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CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 28 DECEMBER 1978
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views expressed are the editors', unless noted
Articles of faith
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years, since this newspaper has been under its
present ownership, we have repeated a statement
of principles which have guided us in the
week-to-week conduct of The Record. We have
carefully re-read this brief public statement in the
light of our changing times and from the
perspective of years, and find no reason to change
it in any way:
becaase we believe that aa lafonned pabttc Is ear
guarantee of I
WE BELIEVE IN the freedom of the prase. We
are gratefal for it. We win defend It to the
(halt of ear ahfltty.
We believe, too, that in return for that freedom,
we owe an obligation of service to our community.
We believe that it is our duty to provide you with
complete and unbiased reporting of the news of
our community.
We will always strive for accuracy...and being
human, we will not always achieve it. But we
pledge to you that we will never knowingly mislead
you...and we will never refuse to make correction if
any error in fact is called to our attention.
We will always strive to base our reporting of the
news on fact, and to confine our own opinions and
comments on it to our editorial columns. We will
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regarding the pabttc affairs of oar commaalty,
The Record to a private
private profit. Bat H to a pabik
as sach, we hope that h merits,
merit, yoar coafldeace aad yei
operated for
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wfll eoatiaae to
Initiative,anybody?
Christmas was warm aad wonderful and beautiful u m
Chrtotmaaee of oan have bean In recent years...with chlJdrtnud
grandchildren gathered aroaad and lota of eichement and at to!
same time, relaxation la aa atmosphere of love and good cheer.
And then, for a few brief moments, thoughts flashed back to
Christmases long ago which were not all that warm and wonderful a
memory stirred by daughter Laurie's question, "what was ii like in
New Guinea?"...and memories of that worst Christmas camp
flooding back.
Pert Moresby, New Gataea, Christmas of 1943, wU undoubted!*
the worst of thorn a0...and how do yoa describe to someone wbo
wasa't there, eopodally to soamoae who wasn't anywhere at all then
or for aumy years thereafter, what It was like to be ten thousand mile*
from heme, la a spot that wa bot and green and humid, totally
Isolated from the world witheat the ranotest trace of chlUiation u
we knew It.
Although there were several thousand of us young Americans
collected at that small seaport, there was on that Christmas Day a
loneliness for each of us that is indescribable, for each of us was
caught up for a time in our own memories, with our own private
longings and encased in our own private worlds The plaintive
strains of "White Christmas", which had been introduced just a few
months before by the inimitable Bing Crosby, were repeated
endlessly over the Armed Forces "Mosquito Network", the radio
network of special services broadcasts which blanketed the Southwest
Pacific, only adding to the melancholy in a land where nothing was
white. And the Christmas turkey which the military supply services
had taken great pains to fly to each remote outpost mess for
Christmas dinner seemed so totally out of place there that it relieved
none of the hungers which all of us felt.
The war la the Padflc was mot going well then for American*, and
there was ao "tight at the end of the taand" for the men In General
MaeAxthar's eoaamand...a fact which was emphasized by the
General's fnintw* remladera that none of the men in hi* command
sheald think of favieaghs home aatll after the war against Japan wsi
wea. We all knew It, bat being ramhidrrl of It by directive* from on
Ugh raised a either ear spirits nor oar esteem for our Supreme
IF 1978 WAS the year of the tax revolt, 1979
may become the year when the tax revolt
becomes operative in Texas...but don't bet a lot of
money on it. The Texas Legislature, which controls
all such matters in Texas (gubernatorial rhetoric to
the contrary notwithstanding) has so far effectively
resisted any erosion of its control, and we expect it
will continue to do so.
Still State Senator Ron Clower of Garland has
MEMBER
1979 ASSOCIATION
3ke Ganadian
RECORD
1] Texas
BENEZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL Editor
CATHY R1CKETTS 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
One year - S7.00 in Hemphill and adjoining counties
Elsewhere - S9.00 per year
pre-filed a proposed Constitutional Amendment
reserving to the people of Texas at all levels of
government the rights of initiative, referendum
and recall...the instrument which could put teeth
in taxpayer protests. Senator Cower has intro-
duced this amendment to the Legislature before,
and his fellow Legislators have met it without
warmth...and unless the citizens of Texas build an
unaccustomed amount of heat under their lawma-
kers this time around, it's likely to get a pretty cool
reception again.
"Initiative, referendum and recall", if you've
forgotten the lessons of your history and civics
books, is a reservation of power to the people to
initiate action themselves on legislation which
their lawmakers fail to act on, and to vote on those
laws in a referendum election in which a majority
of votes decides the issue, and to recall elected
officials who, in the eyes of a majority of
constituents, do not perform satisfactorily.
It is an unwieldy power, not easily exercised,
which is as it should be, because it permits the
people to take the lawmaking into their own hands
only when large numbers of them can agree in
their frustrations that the need is urgent...and to
implement that action only when an absolute
majority of them can agree on a remedy...and it
makes "mob-ocracy" difficult to develop, which is
also as it should be. But it does place potential
power in the hands of the populace with sufficient
flexibility to strike respect, if not fear, in the hearts
and minds of elected lawmakers, relieving them of
their aura of omnipotence, and that is also a good
thing.
The voters of California, where the power of
initiative and referendum was already reserved to
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There were other Christmases away from home in strange and
lonely places, but none to compare with that first wartime Christmas
in New Guinea. Looking back on it now. however, makes Christmases
at home with family and friends at hand more warm and wonderful by
comparison than they could ever have been without that experience,
so it was not lost time, and there is no pain in the memory of the past,
only contentment in the present joy.
CMstama to a thne for faariUee to be together...children aad
parents, graadchfldhaa and graadpareats. One of oar* aaked the
ether day If we ever weat somewhere else for Christmas, and we
thnaght Naa aad I, and agreed that we had not...not In the last
thirty-two years, at say rata, since 1946...aad that we probably won t
be away bam haase at Chrtotams thne ss Isag aa say of oor children
want to retara heme to spead H with as, as they have dooe with rare
exceptions every year. It Jast boom like the pisce to be, sad we
1't want H
This week we've been recording notes about many other families in
the community who gathered for Christmas together, here or
elsewhere, and we hope the occasion was as warm and wonderful
all of you as it should be at this season.
„ Md a grand holiday km***
hone that al of yoa, oar frteod* snd
la the warm glow of fellowship now and
for yea afl a happy and prospeross one.
Texas,
|LD TIME RECIPE tor a successful garden:
plant more than your wife can cultivate.
never
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Ilkmed Parenthood,
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Lgoe. 8 a.m. to 1
jlimday through Friday
■Citholic Charities :
Ifady. Contact Therei
It 316 Elliott or Jsnie
lfflW. Kingman.
iCmdides Catolicas |
Iwetitados. Habla con
■Lopez.
iDrotr'i license tests, i
Ifcpfcate licenses, eve
laidty. and second aj
iTsesday of each montl
IContbouse. Pat Moo
■Trooper in charge.
■Anhritis Loan Gose
2W857 or 323-6793.
lAnerican Cancer S
liar tervice. Call 32
1323-5607.
WEEK OF DECEM1
THRU JANUAR
Itarsdsy, Decern!
meet at 7:30
PHday, Decembi
i Gob meet at 1
' Community Rooi
IStabon.
Sa&rday, Decern
Heart Catholi
l y Vigil Mass, 6
Soday.Deceml
NEW YEAR'S 1
Christian Chn
*•30 a.m.;
10:30 a.m.
6:00 p.m
Worship 7:00 p.m.
'Presbyterian a
'School 10:00 a.n
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1978, newspaper, December 28, 1978; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136572/m1/2/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.