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^^^»tiaiilifcy;:»gJift.'ailWiii ■MMIH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1958 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page THIRTEEN r JUDGES COMMENT ON PRESS CONTEST WINNERS Community Leadership of the State’s Weeklies Stressed In connection with awards competing weeklies submitted made to The Pilot and other newspapers at the recent annual meeting of the North Carolina Press Association, the judges made available to contestants their comments on the entries. The Pilot re'’eived a first place award, in the weekly division, for editorial pages submitted and a second place award for feature writing. The opinions of the judges may be interesting to readers of this newspaper, both as to the weekly papers of North Carolina in general and to The Pilot in particular. In the contests, each of the New Secretarial Service Available The Telephone Secretarial Ser vice of Southern Pines has the ability to handle any job where a telephone is concerned. This type service is invaluable to clubs with large memberships in handling reservations for their meetings and social functions. I will give you my number to use in your announcements or will call the numbers for you. This service is also invaluable for ad vertising purposes. The Telephone Secretarial Ser vice invites you to call OX 2-3331 for further information about va ried services. i Bristow Court Southern Pines j adv four papers, chosen from a year’s production, in each of four cate gories—editorial page, feature writing, news coverage and photography. Separate contests were con ducted for weeklies, semi-week lies and dailies. Prom time to time. The Pilot has explained to readers why this newspaper has handled news or opinions in a certain way, be lieving that the more readers un derstand about how a newspaper operates, the better they are able to judge its effectiveness as spokesman for and about the community. In line with this same reason ing, therefore, we are reprinting here some of the comments of the .judges in the recent contests. Other prize winners in the edi torial page contest for weeklies were The Chatham News of Siler City,, second; and The Franklin Press of Franklin, in Western North Carolina, third. In the features contest, first place winner was The Franklin Press; The Pilot was second; and the Skyland Post of West Jeffer son was third. Cominimity Leadership Commenting on the three win ners in the editorial page contest, the judges wrote; “The editorial pages of the three papers selected as the best in the weekly field illustrate in graphic manner the type of com munity leadership which is the apparent objective of many of the newspapers entered in the various editorial contests. “Many other papers illustrated this quality, but not so well as the three selected. Their editor ials were on well-chosen topics, usually those of a local or state nature where the newspaper’s opinion could count for some thing and could interest many readers. The editorials were gen erally well written, being to the point and usually no longer than necessary lo cover the subject. They took a definite stand, in m.ost cases, based on logical ar guments rather than on emotion al rantings. “In addition to the editorial pis. to a young pupil (not that many of the papers judged were guilty of those two faults, but a few leaned somewhat in those direc tions). “Local issues were treated with intelligence and discrimination, and with a mature sense of pride in the community and its advan tages. Issues of a more general nature were also well handled, usually without padding and re dundancy. Emphasis was usually on the human values involved, whether the humans were white or black. 'For example, Mike Wallace’s ‘electronic journalism’ w.as criticized for lacking bal ance; and the “noble righteous ness of NAM propaganda’’ was said to be based on a ‘retrogres sive philosophj’’ of government for property rather than for peo- ECHO SPRING KENTUCKY,^.. STRAIGHT BOURBON KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 86 PROOF • ECHO SPRING OISTILLING COMPANY LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY columns, the winning papers car ried on their pages a variety of feature and editorial material generally of a local nature. Per sonal columns by staff members were sprightly, or serious and in formative, depending on the mood and material of the writer. The winners had active letter columns, something lacking in many of the other weeklies and semi-weeklies. These are one good indication of reader inter est in the page, and should be encouraged more by newspapers. “Other features, such as clips from other papers or historical columns—‘way back then’— have a quality indicating they were not thrown in just for filler. Editorial page makeup of the three winners is superior, giving evidence of loving attention and great care for achieving variety v/ithout vulgarity and balance without standardization; type faces, moreover, are selected with some feeling for mixing a few families that ‘match’ rather than throwing almost any face into the page, including those on syn dicated stuff just as it comes into the office; and plenty of white space helps emphasize the para- gr.anhs of type and heads in an attractive manner.” 'Friend and Neighbor' Of the editorial pages submit-' ted by TTie Pilot, in particular, the judges commented: ‘The informality and attract- “Charmirig is the only word for some of the local features of The Pilot, and for an Easter edi torial page dominated by poetry and a large photo of two children in a flowering woodland. Sprightly features include Kath arine Boyd’s ‘'Summer Time; Big Day In The Squirrel Family,' the weekly column. ‘Grains of Sand,’ and the lively letters column. Cartoons by Hugh Haynie help express the paper’s liberal point of view, and do a great deal for makeup of what is a most attrac tive page.” Features Contest In the feature writing contest for weeklies, the winners were the Franklin Press, 'Pie Pilot and the Skyland Post (published at ■West Jefferson), in that order. Of the competing papers in general, the judges commented; “Enough bright, readable fea tures were scattered through the entries to make much of the judging a • matter of sorting for ‘ijocd, better and best’ rather than culling good from, bad. The weekly group, especially, pre sented lots of lively copy, much of it well supported by art. . .” The judges then reviewed a considerable list of technical points, pro and con, about the features submitted and went on to say of The Pilot, in particular: 'Spadework' Noticed “The Southern Pines Pilot. . . also drew its features from here iveress of the page make it ap- I and now rather than from an old pear as a friend and neighbor j file drawer. TTiis paper’s features with interesting stories and wise, were consistently newsy and ;l, rather than as an itine- counse. rant preacher screaming about showed the additional value of enterprising spadework that the way to salvation or a peda-1 turned up sound background on gogue in superior tones lecturing local issues. 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