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Vol. 8

HEREWITH is presented the third annual Oregon newspaper directory compiled by Oaaoos EXCHANGES. Con ditions, if the vital statistics are indica tive, have been fairly static. As was the case last year, newspapers or magazines of general circulation are published in 134 communities of Oregon. The total number of periodical publications here listed is 251, or approximately the same as in 1923. when the number was 253. This year’s total excludes all publications issued at educational institutions, but in cludes the various community news papers in Portland, of which there are 17. Only one of these was listed in the directory last year. Additions of publi cations issued by and in educational in stitutions would send the total past 300. Two new daily papers have been started since the last directory date-— the Central Oregon Press, at Bend, and the Klamath News, at Klamath Falls. Both of these advanced from twice-a weeks. bringing the total number of dailies in Oregon to 33, an increase of two in the year, since there were no fatalities in this particular field. In the preceding year one of the dailies failed to make the grade. New weekly papers totaled 8, exceed ing by l the number of deaths in this field. One of the 7 Weeklies that expired, however, was a paper printed in a nearby town of larger size, and one was an ex clusively farm news paper, reducing to 5 the total number of actual home-town weeklies that failed. In the twice-a -week and weekly field no paper is counted which is a part of a daily newspaper. Thus the reduction of twice-a -weeks from 7 to 4 is not a loss of independent twice-a -weeks, which have held their own at 4, with the additions of the Cottage Grove Sentinel and the St. Helens Mist to the number counter balancing the loss of the Bend and Klam ath publications that moved to the daily class. Nineteen Oregon papers reported change of ownership during the year as compared with 23 in the preceding twelve-month period. Two more changes in editors-in-chief, however, are reported, with ‘. 29 as against 27. Women appear to be holding their own, approximately, in the editorial and publishing ends of the newspapers, with 11 women editors and 7 women pub lishers reported. Lack of detailed re turns from a considerable number of com posing rooms makes it impossible to say how the women are getting along in the back shops. One of the women publishers retired from the field during the year. when Mrs. Jessiline E. Morrison turned ever the Maupin Times to A. Y. Zoller, of the Dufur Dispatch. Seventy-five Oregon papers ran through the year with no change re ported in their respective staffs. Among the notable journalistic dead for the year were Charles H. Fisher, edi tor of the Eugene Evening Guard; A. E. Scott, editor and publisher of the Wash ington County News-Times, Forest Grove; Addison Bennett, veteran reporter on the staff of the Morning Oregonian; E. P. Cronemiller, publisher of the Lake County Examiner, at Lakeview; William