The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1995 Page: 1 of 16
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TEXAS
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1995
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Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, July 27,1995
Indecency with
a child charges
filed against
Dublin woman
A 21-year-old Dublin woman is
being held in Krath County jail on
charges of indecency with a child.
Charges are pending against her
for assault on a peace officer in an
incident which occurred as she was
being arrested. j59
Sofia Christine Shaikh was taken
into custody Tuesday night from a
residence in the Dublin Housing
Authority afier she was accused of
having sexual contact with one or
more juveniles. Allegations were
also made against her that photo-
graphs were taken during the inci-
dents.
Gerry Locke, investigator with
the District Attorney’s office, ex-
ecuted a search warrant Tuesday
night, along with County Investiga-
tor Donnie Hensley who was re-
portedly struck by Shaikh as she
was being arrested.
She had previously been arrested
by Dublin police on charges of
allowing a 15-year-old male to
have sexual relations with a 14-
year-old girl in her presence.
Car service reports
late night break in it was a little girl’s dream come true -* a dress-up tea party
Burglars broke into the GT Ser- complete with elegant gowns and hats. The dresses are re-makes
vice Center at the comer of of some owned by Carolyn Tidwell. Sue Wooten created the hats
Grafton and E. Elm after 5.30 p.m. «* Party favors. The girls drew numbers to decide who would wear
Tuesday or early Wednesday which outfit which included jewelry and gloves. The occasion was
morning, escaping with cash and A . . .
several items including an antique ATC2L COflUllUnitlCS sipprOVC phOllC
c*Accordu»g to Dubim poik. u option defeated earlier in Dublin w
1 W's^oStcTKivg added a monthly
fee of up to $3.50 to residential
phone customers and up to $7 to
businesses to provide direct calling
to Slephenville.
The law provides that the proce-
dure could be initiated again 18
months after the defeat of the last
proposition if a petition is pre-
sented to the PUC.
“Basically, it’s up to customers
in rural Texas to decide if they
want to pay for extended service
areas to other communities,” said
Robert Bums, customer relations
manager of Sprint/United Tele-
phone, the third largest of the
approximately 160 telephone com-
panies in the state.
It is a community option rather
than a phone contegL&Ption to
petition for the service. Bums said.
“The only involvement on the part
of the phone company is that we
assist with the election process.
We offer neither opposition or
support for the measure.”
Questions from Slephenville resi-
dent Rose Wooley brought the toll
free calls debate to the spotlight
again recently. In a letter to The
Dublin Citizen, Mrs. Wooley
See PHONE page 9
Lauren Tidwell's sixth birthday party and the location was Old Doc's
Soda Shop at the Dr Pepper Bottling Company. Shown in their
finery are, top to bottom, Maci Eaves, Leanna Laughlin, Lauren
Tidwell, Mindi Roulston, Erin Dees, Tricia Roulston and Myka
Jackson. Photo courtesy of Patty Roulston
Terry Early, a window air condi-
tioning unit was taken along with
the old cash register and a new
electronic register valued at $100.
About $70 in cash was also
taken. Early said.
The service center is located
directly behind the police depart-
ment.
Two warrants issued
for Crumal arrest
Law enforcement officials in
Dublin and Comanche are holding
warrants for Rory Alden Crumal,
33, in connection with a theft in
Dublin and burglary in Comanche.
Crumal is wanted for the theft of
a money bag from Country Plea-
sures Antiques on W. Blackjack
and in Comanche for the burglary
of a vehicle. Both are Class A
misdemeanors.
He was recently charged with the
burglary of a motor vehicle in
Dublin in which season tickets to
Six Flags were taken from a purse
belonging to Laura Kestner. The
vehicle Was parked at Chigger
Ranch at the time of the burglary.
Crumal was arrested after he
used the amusement park tickets.
By KAREN WRIGHT
Citizen Editor
The communities of Gordon,
Strawn and Santo have approved
expanded local calling to Stephen-
viilc - the same service offered to
Dublin phone users in February but
rejected by a narrow margin in
mail-in balloting.
The move, which had to be
approved by at least 70 percent of
the phone customers in those com-
munities, provides for direct dial-
ing without “1+” from those com-
munities to Slephenville. While
Slephenville will enjoy the same
toll free calling, they will not pay
the monthly fee because they did
not petition for the service.
A community's option to expand
toll free calling in their area was
the result of legislative action.
Senate Bill 632 (later amended by
House Bill 2128) allows communi-
ties of fewer than 10,000 people to
petition the Public Utility Commis-
sion for permission to hold an
election to decide if they want (and
are willing to pay for) the extended
area service.
The election, which was nar-
rowly defeated by Dublin tele-
phone subscribers in February,
Vandalism delays
completion of park
golf course
An incident of vandalism has
delayed completion of the al-
ternative school’s miniature
golf course at Dublin City
Park.
Vandals broke one of the
metal sculptures and damaged
the carpet which was ready for
installation.
PAC Director Ron Johnson
hopes to get back on schedule
within a few days and to set a
date on which special guests
and their families will help
establish par for the nine-hole
course.
Meanwhile, Dr. Johnson said
the project still has a “wish
list” of skills and materials
which local residents could
help fill.
* Used putters and old golf
balls.
* Frames and sheet iron for
construction of an 8 ft. by 8 ft.
roof over the bench.
* Landscape trees and
bushes with sod.
* Assistance with traffic bar-
rier posts which includes a
tractor with a hole digger, 25
posts, pipe or cable to run
between the posts and concrete
to set the posts.
* Expertise and materials to
smooth the concrete fairway
walls.
“We are really tight on our
budget,” Johnson said,” and
any assistance in materials and
expertise as well as financial
donations would be appreci-
ated.”’
