{"id":3455,"date":"2025-05-01T21:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T01:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:44:02","slug":"my-deadlines-newsprint-began-70-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/?p=3455","title":{"rendered":"My deadlines + newsprint began 70 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Steve Crum<\/p>\n

THROWING BACK to 1954, when 7 year-old Stephen Crum began his journey\/destiny of journalism. In my 61st & Ann Avenue home in KCK, I loved reading The Kansas City Times and Star (both the morning and evening editions). So I published my own newspaper, really a one-pager, The Ann \"\"Avenue News. Since I had no typewriter or copy machine, it was a laborious task. Every story was hand written by me\u2026and included my single panel comic, Sammy Shoe. (It featured a dorky kid with huge feet.) I churned out maybe six copies of the same issue each week, and hand delivered them to a like number of neighbors. The stories were brief and gossipy. This enterprise lasted two issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My journalistic spirit rekindled big time when I was a junior and senior at Wyandotte High School. As a member of the Pantograph newspaper staff, I drew cartoons, took photos, and wrote news and features. Thirty-five years later, I was teaching journalism at Wyandotte, and advising the Pantograph.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In between, I became associate editor of The Bulletin student newspaper at Emporia State (then Kansas State Teachers College). I also wrote news and features (play reviews, etc.), and drew cartoons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After my stint in the Army, I briefly wrote for an arts and entertainment magazine, Greenhouse, distributed throughout Greater Kansas City. That was 1974.<\/p>\n

\"\"I surprised myself when I researched the number of high school newspapers I advised over the years following college. They include: Rosedale High School\u2019s The Rosedalian, Harmon\u2019s The Talon, Washington\u2019s The Washingtonian, Schlagle\u2019s Diachron, Wyandotte\u2019s Pantograph, and Bishop Ward\u2019s Outburst.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In the midst of all the writing, teaching and deadlines, I proudly served as President of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association, 1985-87.<\/p>\n

Factor in three city newspapers for which I wrote film and stage reviews and interviews, and drew cartoons: The Kansas City Kansan, The Wyandotte West, and Courier Tribune (Kansas City Missouri\u2019s Northland). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

_____<\/p>\n

\"\"Sadly, few local newspapers still publish. The Internet rules.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I miss those deadlines..sort of. I miss being able to actually hold a paper copy of one\u2019s publication. I miss feeling the pride and accomplishment on distribution day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Steve Crum THROWING BACK to 1954, when 7 year-old Stephen Crum began his journey\/destiny of journalism. In my 61st & Ann Avenue home in KCK, I loved reading The Kansas City Times and Star (both the morning and evening editions). So I published my own newspaper, really a one-pager,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}