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The Dublin
WE’VE MOVED!
Our address is now 111 S. Patrick,
(across the street from Bradberry Mini Mall)
12/31/03 i .
SOUTHWEST MICRO PUBLISHING
2627 EAST YaNDELI DRIVE
500
Volume 12, No. 22
Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002
TURNING
BACK
THE
PAGES
By Laura
Kestner
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 1, 1952
The Dublin 4-H Club met for
a demonstration on hemming
dresses. Attending were Helen
Brown, Shirley Brown, Glenda
Gilbreath, Virginia Harwick, E.
Kuehler, Jean Lloyd, Phyllis
Matthews, Minnie McClain,
Zelda Mills, Collene Nichols,
Dortha Steele and Alma Thack-
erson.
The Tuesday Bridge Club met
in the home of Mrs. Dick
Harbin with 10 members and
two visitors (Mrs. Charlie Ben
Bradberry and Mrs. Nathan Sie-
gel) present. Mrs. Charles Foust
won high score and Mrs. Lee
White won the bingo prize.
Martha Keller, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Keller
of Dublin, graduated from the
University of Texas with a
bachelor's degree in music.
Paul W. Fisher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Fisher of Dublin,
graduated from the University
of Texas with a bachelor's of
science in civil engineering.
Both Miss Keller arid Fisher
were graduates of Dublin High
School and attended Tarleton.
_____Ihe West Dublin Ranch
Wives Club met in the home of
Mrs. R.D. Whitfield. There
were nine members and one
visitor present. New president,
Mrs. Andy Brown, called the
meeting to order and Mrs. New-
ell Alexander called roll.
The Walter Hamilton Grocery
Store was offering these spe-
cials: catfish fillets, 53 cents per
pound; apples, nine cents per
pound; bulk sausage, 25 cents
per pound; pork roast, 49 cents
per pound; grapes, 10 cents per
pound; Pine Sol cleanser, 49
cents per pint; large box Fab,
29 cents; two containers Ajax,
23 cents, and four rolls toilet
paper, 37 cents.
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1952
Jan Jones was selected as the
Outstanding Conservation
Homemaker for the Upper Leon
Soil and Water Conservation
District award program. Mrs.
Jones, the wife of Lane Jones
and the mother of four children,
Teresa, Rebecca, Nickey and
Lance, was selected for the
honor based on her community
and farm family activities.
The De Leon Bear Kittens
basketball team managed to
hold the DHS girls with an
"almost" game-long stall until
the fourth quarter when Dub-
lin's Coach Jaggers , sent in
Johnna King and her "long
range artillery." Miss King im-
mediately broke the game wide
open and the Lady Lions ran
away with it 40 to 23. Dublin's
Melinda Baker was high scorer
with 20 points, followed by
King with 12 points. Other
players mentioned for their con-
tributions to the win were Kelly
Blanton, Karen Thiebaud and
Pam Blanton.
The Hannah Sunday School
class of the First Baptist Church
met for a business meeting and
social. The opening prayer was
led by Grace Munselle. Mrs.
Ellie Self, class president, led a
Bible quiz and read a poem.
Mrs. Antha Howell chose Luke
14 for her devotional. Host-
esses were Mrs. Thelma Ellis,
Mrs. Howell and Mrs. Reba
Buchanan. Others attending
were Mrs. Ora Clanton, Mrs.
Betty Adams, Mrs. Willie
Gandy, Mrs. Effie Hall, Mrs.
Ollie Farris and Mrs. J.T.
Shirey.
The Dublin Historical Society
board of directors met at the
Lyon Museum with Mrs. Ben
See TURNING page 2
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A crowd of almost 70 people attended last week's Texas Department of Transportation public
meeting to get a look at the revised maps, for the Highway 67/377 relief route. Most
responses were positive but some were not.
Chamber banquet set for Monday
The Dublin Chamber of Com-
merce will honor outstanding
local businesses at its annual
banquet at 7 p.m. Monday at
the high school cafetorium.
Awards will be presented for
Faith in the Future of Dublin,
most improved business, friend-
liest business, best new business
and best agriculture business.
A special award will be pre-
sented to a community member
whose volunteerism has ben-
efited Dublin.
This year's theme is "Ameri-
can Pride" which will be dis-
played through table decora-
tions.
Businesses will compete for
the honor of best decorated
table in keeping with the ban
quet theme.
Speaker Pat Lcatherwood will
give a video presentation on his
trip to Ground Zero in New
York as a member of a 10-
person support team working
out of the Billy Graham Prayer
Center.
Tony Rodriquez, who just
returned from military duty in
the Middle East, will be a
special guest.
