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Thursday, October 8, 2009
AGRICULTURE
Rockne cattle
seminar on Oct. 20
The Bastrop County
Extension Service is spon-
soring a beef cattle feeding
program which is open to
all producers on Oct. 20 at
the Old Sacred Heart Parish
Hall at Rockne. The hall is
at 4045 FM 535 in Rockne.
Registration will begin at 6
p.m., with the program be-
ginning at 6:30 p.m.
Topics of discussion will
include nutrient require-
ments for beef cattle, mineral
nutrition and supplementa-
tion, approaches to reducing
feed costs, weighing the ben-
efits vs. costs of supplemen-
tation and government di-
saster assistance programs
available to producers. The
speakers will be Extension
Beef Cattle Specialist Dr.
Rick Machen, Farm Sende-
es Agency personnel Tommy
Miertschin and Jacob Chap-
man and Extension Forage
Specialist Larry Redmon.
Registration fee is $10
per person, which includes
supper. Please RSVP and
pay registration fees to the
Bastrop County Extension
Office by Oct. 17 at 901 Pe-
can St. in Bastrop. This will
help us insure an accurate
head count for the meal and
for handouts.
Soil/water well testing
Texas AgriLife Exten-
sion Service of Bastrop
County is conducting a soil
and water well testing cam-
paign Oct. 1 through Oct. 19
for homeowners, gardeners,
livestock, hay and field crop
producers.
Landowners who wish to
participate can pick up test-
ng forms and soil sample
bags or water sample bottles
at the County Extension of-
fice in Bastrop, Smith Sup-
ply n Smithville and Elgin
General Store in Elgin.
Completed forms, pay-
ment and samples must be
returned to the County Ex-
tension Office at 901 Pecan
St. in Bastrop by Oct. 19 at
noon. Samples submitted
after that date will not be ac-
cepted. There is no limit on
the number of soil or water
samples that a landowner
can submit.
Two types of soil tests
will be offered at a reduced
rate for this campaign. The
routine analysis will cost $6,
which will tell you the pH,
nitrogen, phosphorus, potas-
sium, calcium, magnesium,
sodium and conductivity of
the soil sample. The routine
and micronutrient analysis
will cost $10 per sample, and
will give you a reading of the
levels of zinc, Iron, copper
and manganese n addition
to the elements analyzed in
the routine sample.
There are two types
of water well tests which
will be offered for this
campaign. The elemental
analysis costs $20 per sam-
ple, which will tell you the
conductivity, pH, potassi-
um, calcium, magnesium,
sodium, sulfur, chlorine,
boron, nitrate, hardness,
zinc, iron, copper, manga-
nese and phosphorus of the
water sample. The bac-
teriology sample will cost
$28 per sample, and will
tell you if coliform bacte-
ria is present in the water.
Please DO NOT submit
samples from public wa-
ter suppliers in this cam-
paign. The samples will
be analyzed at the Texas
Department of Health and
TAMU Soil and Water
Testing Laboratory in Col-
lege Station. Results will
be mailed to your home
address. If you have
questions, please contact
the Extension Office at
(512) 581-7186.
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The Bastrop Central Appraisal District is
seeking persons interested in serving on the
Appraisal Review Board (ARB). Hearings are
held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. as needed throughout the year;
most frequently June through September.
The Bastrop Central Appraisal District Board
of Directors appoints ARB members and
considers all applicants. ARB members are
required to have lived in the County for at
least two years prior to taking office.
If you are nterested in serving, please submit
your letter of interest with your name, address
and phone number(s) to Bastrop CAD, Attn:
Gayle Junker, P.O. Drawer 578, Bastrop TX
78602, by October 30, 2009.
BASTROP ACCORDING TO KEN
Mina Ward School - Part
Two years after our town was
named "Bastrop," the Mexican gov-
ernment changed its designation to
"Mina." Four years later, in 1837,
the Congress of the Republic of Tex-
as restored the original title.
While "Mina" ceased to exist,
the name refused to go away. In the
1860s local Odd Fellows attended
the "Mina Lodge." In the 1870s and
1880s, a baseball club called itself
the "Minas." For a couple of years
n the mid-1960s, when the Bastrop
School District began the process of
desegregation by allowing students
to choose between two schools that
previously had been racially dis-
tinct, the former all-white school
was named "Mina School." Today,
the elementary school at Farm and
Hill streets continues under the
name as does the current Masonic
Lodge. (Incidentally, I must add that
my German grandmother, born in
Bastrop in 1878, was named Mina.
A coincidence, or what?)
There is one more significant
historic referent - the Mina Ward
School. This was the name given
to an elementary school created ex-
clusively for Mexican-Americans.
It was not closed until 1948, when
its students began to attend the all-
Anglo school, the result of a success-
ful federal suit filed by the League
of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC) against four Texas school
districts - Bastrop, Elgin, Martin-
dale, and the Colorado Common
KEN
KESSELUS
School District of Travis County.
Bastrop was the first named defen-
dant, so the landmark case is known
as Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD because
six-year-old Minerva Delgado's cou-
rageous grandfather (her parents
were both dead) allowed her name to
be used along with those of nineteen
other Mexican-American children.
