SUBJECT: R.M. BARTON

 INTERVIEWER: LEW BARTON





S: ...do it fast, so you can get over with... But I believe it's him.

I: Yeah. Bruce told me this. Uh...how big do you think the paper will

 eventually get...in subscribers and so on?

S: Well, I...we was hoping on getting a thousand subscribers. See that would

 be five thousand dollars right there, just in the subscribers.

I: That would be five thousand dollars...five thousand dollars in subscriptions

 alone?

S: Yeah...and see then if we get enough expansion, and get about twenty pages

 maybe some day...

I: Um huh.

S: See, then it'll be a bigger and.better newsCpaper, and people will want,

 sort of keep them on there terms where they want to come and buy the next

 page or so.

li Well I guess Bruce is about the hardest working one on the staff...wouldn't

 you say?

S: Well, I don't know, he gets sort of frustrated sometimes. He don't

 understand some things, and the r------ -see he knows how to paste

 the things on, but he's kind of slow, and Bruce can't do it. He don't...he

 doesn't understand how.

I: Is he learning?

S: Yeah, everybody is learning some ng new out there.

I: Sounds exciting.

S: It's all right.


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