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Austin American -Statesman Thursday, May 7, 1981 C0. i gJ Georgetown Leander Taylor Round Rock Cedar ir Park v. --h Pfluaerviller' Lflo Vista News of North Travis and Williamson counties published every Thursday TAVls CO. Carter prepares for com ion rt posit TOf your Eljf turn District judgeship a 'whole new world' numMim fV if J- JVbisj teens ruin movie Recently my husband and I went to see "The Postman Always Rings Twice" at the Showplace 6 across from Anderson Mill shopping center. A group of 10 or 12 teen-agers came into the theater.

They talked and laughed so loudly throughout the movie that we were unable to hear most of the film's dialogue. One patron in front of us went for the manager. The obnoxious patrons became quiet when they saw the manager, but resumed their antics when he returned to the lobby. Perhaps a new subject should be added to the local high school curriculums: "Acceptable Social Behavior." KAMWAGERT 3303 Great Valley Drive Cedar Park Speak up! Want to pass on soma Information to readers in your town? Got a problem that maybe someone in your neighborhood shares or can help you with Are there unsightly areas that you'd like to have cleaned up? Do you know of dangerous intersections that need attention? This Is your chance to reach the thousands of folks who read Neighbor each Thursday. Send your letters to North Neighbor, P.O.

Box 670, Austin, 78767. Be sure to include your name and address. Names will be withheld by By EMILY BAKER American-Statesman Staff The irony of his appointment as judge of Williamson County's newly created district court is not lost on Round Rock attorney John R. Carter. If confirmed as expected, he will preside over the court so ardently sought by his former opponent, Rep.

Dan Kubiak. Carter challenged the Rockdale Democrat on the Republican ticket in the November election. But Carter, nominated for the post by Republican Gov. Bill Clements, and Kubiak appear ready to put politics behind them, at least until the judgeship comes up for election in November 1982. Both know Carter's toughest challenges will come from the other side of the bench.

"I feel confident I don't have any problems with Dan," Carter said Monday. "Dan did a good job getting the bill through. And during the campaign, we both agreed on the desperate need" for a new district court. Kubiak said Carter was not among his top two recommendations to Clements. "Hopefully, he'll make a good judge.

"I wish him well," Kubiak said. "My personal feelings are that the appointment of a judge is a non-partisan issue." Kubiak proposed emergency legislation to create a second 26th district court in 1979 and again this session. Clements vetoed the 1979 bill because it provided that the new judge be elected by county voters rather than appointed by the governor. Kubiak struck the provision from his bill this session, and the new court was approved in April. Clements nominated Carter for the post Monday.

The other contenders were Florence attorney Mary Beeman, county attorney Bill Stubblefield, Georgetown attorney and municipal judge Tim Maresh and Georgetown attorney Joe McMaster. "Voters can elect who they want in the next election" in November 1982, Kubiak said. "It's all related to politics," Carter said. "I have to run to keep the job, and I intend to." Word of his appointment spread so fast Monday that he barely had time to digest the news before the media and friends came calling. "It'll be a whole new world," he said, awed by the appointment but bolstered by congratulations from his peers and jubilant family members.

"Boy, I've got an awful lot of work to do to get on the bench and once I get on it, but I'll be ready." Carter, 39, hopes to take his seat in two weeks. He must wait for Senate confirmation, expected within the week. Sen. John Wilson assured Carter of his help in getting Senate approval. The Round Rock attorney also must wrap up his practice by finding other representation for his clients.

Unlike a municipal judge, who may continue his private practice, a district judge must confine himself to his judicial duties. Carter served as Round Rock municipal judge from August 1978 to December 1979. Carter said his "number one priority" will be relieving Judge William S. Lott of the tremendous caseload now swamping the other district court serving Williamson County. "I don't think there is any lawyer in the county who hasn't encountered problems" with the trial backlog, Carter said, explaining that the numerous criminal cases take precedence over civil cases.

"Lott's district court is booked up now until mid-August. It's not Judge Lott's fault this is a tremendously fast-growing county." Carter, a University of Texas law school graduate, went to work for the Texas Legislative Council in 1969 as a staff attorney. Carter opened his Round Rock practice Jan. 1, 1973, and served as staff attorney for the House Agriculture Committee in the spring of 1973. He also has served as chairman of Round Rock's planning and zoning committee.

The judgeship currently pays $42,000 a year, but the Legislature is considering hiking the salary to $46,000. Carter will occupy County Judge C.L. Chance's old courtroom on the second floor of the courthouse in Georgetown. Carter lives in the country between Round Rock and Hutto with his wife, Erika, and four children. a Suit PtxMo by Ermly Bakar Round Rock attorney John R.

Carter gets a big hug from his daughter Gili-anne, 12, when he breaks the news of his nomination as judge for the new Williamson County district court nr til jMm. i a if s' 1 I I i i i i' 4 tV Leander High School plans nearly final sm By EMILY BAKER American-Statesman Staff The Leander school district is ready to go full steam ahead on its plans to construct a new high school. The school board three weeks ago selected a 60-acre site halfway between Leander and Cedar Park on Bagdad Road. 'v i. mm Mm Spring fever Currently owned by the Minyon partnership, it is west of U.S.

