Tips for waltzing through Missouri Bloomfield reunion taking us back

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May 2011
Bloomfield reunion taking us back to our roots
We’ll be staying at the comfortable Drury Inn in Sikeston.
Tips for waltzing through Missouri
By Sue Mayo
The Drury Inn is easily
accessible from Interstate 55 (Exit 67)
and Interstate 57.
Missouri State Highway 60 is
now four-lane across the southern part
of the state and is a beautiful drive.
For those traveling from or
through Kansas City, I suggest that
you use Highway 71 to Harrisonville,
7 to Clinton, 13 to Springfield, 60 to
Sikeston then north on Interstate 55.
All of these are four-lane highways
and have much less traffic than
Interstate 70 across the middle of the
state and through St. Louis.
If you fly to St. Louis you can
rent a car at the airport or use BART,
a van service, to travel to Sikeston.
Contact BART directly (1-800-2842278) to make arrangements. At the
present time the cost for one person
one-way is $80, a second person
making reservations at the same
time is $70 or if six passengers make
reservations together it is $260 for the
group.
There are also four weekday
flights each way between the St. Louis
Airport and Cape Girardeau Airport
and two flights each way on Saturday
See Travel, Page 2
By Jim and Sue Mayo
Our reunion will be held
Sept. 22-Sept. 25 in Bloomfield,
Mo., birthplace of Stars and Stripes,
celebrating the 150th anniversary of the
newspaper’s founding in 1861.
We’ll be staying at the
new Drury Inn in Sikeston, Mo.,
where a block of rooms has been
reserved for us. Each room contains
two queen-size beds at the rate of
$89.95.
To get this reduced rate we
must book at least 20 rooms, and
reservations must be made by Aug. 22. The rate includes the hospitality room,
a full hot breakfast and an evening
“kick-back” with hot entrees.
The banquet will be on Friday
evening (Sept. 23) at the convention
center next door to the Drury.
On Saturday, the group will
visit the Stars and Stripes Museum/
Library in Bloomfield and have lunch
before returning to Sikeston.
The board meeting is
tentatively set for Friday, Sept. 23,
at 9:30 a.m. in the hospitality room.
The general meeting will be the same
day, starting at 11 a.m., also in the
hospitality room.
To make reservations on
the Internet go to: http://www.
druryhotels.com/Reservations.
aspx?groupno=2112170
Reservations may also be
made by calling the toll-free number,
See Reunion, Page 2
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phone 856-667-3008
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Reunion, From Page 1
800-325-0720, and giving the same group number. To aid
in ongoing planning for the reunion, please register as early
as possible.
Here are some of the amenities at Drury:
Free hot breakfast includes Belgian waffles,
scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, and sausage.
From 5:30-7 p.m. – The rotating hot-food menu
may include items such as hot dogs, chicken strips, egg
rolls, charbroiled meatballs, baked potatoes and more.
Drinks on the house – Each adult paying guest can
have three complimentary alcoholic beverages per day.
Free long-distance – One hour every room, every
night.
Free wireless Internet access – high-speed Internet
in all rooms and the lobby.
Free soda and popcorn from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.
every night in the lobby.
“And much more.”
The Drury Inn is at 2608 East Malone
Ave., Sikeston, Mo. 63801. Telephone: (573) 472-2299.
Travel, From Page 1
and Sunday. The present cost is $49 one-way. Contact
the airport at www.capeairport.com or 573-334-6230.
There is not a good public transportation system between
the Cape Girardeau Airport and Sikeston, but both Hertz
(573-339-7250) and Enterprise (573-339-7800) have car
rental service at the airport. Traveling on Interstate 55, the
distance between the Cape Girardeau Airport and Sikeston
is no more than 33 miles.
Sikeston is about the same distance from Memphis
as St. Louis; however, it would be necessary to rent a car to
travel to Sikeston if using the Memphis Airport.
Remember, prices fluctuate with the cost of fuel, so
may be different when you make a reservation.
