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Northwest Missouri Press Association elects officers

President 2Scrapbook 16Jean Maneke 21

RegularFeatures

8Day at the CapitolFeb. 19 promisespolitical fireworks

Spread the word aboutopenness duringSunshine Week.

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NIE programshave more to offer.24

2004 officers and directors of Northwest Missouri Press Association are,seated, from the left, Kathy Whipple, Kearney, Director; Becky Sellars,Smithville, Director; Kay Wilson, Maryville, President; Kathy Conger, Be-thany, Secretary; standing, Chuck Haney, Chillicothe, Director; DennisEllsworth, St. Joseph, Director; Wendell Lenhart, Trenton, Director; ChrisBoultinghouse, Mound City, Treasurer; and W.C. Farmer, Rock Port, Di-rector. First Vice President Jamey Honeycutt, Cameron, Second VicePresident Steve Tinnen, Plattsburg; and Director Tim Larson, Maryville,were not present. A report and photos from the Jan. 15-16 NorthwestPress meeting are on pages 4 and 5.

On the Move 22Kitchell on NIE 24Obituaries 27Housekeeping 28Nostalgia 29

Mary Jamesnamedpresident ofUM Board ofCurators.

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PRESIDENT: Gary Sosniecki, The Vandalia LeaderFIRST VICE PRESIDENT: John Spaar, The Odessan, OdessaSECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Steve Oldfield,

The Adrian JournalSECRETARY: Sandy Steckly, Harrisonville

Cass County Democrat-MissourianTREASURER: Dan Wehmer, Seymour Webster County CitizenEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Doug CrewsADVERTISING: Michael SellEDITOR: Kent M. Ford

MISSOURI PRESS NEWS (ISSN 00266671) is published every month for $7.50 per year by the Missouri Press Association, Inc., 802 Locust St.,Columbia, MO 65201-7799; phone (573) 449-4167; fax (573) 874-5894; e-mail [email protected]; website www.mopress.com. Periodicals postage paidat Columbia, MO 65201-7799. (USPS No. 355620). POSTMASTER: Please send changes of address to Missouri Press Association, 802 Locust St.,Columbia, MO 65201-7799.

DIRECTORS: Dave Berry, Bolivar,Community Publishers of Missouri, Inc.Dane Vernon, Eldon AdvertiserWendell Lenhart, Trenton Republican-TimesDavid Bradley, Jr., St. Joseph News-PressJack Whitaker, Hannibal Courier-PostVicki Russell, Columbia Daily TribunePhil Conger, Bethany Republican-Clipper

NNA REPRESENTATIVE: Gary Beissenherz,The Concordian, Concordia

VOL. 72, NO. 2FEBRUARY 2004

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Think back, then think ahead

President (continued on page 18)

Gary SosnieckiThe Vandalia LeaderMPA President

Think about how Missouri newspapers have changed inthe past 20 years.

If you worked for a weekly newspaper in 1984, youprobably wrote your stories on a typewriter, then gave your copyto a typesetter who reset it on a cantankerous Compugraphicphototypesetting machine. If you wanted to change your typesize, you changed pulleys.

If you wanted to change fonts, you (carefully)changed a font strip. You prayed that an exciterlight wouldn’t burn out on deadline.

If you worked for a daily newspaper in 1984,you probably wrote your stories on a primitiveVDT, and you had more options where to work.The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Kansas City Timesand Springfield Leader and Press were keepingour biggest cities two-newspaper towns.

Regardless where you worked, you did sowithout benefit of Macintosh computers (intro-duced in 1984, but still years away from mostnewsrooms), digital cameras or the internet, andyou probably didn’t have a plain-paper copier orfax machine either.

In 1984, you might not have had as many rea-sons to call the Missouri Press Association office. MPA had nolegal hotline, no postal consultant, no Newspapers In Educationcoordinator and no website for downloading ads.

Twenty years ago this month, MPA introduced a new pro-gram, Statewide Classifieds, but the 2x2 program was years

away. One service MPA provided for a small fee was a weeklySunday School column by Dr. William H. Taft.

Now think about where Missouri newspapers are headed inthe next 20 years. And think about how your Missouri Press As-sociation will meet their needs. That’s the goal of “MPA+20:Pressing Ahead,” a year-long study of your association’s needsand goals from now through 2024.

Then-President Dave Berry identified the need for such long-

range planning last fall, and, with the blessing of the MPAboard, I appointed chairmen and co-chairmen for three taskforces at our meeting last month in St. Joseph.

The “Dollars and Cents” task force will examine where MPA’smoney comes from and where it goes. It will study our duesstructure and our advertising programs, our staffing levels andour physical plant.

First Vice President John Spaar of theOdessa Odessan is chairman; Wendell Lenhartof the Trenton Republican-Times, MPA’s 2001president, is co-chairman.

The “Membership and Leadership” taskforce will examine who our members are, whothey will be and how we’ll serve them in thefuture. It will propose a mission statement, re-view our programs and discuss how to keepMPA relevant for both group-owned newspa-pers and independent newspapers.

Second Vice President Steve Oldfield of theAdrian Journal is chairman; Bill Miller of

the Washington Missourian, MPA’s 2000 presi-dent, is co-chairman.

The “Relationships and Partnerships” taskforce will examine how MPA relates to journalism schools, theNational Newspaper Association, our unique regional press asso-ciations and the alphabet soup of other organizations that serveour industry.

Immediate Past President Dave Berry of Community Publish-ers of Missouri, Inc., is chairman; Professor (and former newspa-per owner) Jim Sterling of the Missouri School of Journalism,MPA’s 1985 president, is co-chairman.

Each task force will set short- and long-range goals, plus time-tables to accomplish them. Progress reports will be presented tothe board in June, with final reports in September.

Be part of planning for Association’s next 20 years

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Volunteer Today for MPAEvery MPA member is invited to sign up to help lead MPA this year and into the future. Sign up to be

a member of a strategic planning task force and/or MPA committee. "MPA+20: Pressing Ahead" is thestrategic planning process, approved by the MPA Board of Directors. The task forces this year will look atMPA, inside and out, and help map MPA's future.

The planning groups will meet two or three times during the year, some via conference telephone call,with final reports due in September at the MPA Annual Convention in Springfield.

Three Task Forces are available for your participation. If you wish to join a Task Force, mark it.

_____1. Dollars and Cents Task Force. John Spaar, Chair; Wendell Lenhart, Co-chair. Topics: Dues struc-ture -- Advertising/Missouri Press Service -- Headquarters staffing -- Physical plant -- Investments -- MPABylaws -- Other

_____2. Membership and Leadership Task Force. Steve Oldfield, Chair; Bill Miller, Co-chair. Topics:Mission Statement for Missouri Press Association -- Retaining and growing membership -- Keeping MPArelevant for independent newspapers and group-owned newspapers -- Member services -- Development offuture newspaper owners -- Development of future MPA leaders -- Other

_____3. Relationships and Partnerships Task Force. Dave Berry, Chair; Jim Sterling, Co-chair. Topics:MPA's relationship with School of Journalism -- MPA's relationship with NNA, NAA, MSNE, AP, ISWNE,MAMA (ad managers), MCMA (college media), MCMA (circulation managers) -- MPA's relationship withnews media groups/potential coalition allies interested in common legislative issues -- Missouri Press Foun-dation -- Regional press organizations: NW, SE, Ozark, Show-Me Press -- Other

Also, you are invited to volunteer for these MPA Committees:

_____MPA Legislative Committee, Charlie Fischer, Chair. Directs MPA legislative activities.

_____MPA Better Newspaper Contest Committee, Dan Wehmer, Chair. Oversees contest, reviews rules.

_____MPA Convention Committee, Helen Sosniecki, Chair. Plans convention activities.

_____MPA Political Advertising Committee, Dalton Wright, Chair. Promotes use of newspaper ads.

Please mark the group(s) above you wish to join as a volunteer.

Name ________________________________________________________________________________

Newspaper ___________________________________________________________________________

Address, City, State, ZIP ________________________________________________________________

Phone ______________________ Fax ______________________ Email _________________________

Sign-up deadline: February 25 !Return to MPA, 802 Locust Street, Columbia, MO 65201. Fax 573-874-5894. Email: [email protected]

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Kay Wilson, publisher of theNodaway News Leader, waselected president of the North-

west Missouri Press AssociationJan. 16. She succeeds DennisEllsworth, editor of the St. Jo-seph News-Press.

Northwest Press held its114th annual meeting Jan. 15-16 at the Ramada Inn in St. Jo-seph.

Elected to serve with Wilsonwere Jamey Honeycutt, Cam-eron Citizen Observer, FirstVice President; and Steve Tin-nen, Plattsburg Clinton CountyLeader, Second Vice President.

Secretary Kathy Conger, Be-thany Republican-Clipper; andTreasurer Chris Boultinghouse,Mound City News, were re-elected.

Elected to the Board of Di-rectors were: Kathy Whipple,Kearney Courier; Chuck Haney,Chillicothe Weekly News; W.C.Farmer, Rock Port AtchisonCounty Mail; Wendell Lenhart,Trenton Republican-Times; TimLarson, Maryville Daily Forum;Becky Sellars, Smithville Com-

munity Solutions; and Ellsworth.

Scholarship Donations

During the business meeting, the Asso-ciation voted to donate $2,000 to theMarilyn Farmer Scholarship Fund. Bill

Farmer, retired publisher fromRock Port, added to that bycontributing another $1,000 tothe fund. The scholarship,which is administered by theAssociation, is named for Farm-er’s late wife.

Summer meetingThe membership voted to

hold a summer golf outing at atime and date to be determined.

Northwest Press in the pastoccasionally held a summermeeting as a social event andpreliminary idea session for thenext annual meeting.

Champagne toastBefore adjourning the busi-

ness meeting, Kathy Conger ledmembers in their traditionalLucy Jones toast in remem-brance of deceased associates, inparticular the former publisherof the Platte City Landmark,who served as secretary of theassociation for many years.❏

2004 officers and directors of Northwest Missouri Press As-sociation are, seated, from the left, Kathy Whipple, BeckySellars, Kay Wilson, Kathy Conger; standing, Chuck Haney,Dennis Ellsworth, Wendell Lenhart, Chris Boultinghouse,and W.C. Farmer. Jamey Honeycutt, Steve Tinnen and TimLarson were not present.

NW Press elects Kay Wilson

Two fictional scenarios involving theSunshine Law launched discus-

sion during a Northwest Presssession organized by JeanManeke, MPA’s legal hot-line counselor.

In the first scenario,members of a city coun-cil shared informationvia email. Questionsabout the activity in-volved posting notice of ameeting, whether the activi-ty constituted a meeting andwhether the emails were public records.

The second activity involved the

John Spaar of The Odessanswept the competition in the

Northwest Missouri Press Associa-tion’s Best Idea Contest. He won a$50 prize by acclamation.

Actually, the contest organizersthought Spaar deserved $50 forentering the contest, more as a re-ward than a prize. He was theonly one who entered.

Planners Kay Wilson ofMaryville and Jamey Honeycuttof Cameron gathered up someideas for the early arrivers at theNorthwest Press meeting to talkabout.❏

Sunshine Law scenarios providequestions for officials, journal-ists

John Spaar capturesBest Idea prize

records of a county commission study ofroad maintenance. Most of the discussion

involved how the county shouldprovide massive amounts ofrecords and how much itcould charge for copies.

Assistant Attorney Gen-eral Paul Maguffee moder-ated the panel, which was

made up of editors andelected officials.

