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Musings
By J. Troy Hickman
THE ANN LANDERS
DIVORCE
When it was announced in
the paper* that Jackie Kennedy
had married a wealthy Greek
business man who was said to
be old enough to be her father,
a Washington D.C. wit obser
ved, "There goes the last wall
of Comelot!" Someone else
replied, "No, we still have
l«awrence Welk and Ann
lenders left."
Now comes the word that
Ann lenders and her husband
of many years are planning a
divorce. Probably many regular
readers are thinking, "No!
Please say it isn't so!" Such
things are sometimes patched
up at the last moment; but as of
this writing the news of the rift
has reached the papers.
Why should the readers who
follow her column be so shaken?
Doctors often come down with
the same diseases they seek to
prevent and treat in other
person*. Phychiatrists some
times wind up as patients in
hospitals for the emotionally ill.
Lawyers have b«'en known to
run afoul of the law. Preachers
have Ix-en known to disappear
with the Sunday offering or the
church organist.
Good artists sometimes paint
bad pictures, and the best cook
will now and then make a flop of
a favorite dish. Scientists
frequently do very unscientific
things, and famous bankers
have gone broke.
So now, if Ann lenders, who
has so often advised others
about !h«*ir marriage problems,
makes a bobble of her own
marriage, it simply proves that
she is a fallible human being, as
the rest of us are. One does not
have to be infallible in order to
be helpful
Some years ago 1 was a
member of a class of seminary
students. We were considering
the validity of offirial clerical
acts when performed by a
minister or priest who was at
the moment not in a good state
of grace. Would baptism or a
wedding performed by a
clergyman whose heart was not
right with God, affect the
validity of the ceremony'.' From
the time of the earliest church
conferences, the answer has
been that such acts are valid, if
the clergyman at the time is
acting under si recogniaed
appointment of his church
body. Th<- reason is that the
power or grace which he
represent* is transmitted from
its real source, the church body,
through the minister or prie*t,
who acts merelv as *n agent
who transmits it.
Applying that principle to
Ann Landers and her column, I
*e«- her long career as an
advisor us a valid, helpful, and
distinguished one, perhaps
never surpassed by anyone else
in that field. For decades, this
Jewish woman has dispensed
good counsei far and wide. You
and i may not always agree
with ail that she thinks or says;
but we are not supposed to, for
each of us has a head and heart
of his own. She is as near a*
many persons ever gel to moral
instruction
I have never known her to
give what 1 thought was a bad,
or immoral, or foolish sugges
tion to a client. Her counsel is
sound, sensible, and usually
very practical. It is delivered in
V few crisp, plain words which
can he understood and applied
by anyone Frequently, the
reply will have some humor in
it, or a little judicious satire
•Ann ha* Ix-en priest, rabbi,
psychiatrist, mother, lawyer,
doctor, and a good friend to
thousands who have written in
to her column to describe
(See MUSINGS Page 2)
Odessa Man In
Narcotics Ring
Arrested Here
Tommy Parr of Odessa is
being held in the Bastrop
County jail pending transfer to
Odessa where he faces grand
jury indictment with bond set
at $50,000, according to Adell
Powell, Bastrop City Chief of
Police.
Parr, who was reportedly
linked to a narcotics ring
recently uncovered in Odessa,
was located at a house in
Hluebonnet Acres Monday
night, and members of the
County Sheriffs Department
and the City Police, joined by a
slate narcotir agent, picked him
up. Four others in the house
were also arrested.
With a search warrant, the
officers found n sawed off
shotgun, a supply of narcotic*,
and a Volkswagon, reportedly
stolen. Further investigation
was under way Tuesday,
KstaLlishrd March I, 185 3
AND BASTROP COUNTY
Baatrop (Texas) Advertiser, July 3, 1975
NEWS
Number 18
County Receives
City Sales
Tax Rebate
Comptroller Bob Bullock sent
checks worth $28.8 million
Friday to more than 800 towns
and cities in the third round of
monthly city sales tax rebate*.
