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Thursday, September 10,1992
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County moves to add voting places, dates
. Spurred by the endorsement of ficials, will set up special polling Saturday, Oct. 24 in an effort to Association Chairman Mike Bastrop County. He wants to top the-vote efforts Oct. 14 and Oct.
Bastrop County Clerk Shirley places at retail stores in Bastrop, boost voter turnout, said Mrs. Roach said the local party’s goal that figure this year. 17, he said.
Wilhelm, county commissioners Smithville and Elgin on two days Wilhelm. is to turn out 60 percent of the Roach said recent state law If commissioners formally
acted Monday to broaden access during the Oct. 14-30 early voting During regular office hours county’s registered voters for the makes it possible to set up voting name the retail stores as special
to early voting sites for the Nov. period. early voters can also cast ballots election. booths in retail stores like voting boxes when they meet next
3 presidential election. In addition, early voting booths at the county clerk’s office in the In the 1990 general election Bastrop’s Wal-Mart. Similar week, GOP and Democratic
The plan, backed by local will be open in Bastrop, Elgin, Courthouse, said Mrs. Wilhelm, more than 53 percent of outlets in Smithville and Elgin re-
Democratic and Republican of- Smithville and Cedar Creek on Bastrop County Democratic registered voters cast ballots in main to be confirmed for get-out- See EARLY VOTING, p. 2
New law
on eviction
Track house’ shut
by action in Elgin
By Janice Butler
Staff Writer
Texas Attorney General Dan
Morales is busy enforcing a fair-
ly new law that shuts down
businesses and residences
allegedly involved in illicit
criminal activity and/or
operating a common and public
nuisance.
In Elgin Police Chief Wayne
Meredith is doing what he can to
help Morales close down public
nuisances there.
A public nuisance is defined in
the Texas Civil Practice and
Remedies Code as a place where
persons habitually go for the pur-
pose of prostitution, gambling or
the sale or use of illegal drugs.
Last spring marked the first
elimination of an alleged
nuisance in Elgin and conse-
quently the first in Bastrop
County.
After the owners of a rent house
at 801 Old McDade Road became
aware that their house was being
used as a crack house and that
they were exposed to legal sanc-
tions under the nuisance law, the
tenants were evicted, eliminating
the crack house.
According to Meredith, any pro-
perty involved in illicit activities
can be seized by the state under
the public nuisance law.
“Sometimes we can’t get close
enough to make an arrest, but we
can build a case with a combina-
See NUISANCE, p. 2
2 arrested on
sex allegations
Two Bastrop County men were
recently jailed for unrelated sex-
ual offenses against juveniles.
James Franklin Jurek, 54, of
Bastrop was arrested August 12
and charged with sexually
assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Smithville resident Floyd Baca
was arrested August 13 on two
charges of indecency with a child.
He is accused of fondling two
boys, a 13-year-old and a 16-
year-old.
Jurek turned himself in to the
Bastrop County Sheriff’s office
after he learned a warrant had
been issued'for his arrest, accor-
ding to Bastrop County Sheriff’s
Department sex crimes in-
vestigator Mike Harris.
“Because he is out (of prison)
on federal parole, his bail was set
at $100,000. He has not posted
bond yet and remains in jail,”
Harris said.
“Jurek denies any wrongdoing
and has agreed to a polygraph
test. His test date is scheduled
September ll,” he said.
'Hie incident that involves Baca
See SEX CRIMES, p. 2
ROCKNE ON PARADE
Clowns (right), costumes
above), cars, horses, fire
trucks, horse mounted riders
plus various comic and com-
mercial entries highlighted
Saturday’s second annual
Rockne Homecoming parade.
Most of all it was a time for fun,
visiting, enjoying the festivity
and relishing the down home
atmosphere.
Plant site sale delayed
Easement, unbuilt street snarl land transfer
Davis McAuley
Editor
Bastrop city officials will sit
down Friday with a government
contractor in an effort to iron out
unexpected title problems which
threaten the sale of an industrial
site in town.
NavCom Systems, Inc. of
Manassas, VA hopes to buy 12.4
acres in Bastrop, a former
materials storage yard, from the
Lower Colorado River Authority.
Company owner and Bastrop
native Elijah “Zeke” Jackson
says he wants the site for the
design and manufacture of elec-
tronic navigation equipment for
federal agencies and other
customers.
Jackson was sole bidder for the
property when LCRA offered it
for sale in June, promising opera-
tions would hire at least 28
workers by 1994 and more begin-
ning the following year.
Mayor David Lock voiced hope
Tuesday that the snag won’t hob-
ble development of the new plant.
“Zeke wants to go to work,”
Lock said. But there may be pro-
blems, he warned.
