Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. Includes supplement., No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1979 Page: 1 of 14
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Win cash downtown Thursday night till 9
Personality Parade
Virgie Daniels, the Pitching Grannie, is ready for the new
season.
Grannie aims
for no hitter
Another in a series of articles on interesting persons living
in Bastrop County.
BY JACK FRASER
Grannie "loves to bake, do house work," keep her
husband's books and her children's children.
But when May rolls round, she also "loves" to hit the
pitcher's mound,
Next Monday, at 7:30 p.m., watch out. Virgie Daniels, 53,
will be starting pitcher for Daniel's Gulf ladies Softball team
and she's out to win.
"My ambition is to pitch a no hitter," she said with that
infuriating calmness that marks a dedicated and usually
successful human.
"When I get out there on that mound, I don't hear
anything except the umpire and coach and one or two of our
girls who I think know more about it than I do," she said
Tuesday.
Last year "They named us the Grannie team. All around, I
guess we had the oldest team," Mrs. Daniels said of the
contingent that was sponsored then by the Old Dime store.
"We came in third and this year we're aiming higher."
Mrs. Daniels, and her sister, Nina Wilkinson, who is a
mere 47, started playing softball last year.
Why? "For exercise.
"Grandmas definitely need to be out."
OKLAHOMA YEARS
Virgie and Nina weren't always gung ho sports
enthusiasts.
When they were small, growing up in Cotton County,
Okla.,< their mother didn't allow them to participate in sports
because of religious convictions.
"But after I got married (to Jim Daniels, her still adoring
husband of 35 years), I went into the Ladies Independent
Basketball League, playing for J.R. Crow's Service Station
in Atoka County. Jim went around the state of Oklahoma
with me."
The Daniels had two sons and two daughters, but none
turned out to be lifetime sports enthusiasts. "Our youngest
boy, Dennis Wayne Daniels, was going to be (into baseball)
until he got interested in rodeo and other things," she said.
This year, her husband Jim has a Little League team and a
Men's Softball team in addition to his wife's slow-pitch
softball team.
Also on the team are Mary Hayes and her daughter,
Cindy, Nan Olsen and her datighter Nancy, Sharon Hodges,
Barbara Mitchell, Renee Sutton,Lavenia Henderson (who is
also a grandmother), Roxanne Washington, Carolee Davis,
Cheryl Greeness and two high school soon-to-be graduates,
Angel Hunt and Stacey Smith. The coach is Nina's husband,
Glen Wilkinson.
MALE ADVICE
Does Jim Daniels give advice to her?
"Naturally, Did you ever see a husband that didn't?"
V irgie said. Does she pay attention? "If it comes in handy,"
she said.
The Daniels bought their gulf station next to Highway 71
this year after selling a painting contracting business to a
son.
Mrs. Daniels, who is black-haired and slim and doesn't
appear ready for retirement, also enjoyed china painting in
addition to baking and house work. But a fire that destroyed
"everything" in their home, including china she was getting
ready to give her children, ended that hobby.
Mrs. Daniels, who says she loses 10 to 15 pounds during
the summer softball season, also enjoyed taking five-mile
walks with Nina. When you're in shape, baseball is no
problem.
Post Office outlines
mail size change
"Use up your small and
undersized envelopes and
cards before July 15,"
fostmaster A.A. Sanders
said Tuesday. That is the
date when the Postal
Service's new size standards
become effective.
The Bastrop Postmaster
said that after July 15,
envelopes and cards measur
ingless than 3'/i inches high
or 5 inches long will be
returned to the sender if
mailed.
Postmaster Sanders said
that because the envelope
and greeting card industries
have had more than three
years to prepare for the new
standard*, few retailers
should stiii be selling
undersiwd pie''**
"Many consumer#! how
rvw are liMy to still have
smaller envelopes and cards
in iheir supply of slat em
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The regulations also pro-
hibit flimsy cards. In the
future they must be at least
seven thousandths (.007) of
an inch thick. An official
postal card, for instance, has
a thickness of nine thous-
andths of an inch.
