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1961–1966 · the third weekly
The library's film holds a Mishawaka Times from 1961 to October 5, 1966 — monthly reels running September 1961 through the fall of 1966, a five-year file. The trade directories bracket it without catching it: Ayer's 1952 Mishawaka entry predates it, and Ayer's 1962 entry, listing the Enterprise and the Countryman's Press, does not list the Times — whether because the directory's canvass closed before the Times began, or because the paper was missed, the record does not say. What else stands is a career. John F. Dille III — copy boy at the Washington Post, Thomson Newspapers reporter in England, Turkey and Wales — "worked at the Mishawaka Times and Elkhart Truth before moving to broadcasting," in the Indiana Broadcast History Archive's account of the man who became president of Federated Media, the Dille family's company, whose Elkhart Truth stood at the center of its publishing. The Times was Mishawaka's third paper of the postwar town, alongside the Enterprise and the farm bi-weekly, and its five filmed years end in October 1966. Its founder, publisher, frequency and politics are not established in the record reached; the gap is registered below, with Miller's bibliography and the Editor & Publisher yearbooks named as the settling sources.
Sources
- Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library, newspaper holdings list, the Mishawaka Times run, September 1961–October 5, 1966, read first-hand.
- Indiana Broadcast History Archive, the John Dille III entry; the Elkhart Truth's published history, the same career line.
- N. W. Ayer & Son's directories (1952, 1962), the Mishawaka entries, for the bracketing absence.