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and Mrs. John Tucker had as their guest over the holiday Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Smith and Keith from Amarillo were in
!mother, Mrs. Sibyl Russell, and Mrs. Darlene Russell and Clarendon visiting with their mothers, Mrs. Frances Smith and
Shellie and Tracy. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Quata Phillips.
Lee Butler and children from Lelia Lake.
By DEAN SINGLETON
OVERHEARD IN the coffee shop the other day: "Maybe
we're communists and don't know it yet!"
and Mrs. Fred R. Davis and family of El Paso spent the
weekend with his sister, Mrs. Madge Beach. After
Mr. Davis did some repair work on Mrs. Beach's
of the children of Mrs. J. H. Bowling spent the
holiday at her home. There were Mr. and Mrs.
Langley and son from Galveston, Mrs. Bobby Head and
from Panhandle, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Duke from
and Mr. and Mrs. Carson Bowling and family of Lelia
Mrs. Quata Phillips spent Thanksgiving day with her son,
Dwayne Phillips and his family in Amarillo.
Mr. and Mrs. Connie DeBord and Debbie were in Amarillo
Thanksgiving visiting Mrs. Bearings and Connie Lee.
Mr. and Mrs. LOn Harmon visited Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
Sparkma, Mrs. Harmon's parents, in Shamrock Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Tate's holiday guests were Mr. and Mrs.
John Ed Hodges and Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Hodges of
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
If you need to see a social security representative there will be
one at the courthouse in Clarendon Thursday, December 0th,
from 9 a.m. to 12 o'clock noon.
ene Lowe from Amarillo spent the Thanksgiving holiday
his mother, Mrs. Walter Lowe.
and Mrs. Henry Buscher spent the holiday with their
',hter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sayre of L:wton, Oklahoma.
Louise Davis from Houston is here on an extended visit
her sister, Mrs. Tom Tucker.
Fun After Fitty to meet
The Senior Citizens Fun After Fifty Club will have their annual
Christmas party Saturday, December 1 at Lions Hall at 10 a.m.
There will be dominos and 42 games, and lots of visiting until the
program.
Mr. and Mrs. Kern Pigg will give the program. Mr. Pigg will
present a Christmas music program of traditional and
contemporary music, and there also will be a sing song. Mrs.
Pigg will give the Christmas story.
A turkey will be furnished and every one will bring a covered
dish.
Santa Claus will also make an appearance.
Donley County
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Charles H. PayPe Billy Clubb
President Manager
Must We Drown These Too?!
WE LIVE in a free country, but the government tells us when
we can and can't drive. The government tells service stations
when they can and ca,'t sell gasoline.
We live in a free country, and the government tells the people
how high or low they can turn their heat.
We live in a free country, and the government tells the people
what lights businesses can and cannot burn at night.
We live in a free country, and the government tells the states
what speed limits they must set.
Do we really live in a free country?
FOR 200 YEARS, this country has thrived and grown with one
basic business theory: Supply and Demand.
Supply and demand has always worked. When any given item
was in short supply, the price went high. Then the high price
encouraged others to handle that same product, and soon the
supply was high, and the price went down. It's a cycle which has
always worked .... until Richard Nixon started doing away with
the supply and demand theory.
Nixon controlled beef prices, and has seriously damaged the
industry. He started controlling the grocery industry, and look
what happened. He controlled all prices, and they continued to
soar.
Now, he's starting to control fuel. What do you think will
happen now? The same thing will happen to his fuel controls that
happened to every other control . . . he'll mess up the fuel
situation as bad as he messed up everything else he tried to
control..
But worst of all, he's now trying to control our lives. He's
telling us when we can and can't travel, he's telling us how warm
to keep our homes and how much lighting we should use.
We still hold to that old theory of supply and demand. If the
government would keep its darned hand out of the way, supply
would get low and demand would take over. If there's no oil
products to sell today, you can bet your britches that somebody
will get to work and we'll have an over-supply tomorrow. The
price may be a little higher, but that high price will soon
encourage others to produce oil products, and when the supply is
built back again, the cost will go down.
Supply and demand has worked for us for 200 years. Why, Mr.
President, can't it work today? Why do you have to keep messing
around with the nation's economy.
Economists agree that the slowdown Nixon has planned for the
nation may put us in the biggest depression of our time. When
you put a sudden stop to a fast-moving economy, you can't
expect anything else.
Now, I'm sure I'll get letters from people saying I'm
unpatriotic because I don't go along with the President's ideas
on the fuel shortage, because I've already received such lettet's.
But 1 say to these people, 1 voted for him and I've darned sure
got the right to criticize him. And just because he's president
doesn't mean he's smart. And, just because I have a newspaper
doesn't make me smart either.
But I do know that supply and demand is something that has
always worked in our economy, and I'm not smart enough to see
why we can't live with it today.
The thought of wilfully destroying these harmless creatures
is too morbid to even'consider. Yet under present conditions,
the prospect of available fuel to feed and care for the cattle is
equally bleak.
Let your voice be heard in opposition to the disastrous
curtailment of fuel to the agricultural industry. We cannot feed
our animals and harvest our crops With red tape.
Stand up and be counted. The silent majority has been silent
too long. We cannot remain silent while animals cry in the
pens to be fed and children stand silent around an empty
dinner table.
The time to take active part in the management of our
government and economy is now. Our very lives depend on it.
THE WATERGATE MESS goes on and on, aal !'ve about
drowned from the whole tiling. I've decided to turn the other way
everytime Watergate is mentioned. If the President is convicted
of anything, then I don't guess I'I1 be cheering for him anymore.
But until'they prove he's guilty of anything, I'm going to forget
about the whole mess.
One of the big battles of Watergate has been Nixon's war with
• the press. Nixon has always been at war with the news media, so
he's pretty good a t fighting it.
