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3k* Canadian RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 2 JUNE 1977
views expressed are the editors', unless noted
Any number can ploy
WHEN THE EDWARD Abraham Memorial
Home was established a dozen years ago, this
community accepted a gift and a challenge from
the Abraham families to raise matching funds to
build the home, and to adopt it as a permanent
community project.
And because of this community commitment,
the Memorial Home has become precisely the sort
of home for elder citizens of this area which Eddie
Abraham had dreamed of and had set out to bring
to reality when his death intervened.
Because Eddie Abraham had a genuine love for
the elderly, and because he had felt an abligation
and seen a need, he wanted to create a real home
in the community in which our elder citizens could
not only get the best of care, but also the kind of
loving attention from the community which gives
them a sense of still "belonging".
To the extent that is humanly possible, that is
what this nursing home in Canadian has become.
But one factor which could not be foreseen was
the effect which continuing inflation would have,
and will continue to have, on the operation of the
Memorial Home. It costs money to maintain the
kind and quality of care which we need to provide
lor those we care for, and we cannot pass on that
whole financial burden to the residents. To do so
would force many of them to seek other less
costly, less desirable places to live out their lives.
The Memorial Home in Canadian was never
envisioned as a profit-maker. Ideally, it might
become a break-even operation if all its rooms
were filled, and remained that way...but even in
that event, it would need some endowment
"cushion" for maintenance and emergency.
The citizens of the Canadian community can
create that "endowment" if they will, without any
great strain for anyone, by beginning a system of
regular contributions, preferably on a montly
basis and by bank draft which would keep
bookkeeping costs at a minimum. The monthly
contributions need not be large but they do need
to be numerous . and regular so that the
board of managers, those public-spirited citizens
who give of their time and talent without
compensation to guide the business affairs of this
community institution, can plan with definite
financial support in view.
All of us can have a part in this community
endowment plan, by allocating our regular
contributions, in keeping with our individual
abilities, in amounts ranging from $5 to $50 or
more on a continuing basis. Do what you can do
without undue strain... but do it now, won't you?
A war nobody wins
FEDERAL INCOME TAXES aren't ever
likely to become popular with the masses, but
they are constitutional (the 16th Amendment took
care of that) and they are also necessary to the
operations of our government which we have
come to expect and demand.
Those self-appointed leaders of the "taxpayer
revolt" who have been garnering so much
publicity in the national press in recent weeks by
flaunting their refusal to pay income taxes or to
provide information about income demanded by
the tax returns, may be storing up big trouble for
themselves...or maybe for all the rest of us if their
revolt spreads.
They declare that they are protected from
prosecution under the Fourth and Fifth
Amendments...the Fourth prohibiting unreason-
able search and seizure, and the Fifth protecting
any citizen from being a witness against
ZThe Qanadian RECORD
Canadian [Hemphill] Texas
BEN EZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL .Editor of Women's Pages
WANDA CLARK 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 Nancy M. EzzelL
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Oh yew - 16.00 plus JSO sales tax in Hemphill
aad adjoining enatiM
Elsewhere h Texas — 17.50 plus J8 sales tax.
Outside «f Texas -17.50 per year.
pur (ffa
' rmmeii
When we published a feature story last week about the 0
family dynasty in the Canadian schools ending with Jan's graduatk]
last Friday night, we had a hunch, based on long experience t
somebody would have a story to top it. It wasn't long in con
The first Owens entered the Canadian schools, we reported |
1932 when H.L. (Red) Owens, now Hemphill County Judge,cam
into the picture. He graduated in 1936...but there have bee-
members of the Owens family in the local school svsteJ
continuously since 1932, up to last Friday night when Jan, last of J
unbroken line, graduated. Forty five years of continuous enrollmej
in one family is a bunch.
But F.arl Rhea sr., who has lived in Canadian for a mighty I
time, says the Rhea family can beat that record by a country i
Beginning in 1927, when Earl jr. started school, there have I
Rheas on the Canadian school rolls continuously...and the end is d
yet in sight.
Earl jr. graduated in 1927, followed by two sisters, Rilla inoi
Mrs. James Orr) and Laura Lee (now Mrs. Kelly Wilson). Bv j
time Laura was ready for graduation. Earl jr.'s oldest son, Butt
(Earl Rhea 3rd) was also ready for a diploma...and he has I
followed at regular intervals by other Rhea grandchildren..,^
children of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rhea jr....in order, by tlx
grandfather's reckoning, Butch, Bebe (Danielle), Shelli, Dana,!
Rocky (Miles).
