The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1997 Page: 2 of 34
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Dublin Public Library.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
The Dubtta ( iti/cn
—
Letters to the Editor
Hear Editor.
Having attended Tex*. To*
hack 'when." we enjoyed yoaf
editorial oa "Lnhhuck in the rear
view minor." It brought hack
memories of Ijihhuck. dad dorms,
and several Tech vs AAM games,
some of which woakl he better
forgotten. It s a great school
Oar only objection 10 *he art ktc
was the stam agam* Amarillo.
Amarillo ready is a part of Texas
(check year map) even though
many Mks downstate don’t think
so. AetnaUy oar weather is ex-
tremely nice. We donl have the
dad Ijibbock has. We dual have
the haniidity many parts of the
daU- have, and it’s nice to sit by
the fire on a cold wtoter night. then
go oauide the next day with only a
sweater. I’ve been colder in Austin
when it was e foody and 20 degrees
than in Amarillo with the tempera-
ture at 9 below with the sail
shining. Not only that, hat with oar
cold winter nights, the bag popula-
tion goes WAY down.
We take the Dahlia paper bc-
caasc we dill have kin in the area
and like to keep up with what's
going on. Besides, news of the City
Council is becoming addictive -
like a soap opera. Don’t get me
wrong, we've had oar share of "that
type of duir in yean pad. k's jad
that it's kind of fan reading about
someone else once in a while.
The "Meet Your Neighbor" ar-
ticles are iatervding and I always
look for Trillcs’ from Stormy &
Carol in hopes of finding a new
recipe to try. By the way. how
about a "kitchen column"? IV old
Dmbiw Emgwnmsai to have one
front which I got many good
recipes. DnMm is fmil of good
cooks. I know because I've eaten
with Betty and Ben Kobbuts.
Sincerely.
Johaic Robbins
Dear Editor.
I won Id like to set the reconl
Untight on a lew matters
lint. Mr. Saddertb stated at the
lad special conneil meeting ilui he
saved the City of Dublin $50.tKI0
- he was wrong 'IV* "CHceens lor
a Belter Dublin" did this wlten lltey
hied a ease. Our fonner City
Attorney Jim MnUojr tried to do
this wltcu be tokl us that Mr.
Winder’s contract was not legal.
But our council, lltc one "nearly
100 Dublinitcs commend"
(Slephenville Empire-T ribune.
Nov. 4. 1997). spent taxpayers’
money to pay for an
that was done by Mr.
an anonymous letter that alleged a
criminal action. Mr.
never bothered to tell IV* e
(hat tV* statute ran out on this
alleged criminal action nearly four
years ago. Why investigate? Then
he ignited a law that went into
allcct in 199.1. but IV* alleged
criminal action took place in 1991
and 1992. Yes. let ns commend oar
conneil.
We have I tad the work on the
treatment plain slowed down due
to one of "onr" council members
calling Texas Natural Resource
Conservation Commission, which
could have cod the city (nut the
contractors) thousands of dollars.
We have a sewer line behind the
high school that has been worked
on without following tlic law. and
redone about llircc limes, and is
not finished yet due to three of oar PROCTOR SUPPER
council members and the mayor The Proctor Fall Harvest Supper
sayiug it was okay, without going will V at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8
by the laws. Of course, one of our at the Proctor Community Center,
comtcihncn. Don Slcwait. at the cosi is $4.50 per plate and $3 for
Oft. 13 meeting stated lie did not children. The menu includes bris-
carc about the law (we liavc this on Let, turkey dressing and ham with
videotape), but, liey, let's commend all the trimmings,
lltc council.
Dear Cditor.
I've seen it! It has happened!
liver since we moved bumc to
Ifebtia two years ago. I have
{beamed of the time folks "round
about here" would u& just he
saying. "lank at llico. See what
they are- getting done."
In IV- De I eon newspaper. The
Monitor, this past week, there is
the story of a great-sounding fund-
raiser to support downtown De
Lcou. AND it says mavhe they can
do something like Dublin did with
the comer lot.
Thank you. thank you. thank
you. CORNER LOT GANG.
Mary Yantis
You’re invited to \
David Johnson L
Appreciation r
Dayy
Free hamburgers and Dr Pepper
served from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Monday at
Th e’Cfflfterhft
Patrick & Blackjack
An informal way to show our
appreciation to David Johnson
for his 20 years of service to
the City of Dublin
We have a council member llial
was doing maintenance on the fire
trucks which is very commendable,
but Ik* was being paid which is
against Hk* law. 'Die cluck was
written to someone else, llicn split
with him. Lei's go around llu law!