The following mileage to the Drury in
Sikeston may be of interest:
From the Stars and Stripes Museum: 29 miles;
from the Cape Girardeau Airport, 26 miles; from St. Louis
Airport, 157; from Memphis, Tenn. Airport, 151; from
Kansas City via Springfield, 403; from Kansas City via St.
Louis, 378.
Correction
The last edition credited Gen. Eisenhower for
reviving Stripes. Jim Mayo’s research shows that Gen.
George C. Marshall ordered the revival. Bill McNamara
published the first continental edition on July 4, 1944 in
France.
STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS
STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION’S REUNION 2011
September 22 – September 25
HOTEL
Drury Inn
2608 E. Malone Ave., Sikeston, Missouri
NOTE: Make motel reservations on-line at http://www.druryhotels.com/Reservations.aspx?groupno=2112170
or call 1-800-325-0720 and use the same group number. Make reservation by August 22, 2011 for the
$89.95 rate for one room with two queen beds. After that date, rooms will be provided on a spaceavailable basis at prevailing rates.
REUNION ACTIVITIES REGISTRATION
To register for the reunion activities, please complete the form below carefully to assure proper credit
and spelling of names. Registration fee is $100 per person if mailed by August 1, 2011 and $125 after
that date. This includes the hospitality room each day and evening of the reunion, Friday evening
banquet, transportation from the motel to the Stars and Stripes Museum/Library and lunch on
Saturday.
Member(s’) Name(s)­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________________________Number in Party_____
Address:_____________________________________________Phone:_____________
City:________________________________________State:______ZIP Code:________
Email__________________________________________________________________
Guest(s):________________________________________________________________
Payment calculation and instructions:
Registration by August 1: $100x_________ (number in party) = $_______________
Registration after August 1: $125x_________ (number in party) = $_______________
Number in party needing transportation from the hotel to the museum on Saturday_____
I plan to drive to the museum on Saturday; number in my vehicle_______­­­­­­­­
Send checks or money orders payable to: Stars and Stripes Museum (note Reunion 2011 in memo),
Mail to: R. Sue Mayo; 18084 State Highway J, Bloomfield MO 63825
Friday night banquet buffet menu: Roast beef w/gravy, chicken breast in mushroom sauce, au gratin
potatoes, whole green beans, glazed carrots, green salad, dinner and cinnamon rolls, cheesecake and
chocolate cake, cash bar
Saturday lunch buffet: Fish, shrimp, chicken strips, slaw, potatoes, hush puppies, cash bar
May 2011
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Nightmare on the Early News desk
Tom Scully worked at PS&S
from 1957 to 1977, starting in the
proof room, getting up to the rim
and spending his last 10 years as the
paper’s news slotman. Below is his
account, true he says in every word, of
a day he rolled in to the Early News
desk.
By Tom Scully
One morning at around
1:30 or so whilst whiling away
some time chatting to a lovely
bar girl in a closed but still serving
Shinjuku bar, it suddenly occurred
to my booze-fogged mind that I
had the Early News job that day,
startup time 2 a.m.
I had worked on the
rim the day before and had, as
usual, proceeded after work to
go bar hopping with the guys. I
don’t recall how I wound up in
Shinjuku. In any case Early News
was a vital one-man job, vital
in that the guy doing it had to
sort through all the UPI and AP
teletype, selecting an assortment
of worthy articles for the News Editor
who showed up at 5:30.
I got to the paper on time,
staggering in to be greeted by hardworking Teruyoshi “Terry” Takesue,
the night teletype monitor, who
immediately brought me a cup of
coffee. (I firmly believe that Terry’s
coffee pot saved many a guy’s job
at PS&S.) He already had a bunch
of copy on my desk and so I lit up a
cigarette and went to work.
It was summer and Stripes
was then housed in the old wooden
building that reportedly had served as
a stable for the Japanese cavalry. The
daytime sun caused the building to
heat up during the day and that heat
proceeded to radiate throughout it all
night. The only relief was the four
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khaki colored fans droning away high
up on the wall near the windows. I
suspect now that the windows must
have had screens but they didn’t seem
to stop any number of moths and
lovely green iridescent beetles from
careening around the newsroom in a
kind of kamikaze attack.
