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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1967
Page
5
Washington notes National Newspaperboy Day honoring 26 outstanding Gazette carriers for route excellence, citizenship and school achievement. The program, tied to National Newspaper Week, celebrates youth who deliver papers nationwide with prizes, trips and extended community impact.
President Lyndon B. Johnson joins prominent Americans in saluting newspaper boys on National Newspaperboy Day during National Newspaper Week. He praises youths learning responsibility, upright business, and community action shaping future leaders.
A 13 year old newspaper boy runs a wholesale to retail distribution, handles purchases, collections, and financial records, and pockets profits. The piece notes how this practical training teaches sales skills like locating prospects approaching customers and overcoming objections.
Seventy prominent citizens from the United States and Canada receive the Newspaperboy Hall of Fame medallion. Criteria include bona fide home delivered carriers, national prominence, belief in independent contractor concepts, and willingness to be quoted in support of ICMA.
ICMA President Leon S. Reed commends the million newspaper carriers in the United States and Canada for their daily deliver tasks and exemplary conduct. He urges readers to thank the youngsters and support their role as future civic pillars essential to safeguarding freedom tomorrow.
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