Bastrop County received a
total of $11,725.88. Bastrop
received $4,182,46, Elgin re
ceived $4,845.40, and Smithville
received $2,898.02.
Bullock said the June
payments were considerably
higher than the previous two
months because of big end of
the quarter lax payments made
by merchants following the
April 30 deadline for reporting
taxes they collected from the
public in January. February
and March.
Bullock converted the city
sales lax payments to a
monthly system in April to get
away from the old quarterly
rebate system which had been
in use since the start, of the city
sales tax and which forced
cities to wait 60 to 90 days for
their money.
"The interest alone at six
per cent -on the $16 million we
paid in April and the $19.9
million we paid in May was
worth a good quarter of a
million dollars to the cilie# just
by not having to wait until now
for a quarterly payment."
Bullock said.
Every city which ha* adopted
the one per cent local tax
received payment* this month
regardless of the siie of the
rebate. Payments in the first
and second month of each
three month cycle are not made
on rebates of less lhan $500.
■WH ANNUAL
NULL REUNION
The 38th Annual Null
Reunion will be held the first
Saturday in July at the VFW
llall in La Grange.
A picnic lunch will be served
at 12:00 noon and soda water
and coffee will be furnished.
I B. Null McNulta
Secretary
Centex Revue
Supplement To
Advertiser
This week readers of the
Advertiser ivill find a new
supplement inside it* normal
section.
"The Centex Revue," as the
supplement is named, will be
published monthly, and will
provide our readers with
seasonal feature stories about
Central Texas communities.
This month's "Revue" is a
Bicentennial Edition - with
historical stories of interest to
Central Texas.
In addition to the Advertiser,
"The Centex Revue" will be
distributed in The Hill County
News, The Wimberley Village
Crier, The Hays County
Citizen, The Elgin Courier, and
The Luling Newsboy.
August's issue will feature
"Back To^School" information
with stories about new faces
and school progress for the
coming school year.
NOTICE
Due to the increasing
number of phone calls to the
Advertiser requesting infor
mation on the history of
Bastrop, and Bastrop County
we would like to slate the hours
in which the Museum in
Bastrop is open: Saturdays
from 10:00 a.m. til 5:00 p.m.
(except for the noon lunch hour)
and on Sundays from 1-5 p.m.
The museum is an excellent
source of information and for
those who wish to see it during
the week, a special appoint
ment should be made by calling
Mrs. Breeding at 321 2619 or
Mrs. Gienn st ,121 3969.
Bastropians will be interest-
ed to know that so many
out-of-town visitors are inter
ested in our heritage, 18-tf
Highgrove
Homecoming
On July 6th
The Highgrove Cemetery
Association will be having its
annual Homecoming on Sun
day, July 6. Come meet your
friends and enjoy a delicious
dinner to be served at 12:30.
Piney Creek Philosopher Figures
Out Way To End Unemployment,
Almost, With One Item Missing
Editor's note: The Piney
Creek Philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on Piney
struggles with an idea this
week, you might say.
Dear editor-
As Calvin Coolidge used to
say, the cure for unemployment
is more jobs, but of course the
rub is. how can you create more
jobs?
I have given this some
thought and 1 believe what we
need is a sensational new
invention that'll take the
country by storm. We just can't
rely on the old ones anymore I
mean, take cars. Sure, making
cars provides a lot of jobs but
there's a limit to it. as Detroit is
beginning to see. Or take
clothnss. ('hanging women's
styles every year helps
employment in the garment
industry, just as convincing
men what wide flaired trousers
are in right now but narrow-
ones will be back before the
wide ones are worn out. Same
thing goes for ties. Also, I've
always thought that the
plumbers let the economy down
when they didn't try to
persuade homeowners that
styles in bathtubs and other
bathroom items should change
every spung. Bring out a new
model tub every year in
different colors and hood design
and have people embarrassed
to be using last year's model.
