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0 3b 6a*<ulia* RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 2 JANUARY 1975
express d here, unless otherwise noted, are those of the editors
Our statement of policy
At THE BEGINNING of each year for more
than a quarter of a century now. since this
newspaper has been under its present ownership.
we have repeated a statement of principles which
have guided us in the week-to-week conduct of
THE RECORD. We have carefully re-read this
brief public statement in the light of our changing
times and from the perspective of years, and find
no reason to change it in any way:
We believe in the freedom of the press. We we
grateful for it. We will defend it to the limit of our
ability.
We believe, too, that in return for that freedom,
we owe an obligation of service to our community.
We believe that it is our duty to provide you with
complete and unbiased reporting of the news of
our community.
We will always strive for accuracy...and being
human, we will not always achieve it. But we
pledge to you that we will never knowingly
mislead you...and we will never refuse to make
correction if any error in fact is called to our
attention.
We will do our best to keep you informed
regarding the public affairs of our community,
A clear choice
because we believe that an informed public is our
best guarantee of freedom.
We will always strive to base our reporting oi
the news on fact, and to confine our own opinions
and comments on it to our editorial columns. We
will continue to present our own views on public
questions, editorially, as clearly and concisely as
possible...because we believe you have a right to
know where your newspaper stands on any public
question.
At the same time, we will not deny you. as
individuals, the right to public expression of your
own views...whether your ideas agree with ours
or not. As always, the columns of The Record will
be open to you for publication, over your
signature, of your own views on questions of
public interest...subject only to the restrictions of
libel and the standards of common decency.
But we will neither publish nor acknowledge
unsigned and anonymous contributions, regard-
less of their content.
The Record is a private company, operated for
private profit. But it is a public news
medium...and as such, we hope that it merits, and
will continue to merit, your confidence and your
trust.
Depending on the point of view, we
suppose, 1975 marks either the end of the
first three-quarters of this 20th century, or the
beginning of the last quarter. We'd like to think of
it as the beginning of a new era, rather than the
end of an old one. We'll feel few regrets about
ending the old.
New beginnings have the ring of optimism to
them...a feeling of looking toward the future with
hope, rather than looking backward in sorrow.
Without forgetting the lessons of the past,
which have been hard ones in many
cases...especially those of the last decade...let's
look to the future and resolve to make it better. If
experience has been any sort of a teacher, we
ought to be able to.
The Twentieth Century has so far been a mixed
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Not for a jail, please
QNE OF THE MAJOR problems which
Hemphill County Commissioners are going to
have to face up to in the next few months will be
to provide jail facilities which will meet the
minimum standards of the law.
The county's 19th century bastille is going to
have to be replaced, and it's going to be
expensive.
One alternative might be contracting for the
use of some regional jail facility in another
MEMBER |975 ASSOCIATION
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(Banadian RECORD
Canadian [Hemphill County] Texas
BEN EZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL Editor of Women's Pages
WANDA WILLIAMS Advertising Manager
Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945, at the Post Offic e at Canadian, Texas, under
the Act of March 3, 1879. Published each
Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by Ben
R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year - $8.00 plus .30 sales tax in HemphUl
and adjoining counties
Elsewhere in Texas - $7.50 plus .38 sales tax
Outside of Texas - $7.50 per year.
Momk
county...not a wholly satisfactory solution but one
which ought to be explored.
Another which is being explored, we
understand, is the possibility of converting the
present County Hospital building, which will be
vacated when the new hospital is completed, into
a jail.
This one, we believe, should be nipped in the
bud before much time or money is wasted on
developing it. There are some compelling reasons,
completely aside from the architectural feasibility
of converting that building to use as a jail, which
demand that it should not be done.
One of the most compelling is the fact that it is
located right across a narrow street from
Canadian's Elementary School buildings and
playgrounds.
Another is that it is located in the heart of a
family residential district, and within earshot
(and a good stone's throw) of two city parks and
playgrounds.
A third, and least important, is the fact that it is
many blocks from the County Courthouse and its
courtrooms where all prisoners must at some time
appear.
The question of whether or not money might be
saved by converting the old hospital building to a
jail should not even enter into the planning. The
total unsuitably of the location for that purpose
ought to rule it out.
Which is not to argue that the old hospital
building shouldn't be put to good use for other
county purposes. Other public offices not related
to law enforcement might make efficient use of
the structure m ways favorable to the
wXyperS'"° SU0h M the exten8i°n services,
welfare services, even the tax offices.
But never for housing prisoners.
As we begin a new year, It's always a good idea to take • q^j
look back at the old one..^t the good as well as the bad which it fe,|
produced (most years produce « lair share of both|...and at
lessons we may learn for the future from the mistakes we've i
in the past.
On the whole. 1974 has been a traumatic year for most America^
It has brought revelations of high crimes and low morals at tj
highest levels of government; it has brought high crime rates a/
soaring living costs at the lowest levels of society...and a mixture]
all of these at every level in between.
Inflation has been the overriding issue of the year for
Americans...topping even the Watergate scandals in its cumulative
effect on the morale of a majority of people. It began last January)
a better-than-ten-percent dip, and seemed to be gathering speed i
year's end as the national economy turned toward deep '
recession.
Watergate and all its attendant woes, however, may hav<
only speeded the process, but impeded the solution. T>,
unprecedented scandals which have been lumped under the nas
'Watergate" paralyzed the national government for months, and bj
the third quarter of the year had virtually wiped out the top echhtj
of Administration, including the President himself.
In a period of crisis we were not only left without top leadership
but without adequate replacement. The last elected vice-presides
remember, preceded his chief in discredit and disgrace...and H
Nixon's appointed replacement has yet to exhibit the quality
leadership which the nation so desperately needs.
If there is a lesson to be learned from all of this...and we believj
there is a lesson which must be learned if our system of (?overnme3
is to survive...it is a lesson which must be remembered at the poiij
in every election from now on. We must take the election of pubiij
officials at all levels of government (and especially in the cong
and for the Presidency) much more seriously, and exan
candidates much more srarchingly, than we have done in rece^
years...and if we are not prepared to exercise this responsibility, i
had better leave the job to those citizens who are. We cannot affo
another Nixon, or another Agnew, in our highest offices...nor can 1
afford to leave the choices of their successors to people such l|
these.
We have been fortunate here in the —rtbeastsru Panhandle i
Texas, in that we have beeu touched much mere gently than
citizens of our country, ae far, by the ncsnouait wees which beset l
country. We have actually profited, hi a sense, from one phase si l
national trauma...the energy crisis...which has spurred the
for and production of the oil and natural gas which undergird* <
local economy.
Even the collapse of the cattle market which has hit hard at
producers everywhere has been cushioned in our area by the (a<j
that many ranch operators, by the nature of their business, are 1:
owners of land or. which oil and gas production is being found. The
mineral resources haven't helped the cattle market, but they'
made it easier to bear.
Again there is a lesson to be learaed..Jad beef production, wh
will certainly continue, may ant be the same again. We may ha*]
learned that our economy will not support n feed'sg method
requires the feeding of 20 paunds of edible groin to produce
pound of edible beef. People will continue to eat Wtf, and fc
may even continue to fatten cnttle lor marke but method*
feeding are almost certainly going to change..Jor i;Wi dmpk re
that grains can be converted into load lor the world's h«
population more economically nnd much more efficiently by
methods than by running them through n caw.
The beef industry will survive, and those who learn to produ
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^NE PROBLEM with being punctual is that.
nine times out of ten, there's nobody around
to appreciate it.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1975, newspaper, January 2, 1975; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136365/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.