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PAGE 2.. .DUBLIN SHAMROCK NEWS MAY 22, 1977
Published every Sunday
I Offices
402 E. Blackjack j Dublin,
Texas 76446
Published by Central Texas Publishing Corp.
Bill Lee, President, 402 E. Blackjack Dublin, TX 76446
Bill Lee...... ..................Managing Editor
Wadfur Lee......................Business Manager
Frances Tumey......................Womens News
Barbara Lancaster. Staff News, Features
Al Denard................. . *........Advertising
Doris Stine..........................Composition
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News Digest
M. Autry
Street Program Needed
Virtually every street in Dtiblin needs to undergo
repairs as city streets now are probably in worse condition
than at any other time in the city’s history. There’s no
way of estimating the cost to repair streets and pave
others that need pa\ ing, but it would take a great deal of
money to fix them right, according to one city official. The
city’s program of filling up chug holes with hot mix is no
more than a it .iporary rdmedy at, best as the first good
rain will wash away the material and workers will be faced
with the same problem all over again.
Hot mix doesn’t do much good unless it’s followed up
with a good layer of blacktop. In some areas streets are
probably beyond repair and only a heavy layer of blacktop
would do any good.
Some of Dublin's side streets have been abused with
heavy traffic, such as big diesel freights. There is a need
for the city to pass an ordinance, if one doesn’t already
exist, to prohibit heavy trucks or vehicles from using these
streets.
Dublin, like many other cities, doesn’t have the money
to carry out a good street program. The thought of passing
a bond issue or raising taxes to take care of this problem
has no appeal at all to elected officials or townspeople.
Still, this is a major problem that needs to be dealt with.
Possibly revenue sharing funds or federal matching aid
would provide sufficient money to get the job done.
Whatever the answer might be, the city does need to take
a long, hard look at this problem and take action as soon as
possible for the cost of materials and labor is going up
almost daily and the longer the delay the more it’s going
to cost in the long ran.
Undecided Vote Critical To
Beef Checkoff Outcome
COLLEGfe STATION -
A survey of Texas beef
producer attitudes indi-
cates that the undecided
vote is likely to be the key
to whether or not the beef
checkoff program is acti-
vated, according to Dr.
Ronald D. Knutson and
Frank Ewell with the Texas
Agricultural Extension
Service.
Knutson, a specialist in
policy and marketing, and
his assistant EweU base
their conclusion on re-
sponses to a survey or
producer attitudes toward
current policy issues in
agriculture. The sample in-
cluded about 450 Texas
Can, or will this
Democratic Administration
bridle and bring under
some semblance of control
the so-called hydra-headed
monster known as Health,
Education & Welfare,
(HEW), before it bankrupts
the nation? According to an
enlightening report ap-
pearing in a popular maga-
zine last week, HEW, es-
tablished some 20 years
ago by men with the very
best of intentions toward U.
S. society, has grown at an
alarming rate and has be-
come the Government’s
No. 1 spender budgeted for
$148 billion this year and
expected to soak up $164
billion in 1978. Although
Republicans tried to steer
this monster into more
acceptable channels it ne-
ver ceased its rapid growth.
Now, if the Democrats can
prune the deadwood, dead-
beats and spongers out of
this gians, overgrown bu-
reaucracy before it destroys
the very country that gave
it life, all will be better on
the home front. Should the
Democrats fail the results
may be ominous for them.
The Republican’s failure
brought them to a new
political low in 1976.
*★★★★★★★
As of now there appears
to be no particular differ-
ence between the two major
parties in their methods of
raising more money to meet
emergencies-it is all very
simple; just raise some-
body’s taxes enough to
cover the immediate need
and let the future take care
of itself. Shortsighted? Yes.
Example of the way it
works: A Stephenville man,
working in Fort Worth, was
given a salary increase
recently of $100 per month
which put him in a higher
bracket, costing him half of
the increase off the top.
The employer’s taxes are
reportedly raised to help
the government pay all
costs; prices of the compa-
ny’s product are raised to
help cover production costs
and the vicious circle con-
tinues to enlarge at every-
body’s cost. How will it all
end?
★ * ★ ★ ★
according to Washington
reports at week’s end the
28 lower level foreign-pol-
icy officials who had ex-
pected to go with the Carter
group to England for the
tion if the refund demand is . .
made witHn 60 days after Smnmit meetmg but were
the end of the month in left behmd because of the
high transportation cost,
were quite incensed and so
expressed themselves. The
numerous junketing Con-
gressmen who have been
used to making trips to
which an assessment was
made.