Their discussion revealedconcensus on many questions

but uncertainty and confusion over in-terpretation of the Sunshine Law onothers.❏


Aby Simmons, a reporterfor The Northwest Mis-sourian, the studentnewspaper at NorthwestMissouri State Universi-ty, Maryville, interviewsDr. Elson Floyd at theNorthwest MissouriPress Association meet-ing. Dr. Floyd spokeabout the University ofMissouri, the proposedmerger with NorthwestMissouri State Universi-ty, and other issues in-volving MU and highereducation in Missouri.

Becky Sellars ofSmithville Commu-nity Solutionsweekly won thedrawing for thetelevision set pro-vided by FarmersElectric Coopera-tive. The organiza-tion has donated atelevision to theNorthwest Pressmeeting for manyyears. Jason Fulp,Kearney, communi-cations director forPlatte-Clay ElectricCooperative, is onthe left.

Above, Legal Hotline counselor Jean Maneke andMPA Executive Director Doug Crews hand out materi-al for the Sunshine Law dicussion. Right: Serving onthe Sunshine Law panel at the Northwest Press meet-ing were, from left, Andrew County Clerk Dan Hege-man; Maryville Daily Forum editor Tim Larson; St. Jo-seph Mayor David Jones; Assistant Attorney GeneralPaul Maguffee; St. Joseph News-Press city editorSteve Booher; and Rock Port Atchison County Mailpublisher W.C. Farmer.

Northwest Press Association presented its James C. KirkpatrickAward to Dr. Floyd in recognition of his spirit of openness and publicservice. The award is named for the late Secretary of State, whowas a former newspaper publisher and longtime friend and associ-ate of Northwest Press. Chris and Linda Boultinghouse, editors andpublishers of the Mound City News, received the Association’s Mer-rill Chilcote Award for editorial excellence. The Craig Watkins Friendof Northwest Press Award was presented to Kent Ford, editor ofMissouri Press Association. Ford, who owned the Oregon Times-Observer with his wife, Sharon, during the 1980s, served as presi-dent of Northwest Press in 1986. The award is named for the lateeditor of the Cameron Citizen Observer, a longtime associate andfriend of Northwest Press. (St. Joseph News-Press photo.)

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Missouri newspapers and theMissouri Press Association arepulling together to promote

“Sunshine Week” in Missouri.The observance will begin Feb. 8 —

Sunshine Sunday — with editorials andop-ed pieces in newspapers across thestate focusing on the Missouri SunshineLaw, Sunshine Law initiatives in the Mis-souri Legislature, how-to stories aboutthe law (for instance, how citizens sub-mit a request for public records), andother activities.

The idea is to build greater public —and legislative — support for the Sun-shine Law by showing how citizens canuse it to hold government accountable.

All Missouri newspapers are invited toparticipate.

Sunshine Week will continue Feb. 9-14 with editorials, stories, reprints andpublic service ads published in Missouriweeklies and dailies.

All editorials, stories and other materi-als are available for reprinting in partici-pating newspapers throughout the week.Op-ed pieces are available from MPA at-torney Jean Maneke and Charles Davis,director of the Freedom of InformationCenter at the University of Missouri.They can be used whether you write yourown editorial or not.

Material can be downloaded frommopress.com.

Editorial page editors of the majordailies in Springfield, Kansas City and St.Louis are planning their newspapers’ par-

ticipation and have supported the pro-posed Sunshine initiative from the start.

MPA’s primary responsibility will beassisting in electronic distribution of ma-terials via email and on its website. Atthe conclusion of Sunshine Week, MPAwill compile as many stories and editori-als as possible to be shared with publicofficials in the state.

Sunshine Week also provides newspa-pers to hold other activities in their com-munities, including sponsoring town hallmeetings on the Sunshine Law; takinglocal elected officials to lunch and talkingabout the Sunshine Law; putting thespotlight of recognition on a local publicofficial who stands up for open govern-ment; and visiting local classrooms andto discuss the differences between openand closed government.❏

Nominations for the Misssouri PressAssociation’s Newspaper Hall of

Fame are being taken. A nominationform is in this magazine, and it can bedownloaded from mopress.com.

Nominations must be in the MPA of-fice by April 30. Nominations receivedafter that date will not be considered forinduction this year.

Send with your nomination form anyletters of support and other material de-tailing why your nominee should be in

Judges who help with the Tennessee adcontest in February and newspaper

contest in March will receive a bonus fortheir efforts. Each judge will get a cou-pon for two free entries in Missouri Presscontests.

Tennessee’s Ad Contest will be judgedThursday, Feb. 26; the Newspaper Con-test on Thursday, March 18. Both activi-ties will begin at 8 a.m. with sign-in andcontinental breakfast. Lunch will be pro-vided.

Both contests will be judged at theHoliday Inn Select, Columbia. If youwould like to make a room reservation,call the hotel at (573) 445-8531.

Each judge will receive coupons fortwo free entries from his or her newspa-per in the Missouri Press Better Ad Con-test or Better Newspaper Contest. If fivepeople from a newspaper help judge,their paper will receive 10 coupons.❏

Missouri Press Association / Missouri Press Service802 Locust St. / Columbia, MO 65201-7799

(573) 449-4167; FAX (573) 874-5894; www.mopress.comSTAFF

Doug Crews: Executive Director, [email protected] Sell: Advertising Director, [email protected]

Kent M. Ford: Editor, [email protected] Whitney: [email protected],

and Jennifer Plourde: [email protected]: Advertising Sales and PlacementKaren Philp: Receptionist, Bookkeeping, [email protected]

Lesa Litty: Member Services, Meeting Planning, [email protected] Heifner: Ad Sales, [email protected]

Mary Dempsey: Website Associate: [email protected]

Turn on Sunshine Feb. 8-14

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Nominations being taken for2004 Hall of Fame inductees

the Newspaper Hall of Fame.People chosen for induction will be

honored at the MPA Convention, to beheld Sept. 9-11 in Springfield.

Inductees or their representatives willreceive Pinnacle Awards at the Hall ofFame Banquet. Plaques with their like-nesses will be displayed in the William A.Bray Conference Room in the MPAbuilding and in the student lounge ofLee Hills Hall at the School ofJournalism.❏

Observance will focus attention on open meetings, open records statute

Missouri will judgeTennessee contestsin February, March

Jean ManekeMPA Legal Hotline

4435 Main St., 620 One Main PlazaKansas City, MO 64111

(816) 753-9000; Fax (816) 753-9009


According to Missouri's Sunshine Law –– particularly, the openrecords and open meetings statutes –– anyone may requestrecords from a tax-supported agency's appointed "custodian ofrecords." Not only should they get you the information you askedfor within 3 business days, but the search and copy fees cannotexceed the actual cost. You may even ask them to certify that thefees were reasonable.

Getting copies of publicrecords shouldn’t cost you an armand leg.

The Sunshine Law is a law for everyone, notjust the news media. The Missouri PressAssociation and this newspaper ask you tosupport openness in local and stategovernment records and meetings.Democracy, after all, does not work ifmeetings are held in secret or information isexpensive to obtain.

You have the right to requestrecords of your schools, specialdistricts, and your city, countyand state governments.


Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Dramia M. Smith88 — Mother of past president

Mrs. Dramia M. Smith, mother of1991 MPA President R.B. “Bob”

Smith III, died Jan. 21, in Oak Ridge,Tenn., of congestive heart failure.

Mrs. Smith was a native of Newport,Tenn. She worked for the Oak Ridge Na-tional Laboratory from 1955 until herretirement in the mid-1970s.

She also leaves a daughter.❏

Obituaries

Mansion, followed by remarks by Gover-nor and Mrs. Bob Holden

After the Governor’s remarks, leadersof the Missouri Senate and House willdiscuss current issues before the GeneralAssembly: (Invited) Senate President ProTem Peter Kinder (R-Cape Girardeau),Senate Minority Leader Ken Jacob (D-Columbia), Speaker of the House Cathe-rine Hanaway (R-Warson Woods),House Minority Leader Rick Johnson(D-High Ridge).

Kinder is a Republican candidate forlieutenant governor; Jacob is a Demo-cratic candidate for that post; RepublicanHanaway is running for secretary ofstate.

The program will end by 3 p.m.❏

Attend Day at the Capitol March 4Legislative leaders, candidates for state offices, lunch in Mansion on agenda

Barbara Hill, publisher of the DeltaNorth properties for Rust Com-munications, retired at the end of

January after four decades in the newspa-per business. Kennett newspaper publish-er Bud Hunt succeeded Hill as publisherin Dexter, Bloomfield, Advance andMalden, as well as continuing his role inKennett.

Hill began her newspaper career withThe Dexter Statesman in 1962 as a report-er. She later served as editor before be-coming advertising manager in 1974.

In 1991 Hill became publisher of theDexter and Kennett daily newspapersand also assumed the publisher’s duties

when Malden, Bloomfield and Advancewere added to the Delta properties.

Hunt, who has a long newspaper ca-reer, has been publisher of the Kennettnewspaper since 1994. He was editor ofthe newspaper prior to being namedpublisher.

Kennett is the printing facility forDexter, Malden, Advance/Bloomfield aswell as several Arkansas newspapers andshoppers.

Hunt and his family will continue toreside in Kennett. His wife, Lee, is em-ployed at the Progressive Farm Credit of-fice in Kennett. They have two children.

The Delta North newspapers are a

part of Rust Communications, which in-cludes 17 daily newspapers and 30 week-ly newspapers as well as numerous shop-pers and specialty publications in sevenstates.

“Barbara’s been part of our newspaperfamily for a long time, and we will missher warm personality and managementstyle,” said Jon K. Rust, co-president ofRust Communications.❏

Hunt succeeds Hill in Southeast

MPA’s Day at the Capitol holdsthe promise of high entertain-ment.

With Gov. Bob Holden and the Re-publican legislative leaders battlingover the budget and every-thing else, and withvirtually all of themrunning for onestatewide office or an-other, how couldyou resist thisevent?

MPA/AP Day atthe Capitol will beThursday, March 4, with an agenda simi-lar to previous years.

You will gather with other journalistsin the Capitol for morning sessions with

state office holders. You’ll have lunch inthe Governor’s Mansion, then hear fromthe governor and legislative leaders.

It’s a free program. Get signed upnow.

Speakers:10 a.m. and 11 a.m.,

separate sessions in theSenate Lounge, thirdfloor of the Capitol:

(Invited) Secretary ofState Matt Blunt andState Auditor Claire

McCaskill.Blunt is a Republican candi-

date for governor; McCaskill a Demo-cratic challenger to incumbent Gov.Holden.

Noon: Luncheon in the Governor’s

Southeast Missouri Press Associationwill meet Friday, April 16, at South-

east Missouri State University in CapeGirardeau.

This 112th annual meeting will featurea forum with candidates for statewide of-fice and a tour of the Southeast Missouri-an’s new printing plant and computer-to-plate imaging system.

The “What a Great Idea!” Contest willbe held, as will concurrent breakout ses-sions.

The Association will present itsMildren Wallhausen Award and attend areception at Wildwood hosted by theUniversity.

More details will be provided as theydevelop.❏

Southeast Press will meet April 16 in Cape


Day At The Capitol

The Missouri Press Association and The Associated Pressinvite you to be our guests on

Thursday, March 4, 2004at the Missouri State Capitol Building

in Jefferson Cityfor our

Annual Day At The Capitol.

