FNP 51 Page 18 G: Yes. P: Tell me when and where you bought the other papers. G: The first one that I bought was one that we were printing here, the Mayo Free Press, which was also an extremely old paper. It wasn't as old as the Enterprise Recorder, but it was an old paper, [founded] back [in the] 1800s. The first paper that I put out on that one, ironically, was August 5 also, which my first Madison County Carrier was August 5, 1964. P: And what year was this, the Mayo Free-Press? G: [We bought] the Mayo [Free-Press] August 5, 1976, twelve years later. P: When you were buying the Mayo Free Press, what was the circulation of your Madison paper at that point? G: I'm going to guess around, I don't know, 3,500, probably. P: What would it be now? G: I have no idea, because all of that is turned over to my daughter. She is doing such a fantastic job, and I'm really out of it. When I walked away from it August 5, 1999, I tried desperately to walk away from it. P: So Mayo Free Press is your first paper bought. Your second paper? G: My second paper was the following January 10. I bought the BranfordNews. I went to Lake City and bought it from Tom Haygood. I gave him a $100 bill, and he wrote me a receipt as a down payment. I went over to talk to him about buying it, and it went fairly rapid with it, the deal. We put the deal together pretty fast. He said, yeah, I'll sell it, and I said, okay. I said, here, let me give you some money down on it, and he said, no, I don't need it. And I put a $100 bill down, and I said, let me give you $100 right now; just write me a receipt out as a down payment and the balance due, and I'll get you this money back, how about in the morning. He said, well, fine. At that point, I knew I was going from there to Jasper to try to buy the Jasper paper. P: Was that the only paper in Branford? G: Yes, sir. That was the southern end of Suwannee County. There [were] two [other] papers in Suwannee County at that time. It was the Suwannee Democrat and the Live Oak Post. Fred Hughes had opened up the Live Oak Post over there. So, then I left Branford. I went on through Live Oak because I knew they weren't for sale. I knew that from the