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Volume 14, No. 39
Turning
Back
The Pages
By
Sandra
Thomas
75 YEARS AGO
JUNE 7,1929
More baseball games were held
between the Hereford Herders and
the Sheep Men. Playing for the
Hereford Herders was: Horace
Morrison, L.R. Keller, Jewell
Humphries, J.S. Little, L.D. Ray,
J.L. Humphries, Boss Williams,
Boss Whisenant, Bud Bennett,
W.F. Thiebaud, Hubert Ross, Geo.
Hood, Philip Keith, Howard Keith,
H.E. Thiebaud, and Walter
Rippetoe.
Former Progress editor J.S.
Daley died in California.
Mrs. George Wray entertained
the Thursday Bridge Club. Guests
present were Mrs. W.H. Neel, Mrs.
H.E. Fisher, Mrs. A.M. Moore, and
Mrs. Ray O’Connell.
The Dublin School of Music
gave its closing recital under the
direction of J.C. Robbins. Playing
were Dorothy Muse, Mable Smith,
Billie Dawkins, Aleen
Shillingburg, Charles Mary
Davidson, Helen Browning,
Martha Davidson, Frances Wright,
Dorothy Little, Mrs. R.L. Coble,
Tom Joyce Easley, Lillian Trice,
Frank Edmonds, Ruth Harding and
Margaret Little.
D.R. Franks and William
McNeill, accompanied by H.C.
Smith and T.S. Sullenberger, made
a short trip to Abilene for the
purpose of viewing the new Victor
Radio produced by the Victor
Talking Machine Company.
50 YEARS AGO
JUNE 4,1954
Henry Turney ,Bill Heizer, D.C.
Lamer, Jim Bridges Clyde Wells,
Fred Mika, Carl Spencer, L.F.
Stewart made their annual fishing
trip to the San Saba river.
Mrs. Lamer, Mrs. Joe Reid,
Mrs. Turney and Mrs. Stewart took
their sons to the camping grounds
for a visit.
Thomas R. Rogers, son of Mr.
& Mrs. Ralph Rogers received his
master's degree from the
University of Texas.
Joe Jackson was employed as
the new lifeguard and swimming
instructior for the new city pool.
Nineteen students of Froh Piano
Studio received national honors
during a recital in the First
Christian Church in Dublin.
Students were Paula Bell, Sue
Brown, Roger Edmonds, Paula
Gray,
Julianne Hazelwood, Rosemary
Heffley, Luine Heizer, Roselene
Jones, Lydia Kiker, Ann Lueke,
Celia Ann Logan, Judith Martin,
Martha Moss, Deborah Pruett,
Janiee Reed, Tyre Self, Patsy
Tatum, Patricia Underwood and
Mackie Wright.
Pictured in the "Men in
Service," were Kenneth Herbert,
son of Mr. & Mrs. Preston Herbert
25 YEARS AGO
MAY 31,1979
A ribbon cutting was held for
the new Mobil Service Center
located at 304 East Blackjack.
Owners were George Fludson, Don
Hudson and Alvin Reeves.
Attending the ceremony was
Chamber manager, Bill Grimes,
Mrs. Fletcher, Page Harrell, Terry
Fann, Teresa Tate, Vickie Durham,
Mayor Leslie Billingsley and City
Administrator Fred Johnson.
Harry Bradberry's new
warehouse at Farmers Feed Store
was completed. The building was
to be used to house fertilizer and
feed.
The Golden Butterfly Jewelers
hosted a party for the 1979
graduating seniors. Photographed
at the party were Pam Crabtree,
hostess, Jack Massarello, Leigh
Denard and Kelly Greer.
A Green Thumb Training
Session was held at the Dublin
Senior Citizens Center under the
direction of Ellen McCormick,
Dublin Site Manager and Fred
Johnson, City Administrator.
David Cleveland and Everett
Hightower were downtown selling
brooms for Dublin Lions Club
annual broom sale.
Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, May 27, 2004
GRADUATION MUSIC - The Paradigm Accelerated School instrumental ensemble played a
rendition of "Why Not Faith" during PAC graduation exercises Friday night at Dublin Middle School
auditorium. Keynoted speaker at the 4th annual Charter School graduation ceremony was Mrs. Gail
Lowe, member of the Texas State Board of Education. Remarks were made by Valedictorian Debbie
Dial of Gustine and Salutatorian Nicole Morganstean of DeLeon. The graduating class was the largest
to date. There were 17 who graduated last year and 27 this year. Pre-enrollment interest indicates PAC
will again experience a waiting list for area students who want to enroll in the school.
EDC planning Industrial Park
By MAC B. McKINNON
Citizen Publisher
The Dublin Economic
Development Corporation is
gearing up to work on an
industrial park with a proposed
new budget for next year that
includes $100,000 for property
acquisition and $50,000 for
planning and development.
Meetings on a proposed site
for the park have been held for
months but nothing concrete has
yet developed although the EDC
members feel strongly that an
industrial park is needed to
attract new business and
industry to Dublin.
Monday nights meeting was
the first time the EDC board had
seen the proposed budget and
they will be working on it for the
next several months before it is
presented to the Dublin C ity
Council for final approval.
Another budget item that is a
continuation of efforts this year
is $10,000 for renovation of
homes to help local home
owners. Thus far this year, the
EDC has given out almost
$8,000 in grants to help improve
local homes.
In addition, $10,000 is in the
budget again this coming year to
offer incentives for new home
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construction. That has been
offered this past year and
reportedly several homes are in
the works but none of the grant
has yet been claimed. The City
of Dublin is also offering
incentives for new homes
including waiving building fees
and water and sewer tap fees.
Another item proposed by
EDC Executive Director Sandy
Reed is $20,000 to somehow
help find vacant lots and procure
them to help those who are
seeking a site to build a new
home. This proposal would have
to be fine tuned, several board
members noted, in order to
utilize realtors and not be in
conflict.
Another item in the budget
that gets additional funds
$5,000 is what is known as
Town Center Improvement
District Grants to make the
downtown more attractive in
order to attract people
downtown after a loop is built.
That loop is still years off but
work needs to be done now to
prepare for it and keep people
coming to the business district.
That program had been
known as the Facade Grant
program to improve the looks of
outside of businesses. In
addition, there are line items for
$10,000 for job training,
$15,000 for community
improvement grants and
marketing/promotion is being
increased by $500 to $4,000.
One item is to help the sehool
with business education by
paying $4,500 for a stock market
game for an entrepreneur class.
There was not a quorum
present for the meeting Monday
night so no action could be taken
on any item but those present did
hear from artist Judith Riola on a
proposed mural for the EDC's
part of the city's 150th birthday.
She is looking for a wall and
several were proposed to place a
mural with the old downtown in
the background with rodeo
promoters Gene Autry and
Everett Colburn in the
foreground.
Other items that were on the
agenda but will be delayed until
next month included
development of an EDC web
page, a new' business start-up
grant, a program to emphasize
shopping at home.
The board was also looking at
a proposal to help solve truck
parking problems in the
community.
Help sought in
dairy legal fight
By MAC B. McKINNON
Citizen Publisher
Area groups are banding
together to come up with form
letters that can be sent to elected
officials to put a stop to a suit
against them by the city of
Waco.
It is being called a totally
unfair situation as Waco is going
outside state guidelines and
controls in their suit against
eight local dairies, making
allegations of contributing to
water quality problems in the
Bosque River that supplies Lake
Waco and Waco's water supply.
Tricounty Agri-Business
Executive Director July Danley
reported to the Dublin
Economic Development
Corporation Monday night that
each dairy has a lawyer and the
Texas Association of Dairies has
a legal staff to work on the
overall problem. The Dair Co-
Op is considering taking funds
from milk allowance to use in
the legal fight.
A legal defense fund has also
been established locally at
Cheatam & Lansford, SPA.,
Graduation set
for tomorrow
Dublin and Lingleville
seniors will officially end their
high school days tomorrow
night when they march across a
stage area to receive their
diplomas.
Lingleville will have their
graduation at 7 p.m. tomorrow
in the new high school gym with
Valedictorian Mariclle Gaston
and Salutatorian Michael
Winsett to make remarks.