Register Today!(Deadline To Register - February 27, 2004)

Please return this registration form toMissouri Press Association,

802 Locust Street, Columbia, MO 65201Fax: 573-874-5894/E-mail: [email protected]

Name(s) ______________________________________________________________

Newspaper or Organization __________________________________________

City/State/Zip ______________________________________________________

Number for lunch? ________ (No charge for lunch or registration)

Gather at 9 a.m. in the Senate Lounge, 3rd Floor, State Capitol.All afternoon sessions will be in the Governor’s Mansion.

No Charge

for ThisEvent!


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Turn left (east) on Dorsett.

Get in the right lane, go

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People who write for Missouri news-papers and their editors should set

aside April 1-2 to at-tend the annual meet-ing of the Missouri Soci-ety of Newspaper Editorsand AP Managing Editors.

The groups will meetThursday and Friday, April1-2, at the Sheraton West-port Plaza Tower Hotel inSt. Louis. Registration infor-mation has been sent to MPA mem-ber papers.

Gov. Bob Holden will speak at theAPME Awards Luncheon at noon Friday.

The program will open Thursday af-ternoon with a presentation “The 7.5Habits of Highly Successful Journalists”by Dick Weiss, deputy metro editor/Sun-

day, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Have dinner on your own that

evening at one of four restaurants,then attend free the Funny Bone

Comedy Club show.Saturday morning sessions

are an update by JeanManeke, MPA’s Legal Hot-

line counselor; a sessiontitled “Ethics in Journal-ism” and finally a meet-ing with aspiring jour-

nalists from area universi-ties.The Awards Luncheon will end the

program.Details about the meeting are on the

registration form. Register by March 15to get the $15 discount. Hotel roomsmust be booked by March 1.❏

Gov. Holden will speak againat editors meeting in St. Louis

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Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla, hasfiled Senate Bill 1020 in JeffersonCity. Missouri Press Association

supports this legislation. Among the pro-visions:

✓ The Curators of the University ofMissouri are considered a public govern-mental body. Certain internal memoran-da and letters concerning advice, opin-ions and recommendations made in con-nection with the deliberative decision-making process of a public body are con-sidered a public record.

✓ Public bodies are required to main-tain minutes of closed meetings. The actprovides that a public body is authorizedto close a meeting or record related to an“imminent” cause of action.

✓ Records concerning a transactioninvolving real estate must be made publicupon execution of the transaction, ratherthan within 72 hours of execution.

✓ Records of public employees con-cerning hours worked and employee ben-efit information such as the amount of

sick leave and vacation leave must beopen.

✓ Donations or contributions fromprivate sources to the salary of a chancel-lor or president in the University of Mis-souri system cannot be closed.

✓ The names of the final slate of can-didates for any position of final authorityin a public governmental office must beopen.

✓ Final audit reports issued by audi-tors of a public body must be open.Records relating to the procurement ofor expenditures relating to security sys-tems are open.

✓ A member of a public body thatobjects to the closing of a meeting shallbe immune from any liability for im-proper closure of a meeting. The object-ing member cannot vote on the issue orparticipate in the discussion.

✓ Fees for copying public records can-not exceed five cents per page and thehourly fee for search time cannot exceedthe rate of pay for the least senior em-

ployee of the public body. The first hourof time must be provided withoutcharge. The fee for access to publicrecords on a computer shall only includethe cost of the disk used for duplication.

✓ In any suit against a public body forviolation of the Sunshine Law, the custo-dian of records cannot alter or dispose ofthe records at issue. A public body ormember or any law enforcement officeror agency is liable for any negligent viola-tion of the Sunshine Law. Currently, thebody must purposely violate the law.

✓ The act increases the potential pen-alty from a maximum of $500 to a rangeof $50 to $1,000.

✓ A public body must ensure that anycontract for a public records databasemust not impair the ability of the publicto inspect or copy public records.

✓ The act deletes language which au-thorized a law enforcement agency towithhold accident or incident reports for60 days.❏

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By GLENN E. RICEThe Kansas City Star

The Platte County Sheriff ’s De-partment is trying to persuadelawmakers to close records about

anti-terrorism strategies and about re-sponse plans to hostile situations similarto the Columbine massacre.

A bill that would close the records hasbeen introduced in the Missouri GeneralAssembly by Sen. Charlie Shields, St. Jo-seph Republican.

Shields said the bill, if approved,would place an exemption on Missouri’sSunshine Law and prevent critical infor-mation from landing in the wronghands. A similar measure was presentedlast year, but it failed. Several mediagroups, including the Missouri Press As-sociation, have opposed the bill.

Sheriff Richard Anderson said theevents of Sept. 11, 2001, and at Colum-bine High School have placed an enor-mous burden on law enforcement agen-cies to develop appropriate preparation

and response plans.“Closing those records and taking

them out of the view of the public is farless dangerous than leaving them in thepublic’s view so anyone can have accessto them and use them against the pub-lic,” Anderson said.

For instance, Shields said, informationabout where emergency perimeterswould be set up if terrorists attackedKansas City International Airport is nowin the public record.

Shields said the version of the bill in-troduced last year was too broad and in-cluded budgetary items.

In its current form, the proposed legis-lation would allow governments to

close meetings or records that relate tooperational plans for agencies responsiblefor public health and safety, he said.

Shields said the measure would notapply to information concerning budgetmatters, such as expenses, purchases orcontracts the agency makes.

Doug Crews, executive director of the

Missouri Press Association, said hisgroup was not satisfied with some provi-sions of the bill.

“Our fear is if it is too broadly word-ed, there could be lots of money beingspent and lots of room for mischief thatcould be shielded from the public,’’Crews said. “Are people lining up andasking for this information, and are theygiving it out?”

Crews said his group was trying towork with Shields and other law-

makers on a possible compromise.Shields said he wanted the revised bill

to be more acceptable to opponents andstill prevent documents from falling intothe wrong hands.

“Today, if you want that information,you would have to go to the sheriff ’s orpolice departments and request it,”Shields said. “Ten years from now, mostif not all public records will be availableon the internet and we need to addressthat.’’❏

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MPA Past President David Berry, left center, passes aPresidential Briefcase to 2004 MPA President Gary Sos-niecki at the conclusion of the MPA/MPS Board meetingJan. 15 in St. Joseph. The passing of the briefcase is atradition at the first meeting of the new year for theboards. That typically occurs at the beginning of the an-nual meeting of Northwest Missouri Press Association.The MPA/MPS Board members are, from the left, Bill Mill-

er Sr., Washington; Dan Wehmer, Seymour; SandySteckly, Harrisonville; David Bradley, St. Joseph; Bob Wil-son, Milan; Berry, Bolivar; Phil Conger, Bethany; Sosniec-ki, Vandalia; Dane Vernon, Eldon; Steve Oldfield, Adrian;John Spaar, Odessa; Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; GaryBeissenherz, Concordian; Doug Crews, MPA, Columbia.Absent: Vicki Russell, Columbia.

The briefcase passes

Tamara See, publisher of the Mont-gomery Standard since last summer,

has purchased the Standard and theWellsville Optic-News from John andDonna Fisher.

See served as advertising manager forthe Montgomery City weekly for morethan four years before being named pub-lisher. She is a 1977 graduate of Mont-gomery County High School and attend-ed Lindenwood University, where shestudied mass communication. She andher 5-year-old son, Trevor, live in ruralBellflower.

The Fishers planned to continueworking at the Standard, John as editor

and Donna as news editor.Gay Donaldson continues as editor

and business manager of the Optic-News.Sandy Canterbury remains news editor.

John Fisher started with the Standardin 1968 working for Bob and EllenBowling. He became a partner in theStandard and the Optic-News in 1976and bought the papers in 1982.

Donna Fisher joined the Standard in1988.

The Optic-News, circulation about1,900, is observing its 127th year. TheStandard, circulation about 3,700, is inits 137th year. Both are printed at TheMexico Ledger.❏

Montgomery City weeklysold to publisher by Fishers Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Shawn

Barber is the celebrity spokespersonfor The Kansas City Star’s Hooked onBooks program. Barber helped gather90,000 books bought or donated forchildren this year.

The Star started Hooked on Books in1998 after a series of news stories onpublic schools. The paper found that ac-ademic success is closely tied to strongreading programs.

When this year’s donations are distrib-uted, almost 300,000 books will havebeen given to area children.

This year the Junior League of KansasCity is a partner. Many of its 1,500 vol-unteers donated thousands of hours tocollect, sort and distribute books.❏

K.C. Chief helps collect90,000 books for children


KANSAS CITY (AP) — MaryJames secured her seat on theUniversity of Missouri’s Board of

Curators in the simplest way possible:She asked to serve, and herwish was granted.

“I had always done pub-lic service work in mycommunity — park boardand athletic booster club.I’d always raised moneyhere in town,” James said.“This is sort of an exten-sion of all of that,” but it’s“the big time.”

James, 54, of Harrison-ville, is entering her sixthand final year on the nine-member board and waschosen by her fellow cura-tors in December to serveas president for 2004. Shewielded the gavel for the first time at thecurators’ meeting in Columbia on Jan.27.

James is the daughter of Wanda andthe late Jim Brown of Harrisonville(1963 MPA president), and the wife ofBill James, 1998 president of MissouriPress Association and former publisher ofthe Harrisonville Cass County Democrat-

Missourian.“I’m excited and apprehensive,” James

said in an interview with The Kansas CityStar. “I’m extremely honored to have the

opportunity to serve. I hateto sound schmaltzy and say,‘It’s a lifelong dream.’ But Ican’t think of anything thatis more important than that.I’m very excited because Ithink I’m prepared for it.But I’m apprehensive be-cause it is a huge job.”

The all-volunteer boardsets tuition, policies andregulations and hires thepresident of a system thathas four campuses, a two-hospital health care entity,more than 60,000 studentsand a budget of nearly $2billion.

James handed her younger son his di-ploma when he graduated from the Co-lumbia campus in 2000. She has alreadyhanded one niece a diploma as well, andexpects to do the same for another niecein May.

James is a 1971 graduate of MU. Shetaught for several years in Texas and Har-risonville, then spent 26 years as the hu-

man resources manager for Cass CountyPublishing Co., which her family used toown.

James said she feels helpless and frus-trated in the face ofthe state’s highereducation cutbacks.She said the cura-tors’ vote lastspring to raise un-dergraduate tuition19.8 percent wasthe worst momentin her five years onthe board.

The best mo-ment was hiring Elson Floyd as systempresident in December 2002, she said.

Several other issues also will warrantattention in the coming year, James said.She will be tracking the progress throughthe Legislature of a $190 million bondissue sought by the university system forconstruction or renovation of scientificresearch facilities.

She also wants to look at how to retaingood professors, some of whom are beingwooed away by other universities promis-ing higher salaries or better facilities andsupport.❏

A Randolph County Circuit Courtjudge in December dismissed a libel

case by a former county commissioneragainst the Moberly Monitor-Index.

Fred Ward, the plaintiff, told the Co-lumbia Daily Tribune that he believed hehad suffered monetary loss, but he“couldn’t demonstrate that satisfactorilyto the judge.”

Ward was the presiding commissioneruntil December 2002. He filed the libelsuit against the daily last August.

Jean Maneke, legal counsel for LibertyGroup Publishing, which owns the pa-per, asked Judge Gary Sprick to dismissthe case, contending that the lawsuit didnot meet the basic requirements for a li-bel case.

The judge agreed and dismissed thecase the next day.❏

Carthage police are crediting a JoplinGlobe newspaper carrier for possibly

saving the life of a 93-year-old Carthagewoman.