LULAC's Gus Garcia argued, as
the Texas Attorney General had ear-
lier ruled, that to segregate children
by national origin was unlawful. He
also argued successfully that Bas-
trop and the other districts had de-
prived Mexican-American students
of equal facilities, services, and in-
struction. The last charge was veri-
fied by former students of the Mina
Ward School who were assembled
by Jud: Hoover at a recent discus-
sion I was privileged to attend. (In
another column, I will identify them
and report details about the school
and other matters that they shared
with Judi and me.)
An interesting precedent for the
Delgado case came in a 1947 decision
by California's Ninth Circuit Court.
It ruled illegal any educational seg-
regation "within one of the great
races," unless a specific law required
the separation. Accordingly, isolat-
ng Mexican-American children
from Anglo-American children was
llegal because all were considered
Caucasian.
I am lucky enough to have grown
up attending school with the chil-
dren and younger siblings of those
who were forced to attend the Mina
Ward School. This seemed natural to
us, but a level of cultural separation
lingered. I remember well, about a
decade after the Delgado decision,
hearing teachers instruct us, Anglo-
Americans and Mexican-Americans
alike, to check boxes on forms indi-
cating our race as "Caucasian." Most
of us, n both groups, thought the
Mexican-American students should
be categorized differently than their
Anglo classmates. By insisting on
this commonality, our teachers were
affirming a law that prohibited dis-
crimination against Mexican-Amer-
cans.
It's ironic, isn't it, that in recent
decades we have had to reverse
this process by distinguishing "non-
Hispanic whites" from Hispanics
n order to help protect the latter
from illegal discrimination? It would
be nice to think I might live long
enough to see a day when none of
these distinctions matter - a time
when Americans won't need to pro-
tect one another from prejudice, big-
otry, and intolerance.
Dr. ox oins Lakeside Hospital
Dr. Ron Cox, an
allergist and immu-
nologist, has joined
Lakeside Hospital.
Cox is board certified
n internal medicine,
allergy and immunol-
ogy.
Cox relocated his
practice to the Lake-
side Hospital campus
from Centerville, Ohio,
where he practiced medi-
cine and taught at the
Uniformed Services Uni-
versity of Health Sci-
ences at Bethesda AFB,
as well as Lackland
AFB and Wright State
University.
A cum laude gradu-
ate from the University
of Kansas, Dr. Cox has a
Bachelor of Science in bi-
ology and environmental
sciences with an empha-
sis in chemistry. He has
a medical doctorate de-
gree from the University
of Kansas.
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sinus infection, headache or cough?
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ADVERTISING ACCEPTABILITY: The Bastrop Advertiser reserves
the right to reject or edit any advertisement submitted for
publication, in its sole discretion. We will not knowingly accept
any advertisement that we consider potentially misleading,
deceptive, offensive, discriminatory, that may infringe the rights
(including trademark and copyright) of any person or entity,
or that otherwise may be inappropriate for general circulation
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general circulation publication. We do not warrant the accu-
racy or completeness of any published advertisement, and
urge readers to contact the advertiser directly if they have any
issue with either the content of the advertising or the product
or service advertised. The Bastrop Advertiser is not responsible
for errors or omissions in advertisements, for failure to publish in
a timely manner, or for any damages caused thereby. The sole
remedy for failure to publish in a timely manner shall be refund
of any monies actually paid by the advertiser for the desired
publication. The sole remedy for errors or omissions shall be
refund of monies actually paid by the advertiser for the space
in which the error or omission occurred, which may be less than
ihe cost of the entire advertisement. We reserve the right to cor-
rect or republish an advertisement in lieu of any refund.
RECYCLING: The Bastrop Advertiser is recyclable, and we encourage
you to recycle your newspaper when you are finished with it. The city
of Bastrop has curbside recycling (321-3941), and Recycling Options
is located at 21 7 Pershing Blvd., around the corner from the former
County Recycling Station. For information, call 303-6665.
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Deadlines subject to change for designated holidays
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Hagerty for news items or sports editor Michael Adams for sports items.
CORRECTIONS: The Bastrop Advertiser makes every effort to provide fair and accu-
rate information. Should we make an error, please contact the news department
It is our policy to correct significant errors of fact.
OBITUARIES: Obituary announcements are published free of charge but are sub-
ject to editing (for "as is" obituary announcements, contact the ads department).
Photos may also be submitted. Obituary announcements are usually provided by
the funeral home or family. For questions, call editor Cyndi Wright or assistant editor
Terry Hagerty.
WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENTS, ANNIVERSARIES, AND BIRTHS: Wedding, anniversary,
engagement and birth announcements are paid and have a set format. Contact
Ginny Pickering in the classifieds department for rates.
HOW TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED OR DISPLAY AD: The best way to place a classified
or display ad is in person during regular business hours or by telephone. You may
also use the classified ad form in the classified section, and you may also send ad
copy by fax. Rates and special offers for classified ads are listed in the classified ads
section of each issue. Media kits are available for advertisers, which also include
information about our other Austin-area newspapers. If you have any questions,
call Ginny Pickering for classified ads or Debbie Denny for retail ads.
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and are available at our office while supplies last. There are also bound copies
of certain years at our office and copies available on microfilm at the Bastrop
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welcome to browse through our back issues during regular business hours.
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