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There’s an almost endless assortment available in the nursery marketplace currently. Glazed ceramic pottery might be more appropriate. But they’re rather ordinary looking if you’re trying to create a decorative eye-catcher. They’re available in all shapes and sizes. Obviously, plain terra cotta pots are always an option. Next you want to think about the types of containers you’ll have available to you. Think of these spots of color as the “brightly colored throw pillows” against the more subdued sofa. They’re places where you want to draw viewers’ eyes. They’re framing the patio or pool or at the base of a piece of garden art in the back yard. They’re alongside the front door and walkway. Landscape planners refer to such places as the “focal points” of the landscape. The simple answer: where you want people to see it. Let’s start out by defining the most critical places to put that color. Wouldn’t it be nice, however, if we could perk things up with little spots of color strategically placed around in our gardens? That’s a grand plan. The idea of redoing big beds of flowers just isn’t on our sweat-wearied minds at the moment. Connor, circulation climbed above 290,000 daily and more than 350,000 on Sundays.Following a couple of challenging winters, this summer has taken a lot of the oomph out of our landscaping. In the early 1990s, under publisher Richard L. In 1986 the newspaper opened a new state-of-the-art printing facility that enabled it to produce one of the most colorful and visually attractive newspapers anywhere. StarText, an 'electronic newspaper' begun in 1982, complemented the printed newspaper with updated news and information it was available on computer via a local telephone call in the Fort Worth and Dallas area. In the 1980s the Star-Telegram pioneered the establishment of an electronic information service and built one of the most modern newspaper printing and distribution plants in the nation.

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The second (1985) was the coveted gold-medal Pulitzer for meritorious public service it was awarded for a news series that exposed a flaw in Bell helicopters that was a factor in numerous crashes over a seventeen-year period. The first was in 1981 for photographer Larry Price's photos of Liberian officials being slain by a firing squad. Under Capital Cities, which later became Capital Cities/ABC, Incorporated, when it purchased the ABC television network in 1986, the Star-Telegram won two Pulitzer Prizes. The circulation at that time was 235,000 daily papers and 224,000 on Sundays. The paper was sold in 1974 to Capital Cities Communications, Incorporated. The paper, an active participant in the Fort Worth community, supported numerous local causes as well as efforts to create Big Bend National Park in far west Texas and to establish Texas Technological College, now Texas Tech University. Carter was majority owner and publisher of the paper until his death in 1955, when he was succeeded by his son, Amon G. In 1954, WBAP-TV also did the first colorcast in Texas, at a time when there were no more than 100 color television sets in Fort Worth and Dallas. In 1922 the paper began the first Fort Worth radio station, WBAP, 'We Bring A Program.' The Star-Telegram established the first television station in the southern half of the United States in the early fall of 1948 and did a remote broadcast of President Harry Truman's whistle-stop campaign visit to Fort Worth. Carter and the paper successfully resisted takeover attempts by William Randolph Hearst, who sold the Fort Worth Record to the Star-Telegram in 1925. The Star-Telegram had a preelectronic distribution area of 350,000 square miles, and daily home delivery as far as 700 miles west of Fort Worth. The new paper, known as the Star-Telegram, began publication in 1909, and was later identified in the 1920s by a phrase on its masthead reading 'Where the West Begins.' Carter and the paper stressed local news and served eighty-four counties, with some papers delivered in the Panhandle by stagecoach. By 1908 the Star was in financial difficulty, and Carter and Wortham decided to buy out their rival, the Telegram, an evening newspaper that dated back to the Fort Worth Evening Mail and the Fort Worth Mail Telegram and other papers beginning around 1879.

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The Star was first published in sixteen pages for a 4,500-copy free delivery. Dawson they also had the help of wholesale grocer and major investor Col. The Fort Worth Star was founded in 1906 by a group of newsmen including Col.

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