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, AUGUST 30, 1962
Sure, the dues are high
*wj HE AMERICAN taxpayer is paying mem-
bership dues to one of the most ex-
pensive clubs, in the world," complained a
letter-to-the-editor writer in a recent edition
of an area daily newspaper.
This is possibly true.
But we've noticed very few people who want
to resign from the club. And there are lots of
people in the world who would like to become
members . . . if they could . . . regardless of
the dues.
It's an expensive club, all right . . . but it
offers an awesome lot of modern conveniences,
personal comforts, and real luxuries.
Its members are protected against all sorts
of personal dangers . . . from fellow club
members as well as from outside toughs. It
offers tremendous opportunities for free edu-
cation to members, as well as free entertain-
ment. And it offers an amazing amount of se-
curity to members . . . some think too much. •
Most important of all, every member of the
club has a vote in its operation, and every-
body can speak up freely in the clubhouse.
Sure, the dues are a little high. But the ad-
vantages of membership are tremendous. This
club has more to offer than any other in the
world.
And the members can always resign and
move out of the clubhouse if they want to.
But there just doesn't seem to be any rush
for the exits . . . .even among those who com-
plain the loudest.
A most disheartening task
^■URELY one of the most disheartening tasks
facing law enforcement ofifcers must be
the continuing and everlasting effort to pre-
vent otherwise law-abiding citizens from care-
lessly killing themselves and their fellows on
the nation's streets and highways.
State highway patrol officers, knowing from
long and sad experience that holiday week-
ends produce a bumper crop of highway acci-
dents, are currently bracing themselves for
the up-coming Labor Day holiday and another
battle against the odds.
The odds say that thirty Texans will die in
auto accidents on the highways of this state
alone during the long week-end.
Officers of the highway patrol will be on
constant duty this week-end. In addition to
the regular members of the highway patrol,
Col. .Homer Garrison, chief of the Texas pa-
trolmen, will throw all of his troops into the
battle . . . including Motor Vehicle Inspection
officers, License and Weight control officers,
and officers of the Safety Education Services.
They frankly have no hope of eliminating
death on the highway this week-end . . . they
just hope to reduce the number below the
predicted thirty.
Their success, we predict, will be measured
in direct proportion to the amount of coopera-
tion they receive from Texas motorists. You
can do your personal part by driving carefully,
conforming to the rules of highway safety,
and . . . possibly most important of all . . .
simply observing the rules of common court-
esy.
The expression is, by now, trite . . . but all
too true: The life you save may be your own.
Is LBJ's star in eclipse?
(From The Hereford Brand)
■pEXAS Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is
becoming newsworthy under strange cir-
cumstances. People, including a few column-
NEWSPAPER
contests
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL Editoi
NANCY EZZELL .... Editor of Woman's Pages
TED ROGERS Foreman
Entered as second class. matter December 20,
1945, at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published each
Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by
Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Hemphill and Adjoining Counties:
One Year $3.50
Elsewhere $4.50 per Year
ists, are mentioning him chiefly because he
is so entirely "out of the news" these days.
This could mean, of course, that LBJ will
hot be asked to go along as Mr. Kennedy's
running mate when the next election rolls
around. It could also indicate a complete
new trend, likely even more liberal than that
which now exists, for the present "New Fron-
tier" administration.
The Brand fell out with Mr. Johnson back
during the Democratic Convention in Cali-
fornia, because wo thought he literally "sold
out" Texas and the South, primarily for the
purpose of becoming vice president. Further-
more, we had a feeling that Mr. Sam, Price
Daniel and other Texas Democratic big guns
had pretty much the same reaction. Certainly,
we are today not found on his "preferred
list."
At the same time, we like even less the talk
which is going around that Young Bobby
Kennedy may replace Mr. Johnson in the next
election. Even one Kennedy was questionable
to 49-plus percent of the people, and now
with another in the office of Attorney Gen-
eral, we have two. Three, in our opinion, is
going too far . . . even for the Kennedys.
The onery goathead is, at last, getting some scientific at-
tention.
In the current (August 31) issue of Time Magazine there is
a report on experiments being carried out by two entomolo-
gists for the U. S. Department of Agriculture aimed at de-
struction of the pesky weed through encouragement,of a nat-
ural enemy, á weevil that destroys the goathead without
harming any other plant.
The USDA experts h^ve imported the weevils from Spain
and Itcly where, according to these scientists, the goathead
itself originated. Whoever introduced the goathead to this
country obviously neglected to bring the weevil along too . . .
an oversight that has created untold misery for several gener-
ations of barefoot kids in the U. S. southwest, driven thousands
of lawn and garden enthusiasts indoors, and made a big busi-
ness of the production of Neverleak for the repair of bicycle
tires.
The weevil, according to the entomologists, is a natural en-
emy of the goathead (tribulus terrestris) but turns up its
tough little nose at all other form?, of plant life. When the goat-
head dies out, the weevil dies out with it. The scientists have
a crop of more than 100,000 weevils which they are distributing
in the Southwest, according to the magazine report . . . and
by now they have probably been driven crazy by requests for
a supply of the bugs.
Only 100,000 weevils sounds like a pretty puny supply . . .
we've got enough goatheads in our yard alone to provide
forage for that many ... so we predict a bright future for the
little creatures . . . and may their tribe increase.
• * * *
Comments in this column last week regarding a rapid about-
face by the Kansas City FBI office in a case regarding a lo-
cally-prominent Mr. Big produced some interesting sidelights
. . . including some details about what made the wheels go
'round. And what made the little wheels go 'round in Kansas
City were some very big wheels in Washington . . . very big
wheels indeed.
When people have used too much political leverage to get
themselves into high positions, we suppose it doesn't take so
very much leverage to make them stoop to low ones.
* * * •
Republican Congressional candidate Jack Seale . . . the man
the John Birch Society boasted of electing as Mayor of Ama-
rillo ... is perhaps taking a leaf from the book of a certain
Prominent Democrat in challenging Congressman Walter Rog-
ers to appear on television to debate issues of the campaign.
Being a firm supporter of the Honorable Walter, and wish-
ing for him the best of luck in this campaign, we hope he
will profit from the experience of a certain Prominent Re-
publican and turn down the invitation.
The way we see it, only Republican Jack Seale himself . . .
a relative unknown in the Panhandle area so far . . . stands
to gain from any televised debating show. Congressman Rog-
ers, who's been through the Panhandle on campaign tours a
good many times, has a face, figure and personality that's
pretty well known to the voters. We're not recommending that
he hide his light under a bushel, but we do recommend that
he doesn't shed any more of it than necessary on his opponent
by helping him to free TV time "in the public interest."
The public might be interested in such a TV debate, all
right, but our guess is that it would learn precious little.
inklings
ANE THING that gives most of us more for
our money than it did twenty years ago is
the penny scales at the corner drug store.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1962, newspaper, August 30, 1962; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184124/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.