Show Newspaper Week Calls for f r Appraisal This is National Newspaper Week Oct il to 8 and editors as aswell aswell well as the public should pause and take stock of what their local loca paper offers to the community a aHal Hal Boyle Doyle popular columnist for the Associated Press once said A newspaper like the community it reflects is the sun of those who make it and it-and and something more It has vitality of its own There is no reason why Thy good newspapers and good towns should fall fail to o grow together endlessly even though those who make them just grow old themselves and die The Times-Independent Times has faith in the city of Moab and its opportunities to grow It only hopes that it can keep pace with this growth and perhaps someday feel a bit of pride in the part that it might have played In helping along those to engineered growth The home town newspaper is something more than just a sheet to the community It serves many purposes within the city as it shares the joys and sorrows it tells of events to come and events that have passed It presents the plans and hopes of the city leaders to the one those plans will effect the resident and narrow down to the facts those rumors that race through the city growing with each telling The newspaper offers to the m merchant the chance to present his wares to the public pointing out the special bargains offered from the stock of the merchant Its advertising pages paes help to provide provide provide pro pro- vide many services to the reader It finds lost pets homes in which to live or who to call to perform a specific chore Although tragedy and sorrow often make the biggest story for or the average paper the editor is not usually a blood blood thirsting finds a story with a humorous side just as interesting Inthe in inthe inthe the papers paper's columns So during N National Newspaper Week take a look at your home homen hometown 1 town n paper Take a look at what it offers you as a reader at what It offers you as a community service and judge your salute of the week accordingly |