The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 2009 Page: 2 of 20
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Sec. A, Page 2
The Dublin Citizen
Thursday, April 2, 2009
An Editorial
Kudos to the FBI and TV
Television news is not often viewed by this newspaper as doing
anything worthwhile but there are exceptions.
And one of those exceptions occurred this past week when ABC-TV
showed a number of stings by the FBI on public officials taking bribes.
The context of the expose involved the need for the government to be
very vigilant with all the money that will be flowing out of thegovemment
due to stimulus bills passed by Congress.
This temptation is made even worse by the abundance of drug money
that is evidenced with the problems going on in Mexico in the war between
drug lords.
Public officials - including those in law enforcement - who have been
caught taking bribes. should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
and actually, there should be special punishment for public servants
convicted of being dishonest. V
They have entered the public arena to serve and they should be held to
a higher level of accountability.
We applaud the FBI for the success of these operations and TV for
showing them. We all need to keep a careful vigil.
Mac B. McKinnon
Citizen Publisher
Another Editorial
Public safety requires
a reverse 9-1-1
The situation last week in Mississippi where sirens were used to warn
of an approaching tornado serves to warn the sirens alone are not
adequate.
This newspaper has promoted the use of what is known as a reverse
9-1-1 system such as is in use in many other cities and counties and it has
been considered by the Dublin City Council but has been shelved in favor
of sirens.
Those sirens simply didn’t wake those who were asleep in the wee
horns of that morning. The reverse 9-1-1 system would have rang the
telephones - including cell phones - of everyone.
Sirens only served the people in that small town and not those out of the
town although those in town did not hear it according to reports.
While no system is perfect, the use of a reverse 9-1-1 system county-
wide would be the best in event of an approaching tornado and that kind
of system could also be used to warn of missing or abducted children and''
or chemical spills or other dangerous situations.
The system can be used for any given part of the county and give an
alert for any situation the public needs to know about. Please contact our
city and county personnel and urge that this system be given full
consideration.
Mac B. McKinnon
F.ditor & Publisher
Op inland
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an Event Calendar
for Dublin and its surrounding communities
Thursday. April 2
Middle Trinity Groundwater meeting
1 p.m.- City Hall
Lingleville School Board
7 p.m.- School Library
School Board Meeting
7 p.m. - DHS
Vilimhrt. April 4
Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off
9 a.m. - Downtown Dublin
Town N' Country Quilt Guild
1- 3 p.m. - CitiBank Community Room
Ht iidav. April (
Chamber of Commerce
Noon - City Hall
History 101 Meeting
5:30 p.m. - Lyon Prim
Town Hall meeting
6:30 p.m.- City Park
Project Graduation
7:30 p.m. - DHS
Send Us Your Events
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STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
, By Ed Sterling
Texas Press Association
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone, particularly the
Dublin Masonic Lodge, for the award they gave me Saturday it was
deeply appreciated and 1 also want to thank those who had so many
kind words to say about me.
1 don’t really feel 1 deserve that award. I do the things that I do
because I enjoy doing those kinds of activities. It really helps to have
a good staff and friends to make me look good. And I appreciate all
that support.
' 1 ’here are so many other people who go above and beyond
any thing that 1 do and who deserved the recognition far more than 1
do. 1 enjoy giving recognition to people as there are so many great
people- in. onr community who do so much to make this a great
place.
But, 1 do want to say thanks for those who have expressed
app reciation for what I do and the many phone calls I’ve had as well
as good wishes from people I see on the street.
It was good to have members of my family here from out of town
including my daughter who came in from New York just for this
weekend. It was a special surprise arranged by my wife, Lea, who
als o deserves a lot of credit for being at my side.
I truly believe we are all family and this community believes in
taking care of its own. That’s a great thing about living here and I’ve
experienced that attitude in all other small towns where I’ve lived.
•' ITiere’s no place like home and contrary to the old saying, you can
come home. I did and I’m glad.
During the lifting of the bum ban. I've noticed that many land
owners have taken advantage of that time to bum brush that has been
cleared from the land. It appears many are wanting to use the land to
plant coastal Bermuda and there are other crops being planted as
well.
Ibis is basically all what you could call “new ground”, virgin dirt
or else dirt that has been had anything planted in it and grown there
other than wild grasses and weeds for years.
