The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 1985 Page: 1 of 38
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Dublin’s newspaper since 1888
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Wednesday, April 24,1985
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Russell says tax increase kept down
ChOd Find Campaign-Have you seen these kids? Don Cox and Delda Carter of the Lone Star Gas Company show
the posters made available through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, National Child Safety
Council, American Gas Association and the Lone Star Gas Company.
(Progress Staff Photo)
Lone Star Gas joins Nat'l
Child Watch Campaign »
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The Lone Star Gas customer service
office in Dublin will join in a
systematic nationwide effort to help
find children abducted by strangers by
making fliers available on April 22 to
the general public publicizing two
children who have been abducted
within the last year and a half.
Sponsored by the National Child
Safety Council (NCSC) and the
American Gas Association (A.G.A.),
the program will focus on locating lost
children and on developing communi-
ty education programs designed to
help prevent kidnappings.
Dubbed the “National Child Watch
Campaign,” the goal is to reach
millions of households in thousands of
communities throughout the UJ5. Lone
Star Gas Co. has distributed thousands
of the fliers to all its distribution offices
in Texas and Oklahoma. Fliers may be
obtained by visiting the Lone Star Gs
distribution office at 216 E. Blackjack.
The first two children on the fliers
were selected by the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children
(NCMEC) which screens all reported
cases of child abduction. Additional
photographs and information on other
missing children will be provided by
the center for distribution in a similar
manner at a later date.
Jay Howell, executive director of
NCMEC, said the new campaign is “a
milestone among efforts to solve the
national nightmare of missing
children. To be effective, any effort to
find these children must be undertaken
on a systematic national basis,” he
said.
“This campaign is a natural evolu-
tion of efforts launched to date,”
Howell added.
The toll-free hot line to the NCMEC
1*800443-5678.
Library open house is Saturday
Open house will be held at the
Dublin Public Library Saturday from
2-5 p.m. in observance of the 31st bir-
thday of the continuing education
facility, announced Pat Harrell,
president of the board of directors.
Highlighting the event will be the
personal appearance of Mary Smart
of Bremond, who will present to the
library a copy of her book about the
McCain family. One member of the
family, Richard McCain, was the
first mayor of Dublin and helped to
incorporate the city in 1889.
Local relatives of Mrs. Smart and
her brother of Wichita Falls, who will
also attend the presentation, include
Mrs. Ruth McCain and Mrs. L. E.
(Tommie) Malone.
Early Dublin history as set forth in
Mrs. Smart’s book includes establish-
ment of the first permanent settle-
ment in this location in 1854; opening
of the first mercantile store by F. C.
Oldham; Texas Central Railroad
built in 1889, first locomotive to serve
the area; and The Dublin Progress,
first published in 1888.
“Visitors are cordially invited to
visit the library during open house
and meet historian Smart,” stated
Carolyn Holden, librarian.
Refreshments will be served.
By
Marie Helm
Dublin School Board has called for
a bond issue to build an elementary
school in order to relieve over-
crowding caused by an increase in
student population, to meet ac-
creditation requirements and the re-
quirements of House BUI 72.
School taxes will increase if the
|1.75 million bond issue passes, but
the increase has been kept down
because of last year’s tax increase,
according to Don Russell, superinten-
dent of Dublin Independent School
District fDISD).
“With the raise we had last year,
we feel like about 10 cents per $100
valuation wiU generate enough to pay
the bonds off,” said RusseU.
Ruaaell said money from last
year’s tax increase has not been
budgeted.
“It is dedicated to facility use and
will be used to help pay off the bond,”
Russell said.
If tile proposed bond issue passes
May 14, the cost to the taxpayer
would be an additional $10 per $10,000
valuation to their current tax bUl.
For example; Current taxes on a
$40,000 home (With no exemptions)'
i $230.56. If the proposed bond issue
■ taxes on that same home
I be $270.56 * "
“These figures are based on the
best available information at this
time,” said RusseU.
Most of the $1.75 million bond would
be spent on the building itself.
The total building area is 43,000
square feet. AU regular classrooms
will be 729 square feet, the special
Kindergarten
preregistration
is today
The Dublin Elementary School will
preregister Kindergarten students on
April 24, from 9 am -11 am. If your
child is 5 years of age on or before
Sept. 1, 1985 he or she is eligilbe for
kindergarten. Please bring your
child’s birth certificate and imuniza-
tion records.
* Registration should take only about
ten minutes per child. Registering
now will made things much easier
when school starts in the faU and will
give your child a chance to see the
school building and meet some of the
teachers. This should help to ease the
tension most childem feel on their
first day of school.
program classrooms will be 272
square feet and the self-contained
classrooms (classroom with
restrooms) wUl be 648 square feet.
Plans for the proposed school are
available for inspection by the public.
They are posted at the front of the
school auditorium and in the
superintendent's office.
“We plan to use most of our ex-
isting furniture,” said RusseU. “For
the past several years we have
bought one new piece of classroom
furniture each year to spread out the
cost,” he said.
