Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1963 — Page 8

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Keen Competition h Newspaper Business

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) said today there was vigorous competition in the newspaper business and more than ever between newspapers and other news media. The ANPA presented its defense of the degree of competition in newspaper publishing in testimony prepared for a House judiciary subcommittee. The subcommittee is investigationg concentration of ownership in the news industry. Stanford Smith, ANPA general manager, submitted the ANPA case and offered these conclusions : —“The assumption that there is a continuing decline in competition in the newspaper publishing business is based on erroneous premises. The facts demonstrate clearly that there is vigorous competition in the dissemination of news and advertising, both among newspapers and with other media." —"There is no factual cause for alarm about changes in ownership of newspapers and other

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media, either through newspaper mergers, group ownership of newspapers or common ownership of newspapers and rac”o or television stations. More media voices compete for the attention of the United States public today than ever before.’’ —“Changes in the structure of the newspaper business in the United States have been the result of natural economic, social and political forces in a free society. In the extensive population changes of the post-war years, new daily newspapers have been established in rapidly growing suburban areas and smaller cities while in some of the largest cities, some daily newspapers have suspended or merged, as a result of economic pressures of risig costs.” —“The newspaper business today is more enterprising in serving readers and advertisers, more dedicated to public service and more vigorous in its competition with other media than ever before.” Smith said that, while some

metropolitan newspapers ■ have suspended, merged or consolidated since World War 11, new ones have come to life in the suburbs. As a result, he said, the total number of dailies has remained almost constant. He said the abstract goal of having several newspapers in every community “must yield to the economic reality that a community may be able to support only one daily newspaper.” Smith submitted a chart showing there were 1,760 dailies in 1962 compared with 1,744 in 1944. He was accompanied by Prof. Jesse Markham of Princeton University, who had prepared an economic analysis of the newspaper publishing business. Markham said newspapers have been caught in a “cost squeeze” and that most newspapers which have disappeared in the past 10 years were beset by financial problems. “A total of 369 daily newspapers have left the business, 175 by suspension, 117 by switching to weekly and 77 by merger,'” Markham said. “Os the three reasons, merger has been the least important. The immediate or proximate cause of most exits, however made, appears to have been financial difficulties.” Smith testified that the number of newspaper ownership groups had increased steadily since 1910 but that the number of dailies in each group had declined recently until it is now 4.7. He said accurate and fair news reporting “prevails today because these qualities inherent in the competitive struggle for newspaper survival.” “Newspaper readers are and must remain the final judges of the quality of journalism practiced by the daily newspapers of America," he said. Smith also suggested that because of recent major newspaper strikes the subcommittee should decide whether "labor union exemptions from the antitrust laws are compatible with the current national interest.” “An investigation of competition among daily newspapers and with other media of mass communications could not be complete without a thorough inquiry into those areas encompassing labor union power and practices relevant to our national antitrust policy,” he said.

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Railroads And Unions Remain At Stalemate CHICAGO (UPI) — The nation’s railroads and the five mammoth on-train unions, each backed by a powerful weapon, r e mained deadlocked today in their longstanding dispute over “featherbedding.” They met to discuss the issue Wednesday for the first time since the talks broke off last August. The talks lasted 80 minutes before coming to an impasse. The railroads, backed by last week's Supreme Court decision allowing them to streamline work rules, announced after the breakup that they would put work rule changes in effect within a month. The unions declared, after the Supreme Court backed the employers, that they would strike. In San Francisco, negotiators for the outhern Pacific Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, prodded by President Kennedy, returned to the conference table today in their dispute over automation, The President stepped into the picture Wednesday when the 11,-000-member union apparently was on the verge of issuing a strike ultimatum. He asked both sides to submit their differences to arbitration. The railroad accepted, but union negotiators were expected to hold back an answer until they had discussed it. The union contended the railroad should retrain clerks displaced by machines. Southern Pacific said the plan would retard technical advance and create unnecessary jobs. It was unlikely a strike would take place over featherbedding. It was believed Kennedy would step in with an emergency factfinding board to head off a strike for at least 90 days. Observers felt the White House probably would try to force arbitration in the dispute if the board's recommendations failed, to satisfy both sides.

Two Youths Jailed Here Late Wednesday Two youthful near-Decatur residents were jailed Wednesday night and are scheduled to appear jn city court Monday morning. ' David Lee Hamilton, 19, route 2, Decatur, was charged with driving and public intoxicatiqd, and Steven Lynn Holloway,'22, route 17'Monroe' w&s changed with : public intoxication. They were arrested b ythe city . police at 11 p.m. Wednesday, qn North Thirteenth St. Both were, released this morning fater Ham-1 ilton posted a bond of $250 and Holloway a bond of SIOO. ’ . i Robert Sprunger To Preside At Luncheon 'Robert Sprunger, pf' Wanatah, aptf-of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sprunger of St. Mary’s township, will > preside at a luncheon of the 19th ■ annual aguricuttural clinic of the f Indiana Bankers Association at 1 Purdue university March 13-14. r Spbunger, who is vice-chairman 5 of the agriculture committee and 1 amiliant vice-president of the First Merchants National Bank ot Wanatah, will preside at the Luncheon March 14. r ■ „ w. r i i ft you have something to sen or . trkde — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

Asks Inquiry In High Meat Prices OMAHA (UPI) — State officials from the cattle-rich Plains states Wednesday asked Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to investigate what a union leader called "meat counter featherbedding." They said the federal government should look into discrepancies between falling prices paid to livestock producers and fairly stable over-the-counter prices housewives pay for meat. The livestock market collapse has dropped the average price paid for a fat steer to its lowest point in 18 months. “This unfortunate decrease in the price of beef paid to the producer is not reflected in the price the housewife pays over the counter,” said Sen. George S. McGovern, D-S.D. “With each passing day,” Mcgovern wrote Freeman, “more and more operators will be forced into unbearable financial situations.” He said he would “exhaust every possibility in correcting this unjust price situation.” Other demands for a federal investigation came from lowa and Nebraska. lowa Agriculture Secretary L. B. Liddy said his department was not going to let the matter drop. He said “immediate action" is needed to boost livestock prices or some producers are going to be “wiped out” He said market prices dropped nearly 20 per cent since last November while retail meat prices have not dropped accordingly. Nebraska Agriculture Director Pearle F. Finigan said he continued to receive support for his demands for a thorough investigation. Finigan said the Nebraska Swine Council has pledged its "wholehearted support” to the proposed probe. Other groups, including the Nebraska Livestock Feeders Asso-

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School Punishment Urged By Educator WASHINGTON (UPI) — Public School Supt. Carl F. Hansen believes an “open hand, foot ruler or lightweight paddle” is the answer to unruly students in the nation's capital. Corporal punishment applied to the “hand or the buttocks of a pupil” under "justified circumstances” would go far toward bringing order in the public schools, Hansen said Wednesday. Further disregard for a teacher’s instructions might make it necessary to eject the student from the classroom, be said. The school head suggested use of “reasonable force for the purpose of propelling a pupil in a desired direction.” Grabbing a child’s arm or coat lapel would be permissible in tossing an unruly student from the room, Hansen added. Hansen told Congress in testimony on a corporal punishment bill for district schools that these measures would be used only when a teacher believes “this ac-

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