But Senator Henry Bellman, Oklahoma senator, has come up
with an idea of a truce between Nixon and the news media.
Sen. Bellman suggested that President Nixon and the editor of
the "enemy New York Times" change places for one week as a
means of improving relations between the President and the
press.
"While the world is more nearly at peacethan at any time in
i .
recent years," Bellman wrote in his weekly column for release to
Oklahoma newspapers " a bitter war still rages on the home
front--the war between President Nixon's administration and
national news media."
"Since most conflicts arise from a lack of understanding by
one side or the other," Bellman said, "perhaps the way to
achieve peace between the press and the President would be to
have the combatants reverse roles for a week.
"Suppose, for example, President Nixon became editor of the
enemy New York Times, and the Times editor became President.
The editor of the Washington Post could become the vice
president.
"Carrying this fantasy a bit farther, imagine CBS reporter
Marvin Kalb as secretary of state, columnist Jack Anderson as
director of the FBI, and anchorman Walter Cronkite as chief
justice of the Supreme Court, or administrator of the space
program."
"By assuming the responsibilities of government leaders,"
lellmon continued, "perhaps representatives of the news media
could more, readily understand why the President must
concentrate on major decisions and rely on staff members to
make many of the minor decisions.
"In this kind of trade-out, the new editor-turned-President
also might find it difficult to understand the justice of heaping
high praise by dewsmen upon one staff member (Kissinger's
Nobel Prize) for the administration's successes, while much of
the press is attempting to force the President from office because
of acts and mistakes of other staff members.
"By the same token, maybe Editor Nixon would understand
why ews reporters have the duty to constantly dig for the facts.
As .a result, perhaps, as President he would become more
accessible and not so guarded in making information available to
the public."
Youth group to gather papers
The Cooperative Youth of the Methodist, Episcopal and
Presbyterian Churches will pick up newspapers Saturday
morning, December 1, weather permitting.
Donley County Feed Lot, Inc.
Thanksgiving visitors
Those to visit the Lois Putman house during Thanksgiving
were Mr. and Mrs. James Shults, Danny and Lynda, from
Panhandle and Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Millham from McLean.
Scout court of honor set
An Eagle Scout Court of Honor has been set for Sunday,
December 16 at 2 p.m. in the College Fine Arts Building. The
public is invited.
The Clarendon Press, November 29, Section 2, Page 5
CHS cage season starts
Tuesday night
Basketball season started Tuesday night for the Clarendon
Bronchos, as they travelled to Groom. Members of the varsity
squad are Randy Croslin, Danny Monroe. David Lewis, Kenneth
King Kenneth Reese, Alan Harper, Larry Doane, Tommy Hill,
Willie Smith and Scott Hamihon. Members of the B team are
Eddy Eads, Lynn Floyd, Gary Jack, Mike Newhouse, Barry
Schafer, Tony Wallace, John Tucker, Steve King, Alan
Hamilton, Dewey Ford, Matt Plunkett, Walter Riggs, Gary Davis
and Velma Calloway. The boys A team and girls A team are
coached by Doug Keeney. the boys B team by Bob Lemons. and
the girls B team by Clyde N×mkester.
CLARENDON HIGHSCHOOL BASKETBALL 1973-74
Dee. 3 [Mon.] There Lakeview 4:00
Dec. 4 Here Groom 5:30
Dee. 6, 7, 8 Clarendon Salt Fork Classic
*Dec. 11 Here Memphis 5:00
Dee. 13, 14, 15 Wellington Wellington Tournament
*Dec. 18 There Claude - 5:00
*Dec. 21 Here Valley High. 5:00
Dec. 26, 27, 28, 29 Amarillo American Legion Tournament
*Jan. 3 [Thurs] There Wheeler 5:00
*Jan. 5 [Sat.] Here Wellington 5:00
*Jan. 11 Here McLean 5:00
**Jan. 18 Here Claude 5.00
**Jan. 22 There Valley High 5:00
**Jan. 25 Here Wheeler 5:00
**Jan. 29 There Wellington 5:00
**Feb. 1 Here Sllverton 5:00
**Feb. 5 There McLean 5:00
*Indicates district games [First Half]
**Indicates district games [Second haft]
Price cautions hopes
of Mid-East peace
WASHINGTONCongressman Bob Price. fresh from a
10-day Middle East tour as a member of a select House Armed
Services Committee subcommittee, expressed hope for a lasting
Mid-East peace but stressed his realization of the deep enmity
and fear which pervades both sides.
"We should not delude ourselves into believing that a lasting
Mid-East settlement will come either easily or quickly," Price
said. "yet Egyptian and Israeli military leaders are holding
face-to-face meetings for the first time in more than twenty
years.
Price said, "Our fact-finding mission, carried out during the
Congressional Thanksgiving recess, proved extremely
interesting and helpful. It was probably the first time in history
that any Congressional committee has been able to observe a
major war from both sides while the conflict was still short of
final settlement.
"We were able to talk with both Israeli Prime Minister Golda
Meir and Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat as well as a
number of their ministers and Members of Parliament. Also each
side gave us a tour of the combat areas so we were able to get a
balanced view of the military situation there." the 13th
Congressional Congressman said.
"The subcommittee was able to get an idea of how our military
equipment functioned during actual battle conditions and to
xampre this With eqti]arnent provided by the Soviet Union. This
information is particularly helpful in our Congressional
decision.making processes with regard to our own defense
posture and our defense costs.
"Overall, there was no way of escaping a deep realization that
both sides are willing to give way very little to the other and that
both fear renewed attacks by the other." Price commented.
"This leaves, simultaneously, the basis for renewed fighting
and amutual necessity for the maintenance of peace."
Tuesday, Dec. 4
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