Show t i I. I f t tWanda a A 1 4 ay 1 rt I Wanda Vanda Baarsma formerly of Devils Devil's Slide and now of Mon Mon- Montana tans tana recently sent tent me clipp clipping lug ing from a n Montana newspaper i j which said It made her think of me are And right now seems to bia bea bi be a good time to use it Maybe it will make Wanda think of me Again Operating a n newspaper in a small town Is a fascinating bust busi ness You never know what will happen hippen first whether first whether you rou will nr i 1 catch up with your creditors or your rout creditors will catch Up with you You never know when sheriff stops in if it Its It's for tor personal personal per business or to hang up a sheriffs sheriff's sale ale notice A newspaper Is le one of the most mOlt difficult businesses In the world to finance 1 Some time dime ago when we felt feit we were short on working capital capi capt tal tat we applied for a email small business bus busi ness nose loan The rhe small business loan people pee pea plo pie came out from Washington DC D.C. looked us over and Informed Informed In In- formed us we were were too large a concern to qualify for tor a small business loan So we wrote the Reconstruction tion Finance Loan people in Washington DC D.C. and they sent Bent f i m III ta i I t a crew to look us over of After Atter three days days' m sir o out pant they Informed us we were too small to qualify for tor a Reconstruction Recon Recon- finance loan i Hut But we didn't give up p. p J We wrote a letter to 1111 Burton Burton Durton office In hi D.C. D.C. D. D C. C and asked askel them for some fun funds I The rhe Hill Burton Burton office wrote back asking us I if we were an accredited hO hospital pital We wrote Tote back and told them we weren't a hospital but we were sick That was a year ago and we haven't heard a word from them since A couple of weeks ago go during our skirmish with the Rural nural Electric Elec I trio people an Irate farmer charged into the office shook the tho editorial in my face and anet I screamed Any resemblance between be tween the Dally Daily News N and a newspaper ie le strictly a rumor lie Jle threw the paper on the floor jumped on It and said If It I was a subscriber Id I'd Cancel Can Caneel caneel eel cel my subscription Small town news papering Is much different than journalism on the metropolitan newspaper Anything we write Irritates some Bome individual or group For instance evien a a. glowing tory story written about a a wedding can cause difficulty difficulty dif dlf with a subscriber Some time ago we ran a story tin n our society section telling about an attractive bride and her handsome husband A subscriber who knew the newlyweds stormed into my office of I flee fice shook the paper in my face and said You How now can you call calla a 17 pound girl attractive and that no good drunken bum she married handsome Why that marriage wont won't last 30 days I l But perhaps the classic in my career was the cold snowy night last January when the telephone home at rang rangI I at 11 o'clock at night A woman I across town complained that she sheI didn't get her paper I climbed I into my topcoat put on my over my-over- over shoes shoos called a taxi went to the theoffice office picked up a pap paper r rode out to her house knocked at the thedoor thedoor door handed her the paper and 1 she Theres Therea probably nothing in it anyhow I r e o I During the past 18 18 S years news news- I papering has been my second I wife my religion and my chief hobby It has been the thing that has fed ted my ul ulcer er and where the hair I haven't got went News News- papering has given me the greatest greatest great great- est inspiration of my life and m my greatest frustrations Even after 18 years I feel a quick tl flow vi of blood in my veins when the first copy of the paper paper comes comes off the press each day And whatever whatever I am or ever will be be will not be what I made of of myself but what newspaper- newspaper Ing ling has made me |