Carrier Don Sharp and his fiance,Donna Shepherd, were delivering paperswhen they found the woman lying in heryard at about 3:10 a.m.

Sharp went to the police station aboutfour blocks away to notify authorities,then returned to the woman, covered herwith a blanket and waited for help.

“The police were right behind me,then the first responders, then the ambu-lance,” Sharp said.

The woman was taken to a Carthagehospital then flown by helicopter to St.

John’s Regional Medical Center in Jop-lin.

The Carthage police chief calledSharp’s actions “clearly a lifesaving ef-fort.”

Sharp said it appeared the woman fellfrom her front porch and struck herhead on the sidewalk. Her overturnedwalker and a house slipper were near theporch, and another slipper was fartherout in the yard.

Sharp and Shepherd found the wom-an lying near a fence, where she appar-ently had crawled in an attempt to gethelp.

—The Joplin Globe❏

Judge dismisseslibel suit in MoberlyCarrier for The Joplin Globe helps

rescue elderly Carthage woman

James named Curators president

Mary James is inher final year on theBoard of Curators.

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✒ RaymoreThe Journal of Belton and Raymore

has opened an office in Raymore: 108 N.Madison (Highway 58).

Connie McCann publishes The Jour-nal.

✒ WashingtonThe Missourian contributed signifi-

cantly to the five top awards won by the2003 Washington Town and CountryFair at the International Association ofFairs and Expositions Conference in LasVegas.

The fair won for best agriculture pho-to/general fair photo with a photo takenby Missourian photo editor Jeanne MillerWood.

Another top award went to the fair forits printed promotional material, a sup-plement designed, produced and distrib-uted by the Missourian.

✒ Jefferson CityAfter reporting on the pre-Christmas

burglary at a Cole County home, theNews Tribune Co. replaced gifts takenfrom the family of four.

Upon returning home one evening,the family interrupted a burglary inprogress. Although the father capturedthe burglar, he later discovered that anumber of gifts already had been re-moved from the home. They were notrecovered.

✒ St. LouisPost-Dispatch travel writer Tom

Uhlenbrock won a first-place award inthe 2003 competition sponsored by theNorth American Travel Journalists Asso-ciation.

Uhlenbrock won in the “leisure activi-ty” category for an article headlined “TheBig Queasy,” which told of a culinarytour of New Orleans.

It was the third straight year Uhlen-brock was honored for his travel writing.

✒ KahokaThe Media in January sponsored a

“Pasadena Parade Photo Contest” to fol-

low up the trip of a local high schoolmarching band’s trip to the Rose BowlParade.

The Clark County Marching Indiansmarched down Colorado Boulevard inthe 115th Tournament of Roses Parade onNew Year’s Day. A day earlier theymarched in a parade in Disneyland.

Readers who had taken the trip toCalifornia were invited to submit up tothree photos taken during the trip. Topphotos were printed in the Jan. 21 issue.

The best photo won a DVD player.Other prizes also were awarded.

✒ Cape GirardeauRust Communications published a

32-page book chronicling the CentralHigh School boys soccer team’s undefeat-ed regular season. The team placedfourth in the state tournament.

Fifty-five photos and stories from theSoutheast Missourian — most of themwritten by sports writer Jeremy Joffray —are in the book. The team won 26 gamesin a row and made its first trip to thestate championships.

The Southeast Missourian also pro-duced a book to commemorate the dedi-cation in December of the Bill EmersonMemorial Bridge over the MississippiRiver.

The 60-page volume has many colorphotos of Mississippi River bridges —old and new — combined with com-mentary from local dignitaries, and spon-sors’ congratulations.

✒ RollaThe Daily News will sponsor the Rolla

Area Home & Business Expo 2004March 19-21.

✒ WashingtonThe Missourian chose Laurie Link, a

teacher at Gerald Elementary School, asits Missourian In Education Teacher ofthe Year.

Link has been a longtime supporter ofthe Missourian In Education program,said Dawn Kitchell, the newspaper’s NIEcoordinator.

“Teachers are key to any successfulNewspaper In Education program,”Kitchell said. “There’s no doubt in mymind that those kids in Laurie’s class-room will be readers — of newspapers,

✒ BolivarThe Herald-Free Press published its an-

nual Year in Review on Jan. 16. It includ-ed photos of babies born in 2003.

✒ RollaThe Daily News partnered with a local

auto dealer in a Bowl Contest, with a$100 grand prize.

Readers were invited to choose thewinners of all the college football bowlgames to enter the contest. Total pointsof the Sugar Bowl game served as a tie-breaker.

✒ Webster GrovesDwight Bitikofer and Don Corrigan,

editors and publishers of the Webster-Kirkwood Times, received the 2003 Life-time Achievement Award for the newspa-per from the Kirkwood Area Chamber ofCommerce.

The two and other honorees receivedawards at the Installation and AwardsCelebration Jan. 30 at the St. LouisFrontenac Hilton.

✒ Kansas CityThe Kansas City Press Club sponsored

a public issues forum on restoring publictrust in the news media on Jan. 17 atZarda Barbecue in Lenexa, Kan.

✒ WashingtonThe Missourian recognized employee

Ken Strubberg for 50 years of serviceduring the company Christmas party.

Editor/publisher Bill Miller Sr. pre-sented a gift to Strubberg, who nowworks part-time in the pre-press/dark-room department.

Other employees recognized for theiryears of service included: Cathy Keller,graphic artist, 30 years; Sharon Bargen,graphic artist, 25 years; Jane Haberberg-er, advertising director, and Lisa Noelke,creative director, 20 years; Kay Scheible,bookkeeping, and Bob Voss, pressman,15 years; Nancy Heimann, part time of-fice, 10 years.

Employees of Missourian PublishingCo. donated Christmas items to thePregnancy Assistance Center.


books, anything. She’s excited aboutreading in general, and that enthusiasmrubs off on her kids.”

✒ Bowling GreenState Rep. Terry Witte presented Lin-

da Luebrecht, general manager of theBowling Green Times, with a proclama-tion in December recognizing the Timesfor its 130 years in business.

✒ BolivarThe Herald-Free-Press held a public re-

tirement reception for Judy KallenbachJan. 7 in the Communty Center. Kallen-bach retired at the end of 2003 after 25years with the paper.

Her successor, Jim Hamilton, formerpublisher at Buffalo, attended the recep-tion to meet people.

✒ SikestonJohn Pillers, a copy editor for the

Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau,and Tonia Pennington, a former reporterat the Standard Democrat in Sikeston,plan to be married March 13.

Miss Pennington worked at the Stan-dard Democrat for 12 years before leavingto pursue a degree in early childhood ed-ucation at Southeast Missouri State Uni-versity. Pillers worked at the StandardDemocrat for 13 years before joining theSoutheast Missourian.

✒ TroyThe Lincoln County Journal and Troy

Fress Press want area cooks for a bi-weeklyfood page called “What’s Your Flavor?”

Featured cooks will be photographedin their kitchens and interviewed abouttheir feature recipe.

✒ ColumbiaThe Callaway Bank’s advisory board

has named Vicki Russell, associate pub-lisher of the Daily Tribune, to the boardfor a three-year term.

✒ KennettThe Daily Dunklin Democrat was

among the sponsors for the ninth annualsafe cab program to help prevent drunk-en driving over the holiday season.

Dunklin County Cab runs the pro-gram, providing free rides home fromparties on Christmas and New Year’s.

A cab company spokesman said theonly drawbacks to the program are peo-ple who throw up in the cabs or can’t re-member their address.

✒ WashingtonPauline Masson, a part-gime editor of

The Missourian’s Pacific pages, has beenappointed to a one-year term on the ad-visory council of the East-West GatewayCoordinating Council.

East-West is the regional council ofgovernments. All projects in the regioninvolving federal funds must be approvedby the East-West board.

Members of the advisory council serveonly as advisors to the East-West council.

✒ NixaAmanda Jones, an employee of the

Nixa News-Enterprise and the ChristianCounty Headliner News in Ozark, wasmarried Dec. 27 to Clayton Grigsby, inWest Plains.

Grigsby is in Army training at FortBenning. Ga. When he’s finished in Aprilthe couple will move to Vincenza, Italy.

✒ SalemA Fourth of July photo that appeared

in The Salem News took a second place ina contest sponsored by the Secretary ofState’s office. The photo will be printedin the next edition of the Official Manu-al of Missouri.

Publisher Donald Dodd took the pic-ture of the American flag being raised onIndependence Day. It placed second inthe Best of Celebration category.

✒ CassvilleThe Democrat published holiday mes-

sages from families to their loved onesserving overseas in the military. All mes-sages received by the paper were printedtogether in the Dec. 17 issue.

✒ SavannahThe Reporter has started a new weekly

column called “How Much?” It will ap-pear on page 2, the Opinion page.

“How Much?” is a simple fact columnthat details the cost of taxpayer support-ed projects and events in the area.

✒ St. JosephThe Missouri Department of Agricul-

ture named the News-Press the winner ofthe AgriMissouri Media ExcellenceAward.

Susan Mires leads the paper’s coverageof agriculture, which won for “its thor-ough and meaningful coverage of Mis-souri agribusinesses and their products.”

Director of Agriculture Peter Hofherrpresented the award at the annual Gover-nor’s Conference on Agriculture at Tan-Tar-A Resort in November.

✒ CameronThe Missouri Community Service

Commission honored the Citizen Ob-server with its 2003 Media Award, pre-sented on Dec. 16 to publisher JameyHoneycutt and news editor DarinSparks.

The award is for the newspaper’s com-mitment to the promotion of volunteer-ism and service in the community.

✒ SteelvilleSteelville Star publisher Rob Viehman

presented a check for $750 to the highschool’s athletic department. The moneyrepresented a portion of the proceedsfrom the sale of the newspaper’s annualsports calendar.

✒ JoplinInland Press Association recognized

The Joplin Globe’s community coordina-tor position as one of the Top Ten bestnew ideas for 2003.

The Globe established the communitycoordinator to maintain communicationwith city leaders and readers through avariety of programs, including “Coffee,Cookies and Conversation” meetings.

✒ MaconThe Chronicle-Herald joined local

merchants in sponsoring the 16th annualessay contest for 7th and 8th graders.Teen-age drinking and driving is the top-ic for the contest every year.

Each teacher chooses an entry. Win-ning essays are printed in the Chronicle-Herald, and the top three student writersreceive prizes of $150, $100 and $75.

✒ St. JosephThe Buchanan County News on Jan. 7

began its 50th year of publication.❏

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that future boards can use as a guide forthe next 20 years.

Besides the task forces, I appointedchairmen of these committees for 2004:

• Legislative — Charlie Fischer of TheSedalia Democrat.

• Contest — Dan Wehmer of theWebster County Citizen.

• Convention — Helen Sosniecki ofThe Vandalia Leader.

• Political Advertising — DaltonWright of The Lebanon Daily Record.

This brings me back to my message oflast month:

I want this to be a year of inclusion. Iwant every MPA member to feel wel-come to serve on one or more of thethree task forces planning MPA’s futureand our four regular committees.

Each should include representatives ofbig papers and small papers, dailies

and weeklies, group-owned papers andindependents, active members and pas-sive members, and from all regions of thestate.

Pick a committee to serve on and callits chairman, Doug Crews or me. Pleasedon’t delay, because some of these com-mittees will hold their first meetings thismonth.

You can reach me at (573) 594-2222or by e-mail at [email protected].

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After nearly 40 years of service, IvanOestreich has retired from Sprint.

Oestreich has been a fixture at Mis-souri Press Asso-ciation and re-gional pressmeetings formany years. Heregularly playsin the MPA golftournament.

