The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1998 Page: 2 of 16
sixteen pages : ill. ; page 26 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Page 2
The Dublin Citizen
Thursday, August 6, 1998'
CAPITAL-
Cont. from page t
piles loss data for insurers, has
asked the Texas Department of In-
surance to approve a standard
form that insurers could use on li-
ability policies to exclude claims
on a “Y2K” problem.
The department has not yet
taken action on the request, the
Austin American-Statesman re-
ported last week.
Helmetlessness Has Its Price
Since Sept. 1, 1997, motorcy-
clists have enjoyed the legal
luxury of cruising down beautiful
Texas highways with nothing
separating their skulls from eter-
nity but the wind itself.
Turns out, however, that fatal
motorcycle accidents have in-
creased since the use of helmets
became optional for riders age 21
and older, Department of Public
Safety records show.
Thirteen riders in 37 fatal mo-
torcycle accidents from Septem-
ber to December 1997 weren’t
wearing helmets. In 1996, two
motorcyclists died without hel-
mets.
Under the 1997 helmet law, rid-
ers who don’t wear helmets must
carry a minimum of $10,000 in
health insurance coverage or suc-
cessfully complete a safety train-
ing course.
Other Capital Highlights
■ Although Gov. George W.
Bush has said he is a candidate for
governor in 2000, not a candidate
for president, he attended a GOP
fund-raiser in Akron, Ohio, last
week.
■ Former Gov. Ann Richards
is serving as co-chair of Demo-
cratic candidate Garry Mauro’s
campaign for governor.
■ Gov. Bush and challenger
Mauro agree on this: that Texas
should spend more to build pris-
ons and schools.
L1NGLEVILLE REUNION
The classes of 1955 through
1960 will gather Saturday, Aug. 15
at 2 p.m. at the Lingleville School
lunchroom for a reunion. Visitors
and members of any other class are
invited to attend. For more infor-
mation, contact Nelda Keever at
(915) 667-7228.
t.
BACK TO SCHOOL
SERVICE
Purves Baptist Church will host
a back-lo-school service at 11 a.m.
Sunday, Aug. 9. All Dublin ISD
teachers and workers are invited.
Mayor Katherine Prater with special gift from Irish Embassy
Ask and yon might he given
(if you have the luck of the Irish)
There once was an Irish flag in the family of Mayor Katherine Prater
but she didn’t become heir to it. But, she admits, she wasn’t living in
Dublin at the time so her claim was less valid than it might be today.
But her love for the flag inspired her to secure one for Dublin,
straight from the Irish Embassy in Washington, DC. and the office of
Ambassador Sean O’Huigins.
It was noted in the package from the embassy that flags are not
usually supplied on request and that the gift to Mayor Prater and the
City of Dublin was “a special exception.”
The flag will be hung on special occasions, which almost certainly
will include the St. Patrick’s Day celebration, and will be available to
community organizations for their special events. It will be maintained
at city hall, according to Mayor Prater.
The embassy provided information concerning the national flag, as
well as that country’s amis and anthem.
The national flag of Ireland is a tricolor of green, white and orange. It
was first introduced by Thomas Francis Meagher during the revolution-
ary year of 1848 as an emblem of the Young Ireland movement.
The green represents the older Gaelic and Anglo-Norman element in
the population and the orange represents the Protestant planter stock,
supporters of William of Orange. The meaning of the white was well
expressed by Meagher when he introduced the flag.
“ I’he while in the center,” he said, “signifies a lasting truce between
the Orange and the Green and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of
the Irish Protestant and the Irish Catholic may be clasped in ht \iic
brotherhood.”
It was not until the Rising of 1916, when it was raised above the
General Post Office in Dublin, Ireland, that the tri-color came to be
regarded as the national flag. It rapidly gained precedence over any
which had existed before it, and its use as a national flag is enshrined
in the Constitution of Ireland.
OPINIONS: OURS AND YOURS
First National Bank
ACROSS
1 how a cowboy
addresses a lady
5 Claudia _
Taylor Johnson
(■Lady Bird")
6 Ranger Juan has a
mess of 'em in '98
7 this Glen wrote ’The
German Texans"
8 TXism: "_
slinger" (writer)
9 TXism: "if__
_ better I
couldn't stand it"
16 Tex Ritter sang theme
to film “High _*
18 Marfa paper: “The Big
Bend _-
20 TXism: ’leave _
stone unturned”
21 Okie town
22 UT has glasses
of _ Arthur
Conan Doyle
24 TX claim:
_, just fact"
30 TXism: ’got _
for" (urge)
45 Bob Lilly's old
Cowboy position (abbr.)
