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Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, September 16, 1982
Thone among five honorees of officers' school
Nebraska Gov. Charles Thone will be amone the new
inductees to join the Infantry Officer Candidate School's
Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Ga., in ceremonies to be
held there Sept. 17, officials at the Military Department
of Nebraska have announced.
The OCS Hall of Fame was established in the summer
of 1957 to honor graduates from the Fort Benning
Officer Candidate School who have distinguished them-
colvac in oithor milit'irv nr riviliutl life.
Thone is being inducted because of the prominence
he has achieved in both national and state government,
the department said.
He will join such notables in the hall as Caspar Wein
berger, secretary of defense, and former governor
Winthrop Rockefeller of New York.
Thone is a veteran of World War II. He enlisted in the
army as a private and eventually became an infantry
officer. He also saw duty with the field artillery and
Army Air Lorps oeiure wis acuve uuiy aiscnarge.
Thone will be inducted along with Rep. Parren J
Mitchell of Maryland; Chief Justice Robert Jordan of
the Georgia State Supreme Court; Mutual of Omaha
Executive Vice President James Barrett and Emporia
State University President John E. Visser.
Park doesn pt aim for biggest and best just most
By Patti Gallagher
Roy Park turned 72 Wednesday.
During the last third of those years, Park has been
busy building a media kingdom.
He owns 63 newspapers in 16 states. Seven of those
he bought just last week. He owns 21 broadcast stations,
seven FM radio stations, seven AM stations and seven
television stations. He can't acquire any more in the
broadcast field; he's reached the limit set by the Federal
Communications Commission.
Parks, who runs the show from his Ithaca, N.Y.,
offices, also owns several outdoor advertising companies
and other real estate interests.
But Roy Hampton Park is not a William Paley -long-time
president of CBS. He doesn't want to be the
biggest and the best like Paley 's CBS empire. Apparent
through his holdings and a brief Wednesday morning
interview, Park wants the most - and the best.
His philosophy for his papers: "People like to read
about themselves." Thus, it's company policy that the
papers publish one locally-shot photograph on the front
page of the paper each day and that half of the front
page carry local news.
Little League
"People still like the chicken-dinner stuff," he says.
"And in some cases we take the Little League and the
bridge club.
"Our charge is to do what's best for the community.
We don't have an overall editor on our staff because
we're afraid he'd try to make every paper the same."
So Park has hired "regional editors" to help direct
papers within a particular state. And on his New York
staff, he has a vice president for each of his business
interests.
The papers do, however, have editorial freedom. He
has some Democratic, some Republican and some
independent papers.
There is no Park news service that sends articles to its
members to print. Suggestions for changes in the papers
don't come down as dictates; a critiquing editor rewrites
and edits poorly written pieces to teach by example.
A 50-minute interview with Park allows only a 50
minute glimpse at a fantastical career. And with three
students and several department heads from the College
of Business Administration conducting a sort of panel
interview, one can fit only a couple pieces into the Park
Not imposing
The man himself is not an imposing giant. He stands
less than 6 feet tall, speaks slowly and softly and uses
everyday words and analogies to explain himself.
He dresses in pinstripes, his glasses are wire-rimmed
and his watch has two dials on one face.
What can't be learned from a panel interview can be
culled from his resume. Its 12 pages supply all his work
experience, personal information and civic affiliations.
Among the highlights of the work category: director of
ConAgra, Inc., a grain manufacturer in Omaha; founder
of the Duncan Hines line of baking goods; director of
public relations for two farmers' cooperative groups;
and consultant for Proctor and Gamble.
To be fair, three pages of the 12 are under "past"
or "previous" listings. Park is, after all, a septogerian
now and can't keep doing everything forever.
But, he said, he has no plans to retire.
"I enjoy what I'm doing. So far the good Lord has
given me good health," he said. "I have a lot of fun."
If he has his druthers, Park will keep working until
the fun stops.
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Park's closing advice was a list of six
additional rules that he recommends to
anyone who wants to accomplish tasks:
"1) Pay attention to details. They do
make a business work. Ideas are
important but they must be
executed properly.
"2) Get things done on time.
"3) Delegate as much as you can and
then check up on the performance
of your delegates.
"4) Use showmanship. Dramatize.
"5) Take action. Get the facts and do
it in time. Timing can be crucial.
"6) Do your homework. Preparation
is a powerful tool."
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Stereo Review had this to s;iy about our NAD 3020
integrated stereo amplifier in Equipment Test Reports:
"Its manufac turer set out to make an inexpensive amplifier
that sounded as loud and as clean as amplifiers of several
times its xnver rating and price, and the 3020 certainly
achieves that goal. In addition, as our test indicated, this
little amplifier may actually he 'more powerful' with
certain very severe speaker loads than some of the
heavyweights on the market. So far as we are concerned,
it is one of the hest values in audio. It makes us wonder
what a higher jower NAD amplifier might he like."
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