The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 99, Ed. 1 Monday, February 8, 1982 Page: 1 of 8
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Monday, February 8. 1982
Number 99
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Ricky Ashabranner, 27, of Bastrop was uncon-
scious when officers arrived 2.5 miles east of town on
Texas 71 Friday evening. Investigators said the car
the man was driving rammed two pines after it slid
off an icy curv e. Photo by Jiminie Cottle.
Turner seeks new Councii term
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By Davis Me.Aulcy
Barbra Turner, the .first
woman to serve on the
Bastrop City Council, is
seeking a second two-year
term.
"I want to do ir. I’Ve
been asked to run. L led
iike I should,” she said al-
ter filing tor the Council
seat at City I lull.
Turner, a real estate
agent with k.('. 1 and ( n.,
would only describe her
age as “early forties.”
After debating.for three
months w ith herself about
tiling again, she explained,
“it’s'like pulling a rotten
tooth, 1 just flumped in and
did it.” J
More seriously, she said,
“I felt I owed it.to the rest
of the Council” which has
launched a number of
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A number asked me ro ran. what I hear, ”
And I really’taspect and ('it-. After hearing about ern-
joy working with the jpen \/ployee' tensions, l umer
Barbra lurncr
projects which ‘‘we're not
through with yet.”
“All the people I asked
to run in my place said no.
on the Council.
Asked about the- dircc-
tion of the city under City
Manager Jerry Mci adden,
she replied.. "1 red .good
about it."
Concerning the Jan. 26
cIos.ed-door Counoil
meeting which Mel adden
received no notice of, she
said (he meeting had been
in progress for about JO
minutes before she realized
he wasn’t at City Hall.
The topic oj that
meeting, she said, was to
hear about “tension
among some employees”
w hich Mel .widen had been
unaware of. “We asked
(Mel adden) to take care of
it. He has, according to
explained, "I thought the
1 rest of l he C jouncil ought to
hear it.” She asked Mayor
.1.1?. Sharp to schedule the
' session, she said.----------------
"The meeting did' per-
tain to (Mei adden),” she
noted. ! timer speculated*/ school apparently saw the
that not notifying Met ad- flaming bottle on the ledge
dwi w-as -“menu; to he and - called out lylgin tire
Freezing rain and show
which swept the\county
Friday .prompted school
officials to turn out classes
early as icy bridges and;
roads made driving ex-
tremely hazardous.
A Bastrop m a n
remained u neon.sc ion s
Saturday in Austin’s
Brackenridge Hospital al-
ter the 1976 Pontiac he was
driving slipped oil a curve
east*of town and slammed
into two pine trees along
Bombs
hit Elgin
Jr. High
I irebombs hurled into a
chemistry lab at the Elgin
Junior High School shortly
before midnight Friday
1 ailed to explode or start a
serious l ire.
“We’re just fortunate,*’
.said F.lgin Police Chief
Dan Gibson. One of the
h o m e mad e i heend ia r y
devices crashed through a
window and landed in a
chemistry lab sink.
”That’s all that >aved it,”
said Gibson. “It could
have be.en a complete
disaster.”
A second “Molotov
cocktail” - a beverage bot-
tle tilled with diesel fuel or
kerosene, stoppered with a
rag which also serves as a
I use - broke a window but
came to rest on an outside
window ledge, Gibson
reported.
A resident near the
to him, a move
she said “baek-
kind”
w hi eh
fired.”
Mel adden hurried to
City Flail after. learning
that a closed-door Council
meeting was in progress.
1 ater, Mayor Sharp ex-
plained that he hadn’t
notified Mci adden of the
■meeting' because “it didn’t
-uially concern him.”'
HUD work runs over budget
explaining to the
Bastrop C if Council .i
$29,000 cost overrun or,
th.e southeast-, side street
and drainage project un-
dertaken with a $5(X).(XX)
federal grant, will be the
’responsibility February 8
o f c o n s u 111 n g"e n g i n e e r J o e 1
Wilkinson.
In a letter to City
Manager Jerrv Mel adden
last week, Wilkinson
reported that the project
work is completed, but
that channel paving lor
drainage and street pav ing
costs ran over the,budget
by $29,029. In addition the
city still owes $31,639 to
the contractor for work
which was within the!
project budget, the
engineer explained.
Mci adden said lie’ll let
Wilkinson explain to the
council how the total cost
rose seven percent,over the
budget.
News of the overrun set
McF’adden scrambling to
find the extra monev,
possihiy-in 1982-8-3-
sireets and drainage,
saving the city from spen-
ding its $23,000.
The city money was
rebudgeted arid about half
of: it has been spent on
rennovation of a'city water
well and two vehicles, said
Mciadden.
Since that move last
year, city officials have
been boasting that the
street, bridge and drainage
construction going on bet-
ween the Primary School
' and the Elementary School
w-as being accomplished
w i t h ou t an y ci t y motley.
