FNP 51 Page 19 beginning. I went to Jasper, and the man up there, Mr. Ellis, didn't want to sell it to me because I was an outsider. He wanted to sell it to somebody local that would have an interest in keeping a local newspaper. Now, I understand that, and I assured him that when I bought these papers, I'd keep them local. Well, he didn't want to [sell], so I left there. I don't know what was in me that day, but on the way back to Madison, I came through Madison and I saw a city block there that was vacant. So I went to that man's house [Mr. Bruce Bryan] and bought that city block, sitting on his front porch that night. I came home and told my wife that we [had] bought the Branford paper and the city block uptown, and that was another one of those fine times when I thought she was going to leave me. [I went back to Lake City the next day and paid the balance to Mr. Hagood. When Mr. Ellis] sold to a Mr. White, I think out of Alabama or Arkansas or somewhere, the Jasper paper, I drove over to White Springs and got me a post office box and telephone number and then packed my family up in my motor home. We went over there and parked my motor home in a trailer park over there, a campground, and spent a week over there, and I opened up the White Springs Leader. White Springs is a bedroom community for Lake City. P: Was there a paper there at all? G: No, sir. Then, we expanded our Mayo paper down into the Hatchbend [area] and started off with a Steinhatchee edition, which was a separate paper. Then, about that time is when they came along, wanting to lease my newspapers [and printing plant]. P: So you ended up keeping these papers for how long? G: Well, I turned those over. I leased the whole newspaper chain out. P: But you got it back. G: Yes, sir. P: Okay, and then how long did you keep them after that? G: Well now, in the meanwhile, they [weren't] going to do anything with White Springs' paper, so I put it up for sale and eventually just closed it, pulled out of there. I lost my main person over there that was selling advertising and my main writer over there. That's during that time when Judge Smith in Lake City, the circuit judge, was accused of the big dope dealings and served some time for it and all this big drug trafficking was going on. We didn't know it, but the old hotel that was there was the main headquarters. My newspaper staff and I [were] not aware of this, until they all of a sudden just quit. Everyone just quit on me. I found out later, the little girl that was [working there] and went from there to the University of Florida and went into journalism, she had been given threatening...our phones [were] tapped at White Springs, and she was doing an