The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1955 Page: 2 of 8
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... Instead of Our Misfortunes
Too often, as a community and as individuals,
we are inclined to count our misfortunes instead
of Our blessings.
If we would spend as much time and energy
telling the world about the good points of our
community as we do moaning about the "bad
breaks" we've had, Canadian would be the best
advertised little town in the country , . . and
don't ever think that sort of advertising doesn't
pay.
Take our schools, for example. Good schools
are just about the best assets that any town can
have . . . and ours are among the best in the
state.
Most of you probably Know that the Canadian
schools are fully accredited ... not only by the
Texas Education Agency but by the Southern
Association of Schools and Colleges. But have
you ever stopped to think ... or bothered to
find out . . . what that means to our high school
graduates?
Accreditation by the T. E. A., of course, means
that Canadian schools are meeting Texas' mini-
mum standards for education . . . but Southern
Association membership means far more.
Accreditation by the Southern Association
means that Canadian's high school graduates
CONTESTS
NEWSPAPER
can enter any college or university in the nation
without entrance examinations. It means that a
high school diploma from Canadian high school
in recognized in colleges and universities through-
out the country as positive proof that the Cana-
dian high school graduate is already qualified
to meet minimum college entrance requirements.
But it means more than that. It also means,
that the Canadian public schools rank among
the top 20 to 25 per cent in Texas in standards
of educational excellence.
A majority of Texas schools now meet T. E. A.
standards, but fewer than 25 per cent are eligible
for accreditation by the Southern Association.
Our schools are not just good . . . they are far
better than average. We have something to offer
here that many towns cannot. Let's tell the
world about it.
How Many Foiled
Their Civic Duty?
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL - Editor
TESS WILKINSON Society Editor
TED ROGERS Foreman
ADVERTISING RATES
Display $0.49 per column inch
Rate Card Upon Request
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Hemphill and Adjoining Counties:
One Year - $2.50
Elsewhere $3.50 per year
Entered as second class matter December 20, 1945,
at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas, wider the
act of March 3, 1879. Published each Thursday
afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by the Lockhart
Publishing Company, a Texas corporation.
Here's o Break . . .
. . . For the Wheat Farmer
(From The Hereford Brand)
During recent years a few farmers have taken
advantage of the provisions to store over-seeded
wheat acreage for sale in dry, or otherwise less
productive years. It is a practice which we pre-
diet will spread this year — and which will be-
come general in application in the years to fol-
low.
In brief, the farmer over-seeds his acreage
when conditions and moisture indicate possibil-
ities of a normal, or a bumper crop. When plow-
up time rolls around the farmer, instead of plow-
ing under the excess acreage, lets it go ahead and
mature. When the grain is harvested, he merely
places it in storage—on the farm or in the eleva-
tor. Next year, or the following year, when yields
fail to come up to par, he applies to the County
ASC board, secures a release and markets his
grain without penalty.
Actually, this situation comes closer to fitting
the time-worn phrase. "Ever-Normal Granary,"
than any previous agriculture program. In 1954 a
few farmers in this area o"erseeded in coopera-
tion with the clause. They stored their excess
wheat and, in the face of 1955 wheat failures,
were able to market the carry-over without pen-
alty, thus giving them a stable income this year,
as well as in 1954.
This clause was inserted into the law. not as
a loophole, but apparently in ah effort to help
the wheat farmer produce wheat when it is pos-
sible for him to do so. Certainly, it fits this coun-
try well in view of droughts, greenbugs, hail and
other such hazards. All in all, it is well worth
investigating.
What's more, we will bet that it was written
in by some old boy who has had some actual,
honest-to-goodness experience in growing wheat.
Although Friday's bond election for a munici-
pal swimming pool carried by a comfortable
margin ... a heartening sign for those of us
who believe that civic improvements will lead
to community growth and progress ... it was a
disheartening fact that little more than half of
the city's eligible tax-paying voters bothered to
cast ballots in the election.
We believe that all citizens should consider it
a duty . . . as well as a privilege ... to vote on
all issues of fundamental importance to their
communities.
