The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988 Page: 2 of 32
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A rump rodeo?
AL RUMP RODEO is the last thing Canadian
am needed for this centennial year of the oldest
4th of July Rodeo Celebration. But that’s
apparently what ^ve’ve got.
While the Rodeo Association, which has kept the
rodeo alive and thriving in this community for most
of a century, was announcing its schedule for the
traditional three-day rodeo week-end, the new RV
enterprise, The Lazy H, has announced three days
of head-to-head events for Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, July 2-3-4, in direct competition for both
riders and ropers and rodeo fans.
The Lazy H, of course, is a private enterprise,
run for private profit, and has every right to stage a
competing show on the same dates and with many
directly-competing events...Barrel Races, Team
Roping, an Old Timers Barbecue on the Fourth,
and a big name dance on Saturday night.
But Canadian is a small arena, and we wish this
sort of jumped-up competition with the events
which the community has traditionally joined in
promoting could have been planned at a time
which would not interfere with the big Centennial
celebration. It is regrettable, to say the least...but
this is a free country, and competition is
unrestricted.
jfie (Canadian
RECORD
USPS 067-960
Box 898, Canadian [Hemphill] Texas 79014
BEN EZZELL..........................Editor
NANCY EZZELL........................Editor
LAURIE BROWN..........Advertising Manager
Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945 at the Post Office at Canadian, Texas, under
the act of March 3,1879. Published each Thursday
afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by Ben R. and Nan-
cy M. Ezzell. POSTMASTER: Send address
changes to THE CANADIAN RECORD, Box 898,
Canadian, TX 79014.
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However, we believe it is in extremely bad taste
for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to take
part in the competing events to the extent of
moving its traditional Old Timers Reunion from the
downtown center of things to the Lazy H on the
Fourth of July, when that shift is almost
guaranteed to split the crowd and to seriously
divide loyalties. The Chamber of Commerce foots
the bill for the Old Timers’ luncheon, although it’s
not given credit for that at all in the Lazy H
publicity. If it goes along with shifting that event
from City Auditorium to the other arena, and pays
for the privilege, it is giving tacit support to the
rival event...a fact which surely will not be lost on
the Rodeo Association, an organization which has
always cooperated fully with the Chamber of
Commerce in the promotion of all these events.
There are other good reasons for keeping the
Old Timers Reunion at City Auditorium...its
accessibility, its proximity to other events of the
morning of the Fourth, such as the annual Parade
(in which the Rodeo Association also participates)
and the other traditional features of the Fourth of
July Celebration, and the popularity of that site
with the participants in years past.
But above all else, the Candian Chamber of
Commerce should not lend its support to, and
spend its money with, a private promotion which is
obviously operating in direct competition to a
traditional community-sponsored event...especial-
ly on the 100th anniversary of that event when all
community resources should be concentrated on
producing an outstanding week-end of entertain-
ment.
We should, at the very least, keep control of the
Old Timers Reunion, and keep it at the center of
things on this important centennial. The Old
Timers Reunion, of course, was not a part of the
original Fourth of July Celebration a hundred
years ago...there weren’t any old timers here in
‘hat early day...but the old-timers are certainly a
part of it now, have helped keep tne tradition alive
for a long time, and should not be made a divisive
factor at this time.
The Chamber of Commerce board,
in a meeting late Wednesday after-
noon, decided to move the Old Tim-
ers Reunion back to the City Audi-
torium on the Fourth of July.
Putt Powell, the Amarillo Globe-News sportswriter, has been in
this business almost as long as I have, and his sports page column,
“Short Putts”, a regular feature of the morning News, is frequently
studded with short quotations from people Putt knows [a lot] or
people who know Putt [a lot more] from all around the Globe-News
circulation area. It’s a great way to insure readership.
If you’ve ever wondered how Putt Powell finds the time to talk with
so many different people about so many different subjects, it may be
a trade secret, but he works at it. He writes a lot of letters, asking his
favorite questions, and expects a lot of answers. One of Putt’s
questionnaires was in my mail the other day, with a list of eight
questions...typical of the Putt Powell column.
No. 1 was “Who is the most important person you have met
personally?” I didn’t have to think about that one...it was my father.
At any rate, he was certainly one of the most important persons in my
life...if it hadn’t been for him, I wouldn’t be here. Fathers are
important in that way...and in many others as well. And Sunday will
be Father’s Day.
My Dad has been gone for more than thirty years now, but for
almost forty years we were father and son, and for at least the last
decade of that span, we were good friends as well, and I’ve always
been grateful for that time when we were able to know each other as
adults. They were years I will always remember, and cherish.
My father was not a VIP, in the usual sense. He was never wealthy,
in a material sense. He never sought public office. Most of his life
was spent in small towns, where he was liked and respected and
where his services (as a dentist] were valued and his friendship
cherished by his neighbors. He was a patriotic American who loved
his country, voted in its elections, paid its taxes and served Its people
to the best of his ability. Most of all he was a good father and
grandfather, and to his son a good friend. That makes him a VIP in
my book.
I’m not trying to steal Putt’s stuff. Putt Powell is a VIP too...for
many years he was the No. 1 fan of the Amarillo Golden Sandies, and
now that Amarillo has grown out of the single high school status, he
has expanded his interests to embrace the other city schools and, to
some extent, the whole Panhandle sports picture. But he’s a sports
writer first, last and always...and a hard-working one to whom
retirement holds no charm.
Putt poses some other questions which he’ll use, as he gets
answers, to add to his daily collection of trivia. Such as “Who is your
first sports hero?” At our age, most of us don’t remember, but I’ll bet
Putt Powell does. And “What athlete would you want to handle the
ball if a game depended on the outcome?” Not Billy Martin,
certainly...Pee Wee Reese, maybe.
And “What athletic event do you recall the most with pleasure?’’
and “Athletic event you recall the most with disappointment?” After
more than half a century of covering high school and small-town
sports, there’ve been too many to sort out, in both categories.
Some of Putt’s questions don’t have to do with sports. Such as
“Who was your favorite President of the United States?” In
retrospect, No. 1 would be Harry Truman, although an early idol,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a later one, John F. Kennedy, would both
be close in the running. And a couple who didn’t make it, but who
might have changed a lot of history if they had, were Hubert
Humphrey and Robert Kennedy.
And “What’s your favorite city outside of Texas?” Albuquerque
and Enid, because I’ve got grandchildren in both places. But outside
of family circles, San Francisco would rate high on the list.
One final trivia question: “What person would you like most to
have lunch with?” How about Putt Powell.
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1988, newspaper, June 16, 1988; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth520463/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Hemphill+County%22: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.