(low about flic direct order dial
was given fo Chief Joluison to hire
Lee Ann Mulloy as a dispatcher,
regardless of lltc nepotism law.
(Site is lltc wife of Councilman
David Mulloy.) Yet the same ones
told him not Iq hire Dee Lewis, die
wife of Officer Curtis Ixwis, due
to die nepotism law. Again, let us
commend our council for doing
"die right thing."
'Die City of Dublin is at a
standstill, but not because of Tom
Winder or David Joluison. Take a
look at our council and ourselves!
Patlie Joluison
KINDERGARTEN PALS
Screening for the Kindergarten
PALS program is open. Any stu-
dent may be nominated. Parents
who need more information should
contact Karol Howell or Judy
Warner at 445-2577.
FHA FRUIT SALES
Future Homemakers of America
are selling fruit through Nov. Yl.
There are several variety boxes to
choose from, ranging in price from
$10 to $16. Contact an FHA
member or sponsors Karen Kuhl-
wein or Lynda Stafford at the high
school.
FLU CLINIC
The Lee Health Care flu clinic
■will be front 10 a.m. to 1 p.tn.
Nov. 8 at 715 E. Blackjack. Any-
one with Medicare Part B will
receive free shots. Medicare Part A
and anyone else will pay $8.
Community Thanksgiving
rt*«lfrrrBtov^„,7W»PrtJTei.iJB
The Rejabian Club will meet
'Ilie Community Thanksgiving
Service will be at 7 p.m., Sunday,
Nov. 23 at First Baptist Church.
Michael Young, pastor of Com-
munity Baptist Church, will bring
the .message. Howard Oakes, min-
ister of music and education at
First Baptist, will lead the music.
A choir rehearsal for anyone
Saturday. Nov. 8 at PAR Country
Club at 11:30 a.m. for lunch and
the book review presented by
Rosemary Rumbley. For more in-
formation, call Betty Culpepper at
445-3483 or Gene Leatherwood at
445-2541.
TRADE DAYS
Booth spaces are still available
First National Bank
ACROSS
1 in Rains Co. on 69
5 bluejsans brand
6 Bridge City party:
‘Bayou_*
. 7 San Antonio street:
_Adams
8 TXism: ‘mad as a
_-eyed cow'
g TXB.J. Thomas
gospel song: ’Home
Where__
16 ‘three' south of
the border
18 location of The
Ballpark
21 TX Ellerbee's book:
■And _ It Goes'
22 TXism: *__ high
on the hog’(rich)
23 TXism: ‘he's three
pickles short__
barrel' (strange)
24 TXism for gadget:
* maboto*
30 *i ‘A‘ in NAFTA
34 he beat Houston for
gov. in 1857. but
lost to him in 1659:
_ _ Runnels
36 this aefress Hedy
was a guest in
Port Aransas
famous Tarpon Inn
36 TX Willie’s "On The
_ Again*
37 TX Buddy Holly hit
30 TXism: ‘if I _
__I
couldn't stand if
43 taka a calf from
De Leon DUBLIN Gustine
^Presents,
SSKSEr* The original
earrings on__*
48 Columbus ships sailed to
Galveston for '92 Mardi
Gras Viva_
50 metal ore refineries
53 ex-Cowboy LB Darrin (init.)
54 short TX greeting
55 title to a piece of
TX land (2 wds.)
56 create a perilous situation
59 harness strap for plow mulel
TEXAS
CROSSWORD
by Charley & Gay Orbison
44 ‘yss‘ on battleship
Texas
60 TXism:
*his facts
_elastic'
(exaggerates)
61 Miss Piggy's
question
62 former governor
Richards
DOWN
1 this Martin left the
Alamo to plead for
reinforcements
2 TXism: tall dog
in the pack*
3 TXism: ‘use your
head for something
__hat
rack' (think)
4 this Arthur won
TX Davis Cup
event in '65
9 stats where TX
Holly died (abbr)
10 cattle raisers
11 TX actor Jack
12 dieters' food
13 Texans have to go
north to ski__
14 this Norman brought
the Minnesota North
Stars to Dallas (init.)
