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Volume 14, No. 9
Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003
Turning
Back
The Pages
By
Sandra
Thomas
EDC pushes houses, business
75 YEARS AGO
NOV 2,1928
J.H. Davidson's Filling Station
and Grocery located in front of
the Frisco Depot on Elm Street
was open for business after hav-
ing been rebuilt.
Misses Aleen Scott, Mary Jane
Bowden and Elizabeth
Fluchingson of Dublin passed the
try outs and were chosen as mem-
bers of the Girls Glee Club of
Texas Christian University.
Mrs. A Snead entertained
friends in her home for a one
o'clock dinner. The guest attend-
ing was Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Minchew, Miss Doris Parker, Mr.
Ross Huchingson, and Mr. Riley
Worthy of DeLeon.
Third grade honor roll ribbon
winners were James Hundley,
Theo Wilkinson, C.J. Bilsard and
Jane Shield, teacher Florence
Sheehan.
Miss Hattie Ruth C! istie,
Dublin Grammar School teacher
attended the Teacher's Institute at
Stephenville to demonstrate the
Graves system of teaching writ-
ing. Children attending with Miss
Christie were Myrta Bishop,
Edwin Spark, Gladys Alexander,
Jeanette Reid, Robert Allen
Browning, Freddie Holmes and
Ida Delia Williams.
50 YEARS AGO
NOV 6, 1953
Richard Spradley, Chamber of
Commerce manager along with
Dublin businessmen Edwin
Keller, Dick Harbin, Wm. P.
Hallmark, Joe Henderson, Walter
Hamilton and Sam Strong attend-
ed a hearing in Breckenridge'to
protest the plans to abandon the
164 miles of railway from
Wichita Falls to Dublin.
The Dublin Masonic Lodge
presented twenty-five years
emblems to the following
Masons: A.A. Alexander, J.Q.
Aycock, Charles M. Barham,
M.F. Bledsoe, J.T. Bradberry,
Albert L. Clay, W.W. Cleveland,
W.A. Cook, Roy Davis, H.E.
Fisher, Charlie G. Foust Jr., Elmer
C. Gilbert, N.T. Mulloy, O.E.
Noah, Wm. H. Prescott, Jon B.
Reeves, W.D. Smith, David B.
Tipton, William A. Roden,
Homer Stephen, Willis W.
Gresham, J.W. Hall, John B.
Hallmark Sr., Frank Hamilton,
Walter Hamilton, Walter M.
Henson, J.E. Hickman, Charles
Minchew, Earl B. Moore, James
Moss, W.H. Novit, Ed Snead,
Curtis Walling and J. Whisenant.
U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson
addressed Erath County citizens
at the Stephenville courthouse.
25 YEARS AGO
NOV 2, 1978
Willie Walker and Flo Dixon
were crowned King and Queen at
the Dublin Nursing and
Convalescent Center's Halloween
Costume Parade.
The Queens of the annual PTA
Halloween Carnival were:
Elementary-Jill Pate escorted by
Cris Simmons, Jr., Jr. High-Karen
Templeton, escorted by Ronnie
Woods and High School-DeLores
Whisenant, escorted by Jimmy
Williams.
Scout leaders and friends of the
late Lois Gee of Dublin assem-
bled at Camp Billy Gibbons of
Comanche Trail Council, on
Brady Creek in San Saba to dedi-
cate the lodge on Plum Hollow to
Lois Gee for her years of dedica-
tion to Scouting in Dublin.
Nine entrants tied for the top
spot with four misses for the
Dublin Progress Football Game
contest, by guessing the closest to
actual score of the Texas-SMU
football game. Patti Mann came
in first, followed by Vada
Williamson who finished in sec-
ond place and Martin Cook fin-
ished third. Also winning but los-
ing the tie breaker was Ronal
Wilkerson of DeLeon, Roger
Cook, Jan Jones, Wayne
Williamson, Lynn Holden and
Lester Pair.
By MAC B. McKINNON
Citizen Publisher
If you want to build a house
or start a business, Dublin is the
place to be.
The Dublin Economic
Development • Corporation
Monday night meeting in regu-
lar session, approved plans to
encourage anyone wanting to
build a home in Dublin and help
for those starting a new busi-
ness. In addition they held a
closed meeting to discuss a
potential new industry for
Dublin.
They also approved plans to
meet with the city council at
their next meeting Nov. 10 to
ask the city to make modifica-
tions to building requirements,
reduce the minimum size of
homes from 1,000 square feet to
850 or 900. In addition, EDC
Executive Director Sandy Reed
was asked to talk to the council
to see if they will consider waiv-
ing building permit fees and tap
fees along with the possibility of
waiving first year taxes.
The EDC will offer up a one
per cent rebate on the cost of a
new house. Wanted posters will
be printed and distributed so
that builders and potential new
residents will know about the
incentives being offered in
Dublin.
The EDC is also going to
have a pilot project on remodel-
ing homes with USDA assis-
tance with USDA officials to
have been here yesterday to
begin work on the project.
The EDC has budgeted
$20,000 to help in getting new
homes built here and homes
refurbished.
