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Newspaper Found Rewi ' High school and college students are greatly underestimating the career opportunities which exist on the reSlorting and editing st,affs of the nation's newspapers. This is a major conclusion of a report by Alvin E. Austin, who took a year's leave from his post as head of North Dakota Univer sity's journalism department to investigate news staff recruit Oment problems - and solutions - across the nation. His study was sponsored by Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and by the Dow Jones Foundation. Manpower Shortage One of his surveys, of 135 large and small daily papers, disclosed that over 67 per cent consider "shortage of new manpower" to be one of their leading problems. Pay for beginning reporters just out of college is .rising rather rapidly; it now averages around $73 weekly and ranges above $100. Slightly more than half the news papers surveyed are paying some top experienced newsmen more than $10,000 annually. "Clearly, newspaper salaries have been improving faster than information about the gains has been getting around," declares the Austin report. It blames the majority of newspapers themselves for a widespread failure to in form young people of the oppor tunities on news staffs. And it emphasizes that on good news papers these rewards Include "in tangibles" of the profession: ex citement, integrity, prestige - r way of life. Star Reporter "To the extent that journalists have succeeded in tearing down the traditional stereotype of the hard drinking, bullet-dodging star re porter (still purveyed by movies' and television) they seem to have left only the wrong impression that. newspapering is a dull and routine job," says the Austin report. GE You can light either endi . See how Pall Mall's famous length * of fine tobacco travels and gentles the smol4 -makes it mild - but does not lfter out that oaisfyj_ng flavor I Career irding Attracting bright young minds "is the newspaper industry's prob lem; many individual papers ar tackling it with imagination and vigor," it adds. "But it is also a problem of importance to the whole American society. News papers always have needed the best minds available to perform their vital task of keeping the public Informed. Never has this been truer than now, a time of scientific, social and economic breakthroughs." Greatest Pool The greatest pool of talent for newspaper staffs of the future is to be found today on college and school papers, the study concludes. It suggests most student editors would welcome volunteer profes sional advice on putting out their publications, and that association with the pros could lead many young ,people to chose a journalistic career. Newspapers confront a mild dilemma, Professor Austin nutes, because their hiring concentrates on smart college students-but im pressions about careers are pretty well fixed in most youngsters' minds several years before they graduate from college. This means the papers must capture imagina tions at high school age, if not before. Have Failed As evidence that newspapers have largely failed to do this, he shows that staffs of high school newspapers (some 30,000 of them, with $20 million annual production costs) have been largely abandoned by the 'boy students, just within the last few years. He quotes approv ingly the remark of a professional newspaperman: "High school boys are not convinced the profession is one with a future, and don't want to waste time on it. If we can convince them of its opportunities, they will return to the fold." Should the young person aiming at a news career go to a college ET SATISF=YlI iendlyt No flat'fiftl No dry "smc HRE WMV' SMOKERi Outsta A,Jwd f4sM$ '58 Grid Rich Har Now that most of the post-season I superlatives have been announced, the Carolina football team can look back on a season that produced a rich harvest of honors. A late-season spurt enabled the Gamecocks to finish 15th in the nation in the final Associated Press poll, marking the first time in the history of the school that Carolina has been ranked in the journalism school? The report notes that debate on this point still rages among newspaper exe cutives. Of 128 managing edi tors questioned, 91 would defin itely hire journalism school grad- I uates ahead of general college I grads; 29 firmly favored the latter over the former; just eight had no preference. SJG F=LAVOR.. your ta bred-out"flavor I )ked-out"taste! MVWEI? TH4ROUGH PIlNE10Si fldifl1"...an,d they are eason Pr rest Of H op 20 at the end of the season. The Gamecocks downed Duke, eorgia, Clemson, Furman, Vir inia, North Carolina State and Wake Forest, while losing to Army, qorth Carolina and Maryland. 'The Hawk'-All-American Halfback Alex Hawkins received he-most individual honors, includ ng the "player-of-the-year" award or the Atlantic Coast Conference, he top vote on the sports writers' ll-conference team, first-team )ositions on the Associated Pross nd United Press-International ll-A.C.C. teams, a position on he Paul H. Williamson ratihg sys em All-America, and a third-team >ost on the Associated Press All kmerica. Fullback John Saunders, a jun or from Churchland, Va., has his ste! O a.vT. C cctsoe mier, un ar euoMMieeasNe di.Wldmi. ....... .. .. loduced 5nors share of honors, too, receiving the William P. Jacobs award as the best blocker in the A.C.C., as voted by the sports writers, and gaining positions on the sports writers as sociation and United Press-Inter national All-A.C.C. first teams. Pitts Honored Too Gamecock tackle Ed Pitts was named to the Associated Press all conference team and missed the sports writers all-league first team by only one point in the voting. Pitts is a junior from Clinton. During the season guard Jake Bodkin was named A.C.C. "sopho more-of-the-week" for -his play in the Georgia game, and Hawkins and Saunders were named state "player-of-the-week" tw,ce each for superlative performances. Saunders had the distinction of leading the conference in rushing with 653 yards and a 5.1 average, while Hawkins was fifth with 474 yards. THE Introduces a new and room which is known RESTAURANT. Watch soon. Free refreshmenti on all our food. Our slogan is For CARDIGAN By Jantzen Complete Selecti COPELA Try Our FISHERMAI ASSORTED With All Thi We Have Dining Il Private Corner State & CI '58-'59 Cage Schedule DATE OPPONENT SITE Dec. 13 Georgia . . Home Doc. 15 Duke Durham, N. C. Dec. 17 North Carolina ....... Home Dec. 20 Georgia Tech. Atlanta, Ga. 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