Results tagged “Jimmy Lind” 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... .

A letter published in the York Daily Record this week criticized us for not supporting Geno's Steaks for posting a sign requiring English when ordering.

"The York Daily Record will never change," he wrote. "You are still the same commie newspaper as your predecessor, The Gazette and Daily."

It's been a while since I've heard the "commie" claim levied against us. (Maybe people think it, but seldom say it.)

That label stuck to J.W. Gitt's Gazette and Daily even though the FBI could not connect the Cold War publisher with the Communist Party. And his biographer says he resigned the Progressive Party because of Communist infiltration.

It was 10 years ago that I wrote about the lack of true evidence linking the leftist York County publisher and his newspaper with the Communist Party.

I'll repeat it here:

York County Congressman Jimmy Lind probably winced partway through a letter from a constituent in July 1950.

"I am sick and tired of the pussy-footing that has gone on in York with the hotbed of local Communists maintained, led, and sponsored by Josiah W. Gitt ... ." the letter said. ...