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current confrontation between the Worldwide Church of God and the State
of
California. Mr. Art Gilmore, longtime friend of Mr. Armstrong and
announcer for our radio and television programs for almost 40 years,
interviewed Mr. Armstrong concerning the attempted State takeover and
events leading up to January 3.
Questions dealing with religious freedom, state accountability, and the
Guyana mentality were among the many topics covered during the hour and
45 minutes of interview.
Dick Quincer and Larry Omasta feel we will be able to extract three halfÂ
hour programs from the material which was videotaped at Mr. Armstrong's
home. It is their feeling that these programs will be very effective
in acquiring response from our viewing audience. The home atmosphere
and intimacy of the interview situation between Mr. Gilmore and Mr.
Armstrong will give the programs appeal and therefore even greater
effectiveness. The technical quality of the production was greatly
enhanced by our ability to more effectively control the lighting in
that setting.
Since last June, 39 new H.W.A. half-hour TV programs have been edited.
We have one sermon-type program left to edit, as well as the three
interview-type programs recorded on March 18, for a total of 43.
--John Lundberg, Media Division
PUBLISHING SERVICES UPDATE
Good managers are hard to find. And when you find one, particularly one
with previous experience in printing and publishing, you try not to lose
him. Such a person is Steve Etherton who has been managing the production
and prepress end of our publications in our old press building. Steve
left us last week to further his career in publishing and is now employed
by a company here in Southern California. I want to thank Steve for his
many years of extremely hard, dedicated work and wish him success in
his new job.
Steve's leaving has meant some reorganization and new opportunities for
others, including myself. At the moment I'm trying to handle my job
and Steve's old job at the same time. Fortunately we have a great team
of supervisors who are now carrying additional loads. In the meantime
we are redistributing the various responsibilities here in publishing.
We are gong to try to absorb Steve's job without re-employing.
The first edition of the new 16-page newsstand promotional Plain Truth
has just been printed in Glasgow, Kentucky and is now being distributed.
Although it was produced at rather short notice, we are all pleased with
it. Since we'll have more time to prepare the next issue, we will be
able to use shorter articles so as to appeal to a potentially wider
readership. By the way, we are not planning to combine any issues of the
newsstand magazine this year because of the generally lower response and
difficulties in distributing the same magazine for two months. Instead
we will produce a separate newsstand issue in those months when the
subscription edition is combined. It will use existing art and articles
to reduce costs.
--Roger Lippross