The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1978 Page: 2 of 31
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3IU AuuuUan RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 26 JANUARY 1978
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views expressed are the editors', untess noted
Defiance, no thanks
MODIFIED GUIDELINES now proposed by
the Health, Education and Welfare
Department, relaxing the rules first proposed last
fall which would have forced closing of many
small-town hospitals, represent a partial victory
in the War of People vs. Bureaucracy, but give us
no cause for complacency.
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano has proposed a
revised set of standards which he says will not
force the closing of many rural hospitals and
maternity wards. Mr. Califano's change of heart,
in response to more than fifty thousand letters of
protest from citizens across the country (almost
half of them from Texans), would be more
impressive if it were not for the fact that he
obviously believes that he has the right (and the
power) at any time to change back.
Secretary Califano's new guidelines would
permit "local planning agencies" to exempt "small
rural hospitals" from the requirement that there
be no more than four hospital beds per 1,000
people in each community, and that these keep an
average of 80 percent occupancy...if the standard
interferes with people's access to health care.
That's downright generous...but we would
remind Secretary Califano that our "small rural
hospitals" are already under the guidance of "local
planning agencies" which are quite capable of
managing their affairs to the satisfaction of us
, folks who pay for them. They are called hospital
boards, and they are our people. We don't need
HEW experts to tell us how many beds we need,
or choose to afford.
The new guidelines also lower the minimum
standard for hospital obstetrical units from 2,000
deliveries per year to only 1,500, and exempts
rural facilities and those providing care for
uncomplicated births from the numerical
standards. The "exemption" is undoubtedly
generous...mighty few small town "rural"
hospitals have any number approaching even
1,500 births a year...but we resent the arrogance
of the HEW statisticians in telling us how many
babies we must produce in order to meet HEW
standards for obstetrical units. We like our babies
to be born in their home towns, whenever
possible, and our "small rural" hospitals provide
better care for both mother and baby, to say
nothing of expectant fathers, and lose far fewer of
either than many of their big city cousins.
Ostensibly the HEW regulations are aimed at
reducing health care costs, but doing it by
shutting down small town hospitals, where
hospital care is generally much less costly to
patients (and to Medicare) than it is in the cities,
is not the way to go about it. On principle, as well
as in practical applications, we believe that the
federal government bureaucrats...Mr. Califano
included...have no right and should have no power
to dictate to our communities what kind of health
care we can provide for our own people.
We should accept HEW's "modification" of its
national hospital standards not with gratitude but
with defiance...and keep those letters of protest
going to Washington.
Good old boy govvt
[From the Moore County News]
IIM DURHAM, who ran that court of inquiry
in Potter County recently, summarized those
courthouse problems succinctly: they resulted
from "a good old boy" style of county government.
The "good old boy" government in Potter
1977
Qanadian RECORD
Canadian [Hemphill]
BENEZZELL EdJ£
NANCY EZZELL .Editor of Women's Paget
kWANDA CLARK......... 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. Teyas. by Ben
R. and Nancy M. EzzelL
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year - $6.50 In Hemphill and
adjoining counties
O whsr -$M0p rjaar
presently has the county attorney, the sheriff a
county commissioner and two deputy sheriffs
^rrs'^rcou"tyAuditwHc'
yp* government. The la« was be„t here
there, in tailed between od
boys ...but the laws were bent.
One county commmissioner "borrowed" a piece
of county equipment indefinitely, and a sheriffs
deputy helped him load it, apparently with th*
knowledge of the sheriff. It waTfLdv,™
courthouse arrangement, the same kind Pestor
Xwt" ?„TeT °'"
noinewing to the law on county purchases
-owing the law £
dollars, or just doesn't apply to a Dar^nl,
of theirs. A pattern is set of IX U 0886
- the^pattern keeps exp!andfn^r0Und "*
Then a new commissioners court comes in m
time a
admission in^es^in^ h— !TUch this same
resigning. In his judgment he was
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An irate farm lady, writing from Bovine to teke exception to*
editorial criticism of the farm strike, went* to "lay odds that you*,
no farm boy." She would win that bet bandit down.
The editor, who is no longer a "boy" by any stretch of &
imagination, wasn't raised on a farm...although he grew. up in
small Panhandle town mighty close to a lot of farms and had men
than a nodding acqraintance with both the farms and the farmery!
not only understood their problems, but on occasion shared quittj
few of them. That was in the dust bowl days of the early 193;^
when farmers and townspeople alike faced economic disaster diiii
but most of us didn't give in to it and nearly all of us survive
it...mostly by dint of hard work and few luxuries.
