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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
Thursday, May 19, 1988
Professor T.C. Franklin (second
from left), Mrs. Mary Nell Hern-
don (second from right) and Mrs.
Zenobia Robinson (far right)
were the recipients of communi-
ty awards at the Woman's Day
Burglary
Banquet sponsored by the Mt.
Rose Mission Department Satur-
day. They are pictured here with
guest speaker Jesse DeShay (far
left), master counselor of the
Gary Job Corps Center, and the
reported that an eight-drawer tool-
box and assorted tools had been
taken from the garage.
He said when deputies answered
the second call the garage had been
burglarized again and this time an
air compressor was reported
missing.
Hanna said after deputies
responded to the second call
another McDonald Road resident
called the sheriff's office and
reported the theft of his dog. The
man told deputies he had seen a
suspicious looking van in the area
around the time the dog was taken.
Hanna said while patrolling the
area he and Wobus spotted the van
in front of a residence at the inter-
section of McDonald Road and
Jenkins Road. He said all three of
the suspects later arrested were at
the residence but nothing looked
out of the ordinary.
Hanna saicl when they left the
property the neighbor who reported
the earlier burglaries called the
sheriff's office and said that his
gold and black lawnmower had
also been taken in the afternoon
burglary.
He said he remembered seeing
a lawnmower matching the
description in the back of the van
so went back to the residence
where the suspects were questioned
earlier.
Hanna said when he looked in
the back of the van again the lawn-
mower was gone and when he
asked the suspects about it they said
it was in a shed behind the house.
Hanna said he and Wobus went
behind the house and looked at the
Parks
ding to regional recreation
resources, for having an active
parks board and for having a com-
pleted parks master plan, he said.
Parks Board Chairman Jimmy
Mathison said voTuntary contribu-
tions of labor, materials and serv-
ices from the community could also
be counted toward the city grant
And Bastrop school officials
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have expressed tentative interest in
helping build public tennis courts,
he said.
Fisherman's Park master plan,
approved by the city council earlier
this year, already calls for tennis
courts, said Parks Board Secretary
Jane Hunt.
Cunningham said the parks
board apparently has enough
money in its budget to hire a grant
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The theme of the banquet was
"breaking through the walls."
Photo by Cecil Johnson
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lawnmower in the shed but it was
not the same lawnmower he had
seen earlier in the van.
He said he and Wobus ques-
tioned the suspects again and ob-
tained written consent to search the
house from Charles Polvado.
Hanna said a toolbox that fit the
description of the one taken in the
burglary was found in the front
room of the house and the gold and
black lawnmower he had seen
earlier in the van was found in one
of the back rooms.
All three suspects were arrested
and taken to Bastrop County Jail.
Charles and George Polvado were
released Sunday on $10,000 bond
each and Lopez was released Sun-
day on a $7,500 bond.
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consultant.
Since there is a parks master plan
already, Christensen estimated the
cost of his firm's services at $3,000
or less. The fee would finally de-
pend on how much of the work the
firm must do and how much can
be completed by city staff and the
parks board, he said.
The mother of a 15-year-old
Smithville resident involved in a fa-
tal car crash while learning to drive
May 1 was charged last week with
involuntary manslaughter.
A Lee County Grand Jury hand-
ed down an indictment May 11
against Susan Necessary Holman,
the mother of 15-year-old Jeanine
White.
White, an eighth grader at
Smithville Middle School, was
driving without a license when the
car she was in collided with a sta-
tion wagon on Texas 21 approxi-
Steubing
"We're going to delay our de-
cision on an appointment to the
board until we do contact some
other folks who were brought up
for consideration," he said.
After presenting the petition
Smith asked that Jackson be select-
ed as the new board member be-
cause she is qualified and her
selection would make the statement
Vflhat the board is concerned with
the total community."
Steubing said her resignation will
be effective June 1 when she will
move to join her husband in Las
Vegas, Nevada for business
reasons.
She said when her husband ac-
cepted a position in Las Vegas last
February she thought she could
stay in Bastrop with her children
for two years until he returned.
"I thought I could wing it by
myself for two years because I love
Bastrop so much," said Steubing.
"I didn't want to take the kids
out of BISD and I didn't want to
resign from the board, but it took
just a short time to realize that I
can't make it without my husband
and vice versa," she said.
Steubing said while in office she
"learned far more about the reali-
ties of running a school district"
matel'y 5.7 miles east of Lincoln.
