The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 78, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1981 Page: 1 of 18
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Bastrop County’s oldest commercial building is
being turned into a lunchroom and antiques shop by
Ann Emmert and Peggy Burrows.
The Emporium at Pine and Main in Bastrop, also
known as Union Hall, has been leased from Town-
send Miller.
The women plan to open a lunchroom in Decem-
ber and hope to have the antiques gallery going in
February. The lunchroom will be open from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. and feature a fresh salads bar, homemade
soup and sandwiches. It will operate Monday
through Friday. The antiques store will be open
Monday through Saturday from 10a.m. to 5 p.m.
According to historical books and records, the
building has been used in the past as a lodge hall,
store, and beer parlor. Some local historians believe
it may have been a type of customs house during
Bastrop’s earliest days since it was located directly
across from the Colorado River crossing.
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This firewood piled at (he Do Drop Inn on High-
way 95 is for sale. But many of Bastrop's traditional
sources for winter logs are going out of business.
Photo by Robert Hoover.
Feds’ shutdown brief
Federal employees in
Bastrop County were back
on the job Tuesday, hav-
ing spent much of Monday
preparing to mothball reg-
ular operations as the Con-
gress and the President
feuded about continued
spending levels and the
federal budget.
Kleiber Trigg of the Ag-
riculture Stabilization and
Conservation Service said
he locked his door at 1
p.m. Monday and sent the
local office’s other two
employees home tor the
rest of the day.
“We gol the word ear-
ly," said Trigg. He wasn’t
sure if employees would
lose half a day’s pay as
well.
Acting on instructions
from the Bureau of Prisons
regional office in Dallas,
officials of Bastrop’s Feder-
al Correctional Institution
were prepared to lay off 35
per cent of prison employ-
ees, about 75 workers all
together, said Beeler
Gausz, public information
officer.
Monday was set aside
“for an orderly shutdown”
of non-essential services
which would many
prison programs "in tem-
porary cold storage.’’ said
Gausz.
He denied that any time
had been "really lost” be-
cause of the threatened
lay-offs.
In any case .prison
guards and power house
workers who maintain the
prison’s solar heating elec-
trical systems would have
stayed on duty, according
to Gausz. ,
Since the prison indus-
tries programs are self-sup-
porting and operate on a
separate budget, the indus-
tries would have also con-
tinued to operate.
Slated for "unpaid fur-
loughs” were prison secre-
taries. religious, recreation-
al, and educational em-
ployees as well as general
mechanics, carpenters and
most of the business man-
agement department, said
Gausz.
Only the workers neces-
sary to protect life and
property would have stay-
ed on past Monday if the
President and Congress
hadn’t reached a compro-
mise.
“Everything’s fine
now,” said Gausz.
Oldest non-residential building in Bastrop Coun-
ty will soon get a new use -- a lunchroom and an-
tiques operation.
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Number 78
Thursday, November 26,1981
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Vies with Lockhart S&L
Elgin Savings
applying here
Elgin Savings & Loan
said Tuesday jt will apply
to locate a branch in down-
town Bastrop, setting up a
contest with Lockhart
Savings & f.oan before the
Texas Department of
Savings& Loans.
Elgin Savings is hoping
to locate at the northeast
corner of Main and Chest-
nut where Castillo’s Exxon
now operates. The proper-
ty also includes a small
beauty salon building.
“We already have quite
a few customers,
stockholders and mor-
tgages in the Bastrop
area,” Kay A r buckle,
president of Elgin Sav ings
noted. "We feel like we’re
friends and neighbors and
can be of help to the com-
munity," he added.
Lockhart Sav ings earlier
this month filed its ap-
plication and a docket call
before the state regulatory
commissioner is set for
Dec. 7 in Austin. Arbuckle
said he expects now that
the hearing on the ap-
plication will be delayed
and considered at the same
time as the Elgin Savings
application.
Elgin Savings opened
for business Oct. 18, 1974,
at its present site, a
restored old building at 105
W. Second St. The in-
stitution purchased the
historic Nofsinger Man-
sion in Elgin over a year
ago and renovation is just
about completed. Elgin
Savings plans to move into
its 1.5 acre new home in
early December.
In the last 60 days Elgin
Savings passed the $15
million mark in assets.
The financial institution
has 240 to 250
stockholders. Curtis San-
ders of Bastrop is an ad-
visory director.
Arbuckle is a lifelong
Bastrop County resident.
His father was chairman of
the board at Elgin Bank of
Texas for 50 years and his
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Deputies’ shooting
case to Grand Jury
Lindsay Warner, 2, is framed by Christmaswreath
made by Helen Desaulnier, to be sold during a 12 Days of
Christmas Gallery Show starting Nov. 27 at the Em-
porium in Bastrop. The Bastrop County Association for
the Arts is staging the show to raise money for next year’s
Salinas Festival. Pictured with Lindsay is her mother,
Kerry Warner. Staff Photo by Jack Fraser.
Few logs for sale
Firewood dying out?
