The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 2003 Page: 2 of 24
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BEST AVAILABLE COW
Sec. A, Page 2
Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, June 19, 2003
Ask the ^ayor
By James *Red* Seigars, Mayor of Dublin
What a weekend! Wall to wall people looking, shopping and
v taking in the excitement of Dublin. Dr Pepper, Dublin Annual Area
Reunion, and the Rodeo Museum were all busy with various proj-
ects to keep the public entertained.
With the opening of our New Dublin Rodeo Heritage Museum,
the Cowboy Tradition will live on. I was very proud to present to
Dr. Vernon Williams an Honorary Citizenship Award and a key to
the city.
The Dublin Annual Area Reunion, held at the High School, was
packed. Everyone there was enjoying the BBQ that Willard Mann
had prepared and was being served by the members of the
Historical Society. Everyone was talking about the old days and the
many memories of their classmates and of those that have gone
before us It was good to see Governor Perry back again this year.
I am in hopes that he will make this a yearly event and perhaps
invite some of his friends to join in the fun. I will not tell you where
he placed in the 10K run.
Some people have talked to me about forming a committee of
our local clubs, organizations, or any one who wants to do things in
Dublin One member from each club would help coordinate the
events so that there would be no duplication or lack of cooperation
from anyone. 1 believe this would work better if it was run by the
Chamber of Commerce or the Economic Development Corp.
Sandie Reed or Jannette Ward may be interested in forming this
group.
1 hope all the fathers enjoyed their day, as well as I did. Between
our weekend celebration. Flag Day and Father's Day, this weekend
ranks at the top of the list as one of the busiest we will see for some
time.
We received a letter from the Office of Rural Community Affairs
that we have been awarded $250,(XX1. For our water system
improvements (emergency well). It is reassuring to know that you
have a back-up system in case of an unseen emergency.
Our budget process will begin this month. As in the past, money
is tight. I am sure the administration will submit only a "bare-bone"
proposal and the City Council will give you a dollar for dollar
accountable budget.
Thank you for donating at our Blood Drive. Over 45 people
showed up and we collected 33 pints of life saving blood. Please
be on the look out for our next drive, (usually 2 to 3 months apart)
We should do better with over 3,932 citizens to view.
Shop our stores, buy for your friends, make a neighbor happy.
Everyone is welcome to browse around and ask questions. Only in
Dublin do you get that "friendly smile", "a courteous thank you",
and "come back again soon." Who would NOT want to live in
Dublin??
Volunteer Today! Make yourself proud.
Have a great week.
STATE
CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Mike Cox
Texas Press Association
June is dairy month Bills await June 22 deadline
Forecast at a Glance
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I realize that the information in the headline is not news to most
people.
Almost all industries have a special time set aside to give recog-
nition to their particular business or industry and that's the way it
should be.
And it does need to be every year as there are many changes that
occur each year in all industries and businesses and for all special
occasions.
We just observed Father's Day and I hope that people took advan-
tage of that day to thank their father. And I hope fathers took time
to think about their responsibilities as denoted by that holiday.
Saturday was Flag Day and I hope that people in this country
took a second to think about our flag and what it stands for. We'll
have chance to think about bur freedom in a few more weeks.
This whole month and a special section in today's Citizen records
the special meaning of the dairy business in Dublin. It is the single
biggest industry we have and as such is the biggest employer and
impacts every aspect of our lives here in one way or another.
We need to make note of that important aspect.
Agriculture has always been big in Dublin and the dairy business
got a start many decades ago. I'm not exactly sure when but it was
at least back in the 30's and maybe earlier.
As in most instances, Dublin led the way with many dairies being
established in this area.
Most at that time were small, even before the time of being mech-
anized with milking being done by hand. Many didn't have over 8
to 10 head and now that has grown to hundreds and in many cases
more than a 1,000.
My dad started his dairy in the Roch community about 1950 or
so, shortly after we got electricity. I don't remember the exact date.
We had it about seven or eight years.
For that reason, I appreciate what dairy people go through. It's not
an easy life as you are confined to take care of the cows. They have
to be milked. And at that time, we couldn't afford to hire any help.
Then there were problems with electricity as it would go out and
not be restored for days and we had to throw a lot of milk away.
Fortunately, that didn't happen often.
Equipment was costly to get started and the more equipment you
could get, the easier the job was.
Then of course, dairies are always subject to drastic fluctuations
in the market price of milk. Here recently, the price has been at or
below cost of producing that milk.
As we understand it, there is a change in the milk program that
will help dairies get back on their feet but as is usually the case, the
price of agriculture commodities is not what it should be.
We all know the value of miHc and milk products in our diets.
