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...radio, any idiot can make a speech if he can read. It has hurt the country, too. We don't know our candidates like we used to." Ten Carloads of Horses. Knight's parents both came of solid, pioneer, Mormon stock. His maternal grandfather, Judge John Milner, was a British lawyer who went to Provo, Utah for his health, became Brigham Young's secretary, a Mormon, and a fount of culture and learning...
...stockholders as an answer to the monopoly of the Hederman family's Jackson Clarion-Ledger and Daily News (TIME, Nov. 8). For its first run, the afternoon State Times printed more than 40,000 copies of a neatly made-up 32-page issue. State Times Chairman Dumas Milner, millionaire manufacturer and Chevrolet dealer who led the movement to start the newspaper, said that the State Times already had between 30,000 and 35,000 subscribers, thus reached its estimated break-even point for circulation even before it started publishing...
MISSISSIPPI'S ROBERT C. MILXER, 37, who borrowed $3,000 to open a Shell Oil distributorship when he was 21, now owns businesses grossing $20 million annually, including an export-import company, real-estate holdings in Jackson, Miss. (including a ten-story office building), Milner Products Co., one of the world's biggest makers of pine oil deodorants. With four auto agencies, he is the South's biggest Chevrolet dealer. Milner's income: about $1,000,000 annually, of which he keeps half, since much of it is in capital gains...
Minister & Mail Carrier. The revolt against the Hedermans was led by Mississippi-born Dumas Milner, 37, one of the leading businessmen in Jackson and biggest Chevrolet dealer in the South. Milner, who is estimated to be worth more than $2,500,000 himself, began to think about starting the new paper when the Hedermans made their first open move to buy the News. Milner got twelve other businessmen to put up the first $300,000, and then "it was one of those things that snowballed, with people just calling in and asking to buy stock without even being asked." Investors...
State Times's Chairman Milner and his 30-man board of directors are optimistic about their chances, hope to break even with a daily circulation of 25,000. On advertising they already have a big advantage: many businessmen in Jackson are stockholders of the State Times and have signed up for ads. The State Times still faces stiff and rough competition from the Hedermans, who have thawed out their own news coverage. Says Chairman Milner: "We can't afford to fail. The Hedermans would run us out of town...