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Musings
By J. Troy Hickman
Gl'ESS I'LL STRING ALONG
WITH DOLPH AND JAKE
As the Ma; 4 election draws
near, some are apt to attempt a
bit of political thinking. In this
field, no one is an authority.
Politics is a little like beauty is
said to be. ■ "in the eye of the
b *der". We can all look at
the same set of facts or fantac
ies and each come up with a
different conclusion, which is an
advantage of living in a country
where thought, talk and some
action are supposed to be free.
On the broader level, the
races which seem to concern us
most this time are fickle vs
Hales for the Congress, and
Briscoe against Farenthold for
governor. These, of course, are
ull Democratic aspirants; but I
see little evidence at this time
to suppose that they will not
also be in the runoff.
This will probably not be a
Republican year; but one has to
remember in politics, as in love
or the weather, anything is
possible, even at the last
moment. The apparent winner
might stub his toe or the
evident loser catch a sugar
plum from on high on the way
to the polls. These remarks,
therefore, are not prophecies,
but guesses, and uneducated
guesses at that.
I won't decide finally what
I'm going to do with my vote
until I make my mark on the
ballot, and maybe you're the
same way. But, as of now, I
think that I'll stick with Jake
Pickle for Congress, on the
theory that a tested item is
often safer than an untested
one. I don't know about Mr.
Hales. He may be, if he had a
chance, a better man for our
interests than Mr. Pickle is.
The point is, I don't know. To
me he is an untested article at
the Washington level, He
seems to think of himself as a
liberal, but that doesn't nec-
essarily mean anything, either
good or bad.
It may be that Bales is just
ready now to take the next step
in his personal political career,
and that he sees Congress as
his next step. This would be no
reason to vote against him;
neither would it be a reason to
vote for him, as I see it. What
we want in that job is the man
who could do us and the
country the most good. Right
now, I believe that Pickle could.
He has been on the hill a long
time and knows where lots of'
the power levers are. He is
already working on several
important committees, and if
Bales took his place it would
take him several years to get in
the power-position that Jake is
in right now.
I respect Jake Pickle. I have
heard no scandle on him. He
covers his district like a
counterpane covers a bed.
There hasn't been a chicken
barbequed in his district that
he hasn't been there to get his
piece of it, Bales has fired a few
blanks at him, but there are no
real target issues for him to
shoot at. I differ with Pickle on
some of his positions, but I
believe that he is giving us as
good service in this imperfect
world as we fallible humans are
likely to get.
I would like to vote for Sissy
Farenthold for governor for I
think she is a tremendous
woman and a good public
servant. Some day, and I hope
not too long in the future, she
could be a useful person for the
public weal at Austin or Wash-
ington. I wrote her some
months ago and said that I
hoped she would not "get
lost" in the professional
world, but would stay political-
ly alive and wait for the right
time to run for office. She is a
reformer at heart, and good-
ness knows we need one now
and then.
But this is not her year. I am
afraid that Sissy made a bad
decision to contest for the
governorship with Dolph Bris
coe at the end of his first term. I
believe that someone gave her
some bad advice. She has
already been in an unsuccessful
bid for the nomination for Vice
President of the United States
on the McGovern ticket, and
was lucky enough not to get it.
She also lost to Briscoe in a try
for the governor's job. It
doesn't add anything to the
political luster of a candidate to
be defeated to" many times,
however winsome and able the
candidate may otherwise be.
The American voter does not
like to vote for a loser, and I
fear that after this election she
may be stuck with a loser
image. For witness, I cite the
cases of William Jennings
Bryan, Adloi Stevenson or
Hubert Humphrey, whose
chances for later victories were
dimmed by earlier losses.
See Mt'SUNOS Back Page
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ESTAHLl Si IKI) MARCH 1. 1853
BASTltOP I TEXAS i ADVERTISER. MAY 2, l!)74
NUMBER 9
Bear Band To f
Have Spring
Concert
The Bastrop Bear Band and
Choir, under the direction of
Jack Weidemann and Ernest
Biggers, will present their
annual spring concert May 2. at
7:30 p.m. in the Bastrop High
School Gymnasium. The con-
cert is being presented in
conjunction with National
Music Week.
The band will be performing
the three selections which
earned them first divisions at
the Region XVIII, University
Interscholastic League Concert
and Sightreading Contest in
Taylor recently. These select-
ions are Sodermanland March
by James D. Ployhar, Overture
for Winds by Charles Carter,
and the Black Knight by Clare
Grundman.
