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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1953
Page
3
The annual Arizona Newspapers Association convention starts today in Phoenix and runs through Sunday’s banquet. The organization signals this period as timely for reflection and planning within the state’s newspaper community.
The canons outline responsibilities including public welfare, freedom of the press, independence, sincerity and accuracy, impartiality, fair play, and decency. They insist on truthful reporting, warranted headlines, clear news versus opinion, right to respond, prompt corrections, and disapproval of sensationalism and pandering to vice. The rules emphasize professional integrity and accountability within journalism.
The piece sketches a prairie gossip scene with phone operators, neighbors, and local figures. It highlights Mister Lee Jenkins at the Wigwam, Julia Barenburg and her Great Dane Boy, and recent illness among residents including Missis Dolls Curtis. Visits from relatives in Kansas City and La Jolla are noted, with a travelogue tone and windows into daily small-town routines.
A playful column laments the monotony of weekly deadlines and Wednesdays. The writer muses on the days that drag by and the looming midweek grind, referencing Woden and Odin while humorously admitting more filler material remains to be written.
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