15 hot Pontiac in the 60s
17 TXism: ‘___
could hide in a lettuce
patch" (rookie)
19 Texas Stadium's
Ring__
20 TXism: ‘_a soul-
24 TXTrini (init.)
25 TX Buck's ‘Hoe_*
26 Gov. Hogg's only
daughter
27 Houston space agey.
interested is set for 6 p.m. that
evening. for Comanche's Old Cora Trade
The offering will go to the Day, set for Saturday, Nov. 8. The
Ministerial Alliance's fund for lo- event features arts and crafts, an-
cal residents and transients in tiques, commercial items, food,
times of crisis. produce, plants, and garage sale
David Leach is president of the items. For more information, call
alliance. the Comanche Chamber of Com-
merce at 915-356-3233.
CAPITAL-
Coot from page 1
inmates to work to help to repay
their debt to society, safety must
always come first,” Bullock said.
Other Capital Highlights
a State agencies are cutting
payrolls and laying off workers to
comply with a Sept. 1 cap on the
number of state employees. The
Texas Department of Health plans
to lay off 165 workers and the Texas
Department of Human Services,
266.
a The University of Texas at
Austin’s student body is the
nation’s largest, totaling 48,866
students this semester. Second is
Ohio State University with 48,278
students enrolled.
a Following an investigation by
the Texas Department of Human
Services, the state of Tfexas has
sued five nursing homes and
an unlicensed care home for
inadequately caring for residents.
Attorney General Dan Morales
is asking courts to fine homes
$10,000 per violation and order the
unlicensed home to cease operating
without a license.
26 grew older
29 'Gunsmoke' actor
James_is an
honorary TX Ranger
31 TXism: *_gut‘
(liquor)
32 "_More Beef*
33 Fort Worth's Casa
Manana _
38 The Container Store
is_in Dallas
40 ‘shut yer_*
41 TXism: ‘run it__
lawyer* (finalize)
42 TX Ginger's *
_ Manhattan* (film)
47 TX-born jockey
Shoemaker (init.)
49 TXism: thinking_
doing' (get busy)
51 wood. TX
52 TX Tommy _ Jones
57 Canyon's Texas'is
a musical_
58 TV producer Spelling
who wasSMUgrad
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
The Dublin Citizen
(USPS 006412)
404 N. Patrick
Dublin TX 76446
(?54) 445-2515
FAX (254) 445-4116
Published by Karen Wright at 40^
N. Patrick, Dublin TX 76446.
Periodicals Postage paid at
Dublin, Texas
POSTMASTER: Send address
changes to The Dublin Citizen,
404 N. Patrick, Dublin TX 76446.
The View From ^^2
by KAREN WRIGHT [PATRICK]
-IF_J
On a wing, a prayer and a voodoo doll
A couple of times each year, wc find an excuse to visit our friend.
Cftinc. a native New Yorker who lived briefly in Texas and relumed
home to he an advertising mogul on 5th Avenue. Ibis Columbus Duy
trip was a combined birthday party and llie Turning of the Leaves - a
spectacular reminder that souk* places have four seasons. (1 guess Texas
does too - it's just that two of them only last from 2 lo 4 p.m. one
afternoon and the other two last six months.)
By now the procedure is fairly routine. We fly out of D/FW Airport
into Newark Inlcmatioiial. lake a taxi into Hoboken, NJ. to meet Celine
at her tiny Monday-llirough-Thursday apartment and then drive two
hours north to her Friday-uight-through-Sunday country home in
tlortonvillc. nestled iu the Catskills.
The only inconsistency is predictably consistent and that is Murphy 's
law as it applies to New York taxi drivers. This trip was no exception.
After finding our luggage (miraculously intact), we scurried to the long
tine of identical yellow and black taxis in front of the airport, and leaped
into the hack seat of the one at the front of the line. The driver looked
acceptable - 20-ish, pleasant, courteous -- contrary to stereotype.
“Where to?" lie asks.
“Hoboken." wc say.
“Where iu Hoboken?" he asks.
“610 Grand,” we say.
1 could just see his eyes in the rear view minor and noticed his brow
was funowed. Then he shrugged and said, “Well, you can tell me where
Grand St. is when we get to Hoboken.” ,
“Uhhli - we probably can't do that." we say in unison. “We know
Celine's apartment when wc are right in front, but we don’t know how to
get there."
The brow furrowed again. Mild irritation was in his voice, his
stereotype starting to show.
“I don’t know how you expect me to know every street in every town
and who lives there. We’ll have to ask somebody when we get there.”
And then lie shrugged again and added the clincher: “Hoboken is only
a mile square,” he said. “How lost can we get.”
An hour later we had the answer to that question.
Our high speed odyssey began. Gunning his taxi, he spent the next few
miles alternately standing it on its nose and standing it on its tail. We
either go, or we stop -- there’s nothing in between. I could see the
speedometer so I took my glasses off. I really didn’t want to know if we
had gone supersonic and I sure didn't want to know the distance between
our hood ornament and the “I (heart) New York” bumper sticker in front
of us.
