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Show Don't let the picture keep you away 1 p.q. blab By MARCELLA WALKER This is National Newspaper Week. To go along with this the publisher and managing editor thought it would be nice to put the columnist's picture next to the column from now on. I feared them taking such a drastic step because the readers may go into shock and never read the column again. Besides, there is a certain amount that can be said for anonymity. I kind of like it when people meet me for the first time and say they always wondered what I looked like. Finding out may cause loss of a reader, you never know. Taking a look at some joker's face on a Tegular basis is more than some people can take. " . For a very, very long time the Salt Lake Tribune ran a picture of Dan Valentine next to his column which was always on the lower left hand corner of the "B" section. As an undergraduate journalism student, we had regular visits from Mr. Valentine who would regale us with stories and we would sit in awe and wonder if we ever could write as well as he did. I was shocked one day to pick up the Trib and see a young, rather handsome face peering from the Dan Valentine column. It seems that Dan Valentine, Jr. was now writing where his dad used to. However, I have not seen his column lately. He must have gone on to bigger and better things. Of course, it is the accepted thing for a columnist to have his-her picture next to the column. Ann Landers does, Dear Abby does, Paul period. I remember I did not pay much attention to the newspaper until I was a teenager. Then I would read Rex Morgan, M.D., Mary Worth, Steve Roper, and a few others. I relied on comic books for the comics but I relied on the newspaper for the serials that continued a story for several weeks or months and I remember waiting anxiously for the newspaper to come so I could see what happened in the next episode. See, I was preparing myself for soaps at that young age. Dad loved to read the newspaper. We kids knew that when he was reading the paper we could get by with murder. He did not hear us or see us as he became absorbed in the days news. Mom would say, "Paul, get after those kids." There would be no response and after some time she would get tired of the noise or bickering or whatever it was we were doing and she would yell out again, "Paul, take to those kids." No response. We knew as long as the newspaper did not move that we were safe. If Dad did show signs of lowering the newspaper to yell at us we would quiet down. We knew the signs very well. My mom used to always send for patterns out of the newspaper. Remember how they used to always have an ad for a dress, or something to knit or crochet? She always sent for them and sometimes she actually ac-tually got around to making them. Newspapers are a good source of recipes. I couldn't tell you how many recipes I have cut o, to use and I haven. to : them.Doany0ftnh!V 1 thatoramnL;; J Myhdsliketori' The only other Um?U f newspaperiswheni class assignment ve,o; articles on health p 6,1 v etc They column to see wta have written aClh? 1 very little encouragU t column from theT f family. They are lmbers" 10 their name will apnea? a,ri1 f, Sometimes I 2 their name is not in tV - a", I just made a such as "my dau I gfg grab their hair and crv- ' 3 everyone will knoww EJP talking ft Oh it is sad indeed when I a reference to them in ik " But my family wh I'm afraid they are Z) havmg our trials and er J 't in the column from time toy P Some people say lo J;, think just like I do." i Z ; a good when they say thai then I know I'm not as C i eft field as I though. I? : that poor soul is one brick sh" 7 t load, also. . !!' , As you face that picture ol , each week, please just r o blinders on or else learn toler-V whichever comes easiest to vw" P In the meantime, Happy Ny.. Newspaper Week to you all' " Harvey does, Erma Bombeck does, and Art Buchwald does. I guess it was bound to happen but all of you remember it was not my idea and please do not laugh so loud that I can hear you. With National Newspaper Week upon us I asked our lovely reporter, Cindy Lloyd, to go see a bunch of school children and ask them what they thought of the Pleasant Grove Review. As you can guess, and as you can read from her article on the subject, some of the kids said, "I don't read it." I believe that. Not many kids read any paper at all and if they ever do all they see is the funnies. I don't imagine a lot of elementary school kids know that there is a difference between the weekly paper and the daily paper. They just don't care, |