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The fuss stirred up over the college bothers Raymond Cyrus Hoiles not one bit. He seems almost to enjoy it. Once he estimated that he has been consistently out of step with at least 95% of his readers. And this unpopularity does not perturb him either; he realizes that a journalist's job is not to make friends but to influence people. "Beware the newspaper reporter whom everybody loves," said an editorial in his Odessa American, "and the editor who is buried with public honors . . . who goes to his grave with a line of mourners from here to the Gulf of Mexico." For Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, that prospect is a remote one indeed.
* California: Santa Ana Register; Marysville-Yuba City Appeal-Democrat. Colorado: Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. New Mexico: Clovis News-Journal. Ohio: Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum: Lima News. Texas: Brownsville Herald; Harlingen Valley Star; McAllen Valley Monitor; Odessa American; Pampa News.