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Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003
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Back
The Pages
By
Sandra
Thomas
75 YEARS AGO
NOV 9,1928
The following businesses
planned to close for Armistice
Day for November 12, 1928:
Utterback and Harris, C.C.
Baxter, Higginbotham Bros.,
W.H. Novit, Galloway City
Drug, O.D. Bibby, Myrtis
Robbins Motor Co., Mrs. L. W.
BarTett, Christie & Co., Dublin
Electric Co., Edmonds Studio,
W.C. Gamer, Farris & Garrett,
Cooper Grocery Co., Palace
Tailor Shop, City Market, T.H.
Paschal, Walter Hamilton,
Dublin Drug & Jewelry Co.,
Overton Drug Co., Martin's,
E.C. Fewell, J.M. Jordan, J.W.
Onstott, Tom Holland, Jones
Market, Ray Long, Walker
Smith Co., R.E. Deeley, W. B.
Stockton Shoe Shop, J.L. Ray
Market, H.A. Fine Grocery, Ray
Lancaster, Foust Lumber Co.,
Loyd Hines, J.A. Fine, Taylor
and Golightly, Foster Motor
Garage, Sheehan's Tailor Shop,
Southwest Gas Co., Hallmark
Drug, B.F. Work, Sanitary Hub,
Roy C. Jones, J.D. Brock, T.P.&
L. Co., W.P. Warren, Barret
Barber Shop, Reid Motor Co.,
J.D. Drewery, Dublin National
Bank, Waples Platter, Roy
Armstrong, Mrs. M.D.
Galagher, Farmers National
Bank and Dublin Progress.
Republican candidates
Herbert Hoover and Charles
Curtis sweep forty states,
including Texas and Erath
County over Alfred Smith and
Joe T. Robinson. The first lime
in history that a republican nom-
inee carried Texas for the G.O.P.
50 YEARS AGO
NOV 13,1953
Carl L Hall, co-owner of the
Hall and Cleveland Prescription
Laboratory, was named vice-
president of the Tarleton State
College Ex-Student
Association.
The Girl Scout fundraiser
drive was underway. A list of
team captains and workers head-
ing the drive included:
Mesdames Carl Stevens, Jr.,
Carl Jordan, Audrey
Shillingburg, Tom Bose, Billie
Warner, Robert Crouch, Nathan
Seigel, Troy Baxter, Clayton
Keller, Bill Gaines, Dick
Harbin, Calvin Hazlewood, Ed
Leatherwood, Paul Warren,
W.D. Newman, Coy Perry, J.C.
Humphries, L.R. Robinson, Sam
Wolfe, Floy Walker, Edwin
Keller, Joe Campbell, Weldon
McCleskey, Gerald mcllroy,
Audrey Brown, W.H. Stephen,
Alton Davis, Joe Bean, Lois
Gee, Madeline Guyger, George
Skeen, J.C. Jumey, Ray Long,
Jr., Herbert Bell, Bill Smith,
Charles Minchew, Charles
Foust, Ranee Forson, Bobbie
Stephen and Armo Chambers.
25 YEARS AGO
NOV 9,1978
Donna Traweek, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Traweek, was
selected by the Dublin Chapter
of the Future Farmers of
American as 1978-79 sweet-
heart.
Leon Broughton, scoutmaster
and local Rotary Club member,
presented a memorial plaque to
the Dublin Rotary Club, which
initiated the Lois Gee Memorial
Fund. The Lois Gee Memorial
Building was dedicated at Camp
Billy Gibbons near San Saba.
Receiving the presentation was
Jim Mulloy, president of the
Rotary Club and Larry Walker.
Ms. Ona Mae Gee accepted a
duplicate dedicatory plaque on
behalf of the Gee family. Others
present were O.C. Cook, Bill
and Betty Grimes, , Kimberly
Grimes, Ben Templeton, Jerry
Templeton,
See TURNING on page 2A
Chamber ready for holidays
By MAC B. McKINNON
Citizen Publisher
Dublin Chamber of
Commerce meeting in regular
monthly session Monday elect-
ed five new directors, new offi-
cers and worked on plans, for the
holidays, as well as the 150th
birthday party celebration at the
annual Chamber banquet Jan.
19.
New directors elected include
Babe Clark of lrishetta Bed &
Breakfast; Tom Gordon, retired;
Molly Clark of First Call Realty;
Sandra Thomas, Dublin Public
Library librarian, and Derick
Weatherly of CCS Medical
Supplies.
They succeed Laura
Hutchins, Liz Albrecht, Terry
Miller, David Zinck and Molly
Clark, who has been appointed
just a few months ago to fill a
vacancy.