Included in the proposed bond issue
is the cost of student lockers,
chalkboards and tackboards and kit-
chen equipment.
RusseU said the school district
would be able to use the interest
money off the bond to remodel the
elementary school to meet the needs
of junior high school; to complete the
required minor remodeling for the
high school; and to purchase the fur-
niture not already available for aU
three schools, particularly
elementary.
In order for junior high students to
make use of the elementary building,
RusseU said the restrooms faculties
would have to be adapted for older
students and additional wiring would
be needed for computer literacy
courses. A science lab would also
have to be installed in order for the
junior high to be in compliance with
accreditation requirements
The high school library wtil also
need to be remodeled to bring it into
compliance with accreditation
requirements.
RusseU said the only costs not
covered by the bond issue would be
the sUght increase in kitchen and
maintenance personnel.
“We feel at this time these costs
can be budgeted without additional
burden,” said RusseU.
The Bond Issue Election wiU be
May 14 from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. at the City
HaU, 213 E. Blackjack. Betty Culpep-
per wiU be election judge with
Delbert Shafer serving as alternate
judge
Those wishing to vote absentee can
do so at the city haU from 8 a.m.-6
p.m. Monday through Friday.
Daylight Savings Time
begins this Sunday
The time has come again to take
away an hour of morning sunshine
and give it back after work as Texans
begin DayUght Savings Time this
coming Sunday morning.
Texans wiU advance their clock for-
ward one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday (or
prior to going to bed Saturday night)
as six months of DayUght Savings
Time goes into effect.
The extra hour of dayhght after
work provides those working 9-5 jobs
time for pursuing gardening, recrea-
tional activities or other interests.
Screening for early childhood
class is tomorrow
The Dublin Independent School
District wiU be providing personnel to
conduct screening for children ages
three, four, and five years old from
9:00 to 3:00 on April 25th at the Dublin
Elementary School.
The Dublin School District provides
special classes for early childhood age
children who are so delayed
developmentaUy that learning wiU be
hampered. The children wiU be seen by
professionals in.the field of special
education.
The purpose of the screening is to
locate children who have problems
with vision or hearing, speech or
language, or learning delays such as
problems with walking, eating, dress-
ing, playing with others, coloring, etc.
Parents whose child is having trou-
ble in any of the previously mention-
ed areas should caU Dublin Elemen-
tary School at 445-2577 and make an ap-
pointment. The screening wiU take
about 45 minutes per child.
Any person who is concerned about
his child, ages 3,4 or 5, should caU the
Dublin Elementary School to be
scheduled for screening on April 25th.
The service is free and parents will be
given the results immediately after the
child is screened.
CaU Dublin Elementary School
(445-2577) for an appointment.
Dairy 'Cover Baby' deadline is May 1
In celebration of the dairy industry,
the Erath County Dairy Day Commit-
tee is sponsoring a contest to find a
“cover baby” for advertising and pro-
moting Dairy Day, June 14, at the
StephenvUle City Park. This is not a
beauty contest. It is a tribute to aU the
beautiful babies in Erath County and
the milk that helps keep them healthy.
The winning child will receive a
beautiful 11x14 color portrait courtesy
of Phillips Photography.
The contest is open to all babies in
Erath County who have not ceMMtiiRl
their second birthday by May 1,1985.
To enter, take a snapshot of the baby
posed with milk, a milk product, or
with a dairy theme. Return the picture
and parents name, address, phone
number, chad’s name, and birthday in
a sealed envelope to Doable LL
Western Store, 121 Patrick in Dublin.
Entries may also be mailed to Dairy
Day, P.O. Box 1112, StephenvUle,
Texas. All entries must be received by
May 1. An ootaMown judge win
choose the snapshot that best c
amplifies the theme.
All pictures will be displayed
Dairy Day and will be in a sped
drawing for $25.09 gift certifies!
from Sissy’s, From the Beginnings
Double LL Western Store.
For further information call 96W1I
Weather
by diaries W. Nelson
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Second film slated it
Dobson fifm series
James C. Dobson “Focus on the
Family” series will continue this Fri-
day with the film entitled “Shaping
the WUl Without Breaking the Spirit”
The film is a second in a aeries of
seven films being shown at the Dublin
School Auditorium at 7 pm. each Fri-
day through June 7, except May It
The film series is being sponsored by
the Dublin Ministerial Alliance.
“Shaping the Will Without Break-
ing the Spirit” dealt with how to
associate behaviour with cons
quences, when parents ehould let |
of their ddd and how to let go.
Other titles in the series are “Cbri
tian Fathering,” “Preparing F<
Adolescence: Part 1, The Origins i
Self-Doubt; Part 2, Peer Presnu
and Sexuality,” “What Wives Wii
Their Husbands Knew About Womei
Parti, The Lonely Housewife; Part
Money, Sex and GhUdren.”
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The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 1985, newspaper, April 24, 1985; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth778853/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.