Oestreich be-gan his careerwith Sprint in1964. At thattime, the com-pany wasknown as Unit-ed Telephone.Oestreich held a number of managementpositions in Missouri before beingnamed public affairs manager in 1983.

In his public affairs manager role, hekept legislators, business leaders and con-sumers informed about Sprint’s opera-tions and industry issues. He also man-aged advertising, contributions, sponsor-ships and community support in west-central Missouri.

Oestreich has been active in commu-nity affairs in his hometown of Clintonfor decades. He was president and servedon the board of the Clinton Chamber ofCommerce and was president and servedon the board of the Clinton Rotary andthe Clinton Tourism Association. Hecurrently is a member of the HenryCounty Economic Development Coun-cil.

Oestreich also is a member of the Ea-gles and Elks clubs, the United Method-ist Church, Ararat Shrine, MasonicLodge and the Royal Order of the Jester.

Sprint has not yet named Oestreich’sreplacement.❏

Oestreich retires from SprintPresident(continued from page 2)

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NOMINATION FORM

2004 Induction

Missouri Press AssociationHall of Fame

To the MPA Hall of Fame Committee:

I am pleased to nominate the following person: (Nominees from 2002 and 2003 are automaticallyeligible for consideration in 2004. They need not be renominated.)

Name Newspaper or organization

Address

Eligibility Criteria

1. Nominee has shown exemplary contributions to the newspaper industry during a period of at least20 years prior to being nominated, or, if nominee died while still active in promoting the newspaper industry,the nominee displayed exemplary contributions during a period of at least 10 years.

2. Nominee has lived honorably.3. Nominee has influenced unselfishly.4. Nominee has thought soundly.5. Nominee has displayed community involvement.

Nominated by:

Your signature Newspaper or organization

Address

For a nominee to be considered, you must attach biographical information. Include a photo of the nominee, ifavailable. Provide any information you think will be helpful in deciding the inductees for this year. Additional lettersof recommendation assist the committee. You may renominate a person you nominated in a previous year.Confidentiality is extremely important for all nominees. The selection committee thanks you for your assistance.

Deadline for nominations is April 30, 2004. Inductees will be honored at the Sept. 9-11 MPA Convention atthe University Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, Springfield. Return this form to Missouri Press Associa-tion, Hall of Fame, 802 Locust Street, Columbia, MO 65201. Nominations received after the deadline willnot be considered. You may nominate more than one person. Copy this form if necessary.


The Missouri School of Journalismagain this summer will be one of

eight Centers for Editing Excellencethrough the Dow Jones NewspaperFund. Professor Brian Brooks will directthe program for high school and collegestudents.

Editing programs have been allocated$560,500 as part of the Fund’s Newspa-per Editing Intern Program.

Clement Cravens, publisher of theNew Madrid Weekly Record, was

sworn in Dec. 31 as interim county clerkof New Madrid County. The previousclerk retired after 29 years in the office.

Cravens is a 1972 graduate of NewMadrid High School. He returned to thecommunity in 1984 and entered thenewspaper business.

Cravens, who served nine years on theNew Madrid Board of Aldermen, said hewould file for this year’s election to com-plete the term in 2006.❏

High school students in the Ozarksare invited to submit an essay for a

local contest sponsored by the Society ofProfessional Journalists. Entries shouldbe titled, “What a Free Media Means toAmerica.”

Students placing first through thirdwill receive award certificates from SPJand an opportunity to see their essays inprint. The first-place selection will beforwarded to the national competitionwhere students could earn a scholarshipworth $1,000, $500 or $300.

The qualifying contest for students inthe Ozarks is being organized by theSouthwest Missouri Professional Chapterof the Society of Professional Journalists.

More information about the contestand about the Southwest Missouri ProChapter of SPJ is available online atspj.org/southwestmo.❏

Because of a Sunshine Law violation,the city council of Southwest City

voided all of its motions and votes takenduring its Dec. 8 meeting. Those actionswere revisited at its Dec. 23 meeting.

City Clerk Dee Shields told Mc-Donald County Newspapers that the reg-ular meeting was moved from Tuesday,Dec. 9, to Dec. 8, and she forgot to posta public notice of the new meeting datebefore leaving work Friday.

State law requires that notice of publicmeetings be posted at least 24 hours be-fore the meeting, excluding weekends.❏

Missouri Press Women member BettyCook Rottmann, Columbia, re-

ceived state and national recognition in2003 for her professional and civic ser-vice.

The National Federation of PressWomen recognized Rottmann for her 45years of membership. That presentationwas made in September at NFPW’s an-nual meeting in Delaware.

In October the Missouri HumanitiesCouncil awarded Rottmann the Gover-

nor’s Humanties Excellence in Commu-nity Heritage Award at a ceremony at theGovernor’s Mansion in Jefferson City.

Rottmann served as president of Mis-souri Press Women in 1966 and wasnamed Woman of Achievement in 1982.A graduate of the University of Missouri,she was on the MU public relations stafffrom 1958 until she retired in 1987.

Rottmann represented the UnitedStates at the 1980 UNESCO seminar inJapan on re-entry women.❏

The Fund will provide 120 intern-ships in 2004 to college students who arejuniors, seniors and graduate students inits copy editing and sports copy editingprograms and to minority college sopho-mores and juniors in business reporting.

Another $119,000 in grants will fund28 summer workshops for minority highschool journalism students. One of thoseworkshops will be at UMC.❏

Ozark area studentscan enter essay contest

Sunshine violation voidsSouthwest City action

New Madrid publishertakes county clerk office

Press Women honor Columbian

J School will be summer editing center

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4 opinions in 2003provide guidance

‘Redaction’ an important open records tool

JeanManeke

MPALegal Hotline

Counselor

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Periodically, our state’s attorneygeneral, Jay Nixon, opines on theSunshine Law. While his opinion

doesn’t carry the weight of the courts,these opinions are helpful in offeringguidance to public officials regarding theinterpretation of thelaw in terms of ac-cess to publicrecords.

Four opinionsdealt with SunshineLaw and related is-sues in 2003. Onedealt with juvenilerecords; anotherwith quasi-publicbodies and access torecords in the hands of a consultant. Athird dealt with access to election regis-tration records. The last dealt with re-lease of the addresses of members of not-for-profit corporations.

The earliest opinion arose from therequest from Warrensburg Mayor MikeRich regarding handling of identifiableinformation in records of juvenile courtproceedings. The mayor asked the AG’soffice to interpret the relationship be-tween the provisions of Chapter 610, theSunshine Law, with the provisions inChapter 211 on juvenile records.

In particular, the mayor sought a clari-fication as to release of arrest and inci-dent reports containing identifiable in-formation on juveniles.

The AG’s office clarified first that itspoke only in terms of records from

juvenile court proceedings, as opposedto, say, police or sheriff ’s records. Inlooking at the provisions of Chapter 610that mandate openness in arrest and inci-dent reports, and Chapter 211, whichcloses records regarding the identity ofjuveniles, the AG’s opinion concludedthat if a record otherwise should be openunder Chapter 610, then the agencymust redact all identifying information

regarding juveniles and make the balanceof the report public.

It acknowledged that in making theseredactions more than just the identity ofthe juvenile might have to be redacted tofully protect the juvenile’s identity.

The importantpart of this opinionfor us is the clarifica-tion of the AG’s of-fice of the duty ofREDACTING infor-mation from an oth-erwise open report.In short, if an inci-dent report containsthe name of juvenilewitnessses, only that

portion of the report that contains iden-tifiable information concerning the juve-nile can be closed. The balance must re-main open.

Further, if a report is released contain-ing the name of a juvenile, rememberthat the provisions of Chapter 211 applyonly to juveniles under the supervision ofthe court and not to the public at large.

The second opinion relating torecords access focused on names and

addresses of members of not-for-profitcorporations collected pursuant to Chap-ter 355. Those names and numbers areto be made available to permit membersto communicate with each other prior tothe annual meeting and to permit mem-bers to identify other members.

Sen. John Russell (District 33), wroteto ask the Attorney General if any federalprivacy law conflicted with the state lawrequiring disclosure of those records. TheAG’s office looked particularly at 5U.S.C. Section 552a, which it noted ap-plied to agencies that maintain informa-tion.

Because the information kept by thestate did not fall within the records iden-tified in the federal law, the AG’s opinionwas that the federal law did not prohibit

disclosure under state law of the informa-tion when the state collects.

In November, two decisions were is-sued by the AG’s office on the same date,both of some significance to MPA mem-bers. The first, issued at the request ofSen. Chuck Gross, looked at electionlaws, in particular at the voter registra-tion list in an electronic format.

Two questions arose in this context:First, whether the election authorityshould provide electronic access, and sec-ond, whether the paper’s request wouldconstitute use for “commercial purposes”prohibited by Section 115.158.

It is important to note here that thisstatute excludes from “commercial pur-poses” a use of the list for campaign pur-poses, for candidate purposes or for “bal-lot measures,” all of which mean thatthose involved in elections and campaignmailing have a right to this data.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the entityseeking access, had affirmed in a letterthat the use was for the newsroom andnot for the advertising department.Therefore, the AG opinion concludedthat this clearly was not for commercialpurposes and that the list must be madeavailable. In this context, it noted thatany penalty for commercial use attachedto the user and not to the election au-thority for its release of the list.

Further, the opinion pointed out thatthere was precedent in its opinions forthe fact that the list must be made avail-able in an electronic format if it was soavailable.

Finally, on that same date, the Attor-ney General’s Office released an opinionat the request of Sen. John Loudon. I de-tailed this opinion in my column thatran in December, so I will not dwell on itagain.

Suffice it to say that the opinion con-cluded that a citizens advisory com-

mittee appointed by the city to make rec-ommendations about the city’s land useplan was subject to the Sunshine Lawand had to keep minutes and a record ofits votes. Further, if a record was createdfor presentation to a public governmentalbody by a consultant, then that was apublic record and must be producedupon request.

All of these 2003 opinions are avail-able from the AG’s web page at ago.state.mo.us/opinions/opinions.htm.❏


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On the Move


✒ BeltonPaula Parrish has been named editor

of The Journal in Belton/Raymore. She isa 1986 graduate of Belton High Schooland a 1991 journalism graduate of theUniversity of Kansas.

Parrish has worked for a number oflarge newspapers, including the Minne-apolis Star Tribune and the Rocky Moun-tain News. She has covered two OlympicGames and two Super Bowls during hercareer as a sports writer.

Parrish is married to Kamon Simpson,The Journal’s sports editor.

✒ St. LouisCharles Guenther, 83, who for 50

years reviewed poetry for the Post-Dis-patch, has retired.

Mr. Guenther is a native of St. Louis,has written several books of poetry andhas written articles for more than 300magazines worldwide.

✒ Excelsior SpringsPhil Senger and Michael Daniels have

joined the news staff of the Standard,working part-time.

Senger worked for 23 years evaluatingclaims for Missouri unemployment in-surance in the Kansas City area.

Daniels is a senior at Lawson HighSchool.

✒ Cape GirardeauCape Girardeau native and the South-

east Missourian’sArts & Leisureeditor, SamBlackwell, hasbeen named thepaper’s manag-ing editor.

Blackwell willwork closelywith the editor,oversee thenewsroom andserve on the edi-torial board.

Blackwellholds degrees inEnglish fromSoutheast Mis-souri State University and in journalismfrom the Missouri School of Journalism.He joined the Southeast Missourian fulltime in 1973 as a sports writer. Aftermoving around the country for a numberof years he returned to the paper in1992. He’s married to Dr. Danna Cot-ner.

