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Volume 5, No. 14
Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, December 1, I9V4
Recycle center, health care store to open in Dublin
A Christmas tradition in Dublin has apparently fallen victim to a utility
company’s new policy of “one pole - one purpose."
The lighted banners which had been strung across Patrick St. in four
locations were hung from TU Electric’s poles in year’s past. This year, the
utility company has stopped the free ride.
TU Electric officials have explained to City of Dublin officials that the
possibility of an ice storm which would add considerable weight to the
banners could threaten to leave a major part of the city without power.
City Superintendent Ken Jumey understands and feels like local residents
who would lose electricity in such an event would prefer the lights and
heat to the Christmas decorations, but he is nonetheless disappointed.
“We wish we had known about this soon enough to make other plans,’’
Jumey said. “But the only way to have the lights now would be if
someone with the skill to do so would very quickly set poles for us.”
City crews are not qualified to set the eight poles which would have to
be at least 30 feet tall. Tire lights would also have to have a 15 to 16 foot
clearance in the middle of Highway 377 which means they would have to
hang at some 20 to 22 foot at the poles.
“It would be a real challenge to get it done at this late date,” he said.
“And it would mean breaking through some sidewalks and then patching
them back. And even if we did get the poles ready, TU would still have to
provide electricity for them.”
Prior to the purchase of the across-thc-street lights, the city erected
lantern style decorations on poles in the downtown area each year.
These decorations, according to Jumey's estimate, represent two
problems: they aren’t safe and they aren't pretty.
“I’d be scared of them as far as safety is concerned and the aesthetics
leaves something to be desired,” he sakl.
City crews have erected the traditional red and green canvass banners
which may be the only heralding of the season this year.
The foundation was poured Wednesday for the pavilion at Dublin
City Park. The project, part of the city’s matching grant from the
Parks and Wildlife Department, will cost an estimated $100,000.
When completed, it will be a combination facility for games and
sports. Photo by Russell Huffman
YOU
MISSED
IT!
Ix>is ('ole Bivins, Editor
Psst-He’s Not Our
Founding Father
Two of the most heavily covered
stories of the past couple years
were the Clarence Thomas/Anita
Hill (650 mag. articles)
allegations and Whitewater
(2,000+ newspaper and mag.
article). Over the same time
period, the number of articles
(mag. only) written about Karl
Marx, the father of communism
and his theory called "Marxism"
is 4,677 articles!
Yes, four thousand six hundred
and seventy-seven articles dealing
with the specific work,
"Marxism”. Did you know there
was a "media blitz" going on over
Marxism? [You probably thought
communism "fell", right?] There
couldn't be any more coverage of
Marx, if he had been accused of
sexual harassment! Those who
write of him, of course, could
care less if he had any personal
sins - it's his philosophy that
mesmerizes them.
But if you think that's a lot of
coverage, you should listen to the
journalist roundtables and other
discussions on C-SPAN. They
refer to Marx or his principles
constantly.
Last week, consummate insider,
journalist Christopher Hutchins,
began a sentence with, "I believe,
as did Karl Marx, in the free
enterprise system..." Now,
granted, Hutchins is the type who
would take great pleasure in
jerking the chains of those he
considers to be paranoid rubes
who "fear communism" (in his
view, anyone outside the beltway
who fails to speak with a British
accent). On the other hand, his
was not an out-of-the-ordinary
remark.
How else could you explain
John Kenneth (ialbraith on
Booknotes on Nov. 6th, breezily
acknowledging that he had long
been the guru-type godfather of
Marxist theory in the U.S.
government. Galbraith worked as
the economic advisor to JFK. He
now says he no longer believes in
the Marxist theory. [Yeah, now he
tells everyone!]
In the same time period as
above, here are the number of
mag. only articles on...Thomas
Jefferson-306, John Adams-80,
freedom of religion-92 and
Founding Fathers-116 (of course,
this includes articles such as the
one about the "founding fathers”
of a gay and lesbian group, etc.).
Blast From The Past
If you have been slung by name
calling from the national media,
here's some historical perspective
on a few words. The terms
"nationalist," "right-wing," and
"anti Soviet" were terms used in
the state-run press in Czechoslo-
vakia in 1968 to label dissenters
when the Communists crushed
that country. Ironic, huh?
Does it give you some sense of
comfort to know that "righl-
wiagers "4iave a long history of
fighting for freedom against
Communist oppression and other
totalitarian cruelty world-wide?
Maybe someone should show
these pages from Facts on File to
the national press!
Wlty Worry?!
Ma and Pa...did you know MTV
refined to air a music video (by
Michael Sweet-"Ain't No Safe
Way) which happened to promote
sexual abstinence?
Copyright-The You Missed It!
Syndicate-1994
Missing-but-not-missed
jewelry comes home
They weren’t lost until
someone said they were found
and then they were.
A local couple didn’t realize a
watch and charm bracelet were
among the items taken in a
recent burglary at their home.
So they didn’t report them
missing.
However, last week they read
a story in The Dublin Citizen in
which Police Chief David John-
son asked die owners to identify
and claim the watch and charm
bracelet which had turned up
during a recent burglary investi-
gation.
The couple contacted John-
son, identified the jewelry and
picked it up. They also pro-
vided information which die
police chief said may result in
an arrest for the burglary.
