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List events in this calendar
by calling the Chamber of
Commerce, 323-6234,
weekdays.
Panhandle Transit, rural
transportation service. Call col-
lect, 24 hours in advance of
need, 862-4131.
National Phone line to report
Child Abuse: 1 -800-4-A-Child
(or 1-800-422-4453).
Arthritis Loan Closet, 323-6857
or 323-6793.
Cancer Society, 323-6258 or
323-6842. Toll free, 1 -800-ACS-
2345.
Driver's License testing, County
Courthouse every Wednesday,
2nd and 5th Tuesdays, 9-12, 1-
4, Officer Bourland.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Monday
nights, Courthouse basement, 8
p.m. Call 323-6513.
Suicide Prevention Crisis Inter-
vention WATS line, 1 -800-692-
4039.
Planned Parenthood, 419 Main,
12:30-5:30, weekdays except
Thursday. 323-5732.
Hemphill County Ambulance
Service, 323-8666.
Cupboard for the Needy. For
pickup ca'I 323-6176 or 323-
6138.
Tralee Crisis Center for Women,
call collect 669-1788, Pampa.
Family Services Center, all
types of counseling, 419 Main,
Thursdays. Call anytime, 323-
5732 or WATS line 1 -800-682-
4039.
Sharing is Caring food pantry
and clothes closet. Mondays 9
a.m.-1 p.m. Behind St. Anne’s
Church at 6th and Kingman.
Donations through local chur-
ches or directly at 323-8744.
River Valley Pioneer Museum,
Open Tuesday-Friday, 10-4:00,
Sunday, 2-4 p.m.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Week of April 5-11
Thursday, April 5
PCA Banquet, 7 p.m., Canadian
Elementary School.
Young Homemakers Extension
Club, 7 p.m., Members Homes.
Friday, April 6
Lions Club, Noon, Fire Station.
Professional Women’s Club,
Noon, Supper Club.
Saturday, April 7
Middle School District Track
Meet, Shamrock.
Sunday, April 8
National Honor Society Initia-
tion, 2 p.m., High School Speech
Room.
First Baptist Church Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Training Union, 6
p.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
Central Baptist Church Sunday
School 10 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
Confessions, 9-9:45 a.m., Mass
10 a.m., YO, 6:30 p.m.
Believer’s Covenant Sunday
Worship, 10:30 a.m., Evening
Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday
Worship 7 p.m., and Youth Ser-
vices 7 p.m.
St. Anne's Episcopal Church,
Holy Eucharist 11 a.m.
First United Methodist Church,
Early Worship Service 8:30
a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.
Assembly of God Christian
Education 10 a.m., Evening
Worship, 6:30 p.m.
Pentecostal Church, Sunday
School, 10 a m., Morning Wor-
ship 11 a.m., Evening Worship 7
p.m.
First Christian Church, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 10:30 a.m.
First Presbyterian Church Sun-
day School 9:45 a.m., Worship
Service 11 a.m.
Church of Christ, Sunday Bible
Class 9:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 10:30 a.m., Evening Wor-
ship 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible
Class, 7 p.m.
Monday, April 9
Arts & Crafts Club, 2 p.m., Mem-
bers Homes.
49’ers Duplicate Bridge, 1:30
p.m., 103 6th Street.
Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m., 314
Main.
DAR, 7:30 p.m., Members
Homes.
All Chapters Beta Sigma Phi, 7
p.m., Fellowship Hall, Methodist
Church.
Spring Band Concert, 7:30 p.m.,
High School Gym.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.,
Courthouse Basement.
Tuesday, April 10
Kiwanis Club, 6:45 a.m., Fire
Station.
Rotary Club, Noon, W.C.T.U.
Town & Country Extension Club,
9:30 a.m., First Methodist
Church.
Canadian Duplicate Bridge, 7:30
p.m., W.C.T.U.
