Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 12, 1963, Image 24

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Newspaper Page TextRIEDKOKU MAIL TK1BUNK, MbUKUHU. OltliliON TIIUIl.SIMY. OIXIi.MBliK 12, 10(13 Newspapers Handled Assassination in Way Unmatched for Generation By United Press international A nation commands its brightest deeds in its darkest hours. To honor their public trust and rally a shaken people in the dark hours after the slay ing of President Kennedy, the nation's newspapers mobilized resources in a manner un matched for a generation. It was a triumph of nerve un der pressure, of professional writers recording in straight, terse sentences the assassina tion of a president. It was a triumph of fast editorial decis ions, of sure-handed presswork, of speeding delivery trucks rac ing the news to the streets. "We can all take pride in how we performed," said Lloyd Wendt, editor of Chicago's American. " Don Codispoti, copy editor of the McKeesport (Pa.) Daily News, who has been in the newspaper business for 17 years, said: "It was the first time I ever heard anybody yell 'Stop the presses!' " Special Editions And the presses did stop across the nation when that shot rang out in Dallas. Then they roared again, grinding out spec ial edition after special edition: The President is dead. Newsboys hawked extras from Long Island to San Diego. There was an eager hand for every copy. Many editorial and mechani cal employes worked virtually around the clock. Type was set, then discarded before it could be smeared with a drop in ink. Advertising and standing feat ures were pushed aside to make way in what Stewart MacDon ald, manager of the American Newspaper Publishers Associa tion Information Service de scribed as a "tremendous pub-i on television. . .we needed things lie service." with thought behind them." J.' Paul Austin, president of the Coca Cola Co., said the world is indebted to the nation's newspapers "for your fantastic accomplishment which will, without doubt, be credited with helping to keep our nation uni fied through enlightenment in what was a time of crisis and what might have been a time of public panic." . William German, news editor! of the San Francisco Chronicle, said, "the nagging question was what our role was, since everybody had seen the news It was a question to which editors across the land were finding many answers. Problem Compounded At the Elyria (Ohio) Chroni cle Telegram the problem Was compounded by a major disaster at nearby Norwalk, where 63 persons died in a fire. The Chronicle Telegram threw out three pages of regular features to make room for the two great stories. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the Chicago Sun-Times met a dif ferent kind of challenge. With only an hour before an engraving deadline, Mauldin completed a drawing of a griev ing President Lincoln which was reprinted as far away as Mos cow. His original is being framed for presentation to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, at her request. Paul Schoenstein of the New: York Journal-American said his key staffers had "an almost sleepless siege from the time the flash came in on the shoot ing until the time of the funeral and burial." Homer Jcnks, managing edi tor of the Boston Traveler in President Kennedy's home town, said that when the assassina tion flash came, two editions al ready were on the street. At 2:23 p.m. the presses started with the assassination story and ran continuously until 5:45 p.m. except for stops to insert fresh material. More than 100.000 ex tra copies were sold, and on one downtown street . corner alone, 7,000 copies were sold. Jcnks said that" on the day of the funeral, the Traveler threw out its women's and feature pages to make room for com plete coverage. Thomas Winship, managing editor of the Boston Globe, said, ies of its Nov. 23-25 cdilions "we heaved out the comics fori The Los Angeles Times printed three days and got half a dozen half a million extra copies dur complaints. We heaved out all ing the weekend and sold virt. society news for two days." ually all of them in uauas iiseit, tne Morning The San Diego (Calif.) -'i mure lype in a snort er period of time than ever be fore in its history, but there were few typographical errors. For the first time the Morning news used an eight-column pic ture on its front page. aii dui 70.000 copies of the oune listed, sales of 17-1.103 for Nov.22, nearly 57,000 above nor mal and breaking the record of 141.405 set Feb. 20 after John Glenn's space flight. The news paper published three extra edi tions Nov. 22. the Washington Star published jSpf llfl)' l!f PIGGLY VVIGGLY 'p',pMlprlP' PIGGLY WIGGLY jfHJ fP P-H iTl fTl Q bmh m W ch,nge" II I i i o (tPli Lean center cut chops from Swift's Premium tender, I 1 II I Mm I young porkers . . . save at Piggly Wiggly this week- 1 ferP( I Pork Snareribs I Beef Short Ribs i ib 39o I J m rora dparera Beef Pot Roas( 59c .1 Jr J: i w m m jh i . vm -mm.. " mm ib. Arm Cut Pot Roast litZZm'L 69c 1 : 11 ter RnnplPcc Hhnr.k Roast lh 79c I P Q IT ill IL O J 171) I S Ground Beef Standing Rib Roast em ,, 79c J HaUllllll 1 3Q4 Boneless Beef Cubes L:,...,. 