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Almost overnight, the namby-pamby Tacoma Times had turned into a crusading newspaper (TIME, Feb. 16). Many Tacomans, unused to forthright journalism, were confused by the new style. In an editorial, Editor William A. Townes tried to straighten them...
...ailing Tacoma (Wash.) Times, many a boss had come & gone. So when their newest boss called a staff meeting, newsmen merely yawned. But Editor Willam A. Townes, stoop-shouldered and deceptively mild looking, jerked them awake. He had heard ugly stories about newsroom graft. From now on, anybody who took money on the side would be fired on the spot. Within 48 hours, Townes wanted typed confessions of what had gone...
Townes thought that an honest staff-and a few pay raises-would work better. Last week, five months after Townes came to town, the better and cleaner Times reached 47,077 circulation (up 4,000). In news coverage it was giving the staid Tacoma News-Tribune a run for its money. Crusading editorials against gambling in taverns and the poor transit system had ousted the canned variety, and Townes was eyeing the circulation. territory of the nearby Seattle Times...
...went west as editor of the Seattle Star, switched to the Tacoma Times just before the Star winked out in a forced sale last year (TIME, Aug. 25). The Scripps brothers, down to the last four links of a western chain that once had eleven papers, invited him (at around $12,000 a year) to beef up the Times. Newsmen wondered if the Scripps brothers could digest Townes's robust journalism. If they could, the guess is that Townes will get the bigger job of running the chain...
...State of Washington's Walla Walla penitentiary, Negro Jake Bird, 46, about to die on the gallows for the ax-murder of a Tacoma woman, won a 60-day reprieve by confessing that he could "clear up" 44 other murders...