Results tagged “Chester Gross” from York Town Square

When voters knocked Republican Congressman Chester Gross from office in 1948, Gazette and Daily's Walt Partymiller translated the vote into a cartoon. Background posts: York College prof to speak about York's 'Voices from the Past', J.W. Gitt: 'Just say it ... straight out' and Publishing legend Gitt vocal about nuclear power.

When longtime Gazette and Daily cartoonist Walt Partymiller died a few years ago, eulogists paid proper restrict for the man who everyone in town seemed to know.

One person paying tribute said that Partymiller never said a bad word about anybody.

Now, that's a tough reputation to bestow on anyone, much less a newspaperman who was full of opinions... .

You've heard it.

Maybe you've even said it.

This is the most emotional U.S. presidential election ever. Or political nastiness surrounding this Obama-McCain race has never reached such lows. Or the media has never been more one-sided.

Well, I tried to bash these myths in a York Sunday News column (11/02/08). American politics have always been rough and tumble... .