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...still fond of pointing out that the News was the first Southern newspaper to call venereal diseases by their right names and the first paper in Texas to crusade for arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert E. Baskin and John Mashek. Aware of its news deficiencies, the News ordered a reduction in the use of syndicated material from 50% of available news space to 25%. Said Managing Editor Jack Krueger, who engineered the reduction: "We've cleaned out the paper for news...