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(Zateuiuz* RECORD
THURSDAY 31 DECEMBER 1998
coming
events
List events in this calendar
by calling the Chamber
of Commerce at 323-6234
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Thursday, December 31
► School out for Christmas
Holidays.
► 9 p.m. - I a m., New Years Eve
Dance, City Hall
Friday, January I
► School out for Christmas
Holidays.
Saturday, January 2
► 5 p.m., Varsity & junior Varsity
Boys & Girls Basketball vs
Highland Park, Here
Sunday,January 3
► I p.m., CHS Drama Club Dinner
Theater, Canadian Elementary
► 8 30 a m., First United Methodist
Church Early Worship Service,
Sunday School 9:30 a m ,
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m..
Evening Worship 6 30 p.m
► 9:45 a.m.. First Presbyterian
Church Sunday School, I I a m.,
Worship Service
► 9 a.m., Sunday Mass, Sacred
Heart Catholic Church, 10 a.m.,
CCD Classes.
► 9:30 a.m.. First Christian Church
Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.,
Morning Worship, 6 p.m.,
Evening Worship
► 9:30 a.m., Church of Christ
Sunday Bible Class, 10:30 a.m.,
Morning Worship, 6 p.m.,
Evening Worship, 7 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Class.
► 9:45 a.m., First Presbyterian
Church Sunday School, Worship
Service I I a.m.
► 9:30 a.m.. First Baptist Church
Sunday School, 10:45 a.m.,
Morning Worship, 6 p.m.,
Training Union, 7 p.m., Evening
Worship.
► 10 a.m., Assembly of God
Christian Education, 6:30 p.m.,
Evening Worship.
► 10 a.m., Pentecostal Church
Sunday School, I I a.m., Morning
Worship, 7 p.m., Evening
Worship.
► 10 a.m., Central Baptist Church
Sunday School, I I a.m., Morning
Worship, 6 p.m., Evening
Worship.
► 10:30 a.m., Believer's Covenant
Sunday Worship.
Monday, January 4
► 6 & 8 p.m., CHS Drama Club
Dinner Theater, Canadian
Elementary
Tuesday, January S
► 5 p.m., Varsity & Junior Varsity
Boys & Girls Basketball vs
Clarendon, There
Wednesday, January 6
► Report Cards
► Junior High Spearman
Tournament
SERVICES
► National phone line to report
child abuse: I-800-4-A-CHILD
(I -800-422 4453)
► Tralee Crisis Center for Women,
call toll-free 1-800-658-2796,
► Sharing is Caring food pantry
and clothes closet. Saturday 9
a.m.-noon, First & Elsie.
Donations through local
churches or directly.
► Planned Parenthood, 419 Main,
12:30-5:30 weekdays except
Thursday. 323-5732.
► Canadian Boy Scouts. Call Gary
Bilbrey, 323-8883
► American Cancer Society
services, Wayne Baker,
323-6519
► Canadian Girl Scouts. Local
service unit. Call Karri Snyder,
323-8920.
► Panhandle Transit, rural
transportation service runs
Monday, Wednesday, Friday to
Amarillo. Contact Lipscomb
County Judge at 806-862-4131.
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State Capital
Highlights
By Ed Sterling
TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
At ISTIN—Texas' 122-year-old
constitution has been rewritten by
Sen. Bill Ratliff, R Mount Pleas-
ant, and Rep. Rob .Junell, D-San
Angelo.
The two lawmakers have filed
their draft as House Joint Resolu-
tion 1, for consideration by the
76th Texas Legislature.
If adopted, the constitution
would change how' public officials
are selected and would create a
cabinet form of government giv-
ing the governor power to appoint
the land commissioner, agricul-
ture commissioner and railroad
commissioners.
It also would give the governor
power to appoint all district and
appeals court judges and make
their retention subject to approval
by a vote of the people.
A new state constitution would
have to win a two-thirds vole in the
Legislature, and then election by
Texas voters.
Departing Sharp
offers advice
Texas (Comptroller John Sharp
last week made his final plug for
fiscal responsibility in tin* new
Legislature convening Jan 12.
Sharp, who will leave elected
office next month after losing his
bid for lieutenant governor, has
estimated that the state could
have about a $4 billion surplus
when the biennial budget ends
Aug. 31.
“They’re not going to he think
ing about paling back and storing
their nuts for winter. Somebody’s
got to be the bad guy," he told the
Austin American Statesman.
The last installment of Sharp’s
ongoing audit of state government
recommends changes that could
save the state $1 7 billion over five
years.
After leaving office. Sharp will
join the Dallas based tax consult
ing firm of Ryan & Co. He will
represent the company to busi-
nesses in Texas and nationally
Bush Names Williams
to RRC
Gov. George W Bush last week
named former federal prosecutor
Michael Williams to the three
member Texas Railroad (Commis-
sion.
Williams, a 45-year old Ar-
lington lawyer, will be the first
African-American to serve on the
107-year-old board.
Next month, when Williams
begins to fill the two years remain-
ing on the term of comptroller-
elect Carole Keeton Rylander. he
will be the only African-American
to hold a statewide office.
Williams said he intends to run
for a full term in 2000.
DPS predicts 60 traffic
deaths
The Texas Department of Pub
lie Safety has predicted that as
many as 60 people could die in
traffic accidents during reporting
periods between Christmas Eve
and Jan 3.
Eighty eight traffic deaths
were recorded during the holiday
period last year
This year’s prediction of fewer
deaths was made because ( heist
mas and New Year's fall on Fri
days, making for shorter holiday
weekends. Last year, the holidays
fell on Thursdays
Other Capital Highlights
•Texas Attorney General Dan
Morales last week questioned the
fairness of the state's system of
administering the death penalPj.
particularly in regards to racial
bias and clemency procedures.
Morales, who did not seek re elec
tjon, will leave office in January
after eight years as t he state's top
lawyer.
•The Swiss firm of Herzog &
de Muei'on has been hired by the
University of Texas at Austin to
design the $40 million Blanton
Museum of AH. to open in 2002.
•The Texas Transportation
Commission is requesting $226
million in new federal funding to
be used in projects including the
widening of Interstate* 35 south of
Austin and construction of Texas
130, a north-south loop that would
allow traffic to bypass Austin.
•State Rep. Warren Chisum,
R-Pampa, and Robert Talton, R
Pasadena, have filed legislation
that would ban homosexuals and
bisexuals from serving as foster
parents.
•The Texas Department of
Public Safety’s Mission Persons
Clearinghouse, which operates 24
hours a day, seven days a week, is
asking for help locating missing
Texans. Runaways are being
asked to call 1-800-346-3243.
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1998, newspaper, December 31, 1998; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth520338/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.