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Joe Patrick Bean is a columnist and editorial
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Thank you,
Judy Davis
tion, they do not have real families and cannot
instill traditional family values in their children.
Immigrant parents also would be ineligible.
Traditional family values means traditional
American family values.
Notwithstanding feeble excuses such as
spousal abuse and child molestation, divorce un-
dermines traditional family values. Divorced
parents also would not qualify for the rebate.
(But eligibility waivers could be granted to
divorced parents who had voted straight GOP
tickets in every election since 1980.)
This plan would restore the American family
for generations to come and, with it, the
American Dream. Best of all, funding it probably
would cost no more than $1.98 per year.
Texans for Private Proper-
ty Rights is holding a meeting
and if you are as angry as I am,
come to the M.K. Brown Civic
Center in Pampa on November
21st at 8 pin. to learn more
about the granddaddy of all
private property rip-offs and
the litigation in progress.
Questions and answers will fol-
low the general information
session.
UH, GEORGE- YOU
HAVE TO- UH-
We marched through the lobby and up stairs to the third floor,
where a long corridor of rooms with open doors awaited us. We
were instructed to peel off, in small groups, at each open room...to
use the facilities. It was blessed relief. Then we reassembled, in
formation, in the street and prepared to march in that downtown
parade.
I have no remembrance of that young officer’s name
and no idea of what ever became of him, but I hope he has
been rewarded with a long and happy life. And while I
never had an opportunity to be a guest again at the Brown
Palace, and I don’t know if it even still exists, I still cherish
warm memories of that great old hotel.
thought that fighting for our
legal rights would be costly and
unproductive because Phillips
has an army of lawyers on
retainer. In visiting with
friends and neighbors who
were finding themselves in the
same situation, 1 found that we
had an ally, a man named Mike
Sullivan. Mike has been fight-
ing the financial giants of in-
dustry and winning in
California and now has oil in-
terests here in Texas. He has
been robbed in much the same
way we have. He has taken up
the torch and done much inves-
tigating, providing key infor-
mation for law-suits against
the Texas Railroad Commis-
sion for their part in allowing
the oil companies to take our
property without negotiating
for it and giving us fair com-
pensation.
A new organization called
Enough is Enough:
I don’t know about the rest
of you, but I’m sick and tired of
having our private property
rights stolen from us.
Everyone is probably aware of
the red fox, the spotted owl and
the kangaroo rat, but are you
aware of the rape of the Texas
oilfields? Do you realize that
millions and millions of barrels
of "drip gas” (the liquids
stripped from the so-called dry
gas from this area) are being
stolen from the royalty
owners?
You are probably thinking,
“I feel sorry for the poor foxes,
owls, and rats, but those royal-
ty owners are too rich anyway.”
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JI r*tt •
As mistaken as this assump-
tion is, it is faulty in that this
theft of “drip gas” directly af-
fects each and every citizen of
Texas. This “drip gas” is being
taken across state lines and
sold at huge profits without a
Penny in taxes being paid in
Texas. It is estimated that $6
Billion in taxes is lost by
Texas each year! If these tax.es
were paid in Texas, we could
have the best school system in
the United States without
having to raise property taxes
or allegedly use the lottery
money (the misuse of lottery
money is another matter that
needs to be addressed).
If you are a royalty owner,
you probably feel as I did a few
months ago when Phillips
Petroleum decided to do away
with a key clause in our 65
year-old lease and prevent our
use of free gas from our well. I
At that point November 11 ceased to be a holiday of any
significance to me, and it didn’t become one again after the close
ofWorld War II when it was reincarnated as “Veterans Day.” Like
many of my fellow Americans, I join every year in observing
Memorial Day as a day of remembrance of old friends who
served ..and died, in “my war” and in other wars which preceded
it and followed it in our history. That, to me, is “veterans day”,
and I observe it with sadness and with reverence. I need no other.
74e RECORD
______CANADIAN HEMPHILL CO, TEXAS
THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER 1994
GEE''WH\Z, GUYS, THAT
CAMPNGN STUFF WAS fU(.'
MAYBE'VEGAN VOTE
MAIN SOMETIME!
holds a master’s degree in journalism from the
University of Texas at Austin. Bean can he con-
tacted by writing toP.O Box 2135 in San Antonio,
Texas 78297-2135, by telephoneat (210)351-7378
or by fax at (210)351-7372.
“Armistice Day” used to be a day of celebration for what
we were assured had been the end of a war “to end all
wars.” It did not, of course, as we learned the hard way.
Armistice Day during that 20-year intermission between the
great wars was a great national holiday which was devoted
primarily to football, as I recall. Many important ball games were
scheduled on November 11, regardless of what day of the week it
fell on, and along with Thanksgiving Day it became a tradition.
November festival date...calendars were organized around it.
Those last Armistice Day parades in 1941, when
hundreds of thousands of us were already in uniform and
millions more were about to be, were accompanied by a
feeling that we were reaching the end of an era, a sense of
impending destiny, and a conviction that the ‘“peace” we
were ostensibly celebrating was a false peace that was
about to be shattered. It was...and we hadn’t long to wait.
But I have one golden memory' of that not-too-happy day. We
had been routed out of bed, in typical military hurry -up-and-wait
fashion, at 4 a m. on that November 11 morning to get into dress
uniforms and form ranks for the big parade which would start as
all Armistice Day observances did, at the magic hour of 11 o’clock.
By 10 a.m., with the start of the march still an hour away, we had
been standing in formation, or in transit from our Lowry Air Base
to downtown Denver, for nearly six hours, with no relief, and a
lot of us were becoming...well...restive.
The young lieutenant who was commanding our
“flight” (we were of the Army Air Corps, remember, and
considered ourselves “airmen”, not soldiers) was a com-
passionate officer, bless him, and aware. We were in for-
mation in the street alongside the Brown Palace Hotel,
Denver’s finest. Our commander ordered us to stand “at
ease” and abruptly disappeared inside the hotel. In a few
minutes he was back, accompanied by the hotel manager,
with orders and instructions.
spur of the j
moment (continued) J
opinions expressed are
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Il is always a mistake
not Io close one’s eyes,
ulicthcr to forgive or
to look better into one-
self.
—Maurice Maeterlinck
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1994, newspaper, November 17, 1994; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285848/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.