Blackwell succeeded Heidi Hall, whotook a job as an assistant metro editor forthe Tampa Tribune.

✒ FayetteLinda Vroman, a veteran of nearly 20

years with the Fayette newspapers, hasbeen named office manager.

Jan Wiese-Fales, a graphic artist, hasjoined the staff. She’s in charge of ad pro-

duction and is doing some news work.Jane Ann Welcelean, who retired re-

cently after many years as director of col-lege services at Central Methodist Col-lege, has joined the staff to help withcommercial printing and proofing.

Wiese-Fales and Welcelean work parttime.

✒ JoplinBrent Fisher has been named executive

sports editor of The Globe. He served asassistant design chief since June 2000.

Fisher is a native of Webb City and agraduate of Southwest Missouri StateUniversity. He worked at The MorningSun in Pittsburg, Kan., before joiningThe Globe.

Fisher and his wife, Michelle, havefive children.

The Globe named Aaron Bycoffe, a de-signer and copy editor at The Globe sinceJune 2002, to replace Fisher as assistantdesign chief.

Bycoffe is a journalism graduate ofTemple University in Philadelphia.

✒ Montgomery CityDavid Gaines has joined the Mont-

gomery Standard as sports writer. Gainesalso works as a broadcaster for KMCRradio. He does basketball play-by-playfor the station.

This is Gaines’ first journalism effort.He has worked as a football and basket-ball referee the past several years andcontinues to pursue that activity.

Gaines and his wife, Dara, live outsideof Jonesburg with their seven children,ages 2 through 15.

Gaines also is president of Cavalier

Sam Blackwellnamed managingeditor at SoutheastMissourian.

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Asset Management, a St. Louis-basedcompany. He serves on the MontgomeryCounty R-II School Board and as deputyfire chief of Jonesburg-High Hill FireProtection District.

✒ JacksonGina Bader has been named publisher

of The Cash-Book Journal.Gerald Jones,

owner of the pa-per and presi-dent of JacksonPublishing Co.,Inc., announcedthe promotionsof Bader and ofDavid Bloom toassistant pub-lisher.

Jones is pre-siding commis-sioner of CapeGirardeauCounty.

Bader startedat the weeklywhile in highschool in thecirculation de-partment. Sheremains vicepresident andsecretary of thepublishing com-pany. She is agraduate ofSoutheast Mis-souri State andis working on amaster’s degree.

Bloom joined the paper about 17years ago after serving as editor of TheDemocrat News in Fredericktown for 11years. He is a graduate of the MissouriSchool of Journalism and a past presi-dent of the Southeast Missouri Press As-sociation.

✒ SmithvilleJeff Adkins, formerly editor of The

Kearney Courier, has been named editorof The Smithville Herald. Both weekliesare owned by the St. Joseph News-PressGazette Co.

Adkins is a native of Emporia, Kan.He has 15 years in the newspaper busi-ness.

The Herald news staff includes DebraDittmer, features editor, and Anita ReneeLangemach, sports editor.

Adkins, 35, is married and lives inKansas City, North. He has worked forThe Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, The Win-field (Kan.) Daily Courier and the Inde-pendence Examiner.

✒ RollaSeth Sowers, 26, the son of Daily

News publisher Stephen E. Sowers, hasjoined the newspaper as sports editor. Hereplaced longtime sports editor DaveRoberts, who retired last summer.

Reporter Bill E. Morrison served asinterim sports editor.

Sowers is a graduate of Duke Universi-ty. He previously worked for MizzouSports Properties in Columbia, where hehelped promote University athletics.

Jennifer Hynes and Jeremy Copelandremain on the sports news staff of theDaily News.

✒ StocktonJana Hen-

dricks hasjoined the staffof the CedarCounty Republi-can as officemanager.

She replacedBecky Jones,who took a newposition in Bol-iver with Com-munity Publish-ers of MissouriInc., whichowns the Stockton and Bolivar papers.

✒ Mountain ViewThe Standard News has a new publish-

er and editor, effective Jan. 1.Tianna Brooks is the new publisher.

She and her husband, David, and youngdaughter are natives of Mountain View.She graduated from Southwest BaptistUniversity with a degree in educationand is broker-associate for a real estateagency.

Betty Womack is the new editor. Shehas been with the newspaper for twoyears. Womack and her husband, Cecil,and two children are natives of the BirchTree and Mountain View areas.

The newspaper office now is at 1004East Highway 60 in Mounain View.

✒ St. JosephPatrick J.

King was hiredas an advertisingspecialist at theSt. Joseph News-Press. He previ-ously worked asa senior art di-rector and pho-to editor withLPI Media inLos Angeles.

King gradu-ated from theKansas City ArtInstitute and did graduate work at Par-sons School of Design in New York.

✒ KennettBud Hunt, publisher of the Daily

Dunklin Democrat in Kennett, has beennamed publisher of The Daily Statesmanin Dexter, the Delta News Citizen inMalden and the North Stoddard Countiannewspaper, which serves Advance andBloomfield.

He succeeds Barbara Hill, publisher ofthe Delta North properties for RustCommunications, who retired Jan. 31.

Hill began her career with the DexterStatesman in 1962 as a reporter. She waseditor before becoming advertising man-ager in 1974.

In 1991 she became publisher of theDexter and Kennett daily newspapersand also assumed the publisher’s dutieswhen Malden, Bloomfield and Advancewere added to the Delta properties.

Hunt has been publisher of the Ken-nett newspaper since 1994. Before that,he was editor of the newspaper.

The Delta North newspapers are apart of Rust Communications, which in-cludes 17 daily papers and 30 weeklynewspapers as well as numerous shoppersand specialty publications in seven states.

✒ Atlanta, Ga.Rachel Conger, daughter of Phil and

Kathy Conger of the Bethany Republican-Clipper, has moved from Albuquerque toAtlanta, where she started work Dec. 15with the Journal-Constitution as a pagedesigner.❏

David Bloom is apast president ofSoutheast Missou-ri Press.

Jana Hendricks isthe office managerfor the Cedar Coun-ty Republican.

Gina Badernamed publisherof Cash-BookJournal.

Patrick J. Kinghas worked orstudied on bothcoasts.

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Another free tab to download

Dawn Kitchell isMPA’s NIE coordinator.Contact her at (636)390-2821; [email protected]

When his big brother becomes one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, Joey Cooper gets a front row seat to an important episode in Americanhistory. He watches as some of the first black men in America areallowed to serve their country as fighter pilots. Joey also learns aboutone of America’s greatest scientists, George Washington Carver. In this new eight-part serial, Joey uses his vivid imagination to soar through the skies, creating the sound of Black Thunder.

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What’s Growin’ On In Mis-souri?

Agriculture is important toMissouri, and Missouri makes a signifi-cant contribution to feeding our nationand world.

Did you know Missouri is home to108,000 farms — second in numberonly to Texas.

And Missouri is a lead-ing state in beef and dairycattle, as well as poultryand egg production.

Missouri is the secondlargest exporter of pork,and our total productionaccounts for about 9 per-cent of the total world sup-ply.

These are just a few ofthe facts and figures high-lighted in our newest MPANewspaper In Educationproject “What’s Growin’On in Missouri.”

This month we’re releas-ing a 16-page tabloid sec-tion available to Missourinewspapers at no cost. Thismaterial will be availableon-line in pdf format, or on CD for a $5shipping fee.

The back cover of this tabloid is avail-able for your newspaper to seek sponsor-ship of the section.

We’re also working on an in-paper se-ries with an abbreviated version of thesame information. This series should beavailable soon, and we’ll highlight it asone of our fall programs.

This project is a partnership with theMissouri Department of Agriculture.

New Serial Story DebutsMissouri Press Foundation has re-

leased its 14th serial story, “Black Thun-der,” written by Kay Hively and illustrat-ed by Billie Goforth-Stewart.

When his big brother becomes one ofthe famous Tuskegee Airmen, Joey Coo-

per gets a front-row seat toan important episode inAmerican history. Hewatches as some of the firstblack men in America areallowed to serve their coun-try as fighter pilots. Joeyalso learns about one ofAmerica’s greatest scientists,George Washington Carver.In this new eight-part serial,Joey uses his vivid imagina-tion to soar through theskies, creating the sound ofBlack Thunder.

Prior to the release of thisstory, MPF retired “Han-nah’s Diary.” Plans are be-ing made to turn our firststory into a children’s

book.Sample chapters and contracts for

“Black Thunder” are now available onour website, mopress.com. Link to NIEand then to our Serial Story pages.

Part Three in Civic Series ReadyThe third in our four-part high school

civics series on landmark Supreme CourtCases will soon be on-line.

The question, “Should participationin extracurricular activities trigger drugtesting,” is presented in this quarter’s fea-ture looking at the Vernonia v. ActonandPottawatomie v. Earls cases.

The final part in this school year’s se-ries will be available for Law Day, May 1,and will address Brown vs. Board of Edu-cation. This year marks the 50th anniver-sary of that ruling.

This project is a partnership with TheMissouri Bar. To find these features onour website, visit mopress.com and linkto the NIE page. The civics series is post-ed under the “Newspaper Features” link.

This is the cover of the new NIEtabloid “What’s Growin’ on in Mis-souri?” The tab can be downloadedfrom mopress.com or ordered on aCD for $5, which covers shipping.

New serial story, “Black Thunder,” ready for your readers


NIE Week March 1-5Newspaper In Education

Week is celebrated the firstweek in March. Each year, theNewspaper Association ofAmerica Foundation produces ateacher guide and other compli-mentary material and makes itavailable to all newspapers.

Through a special arrange-ment with NAA, Missouri Presshas purchased the material andwill post it on-line for freedownload by any MPA newspa-per.

The goal of NIE Week re-mains to reinforce a positiveand relevant lifetime readinghabit in students by engagingthem with an authentic text —the newspaper.

This year’s theme is “JustThink!” and focuses on helpingstudents develop higher-levelthinking skills using the news-paper.

NAA encourages newspapersto make copies of the teacherguide for your teachers to usewith your newspaper. Therealso are ads for use in promot-ing reading and NIE.

To find this information onour website, visit mopress.comand link to the NIE page. Wewill post these features underthe “Important News” heading.

100th Birthday of Dr. SeussDr. Seuss’ birthday is cele-

brated each March 2 as part ofRead Across America activities.This year marks the “Seussent-ennial.” NAA worked with theSeuss Estate to create a writingcontest your newspaper mayadapt. If you would like moreinformation on this contest,please send me an e-mail([email protected]).

Two years ago, MissouriPress created an in-paper fea-ture for this celebration called“Reading Across Missouri” thatoffers newspaper activities tiedto Dr. Seuss books. This featureis still available on our websiteand would be another great way

to commemorate the cele-bration in your community.

New FundraisingOpportunity

MissouriLife Magazine isoffering another opportuni-ty to raise funds for News-paper In Education pro-grams with its latest Lewisand Clark publication.

MissouriLife’s new book:“Lewis and Clark’s JourneyAcross Missouri” featuresbeautiful four-color pho-tography, maps and expedi-tion excerpts.

Presented in 8.5 x 11inch-format with 116 pag-es, the book includes 17chapters, including a day-by-day account of Lewisand Clark’s journey alongthe Missouri River as wellas interesting stops for visi-tors today.