Banquet attendees will dine
on ribeye steaks prepared by
Willard Mann and served by the
Dublin High School choir mem-
bers who will also provide
Recent dry period officially
becomes ‘drought of record’
entertainment for the evening.
The chamber will induct new
officers and directors. President
Liz Albrecht will serve through
2004.
Other officers are Gary Wal-
drep, vice president; Rhonda
Keilers, secretary, and Terry
Miller, treasurer.
Directors are Peggy Evcragc,
Laura Hutchins, Steve Jenkins,
Willard Mann, Jill Moore, Bill
Campbell, David Zinck and
Johnny Jurado.
Tickets are $12.50 each and
include a chance to win $250 in
Dublin Dollars.
Tickets will be available at
the door, but advance notice is
appieciated, especially for large
groups.
For tickets or more informa-
tion, contact the chamber, 445-
3422.
Revised relief route maps
draw mixed reviews from
business, land owners
By KAREN WRIGHT
Citizen Editor
The revised maps of the pro-
posed $19 million Highway 67/
377 relief route which were
unveiled in a public meeting
Thursday night drew approval
from some and ire frorn others.
Approval came from the
people whose primary concern
is reduction of truck traffic
through downtown. Ire came
from landowners whose prop-
erty will be "negatively im-
pacted” by the project.
Project manager Marcelinc
Newman of Dannenbaum Engi-
neering Corp. of Fort Worth,
pointed out the “significant
changes” which have been
made in the project maps as a
result of input at the last public
meeting in May. *
The revised route apparently
will not require removal of any
residences and probably not any
out-buildings although several
fences will be moved. The
previous maps indicated that at
least a dozen residences would
have been impacted to some
degree.
The number of affected
houses was reduced on the
south end of the project when
the connection was moved from
the west to the east side. The
move will also eliminate the
need to move a water line.
The 4.5 mile relief route will
have four points of entry: one
each on the south and north
ends of 67/377, one at FM 219
and one at Highway 6. A left
turn lane will be at each cross-
over.
One local business owner
who said he previously was in
favor of the relief route said he
had changed his mind because
there are no access or frontage
roads and only two points of
entry other than the north and
south ends of the project.
TxDOT project manager Bud-
die Laseter said bids could be
let in August 2003 “if every-
thing goes according to plan
which is possible but not prob-
able.”
Ms. Newman predicted con-
struction would take 18 months.
“That’s realistic because it’s a
new location,” she said. “We
won’t have to move traffic
around the project."
TxDOT district engineer
Marc McEndree explained the
development process which will
begin with the purchase of right
of way.
“We pay market value, which
will be determined by a li-
censed appraiser. If we don’t
agree on a price, the landowner
can appeal. If we still can’t
settle on a price, it goes to
court,” he said.
Ms. Newman added that the
acquisition cost paid to the
landowner includes repair of
damages done to the remaining
property.
“We look at the ‘cost to cure’
what problem might be created
by the highway,” she said.
“You will be compensated for
that as well.”
The plans were presented by
TxDOT and Dannenbaum to an
audience of about 70 people
Thursday night. The public
meeting was one in a series
which began three years ago.
The maps are available for
viewing at the district TxDOT
office, 2281 E. Washington,
Stephenville.
The dry period from June
1998 through October 2000 has
been identified as the "drought
of record" for the Lake Proctor
watershed.
That period replaces the one
from August 1950 to December
1952 as the worst drought on
record. •
The announcement came
from the Brazos River Author-
ity this week, following release
of a Freese and Nichols Engi-
neering report which measured
the "firm yield" of the lake’s
watershed.
"Firm yield" refers to the
amount of water that can be
assumed to be available, even
during the driest period on
record.
The report indicates that the
City, economic
development
leaders slate
public meetings
The City of Dublin and the
Dublin Economic Development
Corporation, in separate meet-
ings next month, will seek input
from local residents on their
vision for the community’s fu-
ture.
The city’s meeting is set for 7
p.m. Feb. 7 in council chambers
at city hall. It is designed to
gather information for the de-
velopment of a comprehensive
plan which targets housing,
streets, drainage, the central
business district, water, land
use, sewer, thoroughfares, parks
and recreation, economic devel-
opment and capital improve-
ments.
Karen Kibbe of Raymond K.
Vann and Associates will con-
duct the meeting. Mrs. Kibbe
has written several successful
grant applications for the City
of Dublin including the two
Texas Department of Transpor-
tation grants for development of
a pedestrian walkway and reno-
vation of the grist mill.
The meeting is open to the
public. City Manager Brian
Boudreaux said community
See PLANNING page 7
recent drought was much more
severe in regards to available
water than the previous drought
of record, according to Gary
Lacy of the Upper Leon River
Municipal Water District.
