Page 10B EUGENE HEG1STER-G UARD, Thun., Mar. 21. 1963
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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.
The editors who conceived
the reporting service thought
the rcportonal job would re
quire perhaps a year two at
the most. But the Ford Foun
dation recently g;:ured the or
ganization of two more years
of life by budgeting $430,000 to
finance the operation through
June, 1963.
"This story is just beginning,"
Sarratt. "The easy 'job of
getting compliance in the bor
der states and the more moder
ate Soul hern states has been
accomplished, true. But the hard
part of this job has just started."
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