Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1990 Page: 1 of 12
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Awards, Awards
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Dublin Progress
Thursday, May 31,1990
tallied
The Texas Highway Patrol
investigated 18 rural traffic ac-
cidents in Erath County during
the month of April acceding to
Sergeant Harpole, supervisor for
this Highway Patrol Sergeant
Area. These accidents resulted
in one death and 19 injuries. ,
In Comanche County, there
was a total of 14 rural traffic ac-
cidents in April resulting in
three injuries and no deaths.
Continued on page 3
Injuries result in death of Tarleton student
ByGREGMEFFORD
and BARBARA LANCASTER
Contributing Writers
A Stephenville woman died last
week as a result of injuries sus-
tained in an apparent horse riding
accident.
Mandy Goad, a spokesman for
Harris Methodist Hospital of Fort
Worth, said Stacey (Conner)
Mclnroe, a 22-year-old Stephen-
ville resident bom without arms,
was pronounced dead at 4:35 a.m.
last Thursday.
Mclnroe was involved in a
horse riding accident Wednesday
afternoon four miles south of
Stephenville on the Alexander
Highway.
“I’ve lived here for 16 years and I’ve heard
about the different things that she’d done.
You think, man oh man, she had a lot of
COUrage. Chuck Smith
- Emergency Medical Technician
Lometa Reed, Mclnroe’s
mother, said Thursday that Mrs.
Alfred G. Lowe discovered her
daughter tangled in a rope and
being dragged by her horse. The
lead rope of the horse had been
tied to the girl’s waist.
Lowe ran to the horse and cut
the rope, freeing Mclnroe, she
said.
Jim Mooney, chief of the
Stephenville Fire Department, said
emergency medical technicians
Chuck Smith and Ricky Crim
responded to the call at 5:09 p.m.
Wednesday and transported Mcln-
roe, who had sustained head in-
juries, to Harris Methodist Hospi-
tal Stephenville.
Hospital spokesperson Sharon
Boone said Mclnroe was transpor-
ted to Harris Methodist Hospita
Fort Worth by Care Flight at ap-
proximately 7 p.m., where she
remained through the night.
Reed said her daughter had lis-
ted herself as an organ donor, so
her internal organs might be
utilized so other patients would
have a chance for life.
“That’s what Stacey would have
wanted,” Reed said.
Goad said Mclnroe’s body was
sent to the Tarrant County Medi-
cal Examiner’s office so that cause
of death could be determined.
Office spokesperson Bill Fabicn
said Mclnroe’s body was being
held for donor organs Thursday
and that cause of death would be
Continued on page 3
McINROE
TOMPKINS DOING WHAT HE LOVES BEST
Bullrider still
participates
behind scenes
Harry Tompkins has a much publicized <
petitive record in rodeo that ranks high in spoil
history. His involovement in the sport, however,
goes further than just riding a bull.
Tompkins has also invented holding chutes
that all major rodeos use today.
It has been said that Tompkins, a retired
bullrider, was considered the best bullrider that
ever lived and is among the top three bareback
riders that ever got on a horse.
During a 14-year rodeo career, Tompkins said
that from 1948 to 1961, he won two All-around
Championships.
The first championship came in 1952 and the
second in I960. His winning streak does not
stop there, though.
Winning a Bareback Bronc Championship in
1952 and five World Champion Bullrider
Awards, 1948, 1949, 195Q, 1952 and 1960,
Tompkins, of Dublin, said he missed the top five
winners list only twice due to injuries.
Those injuries still didn’t stop him from win-
ning a total of eight World Championships.
Bom in up-state New York at Peekskill, a site
which later earned him the nickname “Uppy”,
Tompkins said he started his rodeo career in
> 1946 and in just two years he won the title of
Continued on page 3
Memorial Day
STARS AND STRIPES — U.S. flags were erected
along Hwy. 377, Hwy. 6, in front of local business, and
numerous residential areas in Dublin in observance of
Memorial Day, Monday, May 28. The American flag pro-
gram is sponsored by the local Rotary Club and the flags
are erected at least six times each year in observance of hol-
idays. Photo by Sonja Burch.
Proposal
to benefit
area
Erath County is expected to
benefit from a new federal
groundwater protection initiative,
according to the Erath County ex-
tension agent.
According to County Agent Joe
Pope, President George Bush’s
1990 budget proposal to Congress
recommended a new initiative
directed at protection of the na-
tion’s ground and surface water
from potential contamination of
chemicals and wastes.
Eight demonstration projects
and 37 hydrologic unit projects
were approved and funded na-
tionally.
Texas was approved for one
hydrologic unit project which will
be carried out in portions of Erath
and Hamilton counties, Pope said.
The Upper North Bosque River
Hyrodologic Unit project will be
carried cut through interagency
coordination and cooperation, he
said.
The lead agencies for the pro-
ject are the Texas Agricultural Ex-
tension Service, the Soil Conser-
vation Service, the Texas State
Soil and Water Conservation
Board and the Agricultural
Stabiliation and Conservation
Service.
Continued on page 3
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Program reduces drop out rate
By SONJA BURCH
The Dublin Progress
A program that aids students
has been implemented by Dublin
High School as well as many other
schools across the state.
According to Judy White,
Dublin school counselor, the At
Risk Program was developed to
prevent students from dropping
out of school.
She said there was a group of
approximately 20 high school
students — peer facilitators —
currently involved in the program.
“Each peer facilitator is assig-
ned to an elementary teacher,”
White said. “They spend an hour
each day helping with a variety of
things.
“They read to the younger child
or may work with diem on sub-
jects such as math and P.E. ac-
tivities.”
She said two or three high
school students taking Spanish
courses work with non-English
speaking elementary students.
While said the students do not
grade papers or any other type of
paperwork.
She said it benefits both die
high school students and the
elementary students involved in
the program. .
“The high school student gains
positive self-esteem and the youn-
ger student benefits from the indi-
vidual attention received from die
Fireman of the week
Opportunity
provides
incentive
This is the fifth in a series af fea-
ture columns devoted to the recogni-
tion of Dublin’s Volunteer Firemen,
The volunteers have freely commit-
ted themselves to serving their
community in a professional man-
ner in an effort to save lives and
property regardless of the time of
day.
Andrew Ramsay, 29, of Dublin
has been a member of the Dublin
Volunteer Fire Department for
seven months.
He has received specialized train-
ing which includes Air Pac School
in Stephenville.
Ramsay said he initially joined
the D.VF.D. after being contacted
Continued on page 5
PEER FACILITATORS — A group of McCutchen, and Goldie Simmons; back, 1-r,
Dublin High School students participating in Troy Sparks, Amanda Gibson, Anne Marie
the At Risk Program are, front, 1-r, Megan Morton, Thmmy Neff, and Earl Gandy.
older student. '
“It makes them feel like they’re
part of the system," she said.
The high school students invol-
ved in the program are required to
have passing grades, White said.
“It’s on a voluntary basis,” die
said. “The ipajority of students as-
ked to be peer facilitators agree.
"They choose to do this because
it offers them a chance to have a
positive influence on the younger
kids.”
White said the program has
been very successful.
Amanda Gibson, Aleshia Neal
and Brandon Burrow said they
like working with the kids and
being able to help them out.
Gibson and Neal, both juniors at
D.I.S.D., said they wanted to con-
tinue with the program next year if
their schedules would allow them
to do so.
“The kids look up to you be-
cause you’re older,” Neal said.
“They think the world of you.”
Gibson said the students are
receptive to the peer facilitators
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