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Joe D. Smith, Jr.
Joe Dorsey Smith, Jr. (April 6, 1922 – March 20, 2008) was the former general manager, president, publisher, and chairman of the board of the ''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'' in Alexandria, the largest newspaper (circulation 40,000) in central Louisiana. Smith became publisher in 1962. After a half century of service,〔(LA Press 50 Years Club )〕 he retired from ''The Town Talk'' in March 1996, and the paper was sold for $62 million to Central Newspapers, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana.〔(Central Newspapers to acquire Alexandria Daily Town Talk - Louisiana | Business Wire | Find Articles at BNET.com )〕 Smith died suddenly at his Alexandria residence three days after the newspaper observed its 125th anniversary on March 17, 2008. He was a former chairman and president of the trade associations, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He was a former officer of the Associated Press news-gathering organization. Known for his acute civic-mindedness, Smith advocated reform in state and local government. He was a former president of the Public Affairs Research Council, a "good government" research institution. He served on the boards of Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and the Louisiana Board of Regents in Baton Rouge, the body which governs public higher education.〔http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/NEWS01/803210325〕
==Early years, education, military, family==
Smith was born to Joe Smith, Sr., and Louise Lindsay Smith in the unincorporated community of Selma in northern Grant Parish, located south of Georgetown on U.S. Highway 165. His parents were originally from rural areas. Louise Smith was a native of Eros in northeastern Jackson Parish. Smith, Sr., was originally from Geneva in Sabine County, Texas, just west of the Sabine River Geneva is considered the oldest continuously occupied town in East Texas.〔(Geneva Texas )〕 Smith, Sr., was a bookkeeper for the former Interurban Transportation Company, formed by Morgan W. Walker, Sr. The company was a forerunner of Continental Trailways Bus lines.〔https://books.google.com/books?id=-QGyaGsLxLYC&pg=PA201 〕
Smith graduated from Bolton High School in Alexandria, at the time the only high school for white youngsters in the Alexandria-Pineville area. African Americans in the segregated system then attended historically black Peabody High School in south Alexandria.〔(history )〕 Among Smith's Bolton classmates were future Mayors John K. Snyder and W. George Bowdon, Jr., future U.S. Representative Gillis William Long, and the industrialist and philanthropist Roy O. Martin, Jr.〔List of Bolton High School alumni〕
An Episcopalian, Smith graduated from Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Corps, the forerunner of the Air Force. On his release from the military in April 1946, he was first employed at ''The Town Talk''. He married the former Jane Wilson (1922–1992), a Bolton classmate〔(Rootsweb.org )〕 whose family owned the newspaper. The couple had one son, Larry Dorsey Smith (born 1947), a business management graduate of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and a retired Air Force officer who resides with his wife, Brenda Smith, in Austin, Texas. After Jane's death, Smith married Bertie Murphy Deming (born December 26, 1925),〔(People Search & Background Check )〕 the widow of his long-time friend, physician John W. Deming, Sr. (May 17, 1920 – November 5, 1996),〔(rootsweb.com )〕 a former member of the Rapides Parish School Board, based in Alexandria. With the second marriage came four stepchildren, John W. Deming, Jr., of Palo Alto, California, Claiborne P. Deming of El Dorado, Arkansas, Bertie Deming Heiner of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Cathy Deming Pierson of New Orleans.〔(Obituary in thetowntalk.com 22 March 2008 )〕
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