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...called Spinster City of the West, the Oregon Journal last week handled the year's hottest story with spinsterish restraint. While witness after witness testified, before a U.S. Senate committee that Teamsters' Union bosses had plotted with city officials to monopolize Portland's rackets, the Journal (circ. 181,489) primly avoided editorial comment. Though the Journal gave wire-service reports of the hearings heavy play in its news columns, it-made no attempt to report local evidence of Teamster-racketeer relations. Reason: since its opposition daily, S.I. Newhouse's Oregonian (circ. 230,850), first uncovered...
...than in the 29 counties where the sale of hard liquor is legal. Last week, in an eleven-part series that marked the first time any Texas newspaper had ever published a searching, statewide report on the social effects of the state's alcoholic schizophrenia, the Houston Post (circ. 201,647) stirred the biggest uproar among dry voters and wet drinkers since Texas adopted its local option...
Even outside metropolitan areas, most small-town weeklies, from the Reedsport, Ore. Port Umpqua Courier (circ. 1,620) to the Lexington Park (Md.) Enterprise (circ. 2,356), have thrown out the smudgy type and bumpkin prose that once characterized the weekly press, now run staff-written stories and editorials instead of the boilerplate and canned sermons that once crammed country papers. The old-time jack-of-all-trades country editor has been largely supplanted by trained staffs. Lured out of the cities by the prospect of editorial and economic independence, trained newsmen in increasing numbers are bringing professional standards...
Crusading Spirit. Though once renowned for their timidity, many weeklies have developed the crusading spirit that has vanished from many a fat-cat daily. In the two years since the Austin Texas Observer (circ. 6,347) was founded by Editor Ronnie Dugger, 26, it has played a leading role in exposing Texas' insurance scandals. Santa Monica's weekly Independent, in competition with a local daily as well as the Los Angeles press, has become one of the biggest U.S. weeklies by giving readers four-alarm coverage of gambling and other crimes that it charged were ignored...
...city council (TIME, Dec. 17). "How long," asked the Courier-News at the height of the hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia's Eastman Times-Journal (circ. 2,530), which was credited with killing off a postwar revival of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia in 1950. has been one of the few papers in the South to urge Negro voters to go to the polls...