There are a couple more to eome...Lisa and Greg, the youngeitd
the family, who has six more years of school to go before grids
And by the time Greg gets to that point, Shelli |now Mrs. Nit
Thomas, who has a baby on the way] may have her first one nt
way through the Canadian school system.
As any experienced editor can tell you, when Fair time i
around and some proud grower brings in that record-bre
pumpkin (or ear of corn, or tomato, or peach, or youname-itltob
photographed for the newspaper, you may as well get bn
because someone will be in a couple of days later with a bigger o
And it may be that way with family dynasties, too...tie!
have just topped the Owens, aad we wouldn't make any betit
somebody won't turn up next week with a longer line. But theyV
got a way to go...the Rheas have been in the Canadian school i
continuously for the past fifty years, aad have got a few more y#
in sight already J
himself...and maintain that the Internal Revenue
Service is thus powerless, under the Constitution,
to probe their records and accounts to establish
the amount of their income for tax purposes.
There is an element of justice in their charge
that the IRS routinely violates the protections of
those two amendments. The Internal Revenue
Service, after the fashion of all growing
bureaucracies, has often been guilty of excesses in
the uses of power, and so invites a taxpayer
revolt.
Its agents routinely use their bureaucratic
authority as a threat to create terror among
generally law-abiding citizens...the suggestion of
an IRS audit is enough to make strong men
tremble, not from a feeling of guilt but from fear
of the unknown hooks hidden in those massive
IRS regulations and from the certainty of the
chaos in a business operation which IRS
investigations can create.
It may be that IRS, after the manner of OSHA,
has become so oppressive with its bureaucratic
nit-picking that citizens in revolt will resort to
nit-picking of their own, seeking out obscure
Constitutional grounds on which to challenge the
offending bureaucracies in the Courts and thus
render them ineffective...hoist, as it were, on
their own petard.
The effectiveness of the income tax system in
this country has always depended upon the
general honesty and integrity of most citizens in
voluntary compliance. If a hundred million
taxpayers, or any substantial fraction of them,
should suddenly adopt a policy of passive
resistance...complying only with the letter of the
law by filing tax returns in blank, refusing to
disclose income information on the Constitutional
(Continued on Page 3)
Personal note to those fans who have asked why we havenTj
carried scores of Little League and other baseball games tk
summer: Because we haven't been able to get the information, litt
League scorebooks couldn't be located last Wednesday morning...
to and after our noon deadline. Sorry about that.
We would Vice to carry the nisdti of all the baseball gaa«. Ut*
League, PeeWee League, aad the Babe Ruth League*..-**
offered to keep the staadiaga ap to date for all of then if wtmJ
the scores regularly after all games. But we simply can't ittn1
these games, aad have to depead oa the cooperation of csatsei'
managers. Our aewa deadline is Wednesday noon each wee*'" ,
we tend to lost interest ia a hurry ia reports which are aioreuu
o|||
The Record has worked with Little League for years, and fa
many years the editor scored all those games personally, wor ^
four and five nights a week at it. We can't do that any more'
sponsor a team, we provide printed schedules free of eharge, an
are happy to provide publicity as needed for all of
organizations...but we would appreciate a little more coopera |
that we've been getting from them, for our mutual benen •
*•
We hope, before aaother graduation time rolls around, tlut #^1
authorities will make arrangements to light the rtage |
(Continued on page 4)
DON'T WRITE because you want to say
something: write because you ve g
something to say.--F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Note: To list e
weekly calendar,
Chamber of Con
323-6234 betweer
noon Monday thi
Community 1
Ministry. Call 35
Wilson.
WATS line for S.
Prevention Crisis
call 1-800-692-4'
counseling perse
night.
Family Services
Main, Thursday
8-5. Call anytii
Counseling fyr
types of probl<
drugs, alcoholis
WATS line, abo\
Planned Parent!
office in basemen
house. 8 a.m.
Monday through
Mitchell in charg
WEEK OF
THROUGH
Thursday,
Free Family Filn
Library — 7:30
Weight Watcher
Firestation.
Jaycees meet at
Moody Hotel
Friday, J
Lions Club meets
the Community!
Station.
Saturday,
Sacred Heart C
6:00 p.m.
Sunday,J
First Presbyter
Sunday School
Worship Service
Pentecostal Chu
School 10:00 a.
Worship 11:00 a
Worship 7 p.m.
Central Baptist '
day School 10 a
Worship 11 a.m.;
P.m.; Evening W
First Baptist Chi
School 9:45 a.i
Worship 11 a.i
Worship 6 p.
Training 7 p.m.
Church of th«
Sunday School
Morning Worshij
Teen-age Choir 6 |
Worship 6:30 p.n
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1977, newspaper, June 2, 1977; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136490/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.