Editor:
That was a superb editorial you wrote for the May 9 edition!
Dave Cooper and I bought The New Era in 1975 from the Springfield News. The weekly had been owned for decades by Bill Dudley and Mac Macoubrie, who were married to sisters. The men ran the back shop and had a good printing business.
They hired a news man and Edna Thompson ran the front office. Dave was that news man from…