Caney Fork
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Frank Bruce, newspaper man, teacher, baseball coach
Next Friday, June 17,1955, the Southwestern Publishing company, which publishes The Southwestern, will begin the publication of the Galena Record of Galena, Kansas. Each week the Record will enter all Galena homes and all the homes on the two rural routes out of Galena. It will be the only newspaper or periodical of any kind, daily or weekly, which completely covers Galena and Its immediate surrounding territory! The Record will be delivered early Friday mornings, and its offices will be located at 803 East Fifth in Galena, phone 28. Combination advertising in The Southwestern and the Record will have A potential readership of 35,000 persons. The combination advertising rate of these two newspapers will be the lowest "per reader cost" of any newspaper in Midwest! Joplin offices of the Galena Record will be located with The Southwestern.
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In Frank's June 10, 1955, issue of the Southwestern newspaper (considered a Joplin publication covering a four-state area and selling for a nickel), he gave props to the Joplin Eagles baseball team:
Missouri House Resolution No. 166 Honoring Eagles WHEREAS, The Joplin High School Eagles won the Missouri State High School Baseball Championship for 1955, in Busch Stadium at St. Louis, on May 26, 1955; WHEREAS, the statewide competition surmounted by the Joplin High School Eagles was keen and excellent, thus making the accomplishment a meritorious victory; WHEREAS, team play and sportsmanship characterized this championship team, WHEREAS, this team, its managers, and its coaching staff have reflected credit upon the State of Missouri as well as upon themselves and the city of Joplin; and has added the baseball laurels for this year unto the State High School Class A Basketball crown for the same year; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the House of Representatives of 68th General Assembly of the State of Missouri, by these presents, congratulate this splendid team, Gordon Long, the coach thereof; Roy Greer, Principal of the Joplin High School, and Roi S. Wood, the Superintendent of Schools at Joplin, upon the occasion of this achievement; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clerk of this House cause an appropriate number of these resolutions to be prepared and forward the same to each player, manager, and coach, as well as the school officials; and to the news media there for dissemination of these congratulations to the people of Joplin.
