Local Paper Reveals Ad Policy And News Press Ethics
Jim Wilson recounts a policy shift at Podrick Center paper about charging for front page news items while sharing a parable from a Florida editor John Fawn. The piece critiques overbroad free publicity for money making ventures and highlights a newsroom emphasis on timely, prioritized content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Babcock
Mission
Podrick Center
Florida
John Fawn
John
Poduick
Jim
Jim Bad
Podrick
Bad
James
Jerry Wilz
Bob Wilz
Library Lane City Library Updates and Patron Notes
The Library Lane City Library lists hours on Mondays and Saturdays from 1 to 5 pm. A steady influx of 45 to 50 new books are added monthly with 70 new titles in January. Checkouts now run three weeks, with discouraged renewals for newly shelved titles.
Subscription Rates In Palo Alto And Adjacent Counties
Subscription rates listed for Palo Alto County and nearby areas include one year six months and three months for $2.50 and $2.00 respectively. Outside a Dove area the one year rate is $5.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo Alto County
Graettinger Notes Shine in February 1962 Local Scene
A February 15, 1962 Times column highlights Bill Page concert at the high school auditorium and Graettinger Cub Scouts Blue and Gold dinner. It covers Graettinger Pirettes basketball, weather impacts from winter storms, road clearing efforts, and Graettinger High teams advancing in sectional play. The piece also adds a garden note on strawberries and other fruits, plus local memories of early spring signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Page
Welk
Don Perrine
Graettinger
Graettinger Cub Scouts
The
Legion
Mary Alice Hanson
Pat Rathman
Sharon Gray
Diane Felkey
Long
Abbas
Burt
Pirette
Graettinger High School
Mallard
Spirit Lake
Morningside
Gotke
Northwestern
Iowa
Sioux City
Graettin
Obituary of Clarence Lundin Stepfather to Elwood Hyatt
Funeral services were held Friday, February 11 for Clarence Lundin, 74, of Granite Falls Minnesota, stepfather of Elwood Hyatt. He died Sunday, February 6 at his son’s home in St George Utah while wintering. Interment was at Hillcrest Cemetery in Granite Falls. Lundin and Inez Hyatt married October 1944. they farmed near Granite Falls until his death in 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Lundin
Elwood Hyatt
Granite Falls
Minn
St. George
Utah
Hillcrest Cemetery
Mr. Lundin
Inez Hyatt
Mr. Lunedin
Letters to the Times and lawn riding concerns
A reader asks for word from a gravely ill mother missing from the Great Tinger Times with her address at Methodist Hospital in St Louis Park and asks for friends to write. Another letter condemns mowing motorbikes on lawns and urges stricter limits and quieter hours to set a proper example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Jensen
Methodist Hospital
Rgb Blvd
St. Louis Park
Eile
Robt. Jensen
Garettinger Times Page Two Highlights
Page two of the February 17 1972 Garettinger Times presents brief items and local notices. The readable text indicates community updates, event mentions, and short notices typical of a midsize town newspaper from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garettinger Times
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Jim Wilson
Margaret
Wils
Weekly News
Coccer
City Library
Fifty Club
Jean Hanna
A. N. Kruse
Optometrist
Trustland Savings Bank
Broadway Emetsburg
A. H. Hopson
Emmetsburg, Iowa
W. G. Rients
Dr. Terry
Andersony
North 7Th Street
Estherville
K. L. Johnson
James J
Optometrists
Contact
North Sixth Street
Estherville, Iowa
Paul G. Larsen
West
Central Avenue
B. G. LouscHer
M. G. Louscher
10Th Street
Fuhrman
Dial
Frank Fuhrman Graettinger
Boone Jewelry
South 6Th
Baker Real Estate & Insurance
Central Ave
Emmetsburg, “Cov
Graettinger Coop Grain Co
Top KnupTson
Cabinet
aDove
the Times
Times
GHS
Armstrong
Dolliver
Eeener
Iverson School
Anna Petersen
Emmetsburg
Fred Spies
L. F. Noble
Joseph A Ckphelsen
America
Miles Mahan
Dunlop
Ozark Beauty
Bemidji
Latham
Newburgh
Black Hawk Morrison
Ebonee
Lata
Felco
Service 14
George
Adel
Dallas County News
Happy Hour
Apse
Nae Town
James A. Wilson
James A. Wilson Jr
Margaret Park
Jackie Norris
Lorna Wilson
Clara van Laar
Money Matters
State Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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