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THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1962
America's moving, and...
The direction is a good one
IJIS CRITICS of the Far Right who can detect
** a tint of red In the greenest grass on the
White House lawn aren't going to be im-
pressed, but an awful lot of the rest of us
were by President Kennedy's plain talk last
week-end on the subject of atomic testing and
this nation's determination to defend itself
and the free world.
This is the kind of plain speaking which
both Khrushchev and Nehru . . . and all the
Communists and Neutralists in between . . .
can hardly misconstrue.
And it is the kind of plain-speaking leader-
ship which this nation, and the people of the
free world who look to America for guidance,
have been needing to hear.
It isn't necessary to agree with all of Presi-
dent Kennedy's domestic policies for conserv-
ative but patriotic Americans to applaud
wholeheartedly his leadership in the field of
national defense and security.
Mr. Kennedy is a young man who is giving
every indication of living up to a campaign
promise "to get America moving again," in
this area at least, and we think his sense of
direction is excellent.
The greatest good
ANE OF the Chamber of Commerce commit-
tees working on plans for the community-
wide Edward Abraham Memorial Home project
has offered the suggestion that the old Isaac-*
School property on South Main offers an ideal
location for the nursing home.
The fif*v - odd people attending Mondav
night's meeting to discuss the plans appeared
to favor a suggestion that the Canadian school
board be asked to donate the property for this
purpose . . . and a further suggestion that a
referendum be conducted in connection with
the April 7 trustee election to give voters of
the school district an opportunity to express
their views on the question.
We think that both suggestions have merit
. . . and hope that something may be done
about them.
Certainly the Isaacs school property ... p.
square block in area ... is ideally located
and ideal otherwise for such a project as this;
and in its present boarded-up, overgrown and
unkempt condition, it is no asset to the town
or the school district.
And certainly it should be in order to per-
mit the people of the school district, who own
the property, to express an opinion in a refer-
endum as to its disposition.
Such a referendum would not be legally
binding in any way on the members of the
school board, however, nor would it relieve
them of any part of their responsibility for
sound administration of the district's affair.-
But if the people of the district expressed
overwhelming approval of the gift idea, the
expression should . . . and we feel certain,
would . . . carry a lot of weight with th •
board of trustees.
School board members would, in the con-
scientious performance of their duty, have to
weigh the value of the property to the district
and any possible future need for the site for
school construction against its present value
to the community as a site for the proposed
nursing home.
We can't help but believe, though, that in
any consideration weighing the greatest good
for the greatest number, the nursing homo
would win out.
A constitutional and right way
■pHE "States Rights Bill" which was passed
by the House of Representatives in the
summer of 1959 and then disappeared some-
bewspapeS
contests
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL
NANCY EZZELL
TED ROGERS
Editor
Editor of Woman's Pages
Foreman
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.
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where in the limbo between House and Senate,
is again before the Congress in Washington.
HR 3 was drafted by Rep. Howard Smith of
Virginia, Chairman of the House Rules Com-
mittee, and it had one simple purpose: to
spell out the intent of Congress that acts of
the Federal congress do not exclude or nullify
state laws on the same subject unless such
an Act of Congress contains an express pro-
vision to that effect.
HR 3 was aimed direr) ly at the doctrine or
Federal pre-emption expressed in rulings of
the Supreme Court which had struck down
state laws in areas covered by later acts of
the Federal congress. It represents a clear
demonstration of the operation of the Consti-
tutional svstem of checks and balances in
our povernment . . . and points the way for
the Congress, if it so desires, to halt the trend
toward centralization of power in the Federal
government which has marked decisions of
the Supreme Court during the past decade.
Those who ineffectively demand that Su-
preme Court justices with whom they disagree
be impeached (or hanged) might far better
turn their energies toward a Constitutional
method of correction ... by urging favorable
action in Congress on this bill to protect states
rights (and state laws) from federal pre-
emption. This is the correct, the constitutional,
and the effective way to do It.
We are now able to report, with considerable assurance, that
the PaperMate ball-point pens which we've been selling suc-
cessfully at The Record office for several years really do write
over butter as advertisedl
We got into a deep scientific discussion of this phenomenon
the other afternoon with a youthful visitor, 6-year-old Mark
Fry. Mark, who has been seeing the PaperMate ads on TV, of
course, and is just learning to read them on store counters,
was inspecting our PaperMate displays and wanted to know if
those pens "really will write on butter?"
We had to confess that we didn't really know for sure, never
having tried (although we've seen the ads on TV too) although
we've found from experience that these pens do write pretty
well on most other substances.
In the spirit of scientific inquiry, however, we made young
Mark a proposition. We offered to give him a PaperMate
"Holiday" pen, which he obviously coveted, if he would take
it home and test it out on some of his mother's best butter
and report the results. Mark gravely accepted the pen . . . and
the challenge.
And the following morning, bright and early, he was on the
telephone to report the results. The PaperMate pen really does
"write on butter." We've got Mark Fry's word for it . . . and
we'd trust Mark's word over Art Linkletter's any day!
We think it probably only fair to warn Mark's mother, Janet
(as well as mothers of all other experimentally-turned small
fry) that these pans also WTlte on wallpaper, tablecloths, and
shirt ci ffs. Without skipping, tool
The new "Astronaut Stamp" issued by the Post Office De-
partment to commemorate Marine Colonel John Glenn's great
space flight, is a 4-cent stamp and will carry your letters
across the country just fine . . . but nowhere on it will you
find any indication that it is "United States postage."
Wonder if this has ever been omitted before from a U. S.
postage stamp? How about this, you stamp collectors?
Guess the postal department's stamp designers just got so
carried away with the success of the space flight that they
forgot who they were working for. And who can bleme 'em?
if your youngsters (or maybe some of the older members of
your family who ought to know better) have been attracted by
the "big money for old coins" ads which have been appearing
recently in area daily newspapers, you'll be interested in a
report from the National Better Business Bureau warning the
gullible against this type of advertising.
The ads declare that the promoters will pay large sums for
rare coins, then list many coins which are not rare at all . . .
along with some really valuable ones which are so rare that
ihey simply don't exist any more outside collections.
The ads, according to the BBB, are generally come-ons seek-
ing to peddle stamp catalogs. A copy of the National Better
Business Bureau's expose of the Coin Catalog Scheme is avail-
able on request from the Bureau at 75 East 45th Street, New
York 17, N. Y. A stamped, self-addressed envelope should be
enclosed. Here at least you'll get what you're paying for.
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HEN you argue with a fool, make sure
that he is not similarly occupied.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1962, newspaper, March 15, 1962; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184100/m1/2/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.