
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, June 10, 1990                   TAG: 9006100200
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

FOUNDER OF NEWSPAPER SOLD BY INDIGENTS QUITS

The founder of Street News, under attack from former staff members, has resigned as the paper's editor in chief, saying he hopes his departure will permit the paper to continue publication, friends and a board member said on Friday.

Hutchinson Persons, a 34-year-old rock musician, created Street News eight months ago. It is sold by the homeless.

Persons' idea was to help the homeless help themselves by allowing them to buy the newspaper for 30 cents and then hawk it for 75 cents on the city's streets and subways.

But last month, eight of the paper's salaried writers walked out, protesting the paper's financial management and what they called Persons' erratic and irresponsible behavior. Two of the organization's board members also resigned at that time and two others followed last week.

Board member Harold Weiner said Persons had resigned "not over money, but because he was under a terrible strain."

Copies of Street News were being hawked on Friday by vendors, and a new issue will be published on schedule, said Pattie Lockhard, who recently joined the staff as acting executive director.

- The New York Times

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