The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 13

Tuesday, Oct 30, 1984 The Newt-Journal papers B3 No News is bad news Readers rally 'round Hockessin paper jl fTj It Hearings on state pay. will begin next week Dover Bureau DOVER The commission established to study whether legislators and top state government executives should receive higher salaries has scheduled a series of public hearings beginning next week. The recommendations of the five-member Delaware Compensa-, tion Commission, which will cover the governor. Cabinet and top elected officials and judges as well as legislators, must be submitted to the General Assembly by Jan. 1.

The recommendations become law on Feb. 1 if the legislature doesn't reject the report by that time. The hearings for public com- ments are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the following locations: Carvel State Office Building in Wilming- ton, Nov. House chamber of Leg-; islative Hall in Dover, Nov.

14; and Superior Court room at the Sussex County Court House in Georgetown, Nov. 20. Written comments may be sent to Commission Chairman Charles Welch in care of the state Personnel Office, P.O. Box 1401, Dover 19901. Doberman Continued from Bl man and military policeman in the Army Reserves, Gonzalez, 20, said he shot low to immobilize the animal.

Il regretted the injury, which required amputation of the dog leg, and offered at the time to pay veterinary bills, he testified. Gonzalez called later to inquire about the dog's condition and to ask the Conks not to press charges because he feared a conviction would jeopardize his chance to become a state trooper. Sue Conk said she told the defendant she hoped he didn't make the police force. "I didn't want to see someone that quick to shoot to have a gun and badge and the power that goes with it," she said. Under cross-examination by defense attorney Charles White-hurst, the Conks acknowledged that their property was neither fenced nor posted.

Deputy Attorney General Michael J. Malkieweicz commended the Conks for doing their own investigative work on the case. problem is the time it takes to put the paper out two weeks of every month." In addition, editor Mike Tyler, whose sassy page 2 column is a favorite feature in the HCN, is only at home on the weekends because his paid, full-time job with the Du Pont Co. keeps him in New York City during the week. When the Hockessin Community Club began the News with the first issue of April 1971, it was a 17-page newsletter, put together around the kitchen table of founding editor Nancy Greene.

"It started on a casual motion at the Community Club that we needed some way to communicate with the community," Greene recalled. The club had expected to print maybe 100 copies. They ended up publishing 1.400. Today the HCN is sent to 4,700 homes in the Hockessin-Yorklyn area and a few other locales in New Castle County. It costs $1,500 to put the paper out.

The first mimeographed issue carried items about a litter cleanup drive, a local art exhibit and a town meeting with New Castle County Council members. Today the paper consists of 32 pages, with the November issue expected to be 36 pages. "They've improved the quality of it so much I look at it in awe," Greene said. She also looks at it and recalls the tremendous amount of work the paper requires. "I left after 7Vi years," said Greene, who now works with an insurance company.

"You get worn out. It's a demanding job. It takes the kind of time people don't understand until they do it. It's a full-time job." Krewatch notes that many of the petition signers said they would be willing to pay for a subscription, but Butler and Greene say this could just present another problem: To set up a paid circulation system would just require more time and another volunteer for the money obtained to pay an editor. By ROLF RYKKEN Sufi reporter Susan Krewatch is not one to flinch from action.

On Oct. 5, when the Yorklyn postmaster read in her favorite local newspaper, the Hockessin Community News, that the publication might cease in June after 14 years, she typed up a petition and placed it on the post office counter. "I was devastated," she said about the news. Within a week, 120 of the newspaper's more than 260 Yorklyn readers had signed the peti-i tion. Krewatch then sent the petition over to the HCN as it is commonly known two miles away.

Ann Butler, the managing editor, received the petition in the spirit in which it was intended, but it didn't really solve her problems. "What we need is someone with a plan," she said at the paper's office in the blue frame house across from Hank's Country Store and Quality Meats on Old Lancaster Pike. This is not a case of a newspaper failing for lack of advertising revenue. The HCN 's prob-. lem is that it is a success.

It has been self -sup-l porting for most of its life because of an abundance of advertising. What it will soon be lacking is volunteers to write the news, get the ads and put it out. The newspaper's obituary notice was on page 3, following front-page stories about a harvest and crafts fair and a meet-the-candi- dates night. "This may be the last year for the Hockessin Community News," it read. In a signed, boxed note, Butler explained that she and the advertising director, Shirley Lewis, were retiring from their volunteer efforts for the paper (10 years for each), making it "necessary to consider the future of the paper." "There is nobody to take our places," Butler said during an interview last week.

"The Soft Lenses You Can Sfeep In $99. from Staff photo by Bob Herbert Postmaster Krewatch: Willing to pay. "You need a new generation of volunteers," says Greene. The equipment is aged (the advertising headline machine that sets one letter at a time is described as an "overgrown label-maker" by Greene), the volunteer staff is tired and the future is uncertain. But Greene believes the HCN will go on.

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During the primary Democratic Party officials were critical of the Republican contributions to Fraw-ley's campaign. They are less so now that he is the party nominee. "It doesn't concern me. He's a corporate guy," City Democratic Chairman Leo T. Marshall said of Frawley.

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