The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 2000 Page: 4 of 28
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THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER 2000
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letters
to the editors
I am glad to call
Canadian my home
I JUST HAD TO WRITE A LETTER about Canadian. It makes me
really sad to hear Canadian harshly criticized as a bad place. 1 have
considered Canadian my home for all of my life. We did live away for 17
years, but moved back here in 1981. My grandparents were pioneers
who settled in Hemphill County on the Gageby Creek in 1886. They
later built a house in town so my dad, uncles and aunts could attend the
Canadian schools. 1 lived out on the ranch until the fifth grade when my
parents bought a house in town so I could attend school here. I started
in the old Baker school and graduated from the present day middle
school.
1 am sure that I am prejudiced, but Canadian is a wonderful town to
live in and to raise your children in. My two youngest children are both
graduates of Canadian High School. I have only the most wonderful
memories of my childhood and growing up in Canadian. We are
blessed with natural beauty including the Canadian River, the
caprocks, rolling hills and much more. Every direction from Canadian
is a scenic drive.
We are blessed with a community of wonderful people, great
schools, dedicated churches, the Edward Abraham Memorial Home,
the hospital, home town businesses, old time ranchers, farmers, etc.
Life is not perfect anywhere, but 1 would consider Canadian close to a
perfect place to live, it makes me happy to drive into Canadian when I
have been out of town.
There have been some tough times in my life the last 10 years, but
living in Canadian has been a bright spot in my life. Every time, I drive
down our ever-improving Main Street and look out across the river, it
makes me so glad that I have Canadian, Texas as my home.
GAYLE HAYUOOD
A wakeup call for Canadian
MY HEART IS HEAVY as a citizen of this town. We have let two mur-
ders go unpunished. Imogene French and Brendan Brown were citi-
zens of this town! They were good souls. We have forgotten them.
We cried “What an outrage!" when they were taken. How could
something like this happen in our small town? I tell you what is worse is
our indifference. It is bad that these murders happened, but they are
dead. Any action will not bring them back. This is the feeling 1 get from
reading our paper. This would be an attitude I would expect from a
town with ghettos, not from us.
We pride ourselves on being the "Bible-Belt" of the Panhandle, but
there has been no outcry for these injustices. We let Brendan's murder
stay unpunished so long that it became a debate between lawyers. No
one was there on Brendan’s behalf, who is the true victim. I heard no
lawyer for him. I saw no tears or no hug for him after the trial. How
could we let this happen?
Imogene French died about a week before Brendan. There has been
nothing go anywhere about her death. Not even a murmur. The same
as Brendan it was probably one of our own that had a hand in her mur-
der, too. Still we hear no outcry to solve this murder either. She gave so
much to this town. How do we seem to her family who at one time called
Canadian their home? That we let our own down, I guess we do.
I have been reading how injustices are being done to this one and
that one while someone has gotten away with murder. People using the
newspaper to sway opinion this way or the other. I say we need to re-
member the true victims. If we are truly the “Bible-Belt” of the Pan-
handle, we will stand up for them. We will once again cry out for
Imogene and Brendan and say justice needs to be done. We need to
say, “We care for our old and young.” Or we are not any different than a
big town or city that has forgotten the true value of life.
Imogene French and Brendan Brown, I cry out for your injustices. I
will remember that you are the victims.
CAROL WESCHKE
Heii Kids! Don! forget!
The deadline for Santa
Letters is Friday, December 15.
opinion
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A fallen giant....Continued from Page 3
and helped the nation recover from the disaster he
had predicted when few of his colleagues would lis-
ten. “He pushed through three major banking bills
that reformed the savings and loan industry and
banking regulation and established interstate
branch banking," Reuters news service reported.
But giants are rarely saints, ami Henry B. was no
exception. C-SPAN viewers through the 1980s and
early ‘90s who didn't know better might have
thought the “B." stood for buffoon. The San
Antonian spent countless hours of “special orders"
time rambling and ranting to a near-empty House
chamber, pomtlessly demanding the impeachment
first of President Ronald Reagan, then of President
George Bush.
And the one-time college boxer sometimes used
his fists to make his points—decades after he should
have been old and wise enough to know better.
In a storied 1986 confrontation at Earl Alai’s
Restaurant on San Antonio's Near North Side, the
then-70-ypar-old House member punched out a fel-
low pati on who called him a “communist." Such ex
cesses never overshadowed Henry B.'s relentless
efforts to prod his state and nation to live up to their
full promise. And he succeeded to a greater degree
than do most who hold public office
What a man! What a life!
Decades hence, this son of immigrants who could
not speak English when they crossed the Rio
Grande to make a new life in South Texas will still in-
spire recollections uLthe time giants walked not only
the Lone Star State, but also the halls of Congress
Joe Patnek Bean, the opinion pays editor of the
Muskogee (Okla) /Mill/ Phoenix, is a former San
Antonio journalist who lived in US Rep Henry B
Gonzalez’s district K mail JoePReanmaoLcom.
letters
to the editors
Re: demiscraps and hippicrites
(BUM'S MIL I he following letter is being published a i
written—unedited and uncorrected
it ap|iears to me the demiscraps are no longer the
party of Jefferson but are now the party of
hippicrites.
first they raise cain cause quale is not old enuff and
joined the National Guard during the Vietnam War
to be presidential material (course he was a US Sen-
ator). then they come up with clinton who dodged the
draft (excuse me, avoided the draft), was a governor
and a law skul perfessor and bout the same age as
quale, sed he was more qualified than quale.
then then complain cause bush did not explicitly
and specifically tell about his dui some 25 years ago,
on the grounds he did not want his girls to know
aliout it but it’s ok for dint to commit perjury to
keep from his girls the fact he was having some sort
of relation with ‘that woman.’
before the election the news media (read that
demiscraps) sed bush was gonna get the (xipular
vote and gore would get the electoral votes but that
was ok. now it appears gore will get the popular vote
and bush will get the electoral vote and they are hav
ing a fit.
demiscraps want a strong and activist federal
court system and a weak stale court system, or so it
appears, but now they want the supreme court in
Florida the decide the election mess, claiming the
federal courts have no jurisdiction or some such
argument
for years, the tale us how bad and terrible nuon
was, but now all of a sudden we hear reports about
the stolen election in chicage, south texaa and else-
where and that nuon. like a good little boy, conceded
to kennedy. and what a fine fella he was for doing
that they appear to la* intimating bush should be a
good little boy and do the same
they are now ailed godly calling the Florida secre
tary of state of a 2 bit political hack, biased, a crook, a
partisian political hack, a dilettante debutante hack
and make disparaging comments bout her clothes,
makeup, hair style and such, where are the wommm
libliers, if someone trashed one of their people like
that they would he out in force.
it's a funny worl |ierhaps its like they guy sed,
‘me thinks the lady doth protest too much.’
respectfully submitted,
TARK COOK, Perryton, Texas
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 2000, newspaper, December 7, 2000; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736278/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.