Last month LCRA officials ap-
proached the city, saying a glitch
surfaced as they prepared legal
documents to transfer the land ti-
tle to NavCom.
LCRA’s chief worry was a strip
of land along the west side of the
tract which an alert surveyor
noted is in fact part of an unbuilt
section of Fayette Street.
Some three decades ago the ci-
ty abandoned part of Fayette
Street between Hawthorne and
Mesquite--but not the part which
crosses the LCRA tract.
LCRA asked the city to give up
at least half the platted street
right of way, though the 27-foot-
wide strip had been conveyed
with adjoining property to
various owners, including LCRA,
for decades.
The street, in turn, was includ-
ed in the tract NavCom bid on.
But as the council heard
L£RA’s request, other problems
surfaced.
Consulting engineer Joel
Wilkinson noted that a major ci-
ty water main crosses the east
edge of the tract, roughly parallel
to Itexas 95. But the city bolds no
recorded easement which would
entitle workers to enter the pro-
See NAVCOM, p.2
Tahitian rate hike
for water in view
Bastrop County Water Control
and Improvement District No. 2
board members will discuss the
possibility of a water rate in-
crease when they meet Thursday
night at 7 p.m.
“I put it on the agenda so we
can begin preliminary talks on a
water (rate) increase, but it all
depends on what happens with
contracting out the water ser-
vices,” said Board President Nor-
man Hansen.
The Tahitian Vilage district has
received preliminary* cost
estimates from Aqua Water Supp-
ly Inc. and the City of Bastrop for
upkeep and maintenance of its
water system.
“We have a list of suggested
changes that the board will look
at with our attorney, Ernest
Bogart, at the meeting. Then it
will go back to the two entities
and wait for their response,” said
Hansen.
“The board is looking for ways
to operate within its budget,” he
said.
“I do not want to raise water
rates, but we need to operate
within our means,” Hansen
added.
Other business on Thursday’s
agenda includes a report on the
Little Blue School House.
An engineer will give his
recommendation to the WCID on
how to solve the street drainage
problem in front of the nursery
school.
Pay boost voted
County budget shaping up
Continuing to hammer away at
knotty 1992-93 budget issues Mon-
day, Bastrop County commis-
sioners moved to hold down heath
insurance costs and approved a
$400 annual pay raise for
everyone on the county payroll.
Added to a previously approv-
ed step pay plan for employees,
which will boost their pay an
average of $400 next year, most
hired workers in effect will see
their paychecks increase about
$800.
The step pay plan does not
boost the salary of elected of-
ficials. Monday’s across-the-
board pay raise does.
On the insurance front, com-
missioners split sharply over
what kind of plan to offer county
employees in the year ahead.
This year the county offered
either a health maintenance plan
(HMO) or a more traditional in-
demnity plan which was
devastated by major individual
claims last year, forcing the car-
rier to propose sharply higher
premiums or a modified perfer-
red provider plan (PPO).
For the county to qualify for
PPO protection, all county
employees must be covered and
the HMO, offered by a different
firm, would be dropped, said a
spokesman for the Tfexas Associa-
tion of Counties which developed
the plan in connection with
Prudential.
Commissioner Johnny Sanders
said the lower-cost HMO ap-
peared to offer less protection
than the Prudential plan.
That analysis was rejected by
Commissioner Elaine Seidel and
County Judge Randy Fritz. They
were joined by Commissioner Pa t
Meuth in voting to pay each
employees’ monthly HMO
premium of $125.75, up seven per-
cent from $116.73 this year.
Employees can also select, by
paying the extra cost, a more ex-
pensive preferred provider plan
offered by the HMO firm.
See COMMISSIONERS, p. 2
Teens jailed in burglary
Four Bastrop juveniles im-
plicated in the August 16 burglary
of the Lee Potts home were taken
into custody September 4.
Bastrop police made arrests
after two of the juveniles, ages 13
and 15, tried to pass one of Potts’
stolen checks at The Cooler on
September 3.
The two were charged with
burglary and forgery.
“In questioning.the two, we
discovered there were two other
players (ages 13 and 14) in the
burglary, and they had possession
of the guns taken during die
burglary,” said Bastrop Police In-
vestigator Ed Salmela. >
The latter two juveniles were
charged with exercising control
of stolen property, he said.
Two of the juveniles were taken
to a juvenile detention center. TTie
other two were released to their
parents.
The stolen guns, a 45-calibre
Colt and a .22-calibre J.C. Higgins,
were recovered along with the
stolen checks.
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Classified.....................p. 14
Coming Up......................p 6
Deaths............................p. 3
Letters__________________ p. 4
People............................p. 7
Sports..................... p, 8
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