Undersized pieces and
flimsy cards are being
banned because they can
become trapped in other
mail, tear and jam mail
processing machinery. As a
result, the letters of others
can also be damaged
The standards also affect
oversized and odd shaped
pij«'cs of mail, Sanders said
For first class mail weighing
one ounce or less, there will
Ite a surcharge of 7 cents for
pieces more than W l/Hth
inches high or 11 l/'i inches
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for more information, the
puntmnxirr suggest# rus
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TEXAS' OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Since March 1,1853
The Bastrop I Texasl Advertiser, Thursday, May 10, 1979
Nl MBER21
Houston couple still in jail
Bail reduced in cocaine seizure
A Houston pair charged
with possession of a pound of
cocaine by Department of
Public Safety officers Sun-
day remain in Bastrop
County Jail Tuesday night,
despite a reduced bond
ordered by District Judge
John L. Placke following a
bond hearing in district
court Tuesday.
Placke set bond for
William Lyford, 33, and
Ronda Suzanne Green, 22,
both of Houston, at $50,000
each. Following their arrest
about 3 a.m. Sunday on
Highway 71 in Bastrop, bond
had been set at $110,000 for
Lyford and $100,000 for
Green.
Attorneys for Lyford
argued that he had "ade-
quate defenses" against the
charge, no previous criminal
record and "no need to
leave" before trial. Placke
was urged to set bond at
$20,000 for each defendant.
Lyford testified at the
hearing that he was a real
estate broker and had lived
in Houston since 1972. His
sister who lives in Lake
Charles, Louisiana, he said,
would help to raise the
premium on a $20,000 bond.
The approximately $4,100
of "savings" also found in the
car was being held by police
Witness identifies wrong man
A pre-trial hearing for
Ronnie J. Litchfield, accused
of the February 24 armed
robbery of a Smithville
liquor store, was recessed
Tuesday afternoon after a
key prosecution witness,
Mrs. Tom Hancock, identi-
fied Robert Wright, a law
clerk with the legal firm of
Garcia and Ganne, as one of
the two men who staged the
stick-up.
Wright, seated next to
defense attorney Gary Kil-
gore, was dressed in blue
jeans and appeared not to
have shaved Tuesday. Litch-
field, indicted along with
Gary L. Jackson for the
$2,000 robbery, was seated
out of the sight of those in
the district courtroom.
Asked if the man she had
picked out of a police line-up
in the county jail as one of
the-two robbers were in the
courtroom, Mrs. Hancock
said he was. Asked by
Kilgore to point him out, she
said, "he's sitting right there
next to you."
Mrs. Hancock had been
questioned closely for almost
an hour by Kilgore about
identifying details and speci-
fic features of the man she
said she recognized both in
photographs shown to her by
Smithville police chief
Tommy Simon and in the
police line-up.
She was also questioned
about the color of the hold-up
man's hair. Mrs. Hancock
had described as red-haired,
one of the two robbers. She
admitted that the person she
and could not be used to
make bond, he said.
Lyford described himself
as vice-president of real
estate for Mensa Resources,
a Houston company which
does subcontracting work
for oil companies. He often
travels, said Lyford. and
usually carries a gun in his
car.
Green tearfully testified
that she was merely a
passenger in the car. that
she had asked Lyford to let
her ride with him and that he
identified in the line up and
in the photographs had
"dark" hair. But she main-
tained that she had studied
the face of the robber
carefully and that she had
picked the same man from
the police line up.
The hearing was held on a
motion by Kilgore to
suppress evidence based on
the lineup identification.
Litchfield did not have a
lawyer present at the time of
the line up, was not told that
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had asked her to put his
wallet with the $4,100 into
her purse. She gave her
occupation as a bartender.
She is presently unemploy-
ed, she said.
Her mother is dead and
she has no communication
with her father who lives in
Tennessee, she said. She
denied living with Lyford.
Green also said shakily
that she "hoped" Lyford
would help her make bond to
get out of jail, and that she
had never before been in
trouble with the law.
Summer kids
program mapped
A summer youth recrea
tion program for children 7
to 13 years old will be
available in Bastrop County
beginning about June 14,
announced Efrain Canava,
director of the project
sponsored by Combined
Community Action, Inc.
Subdividers
ready road plea
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Crowd assembled Tuesday night at the Courthouse Bandstand for Harmony Club's night
of music, including numbers by Macedonia Baptist Church Junior Choir.
Staff Photo by Davis McAuley
Residents told: lock up
The number of burglaries
in Bastrop County fell by
almost 100 last year - only
136 in 1978, down from 220 in
1977.
But locks and record-keep-
ing are still two keys to
prevent being ripped off by
burglars, Bastrop County
Chief Deputy Judy Wich-
mann told a recent meeting
of a Tahitian Village
homeow ners association.
The group was advised to
scratch or engrave drivers
license numbers on all
portable property and to put
stickers on doors and
windows telling would-be
intruders that everything is
marked.
