The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1985 Page: 2 of 25
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Page 2, Section I THE BASTROP ADVERTISER AND COUNTY NEWS
Thursday, April 4, 1985
Beer
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jheir books every six months or ev-
ery year. We (the city) don’t have
the manpower to do that," he said.
We could be l^ft with nothing but
bars and restaurants on Main Street
with other retailers leaving. We
could wind up another Sixth
Street,” Lock, who owns Lock
Drugs on Main, said.
But Councilmember Ken Par-
kins, who also owns a Main Street
business. River Country Sporting
Goods, said he is for the measure.
“I’m for it. I think it betters the
sales in restaurants. I think the
stipulation for 75 perscent in food
sales will control it. They’re
(restaurants) missing a lot of tick-
ets because a lot of people would
like to sip beer or wine with their
meals.
Corbett says the right to serve
beer and wine with meals is the
pick-me-up needed by Main Street.
He disagrees with Lock that the
75 percent stipulation will be hard
to enforce. "Anyone with common
sense could tell whether a restaur-
ant is doing that volume of busi-
ness," he said.
He said the change would bring
in more business to downtown as
a whole, not just the restaurants,
because the present prohibition is
keeping some people away.
“It's 1985. People want to go
out to eat. We’ve had people come
from Elgin, Taylor and they come
in and say ‘What’no beer?’," Cor-
bett said.
The present ordinance is also
keeping other restaurants from
moving onto Main Street, he said,
and he points out that if beer and
wine sales are allowed with meals,
the city tax base will get a boost
in sales tax collected.
He is also certain that he could
get the current city zoning or-
dinance overturned if he took the
matter to court. But he said he
hasn't pushed the issue because his
business is doing well.
"W'e're being discriminated
against." he said, because the zon-
ing has not kept alcohol from be-
ing served on Main. The pool hall
next to Gus's Drug Store is allowed
to serve beer because it was in bus-
iness before the 1977 ordinance
was passed. The 1832 Tavern
serves beer, w ine and mixed drinks
because as a private club it's
lated by the state.
Corbett hopes the referendum
will pass, but he really doesn't
think it will. "I'll be surprised if
it’s even close," he said. Most of
the older in-town residents will
vote against he feels, while those
who might be in favor of beer and
wine on Main live outside of the
city and will not be able to vote at
all.
Workers are busy drilling Bas-
trop’s second water well on city
owned land near the American
Legion Post on Loop 150. Mon-
day the men were preparing
drilling mud to finish drilling the
well to 640 feet after setting the
casing in the top half of the well
earlier.
Library
Grandstanding
In the grandstand at Will Rogers Rodeo Arena
for the last time Saturday (it is being demolished
soon) for the Bastrop Future Farmers of America
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newspaper and talked to people on
the streets and had a chance to
review the library’s selection
policies.”
Board member Y vonne Brannon
said the request to remove the book
from the Adult Section would vio-
late the Library Bill of Rights and
put the burden on parents to decide
what their children read.
Kesselus was appointed to head
a committee which will review
library card policies and report to
the city council by next September.
Among other things, the com-
mittee will examine instituting
separate cards for minors or other
procedures that might segregate
materials not deemed suitable to
minors.
Correction
A story in the March 18 edition
incorrectly stated that developers
Ken Gully and E.D. Bohls built the
Stoney Point subdivision. Guliy
said another firm developed the
tract and Gully and Bohls later
Livestock Auction were (from left) Steven Long, ^ght some 200 lots out of 500
ReidSharp, Ray Long, Don Long, Cecil Long, m £ s,u.bd!v's‘on Gul|y saif1 he
Cheryl Long, Jerry Ingram and Joe Lee Rathman. ld^tlt,ugh meyTLZrigi"
nally build them.
But Rev. Kesselus said that no
new policies can substitute for
parental awareness of their own
childrens’ reading habits.
"Nothing we can do on the
board can change the responsibil-
ity of parents to know what they ’re
children are checking out of the
library," Kesselus said.
Kesselus said separating collec-
tions for adults and children is one
of the goals that will be instituted
should the library succeed in mov-
ing to larger quarters.
“We need to be sensitive to the
diverse needs of readers by age
group," Kesselus said.
He said he was not aware of any
of the legalities that might be in-
volved in trying to institute library
card policies based on age.
David Miller, a supporter of the
withdrawal petitioners, said a
review of card policies might satis-
fy him and others involved in pro-
testing the book.
"We would support issuing
different cards for adults and chil-
dren or more clearly labelling the
bookshelves," Miller said. "In es-
sence, that’s what we’ve been ask-
ing them to do. I would be willing
to volunteer my time to help im-
plement a new system."
Alice Roberts, while passionate
in her views against “Valley of
the Horse”, was not able to con-
vince the library board to remove
it from the shelves.
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