46 "plastic money" card
47 TX Rangers used the
Walker _ Revolver
48 TX Ginger's dancing
partner Fred (init.)
50 "_ gotta do it"
53 TX Pat Toomay's "On
_ Given Sunday"
54 TXism: "mortgage _
the hoof" (cattle) •
55 “__, no fuss"
|)c Econ • DUBLIN • Gustinc
Presents
‘The Original
34 gov. (1894-1898)
__Culberson
35 this country's
language is Greek
to Texans
36 TXism: "let__"
(leave it alone)
37 TXism: "beats any-
thing __saw"
39 TXism: "popular
daughter’
43 TX Ginger film
role:
56 Astro bull
pen _
starting pitchers
59 TX Ranger: "Lone
_ McQuade"
60 pie _ mode
61 network that had
soap opera "Texas"
62 TXism: "take a
look _*
DOWN
1 seat of Falls Co.
2 Snyder has _
buffalo statue
3 TXism: "could put a
loop over__
__mule's back"
(good roper)
4 homemade liquor:
sour _
9 TXism: "get while
thegettin' _ good"
12 TX Barry Corbin
film: ■__ Crazy"
13 TX Willie's ‘Farm
__" was in '87
14 Cowboy Nate (init.)
15 TXism: "does a wet
dog stink?
17 TXism:"__
_a stepper"
19 driving, hunting or
fishing permits
23 TXism:"___
feathers on a frog"
24 Green who brought
Castle 11 waco-born leading
44 '80s boy hair style |ady Gwynne
10 Saturdays & Sundays 25 TXism: "come hell
_high water"
26 polar or grizzly
27 a former TX river
channel that still
holds water
28 TXism: "jumpy as
___ice"
Stars to Dallas (init.) 29 TXism: "treat it
with kid gloves"
31 money machine
32 Rockets' assoc.
Saying Thanhs
A big thank you to all of those
who helped at the time of the death
of my husband.
Thanks for your prayers, cards,
flowers and food
A Special thanks to
Chambers and the 9-1-1
T hey were great.
Thanks,
Ruby Pratt
The View
from the corner
By KAREN WRIGHT
Fannie
people.
Punishing the innocent
T he sad reality is that we punish the masses for the crimes of the few.
And somehow, the guilty seem to be least affected by the punishment.
It happened at Texas Tech this week. The NCAA Committee on
Infractions announced scholarship cutbacks, financial penalties and
probation for the athletic department for allowing 76 academically-
ineligible athletes to participate in nine sports since 1991.
A whole crop of fresh young athletes will be denied the scholarships
which might make it possible for them to attend Tech. Many of those
would-be Red Raiders are still in high school now and had absolutely
nothing to do with the NCAA violations. And yet they will pay the price
for the actions of an over- zealous athletic staff looking for ways to go
around the system — to win at any price. NCAA doesn’t like that sort of
thing and they will have the last word.
Some of us will never understand why the punishment was not directed
at those who chose to ignore the rules. Why isn't the NCAA (or the
If rases are but twice as fair jillion-member Texas Tech Ex-Students Association) stringing up the
J.D. and Leona Payne want to
thank our friends and family for
their prayers, cards, food, phone
calls and visits during the week
and a half of our illnesses.
May God bless each of you.
*4: *****
In honor of our mother, Dollie
Lois Hutchison:
when washed by heaven's dew.
If robin's song is twice as sweet
and skies are twice as blue;
If love and life are twice as
grand as all we feel and see.
How marvelous! How wonderful
must all God's heaven be!
Then why should we give way to
tears? All grief and pain is past;
Our loved one's safe from every
harm. Safe - home at last.
1’he best tribute her daughters
can give their mother is "Mother's
wealth always lay not in what she
had, but in what she gave.”
Fund started for former
resident after house fire
A special account has been es-
tablished at TexasBank for Tina
Frey, a former Dublin resident who
now lives in Fort Worth.
Ms. Irey. a physical therapy
assistant, recently lost her home
and possessions in a fire.
For more information, contact
Texas Bank president Larry Her-
rington, 445-3356.
BRIEFS
i
__;j
lech athletic staff by their thumbs from Lubbock’s only tree instead of
crippling the football, baseball, basketball, golf and track programs for
the next three or four years? Again, punishment for the innocent, not the
guilty.
Closer to home, we see the same thing happening with the troublesome
school dress code. Most kids will follow the rules, just like most drivers
will stop at stop signs. But the handful of violators have caused the dress
code to become a huge issue which is taking way too much time away
from academics.
