Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrounded by newsprint in a storage room at Ohio's Lima Citizen, 350 stockholders perched attentively on rented chairs last week to hear the first progress report on the daily that 1,100 Limaites had pitched in to start (TIME, July 15). For the owners, ranging from the president of Lima's telephone company to a 13-year-old Citizen carrier boy. Publishers James Howenstine and Sam Kamin had nothing but good news. Founded on $300,000 to fight the 25-year-old Lima News after crusty old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles and his Freedom Newspapers had turned...
Legal Tender. In Lima, Ohio, Duane Fett and a pal were fined $5 each for creating a disturbance when a gas-station attendant refused to sell them i/ worth of gasoline, explained they were settling a bet on whether a man could buy that much...
...News would almost certainly have made a comeback if it had not been for its top ad salesman, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), persuasive Wayne G. Current. Live-wire Current, who quit the paper when Publisher McDowell cut commissions, decided to rally financial support for a new daily in Lima, and approached Sam Kamin and James A. Howenstine, two self-made industrialists who head Lima's Neon Products, Inc. (1956 gross: $7,000,000). The partners put up $100,000 and, at Current's suggestion, decided to sell $200,000 worth of stock in order to make...
Though for 25 years bustling Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,700) had supported only one newspaper, a second daily was born there last week and thousands cheered. Reason: Limaites had come to hate their longtime standby, the Lima News. The News was long regarded as a forward-looking, studiously fair paper, and it was seldom, if ever, attacked for abusing its monopoly position in Lima (pronounced as in Lima bean). But people started changing their minds about the News in February 1956, when the family-owned paper was sold to Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951) and his Freedom Newspapers...
...November election, 92% of Lima's registered voters trooped to the polls and approved the project by the biggest majority (76%) ever given a bond issue in the city's history. Next day a parking meter outside the News sprouted a sign: HOILES, GO HOME! Said Laurence H. Larsen, executive vice president of Superior Coach Co.: "Everything possible has been done to alienate every single group in town since Hoiles took over. They couldn't have done a better job of it if they had planned it this...