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Image 2 of The Glacier reporter (Browning, Mont.), February 15, 1962

THE GLACIER REPORTER Official Paper for th Town of Browning and the Blackfret Indian Nation Published at Browning MonUn every Thursday Entered m clms mailing matter at the Port Office Browning Montana under the Art of March 3 I7 NATION Al EDITORIAL I QOOOOOO I a ououo 6 i I QOOOO I BL ryninirn H THE AMERICAN WAY J X vtoteav stats c r RW A Most Sensible Question HOUSE UNAMERICAN COMMITTEE IS PRODUCTIVE From Life Linos The Mistaken haters of freedom would dearly love to destroy the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities This committee has done much to give the American people the knowledge of communism they must have in order to formulate sound laws and principles to protect themselves against this deadly enemy of all they hold dear This committee has distributed to the American people more than six and onehalf million copies of hearings dealing with the commumat menace These documents have been the product of intensive research and investigation They have resulted from the information developed from questioning more than thirtyfive hun dred key witnesses who have testified before the Committee Since knowledge of communism is the fundamental tool for the defeat of communism the amassing

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Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), January 25, 1962

UosUaii But Not UN Legislature Can Decide State Reapportionmenf The men in the Legislature seem to be spending a lot of time talking and listening to talk memorializing Con gress on matters which are complete ly outside their jurisdiction and final ly politics as usual with tthe little petty squabbles and infighting the public has come to regard as the nature of the Mississippi Legislature Let us hope that if and when these gentlemen get down to work they will be consistent in their approach to the solution of the states many serious problems and it wont be another ses sion of saying Dont do as we do but do as we say do We refer specifically to their memorializing the United States Con gress to limit contributions to the United Nations and prohibit the U S from participating or buying any bonds that may be issued by the United Nations This action was said to be inspired by House Speaker Walter Sil lers and others It received a highly favorable vote in the House and over whelming approval in the Senate Tt is well and good that we stand for fair play in the United Nations and we agree

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Image 1 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), December 28, 1961

SJtf ftwetngtmt Abugrligprl S Principles and Men Truththe Weapon we use in their Defence____ Volume 124 Lexington Mississippi Thursday December 28 1961 Number Thirt By Hazel Brannon Smith This is the last column of Eyes for 1961 At the years end we al ways mentally review events of the past year and take a tew moments to anticipate what the New1 Year may bring We wish to express again this week as we did in our Christmas column our sin cere deep appreciation tor the friendship and support of our thousands of friends and readers throughout Holmes County and the state W e shall always strive earnestly to be worthy of your trust Despite the continuing at tacks from a few fanatics principally in Lexington this editor and The Lexington Advertiser have continued to make gains in 1961 We might add these gains have been realized in spite of the lies that those opposed to us have circulated and caused to be circulated My friends hear these lies and report them to me in detail together with the names of persons doing the talking My friends think I should expose these people by printing their names and what they are

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Image 18 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), December 22, 1961, (SECTION THREE)

Two Paspointers upped to eagle scout rank Lamey and Shaw get highest award at court of honor Scouts of the Singing River District held their final court of honor for 1981 last Thurs day at the International Bro therhood of Electrical Workers Hall on Market Street in Pas j cagoula Scouts of Troop 500 Gau tier sponsored by the IBEM were hosts John Fuller and Jake Hoed are troop leaders Highlight of the court of honor was the conferring of the Eagle Scout rank upon Donny Lamey of Troop 220 Moss Point and Ned Shaw of Troop 232 Pascagoula J W Steadman assistant district commissioner con ducted the ceremony which elevated the two Scouts to the hehest rank of scouting He challenged them to con tinue to live their Scout prom ise and laws and to help their fellow Scouts along the Fagle trail The John Lameys and the Osbon Shaws parents of the two Scouts were escorted by Eagle Scouts Phillip Scordino and Karl Wiesenburg to par ticipate in the presentation The two mothers pinned the Eagle badges on their sons and were presented bouquets of roses by Scouts of their sons troops The couri of honor partici pation

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Image 2 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), December 14, 1961

