The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984 Page: 1 of 15
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Dublin’s newspaper since 1888
Thursday, January 5,1964
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Chamber expresses gratitude
The Dublin Chamber of
Commerce would like to
express our appreciation to
the many Dublin
business and professional
people who were helpful
during out Christmas
season activities.
The Dublin City Crew,
headed by Jack James,
prepared and installed our
street decorations. They
also assisted Chamber
members in setting the
Christmas tree. Jim Sikes,
Texas Power and Light,
assisted in raising and
lighting the tree. The
Dublin Lions Club and the
Ag Boosters provided the
hamburger suppers for our
late shopping nights. The
Leatherwoods allowed us
to use their lot again this
year for our tree and the
cook-outs. The Dublin
National Bank provided
and kept free of traffic, a
safe place for the children
visiting with Santa, and
assisted with our costs.
The Dublin Volunteer
Fire Department furnished
transportation for our jolly
visitor; Paul Warner was
his driver and Miss Dublin,
Judy Shaw, lovely in red,
was also aboard. The
Dublin High School band
and director Tim Samples,
accented by the Dandi Lion
Drill Team added both
spirit and beauty to our
parade. The Cub Scouts
and Blue Birds are always
a welcome addition to our
parade.
The Dublin Progress
donated turkeys for our
give-away and supported
us with good coverage of
our events.
The window decorations
provided by many mer-
chants made shopping a
pleasure for most. An
especially lovely addition
to downtown was the
Higginbotham Building
windows, decorated by The
Christmas Store. Thanks to
James and Judy Fritts,
Storniy Armstrong and
Rita Billingsley. Ethridge
Photography was on hand
to make pictures with San-
ta.
How nice to have so
many good spirited friends
to help celebrate our most
wonderful time of the year.
Thanks to all of you and
many others.
Most of all, our thanks to
the Jolly Ole’ Man in the
red suit who visited and
shared candy with the
children. We’re so glad he
was able to spend so much
time with us in Dublin
during his busy season.
Because of the good work
of Santa’s helpers, the
Dublin Young
Homemakers, Santa was
able to visit most every
home in Dublin,
Thank you, one and all.
Joann Glenn
Chamber Manager
Dance Jan.5
There will be a dance at
the Dublin Senior Citizen
Center on Thursday,
January 5, starting at 7
p.m. Music will be by the
Country Combination.
Everyone is welcome.
Fire rendered harmless
When fire escaped the
confines of the Butch Shop-
ped family trash can, it
seemed to know just what
to do. Burning just far
enough downhill to fry the
Shoppell’s phone lines, then
burning quickly uphill to
open field, blackening a
path about 100 yards wide
and at least 300 yards long.
The fire seemed to have its
sights set on the home of
Glenden Sanders, apparen-
tly the only place around
where no one was home at
the time except several
young and very frightened
pigs. But thanks to some
good neighbors and quick
response by the Dublin
Fire Department, the fire
was held back and ren-
dered harmless.
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Six inch pipe ripped like paper
Jack Williams and his
crew were never so happy
to see a hot cup of coffee
than they were Tuesday
night.
On one of the coldest
nights of the year, the
Dublin city workers were
offered assistance from,
sane of the townspeople,
as they tried to replace 20
feet of broken water main
in front of the Assembly of
God Church. It was getting
later and colder and
looking kind of hopeless
when some people in the
neighborhood greeted the
workman with hot coffee
and cookies, a generous of-
fering that really got their
spirit back and helped
them through the night
“We have had a coun-
cilman running errands
and some high school boys
helped a whole lot when
they caught us up on the
garbage routes," said
Jack. "We’ve never had
this kind of a problem with
frozen pipes and we just
weren’t fully prepared.’’
One workman told us that
the cast iron pipes that
make up a large part of the
older water lines in Dublin
would slowly contract from
the cold until they pull
apart at the joints. "Some
of this system was laid as
long as 40 years ago when
they did not have the
sophisticated equipment
we have today, so they
didn't go aa deep as we do
no* We have found frozen
pipe as deep aa H» inches
and frozen meters as deep
as 2 feet." “You may not
believe it, but we found 8-
inch cast iron pipe with
wails about W-inch thick,’
just ripped open like
paper ’
It definitely was a
devilishly cold and busy
week but the generosity
and warmth of the people
in our community has left
the workers of even the
wettest, coldest jobs with a
good feeling and happy at-
titude.
“I don’t know the names
of all the people who helped
us out this week^but we
sure do appreciated! of it
and would like to say thank
you to each and every one
of them."
Thank you thank you
Thank you Thank you
Thank yoa Thank you. etc.
Letter to the Editor
I would like to thank the
water department for
taking time out of their
schedule to work until after
J at night fixing the water
lines.
J. B. Williams
Weather
byCharles W. Nelson
D«y
Date
High
Low
Rain
Monday
Dec. 28
21
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Toaaday
Dec. 27
30
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Wednaaday
Dec .28
43
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Thursday
Dec. 29
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Friday
Dec. 30
29
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Saturday
Dec. 31
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Sunday
Jan. 1
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The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984, newspaper, January 5, 1984; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth778943/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.