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Show , The News That's Fit To , . From The Delta Airport. ,rlD Dick Morrison r.2DGLlNGS . Among those making their first A , this week were Pearl Jef-"lS Jef-"lS her 81 year oki uncle, Wal-efjetfery, Wal-efjetfery, and a Pair o chin" ''p'Trl her uncle, and her mother m Adaline Je'ffery, made a little out over the Delta district Monday morning, in the Aeronca ' jt'the instance of Pearl's Selr'zerma Schlappi. They said lev 'enjoyed the sensation of fli- i ehl- Waltor was perturbed, but not much by some air bumbs encountered encoun-tered ii, fhght. Pearl has been vising vis-ing with friends and relatives he.e the past few days. After the flight she left for her home in bait Lake Monday afternoon The chinchillas mentioned were flown from Preston, Idaho, to Prove Pro-ve Sunday, by Garth Hanson. TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS James and Lucille Redo, who moved to Delta a few weeks ago from Honolulu, with their three children, were preparing last week to move to Areata, Calif., where Mr. Redo will continue to work I the CAA. Mr. and Mrs. Redo j ook forward to .their new assign-I assign-I ''"eiU at ArCita because it will put them within easy visiting distance of their families, in San Francisco and Portland. Areata is a pleasant "Ule northern California town, on the north side o' the bay from Eureka, hard by the sea and near the Redwoods, too. Ralph Kelson, flight service spec lalist of the Ogden tower, is transferring trans-ferring to Delta to take the job left by James Redo. With Mrs. Kelson and their two small daughters, daugh-ters, Kathryn, 3, and Karolyn, 9 months, he plans to move into the house formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Redo. Mr. and Mrs Kelson lived in NePhi for several years, Mrs. Kelson, being a native' oi that city, the former Elizabeth Beagley. A brother of Ralph, Ray Kelson, is presently engaged in business in wephi. Ralph himself boasts some 17 hours V.ying exper-' ience, gained partly at Nephi airport, air-port, lie does not hold a license, ' as yet, but having soloed out he knows that incomparable thrill of being up alone. I Don Searles, Harold Rutherford and their wives flew in from Provo ! Sunday in their Ercoupes. Bob and Jackie Nichols spent a ! long week end at Rawlins, Wyo., as guests of Mrs. Nichols' father, on a fishing trip. Leaving Delta last Wednesday, Bob informed us he was "anticipating a big catch". mg" tlielr subscribers by giving each of them a lot of what he doesn't want along with the little that he does want. An analagous situation would be for a restaurateur restaura-teur tu insist on .serving each of his customers a seven course dinner, din-ner, for fifteen cents, when most of them wanted only a couple of soda crackers. Could the answer line in more and smaller papers? If more were published, each edited for a particular par-ticular group of readers, and with circulation limed to its particular "special interest" group, might not the end result be a tremendous saving in the total tonnage of newsprint used ,and in lower costs and perhaps more efficient and profitable publishing operations? The idea may be wholly imprac- ! the bulky dailies which try to pro-1 pro-1 vide a lot of everything for every-' every-' body. Since the high cost o'f newsprint has become one of the biggest single sin-gle cost items contributing to the economic troubles of the city papers, pap-ers, it would seem as if they might give some thought to the idea of publishing more and smaller papers. pap-ers. Whether economic pressure ! will finally bring about a new ' trend in that, or some other dir- eetion, remains to be seen. tica and without merit. Still, two of the papers I take are just that type of "special interest" papers. They are very different, yet both meet the requirements for that ' type of paper. The Chronicle is one, and the Wall Street oJurnal' is the other. The one meets the ' need for local news of the people of our own community; the other 'itor news limited chiefly to the fields of business, finance, politics, and world affairs.Just as the Chron icle does not concern itself too much with national and world affairs, af-fairs, neither does the Journal devote de-vote any space to Hollywood gossip, gos-sip, recipes fpr fruit-cake, or farm and garden columns. Oddly enough, both papers are of about the same size - - usually eight, ten, or twelve full size newspaper news-paper pages. And without a doubt, the general gener-al run of subscribers for each paper pap-er will read a bigger percent of the whole paper than they will of Leon Theobald and Grant Hardy went on an aerial wild horse chase the other Monday in the Champ. They flew out, over the west desert. des-ert. A WEAKNESS OF THE PRESS . . . The power of the 'free press is legendary, but it appears that the inability of many of the big city dailies to survive in the face of mounting costs and intense competition com-petition points up a singular weakness weak-ness of the press. The merging of the Salt Lake Telegram with the Deseret News, which in.effect, reduces the number num-ber of Salt Lake City dailies from three to two, and the pooling of certain resources by the Tribune and the News in an effort to combat com-bat the ever mounting costs which beset their business, are, in the final analysis, a result of the economic ec-onomic pressures which, during the past several decades, have tended to concentrate newspaper circulation circul-ation in a few big paper, while forcing others out of business. Many of the papers which have 'fallen by the wayside since the turn of the century were once papers of great renown, high character, char-acter, and powerful influence. - It was not so long ago that Salt Lake City boasted four daily papers. pap-ers. The Salt Lake Herald folded in the early twenties, if memory serves. The Telegram has existed for some years as a sort of afternoon after-noon sports edition o'f the Tribune. Now it has, for all practical purposes, pur-poses, gone the way of the Herald. Someone once said that when a great newspaper dies, a bit -of democracy dies with it. The trend toward concentration of circulation in a relatively small number of strongly financed units is viewed with misgiving by many thoughtful thought-ful people. Some have even suggested sug-gested that government subsidies of some kind might be in the public pub-lic interest by making it possible for more publishers to operate, but publishers themselves, generally, gener-ally, are inclined to regard this as a greater potential evil than the thing it would purport to cure. A subsidized press would almost surely sur-ely become a controlled press. Could it be that some of the economic ec-onomic troubels of the big city papers come from an effort on their part to do too much? To pubilsh too much of verything for everybody, to the point where perhaps per-haps nine tenths of every issue is wasted on most subscribers? Few people read very much of any particular par-ticular daily paper.lt almost seems as if the big papers are "subsidiz- |