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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
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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.
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Tonight’s Expected Low
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Tomorrow’s Expected
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70°F
Sunny and pleasant
with northeasteryly
winds of 10 mph.
Partly cloudy with light
and variable winds.
Partly sunny with a
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late in the day.
Tomorrow Night’s
Expected Low
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(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
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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
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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
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