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Soon after buying the Sacramento Union last May, Publisher Jim Copley began to concentrate his acquisitive tal ents on a bigger paper considerably farther to the west. Copley not only wanted to buy control of the 110-year-old Honolulu Advertiser, he also in tended to make it the main member of his newspaper chain; he even bought an apartment in Hawaii. By last week, though, Copley was convinced that Advertiser Publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, 45, and Editor George Chaplin, 52, who between them owned about 60% of the paper's stock, were not about to sell...
...Copley who sold. The stock he had managed to pick up went to the publishing company and Twigg-Smith. Copley wound up with the Advertiser's Honolulu radio station KGU as part of the agreement, which at least leaves him with a good reason to keep his new home...
Palace Revolution. Copley may not have appreciated Twigg-Smith's stubborn heritage. The Advertiser's founder, Henry M. Whitney, scion of a New England missionary family, was the kind of crusader who considered it his duty to campaign against the hula as an economic evil which distracted men from their work. Toward the turn of the century, when Hawaii's famous Castle family held a controlling stock interest, the present publisher's grandfather, Lorrin A. Thurston, was put in charge. He, too, was a campaigner, known for his fiery editorials in favor of U.S. annexation...
...Sacramento Union, for all its failings, has the virtue of offering Jim Copley an outlet for that philosophy in Northern California-which promises lively newspaper competition in Sacramento, where the far stronger afternoon Sacramento Bee (circ. 177,000) has had the field to itself for years. The Bee's owner, Eleanor McClatchy, has used that position of power to back her liberal preferences, such as Pat Brown over Sam Yorty in the recent Democratic primary. Copley arrived at the Union just in time to start pushing Ronald Reagan over George Christopher in the Republican primary...
...Copley clearly has his work cut out for him before his new paper will be as strong as he would like. For his investment, he found only one pencil sharpener in the entire office. The photography darkroom was a closet, and prints were dried in the men's room. "When the editor wanted to have an editorial staff meeting," says New Publisher Carlyle Reed, "he would sit down and think. He was it." Adds Assistant City Editor Tom Horton: "We were so shorthanded you couldn't even consider getting sick." Copley plans to pump in as much...