Authored by Brett Dufurand other notable MissouriLewis and Clark experts,“Lewis and Clark’s JourneyAcross Missouri” has a cov-er price of $24.95. Yournewspaper can order as fewas 20 copies of the book atthe discounted rate of $11each, including shippingand handling. Reselling thebooks offers you a profit of$13.95 per book. If you or-der 50 or more your priceis $10 each.

Unsold books may bereturned to MissouriLife fora refund. All your newspa-per pays is return shippingcosts.

For more information orto order books, call 1-800-492-2593, ext. 106, or visitmissourilife.com/nie to or-der online. MissouriLifepublisher Greg Wood willsend you a review copy ifyou would like to see thepublication beforeordering.❏

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Editor Kim McCully ofthe Aurora Advertisersent this note and photo

to Missouri Press. They’reabout the publication of a bookabout the tornadoes that struckSouthwest Missouri last spring.

Here is McCully’s note:“We worked hard for several

months to compile and con-dense the information submit-ted by our readers. The first-person, narrative accounts ofthe funnels and the devastationthat ensued speak for them-selves.

“We didn’t want to makemoney off of the tragedy; how-ever, we did want to documenthistory and pay tribute to thosewho died, as well as to thosewho survived by putting to-gether something a little moresubstantial than a special edi-tion newspaper.

“We will be donating theproceeds to the long-term re-covery committee’s efforts here inLawrence County. A local man, DavidDeMoss, whose son videotaped thestorm, has already given us almost$2,000 for our victims’ fund.

“To date, we will be donating at leastanother $500 soon and as we sell morebooks, we’ll be donating more. Our ini-

my head as the funnels dartedback and forth, hovering overhouses about 50 yards from myhome on Aurora’s north side.

“I stood in the street snappingaway as my ex-husband screamedat me to take cover with him, myson and some neighbors in ourcellar.

“The tornado then ripped afew metal panels from atop anearby MFA gas co-op stationand the hair on my arms stoodon end. I decided it was time torun and I did just that as the tor-nado veered north on Lover’sLane and began its swath of de-struction between Aurora andMarionville, hurling debris highinto the sky as it went.

“In covering the storms insouthwest Missouri in recentmonths, I have realized evenmore that: Life is precious. Weall matter. Miracles do happen.Faith still holds. Things can bereplaced and hearts can be mend-

ed. And as long as we’re traveling in thecompany of those we love, we are trulyfortunate.”

If you would like to order a copy ofthe tornado book, send a check for$45.64 ($39.95 plus $5.69 for tax andshipping) to Aurora Advertiser, PO Box509, Aurora, MO 65605.❏

Tornadoes of 2003 documentedSale of books will benefit long-term recovery efforts

tial cost of the first 500 books was $25each, which does not include our timeand labor and materials that have beeninvolved.

“I have often scoffed at journalistswho put themselves in danger to get thatgood photograph. Somehow, the funnelsmust have sucked my own brain out of

CAPE GIRARDEAU — ZimmerRadio Group plans to sell 17 ofits 32 stations to the newly

formed Mississippi River Radio, thecompanies said. Financial terms of thedeal were not disclosed.

Rust Communications, also based inCape Girardeau, is among the investorsin Mississippi River Radio. Rust ownsand operates more than 50 newspapers,including the Southeast Missourian inCape Girardeau and several others in

Reporter Michelle McCully and editor Kim McCullylook over copies of “Twisting in the Wind: Reflectionson Tragedy/A Tribute to Triumph” in the office of theAurora Advertiser. (Aurora Advertiser photo)

Missouri.Rust will invest in up to 20 percent of

the equity of Mississippi River Radio.Stations being sold are in Cape Gi-

rardeau, Poplar Bluff and Sikeston/Malden in Missouri, and in Carbondale/Marion in Illinois.

Zimmer Radio Group, based in CapeGirardeau, is owned by brothers Don,James, John, Jerry, Tom and David Zim-mer. Thirteen of its remaining 15 sta-tions are in Missouri; the other two are

in Lawrence, Kan.“We searched for a company that

would continue our focus on the localcommunity and retain our philosophy ofpublic service,” James Zimmer said.

The principal shareholder in Missis-sippi River Radio is Virginia-based MaxMedia, which operates radio and televi-sion stations in smaller markets. The dealmust be approved by the Federal Com-munications Commission.❏

Rust buys stake in Zimmer radio stations


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Obituaries


Poplar Bluff

Henry Wolpers89 — Former owner

Henry Millington “Hank” Wolpers, aformer part-owner of the Poplar

Bluff Daily American Republic, died Dec.27, 2003, in Barnes-Jewish Hospital inSt. Louis.

Mr. Wolpers earned an engineeringdegree at UM-Rolla and worked for anumber of years on major constructionprojects around the country.

In 1952, after the death of his father,John H. Wolpers, Hank Wolpers settledin Poplar Bluff with his family. He be-came the plant and equipment managerat the newspaper, which was run by histwo brothers and his brother-in-law.

Mr. Wolpers retired when the familysold the newspaper in 1988. His wife,Marianna, died in 2002. Survivors aretwo daughters and two grandchildren.

Kansas City

Hugh Gordon Hadley91 — Retired Star editor

Hugh Gordon Hadley, an editor andcolumnist for The Kansas City Star

for more than 30 years, died Dec. 13,2003, at a health center in Kansas City.

Mr. Hadley joined The Star as a re-porter in 1945. He soon became a copyeditor on the city desk for the morningpaper, The Times, where he served mostof his career. He was named The Star’sAbout Town columnist in 1974 and heretired in 1977.

Survivors are his wife, Freda; twobrothers, four children, five grandchil-dren and nine great-grandchildren.

Columbia

Ben Johnson53 — Former Missourian editor

Ben Johnson, managing editor ofthe Columbia Missourian from

1985-1990, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Dec. 22, 2003,

in Huntsville, Ala.Mr. Johnson joined MU as director of

the Multicultural Management Program,which trained professional journalists towork with and manage people of differ-ent cultures. He replaced Brian Brooks asmanaging editor in 1987.

Mr. Johnson worked at the DetroitFree Press before joining MU and at theSt. Petersburg Times after leaving.

He leaves his wife, Mary Bullard-Johnson; two daughters and two grand-sons.

Fredericktown

Helen A. Gamblin80 — Office manager

Helen A. Gamblin, who joined theFredericktown Democrat News in

1955, died Jan. 5, 2004.Mrs. Gamblin was the proofreader,

bookkeeper and production overseer forthe newspaper as its management passedfrom publisher to publisher. She retiredin 2000.❏

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MPA editor KentFord can bereached by emailat [email protected].

Call will come soonfrom committee chair

Housekeeping

Cluttered calendar needs constant surveillance


Take your eye off the calendar thistime of year and something willslip past. With so much happen-

ing, the chore becomes remembering tolook at the schedule often enough.

Technology can help, if you’re so in-clined. Your computer calendar will re-mind you of meetings andevents. That’s just what weneed, another intrusion whenwe’re trying to concentrate.

Expect to be asked soon tobe on one of three

MPA+20 long-ranging plan-ning committees. MPA Presi-dent Gary Sosniecki summa-rized his proposal for this ef-fort at the Jan. 15 board meet-ing in St. Joseph. He also ex-plains it in his magazine col-umn in this issue.

The committees and theirchairs and co-chairs are:

✓ Dollars and Cents: JohnSpaar of Odessa and Wendell Lenhart ofTrenton.

✓ Membership and Leadership: SteveOldfield of Adrian and Bill Miller, Sr., ofWashington.

✓ Relationships and Partnerships:Dave Berry and Jim Sterling.

This project will advance two of Sos-niecki’s goals for his year as presidency. Itwill provide a peek into the future ofMPA, and it will provide a means to givemore members a voice in MPA affairs.

Committee chairs will be contactingMPA members to recruit them to theircommittees. Be ready for the invitation,and seriously consider joining the effortto make your association better.

A Day at the Capitol sign-up form isenclosed. You’ll also receive it in the

Bulletin. Get signed up by Feb. 13 forthis always-interesting event. It’s free, and

you get lunch in the Governor’s Mansionand a look at state government in action,such as it is.

In the meantime, as you read newsfrom the Capitol in the next couple ofweeks, jot down a question or two forthe sessions with officials. With bills be-

ing worked over, campaignsbeing waged and budgets be-ing crafted, questionsabound.

Two judging days ap- proach. We’ll grade theTennessee Press Association’sad contest Feb. 26 and thenewspaper contest March 18.Both sessions will be at theHoliday Inn Select in Co-lumbia.

Do what you can to helpwith those chores.

Tennessee Press will judgeyour newspaper contest

this summer. (Rules for thecontest will be in the March magazine.They’ll also be on mopress.com.)

The Contest Committee, under thechairmanship of Dan Wehmer of Sey-mour, will meet Thursday, Feb. 5, to dis-cuss this year’s rules. If you’ve got anysuggestions for the contest, email or callthem in to the MPA office and we’ll seethat Dan and the committee see them.

Information has been sent to newspa-pers about the Missouri and AP edi-

tors meeting to be held April 1-2 in St.Louis. This magazine also has that infor-mation.

Gov. Bob Holden will speak at theFriday awards luncheon of the AssociatedPress Managing Editors.

The Missouri Society of NewspaperEditors has been privileged to have thegovernor speak at its annual meetingsince the group was founded more than

10 years ago. Succeeding governors havebeen agreeable to maintaining that tradi-tion, to our benefit.

Sunshine Week is coming, the firstsuch observance in Missouri. Get the

material off the website, mopress.com,and participate in this observance of ourSunshine Law.

Tell your readers how fortunate theyare to have a state law that declares it isthe policy of this state that meetings ofpublic officials and records of publicagencies are open to them. They pay thebills and they suffer the consequences ofgovernance, so they’ve got the statutoryright to attend meetings and peruserecords.

Remind them that secrecy protects thegovernment from its citizens, whileopenness protects citizens from their gov-ernment.

Sunshine Sunday is Feb. 8; SunshineWeek Feb. 8-14.

Mopress.com also has some new ma-terial for Newspaper In Education

programs. You can download a tab aboutMissouri agriculture, or “Black Thun-der,” Kay Hively’s latest serial story.

You still can get the Lewis & Clark taband series, too. That material will remaintimely for a couple of years, so use itwhen you can.

NIE Week is March 1-5, a great ex-cuse for focusing on that tremendousprogram for a few days.

Northwest Missouri Press Associationpresented me with its Craig Wat-

kins Friend of Northwest Press Award atits meeting in St. Joseph. That was awonderful surprise.

Many of the newspaper people in thatpart of the state are old friends. My wife,Sharon, and I were active in NorthwestPress when we published the Times Ob-server in Oregon. Craig Watkins, thenamesake of the award, printed our pa-per for a couple of years at his plant inCameron.

Craig died of cancer a few years back.He was a good friend and a loyal newspa-per associate. The Northwest Press awardis named well, and it’s an honor to bechosen to receive it. Thanks to North-west Press and to Phil Conger of Bethanyfor his kind presentation.❏

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Nostalgia

MissouriPress News1 9 4 41 9 4 4

February


✒ New LondonThe Ralls County Record suspended

publication Jan. 28 when J. Porter Fisher,Jr., publisher, reported for duty with thenavy Jan. 29.

Publication of the Record was suspend-ed by Thomas R. Dodge, founder, in1855 in order that he might serve as asoldier in the Civil War.

✒ BreckenridgeW.W. Sage of Liberty bought the

Breckenridge Bulletin from J.T. Kenowerlast month. Due to failing health, Ke-nower was forced to give up his work. Hehad published the Bulletin for 48 years.

