The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 79, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1989 Page: 1 of 24
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Vol. 136, No. 79
Two Sections, 24 Pages
Bastrop, Texas
Thursday, November 30, 1989
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Holiday
burglaries
hit Elgin
By E. Perez Jr.
An outbreak of burglaries over
Thanksgiving week in Elgin
prompted police this week to urge
neighbors to watch out for each
other’s property.
“It’s everybody’s business,’’
said Police Chief David Campos.
“If everyone in town had this atti-
tude we could put a dent in these
burglaries.”
Police investigated five break-ins
between Nov. 21 and Nov. 25.
Normally Elgin averages two or
three burglaries a month, Campos
said.
Incidents under investigation
include:
♦Property valued at_$ 150 taken
Nov. 21 from 708 S. Ave. C.
♦Property valued at $200 taken
Nov. 22 from 15 Depot St.
♦Property valued at $200 also
taken Nov. 22 from 1132 S. Ave.
D.
♦A $400 television set taken
Nov. 24 from 511 B Central. In-
vestigators also noted $300 in
damage to a door.
♦Property valued at $350 taken
Nov. 25 from 111 S. Ave. C.
The cases are still under inves-
tigation.
Campos said some urban crimi-
nals are turning attention to outly-
ing areas to take advantage of the
trusting attitude of people in the
countryside.
The chief also gave some secu-
rity tips, including:
♦Lock home windows.
♦Install bars on sliding glass
doors.
♦Lock automobiles.
♦Have a neighbor look out for
your house when you’re away.
“Burglar bars are good, but,
alarms are great,” Campos said.
He also urged residents to call
police to report suspicious goings
on. "Give us a call,” he said. “If
nothing’s happening, no harm is
done.”
Campos also urged burglary vic-
tims to stay out of the house until
police can arrive. “The burglars
might still be inside,” he said. “Go
use a neighbor’s phone and please
don’t clean up.”
Cleaning up can destroy impor-
tant evidence police need to catch
the criminal, he said.
Two charged
in bomb call
By E. Perez Jr.
A bomb scare at the Elgin
elementary and junior high schools
led to the arrest to a 17-year-old
woman and a 16-year-old juvenile
by city police. '
Stacey Wenzel of Old McDade
Road near Elgin was charged with
making a terroristic threat. She has
been released from Bastrop County
Jail on $1,500 bail.
The juvenile was released to the
custody of his parents and the case
referred to juvenile authorities in
Bastrop.
Continued on Page 2, Section I
Classified........II, p. 2
Coming Up......I, p. 6
Deaths.............I, p. 7
Letters..,.........I, p. 4
People...........I, p. 14
Sports............I, p. 10
Business....:....!^ p. 13
Police probe
Monday fire
in restaurant
Bastrop firelighters brought portable light-
ing to Our Place Restaurant as they worked
through heavy smoke and toxic fumes Mom
Advertiser Photo/Davis McAuley
day night to get at flames which destroyed
An office in the building at Texas 71 and
Loop 150 West.
By Davis McAuiey
and Sally Stroud
•A suspicious fire which des-
troyed an office and left extensive
smoke damage broke out minutes
after Our Place Restaurant closed
for business about 10 p.m.
Monday.
It was the second time in a de-
cade that a restaurant at the inter-
section of Texas 71 and Loop 150
West was hit with a major fire.
Monday’s blaze was apparently
started with the aid of a flamable
liquid, investigators said Tuesday
after digging through the burned
out office on the northwest corner
of the structure.
The case has been turned over to
the Bastrop Police Department,
said Fire Chief Mike Fisher.
In 1983 fire destroyed the front
half of the Magic Mill Restaurant
at the same location. Damage from
that fire was estimated at $250,000
Fisher estimated damage front
Monday's blaze at $20,000 to
$40,000 and said tests will be run
in an effort to identity the substance
used to start the fire.
Our Place owner John Gould
said he and his wife received an
anonymous threatening letter last
week and turned it over to police.
Bastrop Police Chief Ronnie
Duncan said the envelope went
through the mail but did not bear
a postmark. Police are investigat-
ing a possible link between the let-
ter and the tire, he said.
Duncan said witnesses and
restaurant employees will be inter-
viewed as part of the probe.
Two phone calls from a passer
by and a neighbor about 10:15
p.m. reported smoke seeping out
of the restaurant. When patrolman
Paul Alexander arrived to inves-
tigate he said flames were break-
ing windows and leaping out of the
dining room area.
The fire did not damage the
structure of the building apart from
the office, but there was extensive
smoke damage, Fisher said.
Continued on Page 2, Section I
Commissioners discuss subdivision review panel
A move to name a review board
of county and city officials to ad-
vise county commissioners about
subdivision plat and replatting re-
quests won encouragement
Monday.
A representative of the county
health and sanitation office, the dis-
trict attorney's office, possibly a
county commissioner and the
mayor of a nearby city could
review subdivision requests, alert
the commissioners court to poten-
tial problems and prevent over-
hasty decision making. Precinct 1
Commissioner Johnny Sanders told
commissioners.
