Word: clarksburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Readers of West Virginia's Clarksburg evening Telegram and its sister morning paper, the Exponent (combined circ. 37,000), gawked last week at a new contest. On the front page appeared a "Secret Witness" form urging readers to fill in the blanks. It read: "I think the following person or persons should be suspected of the murder [of Milton J. Cohen, 59-year-old co-owner of the city's most fashionable women's shop] : Name __________. Address ___________, Or full description _________. For following reasons _________________." The form made clear that "in case of duplicate information, the letter bearing...
...papers agreed to run the form for ten days. In the first two days, a dozen entries arrived addressed to "Secret Witness, Post Office Box 654, Clarksburg," i.e., the police. Some of them listed "reasons" in such detail that they required an extra sheet of paper. Said Sergeant Walter L. Pike, in charge of the investigation: "We'll get around to every...
Died. Cecil Elaine Highland, 80, wattled, egg-bald tyrant of Clarksburg, W. Va., who controlled the town for years through his morning Exponent and evening Telegram by imposing a complete news blackout on people, issues and organizations he did not like (TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news...
...rebellion was sparked last month by City Manager Glenn Peterson, who, after nine months under fire by the Highland papers, announced that he would quit in May. Leading citizens formed the Clarksburg Non-Partisan Association Inc., held a mass meeting that denounced Cecil Highland's press: "[It has] dominated the city and consistently opposed worthwhile community projects . . . slanted city news, written editorials into news columns, indulged in character assassination, and continues its news blackout of the Non-Partisan Association...
...murmur of the civic protest reached the columns of the Exponent or the Telegram. But in Fairmont, 25 miles away, the evening West Virginian ran full accounts and, as an experiment, sent 2,000 copies into Clarksburg the day after the Non-Partisan Association was formed. Said a West Virginian executive: "We sold out between 12:30 and 2 p.m. When the people of Clarksburg saw our papers on the street, they actually hugged the carrier boys." On the day of the mass meeting, Clarksburg businessmen bought 2,000 of the Fairmont papers, gave them away free. Since then...