The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1992 Page: 5 of 24
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Thursday, July 16,1992
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BY ELLEN MOORE
Loblolly Lowdown
If you don’t live in Texas, you’re
just camping out.”--Dan Rather,
CBS star anchor, in Austin for the
unveiling of his “Star of Texas”
during the convention center’s
opening hoopla recently.
We thought Loblolly was a huge
success this year--we saw lots of
people having fun in the sun. We
enjoyed most of all the music by
the Austin Symphonic Band (with
hometown drummer Joseph
Duarte) and the fireworks. Little
Marais Pletsch pleased the crowd
with her interpretive dance dur-
ing the concert-now that’s one
music lover!
LOBLOLLYING
Some people we saw and talk-
ed with Saturday include Virginia
Grief, who was taking a well-
deserved holiday from summer
law school at UT, Donna Huff,
with whom I enjoyed some iced
coffee, Jane, Rob and John Hunt
(older son Daniel was in
Georgetown on other business),
the newly-shaven Dr. Gary
Rassner, who looks years younger
without his beard and mustache,
Lynn Holmgren, who was having
a great day off and is enjoying her
new nursing career (and to Lynn
and Gary: Thanks for the hand-
picked blueberries, guys, they’re
the best I’ve ever tasted), Burt
Yates, who promised to get us
some BYSO information, Clara
and Billy Maynard, Helen Lloyd,
who said she was in bookkeeping
at First National Bank now,
which explains why we haven’t
seen her lately at the counter, Bob
and Carole Bryant, the ever-
smiling June Pape with husband
Allan, Chester Eitze, Wallace and
Connie Lundgren, Chris Claiborne
(who told us grandparents Jack
and Eulalia %ere watching the
fireworks from their backyard,
where they were also enjoying ice
cold watermelon),, Judi and Tom-
my Hoover, Rocky Paramore (who
told us we left out Gary Meador’s
name last week as the contractor
for the Nita Meador law office
renovation), Dooley Navarro (with
oldest son who was the only
member of her family who would
ride the rides with her, she said),
Doug Ott and Debbie Rogers,
Steve Saulnier, Nancy McWhirter
(back from her back-packing trip
through rugged West Tfexas and
New Mexico), Joe Rabensburg
with daughter Dara (who rode her
horse in the big parade), Brenda
Jones (riding in the truck with
Juneteenth folks), Larry Whites,
Janette and Len Julien with
Janette’s 90-year-old aunt, Joe
Barry Townsend, Gary and Robin
Workman, Marie Blazek, David and
Sharon Lock, Frank and Dollie
Mihura (we asked Frank why he
wasn’t playing his guitar, and he
protested, “I’ve been playing for
four straight hours over at
McDade (at the Watermelon
Festival).”
Then we saw, stopped and
snacked with Deb and Arny
Ohnesorge, who had thoughtfully
put out a delicious German
chocolate cal.e from the auction
and were giving away free pieces
(they were also selling REAL
nachos which hit the spot).
BEST CAKE
Speaking of auctions, a big
friend of the Bastrop 4-Hers, Mr.
Ken Kreitner, gave me the pen out
of his pocket to write down this in-
formation: Congratulations go to
Sue Stockton and son Bobby who
had the highest priced cake at the
4-H Loblolly auction Saturday. It
sold for over $400. The money
goes to the 4-H general fund, Mr.
Kreitner said.
Selling Pepsi for the Chamber
of Commerce were Chris and
Carla Ripple Dickson (notice the
correct spelling, Carla) and Bob
Hoover in the late afternoon. We
sat with them a while and just
watched people wandering
around Main Street.
We also took part in the Col-
orado River Walkers 10K walk
Saturday which started and end-
ed at the Bastrop Opera House.
