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MEMBER
3b Canadian RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO..J«*J
thursday 16 january 1975
Views expressed here, unless otherwise noted, are those of the editors
Bite the big bullet!
Substantial tax rebates and a
massive program of public works and
unemployment benefits are being promised by
the Congress as the new session opens in
Washington as positive measures to halt our
growing recession and rejuvenate our national
economy. .
Rationing of scarce gasoline and price and wage
controls to halt our booming inflation are also in
the wind.
Our economy right now needs all the help it can
get to avert impending disaster, and most of us
will welcome these hard-line positive measures to
turn things around.
But one nagging problem persists, and no one in
Washington seems willing to approach the hard
question which demands a hard answer: where is
the money coming from? If the government
simply proposes to increase its spending deficit,
this means that it must go into the money market
to borrow in competition with American business
and industry...a sure and proven way to stimulate
the inflation these programs are ostensibly
designed to combat.
Unless there is a'willingness to finance these
new programs at the expense of some of the old,
what will we gain?
Obviously nothing will be gained if we finance
new social welfare programs at the expense of the
old...taking from one mouth to feed another is
literally "robbing Peter to pay Paul".
But there is a massive "Defense" budget, now
well above the $90 billion per year mark and
growing, from which it ought to be possible to
extract the $15 to $20 billion which the new
programs may cost, without robbing anybody
except, maybe, Attila the Hun.
Of course the one bullet which nobody in
Washington seems willing to bite is the big one
labelled "National Defense"...a sacred cow-hide
covering a multitude of extravagances. For a long
time the Congress has found it easy to dodge the
question of whether we've been buying more
military security than we need by posing the
rhetorical question of "how safe is too safe?"
Maybe we're about to find out. If we undermine
our national economy to support an impregnable
national defense, we may find ourselves left with
nothing to defend.
A lesson in economics
A BRIEF ADVERTISEMENT in The Donley
County Leader at Clarendon a few days ago
announced the closing of the Ballew Plumbing
business...summing up the reason succinctly:
"Ballew Plumbing," said the advertisement, "is
closed due to people not paying their bills."
Editor Jerry Sparks, however, published a
lengthy interview with Plumber Bill Ballew in
which he explored in greater depth the reasons
for failure of the four-year old business. When all
was said and done, he found that Plumber Bill
Ballew had summed it up neatly in a few
words..."due to people not paying their bills."
"People would come in and charge some little $2
item, Ballew said. "I'd bill them, and when no
payment was made, bill them again. By then I'd
already lost."
There's a mighty lesson in economics summed
up in that nutshell: by the time the merchant from
whom you have bought goods or services on
credit has billed you twice without payment,
chances are he's already lost money on your
account. You are probably solvent, and your
intention to pay is good as gold, but if it takes you
ninety days or more to get around to it, you might
as well be a deadbeat, because the profit is gone
from your business.
As Clarendon Plumber Bill Ballew discovered,
it doesn't take too high a percentage of customers
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It hurts too much to cry
[Tutta Barton in The Hayes County Citizen]
IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD a big laugh yet in
1975, get ready. Better that you laugh, since
the only other choice is to cry.
From Vail, Colorado comes the announcement
from the White House Press Secretary that
President Ford has created a temporary
Commission on Federal Paper work. No, it's not a
1975 ASSOCIATION
Canadian RECORD
BENI5ZZELL *!"
NANCYEZZELL Editor of Women's Pages
WANDA WILLIAMS Advertising Manager
f«Sifre?*uS cIass matter December 20,
lWS, 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 Nancy M. Ezzell.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year - $6.00 plus .30 sales tax in Hemphill
a°o adjoining counties
Els..b«.tailtaa _ $7.50 pig. .88 ule. to.
Outside of Texas - $7.50 per year
joke; it's the bonafide fox-guarding-the-henhouse
truth.
The press release accompanying the
announcement of the new commission states:
"For thirty years, we have had a public policy of
holding Government reporting and recordkeeping
requirements to a minimum..." Funny that no one
has noticed.
