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THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1960
from various viewpoints
Davidson was known
A case of being familiar
■TEXAS voters, apparently, were in no joking
mood when they tossed Criminal Appeals
Court Judge Lloyd Davidson into a run-off
race for re-election against a political un-
known in the May 7 primary.
The "political unknown," Judge W. T. Mc-
Donald of Bryan, who made what most ob-
servers thought was only a token race in the
first primary and did little more than that in
the second, won election by a sizetablc ma-
jority last Saturday,
Judge McDonald, a 48-year old district judge,
was pretty much unknown over the state all
right . . . but his opponent, Judge Lloyd Da-
vidson, was not.
"There," as the Bard would say. "was the
rub."
Judge Davidson, whose career ort the high
court has been a hair-splitting tour of force
that has made a shambles of Texas criminal
law and a mockery of justice, was all too well-
known to the citizens of Texas.
Texas voters may not have known much
about Judge McDonald, but they made it
pretty clear Saturday that they knew his
opponent well and wanted no more of him.
What's wrong with US?
Editor's Note: The following editorial is ex-
cerpted from a newsletter written by Con.
gressman Walter Rogers, the Panhandle's Rep-
resentative in the national capitol:
ANE OF (ho most curious pastimes to emerge
^ in the United States during the past 15
years is a parlor game called "What's Wrong
With America." People of all aces and occu-
pations, prompted by the compelling nature of
our country's foreign and domestic affairs, in-
dulge almost daily in this simple substitute
for Canasta and Scrabble. "What's Wrong
NEWSPAPER
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THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL
TED ROGERS
Editor
Foreman
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People are funny
(From the Tulla Herald)
11 LEADING Los Angeles hospital reports that
of the lung cancer patients it. has treated
in recent years, 95 per cent were heavy cigar-
ette smokers, five per cent were moderate
smokers, and not a patient treated was a
non-smoker.
Isn't it awazing how people panicked over
the cranberry scare last Christmas even though
everybody was assured that there was little if
any danger in eating less than two or three
tons of the questionable berries. Yet, even the
strong evidence against cigarettes has failed
to halt their soaring sales.
People ar<> funny!
With America," which has achieved an almost
universal appeal today, is one of the most un-
precedented and deadly serious activities de-
veloped since World War II.
The object for each player is to outline in
some detail his assessment of the "mistakes"
America has made and the fearsome future
she faces. Two or more players seldom agree
and even less seldom achieve any certainty
concerning their ideas for a solution. Political
disagreement, of course, is as American as
the Fourth of July and has lent distinction to
our country for more than 180 years.
But "What's Wrong With America" is more
than a political disagreement. In many re-
spects it is strictly non-partisan.
The game dies if an agreement should be
reached on "what's wrong," just as one of our
television Westerns would collapse if the hero
ever lost one of those Main Street duels.
If anything at all is really wrong with
America, it is probably the fact that for the
first time in our history public opinion ranges
across such a wide field as to inhibit the thor-
oughgoing, prompt, and effective action that
has been our hallmark for so long
Tiie American people, in a majority of cases,
have not yet decided what, if anything, is
"wrong." And obviously, very little can be
done by either government or by individuals
to correct the situation when we are vague
and inept about basic problems and issues.
Countless goals, which almost everyone wish-
es to pursue, have been "reached" by sweeping
them under the rug with a slight change here
and there. The goal is thus only put off, not
actually reached, and the process strongly sug-
gests the approach to an appealing but il-
lusory mirage in the midst of a great desert.
We are not going to measurably reduce our
serious national debt, for example, with a
sporadic budgetary surplus now and then. This
task will require much more in the way of a
carefully planned program accepted and un-
derstood by enough citizens to keep it rolling.
A profound gap exists between the political,
social, and economic postures which events
have forced us to adopt on the one hand and
our basic understanding of these postures on
♦ he other. This gap, more than anything else,
has sparked our vague search for something
"wrong."
I earnestly believe that "What's Wrong With
America" can be played with Immense profit
for each of us as well as our nation. We can
struggle to seek out and define our nation's
problems with the knowledge that we will
eventually succeed in clarifying the forces of
the 20th Century. But this must not obscure
our search for the understanding which will
close the gap in our knowledge and place us,
once again, with God's help, on the read to
confidence and vitality.
Mary Louther celebrated her fifth year as administrator for
Hemphill County Hospital on June 1 . . . and that represents
almost half the life oí the 101/2 year-old institution.
Mary, incidentally, is the sixth administrator to head the
local hospital staff . . . has held the job almost as long as all
five of her predecessors combined ... and is still going strong.
* * ♦
Clyde Doran, U. S. Forest Service area supervisor from Ama-
rillo, dropped in at The Record office a couple of weeks ago
to tell us that he had just supervised the transfer of 9,000
fingerling bass to the waters of Lake Marvin. If they'll just
grow up to catching size now, a lot of fishermen will be
made happy.
After too many years of neglect, the Forest Service seems to
be taking an active interest in improving its recreational prop-
erty at Lake Marvin . . . and we're glad to see it. Certainly the
area is becoming increasingly appealing for campers and pic-
nickers . . . and we hope the fish will he biting well enough
to attract the fishing crowd.
* * * *
Herb True, quip-cracking after-dinner speaker, declares that
"Anybody who still smokes cither doesn't want to live or just
plain can't read."
But the choicest reason for swearing-off smoking is one we
saw quoted recently from a new convert who declared that
smoking simply required too many decisions.
"First," says the unhappy fellow, "you have to decide which
brand you want. Then having made that difficult choice, you
must tell the salesman whether you want the crush-proof box
or the soft pack, king-size or regular, filter or plain, menthol
or mint. The strain got so heavy I just decided to quit!"
* * * +
The smoker who does quit the weed, however, is apt to find
himself subject to a different kind of temptation which, in
extreme cases, can become a more obnoxious habit than scat-
tering ashes ever was. That's the temptation to evangelize his
misguided brethren who still cling to their nicotine.
Don't tinker with a smoking man's thinker . . . he's got
enough decisions to make just trying to decide on which
brand to buy!
# # * r
Rodeo boosters are organizing a couple of road trips to ad-
vertise the up-coming Canadian Fourth of July Rodeo cele
bration . . . which, by the way, promises to be a really out-
standing show this year. Anyhow the Booster trips are being
planned for Friday, June 24, and Saturday, June 25. Dennis
Burrus will be in charge of the Friday trip, which will make
the northern swing to Perryton, Spearman, etc.; and Bruce
Graham is organizing the Saturday jaunt to Wheeler, Sham-
rock, and through western Oklahoma.
Both of them would like to have volunteers. If you can make
the trip, get in touch with the proper person now and let him
know. You can call Dennis at DA 3-4248. or Bruce at DA 3-4067.
inklings
**TN 1,000 YEARS there will be just about
standing room for us," declared Sir Charles
Darwin (grandson of Charles Darwin) at a
Brown University convocation. Commenting on
this prediction, Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president
of the California Institute of Technology, said:
"If there is standing room only, maybe the
birth rate will go down."
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1960, newspaper, June 9, 1960; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184008/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.