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THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 1997
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Friday, November 14
• 12 Noon, Lions Club, Fire Hall.
7:30 p.m., Varsity football game
against White Deer Game will be
played in Pampa.
Saturday, November 15
7 p.m., CHS Drama Club presents
“Alice in Wonderland" Play, Cana-
dian Middle School Auditorium.
Girls basketball scrimmage against
Clarendon, there.
Sunday, November 16
3 p.m., CHS Drama Club presents
“Alice in Wonderland" Play, Cana-
dian Middle School Auditorium.
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 a.m., Sacred Heart Catholic
Church Sunday Mass, CCD
Classes 10 a.m.
9:30 a.m., First Christian Church
Sunday School, Morning Worship
10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m.
9:30 a.m., Church of Christ Sunday
Bible Class, Morning Worship
10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m., Wednesday Bible Class, 7
p.m.
9:45 a.m., First Presbyterian
Church Sunday School, Worship
Service I I a.m.
9:45 a.m., First Baptist Church
Sunday School, Morning Worship,
11 a.m. Training Union, 6 p.m.,
Evening Worship, 7 p.m.
10 a.m., Assembly of God Christian
Education, Evening Worship, 6:30
p.m.
• 10 a.m., Pentecostal Church Sun-
day School, Morning Worship I I
a.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
10 a.m., Central Baptist Church
Sunday School, Morning Worship
I I a.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m.
10:30 a.m., Believer’s Covenant
Sunday Worship.
Monday, November 17
4 p.m., 4-H Panhandle Best Club
meeting, Courthouse
4.30 p m., 4-H Wildcats Club
meeting, Courthouse
• 5:30 p.m., Hemphill County Dia-
betic Support Group meeting, hos-
pital, for more information call
323-9416.
• 7 p.m., 4-H River Valley Club
meeting, WCTU
7 p.m., Canadian City Council
meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall
8 p.m., Alcoholics Anonymous,
Courthouse Basement, closed
meeting (open meeting last Mon-
day of every month) For informa-
tion call 323-8500.
8 p.m., Alanon Meeting, County
Commissioners Courtroom. For
information call 323-8500.
7th, 8th, & Freshman basketball
games against Spearman Boys play
here. Girls play there.
Tuesday, November 18
• 12 Noon, Rotary Club, WCTU.
• 7 p.m., Group Bible study by Rex
Boyles. Kelley Ward’s home. For
information call 323-9749 or 323-
6371.
•3:15 p.m., 4-H Clothing Club
meeting, WCTU.
4 p.m., Girls and boys, V & JV bas-
ketball games against Follett, there.
4:30 p.m., 4-H Leaf Clover Club
meeting, YMCA.
4:30 p.m., Hemphill County Hos-
pital Board of Trustees meeting,
Hospital Board Room.
Wednesday, November 19
• 9:15 a.m.- 12 noon, 1-3:45 p.m.,
Driver's License Exam, Court-
house Basement.
10 a.m., Sagebrush Painters, Fire
Hall.
Services
Tralee Crisis Center for Women,
call toll-free 1-800-658-2796,
Sharing is Caring food pantry and
clothes closet. Saturday 9 a.m.-12
noon, First and Elsie. Donations
through local churches or directly.
Planned Parenthood, 419 Main,
12:30-5:30 weekdays except
Thursday. 323-5732.
Panhandle Transit, rural transpor-
tation service runs Monday,
Wednesday, Friday to Amarillo.
Please help 5anta’s
Elves with our
Santa Letter
Deadline.
Have your kids’ letters
in our office by Friday,
December, Q, Noon
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opinion
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Lost on Mars
BfEEL A LITTLE SAD...like a friend has gone
■ away and didn’t really say good-bye.” That’s what
project manager Brian Muirhead had to say, in an
interview’ with National Public Radio, about having
lost contact with the Pathfinder robot on Mars. Many
Americans, without quite the same emotional invest-
ment, also may mourn just a bit.
Pathfinder and its little adjunct, the rover So-
journer, took the country by storm from the day—In-
dependence Day, as it happens—that they flawlessly
landed on Mars. The pictures Pathfinder sent back,
some of them in color, astonished us with their detail,
their sharpness and the gritty reality they brought
to Martian landscapes—the boulders and hillocks,
the sunsets, the distant vistas. The photos earned
front-page status around the world; on Pathfinder’s
Web site, they attracted 56fi million hits in the first
30 days of transmission, as The Post’s Kathy Sawyer
reported. Coming just as the Mir space station was
encountering its most trying tribulations, Path-
finder’s overwhelming success may have been a bit
hard to take for some Russians, but for many people
in all countries it restored the luster and excitement
of space exploration.
The Pathfinder mission has been, according to the
experts, a great scientific success. It sent back reams
of information on Martian weather, geology and
other subjects that will be studied for a long time to
come. But the two robots, so plucky and intrepid,
seemed to appeal to us on something other than a
rational level, too. When the pint-sized Sojourner got
stuck on a rock, we all feared the worst; we cheered
w’hen it wiggled itself free and got back to work. NPR
spoke of the last radio contact indicating that “the
spacecraft was alive.” The Post noted that Sojourner,
“like a lost child naively confident of rescue, is prob-
ably circling the mothership slowiy, clockwise, await-
ing a signal that may never come.”
So it’s hard to accept that the last piece of infor-
mation now has been relayed. Pathfinder was only
supposed to last for a month, so there’s really no
grounds to complain, but it functioned so much be-
yond its allotted lifespan that its handlers dared hope
for more. It last responded to commands September
27, and scientists, while not giving up hope, acknow-
ledge that chances are fading for reestablishing con-
tact. They say they’re not sure what’s gone wrong; it
might be the radio, or the battery’, or the solar panels,
or just the approach of that pesky Martian winter. Of
course, there’s another possibility, too, which the
scientists won’t mention: Maybe those Martian who
hid behind the boulders every time Pathfinder’s cam-
era swung their way have won out, and So-
journer—tired of a long-distance relationship with
Mr. Muirhead and ihe other demanding earthlings
170 million miles away—has applied for asylum on
Mars.
HIGH: 40
LOW: 14
Cloudy and cold with
a chance of snow.
HIGH: 38
LOW: 14
Chance of morning snow,
partly cloudy
HIGH: 29
LOW: 50
Mostly clear and
warmer
SUNDAY
THURSDAY
HIGH: 38
LOW: 20
Cloudy with fog. East to
southeast wind 5-15 mph
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 13, 1997, newspaper, November 13, 1997; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521023/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.