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...announcement was treated routinely on an inside page of the Oregonian, Portland's prospering (circ. 245,000) morning daily. City Editor Paul E. Laartz was retiring, and William Arthur Hilliard would replace him. But the appointment of Bill Hilliard marked a belated milestone of sorts in U.S. journalism: he is the first black to rise so high in the editorial hierarchy of a major U.S. daily newspaper...
...Oregonian's Hilliard, 43, is no latecomer and-though he was originally hired as one-no token. A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952. "We deliberately hired him because he was a Negro," admits Managing Editor J. Richard Nokes. "We felt it was an oversight on a paper our size not to have Negro representation on the staff." Milliard served as sports reporter, church editor, general assignment reporter and picture editor before becoming an assistant city editor nine years...
Speaking from exile in Algiers, Eldridge Cleaver last month denounced Black Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard as incompetent and reactionary and demanded the reinstatement of the ousted Panther...
Huey P. Newton immediately defended Hilliard and the expulsion of Cleaver's supporters in the New York chapter. Newton also promised that his Oakland National Headquarters would study and respond to Cleaver's attacks...
...example, it is unclear to what extent the split between Cleaver and Newton is ideological. In labeling Hilliard a reactionary and the Panther National Headquarters a "right-wing Oakland clique," Cleaver was condemning the Party's emphasis on organizing the black community around the ten-point Panther program...