We leave ourselves . . . and our fellow citizens
. . . wide open to the evils of minority ruje when
we fail or refuse to register our opinions at the
polls.
No election is unimportant. Every issue affect-
ing your government . . . whether it be on a
local, state, or national level . . . deserves your
attention.
Don't forget that the free ballot is the most
important weapon an American citizen has in
the battle for democracy.
♦
This Couldn't Happen . . .
. . . Under Texas Laws
(From the County Wide News of Littlefield)
General Motors has been required to notify
some 18.000 workmen that they will have to join
a certain union by a specified date or lose their
jobs, except in the 17 states which have passed
the right-to-work laws. This is in accordance
with the Taft-Hartley act. Under it, when a com-
pany signs up for a union shop a non-union man
can be hired, but he must join the union in 90
days and pay dues or be fired. The law does not
even limit assessments that can be charged him.
The issue here is neither pro-union nor anti-
union—it involves the basic principle of the
right of choice and the right to work without
coercion.
What becomes of a free country when a man is
forced to join and pay in order to earn his
bread and butter?
Would anyone advocate a law forcing or allow-
ing General Motors to fire a man if he did not
resign from a union within 90 days after it hired
him? How would that be different from the
present situation where it has to fire him if he
doesn't join?
Here is a good example of might being right.
A powerful private labor organization can legally
extort money fdues) from a man on the penalty
of having him fired.
Apparently the only solution is for the balance
of the individual states to pass right-to-work
laws as Texas and 16 other states have already
done.
• •
Try beating the train to a railroad crossing if
you want to put a real lasting finish on your
car.
Some people think that they are stuck on each
other, when after all they are only plastered.
• • *
Although women dress to please men, they
usually miss it about 30 minutes.
•
Then there is the guy who gave his girl friend
some tooth paste, but her tooth fell out anyway.
* • •
People who wake up famous haven't been
asleep.
The Silver Lining
RED C ROSS
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STRICTLY FRESH
17 AST Germany's barbers must
collect hair they snip off cus-
tomers' heads, package it and
send it to the government-run
raw material reserves commis-
sion. Anyone failing to comply
will be snatched bald-headed.
* • •
"I managed to slip in quietly,"
says a Briton who crash-landed
his glider on the field during a
cricket match at Lasham, Eng-
land. if he'd landed over here
during a pro football game, he'd
have been kicked tor an extra
point at the half.
• • •
Officers in Marshalltown, Iowa,
had a spoke put in their wheels
of enforcement by one small boy
who, caught breaking up Ms
bicycle, said it was his and that
he could do as he pleased with
it. It was. He did. Cops pedalled
off about their business.
cfwe
Now that we're going to
build a municipal swimming
pooL the $84 question becomes
"where are we going to put
it?" Mayor Oofie Abraham
says the obvious answer is to
build the darn thing on wheels
so it can be moved around
from one part of town to an-
other!
* ♦ ♦
Last Friday night's Canadian
Curtain Club production grossed
more than $380 in ticket sales
. . . thanks largely to the en-
thusiastic salesmanship of local
Lions and Rotarians who staged
a ticket-selling contest in ad-
vance of the play. The Youth
Program deficit for the summer
was paid off in full.
•
These two service clubs indi-
vidually do a big job of com-
munity service, but when they
get together on something they
can move mountains.
• * *
The Curtain Club, by the way,
which normally keeps 20 per
cent of the net receipts from its
plays to finance future produc-
tions, voted to turn over all of
the receipts from "Ask Me No
Questions" to the Rotary Club
for the Youth Program Fund ...
but the Youth Program commit-
tee, after paying all of the bal-
ance of this summer's expenses,
plans to return a surplus of
about $60 to the Curtain Club!
♦ * #
Is the half-dollar coin on the
way out? The New Yorker
Magazine recently conducted
quite a survey in the Big Town
trying to run down the reasons
behind a continuing surplus of
half dollars piling up in New
York banks . . . but without
reaching any definite conclu-
sions beyond the guess that
the half-buck is just too heavy
to carry around.