And as I noted earlier, the economic impact of the dairy business
here is huge.
We need to take this time to re flee,. yii those who help us make a
living in our community and who do the work to give us a great
product that is necessary as well as tasty.
I appreciate what they do for our community, not only economi-
cally but the fact that dairy families are so heavily involved in doing
things in and for the community.
As they say, Let's save the spotted cow.
Thanks for reading.
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An Event Calendar
for Dublin and its surrounding communities
Thursday, Jane 19
turning-
Cont. from page 1
Nicky Jones, Cody Yarborough, Kim Fain, Terri Bryant, Judy
Shaw, Leigh Denard, Lanee Wilemon, Pattie Mann, Lori Brown and
Scott Stevens members of the First Baptist Church attended the
Glorieta Baptist Conference Center for the week. Counselors
attending were: Mr. & Mrs. Jack Frazier, pastor of the church, Mr.
& Mrs. Chris Rottenberger, and Mr. & Mrs. A1 Denard.
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• Singles Club
7 pm
lgles i
Garden
i’s Family Restaurant - Contact: Kathy 918-7588
Letters to the Editor
The legislative process in Texas has gone from sine die to srgn-
or die.
When the Legislature adjourns sine die, the governor has 20 days
to sign or veto bills. Facing that June 22 deadline, Gov. Rick Perry
had signed 202 bills as of June 10.
Three of the bills Perry put his name on will have a big impact
on homeowners, but not as much of an impact as some had hoped.
The biggest of the three was Senate Bill 14, which effective on
its signing date placed all insurance companies doing business in
Texas under state regulation. Under the new law, the insurance
commissioner has the authority to review and approve or reject
rates for homeowners.
Affected insurance companies have a little less than three weeks
to file their current rates with Insurance Commissioner Jose
Montemayor, who then has three months to approve the rates. That
means the cost of new policies or renewals could begin going down
by July, in some cases by as much as 25 percent.
That's the good news. The bad news from the consumer per-
spective is that this new, tough control only holds until December
2003. After that, insurance companies will be able to return to set-
ting the rates they want.
The state will only be empowered to meddle with those rates if
it believes they are too high, inequitable or discriminatory.
Consumer groups also were disappointed that the Legislature did
not approve an across-the-board rollback of rates to January 2001
figures.
Also signed into law was House Bill 329, which sets up a licens-
ing program for mold remediators and assessors - a previously
unregulated industry. This law goes on (he books effective Sept. 1.
A third insurance-related measure, Senate Bill 127, requires
insurers to move more quickly on water damage claims. The idea
behind this bill is to get water damage takencare of before mold has
time to grow.
Cuts won't be healthy for some...
Another piece of legislation signed by Perry leaves a lot of state
workers wondering whether they will be able to make their mort-
gage payments, much less their insurance fees.
House Bill 2292, which the governor transformed into law with
the stroke of his pen, consolidates a dozen health-related agencies
into four components under a new umbrella agency to be known as
the Department of Health and Human Services.
Though the reorganization will save an estimated $1 billion in
tax dollars, it also will eliminate at least 2,162 jobs. Opponents of
the legislation argued that the real loss could go as high as 5,000.
Many of the lost positions exist only on paper or can be realized
through retirements or attrition, but some proverbial pink slips will
be in the offing.
History crisis...
Still up in the air is whether the 107-year-old Texas State
Historical Association will suffer a 100 percent budget cut in its
state funding.
The association has been headquartered on the University of
Texas campus since William Prather was the school’s president in
the early 1900s.
In modem times, ihe association has oeen receiving funds
thrdughfhe UT College of Liberal Arts, which is currently consid-
ering elimination of the Center for Studies in Texas History, which
includes the TSHA. “ 1
The association publishes the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
and the New Handbook of Texas, which is available free online and
receives more than 1 million hits monthly.
Play Ball!...
Politics is all about playing ball. So, of course, is baseball. The
Texas State History Museum has opened a new temporary exhibit
on the history of baseball in the Lone Star State. More than 100
Texas towns, from Ballinger to Frisco, have had minor league base-
ball teams since 1888, when the Texas League was established.
And Houston and Dallas have had and do have big league teams.
In addition to the exhibit, which runs through the rest of the year,
this summer the museum will feature a one-man show on Texas
black baseball great Willie Wells, who grew up in Austin. For more
information on the new exhibit and show, check the museum's Web
site, www.TheStorvofTexas.com.
a tar day, Jane 21
• Art go Family Benefit Dinner
6 pm Hwy 219 Fire & Rescue - Carlton, red fire hall
• Dairyfest
6 pm Stephenville City Park
• First Baptist Church VBS registration
6 - 8 pm Dublin City Pool
onday, Jane 23
A big “thanks” to Dublin National Bank’s picture and article on
WPA.
