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Bastrop, Texas
Saturday, March 28,1992
Lindsey Hickman
Smithville student
dislikes ‘space food’
Smithville fifth grader Lindsey
Hickman is having trouble
deciding whether to be a lawyer,
archeologist or interior decorator
when she grows up, but she’s not
limiting herself necessarily to
those fields.
Lindsey, the daughter of Dan
and Karen Hickman, recently
tried her hand at being an
astronaut when she attended
Space Camp in Titusville, Florida
between March 8-13.
lb get there she took her second
plane ride, but it was her first solo
trip-without mom or dad.
“I wasn’t scared at all. It was
an adventure,” she said, smiling.
She won the all-expense paid
trip from the “Blast Off
Sweepstakes” offered last sum-
mer by H.E.B. and Coca Cola.
“I picked up eight entry forms
one Saturday while Mom and I
were shopping. My dad filled
them out with me and mailed
them off,” according to Lindsey.
“Lindsey walked around the
house for two months claiming
she was going to win, but of
course we were quite surprised
when the notice came October 29
announcing she had,” said her
mother.
The young adventurer spent the
EISD gains volunteers
Elgin school trustees plan to
renovate a football stadium con-
cession stand and restrooms with
the help of volunteers from two
booster clubs.
Parents in the athletic and
band booster clubs have
volunteered their labor to the pro-
ject, said EISD Superintendent
Dr. Paul Willis.
The decision was made at
Thursday’s board meeting for the
school district to purchase the
materials and supplies and the
volunteers will do the work.
The school district will be
responsible for tearing down the
existing structures and pouring
new concrete slabs.
The volunteers will then erect
a new concession stand and one
restroom facility to serve both
sides of the field, including plum-
bing and electricity. They will
also put up a restraining fence
around the field to keep spec-
tators in the stands, the
superintendent said.
According to Willis, the same
arrangement was made with the
clubs when the press box was
built. Their assistance saved the
district some $45,000 in labor
costs, he said.
In other Elgin school business,
trustees agreed to install a vic-
tory bell near the American flag
at the football stadium to com-
See EISD, p. 2
Cash raised for bond campaign
$3,000 kitty sought to explain building needs
By Janice Butler
Staff Writer
Bastrop Independent School
District has received at least
$1400 in donations from citizens to
prompt? passage of an upcoming
$16 million construction bond
election.
More contributions are ex-
pected and can be deposited in
the “For the Kids” account at
Victoria Bank and Trust, accor-
ding to superintendent Dr. Paul
Fleming.
The funds will be used to
educate local taxpayers on the
bond proposal by illustrating the
benefits for BISD students, thus
rallying support by the May 2
election date.
The committee of citizens,
teachers, parents and school
trustees met Thursday evening at
the central administration office
to discuss possible strategies for
the campaign.
Gary Workman and Allen Pape
will head the group as co-
chairmen. Kay Wesson is the
treasurer.
In the five weeks until the elec-
tion, volunteers will be telephon-
ing registered voters, knocking on
doors, passing out flyers, mailing
out information packets and
speaking to clubs, organizations
and church congregations to push
their “For the Kids. We can afford
it” theme.
One of their weapons is a video
tape illustrating deteriorating
See BOND ISSUE, p. 2
Resident sues Elgin police, claims abuse
Civil rights violated, he says
An Elgin man has filed suit
against the city and three former
Elgin policemen, alleging civil
rights violations.
Filed in 335th District Court in
Bastrop on behalf of Rufugio
Jyarez, the civil action names as
defendants the city along with
former police chief David Cam-
pos and officers Louis Alba and
Eddie Matthews.
Attorneys Gerald Smith of
Austin and Lamar Wiginton of •
Bastrop claim that shortly before
midnight March 30,1990 officers
Alba and Matthews appeared at
Juarez’ residence on Ave. A,
demanding to see him.
When Juarez appeared, the of-
ficers tore open a screen door and
“began violently to beat (Juarez)
about the head, arms, torso and
legs with a billy club and
flashlight,” according to the suit.
ASH SEEKERS
week with 66 other students tc
ing the Astronaut Hall of Fai
where her favorite exhibit was
rockets, and the Kennedy Sp
Center and its launch pad.
She and her group saw thre
Max movies, played w
spaceship simulators, mj
rockets (her favorite) and
space food (Lindsey’s le
favorite).
