Bastrop Advertiser and Bastrop County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [121], No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1974 Page: 10 of 10
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BASTROP (TEXAS) ADVERTISER, APRIL 18. 1971
ELROY WHITWORTH of Bastrop was recently named one of 12 winners of the College of
Agriculture Merit Award at Texas A & M University. Whitworth is a senior animal science major.
Presenting the award is Dr. R. ('. Potts, left, associate dean of agriculture at Texas A & M.
Attending the event held in the J. Earl Rudder Theatre located on the University Campus were
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Whitworth. The award, as well as the presence of his parents,
came as a complete surprise to him.
Golf Team Wins District;
All Set For Regional Play
The Bastrop Bears are Dis-
trict Champions in another
athletic event. Thi car Golf
,'eam won the District Tour
nament Wednesday, April 3rd
finishing 33 strokes ahead of
second place Caldwell and 35
strokes ahead of third place
Round Rock.
The first half 118 holes) of the
tournament was played at Lost
Creek which is Westlake's
home course, and the second 18
holes were played at Caldwell.
Bastrop scored 327 321 total
of 658: Caldwell scored 691;
Round Rock, 693; Round Rock
"B", 731; Bastrop "B", 739;
Giddings, 754; Westlake, 786;
Elgin, 836, and Caldwell "B",
923.
This is the fourth consecutive
year that Bastrop has won the
District Championship in Golf.
The top two teams participate
in Regional and this will be the
fifth consecutive year that
Bastrop has advanced to the
Regional Tournament in
Brenham. Their best finish in
Regional within these last five
years was a second place in
1971 behind Hardin Jefferson,
the State Champion team for
that year.
Greg Hollmann was tour-
nament medalist with a 77 at
Lost Creek and an even par 72
at Caldwell for a total of 149.
This is a record 36 hole score
for the District Tournament.
Second medalist was Van Smith
of Caldwell with 159. Third
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medalist was Danny Orozco of
Bastrop with an 83/79 for a
total of 162, fourth was Embry
of Round Rock with 168 and
fifth was Marcus Evans of
Bastrop with an 86/86'for a
total of 170. Thus, Bastrop had
three of the top five medalists
of the district tournament.
Other Bastrop Bears scored
as follows: Jimmy DeBaun
scored a 91/84 for 175, Greg
Claiborne had 99/88 for 180.
Playing on the second 'team,
Bob Runkle scored 92/88 for
187, Grant Uptmor had 106/95
for 201, Howard Fiebrich had
99/94 for 193, Scott Curtis
scored 93/99 for 192, Randy
Runkle had 89/85 for a total of
174 and John Lester scored
95/91 for 186. These listings are
CONGRATULATIONS
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Bradley
are proud to announce the
arrival of Eric Paul on April 5,
1974 at St. David's Hospital in
Austin. He weighed seven
pounds, eleven ounces.
Welcoming him are his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Caldwell of Bastrop and Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Bradley of
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma; great
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Blackwell of Bastrop, Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Bradley of Elmore
City, Oklahoma and Mrs. Foy
Cobble of Pauls Valley, Ok-
lahoma.
Mrs. Bradley is the former
Carol Caldwell. _
Historical Tour
FROM PAGE ONE
part of the county. One of the
buildings on the campus of St.
Edwards University in Austin
is called Doyle Hall, a memorial
to Mary Doyle whose gift of 394
acres of land helped to finance
the school.
Antonio Navarro, an em
presario like Stephen F. Aus
tin, had a land grant in the
county.
There was Joshua Gray,
single, one of the Tumlinson
Rangers, who died "in service,
April 27, 1836".
And finally, there were
Washington and Elijah Curtis,
sons of James Curtis. Consid-
ered too old to be in the army,
James Curtis was assigned to
sentry duty in Bastrop, yet
somehow he got to San Jacinto
in time to fight. His "Remem-
ber the Alamo" was personal,
for his son-in-law, Wash Cottle,
had been with William Barrett
Travis.
These are only a few of the
names to be found on the Land
Grant Map of Bastrop County.
Some of the information came
from other sources but much of
it was found in the records in
the Bastrop County Court-
house, and in the Map Room of
the Museum.
— Contributed
in the order in which they
played in the tournament and
evidently not in the order in
which they scored.
Teams qualify for Regional as
teams and not as individuals.