In Dublin, graduation and
presentation of scholarships will
begin in the High School gym at
8 p.m. with Valedictorian K'rin
Nabors and Salutatorian Coby
Kestner to address the crowd.
The Project Graduation all-
night party will follow the
Dublin graduation exercises.
Box 936, Stephenv i lie. TX
76401. A number of fund
raisers are also being planned,
one at Bramlett Implement this
Saturday.
Each of the dairies have to
pay their lawyer but taxpayers
are footing the bill in Waco and
they only have to have one
lawyer. Even il the dairies win
the lawsuit, they can't recover
their legal costs, Danley nbted.
She noted that change of
venue is being south, from Waco
to Fort Worth as Erath County is
in the Fort Worth division of
federal court.
There are two federal issues
involved and five state issues,
Danley noted. However, all
dairies are in compliance. Any
infractions that have occurred
have been minor and the suit
alleges violations that are not
true, she said.
The actual amount of
phosphorous has actually gone
See DAIRY page 10 Aas
Swimming pool
to open Tuesday
Dublin's swimming pool will
open Tuesday and will be open
until the Friday before school
starts on Aug. 13
Hours are noon to 5:30 p.m.
Monday through Saturday and
I -5 p.m. on Sunday.
Parties can be arranged
Monday through Saturday for
$70 for two hours , 6-8 p.m. and
$1 per swimmer after 40.
The charge for swimmers is
$2 per day or season passes can
be obtained, $85 for a family up
to five people or $40 per chile.
Offices closed
Memorial Day
The Dublin Citizen along
with most other offices, will be
closed Monday, Memorial Day.
Regular office hours will
resume Tuesday at 8 a.m. for the
Citizen and regular times for
other businesses.
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MAJESTIC THEATRE - The Majestic Theatre located in
Downtown Dublin was frequently a source of entertainment for the
city's youth.
By CHARLOTTE STOCKTON
Special to the Citizen
Attention classmates of 1944.
Maybe you recall - Most
Popular Girl - Norma Farley;
Most Beautiful Girl - Gene
Thomas; Most Popular Boy
Sid Cathey; Most Handsome
Boy - Boyd Benton; Class
Sponsors - Miss Opal
McCleskey, Mrs. Inez
Robinson. Class Officers
President - W. M. Peacock,
Vice President - Boyd Benton,
Secretary - Norma Farley,
Treasurer - Claris Jack Gamer.
Baccalaureate - May 21, 1944
Methodist Church.
Commencement - May 26,
1944 Baptist Church.
Our 60 year reunion - 1944-
2004. Could there be a mistake
in our calendar?
Most of us were bom at home
rather than a hospital. Yes!
Doctors made house calls in
those days.
Our early childhood was in
the midst of the “Great
Depressions” - we were so
young we didn't think it was
“great” and we didn't have a
clue as to what “depression”
meant.
I do recall my mom feeding
Tramp at the door.
Dublin was a quiet, small
town with a population under
3,000.
Doors were left unlocked
times were safe and secure.
Dublin had a real five and
dime store. Bibby's really sold
items for five and ten cents.
Big department stores were:
Novits, Baxters,
Higginbothams, and Eewels.
There were many small
businesses - too numerous to
mention.
Drugstores, w here yOu could
buy 5 cent ice cream cones
were - Frank's City Drug,
Lander's Corner Drug, and
Sneed's Dublin Drug.
There were small cafes
where one could buy a greasy
grilled hamburger for five cents
or six for twenty-five cents.
The Dr. Pepper plant, though
in its infancy, was in its prime,
using real sugar in its recipe as
it does today.
Ice found its way door to
door. All the homeowner had to
do was display a cardboard sign
in the window indicating 5-10-
25 lbs.
Though Dublin is currently
known for its Dairy Industry, in
our day milk was delivered by
the Hughes and Wright's
Dairies.
If you recall - as 1 was
reminded - our first school
years were definitely elevated
education' for we started school
in 1st and 2nd grade in the
basement of the high school.
School seemed to be such a
gigantic place - or at least 1
thought so. Teachers were
giants - remember how tall R.S.