New officers elected were
Bill Campbell who is currently
president, completing the term
of Albrecht who will now have
his own term; Jonnie Cozart,
vice president; Rhonda Keilers,
secretary and Steve Jenkins,
treasurer.
One of the big events under
discussion was the Christmas in
Texas/Dublin Style with a big
week after Thanksgiving. The
Texas Myths & Legends figures
will be on display at the old
Furniture Mart. A book signing
on the latest book by Charles
Chupp of DeLeon with part of
the proceeds of the cost of
S18.30, going to the Dublin
Chamber. That'll be the week of
Dec. 1-5 with the book signing
on Dec. 4, the same day as the
Christmas parade and Chamber
Open House, and that Saturday
will be the Christmas tour of
homes. Schools are already
signing up for the Myths and
Legends and volunteer help is
needed.
Chamber Manager Jeanette
Ward noted the Chamber float
lights need work and Campbell
said he would look into it.
The Shop Dublin Promotion
was discussed with details to be
announced later with each mer-
chant offering prizes for shop-
PECAN TIME - It is pecan time in Texas. The pecans are sorted
twice, once by machine the second time by hand. See related
photo’s page B 4.
ping in their store during the
Christmas season.
A Chamber directory bid for
printing was awarded to New
Beginnings for $900 for the
directory and calendar for 300
copies plus $150 set-up fee. Ads
will be sold to pay for the
expense of the directory to be
ready for the annual Chamber
banquet.
For that banquet, it was
decided to have Layne Golden
provide entertainment, a speaker
is being arranged. Entertainment
for the Christmas season will be
Charles Patrick, a veteran of
country music who has just
moved to Dublin (he will be fea-
tured in the Citizen in coming
weeks).
The Chamber also set this
Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon for
a retreat at the Chamber offices
to go over bylaws, Miss Dublin
pageant rules, 2004 schedule of
events, duties and finances.
See CHAMBER on page 8A
Chamber to sponsor
caregiver workshops
The Dublin Chamber of
Commerce will be sponsoring
two different workshops in
November.
The first is over Elder Care
and Work/Life Balance. This
brown bag lunch will help work-
ing people caring for older par-
ents, relatives, and friends to
know how to balnce the
demands of work and other
responsibilities; community and
internet resources; and legal and
financial planning.
The second is over Managing
Employees with Elder Care
Responsibilities. This brown
bag lunch will provide tools and
strategies for employers to keep
their employees providing elder
care on the job and productive.
The works shops will be on
November 6th. Elder Care and
Work/Life Balance will be at 11
a.m. to noon.
Managing Employees with
Elder Care Responsibilities will
be the same day beginning at
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
BRF3AK TIME - Shea and Makienzie Courtney take a break from
the excitement and rest on the tables where dinner was serv ed.
PRETTY GIRLS - Adriana, Destiny and Gabriela Guzman caught
everyones eye on Halloween.
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/^tyhen asked about his life,
|p.K. i^cwallen humbly waves it
nil awjky. 'X)h, it's nothing spe-
cial,he protests with good
idir.
is bom in 1919 in Van
Alstyne and his parents, Oscar
an^Daisy Lewallen, moved to
Bftckwell, Texas, near
Sweetwater, when he was only
sp few months old. They lived
fin their farm there with their
livestock and cotton until he
graduated from high school,
keeping their farm through the
Depression of the 1930s. They
cpd farm work, both on their
o^yn farm as well as the farms
of others, to get by. WhenCi.K.
was eleven, his father died,
having him with his mother,
older brother, younger brother,
arpl sister.
/hen G.K. graduated, he
was unsure about what to do
afterward. Draughon's
isiness College seemed his
1st bet, but a hand working for
Item one summer talked him
ito going to Mangum,
Jklahoma, for a rodeo. "I got
lere and heard the rodeo sto-
res, and so I decided to rodeo,
rat was in 1937,” Lewallen
A Tribute to
G.K. Lewallen and Whit Keeney
He made his living in this
way until 1955, when he turned
36. In the meantime, he bought
a stock farm near Hico with his
rodeo winnings, where he
opened his very first western
store. He decided to do this
when he was traveling w ith the
rodeo in 1953 and 1954, and he
noticed that there weren't any
western stores on the East
Coast despite the demands for
that clothing type at fairs and
rodeos. He took a trailer of
things with him in his travels,
and the year after he decided to
retire from the rodeo life, he
opened Grand Entry in
Stephenville in 1956. Fourteen
years later, he built the building
where the present Grand Entry
is situated on the South Loop.