# •
We suspect, though, that the
real reason is that there just
isn't much use any more for a
half-dollar ... it takes the whole
buck. Our own experience has
been that when we lay a dollar
bill on the line to pay for some-
thing, we rarely get as much as
half of it back in change. Some-
times a quarter comes back over
the counter . . . but more often
it's a nickel or dime and maybe
a penny or two.
♦
The unpopularity of the half-
dollar may also be accounted
for by the fact that it won't fit
into vending machines, which
is about the only place we
have to use small change any
more. Even the Bell System's
pay-telephones will accept on-
ly nickels, dimes and quarters.
There just isn't a coin ma-
chine in the country . . . out-
side of Las Vegas, maybe . . .
that is built to take the half-
dollar. It's getting to be a Dodo
among coins.
• • •
It's also getting to be a head-
ache for the U. S. Treasury, ac-
cording to The New Yorker. The
half-dollar coins pile up in the
big New York banks with alarm-
ing regularity, and have to be
hauled back to the hinterlands
by truck to be placed back In
circulation, and the freight bill
is considerable. The Treasury has
almost a 20-year supply of the
half-dollar coins already minted
... and no takers.
* • *
Oh, well, being a patriotic
soul we'd like to do our part
toward solving this problem,
and we're going to notify Sec-
retary of the Treasury Humph-
rey that well bo glad to accept
a sizeable shipment of half
dollars to be placed in circu-
lation locally. Wo can handle
almost any number, and we
figure it should take 'em some
time to find their way back to
New York from here. We'd, ev-
en consider paying the freight
on a modest shipment.
• # •
And if any of you folks locally
have a half-dollar surplus that's
bothering you, we'll be glad to
take a few of them off your
hands too. Just toss 'em In the
door at The Record office and
we'll sweep, them up every af-
ternoon. There's no charge for
this service.
• • •
We've always believed the
old adage that "half a loaf is
better than no bread at all"
and we see no reason why this
shouldn't apply to half a dol-
lar as welL
• • •
The principal fault that we
Miracles Live in
Jesus' Name
The miracles in the Gospel are
numerous and significant. There
is the miracle of the turning of
water Into wine at the marriage
in Cana. Again visiting Cana,
Jesus heals a nobleman's sick
son at Capernaum.
In Jerusalem, at the pool of
Bethesda, He cures an infirm
man, and because it was on the
Sabbath incurs the intense hos-
tility of certain Jews. Then
comes the miracle of the feeding
of the 5000.
There is also the miracle of
Jesus coming to the disciples,
walking on the sea.
There is the story of the res-
toration of sight of the man
born blind.
The crowning of the miracles
is the raising of Lazarus from
the dead.
The testimony of these mighty
works will vary in value accord-
ing to one's attitude toward mir-
acles in general. |
For some the wonder-working
aspect of Jesus seems lafger than
the spiritual significance of Je-
sus and His teaching.
For others the miracles are
evidence of a wonderful life in
which the supreme importance
was the teaching and the life-
giving power that brought new
life, not to the body, but to the
soul.
Jesus Himself disparaged the
materialistic aspect of the mira-
cles. To those who thronged
about Him after the feeding of
the 5000 He said: "Ye seek me,
not because ye saw the miracles,
but because ye did eat of the
loaves, and were filled."
If men once believed in the
Christ because of the miracles,
today they believe in the mira-
cles because of Christ.
Notice is hereby given that a hearing
on the budget for Hemphill County
will be held at
10 o'Clock A. M.
September 12,1955
at the Hemphill County Courthouse
E.C. FISHER, County Judge
Your Dollar Buya Most id
Quality Merchandise from Your
Friendly Canadian Merchant
find with teen-agers is that we're
not one of them.
* * *
"Keeping a stiff upper lip."
says Douglas Meador in The
Matador Tribune, "is easily at-
tained by keeping the lower
lip pressed firmly against it"
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every banking service.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1955, newspaper, September 8, 1955; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183763/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.