The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1989 Page: 1 of 8
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Juvenile ruling affects Erath County
By BEN TINSLEY
Contributing Writer
A recent decision by the court
of criminal appeals mandates dial
slate and local law enforcement
officiate alter thier procedures in
taking statements from juveniles.
Hie new ruling was generated
by die June 28 Court of Criminal
Appeals case of Comer vs. Texas,
in which Charges against 19 year-
old Bryan Comer — aneated in
1986 in Gregg County and char-
ged with murder and robbery of an
elderly couple — were reversed
and remanded.
The decision was made due to
the fact dial, in die court’s
opinion. Comer was “illegally
detained,” and his statement to the
police, taken while in detention,
“should have been suppressed.”
The ruling, which is already lis-
ted as part of die Team Family
Code although it has not been
uniformly enforced by Texas
officiate, states that a juvenile
must be taken before an officer
designated by the juvenile court or
to a juvenile detention facility be-
fore a statement may be taken
Ken Watson, criminal inves-
tigator for the county attorney's
office. Said standard procedure for
local law enforcement officiate
was to lake a juvenile crime
suspect to a magistrate, usually the
nearest justice of the peace, and
away from the presence of the ar-
resting officer.
With die recently instituted
policy, a qualified official, of
which there is only one in Erath
County - juvptile probation officer
Dale Warren - would have to be
the defen-
juvenile's
rights until that appointed official
was satisfied dial the suspect com-
pletely understood his or her rights
bylaw.
Although many Erath officiate
said that Warren is most likely to
be appointed, the juvenile proba-
tion officer is currently out of
town and unavailable for com-
ment
Erath County law officials have
expressed varying views on the
change ia policy
Watson feels that the change is
ftoeded.
"Juveniles are treated dtf-
ferendy for reasons of confession.
law.”
and in
rights before be gives a conies
Warren is canendy out of town,
no qppomunents caa be made, or
be takea, until bte
See 'Juveniles* Page 8
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TINSLEY
Dublin Librarian Carolyn
Holden says that people aren’t
checking out books from the
------- Dublin Public Library these days
as much as they have in the past.
They’re checking out
videotapes.
Or. to be more precise, she said
that the low ratio of books check-
ed out in comparison to video
tapes is alarming.
Two-to-one.
“I checked out 160 hooks last
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See *literacy * Page 8
Library offers entertainment
Dublin freezes
27 below zero
Frost
chills all
Erath
Contributing
Dublin and t
By KN TINSLEY
Contributing Writer
The Dublin Public Library, still
standing at 206 W. Blackjack as it
has for 38 years, now provides more
than literature for the reader's fancy
Having served as the local center
of reading since 1951, the library
now contains over 50 videotapes to
choose from, in addition to its stock
of 10,000 books.
Librarian Carolyn Holden. 56,
assumed her position with the library
in 1975 and is the only paid
employee
Assisting her are Mrs. Merle Han-
cock, Ms. Melody Wilcox, Mrs.
Mary Cockrell, and Mrs. Margaret
Reese, all volunteers working one
dpy a week each to keep the library
open Monday through Friday.
The two room building, which the
library occupies one room of, whs
originaly built in the I930’s.
The section of the building that the
library currently occupies was
originally an open air porch first us-
ed by the Dublin Girl Scouts, and
then the Dublin Boy Scouts.
The open air space was also used
by the now-disbanded city band, and
for social functions, Holden said.
Eventually, the porch was walled
in, and in 1966 an extra room was
added to the porch to provide more
space, Holden said.
The Boy Scouts shared the
building with Dublin’s first library
staff.
“When the library began in
1951,’’ Holden said, “it was by 15
ladies who decided that Efciblin need-
ed a library.”
All on a volunteer basis and
assisted by their husbands, the ladies
kept the library open two days a
week until 1980, when the current
five-day-a-week policy began.
Dublin’s first volunteer head
l.brarian was Mrs. Atys Edmonds,
Holden said, and she was one of the
first 15 ladies to establish the library.
Her successor was Mrs. Frances
Clay, also one of the original 15.
“She (Gay] was die librarian
when! began. I came to the library
in 1975 on a full-time basis. She
[Gay] went on a trip — she was a
retired school teacher — and she
went on trip for the summer.'’
“I took [charge of] the library an
her place. And I just stayed here,”
she said, laughing. “It just kind of
evolved.”