In the wake of the crash the
driver of the station wagon,
59-year-old Edward Jones and his
wife, 57-year-old Jean Wolf Jones
were pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a report by Depart-
ment of Public Safety Trooper Bob
Thorpe, the elderly couple were on
their way to their home in San An-
tonio after dropping their grand-
child off in Bryan when they were
killed.
Both White and Holman were
hospitalized at Brackenridge
Hospital in Austin after the ac-
than she "ever thought possible."
"Before I was a board member
and even though I taught at BISD
for two years I knew very little
about the real responsibilities of the
administration in running a district,
and of the board as a policy mak-
er and overseer of the district as a
whole," said Steubing.
"The board is not a rubber
stamp, a misconception I once had.
Many unseen hours of positive de-
bate, and education through work-
shops occurs for each member,"
she said.
Steubing said "anyone who
thinks they want to get on the board
so they can change everything real-
ly has a lot to learn about the in-
ner workings of the district."
Steubing said she has the utmost
respect for Superintendent Patrick
Deviney and for every member of
the board.
Steubing said she keeps hearing
criticism of the board and adminis-
tration but believes the criticism is
unfounded.
"One complaint I recently heard
was on teacher's salaries," said
Steubing. "Maybe the communi-
ty does not realize that in 1984-85
with a tax rate of .67 the average
teacher's salary for our district was
$19,208," she said.
Steubing said in 1985-86 the
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cident.
Thorpe said White was east-
bound on Texas 21 at about 5:45
p.m. when the car she was driv-
ing ran off the right side of the
road. He said when the teenager at-
tempted to get back on the road she
steered too far to the left and her
car entered the westbound lane of
traffic where it struck the station
wagon head on.
Thorpe said White did not have
a driver's license or an instruction
permit which would have legally
allowed her to drive with an adult.
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average teacher's salary went up to
20,066 without an increase in the
tax rate and in 1986-87 when the
tax rate increased to .72 the aver-
age teacher's salary went up to
$21,234.
She said this year the tax rate
went up to .82 and the salaries in-
creased again.
"In a rural community with very
little tax base and with our
depressed Texas economy, I think
the administration under Mr.
Deviney and our current board is
doing an above average job in in-
creasing our teacher salaries," said
Steubing.
Steubing said it is her opinion
"that if any employee of BISD is
disatisfied with the way the district
is run, then maybe they should seek
employment elsewhere."
"I guarantee that even though
they may get a higher salary else-
where, they'll never find a more
caring administration, community
or school board as we have in Bas-
trop," said Steubing.
She said "the whole goal of the
district is to educate the students
and when there are employees who
do not enjoy working in the dis-
trict, then it will definitely have a
detrimental affect on the education
of our children."
Hospital —
Continued from Page 1, Section I
for interim financing up to
$ 150,000 until bonds can be sold
were not received with unfiorm en-
thusiasm, according to the city
manager. Bank directors are ex-
pected to act formally on the city's
requests this week, he said.
In the meantime the hospital will
have to operate on about $60,000
in hospital authority reserve funds
accumulated from various sources
over the years, Cunningham said.
At the same time he said talks are
continuing with St. David's Hospi-
tal in Austin about a possible
takeover of the Bastrop hospital.
"We're not burning any
bridges," he said.
Before voting to support the
hospital authority in resuming
management of the hospital, the
city council studied a "worst case"
financial projection by hospital ad-
ministrator Joe Rice.
Rice's figures show the hospital
could lose up to $41,795 a month
or more than $500,000 a year at
present levels of usage.
About $15,000 of that monthly
loss came from payments to
management companies, Cunnin-
gham said.
Shortly after NHS took over the
hospital in December two Bastrop
doctors left the staff and began
treating patients at Smithville
Hospital. Three of Bastrop's six
resident physicians continue to
practice at Bastrop Hospital.
As the Bastrop city council was
meeting last week to debate how
to keep the city hospital open,
Smithville hospital officials were
holding an appreciation dinner for
Drs. Bill Procell and Ralph Weh-
mer and hospital administrator Jim
Langford at an Austin restaurant.
Bastrop hospital reports supplied
by Rice show that the facility's
average occupancy in April was
4.1 patients a day.
The same figures show that in
1987 the hospital averaged 6.8 pa-
tients a day, down from 10.7 per
day in 1986.
At 10 patients a day the hospital
can break even, Rice said last
week.
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1988, newspaper, May 19, 1988; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth390941/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.