The Regional team can be
composed of five eligible play-
ers who competed in the
District tournament.
The team will travel to
Brenham on Thursday, April
18, and begin Regional play on
Friday morning, April 19, com
pleting the second 18 holes
Saturday, April 20.
"This 1973-74 team has been
the hardest working and most
agreeable and cooperative
bunch of boys I have ever
worked with as a golf team," C.
H. Evans, coach, said. "A coach
couldn't hope for a better group
to work with. I hope that the
school and the community will
join me in congratulating them
for the job they have done and
wish them success for the rest
of the season."
— Contributed
Musings
(Continued from page one)
get in office through a party
system; but when he does, it is
in spite of, not because of, the
system. With a free-swinging,
free voting group of a third or
more of the electorate, we could
sit tight, listen to all the
campaign racket, watch and
evaluate the candidates, then at
the last moment vote for the
best man without any thought
of party line. We would get a lot
more good people in office that
way.
When after a long Dem
ocratic adminstration the coun-
try gets the economic diarrhea,
we could eat a little yellow
cheese in the form of a
Republican administration, to
tighten things up. And then,
after a term or two of Repub
licanism, if the country gets too
up-tight economically, we could
have a dish of prunes in the
form of a Democratic term, to
loosen things up again.
If we had nothing but Repub
lican administrations, ten per
cent of the people would have
all the money in the country. If
we had too many Democratic
administrations, there soon
would be no money for anyone
to have. As I see it, the only
way out is for enough voters to
forget any notion of party
loyalty and hang free all the
time. We could then vote
whichever way seemed best for
the country at election time,
This would be hard on career
politicians, but it would be good
for the rest of us.
Ifl ' Mil
*y Blu eoYK,N
ami tell time for political
candidates, and many of them
don't have as much to show
as they would like to for their
fund-raising eftorts.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe ran
second to Republican guher-
natorial candidate Jim Gran-
Inrry io campaign spending
up to March 25. according to
(In first contribution-spend-
in}! reports tiled with the
secretary of slate.
(iranlicrry reported contri-
butions and loans oi $171,425
(including $22,5<>(> of his own
in oney ) an d spending oI
$171,425 since last summer
when he began his race.
Briscoe's spending in-
cluding a $ I 20,0110 loan of
his own money was pegged
at $ I 53.754.
l-ranccs "Sissy" l-'arcnthold
reported some $40,865 in ex-
pcnditurcs and debts.
The effort is far below that
of 1972 when Briscoe spent
nearly $1.6 million in the pri-
maries, and Mrs. ••'arcntliold
spent $672,441.
Comptroller Candidate Bob
Bullock has reported spend-
ing of about $6(1,0(10 in his
Democratic race, and Hugh
Eduhrg saiil he has outlays
of about $12,900.
t'dburg acknowledged he
is using about $7,000 of his
own money. Bullock said he
has used $12,600 from his
own resources, and has $38,
300 in loans from his business
partner, Ken Wendler of Aus-
tin.
One of the big-spending
groups so far lias been thc\
Texas Citizens for i'arimutucl
Horse Racing, which reported
a $7,000-cost campaign to
get the issue of legalizing race
track betting on primary bal-
lots.
NIW CONVENTION GOAL
— With the Constitutional
Convention in recess, Presi-
dent Price Daniel Jr. has a
new goal: he is aiming to
wind up the revision task by
May 31.
Actually, he conceded the
first or second week of June
is a more realistic target.
Two of the toughest arti-
cles judiciary anil general
provisions (which includes the
controversial right to work
issue) remain to lie debated
when delegates return to
Austin.
I hey must also vote again
(ami muster a two-thirds
majority) on the seven articles
approved tentatively so far,
and then decide the form of
submission of the constitu-
tion, and alternative proposals
to voters.
PRISONER COLLEGE PI.AN
OETEREI) Prison inmates
at Ramsey Unit will lie the
first in the U.S. to be offered
a chance at four-year college
degrees through the University
ol Houston at Clear Lake City.
Junior college associate de-
grees have been available since
19(i5 through special programs.
Thirty-to-60 students will
begin classes at Kainscy Unit
in June. Nest fall, Stephen
I' Austin University is due
to extend courses to inmates
at Cofficid Unit near Palestine.
