The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1994 Page: 2 of 28
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EADERS OF SATURDAY’S Amarillo
JL^hDaily News may have noticed a story,
carried below the fold on Page 1, which was
written in some highly technical language. As a
service to their readers and ours, we want to offer
this translation from the extremely specialized
lingo of a local t.v. station manager, to the more
common terminology of Bubba Joe, the couch
potato.
Under the headline,“KVII-TV to begin
showing past episodes of ‘NYPD Blue’,” ran
the following story. For your convenience, we
For those not familiar with the “Oofie sez” stylebook—or what
my dad once referred to as the literary genius of the Abraham
family—here’s a sampling:
Dougboy Price is an old boy over at Taos that's tn the Real
Estate business. He writes these nutty sort of ads and some way
or another he got a big writeup in Life a few months ago. Mrs.
AR. King brought me some of his ads and they are pretty good but
I don t think they even start to be as good as mine used to be when
I was in my prime....Now if Life or one of those big magazines
would give me the publicity I ought to have, I'd really turn out
some dandy material. But you notice I said when I was in my
prime, and I’ve sure been slipping lately. I decided that there was
a lot better tonic than Hadacol and that’s Business. You just let
THE WIZARD OF ODDS. When I heard late Monday afternoon
that Oofie had died, I got that small, sad feeling that comes when
someone I love is gone. Then I did the only tning I could think of
to do: I grabbed a cold Shiner from the refrigerator and headed
down to the newspaper office to start looking through the old files.
Now that may seem a strange way to mourn the passing of
Malouf Abraham, Sr., but it was exactly the right way to take
note of the last mortal day of Oofie, The Wizard of Odds.
I could just about see his grin when I sat down at my desk,
hoisted that beer, and toasted his seventy-eight years of living.
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RECORD
USPS 087-960
RO. Box 898
Canadian (Hemphill) Texas 79014
(806) 323-6461
BEN EZZELL Editor and Publisher
1948-1993
NANCY EZZELL Editor and Publisher
LAURIE EZZELL BROWN
Co-Editor
Photographer
TINA STOCK
Advertising Manager
Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945 at the Post Office at Canadian, Texas
under the act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, "foxas,
by Nancy M. Ezzell.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to
THE CANADIAN RECORD, Box 898,
Canadian, TX 79014
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
$20/Year ■ $12/Six Months in Hemphill
& adjoining counties
$25/Year ■ $15/Six Months elsewhere
have provided our translation in italics:
“Amarillo’s KVII-TV will carry the ABC
television series NYPD Blue (regular network
programming which has previously been un-
available to Panhandle viewers due to a hasty
and altogether arbitrary decision by the local
ABC affiliate) beginning June 7, President and
General Manager Jim McCormick announced
this week.
“The station had refused (no ifs, ands, buts or
previews) to run the critically acclaimed series
last year, citing concerns (communicated via a
carefully organized mail and telephone campaign
conducted by viewers for whom it was not neces-
sary to see the show in order to form an opinion
about its content) about language and brief nude
scenes. The station also cited concerns of some
religious groups (for whom ignorance is rapture
if not bliss).
u ‘Having studied the situation throughout
this past season (we gave up our Tuesday night
poker games so we could watch it on the Fox
channel), I feel it would be a disservice to viewers
(who turned their tv’s off in droves and started
playing poker on Tuesday nights) in this (money)
market to continue to pre-empt (lose out on all
those advertisers who are more than happy to
sponsor the show in spite of the rumored language
and brief nude scenes) this quality (language and
brief nude scenes with multi-syllabic dialogue)
service (money),’ McCormick said. ‘NYPD Blue
has not only met with high critical acclaim (TV
Guide even liked it), but more importantly
(money), with overwhelming (lots of money)
audience acceptance (Bubba Joe even likes it)
throughout the country (money, money, and more
money).' ”
The story goes on to quote McCormick as
It wasn’t hard to find what I was looking for in those old
newspaper files, either. I was looking for signs of life in the face
of death, and I could have started just about anywhere and not
been disappointed.
You see, Oofie had a special relationship with The Record
He loved attention, and was a master of self-promotion. That was
the flashy side of Malouf Abraham He also believed in and
supported the newspaper, and his standing advertisements were
a source of financial backing that was in otherwise short supply
in the local economy for many years. That was the quietly
generous side of our friend; and as a result, the pages of The
Canadian Record were enlivened for half a century by his ads,
which Oofie fondly referred to as “my columns.”
“I’ve been robbed’” one headline proclaimed from the three-
column box that displayed one week’s ad. This newspaper had
just been a big award winner at the 1951 Texas Press Convention,
and Oofie figured some credit was due. “Have you seen all those
prizes and trophies in the Canadian Record window?” the Wizard
wrote. “Looks like Ben sacked up about everything the law allows
one paper to win in the press contest!”
“But what gets me,” he went on, in that tone which may best
be described as ‘crusty,’ “is that he didn’t bring me a thing. I am
sure that my excellent column is what won at least half the prizes
for him.”
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1994, newspaper, June 2, 1994; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285764/m1/2/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.