Dealey of Dallas

During the 52 years George Bannerman Dealey has worked for and run the Dallas News (a.m.) and Journal (p.m..), those newspapers have taken more than one unpopular but righteous stand. They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing at the risk of losing readers. Announced he: "The Dallas News and the Dallas Journal, believing that anti-racing legislation expresses the will of the people of the State, have discontinued publication of racing charts, selections and results of horse racing. Space heretofore devoted to turf activities will be used to present news of greater reader interest. The decision to discontinue horse-racing news is made on short notice without consulting other newspapers.

"This declaration of policy also applies to dog racing."

Other two Dallas dailies are the Times-Herald and Dispatch, both afternoon papers. The Times-Herald, whose 71,000 circulation runs 21,000 ahead of the Journal, lost no time proclaiming itself the only paper in town carrying complete turf news. The Dispatch (5,000 behind the Journal), which has been soft-pedaling racing news lately, did not change policy. Of the letters and telegrams received by the News and Journal, it was reported that 15-to-1 approved their position. In any event, Dallas merchants, who naturally are opposed to seeing potential customers spend their money with bookmakers or at the track, were happy as could be.

An amiable old paternalist who was immensely pleased when his editorial workers recently informed him that they wanted him and not the Newspaper Guild to be their sole bargaining agent, Publisher Dealey has his plant plastered with pictures of the Alamo's Davy Crockett, with that hero's motto: BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD.

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