EDITORIAL

OFFICIAL NOTICE: FOR YOUR PROTECTION

There has been no change of address for ONE, Incorporated, nor for any of its divisions and departments. It has been brought to our attention that unauthorized leaflets have been mailed to some readers which have falsely stated otherwise.

Please address all of your correspondence and make out all checks or money orders to ONE, Incorporated, 2256 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90006 and not to individuals. ONE assumes no responsibility for checks, manuscripts, letters or packages addressed to Don Slater, William E. Glover or others and at any address except as above.

ONE, Incorporated, By Board of Directors

W. Dorr Legg, Chairman

Lewis Bonham, Vice Chairman Manuel Boyfrank, Secretary-Treasurer

May 1, 1965

Dear Richard Conger

Yesterday this Board voted to ask you to assume editorship of ONE Magazine, to replace Don Slater, who was dismissed April 23 and is no longer connected with the magazine or with ONE, Incorporated.

We have observed for years and with growing dismay a once idealistic and trustworthy man's deterioration. Starting with rudeness and petty quarrelsomeness, his conduct became intolerable.

He disregarded the Board's admonitions about his carelessness and unbusinesslike behavior. He would issue written statements under ONE's leterhead and fail to keep copies, so that there was no telling how he had gone on record in the corporation's name. He was airily frivolous about working hours and would come in at eleven, noon or not at all, day after day. He could not get any grasp of the facts of financial life. His treatment of our exceptionally fine printers was cavalier and arrogant.

He had become editor in 1958. At that time, "Corky" Reid had nursed the subscriptions to one thousand, and for two years the magazine continued to grow slightly, reaching something over twelve hundred. Since that time there has been a steady decline to the original level of about one thousand subscribers.

Readers complained that the magazine showed bad taste. A reputation for quiet and responsible journalism that previous editors had achieved for the magazine was squandered. Recently editorial responsi-

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