By ELLEN MOORE
There’s nothing nicer
than warming one’s feet in
front ol a roaring lire on a
cold winter’s eve, as more
and more people have
been discovering. As gas
prices went up. people
cleaned out the old fire-
places or picked up an old-
lashioned wood-burning
stove, and sat back to
enjoy the warm glow.
But the wood necessary
to complete this little pic-
ture is becoming an endan-
gered species.
Firewood, once so plen-
tiful and so cheap, is now
harder to find and more
expensive to buy. At this
time last year newspapers
were full of ads for fire-
wood for sale, and one
could see stacks of wood
around town with “For
Sale” signs on them. Not
this year. The Bastrop Ad-
vertiser hasn’t run one
single ad for wood for sale.
NO ADVERTISING
Continued on Page 10
By DAVIS McAULEY
Investigators aren’t talk-
ing about a shooting inci-
dent last Friday involving
two Lee County Deputy
Sheriffs returning home
from Bastrop and a 21-
year-old hitchhiker on Tex-
as Highway 21 just inside
Bastrop County.
The hitchhiker, Mat-
thew A. Growgan of Aus-
tin, was listed in fair condi-
tion Tuesday in Bracken-
ridge Hospital’s intensive
care unit.
Results of the continuing
investigation into the
shooting will be presented
to the Bastrop Grand Jury
Dec. 11, said District At-
torney Neal Pfeiffer.
According to the first
investigative report, Lee
County Deputies Robert
Flowers and Ron Stewart
had been in Bastrop
searching for a prisoner
who escaped from the Lee
County Jail about two
weeks ago.
They were returning to
Giddings when local au-
thorities were called at 3:50
p.m. Friday to respond to
a shooting involving a
peace, officer.
> At the scene, officers
were told that Deputy
Flowers shot the hitchhiker
a#.threatened Deputy
Stewart with a pistol.
The deputies had been in
Bastrop searching for Dav-
id Allen Evans who escap-
ed from the Giddings jail
Nov. 7, said Judy Ed
wards, an investigator for
the district attorney’s office
here.
Deputy Flowers and De-
partment of Public Safety
Trooper Robert Klaus, ap-
parently the first Bastrop
officer to arrive at the scene
of the shooting, referred
inquiries about the case to
Moseley.
Moseley declined to give
out any details of the inci-
dent. “I don’t want to
prejudice the case” before
it’s presented to the grand
jury next month, he said.
Pfeiffer said he’s reluc-
tant to say much about the
case yet, because the only'
account authorities have is
that of the deputies from
Giddings.
“There’s quite a bit” of
investigating still to do, he
said, including submitting
physical evidence to crime
labs for analysis, particular-
ly any weapons involved or
any drugs found at the
scene.
The Gjddings deputies
indicated they stopped to
talk to the hitchhiker be-
cause he matched the de-
scription of an escapee
from the Lee County Jail,
said Pfeiffer. They also
claimed to have seen drugs
at the scene, he added.
The case is already full of
legal complications, said
Pfeiffer. Since Sept. 1,
peace officers have had the
right to carry firearms out-
side their own jurisdiction,
he explained, but the dep-
uties may have had no
more rights than an ordi-
nary citizen to carry out an
arrest outside Lee County.
Any citizen may make
an arrest if he sees a felony
committed in his presence,
said the DA. The officers’
rights may not have ex-
tended to making a search
of the hitchhiker’s person
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or baggage, however.'
A substantial part of the
continuing investigation
will likely be the examina-
tion of witnesses under
oath in the presence of the
grand jury, said Pfeiffer.
Marijuana case
Plane hit by bullets
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Smitty Terrell, who lives
near Lytton Springs in
southwestern Bastrop
County, will be asked to
appear next month before
Grand Jurors here to an-
swer questions about a
low-flying private aircraft
which was riddled with
eight bullets from a high-
powered rifle, according to
authorities.
Chief Deputy Rusty
Edwards said that
aggravated assault charges
have been filed against
Terrell, but officers have
made no move to seek his
arrest. Instead in-
vestigators have
“requested his presence at
the Grand Jury meeting”
on Dec. 11, said Edwards.
The airplane had been
rented by investigators for
an attorney hired to defend
Kenneth Baker, said Ed-
wards.
Baker has been charged
in connection with a
marijuana raid this fall
near the Bastrop-Caldwell
county line.
Edwards said one rifle
bullet passed about four
feet from the pilot’s head.
Police investigators had
flown over the area a num-
ber of times earlier this fall
before securing a search
warrant to raid marijuana
plots, Edwards reported.
Candidates quizzed
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Smithville Councilmen ced ’ at press deadline.
were in closed door session
late Tuesday night, inter-
viewing finalists for the
vacant job of city utilities
manager.
Three candidates, in-
cluding J.A. Sonny Poole
of Alum Creek, were being
interviewed but no
decision had been announ-
Other candidates were
reportedly from Paige and
Austin. **
The city has been
without a light and power
chief since Ben Wesson
resigned to become electric
services manager at
Bastrop with pay higher
than at Smithville.
Salads taking over
fabled Union Hall
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 78, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1981, newspaper, November 26, 1981; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth747093/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.