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Buffalo Courier-Express folding'
United Press International
BUFFALO, N.Y.— Workers
wept openly or sat in stunned
silence at the news the 148-year-
old Buffalo Courier-Express
will cease publication Sept. 19,
unless a buyer is found — a pos
sibility the owners say is unlikely.
“It was the best job I ever
had,” said Bob Bukaty, 45, a 10-
year veteran photographer at
the morning daily. “I believe it,
but I can’t believe it.”
He said when the annouce-
ment was made Tuesday after
noon, most of the workers sat
silently, obviously stunned,
while others sobbed.
“This is a very sad day for
Buffalo and all of us,” publisher
Roger Parkinson said Tuesday.
The demise of the Courier-
Express would leave Buffalo
with only one daily paper, the
Buffalo Evening News.
“The Courier-Express was
losing money when we came to
Buffalo three years ago,” said
John Cowles Jr., president of the
Cowles Media Co., formerly the
Minneapolis Star & Tribune
Co., which bought the newspap
er in 1979.
Cowles said the paper was suf-
■ P r
5.6 million a year “despite our
commitment of very consider
able resources.”
The Courier-Express has a
daily circulation of 127,750 and
a Sunday circulation of 267,975.
Cowles and Otto A. Silha,
chairman of Cowles Media Co.,
said they had talked with possi
ble buyers, but without success.
“In our opinion, a sale is un
likely,” Cowles said.
The newspaper employs ab
out 850 full-time workers. They
were told of the decision at a 4
p.m. meeting and the official
announcement was made at a
news conference about an hour
later.
economica&f'
Cowles said they had consi
dered the possibility of a joint
operation agreement with the
Buffalo Evening News, which
publishes an afternoon paper
Monday through Friday and
morning editions Saturday and
Sunday.
that option
feasible.”
The Buffalo Courier
established in 1834
merged in 1926 with the ft
Express, which was found
1846.
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They concluded, however,
that “the length of time probably
required to reach and imple
ment such an agreement made
Cowles said sevetjB
.u i ungenu-nis will be madq
the Courier’s employees
participants in the Couil
pension plan will receivtl
nefits to which they arc emia
Cowles will engage inn
ment services to assist G9
employees seeking new jon
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for missing paperboy
United Press International
WEST DES MOINES — The
parents of a 12-year-old news
paper carrier who has been mis
sing for three days fear the boy
was abducted, and they have
asked to negotiate with the kid
nappers.
Police and volunteers rode
mules and three-wheeled vehi
cles Tuesday searching river
banks and woods searching for
John Gosch, who disappeared
Sunday while delivering news
papers.
The widening search in
cluded areas along the Raccoon
River known by police to be a
hideaway for youths.
“I just hope they find him
and he’s well,” one mother said.
“And I hope they get whoever
apprehended him. I’m worried,
the longer it goes by.”
The parents of other news
paper carriers in the area also
voiced fears. The mother of a
10-year-old paper carrier said
bet
leading to the whereabounl
the youth.
her son had been bothered ear
lier this summer by a man driv
ing a van.
Her son ignored him and
wasn’t bothered further. After
learning of Gosch's disappear*
ance, the boy is scared to go out
alone in the morning.
“He won’t be going out alone
anymore,” his mother said. “It
makes you want to say, ‘That’s it.
I don’t need this.’ But you don’t
want to let this beat you.”
The boy’s parents, Noreen
and John Gosch, assume he w’as
kidnapped.
Gosch is a carrier for the Des
Moines Register and Tribune
Co., which announced Tuesday
it was offering a $5,000 reward
to anyone with information
The disappearance is I
considered a missing pen
case. A spokesman foi thel
Division of Criminal Inved
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abduction or kidnapping I
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West Des Moines PoliccCWde. Si
Orval Cooney said there wtrtM e th
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there had been any cause ■
optimism, Cooney repli^
“None whatsoever.”
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Texas A&M University
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Peking, the official Xinhua
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short of the increasing dem
when summer reaches
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in the mountain of watermel
140 percent increase in
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