McF'adden argues that
the claim will still be true, if
the council pays the un-
budgeted.costs out of
federal rev enue sharing in-
come.
He admits, however,
that il the council spends
its revenue sharing cash
that way, it will effectively
scrap the proposed revenue
sharing budget which the
council has had to study
forithe past week.
—"It means we’ll have to
and library, a used patrol
car for the police,'a used
pickup -and 'a tractor-
mower for the streets, and
some tools For the city
warehouse.
In the past, HI D was
in-
sometimes willing to
crease grants slightly in or-
der to covers unexpected
costs. The Reagan ad-
ministration has ordered a
halt to that practice, Ms
F'adden indicated.
department volunteers.
The witness told police
he saw a pickup truck
fleeing the vicinity “like it
was trying to sneak off,”
said Gibson.
The chief said police
haven’t identified any
suspects yet, “but we’re
trying.”
Elgin primary school
students have been holding
classes in city churches sin-
ce, a fire destroyed their
school Dec. 16. The
school’s heating system is
suspected as the cause of
that fire. ^
School trustees have
called a $2 million bond
election for Feb. 23. The
money will go to build a
new primary school and to
make other improvements
to F.lgin schools.
Texas ~ l about X-50p.ni
Department of Pubiu
Safety, Trooper David
Quton said Ricky
Ashabrar.ner,. 27, was un-
conscious’.when officers
arrived.. He was treated at
B a, strop Memorial
Ffospi.ta1 before being
transferred to
Bruckenridge’s intensixe
care unit with head-in-
juries. A s h a b r a n n e r
operates tin, A & H Faint
and Body Shop in Austin,
He w as alone in the car.
Ice along Highway 71
some 2.5 miles east of tow n
“was kind of pajeny” but
there was ice on the curve,
sa’id Ou-ton. Judging from
damage _done to Lite car,
Ashabranner “was going
too fast” as he approached
the, curve, “especially tor
the (weather) conditions at
the time,” the trooper
said.
' 1 hex storm hit hardest
around .Elgin where Police
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Icicle formed (riday at the corner of the Bastrop Ad-
vertiser building, a reminder through the day of the
second big storm of 1982’s winter. Photo b\ Jimmie Cot-
tle.
Chid Dar. G rson said 15
or 16 mo’Otists slipped off \
highways and cyjjty streets,
smashing tenders sighs
and fentr'. 1 hen were no
•serious injuries, he said.
Roads were “so slid,
you couldn’t stand up”
very well, the chief repor-
ted. With a gi;sty north
wind blowing, emergency
workers trying to aid
motorists “about had to
crawl or hold bn to some-
thing.”- he said.
An Austin woman died
west of 1 igin op : S.
High-Way 29.0.in a- coilT-ion___
about 1:45 p m. just :usieh
I rav is County. Dead ^ a
.1 orraine Joppy, 60, a
passenger in an east bound
car driven by.S.TJ. McShan
Jr., 27, Of Elgin.
, He was listed in fair con- .
dition at Brackenridge.''
Also injured was .Donna
McShan, 26, of Elgin who
was treated at
Brackenridge lor a broken
leg.' One-year-old Shif-
fonet McShan was also
treated and released.
At least three other
vehicles suffered minor
damage in the aftermath ot
the fatal crash near the in-
tersection of ITS. 290 and
the New, Sweedeh Road’,
said-investigators.
• In Bastrop, police said
only one minor mishap w as
reported, I riday when a
motorist slid into protec-
tive curb'll« ■< lo"■’ h
Texas 71 overpass over the
Katy rail line.
Deputy Sheriff Richard
Hernandez reported that
count v oi; icet s in-
vestigated five no-injury
mishaps along ITS. 290
and Texas 7'! during the
storm.
With the ram ending
earlier, Sgt, Oscar Dungun
reported that Bastrop
streets were mostly dry by 9
p.m. Ice on the bridges was
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Lockheed heading west
Air force demands hav e
apparently shot -dow n
Austin"' plans in:. a .new
City airport next \ to
Bergstrom Air force Base
and that means Lockheed
Missiles A Space Co. will
be about four miles far-
ther from Bastropc omitv.
Lockheed officials said
in Bastrop Iasi year'that if.
the new Austin tirport was
authorized. Lock heed
would build its huge-new
Austin Division plant next
to Onion Creek,oh the east
vide oi Ber-g-strom, and
closer to Bastrop.
But with the-airport ap-
parently vanishing as a
possibility, Hock heed, will
be free lo go ahead and use
Hhe. airport site on which it
holds, an option'. Tins
w o.uId put the plant, expec
ted to employ as many as
6,000 persons in 10 years,
in the growth direction ol
Grand Jury gives 11 indictments
Two Elginites were in-
dicted by Th,e lanuary
Term Grand Jury :n
Bastrop Thursday for an
armed robbery attempt
Jan. 22 in Elgin.
