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Show I Am Your CORRESPONDENT I am your newspaper correspondent. corres-pondent. Through my hands come many of the local items in your newspaper. A paper must of necessity ne-cessity be identified with a town, but what of the outlying trade area? It is here that I appear. I may be a housewife with a nose for news ... I send in items about the 4-H club, or what farmer's daughter has the biggest brood of kittens. Mine are the items, usually cheerful ones, dealing with people you know. Besides, sometimes I cover cov-er accidents in my area, returns in elections for my community. I may be a high school student stu-dent learning the newspaper business from experience, with an eye to making it my career when I'm old enough. Mine are the items the editor ed-itor says are often the first stories readers' look for. Mine is, in large measure, a real public pub-lic service. Almost never is my name on a full-time payroll, pay-roll, and often I send in my pieces expecting no pay at all. i Generally I am the neighborly one in a community, the housewife house-wife who arrives to help in times of distress . . . the man who operates a country store and is a personal friend to each of his customers. Mine is a leisurely leis-urely part of the publishing business, but nonetheless important im-portant to the readers. . Like the grandmother of . a family who keeps up with the comings and goings of all. like the friendly puppy who knows everyone in a community, I keep an interested eye on news items. I am YOUR correspondent. |