"Temporary" commissions have a way of
becoming permanent in Washington. Within five
years the commission on Federal Paperwork
could become the most powerful bureau in D C
The possibilities are endless. A building towering
above the capital could be built to house the
commissioner, 57 vice-commissioners and 486
employees who rush from office to office filling
out forms (in quadruplicate, of course) concerning
the relevance of government paper work.
Every other governmental department,
bureau, commission and sub-commission will be
required to fill out a six page report to justify
i0™ a" typewritten Page completed
aily. A committee of congressmen and paper
manufacturers will be appointed to make an
all-expense paid tour of Canada, Belgium
Equador, Switzerland, and Red China to study
how the paperwork is handled elsewhere.
rpfnrm' S°ne(!ay' s0me president in a rage of
reform will form a new commission- Th
10 S""* Commtaten „„ FeO.,,1
JXUT th" '
How many people are living in Canadian, Texas, at the miif
of the 1970's? The current Chamber •( Commerce uti®*
4,000-plus may be a little low. Certainly it iant much too hjgfc.
call it a conservative estimate.
The census of 1970 placed the population of Canaduil
2,292...just a little above the 1960 census figure (2.2391 and,
above the previous high in the 1950 census (2,700).
And a population projection prepared by the Panhandle
Planning Commission in 1970, and baaed on an economic «
West Texas State University, forecast that the population, Mi
of Canadian bnt of the entire county, would drop from 3.084 kt
1970 census to 2,800 in 1975...to 2,600 ha 1980.. jumI to 2,100 by!
Somebody's crystal ball was badly clouded.
Even the prophets of PRPC, and the seers at the Unix
shouldn't have needed a crystal ball in 1970 to come up wq
considerably less pessimistic forecast for the Canadian ami
they needed to do was look around...because the cu|
developments in oil and gas production which have fueiec i
population boom here were already taking place in 1970. AH is
who lived in Canadian were aware that something importan: i
beginning to develop...and that the population which had hit a ■
mark in the mid-1960's was already on a decided upswing
We don't know bow high the awing may |*..mr guess u tkg
will begin to level off a bit during the aecond half el the decadt I
the momentum will continue Into the 1980ra and it aoems rra
to predict that the PRPCa projection of a county population of U
by 1980 will be about 50 per cent of the octunl growth figvrt i,
years from now.
One phenomenon of the town's growth in the 1970 s has been.'
proliferation of mobile homes...this in spite oi the (act ti
residential building has been continuing at an accelerated pv.
the last couple of years...accelerated enough to keep all aval*,
people in the building trades at full employment. An actual coc?j
mobile homes in the city and on the fringes of it at the first air
year places the number at 282 which are occupied as resides
These probably account for a thousand people, more or lew.
Since moat of the mobile bomea hi ,, ...
younger famJIiea...not retired or elderly ronplna It b reaaoaahk
aasume that the size of the average family ait in above the am i
average. The increaae in numbers of children in reflected, sin
school enrollment figures, which have topped oMm record* a
year. H
City building permits issued during the year also refletfi
growth rate. Building permits for new residences totalled $3211
with an additional $82,400 in permits iinifd for re-mo
Permits for new business building construction totalled $1 ll.OOti
the year.
AO of the iadkatera which indicate papdattoo growth «mi
sharply in 1974...meter connections, telephone connect*
television cable service ronncrthwe. school earoHnaoai...yo<i >
it. The unemployment rate must be about na done to aero a* i|
possible to get it, and there are many rthw dfu of n Hounds
local economy...bank depoeite, for exnmple, which noomed uf
all-time record of more than S2S ■ fa the two * ■
at the December 31 report.
That population projection which the PRPC ittueu oack in if
covered a 20year period to 1990 for aU of the 26 counties of:
Texas Panhandle. Over-all the projectors forecast a 18.7 per1
gain in population for the Panhandle area...a figure which, ib
may prove to be pessimistically low. We haven't the figures to pn
it at the moment, but we suspetft that the entire Panhandle —
nas been gaining in population at a greater rate than the to
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1975, newspaper, January 16, 1975; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136367/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.