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2627 E YANDELL DRIVE
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Citizen
Volume 3, No. 1
Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, August 27,1992
By KAREN W. PARHAM
Citizen Editor
THE GRACE LYON-DR PEPPER SCHOLARSHIP
Klosters present $100,000
endowment to Tarleton
By SHERRY MCCOY
Contributing Writer
Bill and Mark Kloster of Dublin
presented a $100,000 endowment in
the name of Grace Lyon and Dr
Pepper to Tarleton State University
daring a reception at the
University’s Travis Room Wednes-
day afternoon.
The endowment is one of the
largest charitable gifts and scholar-
ships ever presented to Tarleton.
Interest on the gift will fund a
scholarship for tuition, fees, books,
room and board for an undergra-
duate or graduate student in the
College of Business Administration,
while principal goes to the Tarleton
State University Foundation, Inc.
“This is a joyful occasion and a
wonderful day for Tarleton State
University and the College of Busi-
ness Administration,” said Dr.
Dennis P. McCabe, TSU President.
Looking at Cole Kloster, the 5-
month-old great-grandson of Bill
Kloster, Dr. McCabe said, “Cole
and his brothers and sisters of
tomorrow will have an opportunity
to achieve a college education
because of a gift such as this."
“Thank you doesn’t seem like
enough," said Bill Nix, president of
the TSU Foundation, Inc. “We
appreciate what the Kloster family
has done through die name of
Grace Lyon."
Dr. Jerry DeHay, Dean of the
College of Business Administration,
also expressed his appreciation for
the endowment, “this gift goes
beyond measure in perpetuating die
memory of Grace Lyon ahd the
type of company the Kloster ? repre-
sent," he said.
Mrs. Lyon, daughter of plant
founder Sam Houston Prim, was the
longtime owner of the Dr Pepper
franchise in Dublin. She died in
June, 1991 on the 100 year anni-
versary of the plant, leaving the
franchise to longtime employee Bill
Kloster.
Kloster has been employed by the
Dr Pepper Bottling Company in
Dublin since 1933 when he was
hired by Mrs. Lyon's father to sort
bottles for 10 cents an hour. He
became general manager of the
plant after Prim’s death in 194$.
Kloster and grandson Marie con-
tinue to operate the facility.
“Erath County has been good to
I* ” said ttu> fthfer Kloster “W«
are happy to be associated with
Tarleton State University.”
He spoke proudly of his grand-
son’s association with the bottling
plant “I was real happy when
Marie came in and said he was
willing to come back to Dublin and
take over.”
The local plant is the oldest Dr
Pepper bottling plant in the world.
It has been at the same location on
Elm Street where it was constructed
in 1891, but it received a face lift in
1951 and underwent major renova-
tion and expansion two years ago.
Following the presentation of the
check to Dr. McCabe, he presented
gifts of appreciation to Bill and
Mark, and their wives Iona and
Diane. Baby Cole Kloster received
a TSU bib.
Following the presentation, guests
were served cookies and Dr Pepper.
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TSU President Dr. Dennis McCabe (center) accepted a $100,000 endowment in the name
of Grace Lyon and Dr Pepper during a special presentation Wednesday afternoon. The
gift was presented by Mark and Diane Kloster and Bill and Iona Kloster, shown here at
a reception following the presentation. Stealing the show is Cote Kloster, 5-month-old
son of Mark and Diane Kloster. (Photo by Sherry McCoy)
Ambulance, fire truck top
pratiininaiY budget taBs
Sometimes the social activities just wear a guy out Little
Cote Kloster, attired in his Tarleton State University bib,
just needed a short break before he rejoined the
reception. (Photo by Sherry McCoy).
DISD trustees approve
$5 million 92-93 budget
DISD trustees approved a $5
million budget for 1992-93, a
$34,000 decrease from the current
budget, during Tuesday night’s
public hearing.
An overview of the budget
showed nine percent ($474,130)
going to plant maintenance and
operation, eight percent ($429,743)
going to food service, five percent
($246,474) for transportation and
two percent (97,375) going to athle-
tics.
Insurance consumes five percent
of the total budget with $151,232 (3
percent) for group health insurance,
$74,706 (one percent) for work-
man’s compensation and $27,700
(1 percent) for property, transpor-
tation and liability insurance.
General administration accounts
for five percent ($249,288) of the
total budget and three percent
($171,000) goes to utilities. Three
percent ($158,093) is budgeted for
co-curricular activities.
About one fourth of the total
budget comes from local funds, 65
percent from state funds and 11
Dercent from federal funds.