Also included in the band's
part of the program are a
rr.edley of selections made
popular by Herb Alpert and the
Tiajuana Brass, The Cisco Kid,
and Let It Be Me. One of the
closing selections will be High
lights from Jesus Christ Super
star.
The Choir portion of the
program will include popular
and patriotic songs.
Two other features ir the
program will be several num
bers played by the recently
organized Bastrop High Stage
Band and the presentation of
the Jones Award to the out
standing senior bandsman by
the Bastrop Harmony Club.
Admission to the concert is
free. Please note the change in
time from last week's article.
To Hold Open
House Sunday
The Bastrop County Com-
munity Action Agency wishes
to express its appreciation and
thanks to all who have con-
tributed to the successful
establishment and operation of
the Elgin Head Start Center
and Elgin Neighborhood Center
and cordially invite you to
attend Open House at the Elgin
Head Start Center, Bethel
Methodist Church, 300 Central
and at the Elgin Neighborhood
Center, 161 Fisher Street, on
Sunday, May 5, from 3.00 p.m.
to 6:00 p.m.
To Be Honored
At Regional
Vote Saturday-
One vole counts
YOURS!
You are the only one who can cast your vote.
Nobody else can do it for you. But, if you don't
vote, others will make your decision for you.
Just
one vote counts
A LOT!
Your vote could be the most important ever cast
for the candidate of your choice. Political his-
tory is dotted with incidents where just one vote
determined the outcome.
TEXAS ceased being a separate nation and was
admitted into the United Sttae • - by JUST ONE
VOTE!
THOMAS JEFFERSON and JOHN QUINCY
ADAMS both were elected president of the
United State in the Electorial College - • by
JUST ONE VOTE!
RUTHERFORD B. HAYS was named president
by just one vote, but the election was contested
and referred to a commission. Mayes won that
decision, too - - by JUST ONE VOTE! And the
Congressman who cast that decisive vote had
been sent to Washginton - - by JUST ONE
VOTE!
(Pri-panxi by the Texas Affirmative Action Committee,
702 Brown Building, Austin, Texas 78701.)
I
Advertiser To
Have Election
Returns
The Advertiser will receive
returns from over the county
for the Texas Election Bureau
as usual Saturday night follow
ing the Democratic Primary
Election.
All interested parties arc
cordially invited to drop by for
the returns as they come in.
Since there are no county races
this year, there will be no
election board outside the
office.
You are asked, however,
please not to call for informat
ion, since the line must be kept
open for incoming calls from
Hie county precincts.
Freshman Class
To Sponsor
Playday
Banquet
Mrs. Raymond (Celestine)
Matocha of Smithville was
selected from 10 other district
applicants to be the Regional
Conservation Homemaker of
The Year.
Mr. and Mrs. Matocha will be
honored at a banquet in Port
Lavaca May 10 and presented
her award. Mrs. Matocha was
named the Bastrop County
Conservation Homemaker of
the Year by the Soil Conserv-
ation Service. She was later
selected as District and Re
gional Homemaker.
The Homemaker is selected
on the basis of her work in the
home, in conservation of nat-
ural resources, family, com-
munity and civic affairs.
The Freshman Class will hold
it's Playday money raising
project May 4th, at 1:00 o'clock,
at the Will Rogers Arena,
The three age groups for
entering the playday are 12 and
under (events will be Clover
Leaf Barrels, Calf Scramble,
Pole Bending and more); 13
thru 18 (Calf Scramble, Pole
Bending, Ribbon Roping, Flag
Race, and others); 19 and over
(Straightaway Barrels, Boot
Race, Ribbon Roping, Flag
Race and many more).
Entry blanks may be obtain-
ed at the Bastrop High School
Office or from Mr. Robert
McArthur or Miss Mary Lou
Brasher. Entry fee of $1.00 per
event must accompany each
form. For further information
call 321 3911 (8:30 3:30) or
321 3439 (after 5:00p.m.)
SENIOR CITIZENS
TO HAVE PARTY
All Senior Citizens are invit-
ed to a party at the Senior
Citizens Cafeteria located on
Main Street on Thursday after
noon, May 2nd, at 2:00 p.m.
Christian Athletes Are
Coming For Encampment
All Senior and Junior High
School students are invited to
the Group Encampment this
weekend, May 4th and 5th. The
Fellowship of Christian Ath
letes, SMU and the University
of Texas chapters, have been
invited to come and lead a
Youth Rally which is to start at
3 p.m. Savurday afternoon. The
Rally is being sponsored by the
Methodist Youth Fellowship
group of Bastrop United
Methodist Church.
