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...most large cities, the newspaper trend is toward fewer competitive dailies; mergers are the order of the day. Last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., competition made a comeback. A quasi merger ended, and the city suddenly had two new papers. The morning Times and the afternoon News-Free Press parted after 24 years of joint operation. Once they split, the Times promptly began to publish the afternoon Post, while the Free Press started to put out a Sunday edition...
...merger had never been an especially happy one, even though both papers had expected to gain by joining forces to form a third agency, Chattanooga Publishing, which handled all business operations. Editorial staffs and editorial operations were entirely separate, but everyone was on the payroll of Chattanooga Publishing; expenses and income were split evenly. If the Times got an indirect boost because the Free Press boasted a larger circulation (63,418 to 55,615), the Free Press, on the other hand, accepted no liquor ads, yet shared the Times's earnings from all the liquor advertising in town...
Smith, a native of Chester, W. Va., and McClure, a Negro from Chattanooga, were members of the same Special Forces detachment. They were captured when their camp 35 miles northeast of Saigon was overrun. They testified to knowing nothing about the fate of fellow prisoners who had been captured in the same action. Yet there was a press report from Washington quoting one of the prisoners-a Special Forces sergeant now in Germany-as saying that Smith had helped him escape from a cave in which they were both imprisoned, heroically sacrificing his own chance for freedom. And the parents...
Spicier recollections came from Bobbie Ann Sells, 22, and Patsy Jo Harris, 28, both of Chattanooga, both admitted prostitutes. Patsy said that she was called to the Read House by a bellhop during the trial. She went to the eighth floor by elevator, she said, where she met a "marshal" who walked her up the two flights to the jury's tenth-floor quarters. There she had intercourse with five of the jurors. She was paid a total of $100 by a bellhop, who told her that he got the money from "the marshal." At one orgy involving marshals...
...Government has until next week to file its brief against a new trial. Meantime, FBI agents have been scurrying around Chattanooga questioning everyone named in the affidavits. The Justice Department plans to ask a Tennessee federal grand jury now in session to investigate charges of "massive perjury" in connection with Hoffa's latest -and gamiest-bid to stay out of jail...