Our brother John H. Moore III
came from San Antonio and was
quite impressed by the crowds of
people out for Loblolly and the
beautiful old houses and well-kept
yards. The 10K almost killed us
but Bastrop organizer Bunker
Ehlert said 380 turned out to walk,
the second biggest crowd for the
summer walk ever. He also said
Bastrop was one of the most
popular spots for the Volksmar-
chers. They always have one in
Bastrop State Park in the fall and
one through our streets in July.
He hinted they were working on
having another one here this year.
We’ll let you know-they’re great
fun: good and good for you.
And on a personal note: Thanks
to John Cervantez, who invited us
into his home for a pit stop!
Seems to me that occasions
such as Loblolly bring out the
best in small town America. We
saw lots of smiling people, happi-
ly greeting and shaking hands
and slapping shoulders, laughing
happy children and, praise be,
very few people who were overin-
dulging. Bastrop’s finest were on
hand to keep the peace but we
didn’t see them have to deal with
trouble.
MCDADE SWINGS, TOO
They also had a swell old time
over at McDade Saturday with
the big watermelon auction, a
parade, arts and crafts booths
and general good small town fun,
according to Melvin Dube who
brought us the watermelon auc-
tion information. Seems a new
record was broken when this
year’s first place melon went for
$1600 to Bastrop’s own HEB! The
previous record was $1500.
Bastrop’s own Andrew Owen (Fay
Pennell's brother) grew the
melons which won 1st, 2nd and
3rd place prizes. Also Bastrop’s
County Commissioners Johnny
Sanders, Elaine Seidel and Lee
Dildy bought the 3rd place melon.
Bastrop County Sheriff elect Fred
Hoskins and Dr. Charles Graham
bought the 2nd place melon. Also,
Dube told us over 1400 people
showed up for the street dance.
Maybe next year the two events
won’t be scheduled for the same
weekend-because I know lots of
Bastrop people enjoy the tradition
McDade fest.
SEEING THE BISHOPS
We’re very jealous of several
Bastrop and Smithville people
who had the chance to see former
Smithville Times owners and
(smooth) operators Bill and Julie
Bishop. They were our very
favorite editors and owners-in
Smithville, I mean!!! Anyway,
Kay Rogers got to see them, Tom-
my Claiborne got to see them and
went over into Mexico for an even-
ing of enlightenment, and famed
Smithville columnist Metta
Johnson spent Wednesday
through Saturday with them in
San Antonio at Le Mansion on the
river. Seems the Bishops were in
West Ttexan at a family reunion,
but they also went to the
McDonald Observatory, toured
Big Bend, went to Alpine and
generally saw a beautiful part of
Texas. They got as far north as
San Antonio before heading back
to Kentucky.
LUGGAGE
Soon to be traveling are Shirley
and R.L. (Richard) Johnston.
Shirley was our (and our dogs)
favorite teller at First National
Bank’s drive-through, because-
she’d always give my dogs a dog-
gie bone. She was with the bank
13 years, 10 months and 4 days,
according to bank vice president
Minnie Bartsch, and she unfailing
wore a smile and did her work
cheerfully. Her last day was June
31 and the bank people gave her
a barbeque at the gazebo at the
courthouse and a set of luggage.
Obviously she plans to travel, and
play in her greenhouse. Minnie
told us Brook Hurta, David Goertz
and Reid Sharp, eta barbequed
• the meat and the ladies of the
bank brought covered dishes.
PERSONAL SERVICE
We can’t mention First Na-
tional without telling a great
story about the friendly rival
down the street at Victoria Bank
& Trust. The story, as we heard it,
is that a customer went in to
deposit some money, but didn’t
have his deposit card or number
with him. The computer was
down and the people were busy, so
the customer when on back to
work. The next day, Victoria
Bank President Gary Workman
showed up at the customer’s
place of employment with a
laminated bank card (with both
savings and checking account
numbers), a filled-in deposit slip
and a pen. How’s that for personal
service from a “hands-on” bank
president?
Also, we must thank Gary
Workman for sending along a clip-
ping with the note “You’re in the
news!" We think it typical of the
thoughtful gentleman.