I had gotten a little way into
the pile of copy when I fell asleep.
Terry didn’t disturb me, likely because
he figured I could use a few winks.
When I awoke, I don’t know how
much later, there was a helluva lot
more copy on my desk. Determined
to carry on, I stripped to the waist and
rolled my pant legs up to my knees. I
also began drinking cups of ice water
from the fountain down the hall,
figuring that would help sober me up.
No luck, I again fell asleep,
not once but several times, to awake
as before to a growing pile of yellow
teletype copy in front of me. By now
I couldn’t see the desk top and the
neatly piled copy was about, so help
me, four inches deep.
Panic set in as I visualized
News Editor Warren (The Frog)
Girard arriving at 5:30 to see his Early
News guy asleep, head down on a
mattress of teletype. What shame! I’d
never live it down.
So now I really bore down,
when it occurred to me that
another cup of ice
water might help. I legged it
down the hall, got the water
and sat down at the desk. I
took a sip of the water and then
my mind said, “You stupid
bastard, wake up!” With that I
pulled my shorts and trousers
away from my waist and
poured the cup of ice water into
my crotch.
I don’t know if the ice
water coursing over my gonads
did the trick, but I finally began
making some headway on the
copy. It was around 5:20 or so
when I thought I had things
somewhat under control,
though by no means in good
order, so I strolled out to the
front door to get some of that
cool morning air. I was standing on
the helipad tarmac when I spotted
Warren’s rusty old Oldsmobile coming
through the gate at the other end of the
compound.
Thank God, I thought, here
comes my savior. I walked out a
couple of more feet when Warren, ever
the happy-go-lucky guy, proceeded to
bear down on me in the Oldsmobile,
chasing me into the building. Wow,
I thought, he’s in good shape this
morning!
I figured Warren was my
savior because nobody, but nobody,
could select copy, edit, size it and
lay out a page as fast as The Frog.
He sized copy for length by the span
of his outstretched thumb and little
See Nightmare, Page 8
STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS
WW I Stripes originator had guts, patience
By Frank Praytor, PS&S ‘52-’54
Do you know who originated,
fought for, wrote and edited the
“soldier’s newspaper” of World War I
fame?
How about an Army secondlieutenant in his 40s with more guts
than a slaughterhouse, patience
matching Job’s and perseverance
exceeding that of WD-40 inventors?
And how about a tongueboggling Polish name like Viskniskki
That’s Visk-nisk-ki.
I didn’t know beans about
WWI origins of Stripes until I read a
book, Unsung Patriot, sent to me by
Sue Mayo, archivist and librarian at
the Stars and Stripes Museum/Library
in Bloomfield, Mo. It was written by
a talented writer and lawyer, Virginia
G. Vasallo, granddaughter of the WWI
Stripes founder, GuyT.Viskniskki (b.
4/28/1876).
She delves into the life of
Viskniskki, whom she never met, with
an abundance of detail, but with a style
that makes it a page-turner for anyone
interested in Stripes history. She draws
her story from a substantial number of
official documents, writings and letter
exchanges her grandfather left in his
wake when he died in 1949.
At 13, Guy Viskniskki was
a printer’s devil; at 16, a reporter
responsible for writing and putting
together a weekly newspaper for
its sight-deficient publisher who
happened to be one of the “Bloomfield
Ten” originators of the first Stars
And Stripes in Bloomfield, Mo. He
followed his father into the Army
in 1898 (Spanish-American War);
rose to corporal, then sergeant; got
on friendship terms with Col. Teddy
Roosevelt and was a civilian again two
days before Christmas, 1898.
As a youth in Carmi, Ill.,
Guy Viskniskki was in conversational
reach of not only his employer, but
also with another “Bloomfield Ten”
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member, John Schell. His uncle had
been a member of the force occupying
Bloomfield at the time the original
Stars And Stripes was published.