And you can bet this dirt will be very productive and many appear
to tie putting it to good use to grow hay that is really becoming a big
crop in this area. It takes a lot of hay to grow the number of cattle that
are now being produced as well as for dairies and the many horse
operation in our region. And that number continues to grow.
1' ve never seen the like of horses and so many people involves
with horse operations, using them for all kinds of purposes including
recreational, working cattle and working fences, all kinds of
competitive events and the list goes on and on.
I didn’t realize until I lived there that hay is the second biggest
crash crop in Colorado. The biggest is of course com and wheat is
right up there along with cattle and dairy. The ski industry is also
big.
But, back to may main subject and that is the use of new ground.
I’ve written often about my life in Roch between Proctor and
Corrtyn. In the 1950’s, my dad purchased about 70 acres across the
road from another 100 acres he had purchased where we raised
irrigated peanuts. That went along with more than 300 acres we
leased to raised beef cattle, hogs, truck crops (including watermelons
and cantaloupes), fruit, chickens and all other things that we had to
do in the 1950’s to make a living. That was in addition to our dairy.
C >n that new place he purchased was a forested plot of 10-15 acres
where I hunted. After a few years, he decided we need to clear the
woods and put it into cultivation.
1 ('you’ve ever cleared new ground of heavy woods and brush, you
know it can be a lot of work. A caterpillar comes in and pushes all
the trees and shrubs and piles it up to be burned and then root plows
to pull up all the stumps.
Then the real back breaking works gets started. We did it all
ourselves over the winter when there wasn’t any other crops to be
tend ed to.
A nd we used some of the wood for our stove and burned the rest
in piles. Then we had to collect all the stumps and roots, pulling some
that we could be hand and attaching others to the tractor.
Of course, you always find rocks and they had to be dealt with.
When we go through, there were always roots we didn't and you
would be plowing along when the plow would hang and break or the
tracsor would rear up. The first year or two, we planted peanuts -
they were irrigated - and did we ever make the peanuts. In all the
years of farming, it was the best crop my dad ever had.
Then we sprigged in coastal for grazing and baling and that was a
huge success as new ground can really produce.
It was a great experience and one that I think about every time I
see brush that gets pushed on a piece of land and piled up. Who is
going to go through and pick up the roots and stubs?
Thanks for reading.
(Me Kinnon can be contacted by e-mail, publisher@dublincitizen.com).
Budget-writing continues
for 2010-2011
Through the week of March 23-27, the House Appropriations
Committee and its various subcommittees toiled away at producing HB
1, a state budget for fiscal years 2010-2011. Hopes are that the budget bill
may reach the House floor for debate in mid-April.
Appropriations Committee Chair Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, on March
27 said, "We are faced with very difficult and uncertain times in our
economy. We have to make some difficult decisions."
Speaker Joe Straus said he's confident the narrowly divided 150-
member House, composed of 76 Republicans and 74 Democrats, can.
' together to pass a budget without the necessity of a special
session.
Despite the ponderous weight of passing a budget on House shoulders,
the lower chamber did manage to vote out the committee substitute to
Austin Rep. Dawnna Dukes' HB 873, a bill that recognizes Texas is
behind other states in offering film incentives.
Intended to create movie industry jobs in Texas, HB 873 lowers the
state grant threshold for a film or television program from a minimum of
$1 million in in-state spending to $250,000 and lowers the percent that
must be filmed in Texas from 80 percent to 60 percent.
Senate bills advance to House
The Texas Senate approved more than 60 bills during the week of
March 23-27 and sent them on to the House for consideration.
Here are a few of those bills, to be semtinized by House panels in the
coming weeks:
• SB 158 by Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, requiring a school district to
notify parents if a nurse is not assigned to a public school campus.
• SB 175 by Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, amending the "Top 10
Percent"
law governing the number of students who may automatically be
admitted to the University of Texas at Austin.
• SB 188 by Bob Deueil, R-Greenville, creating a hypodermic needle-
exchange program to reduce the spread of communicable diseases, such
as AIDS and hepatitis.
• SB 297 by Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, granting resident
tuition rates and fees at public institutions of higher education for
certain veterans and their spouses and children.
