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Show National Newspaper Week Oct. 1-8 This is National Newspaper Week and much will be said concerning the important role the newspapers play in the lives of the people they serve and the part the newspapers news-papers play in proving this year's slogan, "Your Newspaper Guards Your Freedom." The Springville Herald takes the opportunity offered by National Newspaper Week to point to a few facts and figures to prove that it rates with other newspapers which strive to serve and guard the public freedom; that it strives I with honest effort to keep its readers informed of what is going on, where it will take place, and for what reason. We take the issue of last week as an example. There were 83 stories of local happenings found in the paper's twelve pages, news stories in which people of this area should be interested. Perhaps not everyone was interested in every story but there were s&rne stories of interest to everyone. In addition to the 83 stories, there were approximately 388 names of Springville and Mapleton people found in the news stories, plus 29 pictures featuring local people and places to make the stories more interesting. To bring 83 stories with the most accurate accounts possible, pos-sible, to the attention of the readers and to get the 388 names in their proper places in the stories, there were approximately ap-proximately 81 contacts made. These included for the most part, talks with people over the telephone and conversations with others who made personal calls to the Springville Herald Her-ald office with information for the newspaper. And this is but one little phase of the weekly service performed by the Springville Herald to keep its readers informed. in-formed. There were on the pages of the newspaper last week a total of 55 advertisements, each one giving information of value to the housewife, the student, the workman, in fact to everyone who reads, eats, sleeps and is clothed. While we were writing these 83 stories, publishing the 388 names, talking with the 81 people, putting in the. 29 pictures with proper caption, there is good chance for mistake mis-take and we make them. Perhaps not the same as the paper which published the story about Mrs. Day being the featured sinner (instead of singer) in the church choir, or the one told during the war of the editor who wrote that "girls will be wearing nothing but cotton stockings during duration," but we are still human (despite some beliefs to the contrary) con-trary) and each one, the editor, the linotypist, the proofreader, proof-reader, the make-up man and the pressman all come in for the blame, even after someone reports the' story correctly. So we take the opportunity offered by this National Newspaper Week to tell our readers that we plan to continue con-tinue to serve the best we know how, to "Guard the Freedom" by reporting and publishing correct information so far as possible each week, that we appreciate cooperation of the , townspeople, the merchants and the subscribers and all others who contribute 'to the success of this newspaper. |