Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1990 Page: 1 of 10
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Dublin ISD sees busy week
Between football, FFA and the election of class
Dublin ISD has had many goings-on in
highlights on page 5.
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CALF RANCH
Industry
begins in
big way
By JOYCE WHITIS
Contributing Writer
Rick Robey came to Erath
County to look for a place to
build a calf ranch.
Robey found what he was
looking for.
After his success with a
similar operation in California,
the Granada Corporation of
Houston contacted the rancher
about bringing his knowledge
and his experience to Texas.
Because of Erath County’s
fame as the state’s top dairy
producer and his familiarity with
some local residents, Roby
visited with real estate agents
until he found the right place to
raise calves.
The new facility, located on
Highway 1 about three miles
from Lingleville, marks the first
calf ranch in the area. The ranch
is possibly the first in the state to
be constructed.
Robey moved from his calf—
ratting operation in California
with his wife, Ellen, and the
couple’s three children.
Because of their success in
California, Robey said they had
no intention of moving to Texas.
He had intended to set up the
operation, hire a manager and
high tail it back home to Cali-
fornia.
However, Robey said
didn’t know the people he would
meet in Erath County and had
no idea of the friendly reception,
the wonderful cooperation and
quality workmanship he’d get
from people who had no idea
about what was involved in a
calf ranch.
After careful deliberation,
Robey decided that he’d like to
make his home here. He wanted
to get his kids out of California
and put diem in Stephenville
schools. He wanted good
neighcors and friendly people.
So he went back home, left the
operation in California in the
hands of his business partner
and moved his family to Texas.
The operation, strung out
across a series of valleys and
hills, is comprised of hundreds
of wooden houses with slat sides
and slat floors, elevated on con-
crete blocks, Robey said. Each
house hosts a calf for 60 days.
The animal is bottle fed twice
daily, with a combination for-
mula of whole and powdered
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Photos identified from left to right, top to bottom:
•After a 60-day period of living in hutches, the animals are transferred to group pens.
•A ranch employee fills bottles by which the calves are fed daily.
•Robey stand with his wife, Ellen, and their children, Danny, David and Rachel.
•Hutches, where the calves are temporarily housed, line the ranch as seen above.
Photos by Joyce Whitis.
Dublin volunteer
fire department to
help observe Fire
Prevention Week
As National Fire Prevention
Week is observed October 7-13,
members of the Dublin Volunteer
Fire Department will conduct a
demonstration at the Dublin
Elementary School on Monday af-
ternoon of next week using one of
the Dublin fire trucks.
This week should be a remin-
der, not only to the children, but
to all parents and adults of the
importance of the practice of fire
safety year-round. Constant
protection of our property will
save lives.
The National Fire Protection
Association has provided some
facts on the major causes of fires
and fire caused deaths in the
home.
•The leading cause of home
fires is heating equipment that has
been improperly designed, incor-
rectly installed, poorly
maintained, or misused. This in-
cludes Wood stoves, fireplaces,
chimneys, furnaces, water heaters,
portable heaters adn other space
heaters.
•Careless handling of cigaret-
tes, cigars and pipes result in
more fire deaths than any other
Continued on page 3
Zachary seeks election
to Justice of Peace post
The Erath County Democratic
Executive screening committee
unanimously selected Bill Zachary
as the democratic candidate for
Justice of the Peace, precinct 2.
This position is currently held
by Judge Eddie Welch. Judge
Welch chose not to seek re-elec-
tion after 12 years of service.
Bill Zachary, age 56, has been
active in the Texas Democratic
party for 35 years. He was a legis-
lative aide, Texas House of
Representatives for four years,
delegate to Democratic National
Convention 1968, in Chicago, 111.
He served on the credentials, plat-
form, rules and resolutions com-
mittees for the State Democratic
conventions, to name a few.
He is currently the chairman of
the Erath County Democrats Club,
chartered by the State Democratic
party.
Bill Zachary served his country
Continued on page 3
Hospital adds
new program
By WENDY BROWN
The Dublin Progress
In an effort to provide efficient
and additional service for patients
in need of the emergency room of
the Harris Methodist Hospital in
Stephenville, they have signed a
two-year contract with Medic us
Medical Group.
George McGowan, ad-
ministrator of the hospital, said the
contract with Medicus, which sets
up 24-hour programs for emer-
gency services, will help the hos-
pital deal more efficiently with
emergency room patients in
anitiepation of an increasing load
in that department.
McGowan said the hospital is
currently treating about 500
patients a month in the emergency
room, and that figure is expected
to increase in the months ahead
due to the closures of area hospi-
tals such as Hico and Dublin’s in
addition to the growing reputation
of the Stephenville hospital as a
regional health-care facility.
“We are getting more patients
from outside the county,” he said.
About 25 percent of the patients
treated' at the hospital, including
the emergency room, are from
other. counties than Erath,
McGowan said.
Continued on page 3V
ECCOA operation come to an end
With an apology to the county’s
elderly, a swipe at city and county
government and the community at
large and a promise to pay off all
outstanding debts, the Erath
County Committee on Aging
permanently terminated opera-
tions Wednesday.
The vote to shut down, effec-
tive Sept. 28, was made by
Wayne Mcares, seconded by
Terry Shell and passed un-
animously by 13 membersof the 15-
member board. Barbara Lancaster
and Bill Brede were absent
Meares’ motion to cease opera-
tions came in the form of a
lengthy typewritten statement
which accused the city and county
governments of having withheld
support to their elderly con-
stituents.
"This is a shame and a dis-
grace,” Meares said, "and a slap
to our elderly.”
The community, its industry
and civic clubs also were to
blame, he said, for “[worrying]
about rhetoric and [forgetting] the
elderly of this county, who need
this program.”
Meares defended ECCOA’s
$26,000 in outstanding debt —
including a $10,000 promissory
note signed by eight brand mem-
bers late in 1989 — as “bills
[that] are legitimate and were
used to provide food and transpor-
tation for the elderly.”
In a round-robin discussion of
Meares’ motion before the vote,
John Darby, one of the newest
board members, said the com-
munity should not expect an
apology from the ECCOA be-
cause the board did its part to see
the program through.
’The government,” Darby said,
"provided its 80 percent [of the
program costs administered by the
board]. This community let it
down."
But other board members said
they believed an apology was in
order.
“It appears,” Linda Voss said,
“that this volunteer board of some
IS people of this community are
the only people that care anything
at all about providing food and
transportation for our elderly
citizens. To the senior citizens
that have relied on us for their
meals and transportation, we sin-
cerely apologize. We love you
and we care.”
All around the table just before
the vote were promises to the
agency’s creditors that each
would be paid in full and hopes
that area churches and civic clubs
would join up with the senior cen-
ters in Dublin and Stephenville to
prepare and deliver meals to the
118 elderly citizens formerly ser-
ved by the ECCOA.
According to a letter received
Continued on page 3
PONY EXPRESS — The mail was once delivered by mounted houseman. Tuesday after-
noon, Dean Stephens of Dublin rode to town on Spook ’Um to get a paper. Stephens shadow
covered the Dublin Progress sign in the window and Spook ’Um seemed pleased to pose for the
shot. Piioto by Gaye Gibson.
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