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Page Thursday • March 6,19 ► State Harte-Hanks to sell news organizations SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Harte-Han ks Communications Inc., created 70 years ago from newspapers in San Angelo and Abilene, said Wednesday it would seek to sell its remaining television station, six daily newspa pers and 25 non-daily publications. The divestiture, if carried out, would leave the company focusing on its direct marketing and shopper businesses, which account for 75 percent of its revenues, said Larry Franklin, Harte-Hanks’ chief execu tive officer. “While obviously this was a diffi cult decision to make, we are con vinced it is the right one for all our stakeholders,” Franklin said. Harte-Hanks has retained Don aldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. as its financial advisor in the transactions. The daily newspapers include five in Texas — the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Abilene Reporter- News, Wichita Falls Times Record News, San Angelo Standard-Times and Plano Star Courier — as well as the Anderson Independent-Mail in South Carolina. Harte-Hanks also owns KENS-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Antonio. “We are very proud of the contri butions all our newspapers have ► Weather made over the years to their com munities and the newspaper indus try,” Franklin said. “Likewise, KENS- TV is one of the premier television stations in the nation and a proud part of Harte-Hanks for over 30 years,” he said. Harte-Hanks prefers to sell its newspaper operations to a single buyer, Franklin said, adding that the television station could be part of that transaction or sold separately. The company said although it will pursue the sale of its newspapers and television station, there are no assurances they will be sold. Since going public in 1993 for the second time, Harte-Hanks’ direct marketing and shopper businesses have grown. “We have found that these busi nesses, particularly direct marketing, are very different from the newspaper and television businesses, which by their nature serve local markets,” Franklin said. ► National UT president in line for Berkley position BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Robert Berdahl,the head of the University of Texas at Austin, is likely to be the next chancellor of the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley, sources said Wednesday. Berdahl, 59, has been president at the University of Texas, Austin, the flag ship of the Texas system, since 1993. He is a former vice chancellor from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Ur- bana and is a German historian. JFK dispatches set for auction block NEW YORK (AP) — Four months af ter wire copy describing President Kennedy’s assassination sold for over $8,000 at auction, another batch of As sociated Press dispatches on the shooting is going up for sale. The 7-foot-long roll of AP wire copy detailing the moment-by-moment news developments the day President Kennedy was shot, along with a col lection of AP photos taken after the shooting, will be auctioned March 19 by R.M. Smythe & Co. in Manhattan. The dispatches — totaling about 2,100 words — begin with a digest of the news of the day, including a scandal at the New York Stock Ex change and a shootout at a child’s birthday party. Then the copy breaks in with: “BUL LETIN DALLAS, NOV. 22 (AP) PRESI DENT KENNEDY WAS SHOT TODAY JUST AS HIS MOTORCADE LEFT DOWNTOWN DALLAS. MRS. KENNEDY JUMPED UP AND GRABBED MR. KENNEDY. SHE CRIED, OH, NO! THE MOTORCADE SPED ON.” A Dow Jones News Service ticker tape that includes the identical AP text was auctioned in November by Sothe by’s for $8,625. Grease Robert McKay, The Battalion Jason Toth, a construction science graduate student; Bryan Howard, a senior en vironmental design major; and Deven Rohrer, a senior geography major, talk shop outside the MSC Wednesday. Cloud Si lom Hous Ihelsea Str )p.m. Li’l Brian ► This day in history irs, a cajun- ^ at 3rd Fli Today Tonight Tomorrow Highs & Lows Today’s Expected High 68°F Tonight’s Expected Low 40°F Tomorrow’s Expected High 70°F Sunny and pleasant with northeasteryly winds of 10 mph. Partly cloudy with light and variable winds. Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain late in the day. Tomorrow Night’s Expected Low 38°F Information courtesy of TAMSCAM (AP) — Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 1997. There are 300 days left in the year. On this date: In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege. In 1857, in its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his free dom in a federal court. In 1933, a nationwide bank holiday declared by Pres ident Roosevelt went into effect. In 1944, U.S. heavy bombers staged the first Amer ican raid on Berlin during World War II. (A second raid took place two days later.) In 1967, the daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the U.S. Embassy in India and announced her intention to defect to the West. In 1991, following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told a cheering joint ses sion of Congress that “aggression is defeated. Then Michael is over.” icoustic gi One year ago: A federal appeals court struckdor 0 N e E e St< Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicidi^Eugei Lamar Alexander and Dick Lugar announced theywei dropping out of the race for the Republican presidei tial nomination. Today's birthdays TV personality Ed McMahon is 74. Former FBI an CIA director William Webster is 73. Federal Reservi Chairman Alan Greenspan is 71. Washington,D.C, Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. is 61. Soviet cosmau Valentina Tereshkova is 60. Singer Mary Wilson(tf)e Supremes) is 53. Actor-director Rob ReinerW Singer Kiki Dee is 50. Actor Tom Arnold is 38. songwriter Skip Ewing is 33. Actress Moira Kelly i 9:30 p.m. Speed D band from E is playing wit fockband fr< lion, at the ( The Voot band from E is playing at IMPROVE YOUR WEALTH BY SHARING YOUR HEALTH Here are 81 good reasons to become a plasma donor at Westgate Plasma Center: $80 dollars in your first two weeks, and you save lives. 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