79c I KOOISt 1 M H r M. I II Choir nr OA. pi W SI HI PSSrfl I'""'"" '" 1 beet KID leaKS Swift', Premium... Ib. I Sevory p. ,oin I a 1 Round Steak smch8i- ,,89c 1 f I IB VIIIUilMI iliWWw 1W iiwhiim w . jw,... r. gg browned potatoes lJ I I I II 111 II T ' I I . a. n lie rkxira AA. la! and mV.J ...i. -J I II I II II M t. j Jm mWm. J I NlflAIII VtOfllf . .... 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I I x. - yi w v r I 1 1 t7 XJ5Q Sve at You Spend With S-H GREEN STAMPS J X I I EE3 Reserved r jm.uuu press run at uie uuroen i an extra Nov. 22. "The first I City, L. I., N. Y., Newsday had can remember since franklin D been run off when the flash I Roosevelt's death," said Jame3 i Lauu uie news rooms, i ne uissiuy, world editor staff immediately began work David Kimmel, night manag. on an eight-page extra without ing editor of the Cleveland mid i.auig, which was aciiverca vunioi l'lam Dealer, sa d tree to all subscribers. . put out our first extra Memorial Sections Pearl Harhnr" The Milwaukee Journal and; The Fori Worth (Tex) Press the Minneapolis Star and Tri-1 published its first Saturday edi bune each began preparing ; tion in "many, many years" special memorial sections on the and its first morning paper martyred President which were ! ever. The Fort Worth Slar Tele. "wo silica Beef Short Ribs "swp'rL.... b 39c Beef Pot Roast liSL , 59c Arm Cut Pot Roast ItSt. 69c Boneless Chuck Roast ,u 5 ?p::: ;n, 79c Standing Rib Roast 79c Boneless Beef Cubes nStZSL 79c Beef Rib Steaks tiSiL .b. 89c Round Steak Swift's Premium lb. 89c Top Round Steak XmZJL .b. 98c Sirloin Steak Swifl'i Premium : lb. 98c Tender Cube Steak "swinemL b $1.09 Top Sirloin Steak Swift's Premium Ib. $1.39 Armour Star Bacon r.b,kplt"i" 55c Medium Sharp Cheese Cheddar Cheese.... Ib. 69c Fillet of Sole From the Pacific lb. 69c delivered durine . the weekend The Houston Chronicle prepared a special four page section on President Johnson for distribu tion Nov: 24. i Managing editor Herb Kamm said the New York World-Telegram and Sun "had the longest press run in our history on Fri day (Nov. 22.) It began at the lime of the shooting and pres ses didn't slop until 6:30 p.m. The New York Times, norm ally a fat two pounds of read ing matter, saw its Sunday news section dwindle from 1H6 pages 10 uuc to advertising can cellations, but it devoted 12 full pages to the Kennedy story. Many publishers limited Sun day press runs to the number of supplement copies which had been printed, but in Chicago extra copies were distributed without color comics and color rotograveue magazines to fill the demand for news. David Starr, managing editor of the Long Island Press, said. just checking the Sunday (Nov. 21, cciiuons was "a tremendous operation because we eliminat ed every bit of light, frothy material, material in bad taste, and unkind references to the Kennedys in syndicated columns and the like." In their snare moments, em ployes of the Beaumont (Tex.) bnlerprisc Journal began mak ing up packages containing con ies of all editions from Nov. 22 through Nov. 25 for subscribers wno wanted tnem as memen toes. Circulation Records Broken gram ran one extra Nov. 22 and another Nov. 24., The San Antonio (Tex.) Light ran seven extra cdilions Nov. 22. The El rasoucx..) Herald Post ran two extras, one Nov. 22 and the second Nov. 23. Bureaus Bolstered The Chicago Daily News bol stered its Washington bureau with a vacationing staffer and another on leave of absence to attend Columbia University. Stan upotowsky, assistant managing editor of the New York Post, just happened to be in Washington, at the time of the shooting and took charge of the newspaper's bureau opera tions there. Harvey Pallon of the Detroit News said "no page was sac red" when it came to making room for the Kennedy story. Al Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post, said, that despite a drop of 28 pages in the Nov. 24 edition due to cancelled advertising, the news paper carried about six moro pages of news. Greater News Content aam uornstcin, managing edi tor of the Boston Sunday ad vertiser, said, "we opened the paper up to almost double