EDITORIAL PAGE MJme HERALD Published by the Holmes County Publishing Company at 200 Tchula Street Lexington Mississippi Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Mississippi as Second Class mail un der the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 Subscription rates for Holmes and adjoining counties per year 300 six months 175 elsevvhe e pel year 350 Jack A Shearer Jr Editor W J Pritchard Linda ILeonard Mechanical Superintendent Womens Editor EDITORIAL COMMENT NEWSPAPER STILL TOPS AS ADVERTISING MEDIA Reprinted From StarFIerald Kosciusko The introduction of a new product or a new place of business is the most diffi cult of all advertising jobs It is a job which is nearly always entrusted to the newspaper by both local retailers and na tional advertisers The manufacturer of a new electric shaver has listed six reasons for choos ing newspapers as a medium for intro ducing the new product 1 Newspapers permit concentration in specific markets 2 Newspapers allow a company to capitalize on the news atmosphere of the medium in announcing a new product 3 The newspaper provides the advan tage of large page sizewith greater impact 4 The newspaper offers greater flexi bility than other media 5 The newspaper gives

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Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), November 30, 1961

SdliaUaid Our Low Income crmmic Progress Are Partners v issip i has only a few prob d it 01 y couldnt overcome 1 r nev in t ie form of more ir more people could help alle viate ome of these s 1 u M comes to mind as the 1 Cu us figures are published v V h levcal that Mississippi is still st e in the union with an a prraonal income of 288400 per family gores statk up something like this 3 e are 500921 families in the st a O this number there were 25 f vh had an income of 810000 or mote 139722 with an income of fa more in the year of 1959 3 hs m a ns 155 646 families rated in t e unper income bracket or almost o of the total number of fami lies the other extreme there were 9 dandies which had to exist on h h a 81000 per year a subsistence s nd k or almost onefifth of the states families In the middle were the majority 775 families whose income was less than 81000 Obviously raising the income sta tus o f a bottom fifth

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Image 1 of The Hardin tribune-herald (Hardin, Mont.), October 19, 1961

w f VOL 54 NO 42 Denny elected president of state School Boards Sam Denny chairman of the Board of Trustees of School Dis trict 17H since 1953 was elected president of the Montana School Board association at the annual convention of that organization in Havre last Friday and Saturday Denny was vice president of the group the past year When he completes his current term next spring he will have a record of 15 years of service on the local School Board He says he has only missed a meeting or two of the state association since that tmei Last May he was Mon tanas delegate to the convention of the National School Board as sociation in Philadelphia The new state president has been active in many other community affairs in Big Horn county He is Jbl Sam Denny a director of the Big Horn Soil Conservation district and the Fed eral Land Banks Wyola district He is also currently a member of the Federal Home administra tion committee and is a past ASC committeeman He is also a Past Master of Sts John Lodge No 92 A F and A M Mr and Mrs Denny returned Sunday from

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Image 2 of The Sidney herald (Sidney, Mont.), October 18, 1961

She Sid neu Sderuid V A CORPORATION LEO N SCHWARTZ EdltorPublisliei OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF RICHLAND COUNTY MONTANA t W STATE PRESS NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASpC0TI S N AFFILIATE MEMBFR Entered at the Postoffice at Sidney Montana as Second Class Matter March 13 1908 under the Act of March 3 1879 Published Every Wednesday at Sidney Richland County Montana SUBSCRIPTION RATES RichlandMcKenzie Counties 300 a year 350 a year in Montana 400 a year outside Montana Single Copies 10c Foreign Countries 500 NEWSPAPER WEEK OCTOBER 1522 Your Newspaper Heritage of Truth Frontier of Free dom is the theme this week as it is Annual Newspaper Week October 1522 How do you measure your home town newspaper Is it by the number of errors you find the number of stories that please just you the ease of reading by good printing the advertisements or do you just like or dislike your home town newspaper for no particular reason There are many good reasons for liking your home town paper And whether you think it is good or not your paper will never have the chance to improve if the people and the merchants fail to understand that every issue is printed with utmost

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Image 2 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), October 12, 1961