Lewallen traveled with
Colborn to Madison Square
Garden six or seven years and
won the bullriding event in
1945. He came to the Dublin
Rodeo two or three times, but
when it was moved from
August, he was usually up in
the North and couldn't make it.
Instead, he would head to New
York, then after a while drive
back - Lewallen went to other
places and rodeos, and thus did-
n't ride back with the Lightning
C crew.
This wasn't to say that he
didn't know Everett Colborn.
"He was friendly, cordial,"
Lewallen remembers. "He did-
n't talk lot’s but made sense
when he did."
He won first prize in
Albuquerque, New Mexico;
Billings, Montana; Rapid City,
South Dakota; Ogden, Utah;
and San Antonio, Texas with
bullriding and saddle bronc rid-
ing. He also rode bareback, but
his favorite was the saddle
bronc riding. He simply made
more money doing the bullrid-
ing.
He married his first wife in
1944, and was married for 44
years before she passed on in
1988. He married his second
wife, Nita, two years later. He
was inducted into the Cowboy
Hall of Fame in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, in 1994, and is
still great friends with Lanham
Riley, Whit Keeney, and
George Brown after 50 years-
all of whom he met in his
rodeoing days. He even goes on
to relate how his son in law.
Chick Elms, went to national
finals six or seven times in a
row during his own rodeo days.
What he recalls about his life
was "the good old rural
upbringing" and his loving
family. They never had to lock
their doors or have keys. His
sister became a teacher before
she went to work for the Red
Cross. His older brother
became a farming man, and
passed away some time ago.
His younger brother died in the
Philippines in a prison camp
after he made the Bataan Death
March.
Despite these things, his life
has been well-lived, and like
others, his humble beginnings
heralded a life of greatness in
his chosen profession later on.
Whit Keeney is most well-
known as the "cowboy's cow-
boy." As w as once said of him,
he was "a threat to anyone that
may consider himself a cow boy
in roping competition." Bom
and raised just outside of
Stephenville in Pilot Knob,
Whit claims his home as
Stephenville. He loves horses
and cowdogs, and has been
married thirty-three years to
Mary Purdom Keeney, who
was bom in a saddle herself.
Whit has won 37 saddles and
over 50 sterling silver belt
buckles for his prowess at rop-
ing. The first saddle in 1957
was when Whit was 40 years
old.
He first learned about the
joys of rodeo in Burwell,
Nebraska, and when he won
$1,900, his fate was sealed to
that of the rodeo from then on.
He would start at the Dublin
Rodeo, then move to Ardmore
in Oklahoma, followed by
Madison in Iowa, then New
York, and finally Boston. He
worked for Everett Colborn in
the rodeo as a pick-up man
starting in the 1947-1948 sea-
son to work in those cities as
part of the Lightning C routes.
He also worked for Homer
Todd of Fort Smith, Arkansas,
during his career.
He should be as good as that
at what he does: he's had a rope
in his hands since the age of
fourteen. He made most of the
amateur shows, most of them in
the Dallas area, and from there
sprang his illustrious rodeo
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s a member of the
Natidnqi 01fJi!Timers jk(>p4ng
Asso^iMiofy' and his b&sCiittie
for tufting is eight seconds.
He's bred a member; of the
RCA>(^)deo Cowjboys of
AmcncaJ'Since 1944,and w$s a
roping dtwjifeitiifti' af/'the IWill
Rogers CoIrSeypi'the first year
that it opened.^tje-Jprfcw Will
Rogers personally.
Whit is also a bulldqgge&or
steer w restler as it's catted noy.
In 1960, in Louisiana, hie scoijbd
a time of 2.4 seconds, and a$’ of
1971, he scored a 2.1 septind
bulldogging at MeridiadyTexas.
He's known as "the map that
can," often bringing in wild cat-
tle that nobody else hassheen
able to with just his dogsWid
his horse. He began rodeoing
in 1932. ^
Even now, at around u86
years of age, Whit rises w ith jjhe
sun and works around |ris
home. He was bom the sopf of
a ranch cowboy on Valentine's
Day, 1917. He had a daughter
and a son, Kathy and Bob,vand
though his son is now deceased,
he has visits from the remakiing
family. He and George Bjtown
are old friends, and have ^pent
most of their lives knowing
each other.
This isn't to say that AVhit
hasn't met his fair shaf^ of
celebrities. He has met Qene
Autry, Roy Rogers and frale
Evans, Will Rogers, and Atxlie
Murphy.
See LEGACIES on page 7 A
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