Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1990 Page: 1 of 14
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In search of a biscuit.
New contributing columnist tells us a littli
about herself and her first impressions of Dublin.
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Drawing by Christi Harmon, age 10, daughter of Benita and Don Harmon of
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Rural
accidents
totaled
The Texas Highway Patrol in-
vestigated 23 rural traffic ac-
cidents in Erath County during
May, 1990 according to Sergeant
Harpole, supervisor for this High-
way Patrol Sergeant Area. These
accidents resulted in one death and
15 injuries.
The total rural traffic accidents
for Erath County for this year is
96, whidi resulted in three deaths
and 67 injuries.
In Comanche County, 8 rural
traffic accidents were investigated
resulting in two death and three in-
juries.
The twenty-two counties which
comprise Highway Patrol District
6A have had a total of 2,446 rural
traffic accidents this year, which
have resulted in 78 deaths and
1,819 injuries. This compares to
2,676 accidents and 1,769 injuries
reported during this same period
last year.
Cook
named
director
Dale and Cleo Cook of Dublin
and their son, Terry of Dallas,
recently attended the graduation
of their daughter-in-law, Rita
Cook.
Rita C. Cook (Mayo), a for-
mer resident of Stephenville,
received a Doctor of Education
from Kansas State University
Graduate School in Manhattan,
Kansas on May 19. Dr. Cook is a
graduate of Stephenville High
School and received a B.A. and
M.Ed. from Tarleton State
University. During her
coursework, she completed a
dissertation on staff development
entitled “A Study of Awareness
and Usage of Effective Staff De-
velopment Practices in Kansas”.
Dr. Cook has recently been
named Executive Director of the
Central Kansas Education Serv-
ice Center, a consortium of 13
school districts in the areas of
staff development and drug edu-
cation.
Dr. Cook is married to the
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Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, July 5,
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COOK
Tax office
makes move
Dublin’s Tax and
Vehicle Registration has
moved its office "to City
Hall. Business hours are
Monday through Friday
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Dr. Songyoth performs last
Erath County delivery
By GAYE GIBSON
The Dublin Progress
Dr. Sakdisri Songyoth returned
to Dublin from Illinois by plane
Monday night, June 25 to make
final preparations for elective sur-
gery by c-section for his last Erath
County Obstetrics patient, Teresa
Reid.
Reid, with support from her
husband, Rickey, who accom-
panied her to the delivery room,
gave birth to a daughter, Tara
Ra’Ann on June 27 at 8:18 in the
evening.
The baby is Dr. Song’s last
Erath County delivery and
weighed in at 6 pounds, 12
ounces and was 18% inches long.
Song moved his practice to Il-
linois after closing his Dublin
office in early June.
All arrangements were made
with the hospital, Reid and Dr.
Marilyn Brister before his depar-
ture in June to Illinois to start his
new practice. Brister was to
deliver the baby has Reid gone
into labor before the pre-
scheduled delivery date of June
27.
When the time arrived, Song
delivered the baby with assistance
from Brister and two nurses
originally from the Dublin facil-
ity, Jerri Landes and Jerri Augus-
tine.
Reid was in her third month of
pregnancy when she discovered,
from Song, that he would soon
leave Dublin.
“You can’t leave...you have got
to deliver my baby.” Reid said.
Song promised to return and
deliver the baby. And he followed
through with the promise.
Song did follow-up visits with
Reid and her newborn in the hos-
pital every day he remained in
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DR. SONG and TARA REID
Duhlin. He returned home to II- Maternal great grandparents are
linois on the weekend after the Lucille Chambers of Lampasses,
delivery with wife, Noy. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Linville of
Mother and baby were released Lampasses and Ethel Davis of
from the hospital Friday flightftad-^-Lgwicta.
it is reported they are both home Paternal great grandmother is
doing well.
Maternal grandparents are Pat
and Ray Weems of Lampasses
and Wesley Davis of Stephen-
ville.
Paternal grandparents are Ann
and Ed Cason of Dublin.
Lillie Bolden of Dublin and great
grandfather is C.R. Reid of Gene
Autry, OK.
Tara Ra’Ann was welcome
home by her brother, Tanner, age
three. .
Glasgow advises
tax system overhaul
By GREG MEFFORD
Contributing Writer
If the State of Texas is to sur-
vive through the 1990s, Sen. Bob
Glasgow of Stephenville is
recommending that the govern-
ment’s system of taxation be
overhauled.
Glasgow said Monday that the
state’s financing sytem of taxation
will require a drastic overhaul
within the next several years,
making the tax base broader.
“I’m not sure 1 support a state
income tax. We’ve got a problem
in the state,” Glasgow said.
“It’s got to be some kind of tax
based on earnings and the ability
lo pay. You can call it what you
want to," Glasgow said. “It’s got
to be some kind of tax where
everybody makes contributions lo
social services based on their
earnings and the ability to pay.
And wc have no tax now in Texas
based on earnings or the ability to
pay..
“The state’s revenue system
will have to be revamped from top
to bottom. We just can’t continue
to operate on a 1918 tax system in
Texas and furnish the goods and
services that people are wanting,”
Glasgow said.