The piano people made the
same mistake. 1 know people
who've had the same piano for
:" <) years. With violins it's tver,
worse.
But even so. all that wouldn't
have been enough. What we
need to create more jobs is
some brand new invention
people simply can't live
without, like television. You
know, when television first
appeared 90 percent of the
people already had all the
time payments they could
handle. They were up to their
necks and nobody could
imagine how they could take on
one more major gadget, yet, as
everybody knows, 90 percent of
the homes in the country now
have television sets, and some
have two. especially homes
where children are unmana
geable and two sets are
required if the grown-ups get to
watch what they want.
Clearly, the answer to 9
percent unemployment is some
new invention 1 haven't been
able to think up. Oh,, 1 thought
of a few, like air conditioned
lawnmowers or TV screens as
big as one side of a room so you
can see the entire football field
instead of the rear end of the
quarterback, but those are
stop gap half measures. Not
enough universal appeal.
In the mind of some lonely
inventor or abstract -minded
scientist working late in some
laboratory there must be
lurking un born some un heard
of idea which, once sprung on
us, none of us can live without,
and the production of which will
create thousands and thou
sands of jobs. Don'i worry,
we'll find the money to buy it
with somehow, and full
employment will beat hand.
Has President Ford thought
of offering a big prize for such
an idea? The election is only
about a year away.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Local Hospital
Thanked For
Aid To Group
Following the recent car bus
accident on Highway 71
between here and Smithville, in
which one man was killed and
the bus burned. El Campo
students who were in the bus
were brought in to Bastrop
Memorial Hospital. Fortun-
ately, there were no serious
injuries in the group, but each
one was checked, cared for, and
re assured, and given cake and
coffee, before they went on to
El Campo.
An expression of apprecia
tion came to the hospital from
the parents of the children, and
the following letter from Jack
BirtcheJ,, superintendent, El
Campo Independent School
District:
Baslrop Memorial Hospital
Bastrop, Texas 78602
Dear Staff:
Recently one of our school
buses was involved in an
accident on the Smithville
highway. Twenty eight stu
dents and three teachers were
accommodated at your facility.
I would like to express our
sincere appreciation for the
manner both professionally and
personally in which you tended
the needs of the students and
teachers.
The parents and school
officials are indebted to you in
that you afforded comforting
attention to a group who had
been involved in such a
traumatic experience. Thank
You.
Sincerely,
EL CAMPO INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Jack Rirtchet. Superintendent
Arts, Crafts, And
Antique Show
To Be Held
The Festival Committee of
the Bastrop Bicentennial is
sponsoring an Arts & Crafts &
Antique Show to be held in the
High School Cafeteria on
Saturday, August 2nd from
12 5.
Entries in all lines of crafts,
including church groups, craft
groups and artists
This is the final week to sign
up. All those interested please
contact Mrs. Kliber Trigg, Rt.
1. Bastrop. Call 321 2747 for
further information.
First Methodist
To Sponsor
Feature Film
A feature film, "The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
starring Glenn Ford, Lee J.
Cobb, Paul Henreid, and
Charles Boyer will be shown in
the basement of First United
Methodist. Church on Sunday
evening. July 6, at 7:30 p.m. in
connection with the church's
Summer Youth Program.
Following the film a discus
sion will be held regarding the
message of the film using
guidelines prepared by Films
Incorporated of Chicago. III.,
entitled "Dialogue With the
World."
The discussion . will seek
answers to the questions of (1)
"sin" in the film; (2) "grace" in
the film; (3) "divine activity"
portrayed by the film; (4) "the
Christ Event" or "saving truth"
in the film; (5) "death and
resurrection" as seen in the
film; and (6) through whom did
Christ seem to speak toothers?
This film is open to any
person who will participate in
the discussion with the group.
Bastrop
Saddle Club
The Bastrop Saddle Club will
hold their regular monthly
playday next Sunday (Julv
6th). at 2:30 P.M. We Vide the
first Sunday in each month and
the public is cordially invited.