When the U.S. was drawn
into WWI, Viskniskki, out of a sense
of patriotism, volunteered for frontline duty. He was a junior-grade
commissioned officer by then. Instead,
he was assigned to the censor section
where, in his own words, played
“nursemaid” to civilian correspondents
covering the war.
Ms. Vassallo quotes her
grandfather’s memos pointing out
that morale was deteriorating rapidly
among American forces fighting in
the trenches. He proposed publishing
a newspaper for the troops containing
news, features and comics, devoid of
overt propaganda, as a medium for
improving attitudes. He even worked
out financing economics entailing paid
advertising and subscription rates.
Profits, if any, were to be redistributed
back to troop units. He exploited an
indirect line to the ear of General John
Pershing, commander of the American
Expeditionary Force, through a major
on the general staff. Pershing reviewed
Viskniskki’s thought-out, well-
articulated proposal and authorized
him to implement it.
The agonizing task began.
He negotiated a printing source as
well as supplies of newsprint, picked
writers with journalism experience
and an artist. After his paper became
enthusiastically accepted by the troops
and widely lauded as a winner, he
noted years later, acerbically, that
Pershing publicly took personal credit
for the creation of his creation.
Ms. Vassallo takes the reader
through all the difficulties, mechanical
and human, Viskniskki encountered
getting his paper up and running,
then had to fend off those who sought
control of it.
She leaves to her readers the
really big question to answer: Was
the title given it by Guy Viskniskki
inspired by the stories he heard
from the mouths of the “Bloomfield
Ten,” several of whom lived in his
hometown of Carmi and nearby
Fairfield, Ill., and one for whom he
worked? She points to the “many
threads connecting Guy to that
first Stars And Stripes published in
Bloomfield during the Civil War.” She
doesn’t discount the possibility that the
idea for the title did spring from his
memory and he avoided referring to it
because he enjoyed the impression that
he originated the title himself. None
of Guy Viskniskki’s memoirs, and
there are many, ever referred to the
Bloomfield edition, or acknowledged
its existence. But he obviously heard a
lot about it.
Try to convince Museum
Founder Jim Mayo that the kid never
heard the S&S title mentioned while
he was growing up and working within
earshot of those Bloomfield veterans.
Unsung Patriot is one
fabulous read. Until you read it, you
don’t really know the story how our
newspaper was reborn in WWI, or
See Book Review, Page 8
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Former ombudsman Monroe dies at 90
Former “Meet the Press”
moderator Bill Monroe, who served
twice as the ombudsman for Stars and
Stripes, died Feb. 17 at a Washington,
D.C., area nursing home. He was
90, and had complications from
hypertension, according to news
reports.
Monroe held the Stripes
position from 1992 to 1995 and 1997
to 1999. He also edited the Pentagon’s
“Early Bird,” an internal newsclipping service. He retired about a
decade ago.
His first tenure as ombudsman
began three years after Congress
directed a change from military to
civilian leadership at Stripes and the
creation of the position.
He spent considerable
time helping the staffs understand
the relationships under the new
structure. In particular, he reviewed
attempts by U.S. Forces Korea to
manipulate the news.
While Monroe found that the
structure worked – the commander/
publisher and Commander in Chief,
Pacific, almost never put any pressure
on the editor – the process underscored
the need for the ombudsman to be able
to intervene. Monroe also established the
practice of the ombudsman writing
periodic columns.
The significant change during
his second term was the introduction
of the ombudsman meeting regularly
with reader focus groups.
Monroe had gained national
prominence during his nine-year
tenure as moderator of “Meet the
Press.”
Starting on NBC-TV in 1947,
“Meet the Press” has been one of the
longest-running programs in American
broadcast history. Monroe had long
worked for NBC News in Washington
and had been a panelist on the show
before being named in 1975 as its
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moderator.
He
succeeded
Lawrence Spivak,
the program’s cocreator, and was
later followed by
journalists such
as Marvin Kalb,
Garrick Utley and
Tim Russert.
1984.
