The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 23, Ed. 1 Monday, May 17, 1982 Page: 3 of 8
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Monday, May 17,1982
BAS I HOP AI)\ KRTISKR ANDCOLNTY NEWS
Page 3
First woman city judge gets 24-hour-day job
By Ellen Moore
Judith K. Hoover be-
came Bastrop’s 4th Munic-
ipal Judge Monday night,
May 10, at 11:30 p.m.,
following unanimous ap-
proval of the City Council.
Mrs. Hoover, 34. is the first
woman to hold this posit-
ton, which was created 10
years ago, according to
City Secretary Artie Mc-
l.auren. “Before that, the
mayor always served as
judge,’’ she explained.
MIND! MPAMIRS
City Judge Judith Hoover
The Municipal Judge
presides over misdemeanor
city police cases -- anything'
under a S200 fine, or com-
parable jail- sentence. The
■judge is on call “24 hours a
day, seven days a vveek.”
Mrs. Hoover came to
Bastrop in 1978, alfter leav-
ing a career with the f eder-
al Bureau of Prisons. She
and her husband Tommy
had purchased land here in
1974, and were drawn to
Bastrop “because of the
old homes - we were al-
ready eyeing some which n
a look above
which
needed renovation,’’ she
said 1 ndav. ,
Mrs. Hoover was bom in
Phoenix, Arizona,, but
m o v e d co n tin ua 11 y
throughout her childhood
“as a military brat." SPie
has an older.brother, who
ls a Major in the Army and
’lives in Columbia, Mary-
land, and one younger
sister, who lives m Pear-
land, Texas (near Hous-
ton) and works- -for the
telephone company.
Mrs. Hoover started
-.school in Memphis, I enn-
essce, then moved lo 1 lot -
ence, Alabama, then to
W ichita 1 alls. She graduat-
ed from high school at
Burkhurnett, and graduat-
ed from North Texas State
liniversitv in. Denton,
where, she met her hus-
band-to-be. They married
in their last year of college.
She majored in pyschol-
ogy, with minors in sociol-
ogy and English, then join:
ed the Dallas Metropolitan
Y W CA - Garland branch
as program director.
Shortly after, she. a poked,
for work with the federal
Bureau of Prisons and
started w ork in Fort Wort h
in July, 1973.
ALWAYS Cl HIDES
“1 took a lot of penol-
ogy courses in college.” she
explained, “and was al
ways curious, and interest-
ed in the criminal justice
system. 1 toured several
prisons on field trips while
in college, and that type of
work always appealed to
me. ’ ’
She started as a correct-
ional officer (guard) and
after one year was promot-
ed to the position of Cor-
rectional Treatment Spec-
ialist (a case worker .within
the system).
In 19’’4 she was transfer
red to the San Diego Met-
ropolitan Correctional
Center and helped establish
a pilot program there, “e
verything from deciding
what the prisoners would
wear to every aspect of the
daily activities," site ex-
plained. (Tliis prison later
Rival school plans before SISD
Continued from Page 1
down the middle, l eave
the location to the school
board. I think they ’ll make
a wise decision.”
Junior " High Principal
Gene Sampson, visibly
shaking with emotion, ad-
ded, “I’m distressed at-
what I’ve heard. I’m dis-
appointed that grown
people act ’this way over
children. I’ve given Iff)
percent to make our school
work. 1 he plans are okay,
but the ideas behind the
plans are what but her me.
“Across the tracks
doesn’t exist as far as some
ot you indicate, just burn it
down...,’’ Sampson said,
to applause from the
audience.
“It’s a bad neighbor-
hood, to say the least,’’
Pilots
invited
. --
A general aviation acci-
dent prevention program,
sponsored by the Smith
ville l iving Club, will he
given May 20 at 7 p.m. at
the Smithv ille Airport; an-
nounced Aubrey Nobles,
manager of the airport.
1 ric Anderson from the
federal Aviation Agency
in San Antonio will present
a flight , safety program,
and will discuss various
regulation,, v; e r 11 g o i n
flight, and accident
prevention. He will also
bring the “vertigo chair"
to demonstrate inflight
vertigo.
All pilots, student pilots,.
a n d aeronantic a 11 y-
minded persons are inv ited
‘to attend this free pilot cel -
ucation program at no
cost.
All pilots will become
eligible for a S6(),(XX)"pTahe
donated by the Aircraft
Manufacturers Associa-
tion, just by attending the
program.
