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3U AmaMan RECORD
CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 13 MARCH 1975
j L. otherwise noted, are those of the editors
Views expressed here, unless otne
The bureau-watchers
CONGRESSMAN JACK HIGHTOWER, we
are pleased to note, is one of the co-sponsors
of a special bill introduced in Congress last week
to bring some measure of sanity to HbW
regulations of the nation's small hospitals.
Under a regulation issued by the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare, any hospital or
nursing home with fewer than four doctors on its
staff would lose all federal funding, which means
that such institutions would not be eligible to care
for patients under Medicare.
The regulation is scheduled to take effect April
l....a date which might be more significant than
was intended, since it is, traditionally, All Fool s
Day.
We don't suggest that the HEW people are
fooling...just that they are foolish.
This is not the first attempt by federal HEW
flffjniala to put the nation's small community
hospitals out of business. Hospitals in small towns
have been harassed by federal regulations for
several years...and sometimes forced to close
when it has been impossible to comply-
The four-doctor staff requirement would put a
lot of them out of business, including ours. In the
Panhandle of Texas. 95 per cent of the
communities have fewer than four doctors...and
many are fortunate to have one or two.
But closing small town hospitals and nursing
homes, which provide adequate to excellent care
within their limitations, to elderly patients'who
depend on Medicare...this forcing them to be
transferred to already-overcrowded city
hospitals...is not only an inconvenience to all the
people involved, but it is an insane exercise of
bureaucratic stupidity.
Congressman Hightower and his fellow-guardi-
ans of the nation's laws will do us all a service by
keeping diligent watch and a tight rein on the
bureaucracies.
HOUSE BILL 528, the legislation sponsored by
Rep. Pete Laney which doesn't change Texas'
55 mile per hour speed limit but "takes the danger
out of being close", obviously posed a tough
problem for members of the Texas House of
Representatives last week as it passed the House
by a vote of 70 to 69.
It is now in the Senate and assigned to the
Committee on Jurisprudence, where it may
remain for a cooling-off period.
One of the problems with the bill is that many
Legislators, including our own Representative
Bob Close, who voted against it, feels that its
passage may endanger the state's eligibility to
participate in federal highway funds, since it is
openly aimed at undercutting the federally-order-
ed 55-mile per hour speed limit. That is
undoubtedly a problem which the Senate
Committee will examine carefully, since eligibility
has a $303 million price tag in federal funds for
Texas highways.
But another problem which is important to the
legislators, who are after all elected
representatives of the people, is that a great
many of the people who elected them favor the
bill and have put pressure on their
representatives to pass it. Partly the public
resentment is directed at the 55 mile speed limit
itself, but mostly, we believe, it involves a protest
against the manner in which speeding violations
have been used by automobile insurance
companies to increase insurance premiums or to
cancel policies.
The Laney bill has two features: one provides a
fine limited to $25 for speeding violations in
excess of 55 miles an hour but under 70 miW an
hour; and the other provides that such a
s:M
If you've heard i —on that there will be a ltdtnl|_
the Canadian high school "hair code", forget it lyjl
be..and there wont be...because too moth
brought to hear en the faaafly involved and they kave«
dis-involved. School hoard Bombera, who helped
pressure, have woo without a battle, and that's the wiy ||
If this sounds angry and disgusted, it is because
disgusted. It wasn't our fight, but we agreed to join it, ^
financially, slong with a few others who were willing til
money where their mouth is", because we believe thituj
principle is at stake involving the ConstitutionilW
freedom of individuals in this country, and that the mint]
be resolved by the courts in some final fashion.
We are convinced i
Separate the issues
conviction could not be charged against the
driver's record for suspension of license or
increase of insurance premiums.
We personally favor the 55 mile an hour speed
limit for safety and conservation reasons; but
would be only too happy to see the second
provision of the Laney bill made law because we
think this feature has been widely abused by
insurance companies.
Statistical records leave no doubt of the effect
of the lower speed limits...the 1974 traffic death
toll was down by 650 lives below that for 1973 in
Texas; statistics indicate that more than 400
million gallons of gasoline was saved by Texas
drivers traveling at slower speeds; and 1974 was
the safest year on Texas highways in a decade.
These are compelling arguments for the lower
speed limits.
But tying speeding violations to insurance
rates, and giving insurance companies the kind of
discretionary and punitive power over drivers
which this law has provided in Texas, is not
defensible. We'd Uke to see the two issues
considered separately by our Legislators...then
they d only have to decide between the desires of
their constitutents and the desires of the
insurance lobby, which might make the question a
lot clearer for all of them.
I that the recurrent and eoatia^J
our school's "drees code" and the uneven eaJwttu«<
already caused far mars heartaches and
community than Is good lor any of us, and that sttkaiaj
aides of the Issue have hirn so polarized that m i
likely in the hrtsmhli future...and we feel Kna^l
matter ought to he resolved by the Courts udusi|
dispute one way or another. But this can be dose idyll
who are personally Involved are wflUag to stand witkt
and fight the case, and the pees sure on then hat i
too great. End of chapter.
' If you are one of those most ardently opposed to the
liquor sale issue, don't jump on your County
calling the election. That action was not optional. When
signed petition is presented, the Commissioners Court bai
an election whether individual Commissioners favor tki
not. It's that simple. We haven't polled the Commissioum
intend to...some we know favor the local option propeiL
some do not...but their action in ordering the electinij
indicate personal feeling one way or another.
And don't get the hnpresalsa from this that weirei
We're net. We pisssnslj believe that package nlui
legalised in a community whore a very iab«Ustii
citizens (maybe a majority, maybe aot] bay thas —
out-of-town snd bring It iu..Jer purely practical reanai. Ii
vote tar" this issue, we'd do it. We can't, becaase Kkei
our residence is not In Product One.
Our personal preference would have been for a —
election on this issue, but that ian't the way it has shapedi
the law. So the matter will be for decision of only thou*
live in Precinct 1, which excludes s considerable porisl
townspeople but, nevertheless, probably reprexiui
cross-section of opinion. Those who are eligible to vote jW
their conviction, and the rest of us should abide by tbatl
Thanhs to the M Badges Trucking Company,
Everett and Jim Kkhhart who are in charge of the fadl
the baseball Hold at CeuhMa Parti has a 404sot secthss'
free el charge.
The bleachers are the old visitor's stands from Wikkn--j
which were donated to the county-city park by the school*^
I rn jms. _ f O w,,re w«re oonaieo to toe county-city para oy ^
ijIJCH Q SvClllr r ^ also rate thanks. But the Woachers had to be bkwJ
IF . r • high school site where a new building is to J* erected totk
irrotn the Farmland News] park on the far side of town . and that is a major ops*
JVMNG THE LAST political ^ ^ ^ ~
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NANCY EZZEl£Z!ZEdit«rfw! ^^ President who "acted like a~Bo7 qir?
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES ^ cheerful- ftriftK'bwve
One year - $6.00 plus .80 sale. tax in Hemphill p^ DoTld
and adjoining counties nnnj„ a8°°d deed daily.
Elsewhere in Texas - $7.50 plus .38 sales tax. Would be like to hi..
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1975, newspaper, March 13, 1975; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136375/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.