Other action pertained to
offering help for new businesses
and that could amount to $500
for various assistance including
joining the chamber of com-
merce, signage and advertising.
An application must be com-
pleted. Director Paul Bradberry'
has requested something to be
done to help new businesses get
over the initial costs of getting
started.
This is in addition to help
already offered by the EDC for
stores to get facade grants and
for organizations to receive
community improvement
grants.
A community improvement
grant was requested by Boy
Scout Kyle Crouch in the
amount of $1,690 to finance a
new patriotic display at Comer
Lot.
See EDC on page 7A
Friday is fun time in Dublin
Dublin merchants will have a
special safe Halloween Trick-
Or-Treat Trail Friday from 4-6
p.m. and are urging special cau-
tion due to heavy traffic with the
beginning of deer season and
Friday being a football night.
Highway 377 is heavily trav-
eled on weekends and police
will offer special escorts across
the streets for youngsters going
door-to-door on businesses.
In addition to all the goodies,
a costume contest will be at the
Comer Lot beginning at 4:30
p.m. Each must be accompanied
by an adult.
LEGENDS - Charlie Ben Bradberry stands near three legendary
rodeo broncs (from left to right): Super Chief. El Capitan, and
Chief Tyhee.
Creating a legacy:
Charlie Ben Bradberry **
CRAZY HATS - In honor of Red Ribbon Week. Dublin Elemtary students adorned their best hats. The
winners were (in middle with bags) Jacob tones and Madison Mobely.
By DONDI RATLIFF
Staff Writer
In 1937, Everett Colborn
leased a large ranch fourteen
miles southwest of Dublin for
his huge string of rodeo stock.
This ranch became the
Lightning C, and Everett
brought his wife, Ava, and two
daughters, Rosemary and
Carolyn, from Blackfoot, Idaho,
to live in their new home. Soon
after in that same year, Santa Fe
assigned Everett a 24-car train
to transport his livestock to New
York and Massachusetts, and (he
first journey began with the
fourteen-mile cattle drive. In
1939, the Dublin Rodeo
Association was bom, and in
April 1940, the first Dublin
Rodeo was given to the citizens
of the town.
Behind the scenes, the sup-
port of the rodeo hands was the
silent motion that moved the
whole thing along smoothly.
Charlie Ben Bradberry was one
of these men.
Charlie and his father started
out with a dray team, before the
rodeo began. They graduated to
trucks when they became avail-
able, and had a moving busi-
ness: Charlie Ben and His
Mov ing Men. As all cattle went
to Fort Worth on cattle trucks
back then. Charlie Ben had cat-
tle trucks. The other trucks he
had were for moving other
items. "Everything moved on
the railroad." Harry Bradberry.
one of Charlie's sons explains,
"so they did distribution."
It was then that Colborn came
in and leased the Lightning C.
Charlie Ben, with his knowl-
edge of cattle, began to work
with him.
See TRIBUTE on page 7A
How I spent WcmLd Wan II
by Col. (Ret.) Robe«t Lee Gallauoay
(Editor's Mote: Col. Robert
Lee. Gallaway was the sixth of
nine children bom to an Erath
County family on May 6, 1919.
His Erath County roots stretch
back at least two full genera-
tions. In the 1920's, his uncle.
Mason Edward Gallaway, ran a
touring car service in Dublin
and owned a general ntcr-
chandice store located on South
Patrick between the bank and
Baxter's Place. His father,
Martin Luther Gallaway, moved
with his wife and children to
Delhi, California, in 1930 (See
Laura Kestner, "From
Desdemona to Delhi, "
REMEMBERING TEXAS,
April, May, June, July, August,
and September, 1999).
Upon his death, his wish to
be buried in Erath County was
honored when his body was
brought back to Texas and
interred in the Victor Cemetery
in western Erath County. Robert
Lee was his only son to become
a career soldier and spent 27
months during World War 11 at
Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian
Islands. During that time he
served in several capacities, but
as U. S. Army Quartermaster of
Hawaii, he met Adm. William F.
"Bull" Halsey, pitched horse-
shoes with Fleet Adm. Chester
W. Nimitz, coached an interser-
vice baseball team that con-
tained future greats in profes-
sional sports, and witnessed the
arrival and departure of combat
units, convoys, and task forces
carrying the war "down under"
to the South Pacific. In February
and March of 1997, six years
before his death on February 2,
2003, Col. Gallaway recorded
his lifetime recollections on
nine audio tapes. The excerpt
which follows, taken from those
tapes, is Col. Callaway's
account of his tour of duty at
Pearl Harbor from July, 1943, to
September, 1945. One of his
first cousins, Mrs. Joe "Skeet"
Dorsey, currently resides in the
Golden Age nursing home in
Dublin.
B. P. Gallaway, Editor
Abilene, lexas
Col. Robert L. Gallaway as a
l.ictitenent Colonel in 1965
I think it was in May 1943,
while I was a first lieutenant
serving as post QM
[Quartermaster! at the new
Galveston Air Base in Texas
that I received orders to go to
the Pacific. My duties had
included command of a crash-
boat company, and when a
crashboat company was created
at Pea. I Harbor, the brass in
Washington, I). C„ must have
checked my personnel files for
someone to command it, and
since I had had some experience
with crashboats, I was selected.