Superintendent Roy Neff hit the proverbial nail on the head when he
said we need more modesty. And where is modesty going to be taught'
better than at home? Why has it become necessary for principals and
teachers, rather than parents, to tell a youngster that he or she is not
dressed appropriately for school? Many, many educators long for the day
when uniforms will be mandatory and the quest to make a fashion
statement will be removed from the school campus.
School board president Mike Jumey said it well when he acknowl-
edged that the students who are going to violate a dress code are going to
do it, no matter what length is considered acceptable in the school
handbook. Fie was pleading with fellow trustees to give the teachers and
principals the backing to defend policy. It’s a simple concept he was
talking about: if there is a need for a policy, there is a need for
enforcement. If parents don’t, then the school has to. Why bother?
Because it is the school’s job to educate students. That makes it essential
to create an atmosphere in which learning can occur.
We wonder why college students aren’t flocking to enroll in education
courses so when they graduate they can become teachers. Why should
they, if what they have to look forward to is a never-ending battle with
students who don’t comply with the rules and parents and/or school
boards who don’t back them when they attempt to enforce those rules.
The interesting thing is that the more violators and violations there are,
the greater the need for more laws and more stringent enforcement. And
yet. the guilty still go unpunished.
CITY COUNCIL
The Dublin City Council will
meet in regular session at 7 p.m.
Monday at city hall. Agenda items
Turning Back the Pages
50 YEARS AGO
August 6, 1948
The safe at the First Baptist
which had been filed by press time Church was broken into and about
included the appointment of a new $650 in bonds, checks and money
member to the city's planning was taken. An investigation re-
commission, approval of a resolu- vealed that the front door of the
tion from the GSA office concern- church had been pried open with a
ing the sewer project, and discus-
sions concerning the Texas Down-
town Association and the Dublin
Public Library.
DEADLINE
TEXAS
CROSSWORD
by Charley & Guy Orbison
Copyright 1998 by Orbison Bros.
TXism: “sweating
bullets"
38 TXism: "got Romeo
blood in his_’
40 horse morsel
41 TX Kenny's "The
Gambler, Part _"
42 coach Landry's
countenance
49 TXism: "blaze
_trail" (explore)
51 TXism: "change range"
52 TX-MX mafia: El _
57 bank transactions
58 TX Pride's "__
Leaving Alone"
First National Bank
825 N. Patrick • P.O. Box 440 • Dublin TX 76446 • (254) 445-4400
with branches in Dublin, De Leon and Gustine
Member FDIC
sharp instrument and a hammer.
The 1948 Dublin Rodeo Program
was being printed with "two colors
of ink on the cover" and would
soon be ready for distribution.
,, , „ . , . Two Dublin women, Miss Vera
Send your organizational bpefs L Roberson and Miss Hattie
Bowden, received their degrees at
to The Citizen by 5 p.m. Tuesday
the Howard Payne College summer
commencement.
25 YEARS AGO
August 9, 1973
The 1973-74 dress code for the
Dublin schools was in the news.
The boys' list included:
1. Hair may be worn down to the
collar if it is kept clean, trimmed
and out of eyes.
2. Shoes and socks shall be worn
in class.
3. Clothing designed for casual
wear (such as shorts, cut-offs, fish-
net shirts, etc.) is not to be worn in
school.
4. Tapered shirts are to be worn
tucked in, but square cut shirts may
be worn outside.
The girls' list included:
1. Girls are asked to dress neatly
and modestly. Extremely revealing
fashions (such as shorts, hot pants,
pant dresses and scooter skirts)
should not be worn to school.
2. Pant suits and coordinates may
be worn, but girls are discouraged
from wearing boys'-type western
pants to school.
3. Hair Should be kept clean,
neat and out of the eyes.
4. Extremely long dresses are
discouraged, not because they do
not look nice, but as a safety
precaution on the stairs.
The Dublin Riding Club an-
nounced that it would sponsor Miss
Vickie Durham, 15-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy
Durham, in the Miss Rodeo Texas
"Teen" pageant.
Jayne and Jerry Ledbetter and
their children, Laura and Larry,
introduced their visitor, 16-year-
old Visa Rista, an exchange stu-
dent from Finland.
The Dublin Citizen
(USPS 006412)
404 N. Patrick
Dublin TX 76446
(254) 445-2515
FAX (254) 445-4116
Published by Karen Wright at 404
N. Patrick, Dublin TX 7(446.
Periodicals Postage paid at
Dublin, Texas
POSTMASTER: Send address
changes to The Dublin Citizen,
4(4 N. Patrick, Dublin TX 76446.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Wright, Karen. The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1998, newspaper, August 6, 1998; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth762140/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.