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3ks ¿anadian RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
*--•> ^THtill^DAY 10 JANUARY 1980
Opportunity exists
OPPORTUNITY IS where you find it. and where
a lot of young people have found it during the
past three decades has been with the Opportunity
Plan Inc. at West Texas State University.
The Opportunity Plan has opened the doors to
college education, at West Texas State University,
and elsewhere because its benefits are not
restricted to the Canyon campus, for a number of
young people from Canadian. Texas in years
past...and Milton "Buff" Morris the founder and
guiding spirit of the Opportunity Plan Inc. proudly
reports that the plan "never lost a dime on any of
them."
Canadian has not had Opportunity Plan appli-
cants for several years...perhaps an indication of
the affluence of our society in the I970's...but it
has at least one applicant now. and Buff Morris is
anxious to re-establish local Opportunity Plan
sponsorship. He'll be looking up W'l alumni and
others in the Canadian area in the days ahead with
this in mind, so prepare to give him a welcoming
and helping hand.
The Opportunity Plan is a unique West Texas
operation, and wholly dependent for its financial
backing on West Texas people...and it has a proud
record of helping West Texas students help
Afghani stanism
AFGHANISTANISM used to be a joke in the
newspaper business, a term applied to the
editor who avoided all controversial issues in his
writing and was said to practice "Afghanistanism"
in editorial policies, meaning that he discussed
only topics so far removed from the local scene that
nobody could possibly take offense.
Afghanistan isn't a joking matter am more,
thanks to the Soviets...it's mighty uncomfortably
close to home.
Afghanistan is about as far away, physically.
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Poor HMEing
TIME MAGAZINE'S selection of the Ayatollah
Khomeini for its 1980 "Man of the Year"
cover may be justifiable by some journalistic
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BENEZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL
TINA GUIDRY Advertising Mansger
Entered as second class matter December 20. 1945,
at the Post Office at Canadian, Tesas, under the act
of March 3, 1879. Published each Thursday
afternoon at Canadian. Tetas, by Ben R. and Nancy
M. Ezzell.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES
One year 88.00 in Hemphill ami adjoining
«unties. Elsewhere - 810.00 per year.
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standards...perhaps as the most obnoxious news-
maker of the year...but the selection is hardly
justifiable by standards of common sense or moral
decency.
Khomeini is obviously a dangerous egomaniac
whose self-image, as well as his world-image, has
already been dangerously over-inflated by the
sensational attention he is getting from American
press and television.
To a considerable extent the Ayatollah is
creation of the media...an opportunist who has
seized political power in a backward but strategi-
cally-important country with a great potential for
threatening world peace, and is exploiting his
position to the fullest with the aid of publicity.
Bloated with self-importance which feeds on
public attention, this international Scofflaw has
already been exaggerated beyond all reason. The
sometimes-prestigious selection as "Man of the
Year" by an American newsmagazine can only
re-enforce his self-delusions of grandeur and those
of his followers.
TIME'S selection is certainly the prerogative of
TIME'S editors...journalistic freedom in America
is guaranteed by our Constitution...but it is.
nevertheless, in our journalistic opinion a stupid
selection and, perhaps, one which does a
disservice for our own country.
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themselves to a college education.
The Opportunity Plan provides not just college
financing...many scholarship plans do that...but
also help in finding employment, in planning
budgets, in learning to handle responsibility for
obligations, and in managing finances through
college years and beyond.
The only thing it offers students on a silver
platter is the opportunity to help themselves. It
isn't a give-away program, but it gives its
recipients some important things, such as self-
respect and self-reliance, a sense of responsibilin
and a feeling of pride, an opportunity to earn a
college education and to keep the financial
obligation for it manageable. Students who g<>
through college under the Opportunity Plan are
expected to pay back what they borrow, but how
•md when they are expected to do it is part of their
planning.
High school graduates here and elsewhere
should be aware of it and of the. opportunities it
offers, and this is an area in which local sponsors
can be of great service. If you want to learn more
about the Opportunity Plan Inc., just ask...we'll
put you in touch with people who can answer all
your questions.
Aggie Jokes have been standard fare In Texas for us nun* >tln|
this writer can remember, and there seems to be no limit to then,
phenomenon which might be laid to the fact that there also seta*]
be no limit to Aggies. Texas A4iM continues to produce them in 1
numbers, and they continue to be a dominant influence In I
remarkable number of areas not at all restricted to the fitidl
Agriculture.
And the Aggies seem to roll with the punch lines must of :hd
laughing at the Aggie jokes along with the rest of us. hi ther outofl
keenly developed sense of humor or a finely-developed sense i
resignation we've never been sure. But we've seldom heard an
shoot back from the lip after being targeted by the latest •.a nation ]
the Aggie joke...until now:
Dr. Hugh |Rusty | Wilson of Hale Center, an old Canadian hindi
a Baylor Med grad, tells the story of an Apt Aggie Answer to hiso<<
recounting of an Aggie Joke about the trained flea which his 1
studied b> an Aggie Research team. The flea had been trained I
jump as high as 30 inches on the command "Jump" and
researchers undertook to determine his limits. They surgk
removed the flea's front two legs and recorded that he still jumpedi
command but never seemed to get abose 20 inches.
Fascinated by the discovery, the Aggies removed th< •*. i'
legs and found that the flea still jumped on command •
top ten inches. Peeling on the verge of a great scientit: i v ,
the Aggie researchers now removed the last pair of kv> 'r -
jumping flea and found that, no matter how loudU <>r a nth* : v •
they issued the command to "Jump!", the flea did not m
The Aggies solemnly recorded that removal of the third pair of k
had rendered the flea totally deaf.
When Dr. Wilson told this story to an Aggie friend, he
Aggie looked at him un-smiling and asked "if I knew what
Aggie who has been out of school for four years'' I wasn't sur
doctor admits...but the answer was quick in coming:
"^ou call him BOSS, and don't you ever forget it!"
•••
If the current wild fluctuations in the price of gold on the
market puzzle you. then welcome to the club. In our southfu; •• •>'
gold was as stable in value as it was immutable in substaru i a -
respectable S.Í5 per ounce. A few days ago it zoomed to near:•> $'•
on the world market, before sliding back to $550 or so...b> now it - ¿1
be lower or much higher.
But gold hasn't changed...It Is still the beautiful, mallcab
Indestructible metal It always was. What has changed. «
drastically, Is the value of national currencies in relation to
including the American dollar.
Gold of course has real utilitarian value. It is the most versatile
all metals...it can be spun into the finest filament, or rolled into th
thinnest sheets, it has remarkable strength, is resistant to almost n
chemical, takes high polish and will not tarnish. But the market pnwj
of gold in today's troubled world hasn't much to do with its intrinsi
value...its real value has historically been great, but its currctr
inflated value relates to the relative weakness of the currencies issue
by national governments.
Gold Is the only true International currency. Governments csnj
devalue It, rust doesn't corrupt It, and It la eaay to conceal and slmf
to transport. It may be the moat atable element In a highly unst
world.
•••
But you can t eat it...it isn't digestible. Prisoners of war a"
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OUNG MEN today must be strong, unafraid,
•nd better taxpayers than their fathers were.
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 1980, newspaper, January 10, 1980; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184152/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.