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The Dublin
There will be no DubUn Citizen next week.
We will resume our regular schedule with
_the July 15 issue._
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Volume 3, No. 43
Dublin, Texas 76446
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TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
1993
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Thursday, Jul 1, IW
Local children become
“Dublin Americans ”
After years of delays, disappointments
DISD offers
innovative new
family math
By KAREN W. PARHAM
Citizen Editor
Doris Prim didn’t try to stop the
steady stream of tears which flowed
down her face Monday as her
children, Joey and Angela, crossed
the stage with their father.
Years of perseverance, hard
work, frustration, disappointment,
and a good deal of money had
preceded this event. It was a long
time coming but very much worth
the wait..
It was die start of a new life for
Joey and Angela. Finally, they were
American citizens.
Ron and Doris Prim were un-
likely candidates to become adop-
tive parents. They were in their 40s,
and had grown daughters with
small children of their own. Ron
was employed by General Dyna-
mics, and was headquartered in
Taiwan, while Doris was volunteer-
ing her time as a nurse on the
Chinese island.
“We had never discussed adopt-
ing children,” Doris said. “Ron
was busy with his job and I was
assisting an elderly Catholic nun,
Dr. Antonia Maria (known as Sister
Doctor) care for handicapped chil-
dren as well as the elderly and
poor.”
But suddenly in November, 1989
as Sister Doctor and Doris Prim
visited an orphanage at Taipei, the
idea of adoption came to mind.
From the time she laid eyes on
Yi-june Wang, a five-year-old
handicapped child, Doris wanted to
take him home.
“There was nothing wrong with
his mind, only his body,” Doris
said. “He was living hi a two room
orphanage with 15 children. They
slept on mats along the wall and sat
on the floor to eat. There was a
hole in the floor where the children
were bathed with cold water. There
was no yard or play area.”
“The children were very much
loved and their physical needs were
well cared for but they were receiv-
ing no stimulus of activities,” Doris
said.
Doris went to the Catholic adop-
tion agency to look at the boy’s
files and discovered he had not
been put up for adoption for the
past three years because of his
physical disabilities.
“Nobody wanted him because he
was physically impaired,” Doris
said. “But the doctors believed he
was okay mentally and all he
needed was a family.”
Doris persuaded Ron to visit the
orphanage. What had been a hint of
an idea began to take life. Before
long, Ron was talking about adopt-
ing a baby girl as well.
On Jan. 3, 1990, Yi-june Wang
went to live with the Prims. And
three days later, Doris and Ron
went to the hospital where they saw
little ShU-jen Fong, a baby girl just
under four months of age who
weighed less than five pounds. The
child was born prematurely and her
eyes were severely damaged. Doc-
tors believed she was permanently
blind. In spite of what were obvi-
ously tremendous obstacles ahead,
Doris and Ron made the decision to
adopt both children.
The children, now named Joseph
Michael Prim and Angela Maria
Prim, moved to Taichung, Taiwan
Cont. on page 7
Agribusiness group
sets date for
annual barbecue
The Dublin Agribusiness Asso-
ciation is preparing for this year’s
barbecue picnic, set for Saturday,
Aug. 14 at tjie Dublin City Park.
The evening will kick ofl at 5
p.m. with volleyball and swimming,
followed by dinner, musical enter-
tainment and dancing.
“Last year the downtown
businesses put on a terrific dinner
for the agribusiness sector anti now
it’s the ‘Aggies’ turn,” says coor-
dinator Leslie DeJong. “Get ready
for a great time and a lot oi good
food.”
The Dublin Agribusiness Asso-
ciation is asking for $25 donations
from all those agribusinesses,
ranches, dairies and farms that wish
to contribute to tills year’s event.
Checks should be made out to
Dublin Agribusiness Association,
P.O. Box 447, Dublin 76446.
Volunteers are also needed to
help plan and prepare for the event,
according to Mrs. DeJong. The next
planning meeting will be at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, July 8 at the Buck-
board Restaurant.
Ail innovative new math program is underway at Dublin Elementary this week. The
program brings together the students and their family in a hands-on learning experience
which is designed to teach parents how to help the child with math at home. See story at
right. (Photo by Larry Parham)
Family math, a program which
brings together children in kinder-
garten through eighth grade with
their parents in hands-on math
activities, is underway this week at
. .Dublin ISD.
The program, which is designed
to reinforce and complement the
school curriculum, was developed
in 1981 at the University of Cali-
fornia at Berkeley to help children
and their parents see mathematics
as an enjoyable and active pursuit.
Shelli Stegall, a Dublin Elemen-
tary fourth grade teacher, has been
trained in family math strategies.
She will offer sessions for parents
of primary (grade K-2) and inter-
mediate (grades 3-5) students.
Parents are learning how to help
their child with math at home,
experience math objectives that
their child will learn in school, and
gain strategies for making math
See MATH page 3
A Fourth of July picnic takes on new meaning for Doris
Prim now that her two adopted children, Angela and
Joey, have finally become American citizens. (Photo by
Larry Parham)
Citizen wins two first place awards
The Dublin Citizen, in its second
year of publication, won two first
place awards in annual Texas Press
Association competition.
The awards were presented at the
annual TPA convention held last
weekend in San Antonio.
The Citizen brought home top
honors in sports coverage and fea-
ture story divisions, competing with
weeklies with circulation of 2,000
or less.
There are 212 weekly newspapers
in Texas with circulation of 2,000
or less.
The sports coverage award was
given for a special section, which
included a colored picture on page
one, which Sports Editor Russell
Huffman produced to kick off the
1992 football season.
The feature story award was
presented for a story, written by
Editor Karen Parham, about a
Dublin youngster who risked
drowning to save his friend who
was swimming in an area lake.
