Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-03-23
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 90 1925
A. MEMBERSHIP
In FLORIDA IS
GAINING RAPIDLY

MIAMI, Fla, March 22.-Coincident
with the growth of Florida has been
the natural expansion of its NEVIS
papers and the Associated Press
service. In point of Associated Press
membership, Florida now ranks fifth
among the states, being surpassed
in the south only by Texas.
Fifty two daily newspapers in
Florida receive the service of the
Associated Press, and so rapid has
been the rise of daily journals over
the state that a number of other
newspapers are petitioning for meun-
bershp.
Ten years ago there were only four
leased wire Associated Press news
papers in this state Today there
are 35, an Increase of almost 500
per cent.
Beyond the confines of the south,
the Florida membership is exceeded
in size by the Associated Press
newspapers in New York, California
and Pennsylvania. If present growth
in Florida can be taken as a cri-
terion it is probable that the MEM
bership figures six months hence
will show the peninsula state chal-
longing these states for a position
nearer the top of the column.
Applications for membership in this
state have been reaching the New
York and Atlanta offices of the AS
sociated Press in such volume dur
ing the past year that in some in
stances the traffic department has
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overtime arranging for an efficient
personnel and equipment,
The Florida leased wire system
extends down the east coast of the
state from Jacksonville to the south
ernmost tip of the United States at
Key West, and radiating again from
Jacksonville through the peninsula
proper to Tampa and st. Petersburg;
and from Tampa through the south
central portion into Sarasota and
Bradenton.
The day and night trunk circuits
are served from Atlanta and the day
and night state circuits from jack
sonville The points on the Atlanta
trunk circuits are the Jacksonville
Times Union, Jacksonville journal.
Miami Herald, Miami Daily News,
Tampa Times, Tampa Tribune, St.
Petersburg Independent ST. Peters
burg Times, Clearwater Herald and
Clearwater Sun. These circuits, in
operation "a hours a day, are equip
ped with an automatic printer, which
transmits news at the rate of so
words a minute. The printer wire is.
paralleled by a Morse wire.
The newspapers on the day and
night state circuits are the st.
Augustine Record, Daytona Beach
Journal, West Palm Beach Times,
West Palm Beach Post, Fort Lauder
dale Daily News, Key West Citizen,
Key West Morning Call Sanford
Herald, Orlando Reporter-Star, Or
lando Sentinel, Lakeland Star-Tele-
gram, Lakeland Evening Ledger,
Winter Haven Chief, Avon Park
Twin Cities Sun, Bradenton Herald,
Sarasota Times, Sarasota Herald,
Gainesville Sun, Pensacola Journal,
Daytona Beach Daily News, Deland
News, Fort Myers Press, Fort Myers
Tropical News, Sebring Daily Amer
lean, Fort Lauderdale Sun, Vero
Beach Press and Ocala Times.
There are Is papers in Florida
which receive the pony report.
These newspapers are the Pensacola
News, Fissimmee Gazette, Palatka
News, Eustis Lake Region, Ocala
Star, Tallahassee Democrat, New
Smyrna News, Stuart Daily News,
Fort Pierce Tribune, Barlow
Record Sanford Signal, Tallahassee
Morning State, Homestead Leader,
Panama City Beacon-Tribune and
Haines City Herald.
The Tallahassee bureau is con-
nected with the state leased wire
day and night, and is maintained by
the Florida members principally to
secure state capital news
The Associated Press has six staff
correspondents in Florida, one in
Tallahassee, two in Jacksonville, and
one each in Orlando, Miami and
Tampa with the exception of the
two Jacksonville Associated Press
men, these correspondents constitute
a flying squadron, available for
service at a moments notice when
outstanding news develops In any
part of the state. The Tampe and
the Miami correspondents, both sent
out from the southern division OF
fices in Atlanta, opened their re-
spectiye bureaus on last November
IS. Both are given rowing commits
sions, the Tampa correspondent to
supervise activities of the organlza-
ton on the Florida west coast and
the Miami correspondent activities
along the eastern seaboard OF the
state.
With the continued expansion of
the service in Florida, the list OF
staff men will be augmented as the
need demands.
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