183 one-half mile north of New Hope Road. Final sale for a purchase price of $180,000 is contingent upon routine soil and percolation tests and a certification of clear title. vJlr Some were confined, some were flying free at Round Rock High School's Spring Fever Fest Saturday. Above, teachers Stacey Sanders, left, and Joan Hall la-' ment their plight in jail. Eight-year-old Gina Aiello, far right, of 13405 Effingham St in Forest North stretches her wings after take-off from a trampoline.

Near deft, sophomores Janet Gray, left, of 1801 Brushy Bend Drive and Julie Wiley of 3910 McNeil Drive dressed for the OCCaSiOn. StiflPMbyErrtlyBl School spokesman Don Bond said the site's advantages include access to natural gas, electricity, sewer service and water. The availability of natural gas will keep a lid on high electricity costs, RnnH ealrt nnrt thp ppntrfll lorfltinn xlF ill Georgetown postmaster making improvements "7 ui i-n j. will be a boon to the vast majority Don Bond of students who must be bused from within the 197-square- mile district. The $8.67 million raised from a Dec.

13 bond sale will cover the site purchase as well as construction costs and furnishings for the facility. Now that the site has been selected, architects with Jest sen Associates Inc. can "shift into high gear," said Jessen spokesman Herbert Crume, who Is in charge of the project. "The academic departments will be in one building and probably be separate from special programs such as indus. trial arts and vocational agriculture," Crume said.

"There'll be woodworking and multi-purpose shops and more food labs for homemaking." The high school complex will include a football stadium with an all-weather track and multi-use dressing facility, two gymnasiums and four -tennis courts. "The basic design is to house 1,200 students," Bond said; adding that with the district's steady growth rate of about 10 percent a year over the past five years, the facility should easily accommodate students through 1985. Presently 735 students are crowded into the existing high school, which has a capacity of 685 students. Upon completion of the new school, estimated by spring 1982, the current high school will become the junior high with ample space for increasing enrollments. "Grade six will go there in addition to the seventh and eighth grades, which should alleviate overcrowding in the elementary schools," Bond said.

"They will become kinder garten through fifth grade." He said the junior high, built in 1937, Is "sound, but it won't accommodate students day to day. It will remain In use, but not for students." A citizens advisory committee has suggested the building be used for administrative office space or community activities. It tK-'i 1 By EMILY BAKER American-Statesman Staff Georgetown's new postmaster, Cecil Stripling, has been on the job just a month, but already he's taking steps to improve the post off ice's service. Effective last Saturday, the window clerks' lunch schedules were changed to make two clerks available through most of the busy morning hours, doing away with the long lines that formed when the window was manned by just one clerk from 10 30 to noon. Stripling also is starting a new rural route to allow carriers with lighter loads to get mail to residents earlier in the day at a more consistent hour.

The new route will require some residents to change their route addresses, although Stripling said the number of people affected probably won't exceed a dozen. Stripling Is looking forward to a long tenure in the post held by a string of three officers-in-charge since former postmaster Rex Anderson retired with disability benefits In August 1980. Stripling says officers-ln-charge, who are transferred from other post offices to fill in for retiring postmasters on sick leave, are just as responsible to their employees and customers as permanent officers. But postmasters do offer some advantages. "Any postmaster will lend more stability to a post office because different people have different management philosophies," Stripling said.

school year. She plans to apply for a teaching job in Georgetown, he said. The Georgetown and Round Rock post offices have been Stripling's largest posts. An average of 12,000 to 15,000 letters and parcels are processed daily in Georgetown by five clerks. The mail is delivered by five rural and six city carriers Former postmaster Rex Anderson, who served from July 1976 to August 1980, said the number of deliveries increased by almost 60 percent in town and surrounding areas during his four-year tenure.

"There are a lot of dedicated people trying to get out more mail than they can handle" at the Georgetown office, he said. From 1980 to 1981, Georgetown experienced a 3.3 percent growth in "possible deliveries," or new homes or businesses, measured by the number of additions or deletions to a carrier's route. However, records show that mail volume was 12.8 percent less during the period from October 1980 to March 1981 than during the same period the year before. Stripling said some volume counts may have been missed. Stripling Is proud of the postal service.

"We get a lot of criticism from the public, but when you stop and look, we have one of the best mail services in the world," he said. "We have 95 percent accuracy distributing mail to the right street carrier. How many other businesses can claim a record like that?" Georgetown's new postmaster Cecil Stripling Stripling, 44, entered the San Antonio postal service in 1957 as a "part-time flexible" employee. He moved to San Marcos in 1961, and graduated from Southwest Texas State University in 1963. He has served as officer-ln-charge, postmaster, or both in Dale, Elgin, Glddings and Luling.

His last duty was as officer-in-charge at the Round Rock post office, filling In for Martin Parker until his sick leave expired last month. Stripling's wife, Edna, an elementary teacher In San Marcos, will join him in Georgetown at the end of the 1.