The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 1973 Page: 3 of 32
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Editor Switches Beat To
‘Small Town’ Happenings
LAKEVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Journal, a weekly newspaper father’s summer cottage at
For 25 years Bob Estabrook’s published in the idyllic seclu- Burt Lake in Michigan. He re-
beat was the world and he sion of northwest Connecticut vived the paper every summer:
thrived on a steady diet of re- on the same spot where Ethan
THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, December 5,1973
portinf-waFSr world leaders Allen once operated a forge.
For Estabrook, it was like
and international affairs. For
the last two years his scope has
narrowed to seven tiny towns
in Connecticut (combined pop.,
16,000), where the big news
story last week was an upsurge
in deer poaching on neigh-
boring lands.
An editorial page editor and
later chief foreign correspond-
ent for the Washington Post,
Estabrook reported from more
than 70 countries during the
action-filled years following
World War II. ?
In March 1971, with their
four children grown,
Estabrook and his wife Mary
Lou embarked on a new ad-
venture, something they felt
would keep them busy and
allow them to work together.
They bought the
stepping back in time to the
days following his freshman
year jet! Northwestern Univer-
sity when he edited a county
weekly in Harbor Springs,
Mich.
As a foreign correspondent,
for four years. During the last
year, his grandfather bpught
him a mimeograph machine
and he published a total of 300
pages that included $25 worth
of ads.
After college, he worked
three years for the Cedar Rap-
ids, Iowa, Gazette before join-
ing the Army in 1942. Four
Estabrook once missed an air,-, years later, at age 27, he
walked into the Washington
Post offices, ran into the pub-
lisher — whom he recognized
he recognized
from a story in Fortune Maga-
zine — in an elevator and said
he wanted a job on the editorial
page.
As it happened the Post was
looking for someone at the
time to edit letters to the
editor. In time, Estabrook
became an editorial writer and
in 1953 editor of the editorial
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plane and had to take a taxi 350
miles across desert to keep an
appointment with the crown
prince of Saudi Arabia. But
that was nothing compared to
the constant challenge of find-
ing enough advertising to keep
black ink on the newspaper’s
ledger as well as its news
pages.
Estabrook put out his first
newspaper when he was 12
years old, a handwritten w^ek-
Lakeville ly published from his grand- page. He held the position until
he moved to London as foreign
correspondent in 1961.
As editor and publisher Es-
tabrook presides over the jour-
nal’s 23-member news and
business staff. His wife, who is
associate publisher and also
chief photographer, handles
many of the paper’s business
matters, leaving her husbanJ
free to write the week’
editorials' ahd a column in
which he analyzes state and
national affairs, as well as
local.
“We make a strong effort to
relate local interests to state
and national developments. I
find that people welcome a na-
tional and world outlook in my
personal column provided that
we furnish a strong base of
community news,” wota-ss
Despite this broad per-
spective he admitted, “You
can’t wholly dispense with cov-
ering the Ladies Aid Society.”
Many of the issues and prob-
lems facing small towns are
those of the nation in micro-
cosm, he added. "Perhaps
they are more acute, for these
people are your friends and
neighbors,” he said.
His beliefs about jour?
nalism’s role remain basically
’he same as when he was in
Washington.
“I try to be a conscience and
a goad. I try to preserve the
traditions of the area, but also
help people face their prob-
lems.'
Today In History
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS was born in KlikterliwA, N.Y.
In 1848, President James
Polk announced that gold had
been discovered in California.
The Gold Rush of ’49 followed.
In 1918, in World War I, Ger-
man naval forces blockaded
the Baltic Sea.
In 1934. 66 persons were exe-
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 5,
the 339th day of 1973. There are
28 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1933,
Prohibition ended in the United
Slatesas Utah became the 36th
state to ratify the 21st con-
stitutional amendmOht.jcuted in Russia after purge
repealing the 18th,
On this date:
In 1^92, Columbus
discovered the West Indian
island of Santo Domingo.
In 1782, the eighth American
president, Martin Van Buren, Chief Justice Earl Warren.
trials.
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assassination of President
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month veteran of Chen,
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column marched off across the
desert again toward what their
song indicated was the shores
of Tripoli.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 1973, newspaper, December 5, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104135/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.