The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1993 Page: 4 of 32
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The Record has covered every Varsity game for the past 23
years, to our certain knowledge...and the editor has covered all
but two of them personally...so we’ve got almost as good an
attendance record as Perry Hazlewood has.
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The lectures and discus-
sions in my classes at Oxford
today were on “A Sense of
Place” and the “Spirit of a
Place”. It was brought out that
many factors converge to make
the spirit of one place quite dif-
ferent from the spirit of
another place. Some places
draw you and others fail to
draw — or perhaps even repel
or at least have completely dif-
ferent spirits.
ing team to watch...and we must admit that when they win
those games it makes those long trips home from the
out-of-town dates a whole lot shorter than they used to be
when they were losing. And having followed this team
through 23 seasons now, including a long string of years
when they were losing mighty regularly, we claim to be an
expert on that score.
But we’ve gotta confess: It isn’t entirely love of football
that keeps us going when the weather gets rough and the
team is losing. It’s a stubborn idea that the job of a home-
town newspaper is to report what’s going on with the
home folks...and on Friday nights in a Texas Fall, that’s
where the action is.
Sincerely,
Malouf Abraham, Jr. M.D.
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completing an intensive month-
long course of study. He is ex-
pected to return in mid-August.
Alan Sudbrock,
President
Gas Technology Corp.
Irving, Texas
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One of the things I enjoy
(when I escape from Dallas), is
the scenic drive from Canadian
up past Lake Marvin to the
small gas plant which we
operate. Having grown up in
rural areas, I learned early to
appreciate the land and its
wildlife.
Recently, Mr. A.S. Jackson
wrote a letter to the Texas Air
Control Board, which was
reprinted in the Canadian
Record, expressing his objec-
tion to the tail gas incinerator
we propose to operate at our
gas plant near Lake Marvin. I
would like to respond to his,
and, perhaps your concerns.
For the past two years, our
company has operated a gas
conditioning plant east of Lake
Marvin. This plant removes a
small quantity of hydrogen sul-
phide from a gas stream being
produced from three nearby
gas wells. The “off-gas”
produced during this period
has been flared. With the in-
stallation of a tail incinerator,
the “off-gas” emissions from
the plant will be more efficient-
ly combusted (burned). In-
I couldn’t help but think
about Canadian. People who
are familiar with the Texas
Panhandle know that Cana-
dian has a “Sense of Place” that
is quite different from any of
the other towns in the Pan-
handle. Most of them think
Canadian is a more interesting
and more appealing place — it
feels different.
What makes Canadian so
different? We all know that a
lot of nice people live in
Canadian. But we also know
that a lot of nice people also live
in Pampa or Perryton. We
could all make a list of assets
ranging from “good schools”, to
the “YMCA” to “the duck pond”.
The list goes on and we could
each make one. So what makes
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cinerator emissions, at full
capacity, are calculated to be
composed of 99.5% nitrogen,
oxygen and carbon dioxide.
The half percent remaining,
about 127 cubic feet per day,
would be composed of sulphur
dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
The amount of nitrogen oxides
are calculated to be a volume
less than a single automobile
would emit in one day. The
remaining sulphur dioxide is
not considered a significant
volume and would have vir-
tually no impact on the sur-
rounding area plants and
wildlife.
Hemphill County is a lead-
ing Texas area which produces
hundreds of million cubic feet
of environmentally clean burn-
ing natural gas each year for
our nation’s consumption. Our
plant’s volume contributes a
small part of that valuable
commodity.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr
Sudbrock’s letter answers some
of our questions concerning the
tail gas incinerator for which
his company, Gas Technology
Corporation, is requesting a
permit. But others remain, and
still others have been raised.
In a telephone conversation
prior to receipt of this letter, Mr.
Sudbrock explained that the
gas treatment plant, already in
operation on the site for the past
twoyears, has previously flared
the “off-gas,"—a process which
he admits is less efficient, and
which we assume has resulted
in even heavier emissions of air
contaminants in that period of
time.
This leads us to wonder
about the permitting process
involved in gas flaring, which
we understand from Mr.
Sudbrock and from others we
have consulted is a commonly
used technology. In fact,
Sudbrock assures us that the
plant in question is considered
a very small plant, and that
there are several larger ones
operated by other gas com-
panies in this area.
This, of course, raises the
question of what other emis-
sions we might justifiably be
concerned with in this area.
However, it appears to us
that the proposed incinerator
will allow improvement over an
existing situation, and will sig-
nificantly decrease emissions
which we have apparently been
living with for some time.
We welcome any other com-
ment or information concern-
ing this permit application and
the issues which it raises.
Canadian have such a special
“Sense of Peace”?
I would suggest that it is our
landmarks and our trees.
Out-of-town patients who
come to my clinic seem to com-
ment on those two things.
Recently there was debate
about whether there was any
reason to save any of Baker
School or whether it could be
totally removed from the local
scene. Many were indifferent
and some felt strongly on the
issue.
Here is my personal
opinion: I believe that if we lose
our landmarks and if we lose
our trees, then we will lose our
“Sense of Place” — our sense of
history and our charm as a
town I believe that the beauty
and charm of Canadian will
ultimately be the salvation of
the town. You can drive in any
direction and see little towns
which are drying up and soon
will blow away. At one time,
they all were quite full of life —
but no longer.
If we are to survive as a
small town, I believe we must
guard our remaining land-
marks, guard our trees, and
encourage one another (as op-
posed to discouraging one
another). This is my personal
opinion and I have given it a lot
of analysis but I respect the
rights of others to disagree
with it.
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1993, newspaper, August 12, 1993; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1262801/m1/4/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.