Gyale Pirkle, ULRMWD
board president, said the pre-
liminary indication by the BRA
is that the firm yield may be
reduced as much as 31.4 per-
cent.
Mr. Pirkle said no final agree-
ments have been reached re-
garding cither the possibility of
a raw water supply reduction
and that further meetings with
the BRA and other officials will
be needed. He added, however,
that the district's ability to fur-
nish its customers has not been
diminished.
The ULRMWD provides wa-
ter for Dublin, Comanche, Dc
Leon, Gorman and Hamilton. It
also provides water directly to
about 650 rural customers in
Comanche and Erath counties.
Monte Thiebaud, senior vice
president of Dublin National
Bank, has been named in-
terim president following the
resignation of Joe Thompson.
Mr. Thiebaud, a graduate of
Dublin High School and Tar-
leton State University, has
been in the banking industry
since 1980 when he joined
Dublin National Bank. He
also served as vice president
of First National Bank for 11
years, returning to DNB in
1996 as cashier and senior
vice president.
Life's crossroads led to Dublin
Another in a series of
“get acquainted" features
By LAURA KESTNER
Contributing Writer
Tom and Judy Gordon are
familiar faces in Dublin. They
arc relative newcomers, having
arrived here in December 2000,
but they've become so im-
mersed in Dublin life that many
people assume they've been
here forever.
They arc members of the
Lions Club, Rotary Club, PAR
Country Club and have become
driving forces in the Keep Dub-
lin Beautiful campaign. Who
arc they? How did they get so
involved so fast and why did
they come to Dublin?
"I'm originally from Fort
Worth and my husband is from
Irving," Mrs. Gordon says. "We
met at Delta Airlines, where we
both worked. Tom worked in
customer service and I was a
stewardess and we began dat-
ing.
"During the Vietnam War,
Tom was drafted and decided
he wanted to be in the Air
Force. He became a medic and
served four years. Back then,
the airline wouldn't let you be a
stewardess if you were married,
so I quit my job and we were
wed before he left.
"I stayed with my dad in
River Oaks while Tom was
gone. We had our first daugh-
ter, Hollie, by then."
After Tom returned, things
settled down again. Mr. Gor-
don went back to work at Delta
and the couple bought a house
in Bedford.
"But we had always wanted
to live 'out' so we eventually
built a house in the country
near Roanoke. We lived there
for 10 years," Mrs. Gordon
says."
By this time, daughter Susan
had joined the Gordon family.
Hollie is now Mrs. Kevin Gar-
rett of Watauga and Susan is
Mrs. Kerry DiCiccio of Dublin.
"In 1975 I took a part-time
job at Colonial Country Club, a
Newcomers Judy and Tom Gordon
stop on the PGA tour," Mrs.
Gordon says. "I went full-time
as tournament secretary in
1982."
In addition to getting to work
at "a really wonderful job",
tournament scheduling allowed
Mrs. Gordon to spend summers
with her daughters. She also got
to spend some quality time with
Hollic’s two sons, Clayton and
Stephan.
Eventually, the children were
grown and gone, the grandsons
were growing, and the Gordons
found themselves at a cross-
roads in their lives. A new
granddaughter helped decide
their direction and destination.
"Susan had graduated from
Tarleton and was teaching
fourth grade here in Dublin,"
Mrs. Gordon says. ."She and
her husband had a darling little
girl, Morgan. We'd built another
house in Keller and had lived in
it for 13 years. We decided to
sell it. At that point, we weren't
sure where we would go when
it sold. Tom and I had looked
for land in this area, because we
figured some day we would
head in this direction, but we
had not really been able to find
exactly what we wanted. Tom
was retired, but I was still
working for Colonial, so we
looked at other options in that
general vicinity."
Eventually, the lure of retir
ing to "small town" life and
"full-time" grandparenting, was
simply too strong.
"We got to spend so much
time with our grandsons when
they were little (they're now 12
and 16) and we wanted to
spend time with Morgan while
she is young," Mrs. Gordon
says. "That was really important
to me."
The Gordons decided to "wait
and sec what happens." When
the house sold fairly quickly,
they had to'decide where to go.
"We were sitting at the sup-
per table one evening and we
decided, ’Let's just move to
Dublin.'"
With their hardest decision
made, the Gordons had one
pesky little problem remaining
-- where to live when they got
here.
On earticr trips to this area
they had noticed a brick house
on Patrick Street (the site of the
old Long's Sporting Goods
Store) and recalled that it had
been for sale.
"We called our realtor and
See GORDONS at page 7
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