Celebrated N.Y. Paper Closes

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31140, 17 August 1966, Page 19

Celebrated N.Y. Paper Closes

fA'.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright! NEW YORK. August 16. The New York newspaper strike—now in its 115th day and approaching a record—could continue indefinitely as a result of the “Herald Tribune” ceasing publication yesterday.

Officials of the striking Newspaper Guild have said the “death” of the “Herald Tribune.” one of America’s most famous and oldest lewspapers, could mean renegotiation of all contracts. By next week-end the j strike, begun over contracts jin April when a merger of three papers, including the “Herald Tribune,” came into effect, will have become the longest in the city’s history. At the time of the announcement that the “Herald Tribune” would not be published again, only the compositors among the nine unions involved in the dispute had failed to reach agreement on a new contract with the management of the merged corporation. Jobs Lost Mr Matt Mever, president of the corporation, said yesterday that 800 people would lose their jobs as a result of the closure, but the remaining talent and resources would be thrown into provid-

ring a more vigorous evening ' newspaper—the “World-Jour-I nal-Tribune." The "Herald Tribune,” founded in 1924 by the merger of the “Herald” and the “Tribune.” is the second major morning New York daily to cease publication in the last three years. One- of the most famous coups of the old “Herald” was sending H. M. Stanley on his famous journey to Africa in search of Livingstone. Livingstone’s View Stanley found Livingstone and, after his classic greeting, told the Scots missionary that he was from the New York “Herald” and asked him if he had heard of it. “Who has not heard of that despicable newspaper,” was Livingstone’s reported reply. The “Herald Tribune” shook off the somewhat sensational reputation of its forerunner, but for years it has been plagued by financial troubles and its circulation lately had sunk to just above 300,000.