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Under Managing Editor Herbert Edward Hames Jr., Illinois' Ottawa Republican-Times has earned a reputation as one of the Midwest's spunkiest small dailies (circ. 13,225). In six years on the job, outspoken Editor Hames tromped on many high-placed toes. Yet, when word got out last week that Herb Hames was being fired, Ottawa's church and community leaders spontaneously banded together to protest the Hames dismissal...
Honored. A wartime Navyman with a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, handsome, whippet-trim '(5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) Herb Hames, 35, helped close down Ottawa's wide-open gambling joints with stories that played up their owners' political connections. He flailed away at thimblerigging in La Salle County's tax assessments, flayed the city government for lax enforcement of liquor laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames...
...circ. 24,960). Since the new publishers frowned on controversial stories and insisted that all editorials on local topics be cleared with the business office, Herb Hames buttoned his typewriter on local issues. But last November, after radio station WCMY's Newscaster Ron Wilson reported that trustees of Ottawa's mismanaged municipal hospital had fired a newly hired $12,000-a-year administrator with $8,000 severance pay, Newsman Hames wrote an editorial analyzing the hospital's chronic troubles with the board of trustees, showed it to the front office only after the editorial had been locked...
Ousted. To Ottawans, it was plain that Editor (and Rotary Club President) Hames had been fired over the hospital issue. Packing into Ottawa's Heinz Café, a committee of 61 business and professional leaders held two protest meetings to urge Hames's reinstatement. Said one committee member: "If Herb Hames is fired, freedom of the press is dead in Ottawa." When the Republican-Times lamely announced the editor's "severance in the near future," Ottawa's Protestant Ministerial Association expressed to the publishers its support of Roman Catholic Hames. Said the resolution: "We feel that...
...gloomy basement room in Ottawa's Parliament Building, the House of Commons External Affairs Committee gathered one day last week to probe into a contentious affair: Why had the Canadian government abruptly canceled plans to rent space for its various agencies in Canada House, the 26-story skyscraper now abuilding on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, which was to be a Canadian business and cultural center in New York? In their digging the M.P.s encountered a genuine shock, involving another logical Canada House tenant: the prestigious, 1,600-member Canadian Club of New York...