The ambulance service can make
money by doing transfers, Johnson
.......said, ,
■ . . , . The proposed budget includes
The city has moved a step closer $40,000 toward the purchase of a
to purchasing a new ambulance but new mba\mcc. The remainder
not without disagreement as to how could ^ financed with ^ pay.
„?,T,beUtir‘ . ments lower than what is currently
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present. City Manager David John- purcbase pointed out members of
son waded through the lengthy
1992-93 proposed budget at a pub- ^ new budget ^
$2,000 carryover for computer soft-
ware which will expedite ambu-
lance billing but Johnson said he
m _______________ , expects that purchase to be made
she wuu trity good piece ef ^ cnnem ^ yMr
lie hearing Thursday night. |
When tiie subject turned to the
local ambulance service, Council-
woman Lois Atherton stressed that
equipment but I want it used only
by our local residents.”
Mrs. Atherton added that she
didn’t want the new ambulance to
be out of town on a transfer when it
was needed for an emergency at
fewer trips were made to the land-
fil^saving landfill fees and fuel.
The Stephenville landfill will be
closed in October, 1993 and “no
matter what we do, it will cost us
more than the $170,000 we are now
paying."
improvements
head grant
priorities
The local ambulance service has
recently done transfers from as far
away as Midland and Eastern New
Mexico, a practice to which Mrs.
Atherton objects.
“Tax dollars will buy this ambu-
lance (estimated at about' $70,000)
and it should be our taxpayers that
use it,” Mis. Atherton said in
protest to a policy which has pre-
viously allowed
transfers from hospitals to
homes and vice versa.
But Johnson asked “If we take a
bed patient to Stephenville from a
(seal nursing home, do you want us
to tell him no when he wants to be
brought back?”
Mrs. Atherton responded that a
Stephenville ambulance service
should bring him back to Dublin,
although Johnson pointed out that
Stephenville has no transfer ambu-
lance service.
City Supt. Ken Jumey, a certified
EMT (Emergency Medical Techni-
cian) who serves as a city ambu-
lance attendant, pointed out that if
foe patient is a taxpayer when he is
“*“-1 to the hospital, he is still a
be
The discussion concerning ambu-
lance usage was dropped without
resolution after Mrs. Atherton sug-
gested that Johnson, an EMT who
is police chief as well as city
manager, no longer make ambu-
lance runs himself “because we
need you to be at City Hall.”
The council members also heard a
request from Fire Chief James Frills
for the purchase of a pumper truck
at a cost of about $100,000 which
he said was needed to help keep the
key rate for insurance down and to
increase fire fighting capabilities.
The pumper now in service will
be 25 years old next year and parts
am hard or impossible to find, he
said.
Fritts pointed out that the new
pumper could be financed for 10
years at 7.5 percent interest with
payments of about $14,000 a year.
“We receive $30,000 a year from
the county and we have a bargain
on labor (the fire department is
operated totally by volunteers) so
we create our own money," he
said. “It won’t increase our yearly
budget and we are looking at a 20
to 25 year investment.”
Frias added that there might be
some trade-in value on the pumper
now in use. He added fort bidding
has become so competitive that it
might be posable to get a pumpet
for less than the estimated
$100,000, particularly at a time
when more esmaties rue making
“no frills" trucks instead of the
“chrome versions fort look great at
City Manager David Johnson,
three City Council members and
half a dozen local residents met in a
public hearing Thursday night to
discuss priorities for a Texas Com-
munity Development Program grant
application. ~
The consensus was that wastewa-
ter improvements should be top
priority in foe grant request Elig-
ible activities include installation of
new lines, replacement of existing
lines and installation of larger capa-
city lines.
Hie City of Dublin can apply for
up to $250,000 for the sewer
on a matching funds
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Blodgett, who wi
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a seatbelt,
service and $2 a loaded mile so the
county reimbursement doesn’t go
very far.”
In reviewing the budget for gar-
bage collection, Johnson pointed
out that the city’s new garbage
truck saved foe city $6,000 last year
because it packs so compactly that
Johnson said he has been told by
GSA (Government Service Agency
which is a non-governmental firm
preparing Dublin’s grant applica-
tion) that the city’s chances of
receiving foe gram will be enhanced
by also applying for a HOME grant
See GRANT page 6
Fire guts storage
building late
Wednesday
Dublin volunteer firemen respon-
ded to a fire late Wednesday night
which gutted a storage building
belonging to Katherine Bowman at
526 N. Grafton.
Patrolman Terry Early arrived at
the Bowman residence about 9:10
pjm. in response to a report of a
stolen VCR. As Early and Mrs.
Bowman were talking, she saw
flames through a back window of
Two units of the local foe depart-
ment responded and the blaze was
extinguished shortly after 9:30 p m. |
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