Make it known to the
public that residents patrol
the area in the hope of
preventing burglaries, she
suggested.
LCRA burn tests
start Down Under
Tests are slated to begin
this month in Australia
which could result in locally
mined lignite replacing gas
as the main boiler fuel at the
Lower Colorado River Au
thority's Sim Gideon Steam
Plant near Bastrop, accord
ing to an LCRA announce-
ment.
A burner for the specially
pr«»essed Australian coal
has I teen constructed for the
lest* liv Kintyre Limited,
the company which holds
paU'fits on Ihe process
which, II I* claimed, Pnuld
eliminate many of the
pollution hazards associated
wiih lignite burning, say
oils lal*
A 'est firiMK rhamlwr ta
also completed, according to
the announcement. Earlier
this year, Kintyre officials
visited the Sim Gideon plant
to take measurements for
the unit #1 generator and
boiler while it was undergo-
ing routine repair and
mainlc nance.
"Should these tests be
successful, then we will have
more made in the United
Slates," said LCRA general
manager Charles Herring.
If the teats satisfy LCRA
officials, they have said, they
plan to import specially
prta'essed nail from Austra
lis for some eight to ten
year* to fire Ihe Him Old con
plant At ihe same (line,
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And use locks. As many as
you can. Lock inside doors to
the bedroom, bathroom, or
closet. Lock boxes you do not
want opened.
Burglars like to hit fast
and get out, explained
Wichmann, Often they don't
like to spend more than a •
few minutes inside a house,
she said, and inside locks can
help slow down their
prowling enough so that
they become nervous and
leave, hopefully with very
little.
Wichmann also stressed
the importance of keeping
serial numbers of guns,
Continued to Page 8
Musicians
to perform
Thursday, May 10, at 7:30
p.m.. the Bastrop High
School Hand will hold its
annual spring concert in (he
high school gymnasium.
The band will perform six
pieces, (hree of (hem, piei^es
the band played at district
routes!.
The stage baud will also
perform,
Everyone is invlled to Ihe
eoia ert and It urged to «mnr
if seeking an enleilaimug
eveiling, said theiirgsillzri ■■
Subdividers are set to
appear Monday before the
County Commissioner's
Court, asking formally for
two kinds of subdivision
roads - Class 1 for high
standard public roads and
Class 2 for lower standard
private roads.
The county has been
considering adopting one
standard for all roads on the
theory that sooner or later
residents will demand that
thecounty maintain them.
At a meeting last Thurs
day at Pine Forest Inn,
around 25 developers agreed
to ask for the Class 1 and
Class 2 categories but also
agreed to accept a 50 ft.
width for both kinds of
roads, something commis
sioners said they wanted.
However, the subdividers
also agreed they don't want
to have to post a perform-
ance bond, a requrement
also being considered by the
county.
The revised subdivision
ordinance, according to the
developers, "would specify
that anyone buying a parcel
in a subdivision with Class 2
roads would be told that in
no way is the county
responsible for the road and
wouldn't be in the future
unless the owners in that
subdivision first broqght the
road up to the county's
specifications of a Class 1
road."
Class 2 roads would have
locked gates, according to
the proposal.
The developer would have
to specify whether Class 1 or
Class 2 roads were to be
installed, at the time he filed
a subdivision pla t.
Developers who attended
the meeting said privately
that it could be hard to
obtain financing for new
homes built in subdivisions
with Class 2 or lower
standard roads.
At a specially called
meeting with the commis
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Swimming, cooking, ten-
nis, arts and crafts and field
trips are all in the works for
Smithville, Bastrop and
Elgin, said Canava. CCA will
also sponsor summer pro-
grams in La Grange,
Flatonia, Schulenberg and
Giddings, he said.
The program will run ft*
six weeks this summer, and
Canava said he expects at
least 400 children to become
involved. Everyone is wel-
come.
The U.S. Department of
Labor is providing most of
the money, he said, and
CETA funds may be used to
recruit some "college kids"
to help out with the
program. The CCA nutrition
project will be providing
lunches for the children, he
added.
Canava is also looking for
additional volunteers "with
ability to teach children
recreational and educational
activities."
Some volunteers have
already stepped forward, he
said. These include tennis
and swimming instructors.
Filmmaker Bill Colville will
also work with the group, he
said.
Volunteers should contact
Canava in Smithville at
237 2434 or come to the CCA
offices at 4th and Harris in
Smithville, he said.
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