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The Paper is published by West End Publishing Company, Inc., incorporated under Missouri law as a not-for-profit business. Not-for-profit, as the following report indicates, is a very good description of The Paper.
The Paper has a circulation of 6000 copies, delivered door-to-door between DeBaliviere and Westgate and between Delmar and Lindell, by volunteer distributors. Where distributors cannot enter, extra copies are usually left in lobbies, at drug stores, filling stations, grocery stores. Copies are available at the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council Office, 6008 Kingsbury, and at the Des Peres Branch Library.
Research, writing and photography are all provided by volunteers. We pay for typesetting, printing, photographic expenses and the usual business expenses, postage, stationery, etc.
A typical eight page issue costs about $300.00.
A typical twelve page issue costs about $400.00.
All costs are met by selling advertisements in The Paper. This too is done by volunteers. We would like to offer our ad-getters at least a stipend, but as the figures below indicate, the cash is never in the cash box in time to offer them anything.
Our usual procedure is to give out assignments, set deadlines, get the type set, then see how many pages we can afford to print. Normally we have plenty of copy. but if we can’t see close to $400.00 in ad money we print eight. As of layout time this month, our financial position was as follows:
Cash on hand $80.00
Bills we owe $124.00
Accounts owed us. $350.
There may be residents or business men in the area, whose policy is not to advertise. We urge them to take Compliments of a Friend or some other form of ad, or make a contribution. $5.00 buys a 1-inch by 2 column ad. $9.00 buys a 2-inch by 2 column ad. Checks can be made to West End Publishing, Inc. and mailed to 6205 McPherson, 63130.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1971.
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Original source: SD_Times1971_05.pdf, printed page 6.