In a letter writted by Bobby
White, SMU football star and
leader for the weekend, the
following information was re-
ceived. Oscar Roan, who star
red as a tight end for SMU
during the football season and
again as a forward for the
basketball team, will be coming
next weekend. Along with him
will be Bill Bollinger, who was
here last year; Cleve Hardman,
SMU trainer; Joe Galindo,
another basketball star for the
SMU team. Bobby has also
been in contact with Tommy
Delature, a basketballer from
the University of Texas, and
Dave Ridley, football star who
was here for the first Youth
Rally two years ago. They are
hoping to see Joe Abbousie,
running back for the Longhorns
here as well. New this year will
he four girl athletes from SMU.
In all there should be around
fifteen athletes here for the
Rally. The athletes come at
their own expense to play with
the kids and to witness Jesus
Christ in their lives. They only
ask for prayers for guidance
that they may be spokesmen
for God to the kids.
The athletes are free so if a
youth doesn't want to spend the
night or eal at the camp, there
is no charge to attend. Over
night stay at the encampment
plus three meals will cost $6 per
head. The food should he extra
good this year. It will be
prepared by the United
Methodist women, the Method
ist Men's Club, and the ladies of
the Episcopal church.
Adren Long Named
Honorary FFA Farmer
Golf Team
Places Third
In Tournament
The Bastrop High School
Golf Team competed in the AA
Regional Tournament in
Brenham on Friday and Satur
day, the 19th & 20th of April,
with 17 other teams of Region
IV.
At the end of the first d>y
they had scored 312, which was
good enough for second behind
Aldine Eisenhower who had a
310. The Bears finished the
second round Saturday with a
322 for a 36 hole total of 335.
Although this score was 3
strokes better than the 1973
Regional winner, it was only
Kood enouirh for third place in
the Regional Tournament.
Regional winner was Aldine
Eisenhower with 626. One
stroke behind was Madisonville
with 627, followed by Bastrop
with 635.
These were followed by
Brady one stroke behind Bast-
rop with 636, the rest of the
field was rather distant: Hoff-
man had 649, Scaly had 651,
Midway 655, Llano 658, Wei-
mar 668, Teague 670, Caldwell
678, Luling 682, Hillsboro 685,
Diboll 697, Kountze 698 and
Woodville 728.
Tournament medalist was
shared by Ande Bade of Hoff-
man and medalist from Eisen-
hower at 149 each. Medalist for
Bastrop was Greg Hollmann
with 156 followed by Danny
Orozco with 158, Marcus Evans
with 159, Bob Runkle with 162
and Jimmy DeBaun with 165.
This ends the UIL High
•j«.iiuoi i/ompetition for Bastrop
for 1973-74. Several Tourna-
ments will be scheduled later,
but on an age basis in prepara
tion for 1974 75.
LHA BOARD TO
MEET MAY 9
The LHA Board will meet at
10 o'clock, May 9, in the civic
room of the National Rank.
This is an open meeting.
At the annual FFA Parent
Son Banquet held last Friday
night in the Bastrop High
School Cafetorium, it was
Adren "Red" Long who receiv-
ed the Honorary Chapter Farm
er Degree for this year. This
honor is voted to the person
that the chapter thinks has
helped the FFA Chapter the
most during the past year.
Kevin Hilbig received the
Star Chapter Farmer plaque,
an award that is given to the
top FFA member in the upper
class based on over-all grade
average, money made from
project, attitude and leadership
activities. The freshman receiv
ing the Star Greenhand plaque
based on the same factors, was
Cheryl Goertz.
Kevin Hilbig, chapter pres
ident, was in charge of the
program, with Vincent Goertz
giving the invocation.
This year's program was
centered around the past
Honorary Chapter Farmers. A
colored slide was shown of each
one giving a picture of an
activity featuring him with the
FFA. A large scroll, with the 14
Honorary Farmer's names and
the year each served hung
behind the head table, giving
the banquet a background
fitting the occasion.
The fourteen past Honorary
Democratic
Primary Is
Saturday
Bastrop voters are urged to
vote for the candidates of their
choice in the Democratic Prim
ary Election Saturday, May 4.
Polls will open at 8 o'clock in
the morning and close at 7 p.m.
All Bastrop residents living
south of Chestnut Street are in
Bastrop voting precinct No. 1,
and will vote at the Bastrop
County Courthouse.
All residents north of Chest
nut Street, in Precinct No. 13 ,
will vote in the Bastrop High
School Cafetorium.
Jr. High Golf
Team Wins In
Giddings
While the High School
team was playing in Brenham,
the Junior High Golf Team
participated in and won the
Cummins Creek Country Club
Junior High tournament in
Giddings Friday, April 19. The
winning team score was 359,
Giddings was second with 407.
