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jim leggett remembers joe d. smith jr.

writing a guest post on his wifes' blog, jim leggett remembers his association with former alexandria daily town talk publisher joe d. smith, jr. who passed away thursday 20 march 2008, aged 85.

excerpt:

Memories of a Newspaper Man
I had known Joe D. Smith for almost 27 years, and although through the years I got to a point where I called practically everyone by their first names, I always called him Mr. Smith.In my association with him through The Town Talk I first thought of him as being gruff and aloof.

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