We will have some new games
as well as some of the regular
ones. The entry fee on (hose
monthly playdays are 25 cents
for 12 and under and 50 cents
for 13 and older. Nice ribbons,
1st thru 6th place, are awarded.
So come out and have fun.
It's A Matter of Fact
■W W. COX. City
The summer youth em
ployment program has been
good up to this point and if you
have watched the activity you
will agree. Of course, we have
had a few individuals call and
complain about the "wasted
money", but we have received
more compliments than com
plaint*.
Let me outline a few things
accomplished to date, and you
be the judge of the program.
We employed a total of 50
youth ... with about 45 work-
ing at one time. Part of these
were quite young and earned
their expense money for
Summer Camp while working
for a couple of weeks. The rest
have worked straight through
for about four or five weeks
when the program is com
pleted.
With the extra help we
hauled over 100 loads of brush
and trash to the Landfill during
the past three weeks. We have
cleaned ditches all over the city
and the main one has been the
Railroad Ditch along Fayette
Street. We have cleaned the
small Picnic area park of Water
Street and the Kiwanis Club
will have a Bicentennial
Celebration there on July 4th.
We have cut grass and
mowed weeds and grass at the
Sewer Plant and the Water
Plant. We have painted the
pump station on the hill and
cleaned the area around it. We
have cleaned ths Will Rogers
Park area and improved ihe
drainage in the downtown area.
We painted crosswalks at ail
traffic intersections, painted
most of the curbs with yellow
traffic paint, cleaned areas
Mialiy unsightly, and worked
hard in getting the tenni.<
courts ready for the Bicen
lennial Tournament just com
pleted.
The youth have worked hard
and for the most part harder
than expected even by me. I
have had a minimum of
complaints coming from the
youth and we have had very
few unpleasant moments dlur-
ing the past month. I hate to
see the program come to an
end.
We have hauled off over 200
bags of trash, cans and bottles,
but have at least that many
more to clean up. It never ends.
The more we pick up the more
YOU throw away, but this is all
part of the job.
We have about four more
hard weeks of work left and if it
becomes possible we will finish
the job.
The youth cleaned the Little
League Park daily and kept the
grass mowed regularly thereby
releaving the regular City
Employees tor other jobs more
important..
If I listed every job done by
these kids this Newspaper
would be out of space, but if you
have driven around before and .
ifter you can make your own
fist.
This has been a pilot program
for Bastrop and has been very
successful for the main part. .
some of the kids didn't make as
much money as they wanted
and needed, but al least they
made some.
We helped install the flagpole
at the Library, we are working
on one for the Park area, and
we have been flying one at City
Hall now for some time .. so,
with the added flags sponsored
by the Merchants in the
Downtown area, we are making
another Bicentennial project as
complete and successful.
If you see one of the
youngsters who has been
working this summer add your
encouragement to ours and
maybe next year we can start
sooner and operate a little more
effeeiently. I believe my
mistake was trying to spread
the money too, thiniv among a
large group rather than
limiting to a few and working
them longer. However, like I
said previously, 50 made a few
dollars, instead of 25 making it
all and none of them
complained to me about this
fact.
Now. there may be state
ments made that these kids
only did what the regular
employees could have done
Bradshaw Family
Reunion To Be
Held In July
The decendants and other
relatives of the late William
Henery dial) Bradshaw and
wife Lucinda Ellis Bradshaw
are urged to altend a family
reunion on the 25, 26, & 27 of
July at the lake in Brady,
McCullah County, Texas, In
terest ed persons write Mrs.
John Bradshaw, 901 South
Walnut Street. Brady. Texas
76825. J
Children's
Parade On
July 4th
The United Pentecostal
Church will sponsor a 4th of
July children's Parade begin
ning at 4 p,m. on Friday
afternoon at Long's Food
Market on Main Street and
ending at the Emporium.
All children are invited to
enter with decorated bikes,
trikes and wagons, following
the theme of an old fashioned
4th of July.
