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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1955
Page
21
Prime Minister Louis St Laurant endorses National Weekly Newspaper Week and salutes Canadian weeklies for informing citizens about government issues. He highlights weekly papers as vital in remote areas and stresses the role of a free press in democracy. Milk note added: it takes 11 pounds of milk to make one pound of cheddar cheese.
A magazine piece on editors of Canada’s 800 weekly papers discusses the humor and hazards of publishing. A Coast daily misprint on a classified page showed photos of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe with an economy slogan, illustrating how errors haunt journalists.
The Free Press notes National Weekly Newspapers week as part of a 2.8 million family market across Canada. It emphasizes local reporting strength, advertiser value, and editors living in glass houses, with anecdotes on NATO, town dumps, fires, and a Marmora obituary of Wendell Cabinet.
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