SOUTH PACIFIC DAILY NEWS
ON Wednesday afternoon wo had a / visit from Art Editor Leon Edelstein, and " Pacific ” Preston; columnist of South Pacific Daily News which • is now New Caledonia’s chief source of , international news* : /PUBLISHED ■ daily this mimeographed eight' page newspaper in now in Vol 2 and close on the huiidroth number..’ Tho.w&ll’ . balanced layout and . distribution of news’which range's f rom-', J*a ck Johnstone’s opinion of modern’boxers to latest Russian drive, is the work of Editor Chief Petty Officer Fred, E» Ha ml inland A oc. Editor, Winthrop R • Cady, oth top newspaper men .from Salt Lake City ( Utah,US), ::: THREE main sources of news come' from 13.8. C. through A. 8,.C.; Army and Navy Monitor
Radio and Associated ; r s' s Radio ’ News Service. Other items of news arc -picked up paper goes 0 press. ::: :Art Editor Leon Edelstein is in charge of ‘ headlines, maps and shares illustrations with Assoc Art Editor, Sam Katsinas and Jack Levinson.:::: Circulation, based bn the fcatio of one copy to every twenty men ( in . . . the Allied Fighting Forces ‘in South Pacific Ji i§ handled "by Jack ■Dougherty The paper goes as far north as Bongainville ‘ and; into :; all camps- in ' Souhh .Pacific area-. / ::: The copies. are mimeograhed on throe electric / machines which are under . the control ; of Peter J. Kroll, ex -member pf 353rd Engineers, ’ and is staffed entrely by • ” Enlisted " men repcsenting Army, Navy and Marinos « : ::::: AN. indic- - ;■ cation of how the Daily News' has, fitted,into Army life is shown by / the question of ” What’s the, news?” wo all. a'ikts as wo crane at he news*
board before lunch when the papers re-.pinned'Up., . /. : '.bS®
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Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 15, 8 April 1944, Page 5
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273SOUTH PACIFIC DAILY NEWS Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 15, 8 April 1944, Page 5
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