Actually, my experience in this
type of operation was extremely
limited. There had been no air-
plane crashes in the Gulf of
Mexico that required my air-sea
rescue team's services, so our
42-foot P. T. Boat was never
called upon for anything more
than routine outings.
Nevertheless, on July II,
1943, I landed at Pearl Harbor
1
on the island of Oahu, and was
assigned command of the 927th
Quartermaster Crashboat
Company located at the yacht
harbor at the mouth of the Ala
Wai Canal next to Waikiki
Beach. Although the U. S. Coast
Guard ran the show, we were
given the job of plucking
downed flyers from the ocean if
they crashed into the drink.
The 927th was the only outfit
of its kind at this time in Pacific
waters. However, our operation
slowly expanded as the war
continued; and working under
orders from the Seventh Air
Force, we rescued downed fly-
ers around the Hawaiian group,
Johnson Island, and several
islands of the Makin group.
As our company became
more seaboume, it came to con-
sist of 360 soldiers and 30 ves-
sels including a 29-foot Chris
Craft with twin Chrysler
engines converted to maritime
use given to us by Doris Duke,
the tobacco heiress who had a
home near Diamond Head.
Since Adm. Nimitz's Cen Pac
[Central Pacific Command)
headquarters was located near-
by and the strategic planning for
the island-hopping campaign
against Japan originated there,
we were situated at the heart of
Pacific operations. Young and
inexperienced pilots, many right
out of flight school, had consid-
erable trouble getting accus-
tomed to their newly assigned
aircraft since these planes were
hotter than the ones in which
they had learned to fly, and I
believe we picked up about 29
downed aviators |during the
next several months]. Toward
the end of the summer, we
began getting in the new con-
verted P. T. boats which had
twin Packard high-speed
engines which would literally
stand on their tails when opened
up. A couple of months later we
added a 113-foot cutter to our
fleet. Once when we went out in
rough seas at a high speed to
rescue the men of a C-54 that
had gone down, we found only
some floating mail and clothing
but no people, not even an oil
slick since the sea was so rough.
Because of our high speed
and the rough seas, we actually
loosened the planking on the
cutter and had taken on so much
water that it was beginning to
pour into the engine room. We
of the 927th Crash Boat
Company got pretty gor'd at our
job. Sometimes we plucked
downed airmen from the drink
before they had time to inflate
their "Mae West" life pre-
servers. if the airmen bailed out
and it was a clear day, their
chutes could be spotted as soon
as they opened, and we could be
waiting for them when they
descended into the water. There
was little to worry about if the
sea was calm and the pilots
bailed out. But if they rode their
planes down, it could be a dif-
ferent story .Bad weather, poor
visability, and rough seas some-
times caused us to reach the
crash site too late the rescue the
airman on board.
My crewmen and 1 remember
our failures better than our suc-
cesses, but I recall one particu-
lar success most vividly. An F4-
U Corsair from a carrier came in
flying so low that its prop hit a
big wave, and there was a
tremendous blast of flying
debris, water, and spray as the
Corsair plowed into the sea.
Since my boys witnessed the
accident, we hustled into our
boats and struck out for the site
of the wreck. We were there in
the twinkling of an eye and
reached the pilot, a marine flyer,
by the time he popped his
canopy. I don’t think he even got
wet.
About the time I made cap-
tain in the summer of 1944, the
greatly expanding air-sea rescue
\
operations were turned over to
the Air Force and the 927th was
moved from Army
Quartermaster to the Army Air
Corps. Orders came down that I
was to assume command of an
aviation subsistence company
attached to the I368tii
Quartermaster Depot so I
moved my headquarters from
the Ali Wai Canal to Hickum
Field. The new command
required more of my time and
burdened me with more respon-
sibility. There were other
Quartermaster depots around
the islands, but it was my
responsibility to supply all the
personnel on the Hickum Field
side of the island including the
Red Hill staging area where
army units made final prepara-
tions for shipment "down
under" to the South Pacific for
combat and occupation duties.
We had an ice plant that pro-
duced 300-pound cakes of ice
and each day we delivered 24 of
these to the units in my district.
1 remember one occasion
when my head warehouseman
called me about 4:30 one morn-
ing and told me a whole train-
logd of sugar had arriv ed-some
3 million pounds-and wanted
to know where we should put it.
I contacted my colonel (1
believe his name was Snyder)
and learned that the Army had
purchased the entire sugar crop
of Hawaii. After considerable
consternation, I finally found a
place to store 3 million pounds
of sugar by borrowing some
hangers at the John Roger's air-
port not far from Hickum Field.
Of course the presence of the
Navy added to the excitement
and pleasure of being stationed
in paradise. I had a good friend
in the Navy, Commander St.
John, who had the same job in
the Navy that I had in the Army
at Hickum Field.
See WORLD WAR II on
page 5B.
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