For further information,
contact Auhrev Nobles,
237-3398.
House said. “We’ve had to
live with that lot,, a long
time," responded Sam-
pson ,
Sick T o Stomach
klaern.et, also, visibly
shaken,’ ^addressed:’ the
bqard, “I was born and
raised here, and brought
up to respect you, but Eye
never been so sick to my
stomach ... you’re not
talking about the Jand.
rhat’s phony.”
“You’re getting away
from what the people
want," Elrieh stated, ad-
ding that if they tried to
pass a. SI million bond to
spend at the Brown site, “it
will be a worse bomb than
the$6.5 million” bond.
“I haven’t seen the
plans, but you’ve got bad
Galvan case
Continued from Page 1
for the past four years'and
had had two children by
him. Dr. Jackson said.
She had also said that
one nlon.th yipliet, bet
mother (ft ’ (ialvu-n)
had asked both she and
Paul Galvan to leave the
florae., they were sharing,
and the couple had then
taken two-und-a-
lialt year old faith from
her grandmother, and had
been liv ing in a motel from
that time until the
premature birth of her
second child. —■<* -
Rose had also said she
Was never close to her.,
parents who had been
divorced for seven or eight'
years, she said, and her
mot tier had known about
the relationship between
her daughter and husband
"for a year or more.”
Regional supersisor for
the Department of Human
Resources Child Welfare
Div ision’s Child Protective
Services Jim Carruthers
Austin, testified that com-
plaints over Rose and Paul
Galvan's treatment of their
children had been received
bv his department over the
last four years. Although
they had been investigated
the department took no ac-
tion as, although there
were “some concerns,” it
was felt the situation was
not serious enough to con-
sider legal-action, as there
problems, ’ ' remarked
High School IThicipat
Jimmy Stacey. “People
just don’t want to spend
money for good school sy s-
tems. He added,“VI
doesn’t really matter where
you -start, you can’t go
wrong. I’ve been here 20
years, and the people have
never passed a decent
bond.”
was “no immediate
danger.”
Frances Galvan testified
that she felt it was in her
granddaughter’s best in-
terests ’‘to be with me right
now.”
She disagreed that she.
had aquieseed to the
relationship between her
husband and daughtei and
said when she had finally
found out about the
situation, her husband
and daughter promised the
incest would stop,
Lessons morning and afternoon
Summer classes starting now
Lucille Ash
321-2420
I would like to express my sincere ap-
preciation to the citizens, and especially to
the voters of Bastrop County in the May 1st
Democratic Primary Election. Your vote of
support and confidence will be remembered
as I continue serving as your County Clerk.
Again, thank you.
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After two years in
San Diego, she went to the
f nited States Penitentiary
in Terre Haute, Indiana,
where she worked until her
'resignation in 1978‘ 1 was
ready for something else,"
Hoover said “My ques-
tions had been answered,
my curiosity satisfied.” She
added, “it was an uncom-
parable. experience,.' very
rewarding, while being
well paid.” -
All the - anc froth Judith
\«h! 1 orfiiny were “hold
mg.down fulj time jobs,"
they w o r k e d Lri
rehabilitatirnf proper! v,
and doing landscaping.
“\Vi rking outside \vith
plants is something 1
love," ,he said, “and now
we-love the liberty, the life-
style, possible in BastropM
get -o much satisfaction ■
_t torn seeing an eyesore - - be
it a home or vard ■ bemg
t r a n s l or in e d into,
something appealing ' to,
'me.'-'
M: Hoover feels
’ capable, of “learning on
Kite-job," hut also wants to
do the best job possible,
lowrj - that L'-tid, she has
already signed up for a
training session in Lub-
bock on May 26-28, spoil-
• inod bv the Texas lech
School ot I aw, and is a
Texas Judicial Council-
approved t raining for
municipal judges.
“I'vealready had people
coine in to pay fines or .
■ discuss cases ■ things that
were pending,” she repor-
ted, -No I’ve gotten a feel
lot thing*.”
1 itially, she stijjJ her
posit ion w as ideal -“II eel
that I can work ifl.y
business around the judge-
ship. 1 want to do the job,
and I'm real glad to have
- been selected. Being called
‘Judgjt’ is odd, but once
one if; interested in. the
. judicial system, one never
Joses interest.
She concluded, “But for
me to have the right to
complain, 1 mustbe willing
to commit the time and
energy to solve what I view
as problems.
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