REMEMBER MADISON?
You all remember former
Smithville Chief of Police and
District Attorney candidate Kevin
Madiaon? Well, we hear he’s now
the City of Cedar Park’s
presiding municipal judge and
has recently been elected to the
board of directors of the Texas
Municipal Courts Association for
1992-93. The 1200 member
T.M.C.A. is comprised of
municipal court judges and court
personnel in Texas. He also serves
as a guest instructor for the Tfexas
Municipal Court Training Center
which provides legal training for
all municipal court judges and
court personnel. Busy man.
IN THE BIG APPLE
Bastrop County’s only delegate
to the Democratic Convention in
NYC Pat Mitchell will be back in
Bastrop by the time this comes
out, but she came in last week all
excited about the big adventure in
the big city. Sure enough, she call-
ed Tuesday and said the Texas
delegates were not happy
campers at Days Inn. The air-
conditioning wasn’t working and
the rooms weren’t exactly lux-
urious. She quickly added that the
good thing was they didn’t have to
spend much time in the rooms-
the Texans are being feted by
everyone who’s anyone, with
breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
IN THE NEWS
We saw Ronnie Duncan the
other day and mentioned we’d
just been looking at his picture in
a Texas Trees 1991 article about
Bastrop’s Dozer One. Ronnie
wasn’t wearing his chief of police
hat, but was in his firefighter’s
one Also Bastrop fire chief Mike
Fisher was quoted in the very
complimentary article about
Bastrop’s means of fighting fires
in our piney woods. The article
recalled the devastating 1984 fire
which destroyed thousands of
acres and brought out the na-
tional guard’s helicopters, the
Tfexas Forest Service and all area
fire departments. Hard to believe
that was 8 years ago!
The magazine was brought in
by Martha and Vernon Frampton.
We learn something new about
them everytime we talk. Martha
told me they’d lived in New
Orleans 22 years. They met in
L.A. (It wasn’t love at first sight,
she insists. Vernon said about
meeting and dating her: “It cook-
ed my goose.” Nevertheless the
marriage HAS lasted!) and have
lived all over the country. We’re
glad his last job was at UT and
they settled here in Bastrop.
SIGHTINGS
•We saw Sara Guerra at the
library last week “looking at
books.”
•We also had a long talk with
Kathy Lindsey. We mentioned we
saw her son Brett and she said he
was now 21. We almost fainted!
•We had a good talk with Min-
nie Bartsch about the state of the
financial world. When we men-
tioned it was “Roosevelt era”
again, Minnie pointed out
unemployment figures aren’t up
that high-yet. She’s also the one
who told us about Shirley
Johnston’s retirement party.
• Tanya Hackney called to tell
us daughter Tammy Hackney and
Christie Cheshire, the two BHS
drum majors next year, recently
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returned from drum major camp
at Blinn College and came home
as grand champions. The girls
were judged on different things
during the four-day camp and col-
lected the most blue ribbons.
They competed against a bunch
of Houston and Houston-area
schools. Congratulations!
•We had a talk with Norm
Hansen this week and learned he
used to be in the Secret Service
working out of the Austin office
for “the old man”-LBJ and for
Lady Bird Johnson, whom he
described as quite a lady. We bet
Norm has some tales to tell.
•We called over to the Athletic
Field House this week and spoke
with the new BHS soccer coach
David Barnes. He’ll also help out
coaching non-varsity football and
help out with track and teach
physical science at BHS and
some PE classes for Mina’s 5th
graders. He sounded like a very
nice fellow.
•Congrats to Belinda Tolbert,
DalWS County CSCD (Communi-
ty Supervision and Corrections
Department, i.e probation says
Connie Burton with the Bastrop
probation department who work-
ed with Belinda several years).
