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Newspaper suffers financial fall
Philadelphia Bulletin to close
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — The
financially beleaguered Phi
ladelphia Bulletin will fold Fri
day, culminating nearly 135
years as one of the nation’s most
respected and successful daily
newspapers, its publisher
announced Wednesday.
“It’s a sad day for all of us,”
publisher N.S. “Buddy” Hayden
said. “We tried our best to turn it
around. I feel lousy.”
He said the final edition of
the newspaper would be pub
lished on Friday.
“We’re closing,” sobbed a re
porter. “Friday is our last. It’s all
over.”
The collapse is the latest in a
series of failures by afternoon
newspapers, among them The
New York Daily News’ Tonight
edition and The Washington
Star. The phenomenon is linked
to competition from television
news and suburban newspapers,
of which Philadelphia has 16.
Charter Co., the Jacksonville,
Fla.-based owner of the news
paper, announced Jan. 6 that
the Bulletin would fold unless a
buyer was found. Once the
most-read newspaper in Phi
ladelphia, the Bulletin has lost
more than $33 million since
June 1980. Circulation recently
dropped to less than 400,000.
At its heyday in 1963, The
Bulletin boasted a circulation of
715,000 and was considered one
of the most read newspapers in
the English-speaking world.
The newspaper won Pulitzer
Prizes in 1964 and 1965.
The Bulletin employs 1,743
people full-time, several hun
dred part-time employees and
6,500 newspaper carriers.
Circulation, advertising and
composing room employees,
many in tears and looking stun
ned, joined reporters and edi
tors in the newsroom shortly af
ter the announcement.
“I think there’s enormous re
lief,” feature writer Jim Brozo
said. “For the past two weeks, it’s
just been hell. A few people got
jobs, but it’s going to be tough.”
Hayden was brought in by the
new owners in May 1980 to turn
The Bulletin’s fortunes around.
He was unable to specify why the
newspaper failed.
Charter threatened to close
the newspaper last August un
less unions accepted $4.9 million
in concessions. After a tense
week of negotiations, the unions
accepted the concessions in a
last-minute move.
Less than six weeks ago,
another Philadelphia newspap
er — the four-year-old tabloid
Philadelphia Journal — folded
under the weight of $15 million
in losses.
John Rodgers, spokesman for
Charter in Jacksonville, said
Charter ofFicials were still nego
tiating with a prospective buyer
as late as Tuesday afternoon,
but that deal fell through;'
declined to identify theproo
live buyer. 1
“Tuesday afternoon,
hopes died,” Rodgers said ;
From Sept. 1 to Dec. 31,11
the Bulletin’s pre-taxlossesy
$7 million against $3.9mil;
1980, he said. Losses forJf . gjjj j
ary alone are projected at$3;
lion - or “double wha:.
were a year ago. , r.. c , ,
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lure, Charter, an otl con* T / Xas
ate, said it could no I j. ... . on'? i
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Black youth’s testimony shocks
Williams’ Atlanta murder trial
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ATLANTA — Suddenly the
genteel atmosphere of inaudible
arguments and smiling witnes
ses was shattered, and the trial of
Wayne Williams was on the
dark, back streets of Atlanta.
A stony-faced, mumbling
black youth named Darrell
dropped a bombshell on the de
fense Tuesday— he said the de
fendant had lured him into his
car, fondled him and was “going
to get something out of the
trunk” when he fled.
Williams, 23, is charged with
the murder of Nathaniel Cater,
27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21,
two of the 28 young blacks — all
but two of them males and most
of them children — abducted
and murdered in Atlanta over a
two-year period.
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murders, even though Williams
is not charged with them, to try
to convince the jury of a “pat
tern, scheme, plan or bent of
mind.”
Darrell’s testimony was the
first to mention Williams’ bent
of mind was homosexuality,
which his lawyers have hotly de
nied, and the first intimation of
any motive in the killings. It also
brought an abrupt change to the
stately atmosphere of the cour
troom, where the proceedings
have given the feeling of an
armchair mystery.
Darrell — who is 15, and by
agreement between lawyers was
not identified — was mulish with
the defense, sparking the first
loud exchanges between lawyers
and forcing the judge to hurry
the jury out of the courtroom.
He was the second witness of the
day to say he saw Williams in a
shopping center with Lubie Ge-
ter the day the 14-year-old child
disappeared.
“Take your mind back to Au
gust of 1980,” said prosecutor
Jack Mallard. “Did you see the
same subject you saw with Lubie
Geter?”
Darrell began, “We was
him and
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