• SB 424 by Van de Putte, establishing and implementing school-
based flu vaccination programs.
• SB 503 by Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, requiring public notice of the name
of each finalist for the position of superintendent of a public school
district.
• SB 745 by Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, authorizing a state agency
to allow its employees to submit travel vouchers electronically.
• SB 476 by Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, .amending nurse staffing and
overtime rules.
• SB 506 by John Catena, R-Dallas, restricting operation and
movement of motorcycles during periods of traffic congestion.
• SB 572 by Shapiro, relating to transportation safety training
requirements for certain child-care providers.
• SB 730 by Glenn Hegar Jr., R-Katy, relating to an employee's
transportation and storage of firearms or ammunition while on certain
property owned or controlled by the employee's employer.
'Under God' remains in pledge
A Dallas federal judge on March 27 ruled the phrase "under God" in
the Texas Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional.
The court's decision rejected a lawsuit filed by a Dallas couple that
argued that the state pledge violated the First Amendment's Establishment
Clause. The Legislature added the
words to the state pledge in 2007.
SBOE alters science
language
The State Board of Education
on March 27 voted 13-2 to
change teacher manual language
said to cast doubt on the scientific
theory of evolution with the
assertion that the various schools
of thought have strengths and
weaknesses.
The new language promotes
the use of empirical evidence,
logical reasoning and
experimental and observational
testing, "including examining all
sides of scientific evidence of
those scientific explanations so
as to encourage critical thinking
by the students."
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appeared on TV's
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5 TXism "got
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6 lilmjobforTX
Tommy Lee Jones
7 TX Tanya's “Can
You Tonight"
8 TXism: 'crooked
....... dog's hind
lug"
9 Astro player
12 TXism: "cut me
i»ime____•
17, f irst non-smoking
airline, started
if: TX
19 r-obbery in the Gulf
>1 TX Phyllis George
v/as "Miss *
!2 TXism lor "similar"
(2wds.)
!3 TXism "braver
than a drunk ■_
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(How are you?)
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in Uvalde Co.
31 TXism:".......
of” (many)
!5 TX Rodney Crowell
wrote *__
Gain Control Again"
!6 TXism: "raise
(celebrate)
12 TXism: "dght as
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horse"
t4 TXism: "stubborn
as__’
16 pay attention to
17 "Idos" +
49 tune by.TX-bom
Tracy Lawrence
50 .this Zanuck signed
TX resident
Gene Tierney (init.)
51 Gen. Robert
52 TXns Autry &
Roddenberry
53 Denison-born
president "Ike" (init.)
TEXAS
CROSSWORD
54 TX Vikki Carr 89
bit: \ .._ Hombres*
55 TXism: "shoots
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phone" (risk taker)
57 TXism: "......... hog
had wings he'd be
an eagle"
58 TXism: *_ it
in the bud”
59 before Verizon,
it was this TX-
bdsed co.
DOWN
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with Col. Antonio
for land in TX
2 TXism: •___
on the half shell"
(armadillo)
3 TX Joplin's “Me and
Bobby McGee" was
posthumously
4 Pecos FM
9 a cow and a call
10 TXism: "hard as
. dodging .
11 TXism: "don't give
a hoot__
holler"
12 fashionable resort
13 TXism: "fits __
_on a fish"
14 ex-Mav Tarpley
played with _
Salonica in Greece
15 TXism "so broke
I-pay
attention"
16 Corpus Christi AM
18 Astro pitcher stat
20_ LoDigo Creek
23 this Irving wrote
songs lor TX
Ginger musicals
(init.)
24 TX singer Stuckey
25 biggest continent
26 _Springs, TX
27 Houston Bank
Plaza before Wells
Fargo
32 _. Vernon, TX
33 Lago, TX
34 dir to Bryan Irom
Waco
36 Das Fuhrer (init.)
37 TX George Strait s
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38 NIOSA: "Night
_San Antonio"
39 an acid
40 hit lor Tejano's Little
Joe "Las ■■■' "
41 Three Dog Night's
”_Coming"
43 computer ROM
45 ex-Cowboy RB
Emmitt (init.)
48 TXism: "sling it on
the wall and __
__sticks"
49 ex-Cowboy FB
Tommie
56 Batman garment
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