Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each of the paper's 19 correspondents is an experienced reporter who still holds down a regular news job, gets $100 a month for doing a monthly roundup on the hard facts of desegregation developments in his state. "We don't want any adjectives or adverbs," says Executive Director Don Shoemaker. 43, who has held editing jobs on Southern newspapers since 1934. A major reporting problem is to get school officials to speak for attribution; the subject is often just too hot. It is just as hard to get frank views from ordinary citizens in any attempt...
Examples of the kind of hard news the paper reports...
Advertiser Editor in Chief Grover C. Hall Jr. welcomed Poston to choose his own desk in the city room, opened the paper's files to him, set up appointments, offered him a staff photographer, and assigned City Editor Joe Azbell to act as guide and chauffeur. Poston hit it off so well with the staff that he told them a story on himself. He had instructions, he said, to phone Editor Wechsler every day with assurance that he had come to no harm. Poston added that he had got lost on Montgomery streets one night, and two white children...
MONOPOLY PROSECUTIONS will be harder as a result of U.S. Supreme Court decision that Du Pont does not have a Cellophane monopoly. Court held that Du Pont's 69% of Cellophane market is not a monopoly because Cellophane faces competition from paper and other wrappings. Government in future will have to prove that a company not only has a monopoly with its product but also monopolizes the entire field...
...SOUTHERN PAPER BOOM is luring Hudson Pulp & Paper Corp. into newsprint production in Florida. The New York kraft maker will build a $25 million plant, has already started negotiation with Southern publishers for sale of its 120,000-ton annual output. Bowater Paper Corp. and International Paper Co., the South's biggest papermakers, also are expanding newsprint production...