News Is News

"This is a ridiculous issue," confessed a front-page editorial in the Kapuskasing (Ont.) Northern Tribune. Inside, four of its eight pages were dated (and printed) Jan. 5; one ad offered belated New Year's greetings from the citizens of Kapuskasing (pop. 3,431). Operating on the old country weekly principle that news is news until it is read, Editor Ed Stephenson had finally got out another issue of the Tribune, the first since Nov. 10, 1944. Having solved his manpower troubles by being his own adman, reporter, make-up man, typesetter and printer's devil, Editor Stephenson explained why it had been so long between issues: "The physical and mental load became just too much."

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