The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1981 Page: 1 of 33
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Dairy Goat Group
Opens Milking Contests
by Bill Grinu
Hundreds of exhibitors and out of town visitors will
arrive in Dublin this weekend for the annual Central
Texas Dairy Goat Association Show and Milking
contests.
Wayne Hamrick, president of the association
announced that entries from San Antonio, Corpus
Christi, Ingleside and all areas of Texas are expected.
They will arrive on Thursday and FYiday.
The new Show Bam airrangement at the Dublin City
Park will be the site for the all day Saturday show. FYiday
night and Sunday activities are scheduled and open to
the public.
J.W. Abernathy and his band will entertain Saturday
night at 8 p.m. and everyone is invited.
All Dublin area people should see this attractive show
and welcome our many visitors.
Alexander Reunion
The Alexander school reunion and homecoming will be
held Sunday, June 14 beginning at 10 a.m.
Organizers of the reunion ask for families to bring
basket lunches and spend the day in fellowship.
New Plant May Open
The Russell-Newman Manufacturing Company of
Denton is conducting an employment survey in the
Dublin area to study the possibility of opening a new
apparel manufacturing plant here.
The company, a participant in the Dallas Apparel Mart,
would employ 125 people with a monthly payroll of
$75,000.
The main question facing the company on locating in
Dublin is the availability of employees.
Persons interested in working at this proposed factory
may fill out an employment application, available at City
Hall or at the Chamber of Commerce.
. Applications must be completed before June 9,1981.
Cow Creek Cemetery Meeting
The Cow Creek Cemetery Association will conduct its
annual work day Saturday, June 13. A pot luck luncheon
will begin at noon, with the business meeting to follow.
Garden Club Holds Session
The Dublin Garden Club will have a "called meeting’ ’,
FYiday June 5 at 10 a.m. at the Old Mill Ground- Wright
Park.
This is an important meeting and everyone needs to
attend.
Harbin Community Reunion
by Delbert Shafer
The 31st annual Harbin Homecoming will be held at the
Tabernacle in the Harbin Community on Sunday, June
14, 81, the 2nd Sunday in June.
Everyone is invited to come spend the day with old
friends of the Harbin Community.
Please bring covered dishes for the noon meal at noon.
Ice and water will be furnished.
The meeting will be from aproximately 11:00 a.m. to
2:00 p.m.
Weather
By Charles W. Nelson
Day
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Rain
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Normal rain through May is 14.93, last year was
14.58. This year we have recorded 7.64. Lastyearfor
the month of May was 8.33. This May we only
recorded 1.87, we are 7.29 inches below normal for
the year through May.
93rd Year Number 44
The Dublin Progress
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Twister’ Strikes Dublin Friday
McCormick Plays Rodgers
Hodges One of First
in A&M Medical Class
John Carlton Hodges, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Hodges of Dublin will
graduate from the Texas
A&M University College of
Medicine June 6,1981. .
Hodges will be awarded
the degree of Doctor of
Medicine; one of the first
awarded by the newest
Medical School in Texas.
John attended Dublin
Schools and graduated from
Dublin High School in 1974.
He did his undergraduate
studies at Texas A&M
University from 1974-1977.
He received two B.S.
degrees in Medicine and
Zoology both with highest
honors (Summa Cum
Laude).
After three years of pre-
medical training, John was
accepted by several medical
schools but chose to attend
Texas A&M’s new medical
school which had 32
members in its charter
class.
John served as President
of the Charter Class during
the first year of medical
school and received the
following awards during his
four years of medical
studies:
Outstanding Student Merit
Award- 2nd & 3rd year
Thomas S. Gathright
Award- sophomore medical
student with highest grade
point average
FYank A. and Gladys F.
Chamberlin Scholarship
granted through Tarieton
State University to out-
standing students from
EYath County.
John has done several
Externships in Dublin
through the cooperation of
the Dublin Hospital and its
local physicians.
His third and fourth years
of Hospital training were
done at Scott & White
Hospital and the Olin E.
Teague V.A. Hospital in
Temple, Texas.
Elective training was also
done at John Petersmith
Hospital in Fort Worth and
other surrounding hospitals
in Central Texas.
Graduation exercises will
be held in the Rudder
Theater at 2:30 p.m. on the
Texas A&M Campus in
College Station.
Hodges will graduate 2nd
in his class with a GPA of
3.77 out of a possible 4.00. ^
John will be a resident
doctor at Scott & White
Hospital training in Internal
Medicine for the next three
years.
After this John plans to
return to the area to
practice.
John is married to Loretta
Stephen Hodges, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Stephen of Dublin.
They have two daughters,
Dee Andra (7) and Meladee
(2).
John is the grandson of
Mis. Cleo Jones of Dublin
and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde C.
Hodges of Desdemona.
It could have been a lot worse last Friday as a suspected
small "twister" hit a storage building behind Henson’s
Ranch Supply, destroying the structure but leaving four
people untouched.
John C. Hodges
Prenatal Classes Set
The first class of a new series of prenatal classes for
expectant parents will be held Tuesday night June 9 at 7
p.m. at the Dublin Hospital.
The classes are free and. are being offered as a public
service by the Dublin Hospital staff.