Bill Monroe
Monroe left the program in
William Blanc Monroe Jr. was
born July 17, 1920, in New Orleans.
He graduated in 1942 from Tulane
University in his hometown, then
served in the Army Air Forces in Italy
during World War II. Afterward, he
worked in radio and print journalism
in New Orleans. He once interviewed
celebrated jazz trumpeter Louis
Armstrong – who had been barred
because of his race from the city’s
finest hotels – as the musician shaved
in a shabby rented room.
Civil rights became one of the
hallmarks of Monroe’s early career.
While news director in the early 1950s
at the New Orleans NBC-TV affiliate,
he produced some of the station’s
first editorials and often weighed in
on school desegregation. His efforts
landed him on a White Citizens
Council’s list of “traitors to the
South,” he once said, and led to threats
to him and his family.
He was married to Elizabeth
Harrison Monroe from 1941 until her
death in 2008.
Survivors include their four
daughters, Lee Monroe of West
Hartford, Conn.; Arthe Monroe
“Taysie” Phillips of Thurmont, Md.;
Catherine Monroe of Manassas, Va.,
and Maria Monroe Poole of Union
Bridge, Md.; and five grandchildren.
Monroe became NBC’s
Washington bureau chief in 1961
and later D.C. editor of the “Today”
show, a job for which he received
the prestigious Peabody Award for
broadcast journalism.
Throughout his career, he was
critical of the Federal Communications
Commission’s regulation of broadcast
media – a first step, he said, toward
abridging the constitutionally
guaranteed rights of free speech and
free press.
A dispatch from the
Washington Post was used in
compiling this article.
Bill Magnusson, bookstores mainstay
William Daniel “Bill”
Magnusson, who worked 25 years as
the merchandising supervisor of The
Stars and Stripes bookstores at bases
in Germany, died Sept. 23, 2010 in
DeLand, Fla. He was 91.
Bill was born Dec. 3, 1918,
in East Boston. His mother, Catherine
Coakley, was originally from Ireland.
His father, Oscar Wilhelm, was
originally from Sweden.
He was inducted into the
service in February1942 and served
in the Pacific with the 405th Signal
Company Aviation 5th Bomber
Command. He was discharged as a
sergeant after the war.
In 1947 he enlisted in the
Massachusetts National Guard as a
sergeant with the 67th Fighter Wing
Headquarters.
In 1949 he graduated from the
Massachusetts Military Academy as
a second lieutenant and was ordered
to extended active duty in October
1950. He served as executive officer
See Magnusson, Page 7
STARS AND STRIPES ASSOCIATION NEWS
Grave marker mystery in England
A mystery half solved
describes the story about a grave
marker in an English cemetery
identifying “Pvt. Fred Boyer, 1943,
Stars and Stripes Det.”
Thanks to research by our
newsletter editor, Joe Schneider,
we now know that Boyer was born
in 1922 in Connecticut and was a
resident of Wayne County, Mich.,
when he enlisted in the U.S. Army
in Detroit. He died Aug. 13, 1943.
The unsolved part of the
mystery is the “Stars And Stripes”
engraved on his grave marker.
Sue Mayo, librarian of the Stars
And Stripes Museum Library in
Bloomfield Mo., has searched for
Boyer’s name in copies of Stripes
published in 1943 without finding
it.
What started it all was an
e-mail letter to Schneider from
Arthur Brookes, caretaker of the
Cambridge American Cemetery.
He was interested in the “Stars And
Stripes” part of Boyer’s headstone
and curious enough to inquire.
All we know is that Pvt.
Boyer’s burial site is identified as
Grave 41, Plot C, Row 3, in the
cemetery under management of
Magnusson
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with Company A, 97th Engineer
Construction Battalion with the
European Command. He was released
to the Reserve June 1952.
Living in Europe allowed
Bill and his family to travel all over
the world. He retired to Florida in
1981, where he worked part time as a
security guard.