The owner of the jewelry
commented he hadn’t missed
the watch because it didn't
work anyway.
Nichols to open
medical supplies,
equipment store
By KAREN A. WRIGHT
Citizen Editor
A new business which will open
in downtown Dublin Monday will
be closely aligned to one of the
area’s largest industries - health
care.
Community Care Services will
provide medical equipment and sup-
plies as well as items designed to
help the elderly or handicapped live
with as much dignity and indepen-
dence as possible.
Keith and Bobbie Nichols, who
also own three area nursing homes,
explain they would rather fill all the
needs of one customer than to
specialize to the extent that they fill
only one need of their customers.
CCS inventory Is targeted to
nursing homes, home health, hos-
pices, physicians, nurses, the
elderly, the handicapped and
A vacant lot on E. Myrtle St. will become the home of KLB Recycle Center this week. Shown are, left to
right, City Council members ‘Red’ Seigars and Melda Reed, Amanda Rasberry who is president of Kids
F.A.C.E., KLB owner Kathy Brewer and teacher Judy Warner with Kids F.A.C.E. Photo by Laura Kestner
S ' County vehicle policy debate stirs
ire of commissioner’s court again
supplies that relate to health
One of the items which the
Nichols expect to be in high
demand is adaptive clothing.
“This kind of specialty clothing
is rarely found in stores and even
catalogues are hard to find,” Mrs.
Nichols said. “These are items of
clothing that are designed to make it
easier for the elderly or liandicap-
ped to either dress themselves or be
See CCS page 8
The controversial issue of car
expenses for county officials flamed
tempers at the Erath County Com-
missioners Court meeting Monday,
morning and Is likely to do so again
before it is resolved.
County policy previously pro-
vided that employees either drive a
Kiri Moore and Jim Roberson prepare for opening day at CCS
No more piggy back for
Christmas street banners
county vehicle, be paid a pre-
determined monthly stipend to
cover car expenses or receive reim-
bursement for actual mileage - a
Area resident
receives fake
call for smoke
alarm check
t
Dublin Fire Chief James Fritts has
warned area residents about bogus
telephone calls from people who
say they represent the fire depart-
ment.
An elderly lady who lives alone
near Dublin reported she had recei-
ved a telephone call this week from
a young man who said he was
“with the fire department” ami
offered to conic to her home to test
her smoke detectors.
“We do not send people out to
check fire alarm systems or smoke
detectors,” Fritts said. “We don’t
know what this man’s intentions
were. He may have been trying to
gain access to the woman’s home or
he may be selling some kind of
equipment. But lie does not repre-
sent the Dublin Fire Department nor
the Stephenville Fire Department."
Fritts asked that anyone who
received such a call get as much
information as possible and then
contact Dublin City Hall at 445-
3331.
policy which County Auditor James
Eddy Young considers too loose.
Since Oct. I, Young has refused
to approve extra mileage to county
employees who arc on tlte monthly
stipend for gas expenses or had a
county vehicle, calling it “double
dipping” which lacked “accounta-
bility to the taxpayers.”
At an earlier meeting, Young
asked commissioners to tighten up
the policy and establish a committee
which would make recommenda-
tions to the commissioners on who
would have county vehicles. That
committee, appointed by County
Judge Bill Hailey, coaslsted of all
four commissioners, County Trea-
surer Donna Kelly and County
Attorney Beth Barber.
The committee recommended that
county vehicles be provided to all
four commissioners, the sheriffs
office, both constables, the juvenile
probation office and the sanitation
office. All other county officials
would be reimbursed for actual
See COUNTY page 10
Brewer to begin
taking recyclable
material Saturday
at Myrtle location
By LAURA KESTNER
Contributing Writer
Like many aspiring entrepreneurs,
Kathy Brewer saw a need and is
attempting to fulfill it.
Operating under the name “KLB
Recycle Center,” Mrs. Brewer will
open the first recycling center in
Dublin this weekend.
“The center will be located at
732 E. Myrtle,” Mrs. Brewer says,
“and we officially open Saturday,
Dec. 3. We may not have every-
thing completely set up before
Monday but we will be ready to
take recyclable materials Saturday.”
A relative newcomer to Dublin,
Mrs. Brewer says that most people
she’s spoken with see a need for a
recycling center. But when she first
expressed a desire to open one, she
met with what she described as
complete indifference.
"When I first discussed what 1
wanted to do, there was a lot of
apathy,” she says. “I heard a lot of
‘I hope you can do it,’ but not, ‘I’ll
help you do it.”’
Mrs. Brewer says two people
have supported the idea all along -
Dublin City Council members
See RECYCLE page 12
Dublin man being
sought in connection
with murder
The Erath County Sheriffs
Office Wednesday night issued
an all points bulletin for a
Dublin man who is being
sought for questioning in con-
nection with the murder of a
young Stephenville woman.
The woman's body was
found in a mobile home on
Lower Granbury Road late
Wednesday afternoon.
Neither the name of the
victim nor that of the Dublin
man had been released at
prcsstime.
The Dublin
Citizen
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Wright, Karen. The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1994, newspaper, December 1, 1994; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth761764/m1/1/?q=kitchen: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.