Wednesday, April 11
Drivers License Exam, 9-4 p.m.,
Courthouse Basement.
Sagebrush Painters, 10 a.m,,
Fire Station.
Volunteer Fire Department, 7:30
p.m., Fire Station.
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_CANADIAN, HEMPHILL CO., TEXAS_
THURSDAY 5 APRIL 1990
opinions expressed are those off the editors unless noted
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Getting our heads together
^^^OVERNMENT, in the best of all possible
worlds, would be the servant of the
people...not their master. This, however, is not
‘the best of all possible worlds’...not even in our
American democracy...but because we are Con-
stitutionally a government ‘of, for and by the
people’ we can come closer than most to realizing
that ideal, if we try.
We can begin at home.
One ideal of good government would be one
which provides its services to the most people at
the least possible cost. Here again, because even
at the local level we have multiple layers of
government, with overlapping functions and
overlapping costs, each jealous of the powers of
the other to some extent, we fall short of the
ideal. But we can try.
Last week’s examination in this newspaper of
"where the tax money comes from", based on data
provided by Chief Appra ser James McCarley,
provided a graphic example of these overlapping
costs and functions of government in Canadian
and Hemphill County, and a clue to possible
improvement.
Hemphill County provides a fortunate, and
perhaps unique, situation in which almost 90
percent of the taxable wealth belongs to non-resi-
dent entities...primarily oil and gas
developers...so that only small percentage of the
cost of government services at the local level is
borne by county residents, and the costs borne by
non-resident entities is negligible in comparison
to the wealth which they extract from the local
area. The same is true for two of the other three
local governmental entities, the school district
and the hospital district. The reverse is true of
the fourth governmental entity, the City of
Canadian, which depends for more than 80 per-
cent of its tax income on resident property
owners, but provides direct governmental ser-
vices to nearly 80 percent of the resident popula-
tion, and indirectly to most of the rest.
The result is that city government lays a rela-
tively heavy tax burden on its resident popula-
tion in relation to the tax levies of the other three,
but all four serve the same body of taxpayer-
citizens.
The solution to the imbalance of governmen-
tal costs in relation to governmental services
could lie in a sharing of those costs with the city
government, especially by the County ad-
ministration.
All four governmental entities tax the same
property values within their jurisdictions. Resi-
dent taxpayers in the city of Canadian also pay
taxes to the other three, but resident taxpayers
outside the city do not share in any of the city tax
payments, and non-resident tax payers share in
less than 20 percent of city tax payments.
Thus one cent of tax levy in the city, costs city
taxpayers $4,228, non-resident taxpayers only
$940, and produces a total of only $5,168 to
support government services. But one-cent of the
tax levy by Hemphill County government
produces more than ten times that amount for
support of government services, at a cost of only
a little more ($6,780) for all of the resident tax-
payers, most of whom also pay city taxes and
depend on city services. The remaining $72,744
is generated from outside the county.
Similar figures are true of tax income to school
district and hospital district, both of which also
rely heavily on city services.
The point is that resident taxpayers pay ten
times as much for every penny of the tax rate
required to support city services vital to all four
taxing entities, and that if the other governmen-
tal entities could share more of the cost of those
vital municipal services, the total costs of govern-
ment for more than 80 percent of all those resi-
dent county taxpayers could be sharply reduced
at little additional cost to the other 20 percent of
residents, and at costs so widely spread over the
non-residents that there would be no perceptible
burden.
Thus the ideal, the best possible of all
worlds, government which provides ser-
vices to the most people at the least possible
cost, might be more nearly within reach for
the people of Hemphill County, Texas.
^J^OME SPECIFIC ways in which this cost-
sharing might be accomplished come easily
to mind. Law enforcement, which is an obligation
of both city and county government, is one in
which county government might assume a bigger
share of city government costs. Improvement
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Ezzell, Ben & Ezzell, Nancy. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1990, newspaper, April 5, 1990; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth520526/m1/3/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.