"The more education a
man has, the less likely he is
to return to prison," said
State Prison System Director
W. J. Eg telle.
CONTRACT AWARDED
A contract for the first moder-
nization of property tax laws
since 1925 has been awarded
by the Legislative Property
Tax Committee.
Law Research Corporation
of Texas, an Austin group, re-
ceived the maximum $125,590
— cost recodification contract.
LPT'C abandoned a plan
to conduct an intensive school
property tax survey on a
totally-random-sclection basis.
The 35 school districts will
be re-selected to insure a geo-
graphic spread in five regions.
COURTS SPEAK - Power of
city governments to regulate
extended area telephone rates
was approved by the State
Supreme Court.
The High Court turned
down a Houston woman's ap-
peal in a lawsuit in which she
Jiasunsuc^
$63 5,000 in damages against
a doctor due to an unusually-
large appendectomy sear.
The Court of Criminal Ap-
peals reversed a San Saba mur-
der conviction because the
jury didn't decide a sanity
question.
Murderconfiction ot a Dal-
las man who set fire to ear in
which another was
asphyxiated lost an appeal
from a life sentence.
Attorneys for former House-
Speaker (ius Mutschcr, appeal-
ing a conviction for bribery
conspiracy, argued before the
Court of Criminal Appeals that
no conspiracy was ever proved
and tilc principal witness was
not asked about it.
FAMILIES NOTIFIED - A
new state program offering
toll-free telephone service has
contacted 861 families, relay-
ing messages on runaway child-
ren, Governor Briscoe reported.
Since last September, Bris-
coe said, the program,"Opera-
tion Peace of Mind," has re-
ceived 1,890 calls from runa-
ways in 42 states. The national
hotline enables the runaways
to relay messages to their
parents from a round-thc
clock, volunteer-manned cen-
ter in Houston.
APPOINTMENTS Frink
Hutchinson is new director of
Minority Business Enterprise.
Kohcrt A. Sartwcllc of
Houston was appointed by
Governor Briscoe to the San
Jacinto Historical Advisory
Board.
Dann Barger of Brownwood
is new superintendent of the
Crockett State School.
Kracgc Polan Jr., former
aide to Speaker Price Daniel
Jr., has joined the staff of
Kep. Carl Parker of Pot:
Arthur in his campaign for,
speaker.
Kcp. Dan Kuhiak of Rock-
dale is a new member of the
Education Commission of the
States, a national organiza-
tion of state leaders and edu-
cators.
MIGRAN I OITK I CREAT-
M) A Migrant Atlairs Of-
fice and Migrant l uel Alloca-
tion Plan for lexas were set
up bv executive order of the
governor last week.
I he MAC will act as liason
with all agencies which serve
migrant groups and try to
identify present uid future
resources at federal, state and
local levels to aid with pro-
blems.
I he tuel program will per-
mit migrants to obtain gaso-
line at 51 designated truck
stops as thev move north
during agricultural seasons.
"PRIVATE" SUPERPORT
I NDORSE D A Senate com-
mittee endorsed private own-
ership ot a lexas supcrport,
but two coastal area senators
objected.
Hie Committee report said
it is not "the responsibility ot
state government to under-
write this kind ol risk when
private enterprise is ready and
willing to accept the chal-
lenge." Sens. I) Roy Harring-
ton of Port Arthur and Bob
Gammagc ot Houston said
state ownership of the pro-
posed oltshore unloading ter-
minal tor oil tankers is in the
best public interest.
SIIOR I SNORTS
The "capitol" will "move"
to Amarilln. April 27, when
Sen. Max Sherman becomes
governor for a day. He is
senate president pro tempore.
Governor Briscoe's top aide
told a Senate sub-committee
on consumer affairs there may
be a need for regulation of
intrastate long distance calls
and in cities and rural areas
where none now exists.
Atty. Gen. John Mill has
been asked for an opinion on
whether free newspaper space
devoted to signed columns by
political candidates is covered
by law requiring reports ol
campaign contributions.
TO WHOM IT
MAY CONCERN
Drive real slow, to and fro,
along the street during the
wee hours, to your little heart's
desire. There is no law against
it.
However, once you decide to
dial a phone, so as to determine
whether or not the coast is
clear, be sure you're right.
Otherwise, your number could
be listed at "Boot Hill".
Ira Cassels
Phone 321 5220
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser and Bastrop County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [121], No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1974, newspaper, April 18, 1974; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth238461/m1/10/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.