EDITORIAL PAGE JloLei County HERALD JACK SHEARER JREDITOR Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Mississippi as Second Class Mail under the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in advance in Holmes and adjoining counties par year 300 six months 175 elsewhere per year 330 six months 200 Publiahed every Thursday by the Holmes County Publishing Co Inc 201 Tchula Street Lexington Mississippi EDITORIAL COMMENT NATIONAL PRESS WEEK IS OBSERVED OCT 915 This week October 915 is National Newspaper Week Millions of words will be written by hundreds of editors throughout the nation on the topic of the role their publications play as Heri tage of Truth Frontier of Freedom which has been declared the theme of the week Unfortunately there will be considerably fewer words written con cerning the other side of the coin the shortcomings and inadequacies which are evident in the newspaper profession There will be little said about the serious responsibilities which newspapers often fail to realize Perhaps the most important task of any newspaper is to objectively report the events which transpire in the area which it serves Objectivity however is sometimes quite difficult to obtain Even when the editor of a

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Image 21 of The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula; Moss Point, Miss.), October 6, 1961, (SECTION THREE)

I 1 swe J I tataiM obh l I HfCacHTIMI MN I i ir jptUiULavMMMl 1_ SMART HOME FOR A FAMILY Entrance to this luxury house Is adftss a sheltered flagstone porch The house with its three bedrooms family room facing a back terrace and basement recreation foom is meant for a family It has 2005 square feet of living area Plan HA1853 was designed by Lester Cohen Room 75 117 VV 48th St New York 36 N Y AAAAAawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Local Business By S S TALBERT Chaimaso Dept of Journalisas Valxsity of Mississippi AAAAAAAWWWSVWVWVWSAAVAAA Pcss women plan weeks activities Regular business meeting of Business and Professional Womens Club of Pascagoula was held Monday night in the clubhouse with Mrs Bessie Seely presiding Plans were made to visit the Biloxi and New Orleans clubs to join in activities during National Business W o m e ns Week which will end Satur day public official is subject to such constant scrutiny Another reason why t h e newspaper may be considered the most democratic of insti tutions is the fact the news paper is the only major local information medium which is not under regulation by the federal government Broadcast media by

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Image 4 of The People's voice (Helena, Mont.), September 22, 1961

_ T I r I O I i INDEPENDENT 5 J 1 n _ irr r MONTANAS ONLYSTATEWIDE INDI 3 Searching for solutions to our social and economic problems in a manner that will meet the needs of our times bringing in formation and comprehensive coverage to readers on subjects vital to the general welfare The great dream of the founders of America was freedom Free dom from want fear from oppression and the most important to any free nation freedom of expression through the spoken and the written word Over the centuries the struggle to maintain these freedoms has gone on Financial Suppor VOICE Comes Fi Sources Even in America there have been times when freedom of expres sion has been hazardous In America freedom of expression through newspapers has been hampered by commercialismthrottling discussion of controversial sub jects through demands of advertisers and through outright ownership of the newspapers About 22 years ago in Montana there were many people who deplored the newspaper control in the state They decided to do some thing about it so they organized a cooperative corporation for the purpose of publishing a weekly newspaper Their dream of freedom was as deep rooted as

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Image 7 of St. Ignatius post (St. Ignatius, Mont.), August 10, 1961

Dixon Mrs A C Paul and daugh ters attended the wedding of her niece in Missoula Saturday Mr and Mrs Gene Pitts and family attended the Great Falls fair last week Mrs Tom Carter of Spokane Babe Ruths have B2 season In its final game of the sea son the Mission Babe Ruth team won over Dixon by a 133 score Tom Orr with a single and a double drove in three runs while Gary Blackman with a homerun drove in two runs The locals ended with an 82 record for the season New records were made by Gary Blackman in the R 81 department as he knocked in 21 to break a record that had stood since 1957 Gary also set a rec ord with three homeruns and by striking out 57 opponents knock ed the old record of 46 set by Merle Matt in 1955 by the way side Gary tied with Alvin Mc Lure for the record of hitting six doubles Steve Atkin swiped 17 bases to establish a new record in that department Missing from Next years team will be Gary Black man Gene Sorrell Raymond Cordier and Larry Bicha The final statistics are as fol

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