Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1962 Page: 4 of 16
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Carnival time
It's Lions Club Carnival Time
again. This is one of the few
means the club has of raising
money for the various community
projects they help with. So, drop
by. You can't lose. One way or
the other it comes back to you.
I might even give you a free
throw at my booth if none of
the Lions are looking.
The ways of science
One of my favorite brother-in-
laws once told me that if you
dig a posthole in the dark of
the moon you won't have enough
dirt to tamp the post; however,
if you dig it in the light of the
moon you will have more dirt
than you know what to do with.
Not being much of a posthole
digger myself I've never been able
to conduct a scientific analysis
of this phenomenon.
But I have observed unusual
occurences around our folder on
press day. Some weeks the trim-
mings from The Claude News
will hardly cover the floor under
the folder. At other times the
folder is virtually covered with
the stuff. Not being conscious
of moon phases, I thought I'd
The Claude News
ESTABLISHED IN 1890
Phono 226-3461
Co-Editors & Publishers
Wm. J. B. WAGGONER
CECIL O. WAGGONER
Local & Personal Items
Tom Henry Miller—Dail 226-4281
Entered as second class mail mat-
ter at the post office at Claude,
Armstrong County, Texas, under
the Act of March 30, 1879.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Subscription Rates :-
In Armstrong County, year....$3.06
Outside the county, year $3.83
Prices include 2% Sales Tax
Members of
TEXAS PRESS ASS'N.
PANHANDLE PRESS ASS'N.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASS'N.
Second pi <ce winner for Best Col-
umn, Pannandle Press Ass'n. 1957
Third place winner for Best Col-
umn, Div. VII, Texas Press, 1959.
Second place winner for Best Col-
umn, Panhandlle Press Ass'n, 1960
Deadlines: General and club news,
morning following event. Adver-
tisements: Tuesday noon.
All accounts with The Claude News
Claude, Texas, are due at our of-
fice on or before the 10th of the
month following delivery of such
services and/or printing. No other
arrangements are authorized.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation
of any person, firm or corporation
that may appear in the columns
of The Claude News, will gladly be
corrected upon it being brought to
the attention of the publishers.
In the case of errors In legal or
other advertising the publishers do
cot hold themselves liable for, da-
Ttrvges in excess of the amount
paid for such service.
All resolutions of respect, card of
thanks, publishing of
better do a little scientific inves-
tigation.
I mentioned this to a friend
<ind he hooted at the idea. He
-jjid "The moon ain't got a thing
to do with Jtf' (He talks that
way). "If yolt keep a close check
T think yo\j'il find that some
weeks Uncle Claude, Uncle Zeb
and Uncle Bo are so full of it,
the stuff Just naturally covers
up the folder."
Could be?
Paradox
Checked two late-late shows on
TV last Sunday and noticed one
channel was carrying the film,
"Missions to Moscow." The film,
made during the war and slightly
outdated now, showed what won-
derful brother's in arms our Red
Communists were and how valiant
and noble their purpose. However,
if you had a strong stomach you
could sit through it. The other
channel, strangely enough, was
showing a film I call "Big Bro-
ther is Watching You." It pro-
jected us several years hence
to an area of complete communist
control., i.e. "Big Brother" took
care of everything. The compar-
rison was worth noting.
Who's to blame
In regards to the many odd-
ball decisions and usurpation of
power by the supreme court, a
friend asked, "What can we as a
people do about it?"
That question has come up
a number of times and after
giving it due consideration I've
about decided the whole blame
for lack of action against the
court can be laid at the feet
of weak-kneed state representa-
tives, senators and governors. They
jre the ones we should build a
fire under, and the hotter, the
better.
In the main these representa-
tives have shown virtually nothing
but passive interest in the many
decisions by the court destroying
state rights.
The one thing our state repre-
sentatives should be doing today
is fighting for the rights of its
citizens as against the growing
unconstitutional powers of the
court. Do you hear anything from
the governor's office? Do you
hear anything from the state re-
presentatives or senators? Virtu-
ally nothing! And they are our
last vanguard against total fed-
eral encroachment of the rights
and protective mechanism of a
sovereign state.
If you are seriously concerned
you might start working on all
fronts, the national level as well
as state. But, for the time being,
we should inform our state re-
presentatives and governors we
seriously doubt their intergrity
inasmuch as they have done very
little to hold the line against
federal encroachment of state's
rights.
Where are our champion states-
mens. There was a time when
state capitals were full of them.
But not anymore! This is where
your fire should be concentrated
because the state formed the fed-
eral government and not vice
versa.
Polio cases
Notice were six cases of paraly-
tic polio were reported last week
in West Texas, with one case
each in Ector, Ochiltree, Potter,
Randall, Tarrant and Taylor
Counties.
Back-to-school booster shots are
being urged and parents are ask-
ed to check their childrens' vac-
cination records to see that they
are protected against diptherla,
pertussis, tetanus, polio and small-
Perhaps we should start an
oral vaccine polio program in this
county. It seems to be much
simplier than the shot method.
The long, deadly weekend
Luther H. Hodges, U.S. Secre-
tary of Commerce, says all signs
point to the fact that Labor Day
1962 could be the worst holiday
for traffic deaths in the history
of the U.S. Labor Day weekend
has proven to be the most dan-
gerous holiday of the year.
Hodges points out this year's
Labor Day is even more ominous
because it will be the only long
holiday weekend in 1962. Every
other major holiday falls in mid-
week. That means thousands of
Americans have been waiting all
summer for Labor Day to hit the
highways.
Ages ago on old phophet looked
down the corridor of time and
saw such events as this:
"The chariots shall rage in the
streets, they shall justle one a-
gainst another in the broad ways:
they shall seem like torches, they
shall run like the lightenings."—
Nahum 2:4.
So say a little prayer before
you leave out Labor Day.
Situation normal
The Dallas News Weather Vane
tells us:
"Dishonesty isn't a recentinves-
tion, but what this country needs
is a return to common honesty
in government and business. Scan-
dals in the farm program, slant-
hole oil stealing involve respect-
ed citizens, some of them church
leaders. Not everybody is a crook,
of course, but business and of-
ficial morality stand at the lowest
in years. So far, there's not much
evidence that the mass public
really cares. Either the misdeeds
are too vast to understand or
such goings-on are accepted as
normal. The thought that cor-
ruption elsewhere may be worse
than in Texas offers no consola-
tion whatever."
Perhaps we as a people have
been mentally conditioned to ac-
cept this greed and graft as nor-
mal. Our sophistication is such
that we no longer become shocked
at anything. The Good Book
calls that "hardening of the
heart."
Camping out
A Fort Worth family decided
to try their luck at a vacation,
camping out along the way. An
interesting account of the trip
appeared in Sunday's Fort Worth
Star-Telegram. Among many other
things, they reported:
"One thing you learn on a
camping trip is that more and
better campsites are needed. The
trip from Fort Worth to Taos
was made in two days.
"It had to be routed to Palo
Duro Canyon near Canyon be-
cause that is the only camping
spot available for campers in the
North Texas area.
"No complaints, however. The
canyon is a marvel in itself and
a sight that every Texan should
see.
"Heavy thunderstorms rolled
over the canyon the first night
of the trip, flooding the silt-
laden river creek that winds
through the canyon.
"The Fort Worth Family and
approximately 75 other camping
families had to remain in the
canyon several hours waiting for
the stream to subside."
This points out the need for
a backdoor to the park. A beau-
tiful and useful road would be
a scenic route on the floor of the
canyon from the park to Hamb-
len Drive, our road across the
canyon. It would serve In several
different ways: unstop iho bottle-
neck entrance to the park, give
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