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while the four schools got only $2,500 each. "We were getting away from the old church-what I refer to as pray, pay and obey-to the new church where people were told to think for themselves," Newman said "You don't want to encourage people to lose their faith, obviously. But you must keep the faith energetic and alive." E,entually, Newman said, the paper became the target of a "vilification campaign" in which nuns or women dressed as nuns encouraged businesses to withdraw

paper in those times eagerly took up prickly issues of the day. Newman said he was faulted for reporting the departure of a promi- , nent priest who left his post in order to marry Week after week, the paper covered the debate surrounding Maher's denial of communion to members of group like the Nation- al Organization for Women that advocated the right to an abortion. In the mid-1970 , Newman said, th paper won a San Diego Press Cl b award for an Investigation into the finances of a Catholic high chool fund-ra 1 Ing event. The pa- . per revealed that comedian Bob Hope, Invited to make a guest appearance, had ended up with $25,000 that he gave to chanty

their advertising. Newman. who has since become a deacon in charge of the diocese's retreat center, left the paper in late 1979 to go into fund raising. Three editors followed in rapid succes- sion-a public relations man and two priests. In a recent interview, asked to y where the paper was headed, Finley Satd he was awaitin the results of a readership survey sent out m a previous edition and would be meetmg with his editorial board as well as pn sts throughout the dioces .

bland little newspaper, a 12- or 16 page tabloid almost entirely In black and white. Its circulation Is approximately 20,000 in a diocese believed to have many more Cath- olics than the official 382,000 count. In a recent lssu , most or the front concerned the dedica- tion of church. The centerfold w a two-page read on the 75th anniv ry of a parish. ew of the nation's Catholic b hops' latest pastoral I tter on the economy was o Page 12. There were no letters fromr ad But South m Cross was not always shy of controversy. During the 1970s it w s edited by lcha 1 N wm n, who took over at 48 after journalism car r that included service on London's Fl et Street. As Newman and of his staff recall It, the

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"SCOHR (Study Committee on Home Rule) took no position," Foss said. "We did not feel Rancho Santa Fe was affected." Foss who chairs SCOHR, said th~ RSF incorporation petition, prepared by the group, keeps the boundaries away from that area. He said SCOHR has not discussed the pros and cons of county or city Jurisdiction abutting the proposed city of Rancho Santa Fe. County Supervisor Susa_n Golding and city council member Abbe Wolf heimcr agree the river valley should be preserved. However, they differ on who should do the pre- serving. In a forum held in Rancho Santa Fe Oct. 25, Golding said she feared Prop. A governing the undeveloped land. "Prop. A retains the status quo; it's the status ~uo !'m concerned about." Goldin!! sat< t

By Susanna Timmons . The Local Agency Formauon Commission voted 7 to 1 to leave the San Dicguito River Valley in the hands of the county, denying the city's plea for control. Mike Gotch, councilman and chairman of the LAFCO board, cast the only vote against the staff recommendation Nov. 3 to leave the county with control of 6,600 acres cast of the Covenant area. Approximately 4,000 to 5 000 acres on the southeast Covenant border including Fairbanks Ranch and Whispering Palms were included in the study, but were not disputed by the ci_ty. _Those communities remam m the county's sphere. LAFCO staff analyst Dana Smith said the city respected the "rural" nature of the develop- ments and agreed they should remain unincorporated.

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Booster club to aid Tore:3. h,o~§ers Hank E~. ~ad basketball coach for the University of San Diego, has announced the emergence of a booster club, the Torcro Blue. The orgarnzation was formed by area busmessmen to help rai:e additional funds to support USD basketball. Members in· elude: -Tom Palmtag, Dr. William P. Curran, Thomas Burke, John Trifilleti, Edward LaPJount, Ted Peterson, John Prunty and Guy Ricciardulli. For further information, call 260 -1588.

tion, recei~ed _his. Ph.D. froJ? Purd~e Umverslly m I982. He 1s The l~v1s1ble _LJmvers~ty 1s a community_ service pronded by l.!SD. Seminars are held se~eral throughout San Diego_ County. For more mformauon, please a native Sa_n_ D1egan._ . . times a year _at locations

of Mayor Roger Hedgecock," to a nauonal_ conference of speech commu~1cat1on professors In his academic paper, which served as the basis for his chapter the anthology, Williamson in trials shape and are shaped by conventio~s of news gathering and reporting that conform more to dramatic form than the stan- dards of objectivity ... " "Teacher of the Year" by the USD Student Alumni Associa- meetin~ m Denv~r. . argued: "Media coverage of Williamson, voted 1985

University and Barry Brummett of Michigan State University, is cheduled for national pubhca- Williamson, director of com- munication studies at USD, spent many hours in court as part of his tudy of both Hedgecock trial . resign in Odobcr 1985 after being convicted of 12 felony counts of perJury and one felony count of conspiracy in connection with his 1983 mayoral election campaign. La t fall, Williamson delivered a report on "Trial and Retrial b) tion in 1987. . Hedgecock was forced to

perceptions of former San.Diego mayor Roger Hedgecock's guilt? Was there really a "vendetta" Thee arc among questions Univer~ity of San Diego com- Williamson ha. posed, and will attempt to answer at a 7 p.m. Tucsd y meeting of USD's lnvisi- 1 he meeting, which is free and opcn to the public, will be held at the La Co ta Branch Pubh Library, 7750 El Camino Real, chapter on the Hedgecock trials for "Tri, I by Media," a compila- tion of original writings on trials that have received exten ive media coverage. The book , Suite O, Carlsb d Williamson recently authored a gainst Hedgecock? munication professor Larry ble Univer,ity.

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