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Drawing by Crissy Hope Duncan, age 8, daughter of Lina
Duncan and Gene Riley of Dublin.
Copyright 1990
Vol. 103, No. 21
Dublin, Texas 76446
Thursday, November 8, 1990
Cogbum
in search
of help
By GAYE GIBSON
The Dublin Progress
On the evening of October 21
sometime between 1 and 2 a.m.
the home of Jed Cogbum burned
in Proctor, with the resident sleep-
ing inside.
Cogbum, a 44 year old Proctor
resident, was burned over 65 per-
cent of his body and is currently
hospitalized in Parkland Bum
Center in Dallas. He condition
was upgraded last week from
critical to serious.
Sister-in-law, Donita Cogbum
said he lost everything he owned
in the fire including a large collec-
tion of owls.
Cogbums medical bills are
rising and doctors have yet to
determine the length of time he
will be hospitalized, but family
members expect a several month
stay.
An account has been set up at
First National Bank in Dublin to
help with the medical bills and
replacement of household items
when he is ready to return home.
Donations of money, clothes,
furniture and appliances are being
collected by the family. Any
donation would be appreciated.
“Anyone who would donate an
owl collectable would have our
greatest gratitude,” Donita Cog-
bum said. “His collection was
large and meant everything to
him.”
' Anyone wishing to donate or
seeking further information
should call Donita Cogbum at the
Chigger Ranch Food Store be-
tween 5 and 9 p.m. where she is
employed.
50s style soda
shop to open
By WENDY BROWN
The Dublin Progress
Remember the days of poodle
skirts, leather jackets, Buddy
Holly, juke boxes and real ice
cream floats? Remember the
1950s? June Jennings and Tanny
of Dublin do.
In fact, the fopd memories each
of these ladies have of this era are
going to come back to life in the
“Teenie Bopper Ice Cream Shop”
which is set to open in Dublin this
Saturday.
“It will consist of a bakery, a
music box tea room for sitting and
enjoying different types of teas —
and coffees of course,” Jennings
said. “I am doing the ice cream
shop,” she said. “I am trying to do
it up back like it was when I was a
girl.”
“We have wanted to do it for a
long, long time. I tried to do it last
year but I was in a concession
trailer.
‘Tanny has wanted a bakery
forever so we decided to go to-
gether and do it all in one place,”
Jennings said.
Jennings said the reason for the
50s style, is to revive many of the
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BREAD WITH CUTS?
Sandwiches!—Yarbrough, Campbell, Swain and.
Board re-elects Jones
Saturday was Sandwich Day
B, WENDY BEOWN «...
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Kids, since the age of kno
have been eating sandwiches-
ter and jelly siiiidwichcs.
There »just something about the sandwich em-
body tows. Whether it’s a mile-high TJagwood” spe-
cial or the bade peanut butter and jelly, everyone has
a favorite.
But whatever tickles the taste buds, Saturday, Nov.
3 was Sandwich Day, a day id honor the masterful ding
creator of the original Cast food. oody
John Montague, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, was bom The
on Nov. 3,1718, in England. He was a gambler, and a
legend had it that he invented tire sandwich as a time-
saving nourishment while he was engaged in a 24-
hour gambling session.
DUBLIN — Edwin Jones of
Dublin and Norman Moore of
Sidney were recently re-elected to
the Upper Leon Soil and Water
Conservation District board of
directors. Jones represents Zone 1
while Moore represents Zone 2 of
the district.
The purpose of the Upper Leon
SWCD, with headquarters in
Comanche is to promote sound
soil and water conservation pro-
grams on farm and ranch lands
within the district and serve as a
voice for farmers and ranchers on
conservation matters.
The board of directors
coordinates the conservation ef-
forts of various local, state and
federal agencies and other organi-
zations and has authority to enter
into working agreements with
these governmental agencies and
Richards takes governor's
race, Zachary wins pet. 2
private concerns to carry out its
purposes.
As two of five individiaul serv-
ing on the district board of direc-
tors, Jones and Moore will be
responsible for district programs
within the framework of the Texas
soil conservation district law.
In Texas there are 210 soil and
water conservation districts. Each
is a legal subdivision of state go-
vernment organized by local
agricultural landowners with the
assistance of the Texas State Soil
and Water Conservation Board.
