[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 50 (Monday, April 29, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S3499]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                   ON THE DEATH OF STUART R. PADDOCK

 Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. President, today I pay tribute to the late 
Stuart R. Paddock, editor emeritus, publisher emeritus, and owner of 
the suburban Chicago newspaper, the Daily Herald. The Daily Herald, I 
am proud to say, is my hometown paper. A respected businessman, 
community leader, and World War II veteran, Mr. Paddock served the 
Daily Herald for nearly 65 years, during which time he transformed a 
struggling tri-weekly paper into Illinois' third largest daily 
newspaper. Mr. Paddock died last week at the age of 86.
  Stuart Paddock's career with the Daily Herald began inauspiciously as 
a ``printer's devil,'' the person responsible for pouring molten lead 
into molds for use in linotype. After graduating from Knox College and 
serving as a company commander in Europe during World War II, Mr. 
Paddock rejoined the newspaper in 1946. By 1948, he had been named vice 
president and board director. In 1970, just 2 years after assuming the 
Herald's top leadership position, he overcame fierce competition from 
other publications and established the Herald as a 5-day-a-week paper. 
For his hard work and dedication, Stuart Paddock earned the respect not 
only of Daily Herald readers and employees, but of his staunchest 
competitors. As the Chicago Tribune wrote, ``Stuart R. Paddock Jr. put 
`daily' in Daily Herald.'' The Herald enjoyed enormous success in the 
ensuing years, growing from a circulation of 11,800 in 1970 to nearly 
130,000 by 1994. The Herald's success was so remarkable for a suburban 
paper that the Chicago Tribune proclaimed Stuart Paddock ``the Sam 
Walton of suburban journalism.'' Throughout his career, Mr. Paddock was 
active in the Illinois Press Association, the Cook County Suburban 
Publishers Association, the Newspaper Committee for a Free and 
Competitive Press, and numerous other organizations. In recognition of 
his outstanding professional accomplishments, Mr. Paddock was inducted 
into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2001.
  Despite his success as a visionary and leader, Stuart Paddock, 
affectionately called ``Stu'' by his employees, never lost his sense of 
commitment to the family he represented and the readers he served. When 
the Herald's spectacular growth sparked lucrative offers from potential 
buyers of the paper, he respectfully declined, choosing instead to keep 
the paper a family business with strong ties to local communities.
  I knew Mr. Paddock as a man of integrity and vision. He was a 
gentleman, in every sense of the word. He is beloved by the communities 
and people that knew him best, and will leave a remarkable void as a 
civic leader and patriarch of the Paddock and Daily Herald family.
  In paying tribute to Stuart Paddock, we honor a groundbreaking 
journalist, a gentleman, and a great American.

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