✒ WellsvilleCharles T. Deiter of Fulton has pur-

chased the Wellsville Optic-News fromMrs. Robert Jacobi. Mrs. Jacobi has pub-lished the paper since the death of herhusband about a year ago.

✒ MexicoCpl. Franklyn Barclay, former staff

photographer for the Mexico Ledger, ispursuing a hobby and at the same timeserving in the armed forces. During hisboyhood in Mexico he had experience intraining pigeons and is now a member ofthe Pigeon Company, training carrier pi-geons, at Minter Field, Calif.

✒ Poplar BluffSpecial recognition was given to John

H. Wolpers, publisher of the Poplar BluffDaily American Republic. He is believedto have been the first scoutmaster inAmerica, having organized and directed atroup in 1909, a year before scouting wasofficially introduced in this country.

✒ ColumbiaLt. Earl F. Pollock, a former editor of

the Missouri Press News, has been report-ed missing during a routine trainingflight in the South Pacific.

✒ MexicoThe Mexico Ledger sponsored a “Name

the Bomber” contest in cooperation withthe Audrain County War Finance Com-mittee this month. All purchasers of $25Series “E” war bonds were entitled tomail to the Ledger one choice of a namefor the Flying Fortress which is to bepurchased by Audrain County throughwar bond sales.

✒ UnionvilleThe Unionville Republican froze its

circulation Feb. 9. No new subscriptions,except to persons in the armed forces, arebeing accepted. A waiting list has beenestablished for new subscribers.

The difficulty in obtaining additionalemployees, additional taxes, the increasedcost of production, and conservation ofnewsprint were given as reasons for freez-ing the Republican’s circulation.

✒ AmsterdamThe Amsterdam Border Banner sus-

pended publication with the issue of Feb.11 for the duration and perhaps longer.Ralph O. Fritts, editor, reported for in-duction into the navy Feb. 18.

✒ ColumbiaThe first meeting of the new board of

directors of the Missouri Press Associa-tion was somewhat disasterous for atleast two members Jan. 24.

Louie Bowman of King City only gotfive miles from town when his car wentinto a tailspin on icy pavement and end-ed up in a ditch.

Charlie Blanton of Sikeston got al-most to Columbia when ice caused hiscar to get out of control and scoot downa line of fence posts. He had to take thetrain home.

✒ Pierce CityState Sen. Meredith “Pete” Garten,

publisher of the Pierce City Leader Jour-nal, has announced his candidacy for re-

election on the Republican ticket. He ispresently concluding his first term.

✒ SikestonThe Sikeston Herald was sold, effective

Feb. 1, to a company composed of theC.L. Blanton family and the SikestonStandard Publishing Co., which publish-es the daily Sikeston Standard.

✒ ClintonThe Montrose Tidings, a weekly news-

paper published by D.D. Scroggs and hisson, David Scroggs Jr., has been sold ef-fective Feb. 11 to the publishers of theClinton Eye, C.W. Dickgrafe and FloydH. Pinkston.

✒ HoustonThe front page of the Houston Herald

and Houston Republican reporting the as-sassination of President Kennedy hasbeen included in a slide presentation ofnewspaper front pages on the President’sdeath, prepared at the University of IowaSchool of Journalism at Iowa City.

The slide presentation will be used forinstructional purposes and will also be apart of the school’s collection of notablematerials in the history of journalism.

✒ WarrensburgMr. and Mrs. A.G. Taubert, publishers

of the Warrensburg Standard-Herald since1924, have sold the weekly to three em-ployees: William J. Kirby, Floyd Richand Richard E. Thurston.

The Standard-Herald was organized in1865 by two former Union Army offic-ers, S.K. Hall and N.B. Klaine.

✒ ClintonThe use of a lost and found window at

the office of the Clinton Eye apparently ispaying rich dividends, at least this proba-bly is the feeling of general managerC.W. Dickgrafe.

Recently, Dickgrafe misplaced one ofhis overshoes and all but accused his co-horts of wearing an extra one. That is,until Dickgrafe found the missing over-shoe in the lost and found window.❏


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_____2. Membership and Leader-ship Task Force. Steve Oldfield,Chair; Bill Miller, Co-chair. Top-ics: Mission Statement for MissouriPress Association -- Retaining andgrowing membership -- KeepingMPA relevant for independentnewspapers and group-ownednewspapers -- Member services --Development of future newspaperowners -- Development of futureMPA leaders -- Other

_____3. Relationships and Partner-ships Task Force. Dave Berry,Chair; Jim Sterling, Co-chair.Topics: MPA's relationship withSchool of Journalism -- MPA'srelationship with NNA, NAA,MSNE, AP, ISWNE, MAMA (admanagers), MCMA (college media),MCMA (circulation managers) --MPA's relationship with newsmedia groups/potential coalitionallies interested in common legisla-tive issues -- Missouri Press Foun-dation -- Regional press organiza-tions: NW, SE, Ozark, Show-MePress -- Other

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NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Kay Wilson, Maryville;First Vice President, Jamey Honeycutt, Cameron; Second Vice President, Steve Tinnen,Plattsburg; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer, Chris Boultinghouse, MoundCity. Directors: Dennis Ellsworth, St. Joseph; Kathy Whipple, Kearney; Becky Sellars,Smithville; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; W.C. Farmer, Rock Port; Wendell Lenhart, Trenton;Tim Larson, Maryville.

SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Dick Fredrick, Paris; First Vice President,Charlie Fischer, Sedalia; Second Vice President, Jeff Hedberg, Centralia; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Steckly, Harrisonville. Directors: Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Rob Viehman,Cuba; Mark Cheffey, Palmyra; Linda Oldfield, Adrian; John Spaar, Odessa; DennisWarden, Owensville.

OZARK PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Keith Moore, Ava; Vice President, FredHall, Crane; Secretary-Treasurer, Jeff Schrag, Springfield. Directors: Dala Whittaker,Cabool; Rosemary Hailey, Mount Vernon; Brad Gentry, Houston; Roger Dillon, Eminence;Frank Martin III, West Plains. Past President: Helen Sosniecki.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Annabeth Miller, Dexter;First Vice President, Scott Moyers, Cape Girardeau; Second Vice President, BarbieRogers, Doniphan; Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff; Historian, Mrs.Mildred Wallhausen, Charleston; Executive Secretary, Ann Hayes, Southeast MissouriState University. Directors: Kim Million-Gipson, Piedmont; Peggy Scott, Festus; MarkYoung, Marble Hill; H. Scott Seal, Portageville.

DEMOCRATIC EDITORS OF MISSOURI: President, Richard Fredrick, Paris; First VicePresident, Bob Cunningham, Moberly; Secretary, Beth McPherson, Weston; Treasurer,Linda Geist, Monroe City.

MISSOURI CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: President, Jim Kennedy,Bolivar; First Vice President, Brenda Carney, Harrisonville; Second Vice President, JackKaminsky, Joplin; Secretary, David Pine, Kansas City; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia.Directors: Ken Carpenter, Kansas City; Rob Siebeneck, Jefferson City.

MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Lisa Lynn,Sedalia; First Vice President, Beth Durreman, Lebanon; Second Vice President, KevinJones, St. Louis; Secretary, Jane Haberberger, Washington; Treasurer, Doug Crews,Columbia. Directors: Steve Hutchings, Gainesville; Debbie Chapman, Marshfield; JohnTucker, Jefferson City; Phil Surratt, Branson; John Spaar, Odessa.

MISSOURI ASSOCIATED DAILIES: President, Larry Freels, Kirksville; Vice President,Wally Lage, Cape Girardeau; Secretary, vacant; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia; PastPresident, Will Connaghan, St. Louis. Directors: Joe May, Mexico; Mahlon Miles, Clinton;Tom Turner, Camdenton; Ernest Hunt, Kennett; Ben Weir, Independence.

MISSOURI AFFILIATE, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PRESS WOMEN: President,Karen Glines, Des Peres; Vice President, Holly Berthold, Eureka; Finance Director, KarenZarky, St. Louis; Co-Secretaries, Peggy Koch, Barnhart, and Kathie Sutin, St. Louis;Committee Chairs: Alice Handelman, Village of Westwood, Publicity; Christy James,Richmond Heights, Membership; Gina Kutsch, St. Charles, Newsletter; Dee Raby,Granite City, Ill., Archivist; Pamela Walter, Clayton, Meetings; At Large Board: JuneBecht, St. Louis; Anne Heinrich, St. Louis; and Elly Wright, Kirkwood. Past President:Janice Denham, St. Louis.

MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Wendell Lenhart, Trenton; Vice President,William L. Miller, Sr., Washington; Secretary-Treasurer, Robert Wilson, Milan; Directors:William E. James, Harrisonville; David Lipman, St. Louis.

MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Tom Miller, Washington; First VicePresident, David Lipman, St. Louis; Second Vice President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa;Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: R.B. Smith III, Lebanon; WallaceVernon, Eldon; Rogers Hewitt, Shelbyville; James Sterling, Bolivar; Mrs. Wanda Brown,Harrisonville; Mrs. Avis Tucker, Warrensburg; Edward Steele, Columbia; Bill Bray,Columbia; Robert Wilson, Milan; Ralph Clayton, Caruthersville; Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill.

MISSOURI AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Charlie Fisher, Sedalia; ViceChairmen, Gary and Helen Sosniecki. Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman,Dennis Ellsworth, St. Joseph; First Vice Chairman, Diane Raynes, Trenton; Second ViceChairman, Oliver Wiest, Sedalia; Past Chairman, Buzz Ball, Neosho.

MISSOURI SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS: President, Bud Jones, Odessa;First Vice President, Buck Collier, St. Louis; Second Vice President, Buzz Ball, Neosho;Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Chris Wrinkle, Lebanon; DennisEllsworth, St. Joseph; Dale Brendel, Independence; Susan Miller Warden, Washington;and Cathy Ripley, Chillicothe.

MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: President, Dan Huber, St. LouisCommunity College-Meramec; Vice President, Dana Fecho, Central Missouri StateUniversity; Secretary, Jason Tyler, St. Louis Community College-Meramec; Adviser andMPA Liaison, Tammy Merrett, St. Louis Community College-Meramec.

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February5 — MPA Better Newspaper

Contest Committee meeting8 — Sunshine Sunday8-14 — Sunshine Week26 — MPA judges Tennessee

Ad Contest

March1-5 — Newspaper in Education

Week4 — MPA/AP Day at the Capitol17-20 — NNA Government Affairs

Conference, Wyndham Washington DC

18 — MPA judges TennesseeNewspaper Contest

April1-2 — Missouri Society of

Newspaper Editors, SheratonWestport Hotel, St. Louis.

15-16 — Missouri AdvertisingManagers’ Association,Sheraton Westport Hotel,St. Louis

16 — Southeast Missouri PressAssociation meeting, SoutheastMissouri State University, CapeGirardeau

May6 — Past Presidents & Spouses

Dinner, Country Clubof Missouri, Columbia

June3 — MPA/MPS Board meeting,

Holiday Inn, Lake Ozark3-5 — Show-Me Press

Association meeting, HolidayInn, Lake Ozark

4 — MPA Porter Fisher GolfClassic, Sycamore Creek GolfCourse, Osage Beach

24-25 — Central States NIEConference, Springdale, Ark.

July21-23 — The Living Textbook,

Newspaper In EducationTeacher Workshop, UMC

September9-11 — 138th Annual MPA

Convention & Trade Show,University Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, Springfield

15-18 — 118th Annual NationalNewspaper AssociationConvention, Denver, Colo.

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