The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1959 Page: 2 of 16
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THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1956
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Life or death question:
Can you stop in time?
HAS YOUR CAR been safety checked?
We're riot talking about the windshield
sticker which the State requires you to keep
in placc and renew once a year . . . that cert-
ificate. chances are. is nearly a year old now.
What have you done for your car lately?
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
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Entered as second class matter December 20.
1945, at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
Bury it where?
(From Dun's Review)
DECISION MAKING is a lonely business, and
the greater the degree of responsibility,
the more intense the loneliness. Yet the vitali-
ty of our free enterprise system depends upon
the man who makes policy by relying en-
tirely upon his own judgment.
What arr the attributes which such a man
possesses? First he has a perceptive instinct
for recognizing a problem and an ability to
articulate which permits him to frame the
issue with clarity. Secondly he has the ability
to saturate himself with pertinent data about
a subject before permitting his mind to come
into focus.
Coupled with this he has a sense of urgency
which creates a nice balance between the
desire to know more and necessity for action.
Thirdly he has the courage not to look back
onee his decision is made. There is no after-
math of doubt once the commitment Is made.
It is worth remembering that even the com-
petent decision maker has an occupational
disease: his ablity to make effective decisions
also makes him reluctant to delegate author-
ity to others. Merely being aware oí this ean
be a help in overcoming it
CM !<>* STOP
No Wonder They're Trying to Get Off"
Are the brakes in good shape? Are your tires
gripping the pavement, or are they getting
that polished look? Is your windshield clean,
and do the wipers work? How about the rear
view mirror and the back glas ? Or is half
your field of vision obscured by those wind-
shield stickers you
collected from far
places on this sum-
mer's vacation?
Can you see just
where you're going
as well as where
you've been . . .
and can you stop
.. in tiime?
Those are always
f&y / DOWH questions of life
mm / v "WW and death for an
automobile driver
on the highway,
but they're particularly important right now
for town drivers as well.
Because school starts next week ... and kids
will be kids.
Being kids some of them will be darting
into the streets from behind parked ears . . .
chasing a ball, maybe, or just chasing.
Some of them will be rolling into intersec-
tions on bikes ... or making U-turns a car's
length in front of you.
And some of the older ones will be driving
cars of their own . . . just as powerful and
just as deadly, as the one you're driving
yourself.
Being kids they will sometimes forget to
be careful.
It's up to us. who are older and should be
wiser, to do some of their thinking for them.
After all. somebody did ours for us a few years
ago or a lot of us wouldn't be here now.
And it's up to us . .. all of us who drive . . .
to make sure that the machines we drive are
in top condition at all times.
Has your ear been safety checked . . . recent-
ly we mean?
Better do it today . . . school starts tomorrow!
Art of decision
(From the King City, Calif., Rustler-Herald)
COMETIMES WE HAVE requests urging that
** if we insist on using an item of news
that we "bury it" on an inside page.
These requests come from people who are
publicity_shy or people in an adverse set
of circumstances. Others want a preferrert
position "where every reader is sure to see it."
We find however that in a newspaper as
thoroughly read as this one it is virtually im-
few casual or superficial readers, but even
pasible to hury an item. There may be a
these are lod to read choice hut tiny morsels
nf news by the comments of their more eagle-
eyed neighbors.
An error in the news always bounces hack
to our editorial attention with the prompt-
ness nf r*dar — and sometimes with the fer-
oritv of the released atom.
The folks who up in th u*nrld today
are the ones who drove carefully last night.
novprnment «statisticians show concern ever
the fact that 25 per cent of American families
live beyond their incomes. Look who's talking.
A well-adjusted person is one who can
play bridge and golf as though they were
games.
The reason, observes the Second Street Phil-
osopher, why the dog is man's best friend is
•imple: the dog wags his tall ... not his
tongue
JWO-AIR
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If your Record has been a few hours late during the past six
weeks, you'll have to lay the blame on the editor . . . not the
post office. But since our shop foreman. Ted Rogers, has been
laid up recovering from an eye operation, we're been trying to
"double in b*ass" and handle Ted's typesetting and printing
chores as well as our own in the editorial and adrertistng
departments.
And we've discovered in the process that this old horse is
neither as young nor as agile as he used to be (maybe he
never really was), 1/ing-unused skills, such as the operation
of that iron monster which old Otto Mergenthaler proudly
named "the Linotype", come back slowly . . . but they 3o
come back . .and somehow, through painfully long hours,,
we've been managing to produce the type to get each week's
issue into print.
In the process we've become intimately acquainted with
the 18 hour day and the 7 day week ... a pair of anachron-
isms which today's labor leaders confidently proclaim are
lonE-since past. And so they are. undoubtedly, for the men who
work for hourly wages . . . hut the owners of many small bus-
inesses will come to know them well.
Anyhow, try as we will we can't quite make that Thursday
afternoon deadline and The Record, for the first time in many
years, has heen arriving at the Post Office too late for Thurs
day afternoon distribution. Instead it has been going into the
mails around midnight ,and into your post offce boxes early
on Friday morning.
How long is this going on? We wish we knew. To Ted's many
friends who keep inquiring, he is getting along fine, the eye
opsration was apparently a complete success and needs only
time for thorough healing, and he'll be back on the fob as soon
os the doctor gives the word . . . which will probably be at
l«ast another month . . . and well be gladder than anybody
to have him back.
One of our favorite writers is the gal who edits our "Petticoat
Fatter" column each week . . . matter of fact, she's been a
favorite nf ours since she first started writing us letters some
seventeen years ago . . . and we know from our reader response
over a period of years that she's a favorite columnist of yours
too. "Patter" has enrolled a surprising number of male read-
ers although it's aimed at the ladies.
Rut we suspect that Nancy has put her foot in the bucket
with her advice this week about regularly scrubbing the coffee
pot . . . at least among some of you male readers. How about
that you chuck wagon wranglers?
We've heen in camps where scrubbing the coffee pot would
have been almost a hanging offense ... on a par with horse
stealing and putting mutton in the stew. Matter of fact we
know some hard.bitten campers who even save part of the
coffee grounds from year to year after the manner of the
sourdough cooks who always kept a 'starter' on hand.
Can you really brew coffec, western style, In a clean pelf
Or li this all a bunch •! hokum T
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1959, newspaper, August 27, 1959; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183967/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.