TPA judges also applauded an
editorial written by Mrs. Parham
entitled “Breaking Eggs at City
Hall” about “tire vocal minority”
, and a photograph taken by Larry
Parham of little Casey Stephen as
he pulled across the finish line at
the miniature tractor pull last Octo-
ber.
In last year’s TPA competition,
The Citizen won first place honors
in editorial writing and best use of
photography, second places in pho-
tography and general excellence
and fourth in sports coverage. The
paper also won the' sweepstakes
award which is based on total
points in nine categories.
This year’s judges, representing
the Arkansas Press Association,
judged a total of 1,515 entries in
nine categories in seven circulation
divisions.
Trash pickup
delayed by holiday
City Hall will be closed Mon-
day in observance of July 4.
Regular Monday trash pickup
will be delayed until Tuesday.
regu-
City gets tough
with stray animals
Rabies poses public health hazard
City officials have issued an
urgent warning to local pet owners
to keep their animals confined or
risk having the animal killed.
“We are no longer dealing with
just die nuisance factor," said City
Supt. Ken Jumev. "Now we are
looking at the possibility of a public
health hazard due to rabies.”
With recent continuation of rabid
animals within the city limits, city
officials have tightened up enforce-
ment of tlie stray animal ordinance
and are threatening to take an even
tougher stance.
Tuesday Jumey killed a raccoon
which he feels was probably rabid.
The head was sent to Austin for
confirmation.
“If we perceive a stray animal to
be a threat, it will be disposed of,”
Jumey said. “If we destroy a
family pet, that’s unfortunate but I
would rather lose a pet titan to have
a child go through the series of
rabies shot.”
An animal which is wearing a
collar with a vaccination tag will be
held three days at the city pound.
At the end of three days, if it is not
claimed, it will be destroyed.
An owner who claims an animal
at the pound must pay for its
upkeep which is $5 for die first day
and $3 for subsequent days. If the
animal is claimed but must be
picked up again. Class C mis-
demeanor citations will be issued to
the owner.
If an animal Is not tagged and the
animal control officer is unable to
catch it, it will be destroyed.
The city ordinance dictates diat
no animal be allowed to roam'
freely, the animal must be con-
fined, on a leash or at the owner's
command.
“If you can control your pet, you
may walk it widiout a leash,”
Jumey said. “If you cannot, then it
must have a leash to be in com-
pliance.”
The city animal control officer
picks up an average of four to six
dogs eacli week. Because of the
limited space available for confine-
ment, Jumey said any animal which
is suspect may not be kept the full
three days. If the animal has bitten
or scratched someone, it will be
destroyed immediately and sent to
Austin for testing.
“It is impossible to catch cats so
if we get a report on one that Is
acting suspicious, we will destroy
it,” Jumey said.
“If you have a pet and you want
to keep it, it needs to have a collar
which shows us it has been vac-
cinated and which allows us to
locate it’s owner,” Jumey said.
Jumey also warns local residents
that the animal control officer has
begun a split shift so that pet
owners will not be able to predict
when he is in their neighborhood.
“We know some local residents
wait until 5 p.m. when they think
the animal control officer is off
duty and then they release their
pets. The split shift will take care of
that problem because no one will
know where he will be at any given
time,” Jumey said.
Jumey encourages parents to in-
struct their children to avoid all
stray animals and even their own
pets if they are acting strangely. He
also urged pot owners to have their
animals vaccinated.
Anyone who believes his pet may
have been picked up by animal
control or is looking for an adop-
tablc animal may call the city’s
animal control hot line on The
Dublin Citizen's Talking Newspa-
per. Call 445-INFO (445-4636)
from any push button phone and
enter extension number 119 to hear
an up-to-date message about ani-
mals which are in the city pound.
Local sales tax shows
big gains in first quarter
Dublin’s sales tax allocations for
the first four months of 1993 was
almost 10 percent greater than the
figure for 1992 and nearly 15
percent above the value reported in
1991.
The first quarter allocation was
$35,195, which provided welcome
revenues to city coffers and may be
the foundation for higher sales
figures for the remainder of the
year.
Stcphenville reported the fastest
sales tax growth of any area city
between January and April. Its
$689,502 total is 12.3 percent grea-
ter than the year before and is 28.3
percent higher than the same period
two years earlier.
Comanche received $67,251 in
allocations which was 3.6 percent
greater than the year before and
four percent above the 1991 value.
Hamilton revealed a 1993 alloca-
tion total of $53,835, only slightly
higher titan the figure for the year
before but is more titan 18 percent
greater than the total for the same
four months of 1991.
The State Comptroller’s office
collects and refunds tax revenues to
cities who assess the levy of one or
up to one and a half percent
allowed by Texas law. A given
month’s allocation reflects sales
taxes collected two months earlier.
Auto revenues push county retail sales up
A fifty percent rise in auto
revenues pushed Erath County retail
sales sharply higher in the third
quarter of 1992, according to the
recent Cross Timbers Business
Report produced by the Tarleton
State University Department of
Social Sciences.
Other county retail merchants
also reported sales increases over
this time span.
Erath County’s retail sales totaled
$56 million for the third quarter of
1992. This value is 14,7 percent
greater than the 1991 total and 23.7
percent above the 1990 figure.
Auto sales were the major contri-
buting factor with a 50 percent
increase from the third quarter of
1991. Car and truck sales also
increased 59.8 percent from the
•third quarter of 1990.
Building materials showed an in-
crease in the second quarter but
dropped in the third.
General merchandise increased
slightly from the past two years,
while food stores, clothing, home
furnishings, restaurants, drug stores,
and miscellaneous showed little
change.
Erath County’s total retail sales
for the first three quarters jumped
significantly to $154.4 million.
Retail sales statistics are compiled
and released by the State Comptrol-
ler’s office.
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