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Carl Marler Atlanta, MO USPS-299800 Vol.136, No.49 La Plata, MO, 63549 • 8 Pages • 1 Section • 50 Cents
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
TAKING THE PLUNGE
Serving Macon County Since 1876
EITEL RECEIVES GOLD AWARD
On June 3, 2012, Athena Eitel received her Girl Scout Gold Award at a formal ceremony in St. Louis, Missouri. The Gold Award is the highest earned honor in Girl Scouting. Athena’s Gold Award project was improving and maintaining the Cardiff Hill Overlook in Hannibal, Missouri. This was achieved by replacing a sign, reconfiguring walkways, replanting flowers and maintaining the garden. Athena is the daughter of Andrew and Rhonda Eitel of Hannibal, Missouri. She is the granddaughter of Lavon and Jackie Eitel of La Plata, Missouri and Phyllis Wright of Jefferson City, Missouri.
WE ARE HERE TO HELP EASE YOUR PAIN Currently The Home Press North edition will be donating $5.00 from every NEW subscription to a fundraiser of your choice. Beginning June 11th and continuing through July 7th we will be giving back to those who have given to us. For every new subscription purchased you may choose to have your $5.00 donated to the Jerry and Peggy Thomas fundraising efforts or those for Friends of Dominic. Jerry and Peggy Thomas lost their home to a fire last month and are still physically recovering from their loss. A fundraiser will be held on Saturday, July 7th in the La Plata City Park, details to follow next week. If you would like to help in anyway please contact Stan East who is chairing this event. Friends of Dominic is a fundraising effort for a young man who years ago was caught under the wheel of a truck and is need of medical attention. He is the son of Tera (Huddleston) Bergfield, formerly of Atlanta and the grandson of Rick and Susan Huddleston. For more information of Dominic’s cause, please refer to the “Friends of Dominic” page on Facebook. When purchasing your NEW subscription, please indicate which fundraising event you would like your contribution to go towards. We thank you in advance for your support of these fine people and look forward to coming into your home every week to share our news with you.
The weather is warming up. On Sunday afternoon there were several people, young and old using the accommodations at the Santa Fe Lake. Whether it be swimming, playing on the playground for just basking in the sun. The lake is open Memorial Day through Labor Day, seven days a week.
The Home Press Family Keeps Growing I’m proud and excited to tell everyone that The Home Press now has yet another sister in our family. Recently, the Lewis County Press purchased the Monroe County Appeal in Paris, which brings us up to covering 8 counties. They include Adair, Knox, Lewis, Macon, Monroe, Randolph and Shelby and tidbits of Linn. Together, with 4 weekly newspapers we are covering several communities, schools, clubs and miles and miles of printed memories. Your readership and your advertising supporting these papers is greatly and humbly appreciated. As we the reporters, photographers, feature writers, sales representatives, composition artists and office employees of every which kind feel it is our job to bring the news to your door every week. And we love doing that, you are part of us, just as much as we are a part of you. Remember, that these weekly community papers The Home Press North and The Home Press South, the Press News Journal (Canton) and the Monroe County Appeal (Paris) are subscription paid pieces of print, we don’t throw them at your door or drop them in your yard. They come to you because you have requisitioned them. We have earned your respect as readers who WANT to read our papers. With that said, we welcome the Monroe County Appeal and look forward to working with them. We will in the near future be offering combo rates for advertising and combo rates for subscriptions. So... if you feel you’d like to subscribe or advertise in one, two, three or all four of these colored pieces of news, please give us a call at (660) 332-4431, we will be glad to help in any way, shape or form. As we continue our quest for knowledge to feed you, we want to thank you for your faith in us and welcome the Monroe County Appeal to our family.
MONROE COUNTY APPEAL - A LOOK BACK According to Appeal publisher David Eales, things haven’t really changed much in the 50 years since Norman Rockwell immortalized the weekly Monroe County Appeal with his painting of “The Country Editor.” It depicts the Monroe County Appeal, a weekly that has been published continuously in Paris, Missouri, since 1867. The Appeal, like other weeklies in Missouri, is read and read again, a fixture in the living room until the next one arrives. “The Appeal tells people exactly what is going on in our small town,” said Publisher David Eales. “Many people read the paper and when done, it is cut up to go in numerous scrapbooks.” Rockwell came to Paris in 1945 to capture the essence of the smalltown newspaper office for the Saturday Evening Post. He spent a couple of days there, sketching, attending a country ham supper in his honor at a local tavern, speaking to the Rotarians. Rockwell then returned home to Vermont to paint, and his two-page color likeness appeared on May 25, 1946. The focal point of the painting is longtime Appeal editor Jack Blanton, who was by then already something of a legend for his well-crafted editorials, deep religious beliefs and occasional bouts of eccentricity. Rockwell’s painting portrayed the busy Appeal office minutes before the paper went to press. The Saturday Evening Post described it this way: “Blanton is shown batting out a lastminute editorial. That picture above his desk is one of his father, who founded the Appeal. The gold-star service flag hangs beneath a picture of a grandson of Blanton’s, who would have suc-
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This Norman Rockwell print of his famous “Country Editor” hangs in the lobby of the Monroe County Appeal, in Paris, Mo. Another copy can be found in the Monroe County Courthouse rotunda. APPEAL PHOTO
ceeded him as editor if he hadn’t lost his life in the Army Air Force. Peering over Blanton’s shoulder is the Appeal’s printer, Paul Nipps, whose experienced eye is gauging the number of printed lines the editorial will take up.” The painting also shows customers buying a subscription and other office workers scurrying about. And walking in the door, trademark pipe jutting out, is Rockwell himself. The painting still hangs prominently in the Appeal lobby, another copy in the rotunda of the Monroe County Courthouse. The painting’s home is the National Press Club in Washington D.C. The painting spent the past year traveling to Brooklyn, N.Y., El Paso, Texas, Stockbridge, Mass. and Rochester, N.Y., as part of a highly popular exhibit, “Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera.” Sources used in article include, with their permission, the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Associated Press.
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