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THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1959
Vote Tuesday
Street paving's a bargain
¡XT Tuesday is election day in Canadian. proposed $25,000 street improvement bond i¡
IJEXT Tuesday is election day in Canadian
This is the date set for a vote on the city's
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL
TED ROGERS
Editor
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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.
proposed $25,000 street improvement bond is-
sue.
believe the bond issue should be approved.
The $25,000 is intended to finance the city's
one-third share of paving some 25 blocks of
residential streets . . . extending our present
network of paved streets to new residential
areas and paving the way toward future
growth.
Existing street paving has all been similarly
financed, with the city sharing one-third of
the cost and property owners benefitting di-
rectly from the paving sharing the other two-
thirds.
Since a sizeable majority of city residents
already live on paved streets, a reasonable
degree of unselfishness among this group of
citizens ought to guarantee passage of the
bond issue. Certainly those of you who have
already benefitted from city-aided paving pro.
grams ought to be willing to extend the same
benefits to other city residents who want it.
But for purely selfish reasons, if no other,
Canadian property owners should welcome the
paving program. Paving of streets not only
saves the city money in maintenance costs,
but increases property values in general where-
over these improvements are extended. That
makes good sense.
Every qualified citizen-voter . . . and that
means all of you who own taxable property
in the city and hold a valid poll tax receipt or
exemption . . . should vote in this election.
Because this is another progressive step in
continued civic improvement for Canadian, we
Elementary. Watson?
The hungry middleman
(From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
SAUL Harvey, news commentator, turned de-
tective to answer a question hp received
in the mail. He tells the results of his sleuth-
ing in an article in the current issue of Hu-
man Events, and if it is nni as suspenseful a
story as a mystery tale ought to be, it is be-
cause people have grown pretty well aware of
the practices of government.
The question came to Mr. Harvey from a
farmer who said he got 2 cents for the wheat
that went into a loaf of bread selling in the
stores at 24 cents. "Who," asked the farmer,
"is the middleman who is getting rich off ihe
farmer "
Somebody, said Mr. Harvey, is picking the
pocket, of the farmer or the customer, or both.
So he set to work to search out the culprit.
He checked every ingredient and every profit
that is involved in making a loaf of bread,
from the time the grain leaves the farm until
the finished product reaches the grocer's
shelves. And what did he find? They all add-
ed up to 12 cents, leaving a gap of 12 cents
between cost and selling price. His suspicions
of thievery, or gouging, mounted.
Then, by some more checking, he found the
offender. If you have followed this far, you
probably already have guessed it—taxes. The
mill which ground the wheat took only a
fraction of a cent as profit, but it had to act
as collector of seven federal taxes and eight
state taxes on the grain. When this was done,
the price of the wheat was doubled.
Step by step the same process occurred. The
railroad which hauled the grain, the producers
and transporters of the salt, sugar, yeast, milk
solids and other ingredients in the loaf of
bread—all took such a minute profit that they
added only two pennies to the cost of the
loaf. But taxes added at each stage—151 in all
on a single loaf of bread—pyramided to the
point that they finally doubled the sellinc;
price.
It happens with everyth'ng <1 c you buy, as
well. You may think taxes take 20, 25 or 50
per cent of your income—depending on Ihe
bracket of your earnings. If so, you forget the
"hidden" taxes which nibble at your dollars.
They are Ihe real thieves.
More education ... less training
(From The Qucnah Tribune-Chief)
"IET US stop our schools from diverting
children from genuine education to learn-
ing how to dress, shop, telephone, cook, drive
or find a mate. Those skills may give them an
atractive packaging, but should we not be
more concerned with giving our children solid
content? This cannot be done any other way
than by lighting the lamps of knowledge."
These are the words of Vice Admiral H. G.
Rickover in an article published last week in
the Saturday Evening Post. This frank, an-
alytical view of the American education sys-
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torn is must reading. Rickover is critical but
constructive. He airs this country's tragic mis-
take of offering "training" in too many in-
stances without providing an "educativa." One
equips the student for earning a living and
becoming "socially adjusted." The other equips
him for a continual widening of his intellec-
tual horizons and creative abilities.
li America is to continue in her role of
world leadership, our youth must be educated
to step into places of responsibility with more
than simply developed skills but with an
awareness of the issues and forces engaged
in this titanic atomic age struggle.
Newspaper headlines the other day were playing up the
fact that "Sam," the monkey who made a successful round-
trip into outer space aboard cn air iorcc rocket, was a native
of Texas. This is a real turn-about. Lots of people have tried
(and a few have succeeded) in making monkeys out of famous
Texans . . . but it took the Air Force rocketeers to make a
Texan out of a famous monkey!
"A lot of people," observes the Second Street Philosopher,
"who are worrying about the other side of the moon don't even
know what's on the other side of the tracks in their own home
town."
In juggling more than S00 numbers . . . and nearly six
thousand digits ... it was inevitable, we suppose, that South-
western Bell's engineers should drop one or two here and there
into the wrong pigeon-holes. It was particularly embarrassing,
however, when one of the slipped digits turned out to be an
emergency number with a prominent listing on page one of
the new telephone directories.
The WTong number is the alternate number given for "Po-
lice." To call the police, the directory directs, dial DA 3-4401
. . . and that's correct . . . but it adds "if no answer, dial
DA 3-4446" . . . and if you do, it won't be the police you'll be
getting, but an irate subscriber who's going to get tired in a
hurry of getting police calls.
To call police at night . . . and on holidays, when there's no
one at. City Hall lo answer DA 3-4401 . . . place your call to
DA 3-4466. That's Frank Cook's Thillips 66 Station, which is
open 24 hours a day and as a public service, acts as check-
point for the city patrol car.
And Telephone Company Manager Joe McDonald would be
right happy if you'd change that second "police number" in
the front of your directory riqht now to DA 3-4466. (And so, wo
feel sure, would the owner of the private number which is
printed there by mistake).
Here's an interesting note on music and Ihe law: Texas At-
torney General Will Wilson, according to his own "press infor-
mation office," has just issued a ruling that juke boxes are
exempt from the new State tax on hi-fidelity record player
equipment.
Juke boxes. Our Will has docided, aro definitely not hi-fi.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1959, newspaper, December 10, 1959; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183982/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.