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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, OCTOBER. 1971 Mers the Dailies Bosit Print The news that ends up in the waste basket at the big metropolitan daily is the grist for the neighborhood weekly or small town newspaper. The news the dailies can't print is not the earthshaking stuff, which they must cover in as much detail as space permits: When a man lands on the Moon THE TRIB or THE NEWS will give it, quite rightly, a full spread on page one. Meanwhile, down in Valley, THE SENTINEL announces in bold headlines on page one that "Pant Suits are OK for School." The big daily gives its readers the news of the devaluation of the dollar, or the wage-pric- e picture and what Nixon's new policy has done to the economy. At the same time, bold headlines cry out the news that Midvale City and Jordon School District are cooperating on some new little league baseball and football fields on the Midvale Junior High School grounds. But by covering every small This difference in the two Jor-do- n types of front page news should not be interpreted to mean the dailies are not doing the right thing. There is so much plain but interesting small news in the state concerning the local towns- people, that the dailies cannot possibly include it all, and that is the place the home weekly comes in. Take the story which recently appeared in the SUMMIT COUNTY BEE, reporting that "Doyle and Mary Jean Simmons of Francis met at Liberty Park to have supper and visit with friends and relatives." You might have learned incidentally that Doyle and Mary Jean recently returned from Alberta, Canada where they had accompanied the South Summit Band to the Calgary Stampede. Obviously, the TRIB or could not handle a story It's not that a daily does not want to print personal news, but where would they stop? A popular couple goes to the park with friends. They cannot cover every such event among their 100,000 subscribers: It's really pretty impractical. NEWS like that. Salt Flat News New big to the people who read them. The RECORD in Park City has given full coverage to the issues of law and order, and specifically to the disturbances in the mining town during the art festival. Hard- ly worth a sentence or two in one of the two major dailies, all viewpoints are page one news in THE RECORD. There are plenty of details too. Not long ago THE LEADER showed main street under a foot of water after a heavy rain, and while it certainly wasn't newsworthy to a hard working city editor in Salt Lake, you can be sure that news was important to the LEADER'S subscribers. Why bring all this up in the SALT FLAT NEWS? Simply because we like the weeklies. Sure, we all read the dailies in order to keep up with the major news of the state, the nation and the world. We are in awe of their giant staffs, their modern technological press plants, and their fleets of trucks. But the weeklies are full of the stuff that makes up real life for most of the people. SALT FLAT NEWS is proud to be included as a feature supplement in, to date, fourteen of Utah's finest local weekly newspapers having a collective readership of almost 80,000 families. And we are most proud of the front page story on the left about us from a recent issue of the JORDAN VALLEY SENTINEL: r is Si ft NEWS photo by Clothes for Male & Female The Salt Flat News is published monthly, and present plans are to include each month's issue as a part of the Sentinel. Principally a feature and picture publication, the Salt Flat News will keep readers abreast of developments on the Utah salt flats, and the current issue devotes much space to the state's chances for obtaining the NASA spaceport in the Wendover area. Twelve of Utah's weekly newspapers are including the Salt Flat News as a supplement. In addition to the Sentinel, the list includes Murray Eagle, Park City Record, Roy Sun Chronicle, Roy Eagle Review, Springville Herald, Murray Summit County Bee, Morgan County News, Mt. Pleasant Pyramid, Tooele Transcript, Tremonton Leader. In including the Salt Flat News as a supplement to their papers, the editors make it possible to bring to their readers news and features from a area on a scope that none of them could afford individually. The publishers of the Sentinel readers hope that their 6,000-odwill find the Salt Flat News interesting and a worthwhile addition to their hometown weekly paper. They will find factual stories and features centering about the salt flats which are only a few miles away, they will find perhaps a laugh or maybe a smile or two, and will learn more than they ever had an opportunity to learn before about the salt flats, which are beyond doubt one of the most unique geographical features in the whole country. Goldberow though unusual rock resembles the legendary Idaho Cockatoo. Rock is located at North Arm of Great Salt Lake near Locomotive Springs, Utah. No clay pidgeon, feature for Sentinel News. H STRANGIBIRD . . . A new feature is added to the Sentinel this week, with inclusion in each copy of the Salt Flat News-Advertise- r, hamlet and village, through the use of part time reporters called "stringers," THE BEE can get around to Kamas Valley, Echo, Woodland, Wanship and Francis in a way which covers the county like the late summer dew. That kind of reporter coverage makes it possible for people sharing a common area to keep touch with their immediate world. Occasionally, a weekly provides expanded coverage on a local boy who made good: Recently, Dee Smith, president and chief executive officer of Smith's Management Corporation, was the major figure in a front page story in the Roy SUN CHRONICLE. While undoubtedly Dee gets mentioned in the business and financial sections of the Utah Dailies, it is most unlikely that any story he ever has about him will wax as enthusiastic as that in his home town paper, which capped the story with "Hats off to the King of the Supermarkets who got his big start in Roy." Even as president of an 80 million dollar corporation, Dee Smith couldn't buy that kind of true pride anywhere but in his hometown weekly. This is not to suggest that the weeklies confine themselves to personal items. 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