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...born in Emporia, Kans., three years after the Civil War ended. His mother was a "black Republican" (abolitionist). His father was a Copperhead Democrat in a town 80% of whose population consisted of Republican ex-servicemen...
Actually, the Courier is far from being what the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette was in William Allen White's prime. But it is a representative, small U.S. daily; a successful, homely, friendly pillar of the community...
...mind behind the loudspeakers is R. Russell Porter's, radio director of Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. He wanted to do something to improve Kansas' remote rural schools. He got free time from a local station, but discovered that most rural schools had no radios. Since then Parent-Teacher Associations and similar groups have rounded up receivers, finding battery sets when a school lacked electricity. Five stations gave free time. If the idea pans out, Kansas scholars may have more such classes-but no one expects that an announcer will ever replace the teacher...
...Emporia, Kans., Mrs. William Allen White exclaimed: "Kansans had grown to depend upon the tremendous courage and vitality of this big Englishman. And now zowie...
...days when the late William Allen White started his Emporia Gazette, all a newspaper publisher needed to set up shop was a hankering, a town to print in, and a shirtful of type slung over his back. How different and difficult the job is today was described in detail last week in a Supreme Court decision. The case grew out of the refusal of the Associated Press to sell an A.P. membership to Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. The court, by a 5-to-3 vote, found the great A.P. guilty of helping its member papers to choke...