its normal news content." Charles Dnmeron, news editor ot the Dallas Times Herald, said, we threw out about Circulation records broken in many cities. Al San Francisco, the News Call Bulle tin sold 315,004 copies Nov, 22 127,744 above normal, and 56,000 moro (han the previous record of may 2, 1960, when kidnap-rapist Caryl Chessman was executed. The Chicago Tribune sold or 30 columns of live news about the Kennedy visit to Texas by the time we nit tne streets wnn out last edition Friday (Nov, 22) afternoon." The Washington Daily News were had its presses rolling when ino President was snot. wo stopped the press when the United Press International flash camo through and junked about 7,000 from that run. Then we rcplalcd six or seven times and again stopped the press for the dealh," Managing Editor Rich- more than 650,000 additional cop-1 ard Hollander said. Diseases of Body Said Mistaken for Disorders of Mind o,if Effective December 12 Thru Sunday, December 15 Limit Rights Stewart at King Open Until 9 P.M i Bv DI'XOS SMITH DPI Sclcnrc Editor NEW YOHK (UPI) - To pre vent their medical fingers from ever pointing exclusively at ci ther the mind or the body, all physicisians "must continuous ly remind themselves that they arc Ircating persons." Persons have both minds and bodies. "Laboratory diseases" have nei This was the response of an official of the American Psy chiatric Association to continu ing protests that psychiatrists have so sold their science to other physicians. Diseases ot the body are being mistaken for disorders of the mind. Dr. William F. Shcelcy admit ted to this much: "Trying to eliminate past neglect of the psychic .(mind) aspects of ill nesses, wc psychiatrists tempt physicians including our selves to neglect the somatic (physical)." The proper answer to tne pro tests, he continued, is for psy chiatrists to maintain and to exoand their knowledge of the organic that is physical functions -of human beings, and for all other physicians to main tain and expand their knowl edge of how the mind tics in. There is loo mucn stubDorn- ly held medical thinking based on "cilher-cr" "a paticnl has cither organic disease or psy chic. The tact Is, ishecley said, the two may exist at the same time in the same person; in deed, the presence of one in creases the likelihood ot the other being present, loo. He cited a scientific com parison between 471 psychiatric patients ana 4su normal per sons. There were significantly more body Illnesses among the former. Having found cither a mental or a physical illness, "the wise physician redoubles his efforts to find the other." Shcelcy was commenting spe cifically on a recent study ot US nersons whose Illnesses were first diognosed as psychi atric. Two days to 25 years utt- r these original inclines, an were demonstrated to have or- oanir diseases, .... . . . J f!..lt.. I 11....... wnen treaica imuuy iui mc-ac the 115 got well, 31.3 per cent improved, 2.0 per cent showed no change. Meanwhile, 27 per cent had died. Those figures, Shcelcy said, "warn us once more of the dan gers of mistaking organic ill ness for psychiatric and there by exposing our patient to need less suffering if not premature dealh." The error of the psychiatrist who fails to notice that the per son ho is treating for anxiety reaction is infested with lung parasites is "no more tolerable'1 than the error of the surgeon treating cancer "who fails tu note his patient's depressive re action until the patient takes the short way from his seventh- floor room lo the concrete yard below." Specialty training, Shcelcy ar gued, ran cause some physi ciuns "lo feel comfortable only within (he sheltering walls nt a narrow medical field." Ho praised current official efforts to increase the psychiatric, knowledge' of physicians In gen eral, adding: "As yet efforts to expand the psychiatrist's gen eral medical skills are not par ticularly vigorous." Old Timers Car Club Sets Election Election of officers for the Old Timers Car Club will be held Saturday, Dec. 14, at a meeting of the group at the clubhouse in Medford. A potluck dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. followed by a short business meeting at 7:30 p.m. Those attending are to take a hot dish, salad or cake as rolls and coffee will be provided by the club. Cards and games will bo played following the business sessions. Wives and guests are invited to the event. IlltING A HOItSK NEW YORK (UPI)-Gallop-in movies are gaining in popularity In the West. A new outdoor the ater near Palm Springs, Calif., says it will provide hitching posts and oats for the mounts physical ails, 39.1 per cent of I of equcstrion pattons.