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...GENE") HAMMOND Clarksburg, W.Va...
...rather positive that I speak for untold thousands when I say thank you for your story on Publisher Highland of Clarksburg, W. Va. [He] violates every legitimate concept of journalism, and dissipates its ethics in one broad, selfish sweep...
...Clarksburg, W.Va. (pop. 32,000), where the morning Exponent (circ. 15,381) and evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules...
...least one respect: he has turned his fury away from radio and concentrated it on television. The switch came about five months ago when Manhattan Financier John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's investment company decided to put up money (about $250,000) for a coaxial cable into Clarksburg to bring the town television programs. Whitney's company, set up to "help stimulate free enterprise" with new projects, quickly ran head-on into Publisher Highland. One paper reported that "strangers" and "outsiders" wanted to string "dangerous" overhead lines into town. "DANGER TO LIFE, PROPERTY COULD COME FROM CABLE," said...
Jock Whitney's plan to help Clarksburg get TV had the backing of local businessmen, the Chamber of Commerce and the city council. But Publisher Highland blocked every move, covered his front pages with stories about the evils of TV and the big-city "bellhops" who were trying to impose it on his community. Last week at the final city council meeting to decide the question, the council unanimously approved the plan, which will give Clarksburg TV within 90 days. Many Clarksburg citizens wished that Jock Whitney's free-enterprising ventures could also include a new paper...