Sixty-five per cent of the
producers surveyed favored
voting on the basis of a
single vote per producer.
This is also provided for in E^°P« oth®r feas
the legislation, note Knut- with their wives, on busi-
son and Ewell. ne8S have 8180 been
cent of the producers sur- tlg^t White House
veyed indicated they op- pobcies now in effect
posed the use of producer Jhe8e free-wheeling and
promotion funds to assist free-^nd^ junketeers
packers and retailers to no£ * d®ath of
advertise their own brands cnt,ci8“ frr
of beef. This contrasts with ers and be happy that they
beef nroducers At the timp advertising specialists who 8td^ feeding at the
contend tlat joint advertis- comment pte Bough.
mg programs would be
more effective in expanding
demand than advertising
beef alone.
of the survey 53 per cent
favored the checkoff, 30 per
cent were opposed and 17
per cent were neutral or
undecided.
While the President has
signed the beef checkoff
program into law, at least
50 per cent of the producers
who register must vote in
the referendum and two -
thirds of those must vote in
favor of it before the check-
off actually begins, point
out Knutson and Ewell.
Registration dates for the
referendum are set for June
6-17, and voting will be
from July 5-15.
The survey also showed
that 53 per cent of the
producers felt they should
have the right to request a
refund from the program.
This refund provision is
provided for in the legisla-
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As last week ended
President Carter remained
the puzzling enigma that
the rank and file of the
people couldn’t fathom
during the presidential
campaign. Recent informa-
tion out of Washington
presidential activities still
projects a mystifying pic-
ture of the man Carter.
When it was reported that
he has given 48 of his staff
people a total of $400,000 in
annual pay raises and
sanctioned substantial
raises for 18 of Mrs.
Carter’s aides; asked Con-
gress for a billion dollars
more for Foreign Aid than
the $3‘/t billion that Ford
had planned for that pur-
pose; reportedly planning
to heal North Vietnam’s
war damages with many
millions of dollars, to be
borrowed, of course, it is
quite natural that eyebrows
were raised in questioning.
But on the other hand
Carter’s retiring the luxury
Presidential yacht, Sequoi;
halting the purchase of
expensive and needless
luxury government plans
and erasing some (but not
all) of the limousines provi-
ded for the political bigwigs
in Congress, it appeared
that the yen for economy in
government is genuine. So,
the existing enigma sur-
rounding Carter seems to
endure and grow.
According to the reports
from the European area,
following the International
Summit Conference in Lon-
don recently, President
Carter impressed the world
leaders from other coun-
tries very favorably and
without seemingly trying to
do so. When the reports
indicated that the visiting
bigwigs were pleased with
the President’s calm, re-
laxed attitude U ward the
whole thing and his com-
plete lack of pomposity and
ostentation was so evident,
his own retinue there and at
home, understood. Some-
thing good was derived
from this meeting if no-
thing more emerges from.it
than the arousing of confi-
dence in U. S. leadership
on the part of other world
leaders.
Recently when ‘ a
California poll tallying the
present popularity of young
Jerry Brown, Democratic
governor of that populous
state, led his nearest pos-
sible Republican opponent
in a 1978 Governor’s race
by a 2 to 1 count and
reportedly took a third of
the Republican vote in do-
ing so, the present Demo-
cratic Administration in
Washington must have
pondered that poll serious-
ly. Had Jerry Brown enter-
ed the race for the Demo
nomination earlier in 1976
numerous smart pc'lticians
think he would have •mnit.
Perhaps so, perhar 7 no,
but perchance the country
will have an opportunity to
learn just what a real tried
and true Conservative can
do in 1980. Brown would bo
an excellent choice with
which to run the test.
(J&
FUTURE LIVING...?
CSPS
Dear Editor:
Well, she’s done it again! (Frances Tumey, I mean.)
We want you to know that we did enjoy very much that
interesting (and very well written as only Frances can do
it) article about our good friends- Harvey and Charlie Ben
Bradberry. We hope that you will print more such articles
about good citizens of Erath County- especially if they are
written by Frances Tumey.
Sincerely,
Pauline and Melvin Chandler
Hico, Texas
County Agents Report
Dublin Woman Doing fine
After Surgery
WEATHER
Editor’s Quote Bonk
One thorn of experience
is worth a whole wilder-
ness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
Cloudy with chance of
thunderstorms Sunday and
Monday. High and low
temperatures and rainfall
amounts the past seven
days follow: Friday, May
13-77, 60, and 0; Satur-
day-77, 60, 0; Sunday-80,
67, .01; Monday-77, 65, 0;
Tuesday - 75, 65, trace;
Wednesday - 73, 66, .01;
and Thursday-78, 66, .05.