Prizes will be given for the
best decorated entry and the
best costume.
NOTH F
According to the Chamber of
Commerce schedule, stores will
be dosed Friday, July 4th.
E
anyway. I'm telling you that it's
a matter of fact that without
these youngsters the things
accomplished in previous years
... and you will agree that
Bastrop is ahead of the game by
working the youth this sum
mer.
As you drive across the river
bridge on Chestnut, look south
and for the first time in years,
you will see the ground under
the trees.
Look at a few of the fireplugs
and you will see some that you
probably didn't know we had,
because the grass is gone and
they are visible.
Look at the Park on Water
Street and you can not take
your family there for a picnic
and enjoy yourself.
Look at the yellow curbs and
you will agree that the
intersections look like a big-city
area.
Look at the ditches and
especially the Railroad ditch ..
some of them even have the
trees cut out of them.
These, and a lot of other
projects, are what "got done"
with about $10,000 counting the
cost of tools and materials.
I publicly compliment the
youth for a job well done and
voice my personal appreciation
to each one of them.
THE FAMILY RODEO CLUB
The Family Rodeo Club will
hold its regular monthly
business meeting on July 7th at
8:00 P.M. in the Bastrop Saddle
Club club house. Ail members
are urged to attend.
Dr. - Mrs. Gurwitz
Attended Meeting
In Hot Springs
Dr. and Mrs. Neil R. Gurwitz,
Bastrop, Texas, were in Hot
Springs, Ark., to attend the
78th annual -Congress of the
American Optometric Associa
tion, June 16-21.
Approximately 3,000 optom
etrists, their families and
guests from throughout the
United States and other
countries attended the Con-
gress business and education
sessions, awards presentations
and other functions.
In meetings of the House of
Delegates, which is the
19,200 member association's
policy-making body, delegates
heard reports on the state of
the nation's economy; national
health insurance; government
peer review procedures for
health professionals; and op-
tometric care in the future.
Delegates considered several
proposals to improve the
quality and delivery of vision
care to all persons and
concluded the meeting with the
election of officers for the
coming year.
REPORT ON THE NATION'S BICENTENNIAL:
ONEYLARTOGO
By John W. Warner
Administrator
Amerkaa Revolution
Bicentennial Administration
As I travel across the United States, the two questions most
often asked are: When is the Bicentennial? Where will it take
place?
The Bicentennial is now springing up across our entire
Nation - it is a spirit of participation and achievement. In sharp
contrast to our Centennial in 1876 which was celebrated in a
single city - Philadelphia • the activities commemorating our
Bicentennial will take place in communities within each of our
fifty states, the three territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico and the District of Columbia our Nation's Capital. Where
is the Bicentennial? It is in your community! As of one year
before our 200th birthday, there are over 5,000 communities
flying the Bicentennial flag.
Today we enter our 200th year as the United States of
America and we begin the one-year countdown to the date
which will launch us into our third century. It is my hope that
during this final year of our second century, all Americans will
come together to remember how we came to be. celebrate what
we are, and to reflect on where we are going. It is also my hope
that all Americans will use this comisg year to prepare a
celebration befitting our great Nation.
When is the Bicentennial? It is already well underway for
over several thousand events have been held and there are over
15,000 programs and events currently being planned across the
Nation. However, the focal point is "Liberty Day"-July 4,
1976.
Liberty Day 1976 is a Sunday. It should be a day for each
community to come together in their own way to celebrate the
Bicentennial in a manner best suited to their own location,
means and desires As the bells peel across the Nation on that
day, there will be an abundance of fireworks, parades and
rhetoric in the finest traditions of our 4th of July. However,
most communities are also laying plans to insure that July 4th
will also be an occasion to lay the cornerstone for the third
century. It would be a most appropriate occasion to cut the
ribbon at a restoration site, dedicate your new museum, or
unveil your Bicentennial cornerstone. It is also a day to break
ground for a Bicentennial Project that will help shape a better
tomorrow so future generations can look back and always know
that your community of today eared about itself, about its
Nation and the principles which we honor.
