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THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1961
Good time to get together
OPECIAL weeks, ranging from the sublime to
^ the ridiculous, come and go with the turn-
ing of the calendar, most of them drawing no
more notice than the turning of that calendar
page.
From timo to time a specially-designated
week cornos along that is worthy of closer
examination, even an extra effort to make it
a week of special significance. Such a week
is National Farm-City Week, November 17-23.
This is a time when our friends and neigh-
bors on both sides of the fence—the city-
dwellers and our farmers and ranchers—can
get together, air their problems and learn and
respect their individual aims and goals.
Agriculture remains an integral part of our
area's economy and with the mass of informa-
tion and misinformation we all receive about
both our rural and urban populations, there
are a few facts worth remembering about this
nation's agricultural economy.
Less than 10 per cent of our population is
now actively engaged in agriculture. Yet this
10 per cent produces sufficient food and fiber
to meet the demands of an exploding popu-
lation, and in some instances a considerable
surplus.
This enables the remaining 90 per cent of
the nation's working force to turn to other
industries, which in turn has enabled this
nation to produce the highest standard of
living, with the healthiest and best-clothed
population, the world has ever known.
So before we criticize the farmer or the
rancher too severely for the problems of sur-
plus crops piling up in the nation's store-
houses, let us remember that if it were not for
the industry and the know-how of the Ameri-
can farmer and rancher, our way of life and
our standard of living might well be much
closer to the level of many of the less fortun-
ate people in the world, too many of whom g'>
through life hungry because they lack the in-
genuity and industry of the American farmer
and rancher.
Growing threat to America
MILITANT minorities have taken over coun-
tries before . . . and although this is a
big country, it is nnt inconceivable that a
sufficiently-organized sufficiently-militant and
enmpar itively-small minority might someday
make it happen here.
We are nnt suggesting that the "Minute-
men," a nationwide guerilla force which
claims 25,000 armed members, should be sup-
pressed . . . because the Constitution of the
United States guarantees its citizens the right
to have and hear arms and these "Minute-
men," as long as they make no overt move
against the established government, are with-
in their Constitutional rights.
We are suggesting, however, that this or-
NEWSPAPER
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL Editor of Woman's Pages
TED ROGERS Foreman
Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945, at. the Postofficc at Canadian, Texas,
under the Art of March 3. 1879. Published each
Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by
Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Hemphill and Adjoining Counties:
One Year $3.50
Elsewhere $4.50 per Year
sanitation and others of its kind which, under
the guise of anti-Communism, maintain a
continual drum-fire attack on the government
nf the United Stateos. should be watched close-
ly . . . and that every American citizen should
be acutely aware of their existence and their
activities.
The organizer of the Minutemen, one Robert
DePugh of Norborne, Missouri . . . president
of a pharmaceutical firm . . . denied to news-
men a few days ago that his organization is
a military wing of the John Birch Socicty. al-
though DePugh admitted that he, himself, is
a John Birch member.
This may be true, on strictly technical
grounds . . . but we have a disquieting recol-
lecion of John Birch Founder Robert Welch's
manual of procedure, handed down from on
high to devout John Birch members, which
includes the instruction to form committees
and organize "fronts" of all kinds to carry
nut the Society's aims. The Minutemen may
not be a military wing of the Birch Society
today . . . and they may not become a military
wing nf the John Birch Society tomorrow . . .
but they are certainly "kissin' kin" and part
nf the pattern.
Last March when The Record became one
of the first publications in the nation to make
a public report on the John Birch Society, we
called it "a threat to America" and thereby
drew down the concerted wrath of thousands
of Birchers all over the country.
Since that time we havp followed carefully
its publications, and have observed with in-
terest the activities of its societies, its lead-
ers, its members and its mushrooming "fronts"
as reflected in the day-to-day news of the
nation. Nothing that we have seen in these
passing months has led us to revise that
opinion.
Such organizations as the "Minutemen" only
make the threat more real.
Good drivers are held hostage
(From the Floyd County Hesperian)
AFTEN now an accident that occurs on the
highway reveals all over again that there
arc countless motor vehicle operators who have
neither insurance nor responsibility. Nor, ap-
parently, is there any way to keep them off
the highways after they have been involved
in such a wreck, even one in which they are
to blame.
Several times recently we've picked up a ringing telephone
at home or at the office, listened to a quiet hum indicating
that someone was on the other end of the line, but got no
answer to repeated "hello's."
And on two or three occasions when wc suspected that may-
be someone was playing a joke, we've discovered later that
someone had been trying to reach us unsuccessfully from one
of the local pay-station telephones. We've also heard irate
complaints that the pay-station phones don't work.
If you've been similarly frustrated, this message is for you.
The pay-phones work all right . . . but in a particular way
. . . and if you're usina one. you'd better read the instruction
card on the front of the phone before you attempt to dial a
number.
The pay-stations in Canadian, according to Southwestern
Rr>)I Manager George Newberry, arc the latest type of equip-
ment ... or they were when the dial system was installed
here a couple of years ago. They are also, in our opinion, one
of the more enntrary types devised by telephone company
engineers, but that is beside the point since we've got 'em
and are likely to keep 'em.
The proper procedure is tn dial your number BEFORE ynu
deposit your dime . . . then listen for the number you're call-
ing to rinn twice (the instruction card says "listen for the
second dial tone" which is confusing as the dickens) before
you drop the coin . . . nr else, just wait until your party
answers to put in your dime. You'll be able to hear him an-
swer . . . but he won't hear a thing from your end of the line
until you deposit your money.
If you deposit your dime before you dial, you'll be wasting
your time . . . and your dime, too. because you won't get it
back, and you won't get anything but a one-way conversation
out of it. either.
But don't try this system on pay-stations in Pampa, Perry-
ton, or Amarillo, because it won't work there. Pampa ami
Amarillo pay phones are an old-style type where you've got to
drop your coin in the slot before you dial. Perryton has a dif-
ferent system entirely . . . better read the instruction card
before you make a move.
Matter of fact, according to George Newberry, there are at
least 85 different types of pay-telephone systems in use by var-
ious companies, and the engineers are changing the signals
all the time. Don't ask why . . . it's progress, thafs all. If you
can't figure out the combination, try mailing a post card. It
takes a little longer, but ifs easier on the nerves. And cheap-
er, too.
At a press association meeting in Quanah a couple of weeks
ago, we heard a talk by a young Baptist minister. Sr. Puben
Machado, who had recently escaped from Castro's Cuba. I"
Havana, Sr. Machado was a member of the University of Ha-
vana faculty and director of the Baptist Student Union near
the campus..
He had a concise description for Castro: "He stinks."
Machado meant it literally as well as figuratively. "Castro."
he said, "is a noisy stinking man who does not shave or
bathe or change his clothes."
Sr. Machado, an intelligent young man and a good speaker,
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The result is that the responsible driver, one
who has insurance against loss to other peo.
pie, is to all intents a hostage to Texas' In-
surance Law governing motor vehicles. Our
lawyer friends, who make the laws, constitute
the only group which may be complacent over
the situation, unless it be insurance companies
who are guaranteed against loss by the man-
ner in which the state law is enforced.
JVEN if you are on the right track, if you
just sit there, you'll get run over.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1961, newspaper, November 16, 1961; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184083/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.