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Show King Sponsors Bill For Weeklies' Aid A bill which would permit weekly editors to keep their second class mailing permits if they published only 50 issues a year was introduced Monday by Rep. David S. King of Utah. Law presently requires that the weeklies publish 52 weeks a year to maintain these permits. "I feel this regulation is more stringent strin-gent that it needs to be," he said. "I can see several reasons why a weekly editor might very legitimately legi-timately miss a publication date I or two each year without ad-j ad-j versely affecting the public interest. in-terest. "If an editor felt that it was important that he attend a convention, con-vention, or participate in a newspaper news-paper workshop or in some self improvement program, he ought to be free to do so without going to the extra expense of hiring a replacement to run his shop for the week or two he is gone," the Congressman said. In most instances, a suitable replacement who knows the pa- per and its community can't be found anyway, Mr. King said. "So the editor has to pass up the convention, the workshop or a badly needed vacation, or leave has family to put out the paper," he said. The weeklies are the grassroots grass-roots of the nation's cherished freedom of the press, the Congressman Con-gressman said, and their editors are justly due "the measure of personal freedom and protection which this bill provides." |