The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1991 Page: 2 of 32
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iVoiu that it's over...
One of the acts of the Legislature in its last-minute rush
to enact legis!ation...and one of the few that I approve
of...was to create an official state holiday honoring Dr.
Martin Luther King jr. and to abolish Columbus Day as a
state holiday. The observance will be on the third Monday
in January each year.
I have no objection to honoring King, especially if it is a
trade-off with a holiday for that ancient Italian Christopher
Columbus. Neither of them, as far as I know, ever set foot in
Texas...but Dr. King had a tremendous influence on the lives of
all of us, regardless of our skin color, as he uncovered a new South.
Columbus didn’t know where he was going, and didn’t know
where he was when he got here. He was a lot like the Texas
Legislature.
It is too early to know just what plagues the Legislature
may have visited on us, and it’s a sure bet that the Legis-
lators themselves don’t know either. As usual, we’ll be
getting the fall-out from this Legislative session for
months to come...and before all of the results of the regular
session become known, those worthies will be back in
Austin creating new havoc. Texas has got to be a great
state to have survived 72 sessions of legislative govern-
ment in a century and a half of statehood and to be able to
keep coming back for more.
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Jim Hudson in The Perryton Herald
OU COULD ALMOST HEAR the sound of
JL backslapping from Austin here as legis-
lators congratulated themselves on a "success-
ful" session. Both the rookie Governor and
Lieutenant Governor called it "very productive."
A closer look at what was accomplished
during the past 180 days in the state capital
would seem to nullify that notion. It, to
paraphrase Shakespeare, "was full of sound and
fury, signifying nothing.”
Probably the most far reaching legislation
gaining approval was the destruction of the
school financing system. If the measure stands
the test of the courts, it will forever change the
way the public school systems of the state are
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BEN EZZELL Editor
NANCY EZZELL Editor
LAURIE BROWN Advertising Manager
Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945 at the Post Office at Canadian, Texas
under the act of March 3, 1879. Published
each Thursday afternoon at Canadian, Texas,
by Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
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run. Many communities will be forced to give up
the’'-1'-'- 1<sar>'1 adents will be bussed to
oth. the multi-county districts.
This s\. eping change will devastate many
small towns. The loss of the payroll of the school
system, usually the largest single employer, will
hasten the depopulation of rural Texas.
Another legislative feat was the in-
stitutionalizing of gerrymandering. With firm
control of both Houses of the Legislature and the
Governor’s office, Democrats have thrown off all
pretense of equal apportionment of legislative
districts. In addition to the traditional method of
forming districts — economic interests,
geographical location, etc. — the Legislature has
added a new criteria. It is called euphemistically,
"political integrity."
In layman’s terms that phrase means protect-
ing the districts for all the incumbent Democrats
and forcing incumbert Republicans to run
against each other. The result is new districts
that are formed for political reasons and have
little else in common. Court challenges have al-
ready been filed to contest the Democratic
redistricting scheme.
In the waning hours of the session, an ethics
reform bill was approved. Many have called it the
"stealth" bill because no one read the complete
measure before it was passed. Past midnight on
the final day of the session changes, amendments
and deletions were being made until the final
tally.
Blindly casting their vote, many legislators
had little or no idea what was contained in the
bill. Only a few representatives, our own David
Swinford among them, resisted the leadership
and voted against such hurriedly cobbled
together legislation.
The most outstanding trait of the 72nd ses-
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Old Tack (the late Gene Howe, long-time publisher of the
Amarillo Daily News and one of Texas’ most colorful newspaper-
men) originated the idea of Panhandle secession many years ago.
The Tactless Texan was often unhappy with the Texas Legisla-
ture and the Austin establishment for what he considered the
"stepchild" treatment of the Panhandle, and proposed creation of
a new state which he dubbed "New Texahoma"...a combination of
the names of New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma, since Mr. Howe
felt that denizens of these areas might want to join the Panhandle
in a declaration of independence.
Now another Panhandle editor, Valda Traughber of the
Miami Chief (who signs her proclamations "The Empress
of Roberts County") has taken up the banner. Mrs.
Traughber’s latest proclamation was issued last week, on
the eve of Miami’s National Cow Calling last Saturday,
which she declared would be New Texahoma’s Inde-
pendence Day, and invited the rural residents of the Pan-
handle "to proclaim our independence from the State" and
called for a "constitutional convention of representatives
of that minority for the purpose of writing a constitution
for the new state, which shall be called New Texahoma."
"Since we have been burdened by taxation for which we will
not have representation," she proclaimed, "there shall first be
held the Roberts County Tea Party (on that great Miami holiday,
Cow Calling Saturday) which shall be attended by delegates from
all places seeking to join with us in our pursuit of fairness and
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1991, newspaper, June 6, 1991; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth736752/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.