The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 2002 Page: 1 of 24
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Moursund dies at 82
Friends call
it the end
Judge A.W. Moursund -1919 - 2002
of an era
The most common used
phrase in the past 24 hours
has been, “It’s the end of an
era.”
Aji age 82, Judge Albert
Wadel (A. W.) Moursund died
Monday died at his home in
Round Mountain Monday.
April 22.
The era that marked Judge
Mouround’8 life was evident
in many circles - ranching,
banking, politics and many
more.
Moursund owned and op-
erated several businesses
during his life including
banks, insurance agencies,
abstract companies and
ranches in different states.
In fact, he know in ranching
circles to be the largest land-
owner in Nebraska.
His ranching interests in
and around Llano County
span more than 24,000 acres,
according to friends.
In addition to his many
business interests, he was a
life long friend, business as-
sociate, counselor and advi-
sor to President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
Moursund and Johnson
were both owners of Moore
State Bank in Llano -- now
Arrowhead Bank. At the
timf of his death, Moursund
was the owner of Arrowhead
Bank, with branches in San
Saba, Horseshoe Bay and
Fredericksburg, ap well as
Cattlemen’s Bank in Round
Mountain.
A 1936 graduate of Austin
High School, Moursund went
on to receive hip law degree
from the University of Texas
in 1941. He served in the
United States Army Air
Corps during World War II,
after which he opened his
law practice in Johnson City.
He was elected to the Tfexas
House of Representatives for
two terms and served from
1948 to 1952, after which he
was elected Blanco County
Judge, where he served six
years.
Moursund was also one of
the original appointees to the
board of the Texas Parks and
Wildlife commission in 1968,
serving four years.
His accolades are many,
being honored more than
once for various accomplish-
ments by the Texas House of
Representatives.
Moursund was well known
by local merchants, some of
whom remember the Judge's
Christmas Eve shopping
sprees.
“A.W. would come in
Christmas Eve and start
pointing out things he
wanted -- he did it all over
town,” said Billy Ratliff of
Charlie’s Store. “He liked to
p lay Santa Claus for his
employees."
Funeral services will be
held at Crofts Funeral Home
in Johnson City Thursday,
April 25 at 2 p.m. Graveside
services will immediately fol-
low in Round Mountain.
(See Obituary Page 2)
There was plenty of help around the crawfish cooking pots as more than 10,000 pounds of
“mudbugs” ware served at ths 13th Annual Llano Crawfish Open.
Crawfish open 'biggest event yet’
One million served. Well, maybe not one
million but literally thousands turned out
to what organizers are expecting to be the
most successful Crawfish Open ever.
Preliminary reports indicate that record
crowds turned out to enjoy ’‘mudbugs" and
all the trimmings.
"We had great weather, a great group of
volunteers and a lot of support,” said
Jackie Holt, whose husband Dave was one
of the original “crawfishers” 13 years ago.
The final tallies are not in and will not
be for quite some time, but all aspects of
the weekend seemed to break records.
578 golfers took to the links, more than
200 shooters took part in the sporting clays
event, the Crawfish Crawler 5K was the
largest ever and some 2,000 team ropers
competed in the Rope American event all
weekend.
The foursome of Zach Johnson, Brian
Smith, Bradley Smith and Wayne Gossett
fired an 18-under 54 to win the golf tour-
nament. Three teams shot a 54, but a score
card playoff determined the winners.
James Collier, Kyle Bennett, Jeff
Sanderson and Bryan Smith captured sec-
ond while the team of Covington,
Covington, Inks and Grey finished third.
Four players won closest to the pin
prizes, Steve Griffin, Lloyd Norris, John
Crow and Marvin Mair.
New to the Crawfish Open this year was
the motorcycle poker run. There were 98
entries. The local Gypsies Motorcycle Club
sponsored the event, and raffled a 2002
Harley Superglide bike, which was won by
Kevin Chruchwell of Burnet.
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City sets follow-up Main Street meeting
The City of Llano has
scheduled a follow-up meet-
ing to discuss the Texas Main
Street Program for today
(Wednesday) at 6 p.m. in the
Llano County Library.
The Texas Main Street
Program, which could cover
all histone areas of Llano, is
a voluntary self-help revital-
ization program offered by
the Tbxits Historic Commis-
sion and is designed after the
nationally acclaimed Main
Street Four-Point Approach.
The first meeting was well
attended, according to City
Manager Kenneth Dowell
“Now that everyone has
had a chance to think about
it, we want to see how much
interest there is and answer
any questions that may have
arised,” he commented.
The application deadline
for the three year program
that starts in 2003 is July 31,
2002. Selected cities will be
announced by November 1,
2002.
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Pinkie’s to dose doors
ooiHaion wNh an lean itooopar Thursday Morning on Ford street
naartha 1000 Mock. Th» hopper was facing south about to mate
a toft turn with tha pickup hit It from the rear. Fortunately, there
ware no Muriaa in tie mtotep.
One of Llano’s oldest busi-
nesses will be closing its
doors this week.
Steve Wright, tha owner of
Pinkie’s Grocer and Market,
located at 901 Bessemer in
Llano, has announced that
he will be closing the store to
concentrate his efforts on his
other businesses in Llano
and Tow.
It was just over a year ago
that Wright purchased the
business from Janice and
Theo Crenwelge, who were
second generations operators
of Pinkie’s.
“I hve really enjoyed being
in the grocery business and
serving the Llano commu-
nity,” Wright said. "Llano is
a wonderful Hill Country
town and 1 appreciate the
support of my customers so
very-much. Other business
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commitments require me to
devote more attention and
resources to their success so
regrettably, I cannot give the
Pinkie’s store and its custom-
ers the ftill attention they
deserve."
Pinkie’s final day in busi-
ness will be thiR Saturday.
April 27.
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