“What some of us are trying to
do is get that issue out from under
the table and get it on top of the
table and start — at least — con-
sidering it. Because it is going to
have to be considered as a way to
finance the government,” Glasgow
said.
In the nation, Glasgow said
Texas, which operates under a tax
system created in 1918, ranks dead
last in per-capita state spending
and 48th among the number of
collected taxes. He said the state’s
viewpoint on spending has
remained conservative in the past.
"The state's revenue
system will have to be
revamped from top to
bottom. We just can't
continue to operate on
a 1918 tax system in
Texas /'
Bob Glasgow
State senator
“We generally — up to now —
have said that if anybody is in
trouble, let the churches take care
of them,” Glasgow said. “Those
days are over.”
One of the problems the state
currently faces is court mandates
on government spending, like the
court order forcing the recent
reform of state education financ-
ing.
The state ranks 46th in the
amount of funding received from
the federal government, he said.
To receive federal funds, he said
most programs have to have fund-
ing matched by the state.
“You’ve got to spend money to
get money. And we don’t do that,”
Glasgow said.
Glasgow said (axes within the
state are broken down into three
categories: franchise, sales and ad
valorem.
The state’s franchise tax, which
has no comparison to earnings or
an organization’s ability to pay
taxes, is based on the capital
facilities of businesses and cor-
porations, he said.
“Wc got corporations paying a
franchise tax on plants that are
closed,” Glasgow said. “One indi-
vidual testified that he lost
$600,000 on his business last year
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High speed chase
spans two counties
By GREG MEFFORD
Contributing Writer
A Euless man is being held in
the Erath County Jail following a
high-speed car chase which span-
ned two counties last week.
Jerry Wright, a deputy with the
Erath County Sheriffs Depart-
ment, said Henry Lewis Marcuym,
a 37-year-old Euless resident, was
arrested after more than an hour-
long, two-part car chase.
Marcum was charged with ag-
gravated assault of a peace officer
with a motor vehicle and for driv-
ing while intoxicated, Wright said.
While conducting a routine
patrol last week about two miles
north of Morgan Mill on Highway
281, Wright said he clocked Mar-
cum’s vehicle on radar as travel-
ing at high speed.
I clocked him at 91 miles an
hour,” Wright said. “I turned
[around] and proceeded to try and
catch him."
Wright, traveling at about 100
miles per hours, said he was un-
able to close the distance between
the vehicles.
After crossing into Palo Pinto
County, Wright said Marcum
stopped his vehicle north ,of
Highway 4 and denied having
taken part in the chase, saying that
he was being mistaken for some-
one else.
Wright said he assured the man
that he was the chase suspect and
administered four field sobriety
tests, all of which he alleged, Mar-
cum failed.
As Wright was checking the
man’s identification with the
sheriffs department, Marcum
jumped in his car and drove away,
"I clocked him at 91
miles an hour. I tur-
ned [around] and
proceeded to try and
catch him/'
Jerry Wright
Erath County Sheriff’s deputy
which started the chase all over
again.
Four miles into the second
chase, Wright said Marcum ap-
plied his brakes, sending the car
into a slide, apparently with the in-
tent of turning back toward Erath
County.
Wright said he swerved to avoid
the sliding vehicle, but almost col-
lided with the suspect. At one
point, he alleged, Marcum at-
tempted to ram his squad car.
“He had turned around again
and was heading north. When 1
came back into the roadway, he
cut across the yellow line towards
me,” Wright said.
After heading east on Interstate
20, Wright said Marcum turned
into a roadside park, traveling at
approximately 70 mph. •
“I noticed he pulled in behind a
trailer track,“ Wright said.
Because he was out of range of
Erath County’s radio signal,
Wright said he notified Palo Pinto
County and proceeded on foot to
inspect the car and locate Marcum.
Wright said he spotted Marcum
running around the track and as-
ked him to stop before farcing him
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SNEAKY SNAKE — Several teachers animal, dubbed “Sneaky Snake”, was just
hold up their serpentine teaching tool — a one method by which the teachers were en-
snake made of plastic bags and trash, whose couraged to mix art and theater into their
scales are drawn in dialogue, a continuous regular classroom curriculums.
story that runs from his head to his tail. The '
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Teachers turn trash to treasures
By JAYNE LEDBETTER
Contributing Writer
From trash to treasure, creating art from items
which had been thrown away is only one of the in-
novative and inexpensive art forms for the class-
room which were presented by three experts at the
Texas Arts Institute Teachers Training Woikshop
held at Central Elementary School in Stephenville
last week.
Methods for “Applying the Fine Arts Across the
Curriculum” were taught by: Bob Baker, specialist
in visual arts; Julie Pendergrass, specialist in theatre
arts; and Elaine Thomas, specialist in music.
Julie Crouch from the Texas Arts Council
coordinated the local program with the aid of Betsy
Chambers, president of the Cross Timbers Fine Arts
Council.
As a special art event during the five-day
workshop, teachers were taken on a backstage visit
of the Clyde Wells Fine Arts Center by Richard
Denning of Tarleton State University, who gave
them insights into the complexities of production
areas such as sound and lighting.
More than 1000 students will be directly affected
this fall by area teachers who attended the Texas
Arts Council program, locally sponsored by CTFC,
which trains teachers to apply state mandated essen-
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