Anyone who wishes addi-
tional information may contact
Dr. Johnson at 445-4844.
Thieves take 9
news racks in
4-night spree
t hieves with an appetite for the
news - or quarters - have stolen
newsstands belonging to most of
the area newspapers during a four-
night spree. In at least one case, a
replacement newsstand was also
stolen.
, According to police, the daily
'newspapers probably lost $7 to $10
in change in each machine while
the weekly Dublin Citizen lost an
estimated $30 to $40. The news
racks are valued at $150 to $300
each.
The first report tame in Sunday
morning when Blake Reeder re-
ported the theft of the Abilene
Reporter News rack from David’s
Super Market. Investigating officer
Jim Jackson noted at that time that
The Dublin Citizen newsstand was
missing from the same location.
Monday morning, the Slephen-
ville Empire Tribune rack was
reported missing from Chigger
Ranch and Tuesday morning the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram news-
stand was reported missing from
Dublin United Super.
Star-Telegram and Dallas Morn-
ing News racks were also taken
Sunday night from a Proctor gro-
cery store. The Star-Telegram rack
was later recovered in the Proctor
Cemetery minus the lock but other-
wise not damaged.
Tuesday night, thieves took the
Dallas Morning News stand froip
United Super as well as the Star
Telegram rack and the Empire
Tribune's replacement rack from
Chigger Ranch.
Culpepper ’vision’ results in
another downtown business
A two-vehicle collision on St. Qeoroe Road about 5 o.m Tuesday sent two young man to the
StephenvHle hospital by Dublin ambulance. Joe Michael Coryell, 18 and Nathan Shane Parker, 15,
sustained minor injuries when their car collided on a curve with a pickup pulling a trailer. The aoddent
occurred about two miles off Highway 377 southwest of Dublin.
CB, stereo equipment
taken from truck
Stereo and CB equipment were
stolen from a tractor trailer Thurs-
day night in front of Central
Storage on North Patrick.
The 1985 Freight Liner was
owned by Randolph Ranches, Inc.
of StephenviUe. It had been patted
near the storage buildings after it
had broken down.
The break-in was reported Friday
By KAREN WRIGHT
Citizen Editor
Only someone with vision would
have seen the potential in many of
the dilapidated ' buildings which
have become viable businesses in
Dublin. '
For the past three decades, W.T.
Culpepper has had that vision and
the belief that the Dublin business
community could prosper.
Since moving here with his wife
Betty, a Dublin native, Culpepper
has purchased, renovated and sold
nearly two dozen local businesses.
Along with the renovation has
come new business. And with new
business comes increased tax rev-
enue.
His current venture has brought
Mott’s Variety Store to town -
bringing to 44 the number of
Mott’s locations in Texas.
It’s hard to find a business
location that Culpepper hasn’t been
involved in at one time or another.
It suited with the Dairy Queen
which he built and then sold to
Willard Mann and current owner
James Fritts.
Soon there was a renovation
project in the 100 block of East
Blackjack that would grow into a
shoe store, operated by his wife.
“The building was falling apart
so we rebuilt it and Betty opened a
shoe store there," Culpepper said.
The store was owned and operated
by the Culpeppers for a dozen
years before they sold the building.
Culpepper also restored a law
office for the late Dick Harbin, an
office which is now the office of
attorney Jim Mulloy.
About that same time, Culpepper
purchased, rebuilt and sold Dr.
Carl Jordan’s office, a two-story
building behind what is now the
Salyer Chiropractic Clinic.
One of the projects which
Culpepper is particularly proud is
Bill’s Dollar Store.
“We bought that land from
Walter Hamilton and built the
variety store there because this
town really needed a store like that
Juveniles arrested
for crawling fence
Dublin police have filed on juve-
niles who were caught crawling
over the fence at the swimming
pool at Dublin City Put.
They were released to their par-
ents about 4 p.m. Monday.
16 years ago,” Culpepper said.
He is also proud of the success
of the Dublin Pawn Shop, a build-
ing which he purchased from Hen-
son Farm Supply several years ago.
He owns the buildings at the
corner of Patrick and W. Live Oak
where the Paradigm Alternative
School and Turley’s Tans and
Treasures are located as well as the
building which houses Delia’s Cafe
next door to Bill’s Dollar Store.
There have been so many deals
that the Culpeppers have a hard
time remembering them all. More
than once in conversation, one of
them would mention a certain
business and the other would re-
spond, "Oh, I had forgotten about
that one.”
In that list was the Buckboard
Restaurant and Shamrock Inn.
which the Culpepper’s built. They
sold the restaurant to Cliff Weible
but operated the motel for awhile
before selling it to Dorothy Plank.
Culpepper also owned and sold
the building at the comer of
Patrick and Blackjack as well as
buildings north of that comer
where Broughton-Smith Tax Ser-
vice and the End of the Trail
Museum are located. He, also
owned the lot where the old Meth-
odist Church was located, currently
the location of Bank of America.
Before Culpepper got involved
in Dublin real estate, he owned and
operated the Chaparral Hotel in
Ruidoso, N.M. The building was
sold and later demolished to make
See CULPEPPER page 8
Dublin police seek
public assistance
to stop graffiti
Dublin police are seeking assis-
tance from local residents to solve
a rash of criminal mischief crimes
involving graffiti.
Symbols and names were spray
painted on the side of Chigger
Ranch, the rcc building at Dublin
City Park and Central Stonge
buildings on North Patrick.
Punishment for a criminal mis-
chief conviction can be a fine up to
$200 and/or community service,
according to Police CThicf David
Johnson.
Anyone who sees any type of
criminal mischief taking place is
encouraged to call the police de-
partment immediately.
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