The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1992 Page: 4 of 36
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Monument erected on the Courthouse Square and dedicated last
Veteran’s Day. A great wall of pink granite, engraved with the
names of 1200 men and women from Hemphill County who have
served in the military forces of this country in war and peace, it is
a fine memorial tribute.
But 1 am also offended, as I have been for almost two
decades now, by the shoddiness of that other "Veterans
Memorial" (if it can be called that) which was erected in
1973 at another prominent spot on the Courthouse square
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by the Canadian Jaycees. The Junior Chamber of Com-
merce, no longer in existence here, was "taken" by the
promoter of that project, and members were ashamed of it
at the time...but that is no excuse for allowing it to remain,
and I think it is high time that the County Commissioners
have it removed.
The marker was never finished...still lacks a capstone and
weeds regularly grow out of the top of it in summer., and it is a
continuing eyesore. The inscription on the plaque, "placed by
Canadian Jaycees 1973", has no real validity and never did have.
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to evaluate how they are doing in a given area.
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Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Washington is the
larges; piece of masonry ever built. It has three power
plants and consists of about 12 million cubic yards of
opinion
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concrete.
BY JAMES ROBERTS
Publisher, The Andrews County News
A N ARTICLE APPEARED in The Wall
JL ^Street Journal that everyone who lives
in rural America should read.
The occasion was the closing of Street’s
Department Store in Oklahoma City. A family-
owned business for 61 years, the going-out-of-
business sale prompted the article and a view of
current retailing nationwide.
But a couple of paragraphs in the story should
interest you:
"Retailers are going out of business in droves,
and many observers say the epidemic has a long
way to run. The president of Wal-Mart. David
Glass, predicted that by the year 2000, 50 per-
cent of the retailers in business today will be
gone." "But I disagree," says industry legend
Stanley Marcus, former head of Neiman Marcus.
"I think it will be 75 percent."
And therein lies an ironic situation.
We’re in the process of destroying the rural
towns of America at the same time that our large
cities are becoming ungovernable.
Senseless killings in Dallas, Fort Worth,
Houston, San Antonio and other major cities in
Texas go unchecked. The murder rate in both
Dallas and Houston are at all-time highs.
Citizens who can afford it are barricading them-
selves behind walled and security-enforced
enclaves in well-to-do subdivisions while those
less fortunate are left to survive in an asphalt
jungle.
Most of the rules and regulations promul-
gated by national and state officials in water, air,
pollution, waste, banking, insurance and dozens
of other fields are aimed toward compliance by
big cities. And most big cities have the tax base,
staff, and wherewithal to comply with the
onerous new regulations.
But the arrogant, egg-headed regulators do
not differentiate between large and small cities.
Their attitude is that if it’s good for Austin, it
must be good for Andrews.
Between regional retailers and the
regulators, the rural towns of Texas and the rest
of the nation are under siege. And they’re not
getting much help from their elected repre-
sentatives or their residents.
Yet, the values that most Americans treasure:
family, security, church, school, neighborliness,
caring, giving — are most exemplified in the
rural towns of this state.
It’s a rare congressman, representative, or
senator nowadays that will even attempt to take
on those agencies in Washington or Austin that
have the bit in their mouth and are running
roughshod over elected city, school and county
officials and their constituents.
We’ve lost control of our big cities and its
unsolved problems and at the same time are
doing our utmost to destroy the only safe havens
for American values.
We’re all guilty, in these difficult times, of
trying to get the most for our dollar. No one can
fault a family for trying to stretch income to cover
a household budget. But in doing so, we’re com-
mitting the same short-sighted accounting that
is plaguing most giant public-traded corpora-
tions: sacrificing the long-term picture for the
short-term gain.
As we see it, rural America can roll over, play
dead, and accept the inevitable or get off our
collective rears and fight.
Here in Texas we need to organize the rural
towns of the state into a mean, ornery, snarlin’
political force that challenges ever)' arrogant,
senseless, dogmatic step taken by the state and
its swollen state agencies.
And in the election year coming up, we should
support those candidates who have the guts, the
expertise, the desire, to curb the extensive,
autocratic powers of the agencies and the will to
stand alone against the big city boys.
We need to create a rural force of every city,
school, county official in towns under 50,000
population to become an effective, political bloc
in Austin.
And we need to educate the populace of rural
Texas, or rural America, of the danger inherent
in swapping the short haul for the longer trip to
the future.
Ifyou love the life-style in small town America
and want to preserve those values, it’s time to get
off the couch, stand up, and start swinging.
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1992, newspaper, March 5, 1992; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736845/m1/4/?q=GOLDTHWAITE: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.