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Dateline 1984 — You can’t have one without the other
The Daily Herald newspaper had reached its 100th birthday, and its offspring, The Sun, was then 11 years old. The commemorative occasion at the Coliseum, sponsored by Coast Chambers of Commerce, welcomed speaker Jerry W. Friedheim, vice president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, who asked the question: “Why did these newspaper people bother to remain in the information-transfer business for 100 years? Because it matters. It matters to them that good newspapers matter. It matters to the pursuit of happiness. A strong free country is not possible without a strong free press. I would define The Sun and The Herald as the very symbols of a free America.”
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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