The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1980 Page: 2 of 40
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31U RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO . TEXAS
THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 1980
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Bury us not!
Losing Canadian Miiiwork is a matter for
regret, but it is not the crack of impending
doom for the town of Canadian, as some of the
Amarillo news media have been quick to imply...
nor does Canadian Miiiwork quite qualify as
"Canadian's biggest employer by far" as some of
our friendly Amarillo publicists have declaimed
That distinction belongs to the oil and gas
industry.
We'll be sorry to see Miiiwork go...it has been a
local success story for its founder. Charles Vignal.
and one we're all proud of. The business, which
was created by a youthful Charles Vignal as a
homespun home-town industry twenty years ago
has grown from its two-man beginnings to a
multi-million dollar international enterprise with
more than one hundred people on its payroll.
From the beginning, this small Panhandle cit>
seemed an unlikely base for a manufacturing
concern which created finished hardwood mould
ing for shipment to lumber and builder outlets all
over the nation...particularly when its raw mater
ials had to be imported from far corners of (he
world.
The fact that Canadian had excellent rail and
highway transportation facilities made it pasible
for Charles Vignal to establish this enterprise in
his home-town and develop it to the point where it
has become a major supplier of this community to
the building trade. But Miiiwork has outgrown its
humble beginnings, and has several times
expanded its facilities to the physical limits of the
Santa Fe railroad properties on which it was built
A move has appeared inevitable for a long time,
and perhaps it has been only the loyalt) of Charles
Vignal to the place of his beginning that has
delayed a move for this long.
The fact that all of its raw materials have had t<>
be brought from Indonesia and South America lo
Texas Gulf ports and then shipped to inland
Canadian by rail has created a situation where
economy dictated a change, freight costs being
* hat they are. and Miiiwork is mov ing its facilities
to a modern new plant on the Gulf as soon as the
facilities can be built...target date next September.
We regret the necessity, and hate to see them
go...particularly for the loss of key personnel in the
business who have been good citizens of this
community. But we wish them well ..and advise
friends and well-wishers (or-ill-wishers. as the
case may be) to shed no tears for Canadian and its
future, because our economy is solid, our business
is flourishing, and we are not about to bccome a
dying community.
The town which survived the loss of the Santa Fe
Railway payroll ("Canadian's biggest employer" it
was said then) in the I950's when times were
harder and the blow was heavier, will survive the
loss of this business as well.
Bury us not. Amarilloans...or we will rise to
haunt vou.
The Ualtad Way campaiga to aot going well, and that * „« ^
Ter*y Plllmaa aad hto board have done as thorough a iij
preparation aad orgaaixiag aa eoold be done...the>\* tortol!
mad givea a lot of tfaae aad effort to the project ..and CanadiuU
have beea aaeharaiertotkal* alow to respond. So «hat*, lhe ^
One certain answer is going to be. unless there's a mighti
quickening of the public pulse and a quuk loosen ng f the pubfc
purse, that the ten organizations which are participating n this v.lr,
United Way campaign are going to organi/c ten separate camw:
on their own during the nest twelve months, and local business^
individuals are going to be solicited to give ten times instead ^
once.
Thai's the way H aaed lo be, aad that's the wa> it «.ill be agaát
the (Jailed Way idea of "patting ail the begs In one isk-it" u altad
to (ail. The charities aad pablk lenices whk h depend on the* pfo
are goiag lo have lo raiae the mooes from public subscription* m
«ay or aaother.. .la aa orderly fashion through the I nited Mat pfc
ia which each doaor to ashed lo give "a fair share'* just oocr cad
year, or la a wtHilia of campaign* la which even bods who car be
foaad will be aaUritad agah aad again during the scar.
The participating organizations which submit!- : budgets o tie
local United Way campaign board ari all * "h .auks he
Salvation Army, the Diabetic Foundation the \rth- • s Kouodabw
the Babe Ruth Baseball League (local), the B-•. S Ir! !ca¿.;
Girl Scouts. Cub Scouts. Cystic Fibrosis Found.it r. and he t¿
Family Services Center. The United Was g.ul of ^ > -epr.^entM
total of the budget requests from all of these .j.ves a-x! ea.s
participant has agreed to make no other solicit iti>m for funds «
Canadian during the neat year if the budge: is -cached li
isn't...well, look for a lot of individual campaigns
difference.
nuke up
Listening to reason! iiri
ALTERNATIVES offered to the Canadian City
Council last week by Southwestern Public
Service were most generous, and are obviously
aimed at making the transition from city-owned
electric power production to a private compans
operation as palatable as possible to a cits
government whose majority stubbornly opposes
the expressed will of the people of the city that the
change be made.
SPS executive Cliff Mlinar was responding to a
request from Mayor George Arlington that the
company try to accomodate the needs for electric
3he Qaaadian
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Editor
N^'CYEZZELI, Editor
TDM MOORE Advertising Manager
matter December 20. 1945.
. „ . at Caaadiaa. Tesas, aader the act
I' ^hltohed each Thursday
** C««tdtoa. Temas, by Bea K. aad Nancy
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power of this growing community ahead «if the
one-year construction schedule required to bring
its big power lines into our area when he appeared
at the Council meeting last week with alternate
proposals to speed and ease the transition.
In doing so. he met and countered some of the
major objections raised to selling the citv svstem to
SPS.
Accused after the election, at which approval of
the plan to sell to SPS was voted over
Council-majority objections, of reneging on the
proposal to take over the city's bonded indebted
ness in return for the distribution system. Mlinar
repeated his proposal to assume any bonded debt
existing at the time of the sale and then offered to
advance the date of the take-over so that all of the
bonds now outstanding ($595.000) would be
absorbed before the City of Canadian has to make
any other payment of principal or interest.
Some Council members had accused SPS
deliberate delay so that the bond debt would be
reduced by scheduled payments of interest and
principal next year.
Mlinar told the Council that detailed inventors
indicates that the city distribution system repre-
sents an investment of $631.000 and ha* a current
deprecated value of *433.000...and that adding
the worth of tools, supplies and substations,
current worth of the system is $575.000 He said
his company is willing to consider assumption of
the $595.000 in bonded debt now as a reasonable
exchange.
As to the city-owned power plsnt. which some
Council members had adamantly opposed selling.
Mlinar made a surprise offer: We'll let the City
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lo dig them out right no aad aait
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this important campaign >. an ckac m
L Do It todas and be as generan u
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Martin Marcum. who teaches a civics (g.-scrr- r c'.ass '
Canadian high school, among other assignments is a first -a::
job in acquainting his students with the realities of \mercan potari
elections...and sometimes what the kids learn m th- • stigaw
is not too flattering to the system.
of the ciaaa *ai assigned one vpccifk
l, and asked to report ta tk
waa, what he stood f* ai
lo be...reasonable questions «to*
la be prepared to answer. TV
to oar elective wttca «Wr**
of electing unWao # jadf*
The young lady who came to our office sought inform- *10
Judge C.L. Ray. who was the Democratic Party n nv ■ f 1 P*
on the Texas Supreme Court. We were cmbarassctl v disposer
we had no information at all about Judge Ray We frst
°f state press association office in Austin and learned that '"<>
know anything about him either, but could give us r c tdep
number of the State Democratic Executive Committee o fv.
Austin. We called thst number and the onU information sDFC
supply about the party's nominee for the state s highest court 1
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1980, newspaper, November 6, 1980; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184195/m1/2/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.