The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 98, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 16, 1952 Page: 3 of 54
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Oldest Texas Editor Will
Share Honors to Paris News
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PARIS, Tex, Nov. 15 —Texas’
oldest working newspaper editor
will share with his publisher in
accepting an award to their news-
paper, the Paris News, for out-
standing contribution toward pres-
ervation of local history.
This will take place next Thurs-
day, Nov. 20, at annual conven-
tion of the Southern Newspaper
Publishers Association in White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
A. G. (Pat) Mayse, publisher of
the Paris News, credits his 88-
year-old editor, A. W Neville, with
most of the historical writing on
the news, so both of them will be
present to receive the award made
by the American Association for
State and Local History. The pre-
sentation will be made by Dr. S.
K Stevens of Harrisburg, Pa,
past president of the association
and Pennsylvania state historian.
A major factor to arranging for
the presentation at White Sulphur
Springs is the fact that White
Sulphur Springs is only 80 miles
from Neville’s birthplace, Salem,
V*., which he has not visited since
he left there at the age of 15. Thus
the trip will afford him an oppor-
tunity to visit his hometown, in
company with his brother, Edger
T. Neville, who will come from
Mobile, Ala , to join the party.
Basis of the award to the Paris
News is the paper’s exceptional
handling of local history. When
Mayse came to Paris from Sher-
man to publish the News in 1929,
he decided that Neville’s unuaual
memory and long residence in
Paris would provide some interest-
ing reading as newspaper features.
As a result, Neville that year be-
gan his daily column “Backward
Glances," which appears regularly
on the editorial page, along with
his dally editorials.
With interest in Texas history
at a high peak from the state’s
centennial celebration, the late J.
J. Cunningham, a printer friend,
suggested that the News should
get Neville to write a history of
Lamar County. Mayse agreed,
and so the history was written to
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Welcome Home-comers . . .
to Abilene and our newly
remodeled store - - Be sure to
visit Minter's while here in
Abilene.
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appear serially in the Paris News
as a Sunday feature in 1937. From
the newspaper type, several hun-
dred copies were printed in book
form, and this is now classed as
a collector’s item, being the first
history of the county ever pub-
lished.
Continued Interest in “Backward
Glances" led to the writing and
publication of “The Red River
Valley: Then and Now,” issued in
1948 on Neville’s 84th birthday.
Designated Neville day, this was
celebrated with a luncheon given
by the News. The book is dedicated
to Mayse and his associate, Hous-
ton Harte, publisher of the San
Angelo Standard-Times, who had
urged the printing of the book as
a more permanent form of preserv-
ing Neville’s recollections and re-
search, The material is largely
based on the daily column’s sto-
ries.
ONE-TIME MAGISTRATE
Neville, called "Judge” because
he once served as city court mag-
istrate, on Sept. 1 rounded out 50
years on the Paris News. As a
youth, he became a printer, not
long after his family moved from
Virginia to Paris. He has contin-
ued in one phase or another of the
publishing business ever since.
He was a representative of the
Texas State Historical Association.
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G.C. Logsdon
Rites Monday
Funeral service for George C.
Logsdon, 52, 1141 Washington
Blvd., life-long resident of Abi-
lene. has been set for 3 p.m. Mon-
day at the Kiker-Warren Chapel,
1443 North Second St.
Mr. Logsdon suffered a heart
attack about 3 a.m. Saturday at
his home and was pronounced
dead on arrival at Hendrick Mem-
orial Hospital. He bad felt fine
at breakfast and was preparing to
go to his office at E. M. Lambert
& Co., when stricken, the family
said.
Dr. E. D. Landreth, pastor of
the St. Paul Methodist Church,
will officiate, assisted by the Rev.
C. A Long, retired minister. Burt- .
al will be made in the family
lot at Masonic Cemetery.
He was born here Oct. 28, 1900. E
He spend all hia life here except Y
when out of the city in the interest :
of his work aa a brick layer, a
profession he followed all Ma life.
He waa married April 9, 1922 i
to the former Jewell Thornton in 1
Abilene. Mrs. Logsdon is secretary i
of the St. Paul Methodist Church. 1
of which Mr. Logsdon was a mem- f
ber.
Survivors besides his wife in- ,
elude a daughter, Mrs. 0. V. Mil- 8
stead of Augusts, Ga.; his mother, ■
Mrs. Nettie Logsdon of Abilene, 1
and a sister, Mrs. R. B. Perry of 1
Waco. 1
Pallbearers will be Harvey I
Rhodes, Harry Statham, Albert 1
McAlister, Brooks Wheat, D. E. 1
Stephens, and E. M. Lambert.
GEORGE C. LOGSDON
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