Unlike most other legal sub-
divisions of state government,
SWCDs do not have the powers of
taxation or eminent domain. All
conservation programs managed
by the districts are of a voluntary
nature to the landowner or
operator.
By ALISA DUNCAN
The Dublin Progress
STEPHENVILLE — Ann
Richards will move into the gover-
nor's mansion soon, but her
defeated opponent, Republican
Clayton Williams, can take some
consolation: he carried Erath
County with 3,SIS votes to
Richards’ 3,286.
Of the 7,249 voters who went to
the polls Tuesday, Williams
received 49.58 percent of the votes;
Richards received 46.3S percent
Country singer George Strait
received one write-in vote and
Nolan Ryan got two for governor in
Erath County.
Republican Phil Gramm won the
U.S. Senate race with 4,279 (60.52
percent) votes over Democrat Hugh
Parmer, who won 2,645 (37.41 per-
cent) in the county.
Of the 7,249 Erath County
residents who voted in 20 precincts
(1,674 voted absentee), there were
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Dublin man purchases
&
Russian tractor for farm
By GREG MEFFORD
The Dubliu Progress
The Russians aren't coming.
They're already here.
And they’re selling their farm
equipment to Americans.
Jeny Stphens, a Dublin resi-
dent, recently purchased a tractor
prodiuced in the Soviet Union after
finding out about a dealership in
Waxahachie that carries the for-
eign equipment.
The Belarus-model, diesel trac-
tor, in his possession now for two
or three weeks, was the best deal
he could find bnsed on hit limited
budget, Stephens, who lives 1.S
miles southwest of Dublin, said.
After conducting extensive
research into different tractor
models, prices and performance
records, the insurance salesman
said he had to go with the foreign
equipment
hi the end, Stephens said, the
new vehde’s price was the decid-
ing factor in the purchase.
“(The price) it about half,”
Stephens said. “I’d read about the
tractor — the first time he ran an
ad in the paper over here, I saw it.
“When my tractor died — my
old tractor — I started looking for
that ad,” Stephens said.
While shopping for the new
equipment, Stephens said he
looked at several foreign tractors.
At one point, he said, he even con-
sidered at Czechoslovakian model,
but later opted to go with its Rus-
sian counterpart at Wapiti Equip-
ment in Waxahachie.
“Someone told me to call this
dealer, but I was not in the market
for a new tractor,” Stephens said.
“It’s your Chevy equivalent —.
in U.S. terms — which puts it in*
the price range of a lot of people,”
Stephens said. “I couldn’t have af-
forded a new tractor.”
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JERRY STEPHENS
Disney returns with baby
By GREG MEFFORD
The Dublin Progress
DUBLIN — The Southeast
European country of Romania
blessed a local couple for the sec-
ond time this month with a baby.
But this time, it was a girl.
Stacey Disney arrived home
from the tiny revolution-tom na-
tion with a five-month-old
daughter, Laura Kendall Alina.
Alina was the Disney’s second
adopted child to' come out of the
foreign country. The couple's
nine-month-old son, Cameron
Garrett Nicolae, arrived in Dublin
Oct S with his new daddy, Ben,
pastor of the First United
Methodist Church of Dublin and
the Greens Creek United
Methodist Church.
In late August, the couple, flew
overseas with a shipment of medi-
cal supplies for Romanian or-
phanages and began their search
for children to adopt and call their
own.
The country is currently facing
over population due to pre-revolu- *
tion laws requiring women
capable of child bearing to face
taxation or have at least five child-
ren.
Because of legal problems,
Stacey Disney was forced to
remain behind four weeks ago to
deal with requirements of the
Romanian government, while her
son and husband relumed to
Dublin.
“It went — we handled it from
day to day,” Disney said. “I was
my fortunate. I could’ve been
there to the end of November.”
Now that the family is complete
raid together in the church’s par*
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THE DISNEYS
Cameron, Stacey and Alina
sonage, she said she is happy to be
at home and looks forward to
resuming a normal routine.
“I think we’re all doing fine,”
Disney said. “The kids'are great
were unsrae if Ben had left me in
the middle of a field or some-
thing” Disney said.
Now that the couple has be-
jcal.”
“I think (the congregation was)
glad to see me back. I think they
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rote by their own visiting parents.
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