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...Highland's Fling
...born & raised Clarksburger and newspaperman, I was delighted to see your Feb. 2 piece about Newspaper Publisher [Cecil] Highland's latest-and this time (glory be!) unsuccessful-attempt to strangle progress in the old home town...
...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...
...Publisher Highland's oldest and bitterest fights is against radio. He bans all program listings, even censors ads that mention radio or have anything to do with it. Lately, however, Publisher Highland has brought his papers up to date in at 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...
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...