Curtis Kerr, 25, and
Katherine Walker, 26,
were ordered to stand trial
for aggravated robbery
with a deadly weapon.
Esteban Aguirre told
authorities a man kicked in
the door of his residence at
109 Cleveland St., deman-
ded money, fired a shot ire-
side the house and hit him
with the handle of the
pistol before fleeing.
Wal-k-e-f—was—indicted -in-
Rogers as Kerr fled the B &
E Grocery, in Elgin after
threatening and deman-
ding money from Barbara
Kelley.
No money was taken in
either hold-up.
In other act,ion last week,
the Grand Jijry returned
truebilKagainst:
•David Beck, 23, and
Terry Beck, 19, indicted
for theft of firearms from
Kenneth Beck. David Beck
has been released under
$5,(MX) bond. Terry Beck is
being held under $1,000
bail.
•Robert Beck, 24, indic-
ted for retaliation in con-
with an alleged
To get” Game
nection
threat
Warden-Howard Finer of
Smithviile on Jan. 24. The
suspect is being held undet
$5, (XX) bail.
- ’Richard Bennett, 25,
indicted tor unauthorized
use ot a nyotor vehicle, a
tractor owned bv Billy
Herschap which was being
'used iigcpjisjrjicjioli at .the
Smithviile West sub-
division on Texas 71, Ben-
nett is in Bastrop County
Jail under $5,000bail.
•George Donham, 20,
and Onie Gorman, 50, in-
dicted for theft otjwo sad
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Haisler files for SISD seat
Hdrry W„ Haisler of
Alum Creek filed last week
for a new term on the
Smithviile Independent
School District Board :il
since become dormant.
Haisler was elected to the
Place 3 seat on the board,
defeating J.A. Sonny
Poole—635 lo—.303 and-
seience in 1952. He and his
Wife Nell have three grown
children. s
Haisler said he i.s run-
Lock hart, down Highw a >
183. instead o! Bastrop,
down btiglvwav ~ 1:
Realtors here said they
expect to get customers for
homes. and acreage
whether the Lock heed-
plant goes on the west or
east .side of Betgstrom (nit
there won’t as much
commercial and resident ial
build-up in Bastrop Coun-
ty with the west side plant,
they said.
I he .Air 1 o.rcc wanted
the city to pay for the
r call g n m e ti l o f
Bergstrom’s military run-
wav and placing a section
of Highway 183 un-
derground. Austin Coun-
cilman Roger Duncan said
he doesn't think the city
can at ford t.hal.
Neef files
in race
Jerry W. Neef, 44, of
Bastrop, filed last week tor
a new term on the Bastrop
Independent School
District;Board. Hie other
incumbent whose term
runs out at the April 3 elec-
tion, Robert Miller, also
t iled as expected.
revenue sharing allotment.
Originally the city
budgeted $^3,(MX) of its
own money toward com-
pletion of the project.
Later , MrEadden woo-......
approval of the Depar-
tment of Housing and Ur-
bar Development to.
redirect part of the housing
rehabilitation budget to
do without some things vve
need,’.’ but which aren’t
essential, said Met adden.
The city manager
estimates 1982-83 revenue
shunng-grants Le ■ tota 1
$26,5(X). Of that amount in
the preliminary revenue
shaying budget, $17,500
wjxild go for office equip-
ment for the city secretary
connection,with the same
incident.
Both suspect's are being
held in Bastrop- County-
Jail under $25, (XX) bail.
Kerr was also indicted
for a'second robbery Jan.
21 and for aggravated
assault with a deadly
wtapon. Police charged
That Kerr*fired at Hubert
the April 3 election.
Two three-year seats will
be filled at that election.
Ihe other term expiring
belongs to James Briggs Jr.
Haisler is a grain farmer
who also raises Abet cattle.
He was elected three
vears ago with the backing
of a Smithviile area tax-
payers league which, lias
taking all three voting
precincts, Smithviile,
Rosanky and Pin Oak.
A past president of the
American Dairy
Association, Haisler has
lived in the Smithviile area
for 21 years. FJe attended
Caldwell High School and
Texas A&M University,
taking a degree in dairy
to finish what has been
started -- to sec it
through,'” referring to a
school building program
The SISD board is asking
voters March 16 to ap-
prove a $6.5 million bond
issue to build a new high
school and renovate and
eti large three other'
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Jerry Neef
Neef nas served on the
school board a total of six
years. He served from 1973
to 1976, was defeated by
Jimmie Cottle, and then
won his seat back, over
Cottle' and another can-
didate, in 1979.
He is first assistant at the
state auditor's office and
an accountant by training.
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 99, Ed. 1 Monday, February 8, 1982, newspaper, February 8, 1982; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth735678/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.