Continued From Page 1
Cross Timbers
humanitarian. We hope Mr. Young is feeling much better
and will be able to return to normal activity soon.
Mrs. Marguerite McKinney, injured in a car wreck near
Dublin May 3, underwent surgery at Harris Hospital
Wednesday, May 18, and is reported in good condition.
She suffered severe injuries to her back and will be
confined to the Fort Worth hospital for some time. I hope
she continues to improve and will be able to return home
soon.
I must have been bom awkward, therefore I’m 100
percent in agreement with the feUow who once said, "I’d
give me rig it arm to be ambidextrous.”
I undersi nd David Bradberry, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Bradberry, underwent surgery Tuesday in Fort
Worth Children’s Hospital and is doing fine. The surgery
relieved difficulties that had developed due to an accident
at school earlier this year. It’s good to know David is doing
well and we hope he continues to make a good recovery.
See you in t^e next edition if the Lord’s willing and the
creek don’t rise.
HOSPITAL NEWS
5-12
Willie Gandy
Stella Cabler
5-13
Opal Sisemore
Ruth Harperf
Esther Gunter
5-16
Frank Amos
Kathleen Bybee
Zola Box
Johnnie Vickers
James Queen
Dita Cowan
Shirley Simsf
5-17
Buelah Tumey
Laveme Kennedy
Alicia Reed
Joe Donald Boatright
5-18
Troy Roulston
Ota Westfall
fhave been Discharged
Mrs. L. N. McKinney
received surgery in a Fort
Worth hospital Tuesday for
injuries received in a recent
automobile accident on
Dublin-Stephenville High-
way.
Dr. Joe Robert Pate, who
was present at the hospital
during the surgery, report-
ed that Marguerite came
through surgery fine and
was resting when he left.
Others waiting with
Marguerite’s husband L.
N. (Bud) McKinney during
the four and a half hour
operation were their son,
Neal, and his wife, Lindsley
of Fort Worth; Mar-
guerite’s sister Mrs. Doro-
thy Barnes of DeLeon; Bill
and Faye Houk of Fort
Worth, the Rev. Bob Perrin
and JoAnn Pate.
Marguerite’s mother,
Mrs. Ed Houk, reported
Wednesday that the patient
had talked with her sister
by telephone Wednesday
morning; that she had been
moved to her room in the
hospital, seemed to be in
good spirits and stated that
she was "Thankful to be
alive.”
Blackland Research Tour Set
Blackland producers and
others affiliated with the
Blackland Income Growth
Program (B. I. G.) from
Central Texas will be host-
ed for a tour and program
at the Blackland Research
Center south of Temple
May 27 with registration
beginning at 8:30 a.m.
A SPECIAL feature of
the tour will be booths
manned by Extension spe-
cialists and research sci-
entists for producers to visit
and discuss problems, ac-
cording to a joint an-
nouncement from John E.
Burleson, B. I. G. coordi-
nator, and Dr. Earl Bur-
nett, director of the Re-
search Center.
Center tours will begin at
9:30 a.m. and will end with
a dutch treat barbeque
luncheon at noon.
FOLLOWING LUNCH,
the featured speaker will be
Jack Barton, president,
Federal Intermediate Cre
dit Bank of Houston, who
was the original coordinator
of B. I. G. when he was
serving with the Texas
Agricultural Extension
Service.
Dr. Burnett pointed out
that research to be covered
on the tour would include:
cotton, sorghum, and small
grain varieties; results from
research with wide-bed,
narrow-row grain sorghum
and cotton; and new varie-
ties of weeping lovegrass.
Also highlighted will be
information on the control
of cotton root rot; oil seed
crops evaluations; and
small grain research.
ON DISPLAY for the first
time at the Temple Station
will be a root observation
chamber installed under
field conditions. These
chambers are used in
drought tolerance research,
according to Dr. Burnett.
Burleson urged farmers
and ranchers to bring dis-
eased plants and samples
of insects to the Research
Center for identification
and control recommenda-
tions.
The program will
conclude after the address
by Mr. Barton.
With bright, sunny days
in the offing, pinkeye often
becomes a problem in cattle
herds. Pinkeye, caused by a
yet unidentified organism,
can lead to varying stages
of ulceration of the animal’s
eyes and even blindness.