The centerpiece of our Bicentennial will be in the form of a
beautiful mosaic of the many varied programs and events
initiated by the people of our great country. Overlying all
Bicentennial activities is a renewed appreciation for the
documents which have enabled our Nation to become the oldest
surviving democratic republic on earth-the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Most importantly, the Bicentennial is a time for every
American to be proud of his flag and his homeland. The
Bicentennial is a time for every citizen to hold his head high and
say in his own way, I AM AN AMERICAN.
Man's 101st
Birthday Due
Jessie Bennett Duncan of
Cuero will celebrate his 101st
birthday Saturday.
Duncan, who is confined to
bed, lives with a son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Amos
Coker.
He was born in Alabama
June 21, 1874, and came to
Texas when seven years old.
His wife, who died a number of
years ago, was the former
Florence Ellen Reader. The
couple was married September
19. 1897.
Duncan, who never spent a
night in a hospital until after he
was 84. was baptized a Baptist
in the Colorado River at
Bastrop when 19 years old. He
has been a worker in the church
since then, serving as deacon
over 50 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Duncan had
eight children, four of whom
survive. They are Mrs. Coker.
l^emual Albert Duncan and
Mrs. Lue Dell Cooper, all of
Cuero, and Mrs. Eula Boyd
Hennesey of Bastrop.
The deceased children are
Mrs. Beulah Edna Mae Mar
shall. Robert Duncan, Tempie
Jane Duncan and Henry-
Duncan. Robert died when 14
years old and Tempie Jane
when 2. Henry died in infancy.
Duncan has 12 grandchildren
and 34 great-grandchildren.
Ki wan is Club
Sponsors July
4tli Celebration
The Kiwanis Club of Bastrop
is sponsoring a 4th of July
celebration. We will have a
speaker, a band (hopefully), hot
dogs, hamburgers, cold drinks
and watermelons. AH proceeds
will be used for the continued
improvement of the City Park.
The City Park has been
chosen as a Becentennial
project nr<d we would like for
everyou* to come to thr
celebration so they can see the
park as it is and offer
suggestions for its improve-
ment.
We will start the celebration
at 5:30 on July 4th at the City
Park on South Main Street.
Motorists Asked To
Exercise Caution
July 4th Weekend
Governor Dolph Briscoe
called on Texas motorists to
exercise special caution over
the Fourth of July weekend and
to observe the 55 mph speed
limit. Noting the predicted
death increase. Governor Bris
coe said his office has
implemented a well rounded
media campaign to help make
drivers more aware of the
dangers of holiday driving.
"Besides this heavy media use,
increased enforcement of traffic
laws will be evident. We also
urge the motorist to make use
of the many rest stops provided
by the Jaycees and by the
Texas Highway Department."
said Briscoe.
Briscoe went on to say it was
most important for drivers to
volunteer to drive with care, he
said 46 people were killed over
the holiday iast year and the
number will likely increase
over this Fourth. "Texas
reflects leadership in many
areas, but we continually
accept the deaths of over 3.000
people each year on the streets
and highways of this State.
Two hundred years after the
beginning of the American
Revolution, traffic accidents
have become a greater threat
to American lives than were
the British guns in 1775.
Therefore, 1 continue to urge
your assistance to drive
carefully and avoid chis
needless killing.
"I simply ask one thing.
Please, lake the extra time
during this holiday period to be
careful, slow down and enjoy
the holiday and let's work
toward a fatality free Fourth.
Use the free rest stops during
extended driving and know
your limits of alcohol. Speeding
also increases the opportunity
for a crash. So by observing the
law, resting and reduced
drinking, the probability of &
safe trip can be increased,"
concluded Briscoe.
NOTICE
The City Employees will be
off and the office# will be closed
on Friday, July 4, according to
City Manager W W. Cox.
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser and Bastrop County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [122], No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1975, newspaper, July 3, 1975; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth238524/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.