I may have been acquainted with some farm problems which Ma
Minyen of Bovina, being of a much younger generation. probiWi
isn't acquainted with at all...among them the buniness-rod of 1
gooseneck hoe, and the dragging weight of a ten-foot cotton uti|
have pulled cotton for as little a* 20 eenta a hundred pound* u4
worked from sun-up to sun-down on tore knee* to make • itafk
dollar...and never felt underpaid when I knew the fanner I *
working for was getting less than lour eenta a pound at the gk
There was a ditty which was frequently heard in those dayi 1
almost wrote "popular", but I think that wouldn't be quite 'A
correct word for that song) with a refrain which went "four ceat
cotton and forty cent wheat, how in the hell can a feller eat?" That
pretty well summed up the farm economy.
Some people didn't eat regularly in those day •...but fans folk dtt
They raised their own meat, and canned their own vegetable*, iai
ground their own grain on occasion, and we town-loth shared it
them and were proud to do it... and we palled through some might;
hard times together.
None of us want to go through that kind of economic diust«
again, but those of us who survived it know that we could do it agi£
if we had to. The "disaster" which many American farmers thai
they are facing today is hardly comparable with the real econoox
disaster which all of them faced in the Depression years. but soatd
the lessons learned then, and some of the remedies applied thes.
might still be useful today...such as adopting more economical
methods of production and adapting production to existing markftt.
That may mean working harder, doing it with leas, and planmaf
more carefully...but those are remedies which every businessmu
land farmers are businessmen) have resorted to in times d
economic stress.
As a matter of fact, our observation has been that moit of tW
fanners and ranchers we know are doing exactly iW
any way...figuring out ways to survive econossically on their m
instead of wasting time and fuel and equipment on biacknil
methods and begging the government lor a bail-oat. We've but
through farm crises before [just as we have been through ernes ■
I "f" of.business before] and the people who dig la and wot
,, eir ■Iways seem to come out better at the end of the trim
than when they went into it.
^ inJ'ubbo<* named "Doc" Williams, who heads a privitf
eonrhipti educational firm called TARA. Inc.. has beet
William"1^ ,m.f !inR s^ort courses for the past year aimed, s «
mon« v fr 31 *eac^'nK formers and ranchers how to extract mort
hedirintr '""p mar^et through use of the futures market and
.1 1' armers, Williams says, can do a (treat deal f<*
We don't Lhr"Ugh 'mProved modern marketing techniques,
oon t know much about Williams or Us organisation, and «
the right idea StI!|rJVillia,"i *** *** sntwera.. Aat he certainly h«i
the results of ******* production, and apply*
business. Th.i 5°** 1 " «tbodo used bjr every succetsfd
playing thp 1 * metn on market fluctuation*, by
£kSa£ ,1UtUm. it does mean learning
1 11 markets and cearint wnii«itl«n to them bT
carefully "educated" guessing to Uiem
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iff !EIGHT is lhe penalty for exceeding the feed
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weekly calendar.
Chamber of Cor
323 6234 betweei
noon Monday th
Community T
Ministry. Call 3<
Wilson.
WATS line for S.
Prevention Crisis
call 1-800 692-4'
counseling perw
night.
Family Service
Main. Thursdaj
anytime, 323-573
for all ages. 1
problems, mar
alcoholism. lOr ca
above. 1
Planned Parenth
office in basement
house. H a.m.
Monday through
Mitchell in charg*
Catholic Charitit
Needy. Contact T
at 316 Elliott or J
102 W. Kingman.
Caridades Catolic
necesitados. Habli
Lopez.
Driver's license
newals, duplies
every Wednesday
and fourth Tues
month. County Co
Moore, State
charge.
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W ♦>*.: «>r 323- 6
WEEK OF J
THROUGH F
Thursday, Ji
Junior Varsity B
Tourney — Spear
4:00, Boys — 5:2
Jaycees meet -
Hall.
Friday, Ji
\ arsity Boys a
Dalhart — 6:30 |
Lions Club meets
at the Beef four
Saturday,
s cred Heart Cal
Sunday Vigil Mas
Sunday,J
Central Baptist
day School 10 a
Worship 11 a.m.;
p.m.; Evening W
Fir« Method li
Church School
Morning Worship
Evening Worship
Assembly f)f (
Sunday s.-hool
Morning Worship
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1978, newspaper, January 26, 1978; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136524/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.