the other open BISD race, Bill
Tomsu filed as a candidate for the
Place 4 seat currently held by Clar-
ence Vinklarek.
Vinklarek has not filed for ree-
lection.
Tomsu, 41, said he is running at
the request of parents and teachers.
“I‘m concerned about
academics—low TEAMS scores
and losing good teachers from the
system,” he said. “I also hope to
reopen communications between
the board, teachers and staff.”
At the same time he said a new
school superintendent should not
be named until after the election.
“They should let the new board de-
cide,” he said.
Announced plans to fill the
vacancy created by the Jan. 31
retirement of Superintendent Pat
Deviney call for naming a perma-
nent successor by May 1.
“That is totally wrong,” Tom-
su said.
In Elgin, Keith Weber filed to
challenge incumbent EISD trustee
Robert Lundgren who also filed for
reelection to the Place 1 seat.
Incumbent Melissa Pugh filed
for reelection to Place 2 on the El-
gin school board. »
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4-H Garage Bake Sale
March 3,8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Cedar Creek School House
Announcing a S.H.C.C. Spaghetti Dinner
County Judgeship Candidates
will Speak and Answer Questions
at3:00
★ ★ ★Food!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★Drink!
When:Saturday, March 3
Where: VFWHallonFM20
Time: 2:00pm until 5:00 pm
Price:$3.50Adults/$2.00 Child
Bring The Whole Family!
Patrick Nelson Bartsch Memorial Fund
FUNDRAISER
To Pay For Medical & Funeral Expenses of
Infant Son Of Bubba Powell & Phyllis Bartsch
Dance & Auction
Friday, March 9, from 8 to 12
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FOR INFORMATION ON AUCTION CALL:
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