The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1985 Page: 1 of 40
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Homecoming
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Homage to
The Colorado River
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Cooksey says
if s ‘overkill’
By Tad Hershorn
Austin Mayor Frank Cooksey
said Sunday that in his opinion the
midnight annexations into Bastrop
County announced by the outgoing
Mullen council two days before he
took office represented an "aggres-
sive attempt to extend our turf’
and were done in an "overkill”
manner.
He stopped short, however, of
saying he would attempt to com-
pletely reverse the situation that led
Austin last week to file suit against
Bastrop, Dripping Springs, Elgin
and Taylor for adding land to their
extraterritorial jurisdictions to
counter Austin’s move.
Cooksey commented on the sit-
• — - backyard barbecue in
Microfilm Center, Inc-
Box 45436
Dallas Tx 75235
south Austin given by political ac-
tivists celebrating their victories in
the May municipal runoff elec-
tions. Newly-elected Councilman
Smoot Carl-Mitchell was also in at-
tendance as was defeated mayoral
candidate Max Nofziger.
Cooksey said he began studying
the three-tiered plan to annex por-
tions of Bastrop County the first
day he assumed office on May 15
and found answers hard to come
by. While he criticized the manner
of execution and its extent, he said
eastward expansion by Austin was
inevitable.
"I began studying the rationale
of the Bastrop County annexation
from the first day I was in office,”
Continued on Page 4, Section I
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Vol. 139, Number 28
Bastrop, Texas
Thursday, June 6, 1985
Fireworks to spark 1985 Homecoming
Bastrop firefighters battled for
three hours the blaze that des-
troyed a mobile home in the
Pines Ridge subdivision east of
town Sunday night. The heat was
so intense that metal walls of the
home melted collapsing the roof.
Photo b> Richard Goldsmith.
Blaze destroys
mobile home here
By Richard Goldsmith
A mobile home in the Piney
Ridge subdivision just east of Bas-
trop was gutted by fire Sunday and
firefighters have called for County
Fire Marshal Mike Barnes to inves-
tigate the cause of the blaze. .
Bastrop firefighters answered the
call at about 9 p.m Sunday and
found the mobile home, owned by
Raymond Tabor, completely en-
gulfed in flames when they arrived.
Fire Chief Cruz Galvan said
Barnes was called in because of the
possibility of arson He said the fire
was “kind of funny" because there
were no utility hookups to the trail-
er yet. The trailer had been moved
to the lot only days before.
The lack of utility hookups
eliminates the possibility (he fire
was caused by malfunctioning ap-
pliances. shorted wiring or a gas
leak.
Assistant Fire Chief Mike Fish-
er said the fire w as so intense "all
the walls were transparent and you
could see straight through the
fire."
He said the metal walls melted
in place and the roof of the struc-
ture fell straight down The fire
reached 2,300 to 2,400 degrees
farenheit, he said.
Four pieces of equipment were
used to fight the blaze manned by
25 firefighters. Two firefighters
were treated at the scene when they
were overcome by heat and smoke.
Fisher said the fire began to
spread just from radiant heat and
there was concern the blaze might
spread to nearby brush, trees asnd
homes.
"We could have had a wildfire
on our hands," he said.
By Tad Hershorn
Bombs bursting in air Saturday
night for the 37th annual Bastrop
Homecoming is but one of the new
features of the annual festival that
will delight those joining to
celebrate their roots in Bastrop
Thursday through Sunday at River-
front City Park
The fireworks display, spon-
sored by the Bastrop Chamber of
Commerce at a cost of nearly
$3,000, will begin at 8:30 p.m. at
Riverfront Park and is free to the
public Fireworks shells from three
to five inches will guarantee a
colorfully explosive display.
"It will be a first class fire works
display," said Homecoming Chair-
man Paul Pape
Riverfront City Park, the tradi-
tional site for Homecoming, is also
"new" in the sense that it was re-
cently purchased by the Bastrop
Chamber of Commerce and donat-
ed to the city for park land.
Another first, according tp Pape,
is staging Homecoming dances on
both Thursday and Friday nights
beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday night
w ill feature the talents of "Leather
and Lace”, while "The People’s
Choice” will entertain Homecom-
ing dancers Friday. Tickets are $4
in advance and $5 at the gate.
"These dances are where we
will make our money — they will
pay for the fireworks display, so
we hope people will come out for
these," said Pape.
Volleyball, tennis and softball
tournaments, sponsored by Ken
Perkins and John Webb and David
McGee of Pine Forest Inn and Rac-
quet Club, are other additions in
1985.
The soft ball tournaments begins
at the City ball park Friday after-
noon and continues through
Sunday.
The Bastrop Open Tennis Tour-
nament will start Friday afternoon
and go through Sunday. Divisions
include singles, doubles and
mixed.
The River Country Volleyball
Tournament kicks off at 9 a m.
Saturday at Pine Forest and con-
tinues as well through Sunday with
mens womens and singles
categories.
Fans of traditional fiddle play-
ing should mark their calendars for
2 p.m. Sunday with the initiation
of an Old Time Fiddlers Contest.
Homecoming events begin
Thursday at 10 a m. with the Kid-
die Parade, which will proceed
down Main Street. Participants are
asked to line up at 9 a.m. in the
Citizens Bank parking lot with
judging scheduled to begin at 9:30.
Games for the children will start
at 11 a.m. with hot dogs, soft
drinks, rides and ice cream.
