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Show "Fin" Pelrie Tells 'Em js; V Y O RK, A u g 17 U 1 Kin" Petrie, of Opal, Wyo., third annual winner or the 'bcst country con cspndent" award, told Met ropolilan reporters his jrot'i-ss.sioiml secrets today. "My rules are Just to report what sec tin" mostly what 1 listen to," he said. "News Is anything that comes into the store -anyone who comes in an' drops a remark." IVtrie referred lo the Opal Mercantile Mer-cantile company, general store of the town whose population Is ; about -10, "sometimes 50." Besides his salary there, he draws $( a month lor a signed "colyuin" in the Kemmerer Gazette, a weekly- When the award, to Petrie was announced, another paper in the region, the Laramie Boomerang, gave the news a top-head with the line, "You can have Winchell, we'll keep 'Fin' Petrie." Petrie was the first man to win the $200 award and a trip to New York. Regarding his biggest story Petrie wasn't cer- tain, but guessed it was a blizzard bliz-zard two years ago. "It made the front page of the Salt Lake Tribune," he said. Is that what you call big stuff?" Accompanied by Mi's. I'eLrie, he will visit Mayor F. H. LaGuardia today, will be interviewed on the radio tonight and will dine with Jack Dempsey tomorrow. He may go to Washington before returning return-ing to Opal. |