Bastrop Advertiser and Bastrop County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1977 Page: 2 of 14
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Pjgv 2. The H.otiop Ndvifttvcr. Thurvday.May 12, 197?
Musings
By J. Troy Hickman
Time takes care
of everything
Cicely Tynwn. the splendid
black scire** who d lighted
so msny television viewers
with her r<A*-s tn Bounder*
and "Miss Jane Pittman".
• ti asked on an interview
program about her philo
sophy of life
"Time," she ssid, take*
. cat* of everything."
I think she is fight There
is no better summary of the
way* of destiny and the fruit*
of aspiration. "Time take*
rare of everything."
There is, however one
necessary condition Tim -
takes care of things when the
individual is living on the
right track. If one is lost in
the wood* the more he walks,
the farther he gets from
home.
It is so easy for one of us to
get a fixation on the present
moment. We win some point
and think we have won an
issue.
From our fixation on the
present we may become
confused about apparent
injustice* ail around us. We
•ee that the battle is not
always to be strong or the
race to the swift, so we are
discouraged and deceived.
One of the Old Testament
Psalmists has the answer to
this problem. "Wait upon the
Lord." The Lord doesn't
always move to our sche
dules, but ha* Hi* own times
and ways of doing thing*.
And He does them well.
Sometimes the most pro-
ductive virtue is patience,
and it may also be one of the
hardest. We want to get
going, and see results right
away. But life can be like a
river that flows along
! leisurely, from the past,
.through the present, and into
the future. Life is more like a
process than like a single
event.
Neither rewards or pun
ishments always come
promptly after their causes.
Two black men were fighting
with old fashioned straight
razors, One made a big swipe
us the other jumped nimbly
backward.
"You missed met" the
jumper said.
"That's what you think,"
the slasher replied. "Just
wajt till you try to turn your
head!"
When the consequence* of
a good act seem slow in
coming, sometimes one of us
fret*. "I might a* well have
done nothing at all, for all the
regard I get." Then he may
remember a verse of Scrip
ture which says, "Be not
weary in well doing, for indue
season you shall reap, il you
faint not."
A poor juror is one who
reaches a verdict before the
evidence ha* all come in II
takes time to make a good
judgement Only time can
reveal the real inner man
bek<w the surface semblance.
A farmer who had planted
good wheat seed in his field
was told by a hired hand that
weed* were comingup with
the wheal. The weeds were
called tares, and they
resembled the wheat plant*
in the early stages.
"Do you want me to pull the
tares up?" asked the hired
hand?
"No," said the farmer,
"because the roots of the
wheat and the roots of the
tares are all tangled up
together. If you pulled the
tares now, you would ruin the
wheal. Wait until the crop is
ripe. Harvest it, and then
separate the weeds from the
grain.
Evil and good are some
limes easy to tell apart. At
other times, they may
actually resemble each other
for a while. Or. their roots
may besoentwined that to
puniah an evildoer as he
seem* to deserve would be to
break the heart of some good
person who loves him.
Sometimes it is better just
to wait a while and let things
work out. Time may clear the
scene. One can see deeper
into a pool of water after the
murkiness has had time to
settle to the bottom.
All in all, Cicely Tyson has
laid out a pretty good
philosophy by which to live a
good life. Be a partner with
time, and not an adversary.
For. as she puts it, "Time
takes care of everything."
Maybe not everything, but
a lot of things.
Calvary Baptist Church
1 104 Church Street
Bastrop. Te*as
9:30
Morning Worship
I0:4S
Evening Worship
7:00
Mid Week Service Wednesday
7:00
LONN1E LATHAM, PASTOR
Nursery available at all services
You «rc invited to worship Christ with us.
Chili
Burger
86
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
4
Dairy
Queen
Mitjfiwtiy /I Httfttrufj
It 's a Mutter of Fact
Capco approves
HUD funds
Decade* ago my Dad told
me. "Son, a# you grow up in
life you will learn that the
hardest victory of all is
victory over self!" And my
how I've learned this to be a
mailer of fact. The only
trouble is that I can't keep
"self" contained.
Of course I'm the only
person in Bastrop with this
problem...so none of you even
understand what I am saying.
There are times when this
job gets unbearable...and ail
because of me.
CAPCO approved our
HUD Application, so now it's
ready to move on up the
ladder and the excitement is
building. I catch myself
driving around town and
seeing the drainage ditches
being constructed and streets
being paved - and then I
awaken to reality and feel
Philosopher has no
solution on what to
do about President's
Editor's note: The Piney
Creek Philosopher on hw
Johnson grass farm on Piney
discusses a Presidential
problem this week, sort of.
Dear editor:
According to an article I
read in a newspaper the
other day. President Carter
is getting about 75,000 letters
a week from people around
the country. It might be even
more, buy you know how
themail service is these days.
