Official Fined For
Attacking Editor
TISHOMINGO, Okla. (/P)—The
Johnston County Capital-Demo
crat, published here, in a strongly
worded editorial recently defended
the right of the newspaper to pub
lish news covering material con
tained in public records.
The editorial was provoked by
an attack made upon George B.
Hill, editor, by Arthur Askew,
county school superintendent, who
Objected to the newspaper print
ing an account of a suit filed
against him by his father.
Askew paid a fine for assault
and battery when tried in a justice
of the peace court.
The Capital-Democrat, com
menting editorially upon the at
tack, said that such an incident
‘ implies that no newspaper should
be allowed to print public records
or to inform the public of the ac
of its courts.”
The newspaper went on to say:
“A lawyer may file a case in j
court with perfect immunity. A
clerk can place it on the public
records for all to see, yet the clerk
is relatively safe in the exercise of
his duties. A judge or jury may
hear the case and decide on it
without so much as a threat.
“But when a newspaper—also
performing its duty to the public
—prints damage actions, suits for
money judgments, or criminal pro
ceedings, the person involved
sometimes feels that he should de
clare open season on newspaper
editors.
“The newspaper does not bring
the action, it does not file the pe
tition and it does not try the case.
It merely reports the news.”
The editorial stated that the at
tack on Hill will not deter the
newspaper from continuing to
print “fair and impartial” reports
of cases filed in court.
“It has always been the policy
of the Capital-Democrat to print
the news, to print the public rec
ord of damage suits and suits in
volving money judgments and to
be as fair and impartial as possi
ble,” the editorial said.
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(OFFICIAL PUBLICATION)
Report of the Financial Condition
# OF THE
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska
Located at Nome, Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on the
31st day of December, 1946.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts .$ 555,748.06
Loans on real estate . 75,375.00
United States bonds and securities. 780,300.00
other bonds and warrants . 24,443.75
Banking house, furniture and fixtures. 37,794.06
Other real estate owned. 3,989.84
Due from other banks. 409,343.11
Checks on other banks and other cash items. 15,275.29
Cash on hand . 139,731.85
Prepaid insurance . 1,792.45
TOTAL .$2,043,793.41
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in.$ 100,000.00
Surplus fund . 25,000.00
Undivided profits less expenses paid. 113,214.22
* Demand deposits . 1,380,904.10
Time deposits . 422,175.09
Reserve for repair of storm damage. 2500.00
TOTAL .$2,043,793.41
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA )
TERRITORY OF ALASKA ) SS
SECOND JUDICIAL DIVISION )
• I, Alva A. Daue, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
ALVA A. DAUE, Cashier
(CORRECT ATTEST)
v ALVA A. DAUE,
G. R. JACKSON
4 Directors.
(NOTARIAL SEAL)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of January, 1947.
BEVERLY A. MORGAN,
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My commission expires December 27, 1947.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
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<By The Associated Press)
ARCADIA, Calif.—R. C. Ells
worth’s Hubble Bubble won the
$50,000 Santa Susana Stakes be
fore 47,600 at Santa Anita, step
ping the seven furlongs in 1:23 4/5
and scoring by four lengths over
C. S. Howard’s Maharetta. L. B.
Mayer’s Jude-Rue was third. Rid
den by Bernie Layton, Hubble
Bubble paid $25.40 for $2.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — All
victorious Hardin-Simmons de
feated Denver university, 20-0 in
the postponed Alamo Bowl game
as Dudolph (Little Doc) Mobley,
the nation’s leading ground gainer
during the regular season, scored
two of the three touchdowns on
runs of 34 and 17 yards.
NEW YORK — Swedish track
stars Rune Gustaffsson and Haak
on Lidman arrived by plane for
indoor season. Gustaffsson, Euro
pean 800 and 1,000 meter champ,
will concentrate in the mile. Lid
man to run in 60 and 70 yard
hurdles.
LOS ANGELES — Ben Hogan
shot one-over par 72 to hold two
stroke lead at the end of the third
round of $10,000 Los Angeles open
with 208 to 210 for runnerup Tony
Penn a.
BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y. —
Artie Devlin, Lake Placid, won the
second Torger Tokle Memorial
ski jump with flights of 138 and
146 feet.
LOS ANGELES, </P) — The Los
Angeles Times, asserting that
“gambling has made insidious in
roads on amateur athletics in re
cent years,” says that in the future
it will carry no betting odds on
amateur sports events.
The paper said it “considers that
all true patrons of amateur ath
eltics are interested in such sports
pureyl for the thrill that the com
petition provides,” adding that it
will “assume its full responsibil
ity for keeping amateur athletics
on the high, pure plane where they
belong.”
SAN FRANCISCO (/P>—Manuel
Ortiz, busy little lettuce farmer
! from El Centro, Calif., will defend
his world bantamweight boxing
title for the 16th time here tonight
—this time against hustling young
Harold Dade of Chicago.
Dade, who never has fought
; here, has lost but one match in 22
professional bouts, and before he
entered the service was a sensa
tion in amateur circles around
Chicago.
VINELAND, N. J. (/P)—William
Papaleo (Willie Pep>, the feather
weight boxing champion of the
world, was injured last night in
the crash of a Nationwide Air
Transport Service, Inc., passenger
plane but his condition was re
ported ‘•good.” He suffered injur
ies of the left ankle and cheek. The
plane was enroute from Miami to
the Newark airport.
Ausies Receive
Free Hospitalization
CANBERRA, Australia. (>P) —
Patients of all income groups in
public hospitals now are receiving
free treatment in four Australian
States.
Cost is being borne by the com
monwealth government by grants,
to state governments which ad
minister the scheme. Later the
scheme will be extended to cover
part payment of treatment in pri
vate hospitals.
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