How well many of us remember! I was in 1st grade in 1941
when my dad Brooks McPherson went to work as timekeeper on
WPA building; the wall around the Hico Cemetery.
It still stand today, as all WPA projects, unless, as the Home Ec.
Building at Stephenville was tom down two to three years ago.
It did not fit! They have been trying to tear down the Recreation
Hall at City Park for a year and it will be done!
Please Dublin, keep your pride in the Historical WPA buildings
and projects!
Sincerely,
Rose M. Wooley
Rainfall totals
JUNE
12th
13th
14th
Dublin-
6/10
Cariton-
1 4/10
8/10
7/10
Highland-
6/10
3/10
6/10
Purves-
9/10
2
2/10
Edna Hill-
15/10
1
5/10
Greens Creek -
1 4/10
9/10
Purvis -
9/10
2
15th
2/10
• First Baptist Church VBS
9 am-220 Live Oak
• Alexander Baptist Church VBS
9 am - noon 326 E. Blackjack
• Dublin EDC Meeting
6 pm - City Hall
Tuesday, Jane 24
• Lions Club
7 am Dairy Queen
• Rotary Club
noon Wall
ry dub
Conference
Center
6pm
City Council
ity \
City I
Wednesday, Jane 25
• First Assembly of God Kids Krusade
6 - 7:30 pm. 512 N. Park
Thursday, Jane 26
• Singles Club-
7 pm Jake & Dorothy’*- Stephenvte Contact Kathy 918-7588
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I H < M I''ll I Ml \ i 11 I I
........tv Dublin
Dr Pepper
since ISfM JL
ACROSS
1 certain retrievers
5 TXism: 'he's _
_bricka shy
otaload*
6 in 02 Astros put
up memorial
plaque lor this
pitcher Darryl
7 ■_bien“ (good)
8 TXism: "you
stirred up _
39 TXism: "go _
(Sunday)
41 kids in a family
42 Sam Houston's last
wile Margaret
43 TXism: "have a
_" (take a drink)
44 a lad
45 TXism: ‘it'll make your
hair stand on_"
The Original
TEXAS
CROSSWORD
by Charley & Guy Orbison
(caused trouble)
17 TX Tarzan Ety
18 Austin bridge Is
home to over_
_bats
21 nurse (abbr.)
22 TXism: "dull as
week-old _
pop"
23 this Miami RB
Larry played in
Super Bowl VII
in Houston
24 in Guadalupe Co.
on hwy. 78
29 Spurs enthusiasts
30 "_your own
horn"
31 this Linda was
Sue Elian Ewing
on "Dallat" (init.)
32 TXism: "chew_
■
(ponder)
34 cotton weevil
35 droop
38 TX Sandra Brown
novel:"__
in Heaven*
37 TXiem: *__-
loop man"
(good roper)
38 Hereford is the
"Town Without a
Tooth_"
46 this Arden was in
film "San Antonio
Rose"
47 __fish
48 a guard
50 westerner theme
singer Frankie
51 TXism: "whipper
snapper"
52 TXism: "bought a
pig--poke"
53 noted TX agri-
culture supporter:
Mary _Watt
DOWN
f body of water in
Clay 8 Archer Coa.
2 TXism: "lumped
like___
shook"
3 Ball Co! seat
4 Gov. Houston
refused to_
allegiance to CSA
9 TXism: "nary a
soul’ (2 wds.)
10 TXism: "tie up the
loose_"
11 TXns drink it iced
12 Waco-bom come-
dian Martin (init.)
13 this TX Millar it
noted lor man's
print neckties
14 "the sun" south
of the border
15 TXism: "one-
armed bandit"
(_machine)
18 TXIam:" horn*
(amateur)
19 northern neighbor
20 conetantly
complained
22 it's okay to
crumble these
into TX chili
24 Bee or Lae (abbr.)
25 this agey. monitors
the TX eouthern
bonier (abbr.)
26 Dwtton truck co.:
Peter_
27 thle'TX Annette it
Martha Kent on
TVs "Smallville*
28 TX Rangers
29 decrees
30 ex-Cowboy Dorsett
33 TX Buck Owens old
show:"_ Haw"
34 Gulf shrimp_
35 frontier_
37 heart stimulant
38 Russian workers
cooperative
40 a work by TX
Larry McMurtry
41 _of cotton
44 sat supper
47 TXIam: "couldn't
__agg under
a sitting hen" (dumb)
49 Houston's Indian
wile
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