Medalist for Bastrop was
Keith Evans with 86, followed
by Allen Eskew with 87,
Benton Eskew 92, Larry Lewis
94 rnd Sheila Oldfield 114. Mike
Claiborne participated in his
first Tournament as an indi
vidual medalist and scored 96.
Then on Monday, the Junior
High participated in the Han
cock Invitational against a very
tough field and finished a
strong fifth with a team score of
346.
Winner was Pearce with 322,
followed by second place (tie)
San Marcos at 329 and Wood
burn of Ft. Worth also at 329,
O'Henry 341, Bastrop 346,
Pearce No. 2 also 346, Westlake
353 (tie) Porter 353, Burnet
365, New Braunfuls 379 (tie)
Murchison 379, Westlake No. 2
393, and Lamar 408.
Team Medalist was Keith
Evans with 83, followed by
Allen Eskew 86, Benton Eskew
86, Sheila Oldfield 91, Larrv
Lewis 93 and Mike Claiborne
94.
The Junior High was sched
uled to play in Lockhart Friday
April 26th and in their District
Tournament irt Bastrop on May
1st.
CARD OF THANKS
My deepest and sincerest
thanks to my many friends for
the calls, cards, letters, flowers,
gifts, and visits to me during
my stay in St. Davids Hospital
in Austin. God bless you all.
Myrtle Hood Denison
Chapter Farmers are as
follows:
Hud DeGlandon 1960, Earl
Denson 1961, G. B. Mack 1962,
T. P. Haley 1963, Sully Simpson
1964, Hubert Linenberger 19415.
Earl Callahan 1966, Joe Lee
Rathnian 1967, C.C. Watterson
1968. Rusty Reynolds 1969,
Chris Lentz 1970, Vet'lin
Callahan 1971, Louis Wright
1972 and Cecil Long 1973.
Cecil Long presented the
Long and Mack trophies to the
Grand Champion winners of the
recent FFA Stock Show. In
the steer class, the trophy went
to Barbara Rathmann, in the
heifer class to Dominic Muehr,
in the bull class to Barbara
Rathmann, and in the barrow
class to David Smith.
N. R. Simpson presented his
record book awards to William
McCord, Cheryl Goertz and
Dominic Muehr.
The Clipson Ranch Award,
presented by Gary Smith,
acting for Jim Clipson, went to
Leslie Hilbig. This trophy goes
to the FFA member who has
the top gaining steer for the
entire feeding period. Leslie's
steer gained 2.97 pounds per
day.
The Austin Savings and Loan
trophies for showmanship were
presented by H. A. Stork, vice
president of Austin Savings
and Loan, and went to the
following FFA members: steer
class, Kevin Hilbig; bull class,
Barbara Rathmann; heifer
class, Jim Kuhn; and barrow
class, David Smith.
Anton Goertz presented the
Soil Conservation Award, an
$80.00 check to the chapter to
sponsor a member of the State
Champion Land Judging Team
with a round trip plane ticket to
Oklahoma City for the national
Contest this week. Mr. Goertz
also stated that the two banks,
Citizens State and First Nation
al, and the Bastrop Independ
ent School District were each
sponsoring a member on the
trip. They were accompanied
by their coach, Gordon
Rosanky.
Barbequed beef, beans,
potato salad, onions, pickles
and tea were served to the 295
members and guests of the
annual affair. Mr, Rosanky,
FFA advisor, showed colored
slides of the years activities.
CONGRESSMAN J. J. "JAKE" PICKLE congratulates Miss
Debra Cronin of McDade, winner of the recent Miss Texas contest
held in Houston. They wore both participants in the Smithville
Jamboree parade. A 1973 graduate of Elgin High School, Miss
Cronin was 1973 Austin Livestock Show 4 II Queen. 1973 McDade
Watermelon Festival Queen and 1973 Miss Bastrop Lost Pines.
She was sponsored in the Homecoming contest by the Bastrop
Lions Club. She is at present a student at Southwest Texas SUte
University majoring in Fashion Merchandising, and is a member of
Southwest Texas State Strutters. (Photo courtesy Smithville
Times)
Champie Goes
To State Meet
May 11
On Saturday, April 27, Bast
rop High Girl's Track Coach,
Mary Lou Brasher, along
with the District Champion,
Lisa Champie, went to the
RegionalTrack Meet at Victor
ia to vie in her specialty the 80
yd. low hurdles. She ran
against 15 girls, the best from
seven other districts.
Aftor winning the prelimin
ary heal, Lisa ran a photo finish
race in the finals with a time of
11.6 seconds and was second by
inches from first place.