In 1981, when the library opened
on a daily basis. Holden began to get
paid for her work by die Dublin
Library Board — a nine-member
board consisting of members such as
Dublin Mayor Jim Leatherwood and
City Attoumey Jim Mulloy
“We have grown so much since
we’ve been open every day,” she
said. “We’ve nearly doubled the
annum of books that we’ve had
since we opened.”
When die library was open two
days a week, readership was limited.
At that rime, the volunteers started
campaigning to attract potential
readers to the library.
“We put all the Dublin
newspapers on Microfilm,” she
said, “and now we have two
microfilm readers [a Du Kane Cen-
sus Reader and a Bell A Howell
Reader/Printer], we have a [Minolta]
Rain Paper Copier, our reader file
is kept up to date and we try very
hard to keep all or most of the best-
selling books on our shelves.”
The newspapers were originally
transferred to microfilm by The
Southwest Collections. a museum at
Texas Tech University collecting
various histories, memorabelia and
oral histories. The museum pro-
vided microfilm of 70 yean worth
of newspapers fra- the library in
return for its own microfilm copy of
die hundreds of papers, beginning in
the 1800’s and stopping at 1970.
Equipment such as the library's
Bell A Howell Printer was purchas-
er 'Library ’ Page 8
I the surrounding area
experienced several days of freez-
ing weather during the week
leading up to Christmas.
The average HI for the week
was 33 degrees and the average
LO was 7 5 degrees Saturday and
Sunday had temperatures well
bdow zero.
Monday. December 18 began
the week with a HI of 31 degrees
and a LO of 21 degrees. Tuesday
waa a bit warmer with a HI of 39
and a LO of 25.
Wednesday brought in a HI of
35 and a LO of 16. and Thursday
was again warmer with a HI of 46
and LO of 19.
The weekend brought in the col-
dest weather beginning with Fri-
day which had a HI of 46 and a LO
of 1.7.
On Saturday Dublin experienc-
ed a HI of only 12 and a LO of 7
degrees below zero
Christmas Eve, Sunday, had the
lowest temperature of the week.
December 24 had a HI of 22 and
a LO of 27 degrees below zero. At
press time, it had not been deter-
mined if 27 degrees below zero
signified a record for the area.
The average rainfall for the
Dublin area for December is 2.26
inches, but the recorded rainfall
for this month is . IS inches, well
below the average
Information for this article wa.
provided by Mrs. Charles Nelson
af the National Weather Service.
Erath Cow ty Sheriff Davii
Coffee received a different kmd ol
present this Christmas: a
donation of $5,000 intended Ml
create a trust fund that
ten
cf*ls of
law enforcement officers.
The ■**" was provided by
an Erath County residMI wte
Coffee said preferred to
“But he’s a very good friend of
law enforcement,’’ the 53-ycar-oid
years ago to aid the families of
officers who had died in the line of
duty there.
But Erath’s fund would proba-
bly not be as extensive,” he mid.
Coffee said the fond could be
expanded by donations ol smal
sums on an
S5000 is a good start.
The donation came at a critical
time, he aid, when dm
holiday crime and careless driving
is expected to climb high.
“We’re skiing an pin
needles, waiting for tilings to lap-
pen, ne saia
Coffee, who has spent 30 yean
in law enforcement and been Emh
County’s Sheriff since 1985, said
his best advice to Emh County
residents during the holidays is to
“be careful out there. 1
one a Merry Chris
hope they keep it safe.”
lb leave the $5,000 gift in the
bank and keep his officers patroll-
ing safe and eventless streets, tee
would be the bast
Christmas present he could
receive.
Dublin residents support U.S. invasion
. ALVEAR
Vii
employee', said that he felt
by Ihe Dublin Progress, the raa- resolve the situation. They could in
jority considered the recent action have doJie it a lo, more
that America sho^^^^sS
~to should try to leave Panama as soon ed. and he [Manuel Noriega]
Vic Johnson, a Dublin postal * possible. “We don’t need ««ht to be tried for aU that dope
Ms. Reyba Allen said that the
American invasion of Panma was
yttmiAj Nlnripofl cKruiiil ks ■ fajlJ i :n
Panama 'Tip
‘II hope that when they capture
Noriega, they do not bring hkn
back to the United States. It would
a^ng tax dollar
should be tried in a judicial system
there.”
Allen also said, ”wc [America]
should finish our sweep-up and
tolled over there,” she said.
done with Manuel Noriega,
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