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VFW, 7:30 p.m., 316 N. Third.
Co-Depenents Anonymous
(CoAd) 7 p.m., Courthouse
Basement.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m.,
Courthouse Basement.
TOPS Weigh-in, 5:30 p.m., Pro-
gram, 6 p.m., Fire Hall.
Friday, January 1
HAPPY NEW YEARI
Basketball Tournament.
Saturday, January 2
Basketball Tournament.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Week of Dec. 31 - Jan. 6
casting of previous Sunday’s
sermon 8 am. on Channel 6.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Morn-
ing Worship 10:30 a.m., Evening
Worship 6 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church Sun-
day School 9:45 a.m., Worship
Service 11 a.m.
Church of Christ, Sunday Bible
Class 9:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 10:30 a.m., Evening Wor-
ship 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible
Class, 7 p.m.
First Baptist Church Sunday
School 9:45 a m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Training Union, 6
p.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
Central Baptist Church Sunday
School 10 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
Sunday Mass, 10 a.m., CCD
Classes after 10 a.m. Mass.
Believer’s Covenant Sunday
Worship, 10:30 a.m., Evening
Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
Worship 7 p.m., and Youth Ser-
vices 7 p.m.
St. Anne's Episcopal Church,
6th & Kingman, 10 a.m.
First United Methodist Church,
Early Worship Service 8:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 6
Driver’s License Exam, 9 a.m.-4
p.m., Courthouse Basement.
Panhandle Area Transit, 10-3,
Contact County Judge For
Details.
Sagebrush Painters, 10 a.m.,
Fire Hall.
Mass, Sacred Heart Catholic
Church, 7 p.m.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
CYO, Timothy House, 8 p.m.
Sacred Heart Altar Society, 7:30
p.m., Parish Hall.
Thursday, December 31
NEW YEAR’S EVE
CHS Varsity Tournament
begins.
New Year’s Eve Dance, City
Auditorium, 9-12, $7 per person,
sponsored by the River Valley
Pioneer Museum.
TOPS, Weigh-in, 5:30 p.m., Pro-
gram, 6 p.m. Fire Hall.
Assembly of God Christian
Education 10 a.m., Evening
Worship, 6:30 p.m.
Pentecostal Church, Sunday
School, 10 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Evening Worship 7
p.m.
First Christian Church, Bro.ad-
Monday, January 4
PEO, Member’s homes, 2 p.m.
Community Band practice, 7
p.m., Band Hall.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-
Anon, Al-Ateen, Courthouse, 8
p.m.
Tuesday, January 5
Canadian Men’s Club, 7 a m.,
Red’s Coffee Shop
Rotary Club, 12 Noon, WCTU.
Duplicate Bridge, 7:30 p.m.,
WCTU.
Woman’s Club, home of Loreta
Morgan, 7:30 p.m.
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CANADIAN, HEMPHILL CO., TEXAS ____
THURSDAY 31 DECEMBER 1992
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1VTOST MOTORISTS arrested for driv-
JLVJLing while intoxicated (DWI) are taken
before a judge and fined or sentenced to jail time.
Sometimes it doesn’t work that way; frequently
funerals are involved.
This has happened in our county within
recent months. An individual whose blood al-
cohol concentration reportedly was well in excess
of legal intoxication limits was northbound in the
southbound lane of Interstate 27. Before he could
be stopped, the man’s vehicle smashed into
another auto, killing the driver and seriously
injuring a passenger. Th>s was not the only 1992
Swisher County traffic fatality involving al-
cohol.The choice of whether to indulge in in-
toxicants is a personal one...until one climbs
behind the wheel and his/her senses numbed by
alcohol. That’s when others’ well-being becomes
involved.
There has to be a "first time" for everyone
arrested for DWI. In the case of a person driving
in the San Antonio area, he had no previous
drunk driving convictions. But he was driving
with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.18—the
legal limit in Texas is 0.10—and caused a traffic
accident which resulted in the deaths of three
college students, along with the driver and his
brother.
In 1991,1,249 other families in Texas grieved
at funerals because their friends and relath es
had been killed in alcohol related crashes;
another 33,856 visited hospitals because loved
ones had been injured.
"These tragedies lead us to two important
conclusions: Texas needs stronger DWI laws to
Canadian Girl Scout Service
Unit. Call Dawn Dial, 323-6113.
Panhandle Transit, rural
transportation service. Call col-
lect, 24 hours in advance of
need, 862-4131.
National Phone line to report
Child Abuse: 1-800-4-A-Child
(or 1-800-422-4453).
Cancer Society, Agnes Adams,
323-6258 or 323-6842. Toll free,
1-800-ACS-2345.
Driver's License testing, County
Courthouse every Wednesday,
2nd and 5th Tuesdays, 9-12, 1-
4, Officer Bourland.
Alcoholics Anonymous, and Al
Anon Monday nights, Court-
house basement, 8 p.m. Call
323-8033, 323-8221 or 323-
8500.
Suicide Prevention Crisis Inter-
vention WATS line, 1-800-692-
4039.
Planned Parenthood, 419 Main,
12:30-5:30, weekdays except
Thursday. 323-5732.
Tralee Crisis Center for Women,
call toll-free 1-800-658-2796,
Pampa.
Family Services Center, all
types of counseling, 419 Main,
Thursdays. Call anytime, 323-
5732 or WATS line 1 -800-682-
4039.
Sharing is Caring food pantry
and clothes closet. Saturdays 9
a.m.-1 p.m., 1st and Elsie. Dona-
tions through local churches or
directly.
River Valley Pioneer Museum,
Open Tuesday-Friday, 10-4:00,
Sunday, 2-4 p.m.
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prevent additional deaths, and those laws must
be directed to first offenders," suggests MADD
(Mothers Against Drunk Driving). "According to
a 1988 study by the federal government, a whop-
ping 86.7 percent of intoxicated drivers in fatal
crashes did not have a previous drunk driving
conviction in the past three years."
Considering the fact that prisons are vastly
overcrowded, a coalition of highway safety or-
ganizations has studied this problem for years
and has concluded that the best solution os some-
thing called Administrative License Revocation,
better known as ALR.
ALR is the automatic driver’s license suspen-
sion of anyone arrested for drunk driving who
fails or refuses a test to determine alcohol con-
centration. Already in force in 31 states and the
District of Columbia, ALR has proved to be the
most effective deterrent to DWI in the nation.
Alcohol-involved traffic fatalities declined 30
percent the year after ALR w-as implemented.
After two years, alcohol involvement in highway
crashes had declined 41 percent. In Delaware,
the number of drinking drivers involved in fatal
crashes decreased by 19 percent following one
year under ALR.
A federal government study indicates ALR
would save at least 150 lives a year in Texas It
would also prevent thousands of injuries.
Senator Judith Zaffirini of Laredo plans to
introduce a bill in the 73rd Texas legislature
which will include this measure.
Why not give ALR a try if. as advocates con-
tend. it "saves live, addresses the problem of first
offenders and it does not require the state tn
build more prisons?" The state’s present deter-
rents obviously are not overly e Tective
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1992, newspaper, December 31, 1992; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1262784/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.