Surviving are his wife of 56
years, Lucie Louise “Lee” Magnusson;
three children, Daniel Magnusson,
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Brookes. Boyer died of lymphatic
leukemia, according to information
obtained from Brookes,
Bill McNamara, who
directed many of the start-up
offices of Stripes in Europe, said he
has no memory of Boyer. If there’s
anyone who does, Joe Schneider
and Arthur Brookes would love to
hear from him or her.
— Frank Praytor
Barbara Coffee and Michelle
Magnusson.
He also had a daughter,
Kathryn Nee, from his first marriage to
Eleanor Magnusson.
Several grandchildren and
great-grandchildren also survive.
Appreciation
Thanks to Stripes Publisher Max
Lederer, Jen Stepp, Dave Feldman,
Jim Shaw and Jim Houston for
helping with this edition.
Allan Dreyfuss
had varied career
Allan Leon Dreyfuss, 91,
whose multifaceted career included
a stint at The Stars and Stripes, died
March 21in Ann Arbor, Mich.
His varied endeavors included
covering the Nuremberg trials of Nazi
leaders and writing speeches for Henry
Ford II and New York Mayor Robert
Wagner.
He also wrote plays, three of
which were staged, including “813:
American History,” produced by Ann
Arbor Civic Theatre in 1999.
Allan Dreyfuss was born in
Brookline, Mass., the son of Alice
Schwab and Charles Dreyfuss. He
earned a bachelor’s degree at the
University of Chicago.
With World War II under way
at the time of his graduation, Dreyfuss
enlisted in the Army Air Forces and
began a career in journalism as a
reporter for The Stars and Stripes.
He later worked with the Associated
Press, United Press International, and
Reuters.
One of the major events
of his life came in 1945, when he
was assigned to cover the trials in
Nuremberg, Germany, which lasted
four years, of Hitler’s military and
political entourage.
Between the close of trial
testimony and the tribunal’s judgment,
he wrote a summary of charges
against the 21 main defendants, later
published as “These 21.” In 2006,
Stars and Stripes republished it with a
new foreward by Dreyfuss.
His wife, Cecilia, died in
2001. He is survived by four children,
Anne Elisabeth of New York, Peter
of Oakland, Calif., Stephen of San
Francisco, and Jonathan of Ann Arbor;
and four grandchildren.
He also leaves his companion
of nine years, Patricia Pooley, and her
daughter, Rachel Pooley.
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Nightmare
From Page 4
finger, twisting his hand as he went
down the copy sheet to gain multiples
of that finger spread distance. When
he got the length he wanted he simply
tore the rest off at the edge of his desk.
With that done, he went down through
the copy, rapidly crossing out paras,
sentences he figured weren’t needed.
The miracle was that his stuff always
fit. The guys in Production thought he
was a genius.
I was back at my desk when
Warren appeared at the far end of the
Newsroom.
Mornin’ Warren! I shouted
happily. And then the morning got just
a little dark because the answer I got
back was, “Sick, sick, sick! Jaysus,
I’m sick!”
The Frog was pissed. I
immediately tried to explain to
him that owing to unforeseen
circumstances I was a bit behind in
sorting the copy. Taking his
first sip of Terry’s ever ready coffee,
he replied, “Don’t worry about it.
Just give me what you got. We’ll get
the f______ paper out.”
And we did, or rather Warren
did.
Book review,
From Page 5
about the man who started it and kept
it going.
Stripes has published
continuously since 1943, when it was,
again, brought back to life to serve
American forces in World War II. It
is confined to offshore distribution
by, some say, political influence and
pressure from national newspaper
publishing interests.
Needless to say, the above
According to the publisher’s
was not Tom’s usual performance. The website, the price of Unsung Patriot
records show that he was a copydesk
is $21.95, plus $3 shipping. Remit to
stalwart. Sadly, Warren Girard passed Krazy Duck Productions, PO Box 105,
away on March 19, 2005. A special
Danville, KY 40423.
thanks goes to artist Jim Hummel for
Sue and Jim Mayo provided
capturing the graphic image of Tom’s
considerable assistance for
ordeal.
this book review..
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Cal Posner
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