Sanders said he will present a
formal proplsal for consideration
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Precinct 2 Commissioner Elaine
Seidel suggested that one commis-
sioner should chair the panel.
County Judge Jimmy Copeland
said the plan could be useful if ap-
plications do not “bog down in the
bureaucracy."
Precinct 3 Commissioner Pat
Meuth* indicated support for the
move.
Precinct 4 Commissioner Jim V.
Mogonye said the review board
should not be charged with recom
mending changes in the county's
subdivision regulations.
Sanders said that the mayors of
Bastrop, Smithville and Elgin
should be included whenever a re-
quest involves an area near the city
or in the city’s extra-territorial
jurisdiction.
County Clerk Shirley Wilhelm
said the panel’s greatest usefulness
could be in reviewing requests to
replat parts of existing subdi-
visions.
Twice in recent weeks commis-
sioners have split sharply over re-
Continued on Page 2, Section I
Bastrop set to begin
recycling on Dec. 6
Each Wednesday beginning Dec
6 Bastrop residents can place their
aluminum cans, glass containers
and discarded newspapers on the
curb and have them picked up for
recycling.
By taking part in the program,
residents will be conserving scarce
landfill space and providing jobs to
needy but willing workers, said
officials of the Bastrop County
Mental Retardation Association
and the Bastrop Vocational
Workshop.
On Tuesday the Bastrop city
council voted unanimously to back
the recycling plan which will em-
ploy clients of the workshop to col-
lect the materials and sort them for
sale.
• “It sounds like a good, meaning-
ful project,” said Council Member
Tom Scott.
Council approval gives the city
an organized recycling program,
said City Manager Henry Cunnin-
gham Jr.
The Wednesday-only operation
will avoid conflict with regular city
garbage collections, said Janet
Kirkpatrick, president of the non-
profit mental retardation support
group.
BFI trash trucks do not operate
in Bastrop on Wednesdays, she
said.
Wages for workers in the pro-
gram will be paid from sale of
recyclable materials to Bastrop
Recycling, she said.
Initially curbside pickup will be
available only in an area of the city
bounded by Mesquite Street on the
north, Texas 95 on the east, Texas
71 on the south and Piney Creek
and the Colorado River on the
west.
Before Dec. 6 leaflets describ-
ing the program will be distribut-
ed to homes in the area, said Mrs.
Kirkpatrick.
Workers will also provide stick-
ers to identify containers as dona-
tions to the workshop, a
community program of the Travis
State School, she said.
Cunningham said there may be
grant money available to help buy
special containers for recyclable
items in the future.
It will not be necessary for resi-
dents to separate their glass, alu-
minum and newsprint, said Mrs.
Kirkpatrick.
The organization will also con-
tact local business operators about
participating, she said.
In other business Tuesday, the
council:
♦Agreed to giVe un/Claim to a
22-foot by 75-foot sttlpof land be-
tween the Bastrop Public Library
and Bastrop Christian Church in
return for an agreement by the con-
gregation to landscape and main-
tain the ground outside the church's
main entrance.
♦On a 4-1 vote added the third
Monday in January as a city holi-
day honoring the birth of civil
rights crusader Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Council Member Willie
De La Rosa voted no, saying city
workers have enough paid
holidays.
Council Member Dock Jackson,
who urged adding the holiday, said
next month he will offer a separate
proposal to allow city employees
to take off on Good Friday or some
Continued on Page 2, Section 1
Advertiser Photo/Sally Stroud
The western melodrama stars Smithville
Mayor Pro Tem Joyce Klutts (right) as
“Teetotal Tessie,” and Helen Richie, a
member of the Smithville Garden Chib, who
are “fed up with beer drinking and women
.. who are half naked.” The Bastrop County
‘Deadwood Dick’ heading for Smithville
By Sally Stroud "Deadwood Dick," the cast of 25 r’<
public figures in Smithville are
Times columnist Metta Johnson, (left) who
plays the fallen woman, flirts with the
miner, District Attorney Charles Penkk.
Even “Judge Nix,” who is played by Secre-
tary of the Masonic Lodge Pat Starns, is
gambling and drinking whiskey.
When Dr. Bill Sanchez of Smith-
ville Hospital Authority throws a
lit cigar on the ground. Masonic
Lodge secretary Pat Starns says
“We don’t litter in Deadwood
Gulch,” and miners rise up and
grab their guns.
A scene incorporated into Smith-
ville’s community reenactment of
stressing “No littering in Smith-
ville, keepourcity beautiful," said
play director Darlene Gilmore.
The well recognized citizens in
the community will perform a
1890s melodrama western to pro-
mote the city’s Keep Texas Beau-
tiful Campaign.
The proceeds will be go to the
Keep Smithville Beautiful Cam-
paign kicking off the season to ap-
ply for the Governor’s Keep Texas
Beautiful Award in the spring.
The play’s setting is the Dakota
territory’in Calamity Jane’s Man-
trap Saloon.
The assistant director is Janis
Penick.
Continued on
2, Section I
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 79, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1989, newspaper, November 30, 1989; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth746983/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.