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Show To Insure Publication " Of News Items, Please Sign Your Stori People sending in news item be published in the Washin; County News are urged to 1 ; in mind the fact that they r i sign the story or letter to in j its publication. Unless the N 1 ! staff knows the source of T'news, it cannot take a chance i publishing it. I Attention is also called to j fact that the full name of a ; 'son must be sent in for the ' formation to be of use. To ; that Mr. Smith went to I Angeles doesn't complete 1 story. You must give the m j first name or initials othen j the information is incomplete, j might have been anyone o dozen "Mr. Smiths". Remember that all news it or stories, to be complete, n give the following information Rules' For Writing News It must tell "Who", "Wh , "Where", "What", and usu ' "How". Unless your news i contains that information i1 incomplete. Another point that is o overlooked, is that a mar woman's name should be sen using her husband's name as lows: "Mrs. John E. Brown" "Mrs. Mary Brown". There some exceptions to this rule in the case of a professi woman who uses her own n or a woman in business makes a practice of using her name. Be sure that your informatic t accurate. That all names spelled correctly; that your v ing is legible; that your infoi tion is of interest to our r ers; that there are no libe statements or statements tlat do personal harm. Do not ; in practical jokes as news iter they can result in a libel for you. Please do not send in adve ing matter under the guise "news". ; Do Not "Threaten" Please do not "threaten" News with various punishm ' if your news item is not ; ; lished. It is not necessary tc 1 cure a whole list of signat !t to get an article published. If story has news value, the . will attempt to give it space, hasn't, it wouldn't make any t in : fol- ference how many people sigr not yur letter. are After all, the News staff as publishing a newspaper and 0nal anxious to secure any informati ame that you have that is of real wn0 terest to its readers, own Keep in mind that the Wa ington County News covers )n is large territory and receives ne are from 24 different communities vrit- this section. Because of this f; ma- there is usually a considera ead- amount of news that cannot :lous published in the space that c will advertising will justify. Keep send mind that if your news is in ea ns in the week it stands a bet suit chance of being published than it comes in Wednesday or Thu rtis- day. ! Papers To Missionaries The Washington County Ne has the policy of sending t the paper free of charge to all rr lents sionaries from this section, w pub- are in the mission field in 1 i se- United States or Canada. The ures per will be sent free to those w : the go to foreign countries, but Jews charge is made to cover the e if it of postage when the paper g dif- out of this country. |