For more information call Lavem Crawford, R.N.,
director of nurses at 445-3322.
Proctor Exes Meet
The Proctor ex-students’ and teachers’ reunion will be
held Saturday, June at the Par Country Club with the
general meeting opening at 7:30 p.m.
Anyone who has attended school at Proctor is invited to
attend the reunion.
Jacks Helps Here
by Bill Grimes
Many years ago in Roby, Texas a young boy sat on the
woodpile out in his backyard and parcticed on his guitar.
In the weeks and months of his learning he was playing
Jimmie Rodgers tunes. He came to love Jimmy Rodgers
music, and now 50 or so years later he has become an
accomplished performer of those songs.
Cliff McCormick, who calls his music “Woodpile
Chords”, is now retired and living in Dublin. He
performs regularly on Thursdays and FYidays at Dublins
two Nursing Homes and every other Thursday at the
Senior Citizen Center.
In all his years of playing and singing Rodgers’ country
style music he never had a personal experience with
anything concerning the world famous musician, until
Camp Fire Day Camp
The annual Camp Fire Girls Day Camp will be held
from June 8 thru 12 at the Fair Park from 9 a.m. until 2
p.m.
All Blue Birds and Camp Fire Girls are urged to attend.
Parents or Guardians will be responsible for the girls
transportation.
The girls will be doing a lot of interesting and worth
while projects.
There will be crafts, swimming, hiking, outdoor
cooking, many things of nature.
Camping serves as a pressure valve and should be a
part of every girls experience.
It creates a better understanding with other girls and
their Leaders
Any one who would like to help please contact any
Camp Fire leader.
Round Grove Meeting
The Round Grove Cemetery Association Inc. will meet
in the Round Grove Baptist Church, Saturday, June 6 for
their annual meeting. The meeting will begin about 10:30
a.m.
Everyone has a cordial invitation to attend, especially
those with loved ones buried there.
There will be a basket lunch spread at the noon hour.
Green’s Creek VBS
The Green’s Creek Baptist Church will open its
Vacation Bible School Monday, June 8 at 9 a.m. for
pre-school to sixth graders.
The summer program continues until June 2 and
classes end daily at 11:30 a.m.
The church is located north off of Hwy 377, on the road
going north from Harold’s Bar-B-Q.
recently. After doing his act for the Annual Homecoming
in Clairette last week a man approached him and asked if
he would like to have a promotional poster of Jimmy
Rodgers. McCormick was very interested and he now has
the poster framed and on display in his home.
The poster is a promotion for sale on the then (1968)
I new 13 cent stamp which the Post Office had printed as a
\memorial tribute to Rodgers. A like poster has appeared
twice on national television recently as a display on the
Miss America Pageant and a feature of the Fifty Year
Country Music Awards show.
May 26 in the anniversary date of Rodgers death so a
national week celebration of his memory was held, and
that is the reason Cliff McCormick was doing all Jimmie
Rodgers songs in Clairette.
McCormick will make his next appearance at a special
music program to be held at Dublin City Park Saturday
night at 8:00 p.m. as entertainment for the Public and
Exhibitors at the annual Dairy Goat Show.
Cliff McCormick enjoys playing Jimmie Rodgers music.
(Photo by Connie Gasaway)
Randy Jacks of the University of Texas Medical School
at Galveston is doing a preceptor-like rotation at the
Dublin Hospital this summer.
Randy will be entering into his second year of Medical
School studies this fall. His home is in Lufkin, Texas.
Medical Education and Community Qrientation
(MECO) is a project of the American Medical Student
Association which offers medical students the
opportunity to receive part of their education in the
health care system of a community.
One goal of the project is to affect the future
distribution of health manpower by introducing medical
students to rural practice.
This is the second year that the Dublin Hospital has
participated in the progratn. >
Three students received training last year and two will
participate this year. v
An early childhood and kindergarten screening program
was conducted at the Dublin - Elementary school last
week, designed to detect children with developmental
lags. Participating In the program were (seated, left to
right, front) Josh Crider, Misty Reeder, Usa Crider, -
(seated, left to right) speech therapist Lii Sherrell,
special education supervisor Tina Mae Fulcher, speech,
therapist Beth Martin, (standing) kindergarten teacher
Gayle Crouch and early childhood specialist Paulette
Stephens. * V
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by Wes Burnett
“The wind came up real fast... I shut my eyes and when
I opened them, the building was gone. ’ ’
Mac McBrayer believes his storage building behind
Henson's Ranch Supply just north of Dublin on the
Stephenville Hwy was struck by a small tornado last
FYiday morning as a line of thunderstorms passed over
the area^
“The dirt kicked up ..and you could just feel the
twisting of the wind, .and poof, it was over, ’ ’ he recalls.
Mac was in the storage building with Mike Henson,
Barry Whitehead and Robert Lewis, unloading sheet
metal at approximately 9:30 a.m. when the twister hit.
None of the four men were injured.
The storage building was totally destroyed, with
damages estimated at $3,500.
“We had just finished putting the last bolt in the
building Thursday evening,” McBrayer adds.
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The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1981, newspaper, June 4, 1981; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth778015/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.