Since the two best from each
of the four regions in the state
qualify for the state meet, eight
girls, including Lisa, will be
competing for the state crown
in this event. The Girl's State
Track Meet will be held in
Memorial Stadium in Austin on
Saturday, May 1L
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of all
managers and assistant
managers of Little League
teams on Wednesday, May 8, at
the Little League Park at 7
p.m.
Piney Creek Philosopher Gets
Enlightened On New Economic
Theories of Too Much Credit
Editor's note: The Piney
Creek Philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on Piney
gets all twisted up in economic
theories this week, his letter
indicates.
Dear editor:
A neighbor of mine who
works all the time except when
he's seeing a doctor about his
ulcer brought me a newspaper
clipping the other'day and said,
"Look at this."
The article reported on the
plight of a young married
couple which it said was typical
of a lot of young people today.
They're head over heels in debt
despite the fact they make
about $12,000 to $14,000 a year.
It went on to describe the
situation. The couple needed a
car so. not having any cash on
hand, borrowed $500 from a
loan company for the down
payment and financed the rest
in the regular way through the
car dealer. They bought gas
with credit cards, and when a
bank sent them a new style
credit card, they used that to
buy other things, like a TV set,
etc.
Anyway, they soon found out
their monthly installment pay
ments were almost equal to the
husband's pay check.
Now what interests me about
ibis is the husband's notion of
where the blame lies.
"I'll take 10 per cent of the
blame," he said, "but the stores
and credit companies should
take the rest because thev
never once turned me down
even though they must have
known I was bumping my
credit ceiling."
This is the kind of economic
theory I've been looking for all
my life. Up (o now. if you hadn't
paid your bill at a store, the
store blamed you, when all the
time it was the store's fault.
Instead of sending nasty letters
the store should have been
getting them.
What this is I guess is a
domestic adoption of our inter
national economics policy. In
ternationally you know we've
lent billions and billions of
dollars to foreign countries and
when the money comes due
they've gotten madder and
madder at us.
Everything is confusing.
Right now we're trying to lend
Egypt a lot of money to re-build
the Suez canal and its bombed
cities, and at the same time are
lending Israel even more to
replenish its military hard
ware which it used up fighting
Egypt.
If my subscription to The
Advertiser is past due, you
know who's at fault.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Polling Places
For Republican
Election May 4
Polling places for the Repub
lican Primary Election in Bast
rop County for May 4 are as
follows:
Voting al the Bastrop Junior
High School with Mr. Sam G.
Reed as presiding judge will be
precincts 1 (South Bastrop), 5
(Cedar Creek), and 13 (North
Bastrop).
Precincts 2 and 6 will vote al
the Elgin Chamber of (lorn
moree Office in Elgin with
Mrs. W. II. Cardwell serving as
presiding judge.
Precincts 3 and 12 will vote
at the City Hail in Smithville
with Mr. Kenneth C, Jenks as
the presiding judge.
Voting at the N. II. Karrer
home in Red Rock with Mr.
Kenneth Karrer serving as
presiding judge will be Precinct
4 (Rosanky), 7 (Pin Oak), 9
(Watterson), and 10 (Red
Rock).
Precincts II (Paige) and 8
(McDade) will vote at the
McDade School with Mrs.
Richard Neidig as the presiding
judge.
Polls will be open from 8:00
a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Precinct
Conventions will be held 30
minutes following the closing of
the polls at each of the above
locations. These Precinct
Conventions are open to any
qualified voter in the precinct
who has voted in the Repub-
lican Primary.
Bastrop Woman
Murdered In
Austin
On the eve of her 45th
birthday Mrs. Nona Kathleen
Reckarl of 601 Wilhelm Drive,
Bastrop, was murdered and
robbed at the North Austin
service station she managed.
Mrs. Reckert's body was
found shortly afternoon by her
husband, Cecil Reckart, lying
nude in a pool of blood in a small
dingy storeroom opening off
the Sage Service Station, 6500
Airport, in Austin.
Sage manager Chuck Martin
said money was missing from
the cash register. He said Sage
of Austin was posting a $1,000
reward for "information leading
to the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons res-
ponsible."
Funeral services were held at
3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Hyltin-
Manor Chapel in Austin.
Survivors include her
husband. Cecil Reckart, and a
son, John Stephen Reckart,
both of Bastrop.
GARDEN CLUB TO
MEET MAY 6th
A reminder to all past
members of the Lost Pines
Garden Club of the meeting on
Monday evening. May 6th, at
Manor House. All members are
urged to attend this meeting
and meet the new officers and
honor the members of previous
years.
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