
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 5, 1991                   TAG: 9103050185
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

LIBRARY PRIORITY SQUABBLE CHANGES DONOR'S MIND

The controversy over how much control Pulaski County and the town of Dublin each have over use of the Charles and Ona B. Free Library has cost the facility at least one monetary donation.

Ethel Tickle, a longtime Dublin resident, had planned to donate $500 to the year-old library.

"I just changed my mind because everything that came out . . . was Pulaski, except of course for the money to build it," she said.

Town and county officials have not reached an agreement over which governing body has priority on using the library meeting room, where Dublin Town Council has been holding meetings since the library opened last April.

"I'm not a rich lady at all, but a lot of my grandchildren live here in Dublin so I thought of $500. But I didn't give it to them . . . and that's the reason," Tickle said.

"I knew they were going to call the shots," she said of Pulaski County, since the Dublin library is a branch of the county library. "Anyway, they've got it, and I hope it does well," she said.

"Now, there's nothing wrong with Pulaski. Pulaski's a nice town and they have nice people, but I just thought: Why can't Dublin have their own library, and why can't Dublin stand on their own feet?" she said.

"This thing has upset a lot of people," said Town Councilman Colbern Linkous, "that have given support or were going to give support to the library."

by CNB