The impaired vision and
discomfort restrict the ani-
mal’s ability to graze and
can result in serious weight
losses.
Once an outbreak occurs,
other animals in the herd
can become easily infected
by flies or eye gnats that
travel from an infected
animal to those that are
healthy.
Here are some sugges-
tions to keep pinkeye pro-
blems at a minimum:
1. Check anitnals closely
as often as possible to
observe any excessive wat-
ering or discharge from the
eyes. Animals with light
colored markings or white
skin may show a stain or
matted hair below the eye.
Separate any suspected an-
imals and treat them early
in the course of the disease
to prevent a herd problem.
2. Try to control flies and
gnats with sprays and dust
bags. Good fly control may
help prevent pinkeye and
will also minimize the
spread if it occurs.
3. Clip pastures before
seedheads develop on
grass. Seedheads may irri-
tate the eyes of cattle and
increase the chances of
infection.
4. Adequate amounts of
vitamin A helps keep tis-
sues. Good pastures gen-
erally provide sufficient vi-
tamin A. However, when
pastures dry up and get
brown, supplementary vi-
tamin A should be provi-
ded.
5. Shaded loafing areas
allow cattle to get out of the
direct sunlight and can
prove valuable in most
areas of Texas.
Many treatments have
been utilized to control
cases of pinkeye, including
antibiotics, corticosteroids,
and foreign protein thera-
py. If treatment is used, the
preparation should be ap-
plied to both eyes, and
treated or exposed animals
should be kept separately
from the rest to minimize
the spread of infection.
Since there are other
problems of the eye that
might resemble pinkeye,
cattlemen should consult a
veterinarian to determine
the specific problem.
Research on an experi-
mental vaccine consisting
of a formalin-killed culture
of the agent considered to
be the cause of pinkeye has
been in progress since
1963. However, the vaccine
is still not available for
general use.
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FAMILY SCENE...Hazel, lowland gorilla at Phoenix
Zoo, checks growth of Fabayo, her baby, as she stretches
her arms. Fabayo was born at Phoenix Zoo.
Grapefruit
The juiciest grapefruit are
firm, shiny, well-shaped and
heavy for their size. Avoid a
grapefruit that is pointed at the
stem end or has rough or
wrinkled skin.
Leftovers
Refrigeration preserves the
quality of food and prevents
spoilage—but not indefinitely.
Food should be held over for a
minimum amount of time—meat
no longer than week, vegetables
no more than a day or two.
Garage Sale Ideas listed
College Station -- Suc-
cessful garage sales de-
pend on organization, ad-
vises Claudia Kerbel, con-
sumer information special-
ist with the Texas Agricul-
tural Extension Service,
The Texas A&M University
System.
SHE SUGGESTS the fol-
lowing ideas for planning
and staging a "neighbor-
hood marketplace:”
Advertise your garage
sale with signs in the nei-
ghborhood (if customary),
bulletin boards at commu-
nity centers and grocery
stores- and classified ads
in the newspaper.
Draw attention in the ad
to big items you want to
sell - list brand names,
color, size or other charac-
teristics.
CONSIDER combining
your sale with a neighbor or
friend, or having a "block
sale” - in which several
people on the same block
hold sales at the same time.
Holding a sale with oth-
ers provides company dur-
ing the lulls and help
during the crowds.1
Check local ordinances
for permit requirements for
holding a garage sale.
Many cities limit the fre-
quency and length of a sale,
as well as the number and
placement of signs.
Be ready the day before
by organizing the items for
sale. Price all items ahead-
this will keep prices rea-
sonable, even under crowd
pressure.
EXPECT SOMEONE to
come the day before or
several hours early just to
get a headstart on the other
shoppers.
Some experienced gar-
age sellers will not sell
ahead of their starting time
to avoid selling something
not intended for sale or
selling below the price they
would have set later.
Bargaining is part of the
experience, so be flexible
when you price items. Ma-
ny sellers are willing to
come down as much as 50
per cent. Ask about the
custom in your area.
If you believe the price is
right—don’t budge on it
until the last part of the
sale. However, be sensitive
to the shoppers’ interests.
Sometimes offering to low-
er the price $1 or 82 on a
$20 or $30 item will be just
enough to make the sale.
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and save money
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associated its benefits with their costs for
alectricity.
Today, higher costs for electricity seem to
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The majority of American homes now have at
least 14 different electric appliances, in
addition to lighting: radip, television,
refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, clothes washer,
iron, toaster, coffeemaker, mixer, range,
frypan, bed coverings, can opener and some
type of air conditioner.
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