I noted that from his rear view mirror dangled an air freshener and a
voodoo doll. On the dash was a Bible. This man had his bases covered.
Finally, we jettisoned out of the Holland Tunnel, past the spectacular
night view of Manhattan across the river and into the narrow dark streets
of Hoboken, birthplace of Frank Sinatra. We drove and drove, reading
every street sign, but did not spot Grand. Finally the cabbie yells to a
guy who is in a mostly upright position on a curb.
“Hey, where’s Grand?"
“Who?” the guy responds.
"Where’s Grand St.?” the cabbie repeats.
The man looks pensive for awhile, then directs us “about two blocks
up, and maybe threftbtocks right.”
We follow those directions and find Garden, not Grand. The cabbie
yells at another street corner guy.
“Hey, where’s Grand?” the cabbie asks.
“The grand what?” the street guy responds.
“No, man. where’s Grand St.?” the cabbie asks.
“Oh, I think it’s up a few blocks and then back to the right and then
left. Maybe.”
So we stand it on its tail and take off again but the outcome is the
same. The cabbie, who is getting more irritated, mutters to himself, “We
need to find a taxi driver - they know all the streets.” OH, YEAH, we
think but don't say.
1 notice we pass a street that we’ve already been on at least once
before. In fact, the people sitting on the steps of their brownstone wave
to us as if we're old friends.
Finally we stop in the middle of the street beside a guy talking to a girl
in a car and the cabbie yells at him.
Without hesitation, he responds, “Turn at the next block and go to
Fifth Street and take a left. That's Grand.”
We follow these directions and sure enough, the neighborhood starts to
look familiar - past the New Jersey version of a supermarket and the
comer pub and finally, we screech to a stop in front of Celine’s
apartment.
Our exit and the extraction of luggage from the trunk look like an
Indianapolis 500 pit stop. There was consensus - he wanted us out; we
wanted out.
We climb the steep stairs to Celine's second floor apartment, extract
the key clandestinely hidden under the welcome mat and let ourselves in.
Then we fmd a note from Celine: “I couldn’t catch you before you left
Dallas to let you know I had to go on to Hoitonville. Just call a taxi and
meet me up there tonight.”
With a sigh, my friend picks up the phone and calls the taxi service
while I listen to this conversation.
“We need to go to Hoitonville. Pick us up at 610 Grand in Hoboken,
(brief pause) What do you mean, you don’t know where Grand is?
Hoboken is only one mile square - how lost can you get?"
So, I kick off my shoes and get comfortable. Obviously, it was going
to be awhile.
Turning Back the Pages
25 YEARS AGO 50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 9, 1972
in Dublin, 1,066 people voted in
the presidential election; 722 for
Nixon and 315 for McGovern.
A total of 417 voted in the
alderman election, choosing Carl
Stevens, Jr. and Jack Spruill for
two-year terms.
Second Baptist Church wel-
comed a new pastor. Bill Wiman, a
Snyder native who graduated from
Hardin-Siinmons. Harry Waites
was the new pastor at First Chris-
tian Church. Kj
The Quarterback Club was sell-
ing $1 chances on a rifle.
The Woman’s Thursday Club
met in the home of Mrs. T.F.
Bryan with Mrs. Dick Harbin pre-
siding.
The West Dublin Club met in
the home of Mrs. M.W. Tunnel!.
The Bunyan Thursday Club met
in the home of Dovie Traweek.
Nov. 7,1947
The wildcat oil well six miles
southwest of Dublin was making
heads of oil and gas to a height of
65 feet every 25 minutes from
12-foot sand encountered at 3,527
feet in the Ellenburger lime. There
was considerable trading going on
in leases and royalties since it was
the first oil well in the area.
Mrs. Grace Lyon returned from a
Dr Pepper convention in Dallas
where she received a bronze statue
signifying large per capita sales
gains. She expressed appreciation
to plant employees Bill Kloster,
Bill Blair, Jack Maikell, Charles
Nelson, Loyd Maikeil, Madison
Box and Fred Hointes.---
James Wadkins opened a cafe at
the comer of Blackjack and
Grafton.
The Halloween Carnival Queen
was Mary Ann Mayfield. She was
escorted by John Underwood and
crowned by W.D. Raley.
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.
Matching Search Results
View six places within this issue that match your search.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. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1997, newspaper, November 6, 1997; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth762878/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.