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Canadian RECORD
CANAOIAN. HEMPHILL. CO.. TEXAS
THURSDAY 18 JUNE 1981
views expressed are the editors', unless noted
Mixed reactions
FEELING AS WE DO about the threat of
nuclear weapons everywhere in the world, it is
impossible not to feel some sympathetic admira-
tion for the Israelis who took matters into their own
hands a few days ago and destroyed an Iraqi
nuclear installation before it could be completed
and become a threat to n >Coring Israel.
At the same time, we have to recognize this sort
of action by any nation against the territorial
integrity of another as an act of war and a grave
threat to the fragile peace which protects us all.
From that standpoint, it has to be a matter of
concern to all the peoples of the world.
The fact that the Israeli Air Force used American
built warplanes to carry out that swift act of
destruction might be greeted by American military
leaders with a mixture of pride and embarass-
ment...pride that our aircraft performed so
efficiently, and embarassment that our sale of this
military hardware by one branch of our govern-
ment may have jeopardized the peace-keeping
efforts of another...but there's a lot of hypocrisy in
that. When we sold the Israelis those warplanes.
we warranted them to perform and we certainly
couldn't have believed that they'd be used only in
air shows for visiting dignitaries.
Nor can we fault the French for selling a nuclear
power plant to Iraq when our government had
already supplied the components for such a plant
to Israel...and to quite a few other small and
developing nations. We both must know that
there's no guarantee that such plants will be used
only for the peaceful production of electric power
when they also have the built-in capacity to
produce materials for nuclear war.
Our own country has contributed at least as
much to nuclear proliferation in the world as any
other...and probably more than the next biggest
producer, the Russians, who may be more
cautious, for selfish reasons, about sharing these
tools of destruction.
Both of us, and the growing list of other nations
which are joining "the nuclear club", are toying
with a kind of fire for which none of us have
developed an extinguisher.
We may feel a sneaking admiration for the gutsy
Israelis who took matters into their own hands, but
we can't feel very comfortable about acts like this
which invite retaliation and could easily set off a
chain-reaction which could destroy us all; nor can
we feel any overwhelming national pride in having
supplied the tools.
Taxpayers' rights
AN UNUSUAL AMOUNT of attention is being
paid these days, it seems to us. in both
administrative and legislative areas of govern-
ment, to the rights of taxpayers and of citizens in
general...and to protecting them from unreason-
able and often unnecessary demands of govern-
ment and its bureaucracies.
It's about time!
We Americans have allowed bureaucratic arro-
gance to pre-empt Constitutional protection of
persona] freedoms to an alarming extent in recent
decades. It is perhaps a measure of our respect for
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NANCY EZZELL Editor
GRETA BASS Advertising Manager
Esterad as second class matter December 20, 1945.
at the Post Office at Caaadian, Texas, under the act
of March 3, 1879. Published each Thursday
afternoon at Canadian, Texas, by Ben R. and Nancy
M. Ezsdl.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year—$10 in Hemphill and adjoining counties.
Elsewhere—$12.50 per year.
law and order, and our confidence in the essential
just-ness of government in this democracy, that we
have permitted excesses of zeal at times from our
law-makers and our law-enforcers.
Federal OSHA. with its arbitrary and often
outrageous regulations of the workplace, and its
arrogant inspectors who by-passed due process to
invade private premises and dispense "barrel-
head justice" in the form of fines and threats of
fines to gain compliance, may have done us all a
favor by overstepping the bounds of reason far
enough and frequently enough to bring on revolt
from independent business people who put enough
pressure on Congress to begin ordering curbs.
Maybe the experience with OSHA has encour-
aged independent business people to wake up to
the arbitrary and often unreasonable demands of
the Federal IRS, also. Texas Congressman Jim
Collins is the author of "The Taxpayers' Bill of
Rights," a piece of legislation which has 42
co-sponsors and is now before the House Ways and
Means Committee. It needs all the support it can
get.
Taxpayers who face an IRS audit operate under
unfair handicaps," Collins declares. "An accused
criminal has more rights under our legal system
than the taxpayer has under our tax system."
Collins' bill would require that a list of
taxpayers' rights be printed on all tax forms,
including a list of taxpayers' rights during an
audit, how a taxpayer can appeal an adverse
decision by the IRS, how taxpayers can file a
complaint, and what procedures the IRS can use to
collect revenues.
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The ballplayer's strike Is on, the baseball season Is on
televisión networks are pot out. It could be a long hot sumo
One network (NBC) we noted on Saturday afternoo
resourcefully raising the ghosts of baseball past There thev we
as life and just as active...the Boston Red Sox and the Cin
Reds...playing their hearts out to win the 1975 World ScriJ
somehow it took a little of the suspense out of it to know than
Sox are going to lose that crucial seventh game again, no man
well Reggie Cleveland pitches in relief, and Ken Griffey is
score the tie-breaking run in the ninth on Joe Morgan's single!
all thy piety and wit can call it back to cancel half a line
It's like the summer re-runs of all the shows you wa
winter...knowing exactly what's going to happen next do
much to the excitement; although for baseball fans, a re-runt
any long-paat World Series has got to be better thin ll u
Howard Cosell dlsenss In endless detail each puneh that wu|
In the not-so-prixe fight of the night before.
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A recurring problem for home gardeners is the carelessnei
aerial spray planes which seem to emptv their spray tank^
landing approach to the airport, where the prevailing winds(
traces, or lethal doses, of whatever herbicides were being uj
portions of the town.
A large weeping willow tree In the front yard of the Nick]
home at WUlard and Cheyenne, just east of the swlmmingi
have been hit by a pretty good charge a few days ago, The i
of the tree Is devastated. It probably will recover in anothe
but It lan't going to look like much for the rest of the sunn
Drifting wisps of such herbicides, from either aerial orl
ground spraying, have been hitting garden plants and shrub^
town. If there are brown spots or curled edges on the leaves I
and trees, and no trace of insects can be found, there sapr^
chance that the culprit was a stray shot <>t herbicide.
Herbicides In use these days arc mighty potent, and
often Irreversible. And not all of the carelessness comes
operators of spray plauies. Even If you're only spraying fori
In the privacy of your own back yard, you need to eiercis.
care about using the stuff when the wind Is blowing...our
breezes can caarry sprays Into a neighbor's garden, or hal •
town. You don't run much risk of liability...the source Is mi|
to tance...but you owe It to your neighbors to be as carefu aaj
they will be.
Probably nothing we have printed in this newspaper
past thirty years has brought more heart -warming
readers than the feature last week by Laurie and o H
Keith Wood. So many of you had observed this eter
man walking his come-back trail around town in r ^
without understanding...and now that you know w a ^
each step has been costing him, you vc been toui
That's great!
And now that you know, we hope a lot of you will go^
your way to make the effort to pass the time ° . f
encourage him If only with a word arnd a smile, an
you'll take the time and make the effort by sharing a
and wit. He's going to maake It, we'll lay odds on
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 18, 1981, newspaper, June 18, 1981; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184227/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.