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...half-century, Clarksburg, W. Va. (pop. 32,014) has chafed under a one-party press. Its boss: a flinty old (79) party named Cecil B. Highland, who publishes the town's only dailies, the Democratic morning Exponent (circ. 13,572) and the Republican evening Telegram (circ. 23,593). Publisher Highland has fought radio (by banning even paid program listings), television for Clarksburg, a public sewage-disposal project, daylight-saving time, and most attempts to improve the town's playgrounds, schools and police. In his newspapers he has seldom bothered to print the other side of such issues. Last...
...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...
...there is danger in such hanging back to let men of politics have a monopoly on a problem so rife with spiritual meaning, and there are some who recognize the danger. Said Dr. William A. Benfield of Louisville's Highland Presbyterian Church in a sermon recently...
Among the house committee representatives are David C. Baum, of Winthrop House and Highland Park, Ill.; Clinton K.L. Ching, of Dunster House and Honolulu, Hawaii; Lindsay E. Fischer of Leverett House and Broadmoor, Colo.; and Vincent R. Larson of Minot, S.D. Baum is also a member of the Student Council, the Harvard Band, and Phi Beta Kappa. Ching is on the Casson Club Executive Committee. Fischer, has participated in varsity soocer, skiing, and lacrosse. Larson is a Rhodes Scholar, a varsity debater, and past president of the Crimson Key Society...
Richard B. Baughman, of Wellesley Hills, first-year medical student; Lee W. Huff, of Highland Park, Mich., a second-year student in the School of Public Administration; John A. Petropopulos, of Lewiston, Me.; and Elizabeth Ann Winegar of Moscow, Ida., received grants averaging $2500 each...