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Page 10B EUGENE HEG1STER-G UARD, Thun., Mar. 21. 1963 OPEII FltlDAY 'TIL 9 P.H. One Topic Only This Paper No Ordinary News Sheet ' By BILLY BOWLES Ol tttt AuocUUA preu NASHVILLE, Tenn. UTt Ma tured by the customary journal istic yardsticks. Southern School News is nothing to get excited about. Its circulation is a modest 4, S00, less than many a country weekly. It is written in dis passionate prose uncluttered by modifiers unexciting by any standards. It is now in its ninth year telling the same story: the desegregation of schools in the Southland. The school desegregation story Is no ordinary one and nobody tells it as thoroughly as South ern School News. The monthly newspaper is the brainchild of a group of south ern newspaper editors of wide . ly divergent politics who met at a convention just prior to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that school segregation is un constitutional. Realizing the needs for an Impartial news source, the editors formed the board of directors of Southern Education Reporting Service and applied for a Ford Foun dation grant. - Both Sides on Board On Sept 3, 1854. the first is sue of Southern School News was mailed to 10,000 lawmakers, educators, judges, governors and librarians. It has not missed an issue since, despite widespread skepti cism among critics at the out set. Its circulation diwmdlcd sharply when a $2 subscription lee was established. But its subscribers wield, a widespread influence from congressmen to sociologists to private citizens in 50 states and 44 foreign coun tries. On the board of the reporting service are segregationists and integrationists. Thomas R. Waring, editor of the Charleston, S.C. News and Courier, has staunchly opposed integration but has just as avid ly supported Southern School News and its middle-of-the-road principles, Also on the board are Negro college presidents Stephen .1. Wright of Fisk and Luther H. Foster of Tuskeceo Institute. both outspoken integrationists. Others on the 13-man board fall somewhere between the two ex-trcmes. Praise for the service comes from educators, journalists and politicians alike. A subscriber once scribbled an unwitting tribute on a . renewal slip: "Please state which end you are working for. you are not def finet (SIC)." Renewal slips once came in the same mail from Georgia Sen. Herman Talmadgc, a seg regationist, and novelist Lillian Smith, author of Strange Fruit and a decided intcgrationist. A University of Texas journ alism professor conducted a poll to test Southern School News' claim of impartiality and nom inated it for a Purlitzcr Prize. Newspapers rely on the serv ice for reliable statistics and tho latest court decision on school desegregation. The U. S. Commission on Civil Rights cites Southern School News in its annual report to the Presi dent. 'Story Just Beginning' The man who runs Southern Education Reporting Service is Iteed Sarratt, a pipe puffing 45 year old Phi Beta Kappa from North Carolina. He came here from the Winston-Salem Jour nal and Twin City Sentinel, where he was assistant to the publisher. He also once wrote editorials for the Baltimore Sun. Assisting him are Tom Flake, a veteran Nashville newsman and Jim Lccson, formerly of tne Associated Press. The rcporlorial staff of South ern School News consists of vet- rran newsmen from each of the 17 Southern and border slates and tho District of Columbia 6,229 school districts which make up tho newspaper's beat. Their political views, like the directors', cover a wide range. One is a Negro. Luix Overbea of Sarralt's old Winston-Salem paper. A charter member of the roportorial staff, William 1). Workman Jr., surrendered his post last fall to run for the U.S. Senate as South Carolina's Re publican candidate. 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