Belinda’s manager of Supervision
Services-East at Dallas County
CSCD, a position she’s held for a
year. Prior to that, she worked 16
years at Bastrop County, working
at the juvenile and adult proba-
tion departments. While at
Bastrop she implemented and
developed the DWI Intervention
Program here.
•Smithville’s won five awards
from the “Keep Tfexas Beautiful”
committee, we hear, and Dorothy
Richards, the first lady of
Smithville as wife of Mayor Ver-
non Richards, is chair of the Keep
Smithville Beautiful committee.
We’re pleased to send congrats to
our sister city down the beautiful
Colorado River!!
• E. Perez Jr. aka Junior was by
Tuesday and told us he was off to
the post office to submit a short
story. He says he is already “anx-
iously awaiting his first rejection
letter” and has a folder ready.
What optimism.
• Willie DeLaRosa called us
Tuesday to say his birthday is the
19th of July and he’ll be 37.
Thanks, for calling, Willie. We’ve
tried to wish you a happy one for
two years but didn’t know the ex-
act date Now, there will probably
be a party!!!
• And Happy Birthday to
Erlene Goertz who celebrated a
mystery birthday on Wednesday,
July 15. Do you think she’d tell us
how old she is!?!?
JANETTE’S TIDBITS
Janette tells us: “Pleez folks,
see Hoodwinked at Bastrop
Opera House. You owe it to
yourself. My cousin, Grant
Shroyer, from Huntington Beach,
CA, and I awoke laughing Satur-
day and rehashed the funny stuff
all day. The Cast is superb. Don
Cartwright, the sheriff of Not-
tingham’s deputy, thoroughly en-
joys his evil deeds. Marcus Evans,
Little John, has talent f^r beyond
golf. Kimball Bishop, Robin Hood,
is a STITCH. Enjoy the music. Be
alert every minute!
“Tahitianers Charles and
Mahala Rowley, plus grand-
daughters Kristin and Janice
Hautanen from Ft. Worth, said it
is GREAT. They want to see it
again, and may when Baibara and
Dean Hautanen arrive this
weekend. Clyde and Louceil
Hamilton were having a ball, ap-
plauding like crazy, also Norm
and Evelyn Holm, Red and Ruth
Long and many more.
“Happy Birthdays to Albert
Allison, Brandi Painter, Bill Chess,
Agnes Griesenbeck, Ricky
Manlove, Karla Field, Audrey Allen,
Agnes Hasler, Patrick Cantrell, Col-
leen Spencer, Don Cartwright,
Carol Crawford, Hbmer Mobley and
June Doerr. Hope Darrell and Judy
Brock enjoyed their anniversary.”
That’s all folks! Until next
week, do a good deed, read a good
book, and keep those cards and
letters coming.
The McDade Watermelon
Festival Association
would like to Thank Everyone who purchased or
donated items at their Watermelon Festival Auc-
tion. Your help is deeply appreciated.
Bastrop H.E.B. purchased 1st prize melon.
Sheriff -Elect Fred Hoskins & Dr. Charles
Graham purchased 2nd place melon.
Edward R. Mueller & Homer Monson purchased
3rd place melon.
OTHER BUYERS INCLUDE:
Callahan's General Store
S.R.Barker Reality Co.
Abel Electronks-Steve Johnson
First National Bank of Bastrop
Lockhart Livestock Auction
Elgin Funeral Home
Fenske Sand & Gravel
Meyers Sausage
Mogonye Construction & Supply
Dr. Gary Warner
Elgin Vet Hospital
Earl & Marguerite Hoskins
Commissioners: Johnny Sanders
Lee Dildy
Elaine Seidel
Seigmund's General Store
Warren Seigmund
Trail Drivers Assoc, of Texas
Stan Ranch
Don Grissom & Family
Clyde and Elaine Farris
Janice Terry
Ray and Thelma Me David
(donated afghan)
We Alto Thank Everyone who
helped work In the Auction
Melvin Dube
Auction Chairman
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1992, newspaper, July 16, 1992; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth747506/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.