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...secret" classification bothered some journalists. "We have serious doubts," said Publisher Robert C. Notson of the Portland Oregonian, "whether penetration of the confidential files of the Pentagon should be treated in this manner." The Oregonian subscribes to the New York Times News Service and was offered Neil Sheehan's three resume stories, but it held off more than a week before finally deciding to run them. "The classification would have bothered me a hell of a lot," admitted Chicago Sun-Times Editor James Hoge. "There would have been a lot of discussion. But in the end, like the Times...
...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...
...Best Man. After Watts, Hilliard got job offers from the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times and "lots of suggestions from staffers on other papers that I apply with their outfits." But he decided to stick with the Oregonian because his superiors assured him that "there was nothing to stop me from having a good future here." Two years later he did a workmanlike and scrupulously fair job of directing coverage of racial disturbances in Portland, where blacks constitute only 2% of the population...
Hilliard's appointment is popular with his all-white editorial staff of 133. His colleagues are convinced that competence, not color, won him the job, in which he is unchallenged boss of the newsroom. "We simply appointed a city editor," says an Oregonian staffer. "Not a black city editor. Just the best...