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really neat. On one we drov
real moon buggy, but it had r
tires instead of space tii
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we were abledo bounce re£
high,” she said.
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but it was hahd to walk aroun
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to make their own rockets.
“We made our rockets w
paper and plastic, then decora
them. When we finished, c_.
group leader put a launching part
in the rockets,” Lindsey said. “We
pushed a button to launch them
and it was really exciting, but
mine got stuck in a tree.”
“We ate space food, but it’s
really gross,” she said. “It’s all
See SPACE CAMP, p. 2
Some Friends of the Pleistocene, in town for early earth studies, took their lunch outside Bastrop
State Park’s Refectory Friday.
Earth scientists view site
Smithville ash tied to Yellowstone volcano
eruption known to scientists,--
some 625,000 years ago.
The Smithville deposit is about
one meter thick and originally
covered a wide area, including all
of Bastrop County, said Mandel.
“The rest of it has eroded
By Davis McAuley
Editor
More than 100 scientists and
students toured geological sites in
Bastrop County Friday, including
• a rare and revealing volcanic ash
deposit near Smithville believed
to be 625,000 years old.
The occasion was the three-day
annual field trip of Friends of the
Pleistocene, so called because of
the group’s interest in the last 2.5
million years of the earth’s
history.
The group includes geologists,
archeologists, paleontologists,
geographers, soil scientists and
students in related disciplines.
This year’s outing is focused on
the Inner Gulf Coast Plain, and
the Smithville site holds a key to
understanding how the area
developed and changed over time,
said Dr. Rolfe Mandel, professor
of geology at the University of
Nebraska as he waited for lunch
at Bastrop State Park’s
Refectory.
The site has been known for
almost 20 years, said Mandel, but
only recently have scientists tap-
ped its important secret.
A key development was winn-
ing landowner permission to dig
into the site and study the unusual
material.
That study revealed a layer of
volcanic ash on top of an ancient
bahk of the Colorado River.
Because the river's flow con-
tinues to cut deeper and deeper
into the earth, the ash deposit now
lies on a terrace above the river.
The most exciting revelation,
says Mandel, is that the ash
fellfollowing a monster volcanic
blast from the valley of the
Yellowstone River in what is now
Montana-the most powerful
away,” he said.
Ash deposits from the
Yellowstone eruption are known
across the Mid West as far south
as Oklahoma, but the Smithville
site is the southernmost
discovered to date and the only
one along what is now the Inner
Gulf Coast, according to Mandel.
The San Antonio native who
studied geology at UT-Austin,
said he’s been interested In the
site since he was a graduate
student.
- Because the ash can be dated,
those studying how the natural
See ASH FALL, p. 2
Subsequently, the suit goes on,
officers Steve Huckabay, Bob
Boles and B. Hernandez joined in
the alleged attack before Juarez
was arrested and taken to Elgin’s
city jail where he was held
overnight.
Juarez claims he had $1,500 in
See ELGIN SUIT, p. 2
McDade’s
still short
for board
There seems to be some lack of
interest in the McDade Indepen-
dent School District. Only one
person filed for place on the May
2 ballot despite openings in
Places 1, 2 and 3.
By the March 18 filing deadline
30-year-old Wayne Skubiata was
the sole name on the ballot. He
will represent Place 2.
However Superintendent
Thomas Bacca said he is not
worried.
“We asked our attomeysabout
the situation. They said if no one
files for the seat, it defaults to the
incumbent. Only if the incumbent
insists on retiring will the seat be
vacated,” he said.
“The school board, which is
normally a seven-member board,
would appoint someone to the
position until the next school
board election,” Bacca said.
The incumbents for the three
places are Freddie Wilson, Mike
Haley and Buddy Lewis.
“Of course write-in candidates
have until April 2 to file, and at
least two applications had been
picked up as of Thursday,” accor-
ding to Bacca.
Bastrop eyes
new EMS pact
Tuesday the Bastrop City Coun-
cil will consider a series of con-
tract changes proposed by City
Man&ger JoAnn Wilcoxen to beef
up local ambulance service and
emergency medical care.
Members of an informal citizen
group which approached the
council on the issue March 24 are
also expected to be on hand.
Instead of renewing the city’s
subsidy contract with Bastrop
Community EMS this year, the
council may decide to solicit fresh 1
service proposals, Mrs. Wilcoxen
said Friday.
The current contract, expires
this summer. ^
Sparked by tier own concern
See EMS, p. 2
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