Anyway, I got to thinking
about this. Seventy five
thousand letters! If each
letter averages just 100
words, that's 7,500,000
words, or divided into books
of 50,000 words each. 150
books.
Now no man can read 150
books a week and still have
time to runthe country and
teach a Sunday School class
too. So obviously somebody
else reads the letters and
answers them. It's like nine
million people trying to call
the President when he held
his famous phone-in a while
back. Only about a dozen
actually got to talk to him.
Those 75,000 letters a week
constitute a problem for
which I have no solution. It's
one of those problems like
energy or the Middle East
which, after you get through
stating it, you're too tired to
go any further.
But speaking of mail, I
understand some people are
suggesting the post office
department adopt an
electronic system of deliver-
ing letters. Instead of being
actually carried from one
town to another, the let ter is
photographed and transmit
ted by wire to its destination,
where another machine re-
produces it exactly like you
wrote it and seals it. A
mailman then delivers it to
the proper address, as soon
as he can get around to it.
The system has a few
drawbacks, like what about
privacy, although I guess
clerks could be required to
turn out the ights when
they're feeding your letter
into the transmitting mac-
hine so they couldn't see
what you wrote.
This reminds me of an
experience a depot agent in a
small town had back in the
days when we had trains and
the agent, being the on.ly^
telegrapher in town, handled
telegrams.
One cold rainy day he
received a telegram on his
wires for a woman. He
telephoned her and said he
had a telegram for her but
since it was too cold and rainy
outside for her to come by
and pick it up, would she like
for him to read it to her?
"Don't you dare open my
telegram!" she shouted.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
sorta silly.
We are still getting
contacts with those persons
needing housing rehabilita-
tion and by the time the
project is underway we
should have a list to start
with that will assure the
success of the program.
The running light is being
installed on the Water Tower
at Lake Bastrop Acres and
should relieve the concern of
some of the folks around who
have talked to us about
the lack of a light on top of
the tank. Also being installed
is a new control system" that
should eliminate th^'over
flowing of the Elevated
Storage. We are graceful to
the residents of Lake Bastrop
Acres who notify us when the
tank is running over, and
appreciate the cooperation...
this new control system will
aid the cause, we think.
Don't forget about the dog
vaccination program, Friday,
May 13, at the Courthouse
beginning at 1 p.m....we will
be on hand to sell city tags
and then comes the day of
reckoning - it will be our job
to start picking up the loose
animals as soon as possible
thereafter.
The City has lost another
good young man to private
business. Phil Allen is
entering the Building and
Mechanic business with his
family...we wish him luck.
As time moves ahead in
this business, we make
mistakes and have to start
over almost daily. Sometimes
we repeat the same mistake,
and then at times we fail to
see the error of our ways
soon enough to correct the
mistake before it happens. In
our haste to "get some of the
heat off' we violated a Su te
Law and now we need to
correct it. This shall come to
pass.
We wanted to register all
plumbers so we could provide
you with a list of qualified
firms -- in doing this we
issued what we termed a
license, and this can't be done
according to state law. The
State of Texas issues
plumbers' license, so we are
refunding the fee charged for
our local paper. All we are
requiring currently is a State
License, a SI,000 bond, a
Plumbing Permii.
To protect you, we
acquired a copy of the State
Directory of Plumbers as
licensed by the Board of
Examiners, If you want to
get the data on a firm call us
and we'll look the name up in
the book for you.
At the present time we
have three bonded plumbers
in Bastrop. They are Orville
Aldrich. Bastrop Plumbing,
Walter Moncure, Jr.. Mon-
cure Plumbing, and Larry K.
Franke. We currently have
the following electricians
with license and bond in
Bastrop: Thomas K. Odio-
rine, Odiorne Electric:
Michael S. Compton; James
E.Biley, Melrose Electric;
Ben Simmons, Simmons
Electric: Rufus Norfieet: and
Roy Harmon, Harmon Elec-
tric.
All we require of building
contractors is a bond, and the
following have bonds on file:
John C. Frushav and Bobby
F. Woehl, Frushav and
Woe hi Construction; K. H.
Harris. Harris Construction;
Michael C. Fisher. J. G. Lolt
Construction Company, Inc.;
Moore Builder & Supply;
Wendell E. Walton, Walton
Construction; and Alford
Marx, A. J. Marx Builder.
As time advances there
will be others. We have set
the date of May 15 as " cut off
day" for the electricians in
the city activity to get
qualified and then comes the
testing period. This should
give everyone a fair shake at
this thing and settle all
accounts in due time.
Talking about building and'
activity -■ drive around the
city and see what is taking
place...a lot of people can't
believe it. New homes,
remodeled homes, new build-
ings and remodeled build-
ings...plus new curbs, gutters
and sidewalks. Bastrop is
booming.
