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Thursday, July 22, 1982 Austin American-Statesman AU Gem's rou polished es are gh edg Proposed Barton Creek greenbelt improvements iafanMtHMl kloi Creek BW Oregon labor candidate wants victory, not job PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Libertarian Burgess Laughlin Is running for state labor commissioner, but says he will eliminate the job if elected. The Oregon Libertarian Party nominated the 38-year-old publications consultant for the position. Along with trying to abolish the labor commissioner's job, Laughlin said he would eliminate mini-, mum wage and anti-discrimination laws. He said he also would seek the repeal of legislation giving the Labor and Industries Bureau authority in apprenticeship and training programs.

"The labor commissioner race is the most winnable partisan race for a Libertarian in Oregon this year," Laughlin said. He said a candidate could win with as little as 34 percent of the vote. Laughlin declined to say what he would do after eliminating the job. parking for' Y65 car Lost Creek Subdivision connected to wagon trails dating to the 1800s, will also be cut Reed estimated that an extra $200,000 will be necessary to complete the green-belt improvements, with the money probably coming from bond sales. In the final planning, due in the next few months, the parks department will be concerned with "impacting on the neighborhoods and firearms, litter, motorbikes and four-wheel drives.

Some of the areas are very steep, so what do you do about the elderly and handicapped?" Reed said. "We want to be good stewards of the environment and we want people to enjoy what we bought, but they have to help us be good stewards. We can't do it all by ourselves." Next: Those who use the creek. 3l Lost Creek Country Club 360 Loon hatter and raalroom staging area park property itnij; area park property Drt I Campbell's all -nrAOaf I TV Barton 1 II Corrals Spvglas historic) 3 parking tor 100 car iGe' staging area park property fV (rrBanonyf 1 xjl picnic area picnic area a nature "center observation deck parking Sterling Hays Ace North 8309 Research 65 cars restroom A YOUR COMPLETE DISCOUNT PHARMACY AUSTIN OWNED AND OPERATED FOR OVER 22 YEARS WELFARE AND CLINIC SENIOR CITIZEN AND Staff Map by James Black BABY DISCOUNTS CARD PRESCRIPTIONS WE SERVICE NURSING HOMES MENNEN Samy ana FJM9iir niT TIIUTiaHTDT BABY MAGIC LOTION Si- WART-OFF $-J97 10-mile park will showcase creek's beauty $068 16 02. gr jJz--- JOHNSON'S BABY POWDER BALM BARR STRETCH MARKCREME S067 v- ni i 14 oz.

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And better yet, the department has the money to begin work on the next link of what may eventually be one of the most extensive and spectacular urban parks in the country. In three to five years, a park stretching from where the city's Barton Creek greenbelt abuts the Lost Creek subdivision all the way to Barton Springs could be fully completed, said David Reed of the parks department. Austin then would have a contiguous, usable waterside park system that would include Barton, Shoal, Johnson and Waller creeks as well as Town Lake. It would attract hikers, runners, swimmers, tube floaters and naturalists. The Barton Creek greenbelt acquisition began in the early 1970s, when the city set out to buy 354 acres of creekside land from Zilker Park west to Loop 360.

The purchases were completed by 1979 and supplemented with 84 acres near Loop 360 and South Lamar Boulevard donated in 1981 by developer Trammell Crow in return for variances to the city's Barton Creek ordinance. Last year, the city completed acquisition of an additional 377 acres for $4 million along the creek from Loop 360 to Lost Creek. The greenbelt ranges in Barton Creek: its life and spirit IE mWl HEW! MEWS i Wm tlx VrSaAjkam Em.i.m. aaT Ul IUC maiA SUCU WCllklC 3 II? All width from about 200 feet to several hundred feet, depending on the topography. The most recent purchases, which include the popular Twin Falls swimming area, have been temporarily placed off-limits to the public.

Reed said basic services will be ready in six to eight months and the greenbelt will be opened. Until then, park rangers will ask people to leave, he said. The remnants of Indian civilizations are among resources that could be destroyed by unrestricted public access. "We don't want to tell the public about archeological resources before they are protected. For example, we don't want people digging up arrowheads," Reed said.

"We also want to know what we're dealing with in terms of recreational safety." Accessible to the public, but not fully developed, is the section of the creek between Loop 360 and Zilker Park, a popular tubing and swimming area that incorporates 135-acre Gus Fruh Park. Hikers can negotiate the entire distance, although the trail is primitive in places, Reed said. Public access points are the entrance to Fruh Park in the 2500 block of Barton Hills Drive; the terminus of Barton Skyway just south of Spyglass Drive; Zilker Park, Loop 360 and behind St. Mark's Epicopal Church at 2128 Barton Hills Drive. With a recent $432,000 grant from the Hew From Atari! Hew From Activision! i 1 PflC-MRN Texas Parks Wildlife Department, generated partly by revenue from the state tobacco tax, the city will begin improvements to the parking area at Loop 360 and to undeveloped but heavily used Fruh Park.

Rest rooms, trails, interpretive nature displays, picnic areas and possibly other amenities will be built in both places, Reed said. Planned for the upper end of the greenbelt is a spacious "staging area" park off Camp Craft Road west of Loop 360. Tentative plans call for trails, stables, rest rooms, and interpretive and picnic areas. Reed said the city hopes to tell the story of Barton Creek in displays at the park, along an area of the creek that usually flows year-round. Another possibility for the upper end of the greenbelt is screened-in overnight shelters for hikers, he said.

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