Vestal was? Then Merlon L.
McDonald, Sam Wolfe, Roy
Lindley, Flash Walker, Mike
Murphy, and Ray Walker - they
were all large as life; strong-
authoritative figures as the
teachers were in the same mode
- Miss Opal McCleskey, Miss
O'Brien, Grace Short, Annie
Lynn Leatherwood, Mrs,
Turney, Ruby Wyatt, Effie Hall,
and many, many others.
A real fun trip in our youth
was an afternoon at the Majestic
Theatre in Downtown Dublin.
For the whole sum of ten cents
one could thrill to a movie and
for five cents enjoy a sack of
popcorn.
Real thrillers were the
Saturday serials. We just
thought Buck Rogers was “out
of this world.” With today's
astronauts, traveling to outer
space is the norm and walking
on the moon - what a deal!
Zorro, Mandrake and Rin Tin
Tin were all great to follow.
Gene Autry, Roy Rogers,
Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy
made us all real cowboys long
before the Dallas Cowboys
arrived as America's team.
Riding stick horses and
shooting rubber guns - I
remember it well.
Our Gang Comedies were
fun - along with Laurel and
Hardy, Betty Boop, Mickey and
Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck,
and all the Walt Disney
characters - long before the
Walt Disney them parks - what
fantasies we had!
Shirley Temple was the
darling of the movies - what
dimples, what curls?!
Jokes today still run rampant
- Aggie jokes still so popular,
but in our day it was Little
Moron and Knock Knock jokes.
Our version of “Saturday
Night Live” was people-
watching visiting in cars
downtown. A former
classmate. Charline Warren
reminded me - a neighbor used
to leave a car in downtown
Dublin on Saturday morning
and go back at night for his
good vantage point.
That was entertainment of
the 40's!
Businesses stayed open late
on Saturdays - till about 8 p.m.
Halloween events B.T.Y. -
Before Trick or Treat - were
great. Dublin businesses
opened their doors for booths,
games ancj/ food culminating
in the crowning of the Queen
and King of the Halloween
Carnival. Mary Jo Lane was
queen and Sid Cathey was king
our Junior year.
Before Sesame Street, Big
Bird, Cookie Monster, Mr.
Rogers, and Barney our
childhoods were full of play:
Catching lightning hugs, roller
skating, jump rope, hopscotch,
play ing jacks, shooting marbles,
spinning tops, hide and seek,
kick the can, redrover, tag
football, drop the handkerchief,
Hying dutchman, walking on tin
can stilts, and talking on tin can
phones.
Billie Ruth Gee reminded me
of Piggie wants a Signal.
Everett Colborn and the
Lightning C Ranch jeally put
Dublin on the map. Dublin was
really the "Home of the World
Championship Rodeo", liven
Gene Autry came to town for a
visit.
Football was at its peak in the
40's.
I remember R.S. Vestal
challenging the Dublin Lions in
an assembly program. He
wanted Dublin to beat
Comanche and with a big score.
A higher score than one when
he first came to the Dublin
School System.
Reluctantly, he must have
thought this was impossible, but
with Sid Cathey as the captain,
the score started to climb and
Sid rejected substitutes that the
coach sent in. Needless to say,
we beat Comanche by a larger
score than one projected. Do
am of you remember the score?
No I don't remember
someone putting a bird in Miss
McCleksey's desk drawer, but
Olenda Pryor does.
Our Junior play was entitled
"Mystery at World's Find".
Leading roles were played by
Cal Stockton and Mary Jo Lane.
Senior play was "Mother-in-
law Blues” starring Cal
Stockton and Gene Thomas.
For the complete cast of capable
actors check your memory
book. There w ere lots of'w ould
be' academy award performers.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was
the occupant of the White
House and Henry Wallace was
Vice President.
World War II surely had an
impact on the most important
times of our lives.
It took some students off to
war before graduation.
The paper shortage of war
time kept us from having a year
book for our senior as well as
our junior year.
Popular slogans were: Kilroy
was here, Looselips sink ships.
Lucky Strike Greens, and Have
gone to war.
Betty Grable was the
See MEMORIES on page 8B
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