There seems to be some
revived interest in a Civic
Center and this is good, due
to ihe lack of buildings large
en-«ugh t have a met-ting in
that will seat 300 or more
persons. It doesn't have to be
oversized to serve us, bul it
would be good to see one
built.
We are still awaiting the
lights to arrive for use at the
Baseball Field, and when
they get here we will get
them installed. I don't know
the answer to "where are the
lights?" nor to the one "when
you gonna get the lights on
at the field?" unless "when
they get here" is good
enough.
I made six suggestions
concerning the ball parks, but
none were acceptable...so we
will wait for the lights and
complete the job at that time.
The emergency telephone
number this weekend will be
321-5383.
*
isaro A1 StePhenson ol Litton Springs foreman at the
jfJll&llML Bastrop Youth Center construction site along with
/. Henry Vojatek of McDade and Dale Kokenes of
oreman Austin study blueprints.
Pickle promotes solar
enery use
Congressman Jake Picle
told the House Building and
Grounds Subcommittee Tues-
day that Congress should set
an example for the nation and
try to convert existing office
buildings to solar energy.
Pickle testified for his
resolution which calls for
studying the feasibility of
installing solar energy sys-
tems in the House office
buildings in Washington.
Seventy-eight members of
the House are co-sponsoring
Pickle's resolution.
"I proposed something that
will—if the study verifies our
hunches-save the taxpayer
money by taking advantage
of an energy source that is
free and is ready to be used,"
Pickle testified.
The Bastrop Congressman
said that the only way solar
energy will ever make an
important impact on the
nation's energy supply is to
"retrofit" existing buildings.
"If we only use solar
energy in new buildings it
will take a very long time for
this source to make much of
an impact on our national
needs," Pickle said.
As an example of convert-
ing to solar energy. Pickle
pointed out the College
House dormitory in Austin
which will have a solar
system in operation by June.
Beef producers to
hold meeting
Bastrop County Beef Pro
ducers mark your calendar
for the following Beef
Referendum Meeting:
May 24 7:30 p.m.
Smithville High School Voc
Agr Classroom in Smithville;
May 27 8:00 p.m. Pleasant
Grove Community Center;
May 31 7:30 p.m. Elgin
High School Voc. Ag.
Classroom in Elgin;
Lignite
production
increasing
According to statistics
released by the Governor's
Energy Advisory Council
Monday lignite production in
Texas has grown dramatical
ly from zero tons production
for November 1972 to
1.089.000 tons for November
1976.
Production grew from no
production in 71 to Novem
ber '72 production of 370.000
tons. From November '72 to
November '73 production
more than doubled with
802,000 ton* productd In
1974 the level dropped to
fi59,000 In 1975 promotion
jumped again to 865.000 tons
then climbed to the Novem
ber 1976 level of 1.0K9.000
ton*
Statiktic* rrtea*rd alto
unlit air tha< there are fewer
Ha* well completion* in
January of 107? than in
J«nu«rv of i* mmv
June 1 7:30 p.m. Old
District Courtroom in the
Courthouse at Bastrop.
The Beef Referendum is
provided by the Beef
Research and Information
Act signed by the President
on May 28. 1976. Basically the
act authorizes a nationally
coordinated research and
information program to im
prove, maintain, and develop
markets for cattle, beef and
beef products. It gives the
Secretary of Agriculture
responsibility for determin
ing if cattle producers really
want to establish, finance and
operate such a program. In
other words, it is enabling
legislation to provide for a
national cattle check-off
program similar to the type
that exist for wheat, pota-
toes, cotton and eggs.
Cattlemen initiate such a
check off program through a
vote of bona fide cattle
producers.
First, a series of public
hearings on the proposed
order for a research and
information program was
conducted across the nation.
As a result a fina was
prepared and published by
the Department of Agri
culture,
After the public hearing
and comments from the
industry, the Secretary of
Agriculture issued the final
order, and a producer
referendum ha* been sche
'luled Thai mean* every
pnnlBrwi wiii not* have the
chance tu vote on the beef
According to the Beef
Research and Information
Order, the registration per
iod is set for June 6-17, 1977.
There will be a two-week
period between registration
and voting. The voting will be
held at the local ASCS Office.
Voting will be held from
Julv 5 through July 15.
The Beef Check Off Pro-
gram is designed to allow for
the establishment of projects
for advertising, promotion,
education, producers infor
mat ion and consumer infor
mation with respect to use of
cattle, beef and beef pro-
ducts.
It allows establishment and
conduct of research, market
development projects, and
studies with respect to
production, growing, sale,
processing,distribution, mar
keting or utilization of cattle,
beef and beef products. This
would also include develop
mem and expansion of
foreign markets.
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