Saturday morning will begin
with the 3.1 -mile Miller Lite Fun
Run beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Bas-
trop State Park. Registration for the
race is at 7:30 a.m. The race will
be divided into men, women and
age categories w ith first-, second-
and third-place trophies awarded in
each division.
The Grand Parade w ill be ready
to roll down Main Street at 10 a.m.
Parade entries will meet at 9 a.m.
at Bastrop High School, where they
will also be judged at 9:30.
Other planned activities Saturday
at Riverfront City Park which be-
gin at noon are the dunking booth,
arts and crafts and a merry-go-
round. Food, soft drinks and beer
will be served and there will be no
admission charge.
Other scheduled events at the
park are 4-H cake auction, 1 p.m.;
dance presentations by Dance
Craft, 2 p.m.; beard judging, 3
p.m.; legs contest. 3:45 p.m.; and
a free dance by "The Country Tra-
dition”, 4:30 p.m.
There will also be an increase in
the number of games, contests and
other attractions for children and
their parents.
Scheduled for Saturday are
horseshoes and dominoes, 1 p.m.;
pasture polo, 1:30 p.m.; jalapeno
eating contest, 2.30 p.m.; sow chip
throw, 3 p.m.; egg toss, 4 p.m.;
Simon Says, 4:30 p.m.; and tug-
of-war. 5:30 p.m.
Planned Sunday are the three-
egg juggle off, 12:45 p.m.; wash-
er tournament and ice cream crank-
off, 1 p.m.; watermelon seed spit-
ting, 1:30; and frisbee throwing.
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Elnora Swearingen wraps an kicking off the 1985 Homecom-
Arabian veil around the face of ing Festivities. Misty is the five-
granddaughter Misty Waneck of year-old daughter of Mr. and
Rosanky, who will be in the Kid- Mrs. Jimmy Waneck. Staff Pho-
die Parade Thursday morning to by Tad Hershorn_
5,000 more acres taken into Bastrop’s ETJ
By Richard Goldsmith
Almost 5,000 more acres were
accepted into Bastrop’s extrater-
ritorial jurisdiction Monday, boost-
ing the total added since the battle
against Austin annexation plans be-
gan to 72,490 acres.
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Meanwhile, Bastrop plans to
wait until Austin carries through
with first reading of its annexation
ordinance taking land in Bastrop
County to file an answer to a
lawsuit filed against the city last
week, Mayor David Lock said.
First reading of the annexation
ordinance has not been set, but
could come at the regular meeting
of this Austin City Council June 13,
according to an aide in Council-
member Mark Rose’s office.
The delay in answering the suit
will preserve Bastrop's contention
that Austin has not legally begun
annexation until first reading, a
technicality allowing time for lan-
downers to come within Bastrop's
ETJ and save themselves from
falling into Austin’s ETJ.
City council spent about 90
minutes behind closes doors Mon-
day night with City Attorney Roy
Rutland and Attorney for Citizens
to Save Bastrop County, Arthur
Mitchell. Neither attorney offered
more than brief comments on the
legal situation in order not to tip
Austin to Bastrop's strategy.
Austin filed suit last week against
Bastrop, Elgin, Taylor and Drip-
ping Springs asking that the expan-
sion of the ETJs of those cities be
the authority to expand their
respective ETJs and that public
hearings were not held on the
matter.
Rutland said last week that
Austin’s suit is without merit be-
cause the ETJ expansion was done
at the request of landowners. He
said Bastrop has followed proper
procedure because when landown-
ers volunteer their land into an ETJ
a public hearing is not necessary.
Mitchell termed Austin's suit an
"overt agressive act.”
Paul Pape, chairman of the
Citizens to Save Bastrop County,
said his group wilLraise $65,000
to defend Bastrop's’CT'jr Letters
"I feel like the people you are
protecting have an obligation to
pay,” Pape told the city council.
Of the $65,000, $15,000 is
budgeted for office expense,
$10,000 for mailing, $5,000 for
telephone calls, $25,000 for attor-
ney fees and $10,000 for a possi-
ble appeal. Pape said $15,000 was
included for the city’s attorney,
Roy Rutland, so that the landown-
ers who are protected by the city
and not the city taxpayers will bear
the legal burden.
We’re trying to mop up, clear
up and fill in the gaps,” Pape said.
Pape asked a meeting be set for
next Monday to that he can present
more properties for inclusion into
the ETJ. Council agreed.
Smithville water system
to temporarily shut down
Pape
totaling
resented 51 properties
9 acres for inclusion
By Tad Hershorn
The Smithville water system will
be shut off citywide at 8 a.m.,
Wednesday, June 19, to install
seven new fire plugs along old
Hwy. 71. Completion of major
water line improvements is also an-
ticipated about this time.
Mayor Bill Davison said re$i-
sion of the ETJs of those cities be requesting donations are being the territory Bastrop has already
declared void. Austta filed the suit mailed to those protected by Bas- accepted into its ETJ, which now
claiming that the citJfiA did not have irop from Austin. extends to the Travis County line.
into the ETJ Monday night. The detts should prepare ahead of time
properties are scattered throughout for the three to five hours it will
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and installing the fire plugs were
the top items on the agenda of a
special called meeting of the Smith-
ville CitjJ Council Monday night.
Davison said Smithville Hospi>
tal has already been notified of the
impending water shutoff, but that
the system could be turned back on
in^the event of a fire or other
emergdwfy.
"TtH most painless way to do it
is to gbt it over with. Hopefully,
there *ill be no problems.” said
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Goldsmith, Richard. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1985, newspaper, June 6, 1985; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth737993/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Bastrop+County%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.