Rockwall Co., TX - News: Neighbors Help Weekly Paper ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Holli Boone Kees USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport Connecticut 14 Sep 1955 Neighbors Help Weekly Paper Keep Going Despite Troubles Rockwall, Tex., Sept. 13 (AP) When death and illness come, folks generally slow down enough to be neighborly. And the neighbors of a father-son team have pitched in to keep their weekly newspaper, the Rockwall Success, going successfully. Two weeks ago, publisher P. J. Bounds died. Last Wednesday, only two days before press time, his son and partner, P. J. Bounds Jr., collapsed as he was setting type for his father’s obituary. Doctors said he was suffering from shock and exhaustion. He needed a long rest. James Taylor, 20, had once worked a few weeks helping out around the paper. He came down to see what he could do. Mrs. Fred Alexander was graduated from Texas State college for women 15 years ago with a journalism degree. A husband and two children had taken her time since then. But she came down to the office, too. A Rockwall resident for only a year, Mrs. Alexander didn’t know everybody the way an editor should. But she spread the word that the paper was going tocome out, and, please, she needed news. Folks started bringing in the news; personals, church notes, and the like. Highway patrolmen stopped by with county accident reports. Two printers who had day jobs in other towns—M. L. Roland of Greenville and Burton Fielder of Farmersville—came over at night to set type. Merchants brought their advertising copy in themselves. The paper came out only about an hour late Friday. And this week’s will be right on time. There were a few errors in last week’s edition, like one in a church notice. “But the preacher hasn’t been in to fuss,” smiled Mrs. Alexander. In fact nobody in this northern Texas town some 30 miles from Dallas is fussing about the paper. They’re all helping to get it out. ---