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==Journalism==

==Journalism==

After military duties, Maple returned to West Texas to serve as the fire and police reporter for the ''Amarillo Globe-Times'' in [[Amarillo]].<ref name=tst/> He was associate editor and a stockholder for the ''Brownfield News'' in Brownfield in Terry County, Texas, and was the co-owner with his wife in the late 1950s of the weekly ''Pike County News'' in Murfreesboro in Pike County in southwestern Arkansas. He left Murfreesboro in November 1960 to become the news editor and a stockholder of what became the ''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'' in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Louisiana, under publisher [[Tom Colten]].<ref>"Charles E. Maple of Claude, Texas, Named News Editor of Press-Herald," ''Minden Press,'' November 14, 1960, p. 1.</ref>''The Press-Herald'' was launched in July 1966 as a daily from the previous weeklies, the ''Minden Press'' on Mondays and the ''Minden Herald'' on Thursdays. During Maple's tenure, the separate ''Press'' and ''Herald'' weeklies won statewide awards in 1965.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', July 18, 1966, p. 1.</ref>  Maple had been political editor of both Minden weeklies. His last job in journalism was as the associate editor and the state editor, the individual in charge of regional reporting, of the now Gannett publication, ''The Shreveport Times,'' but his obituary does not give his date of service in Shreveport.''<ref name=obit/>

After military duties, Maple returned to West Texas to serve as the fire and police reporter for the ''Amarillo Globe-Times'' in [[Amarillo]].<ref name=tst/> He was associate editor and a stockholder for the ''Brownfield News'' in Brownfield in Terry County, Texas, and was the co-owner with his wife in the late 1950s of the weekly ''Pike County News'' in Murfreesboro in Pike County in southwestern Arkansas. He left Murfreesboro in November 1960 to become the news editor and a stockholder of what in 1966 became the daily ''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'' in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], Louisiana, under publisher [[Tom Colten]]. Maple succeeded [[Major de Pingre']] as news editor of the two weekly newspapers.<ref>"Charles E. Maple of Claude, Texas, Named News Editor of Press-Herald," ''Minden Press,'' November 14, 1960, p. 1.</ref>''The Press-Herald'' was launched in July 1966 as a daily from the previous weeklies, the ''Minden Press'' on Mondays and the ''Minden Herald'' on Thursdays. During Maple's tenure, the separate ''Press'' and ''Herald'' weeklies won statewide awards in 1965.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', July 18, 1966, p. 1.</ref>  Maple had been political editor of both Minden weeklies. His last job in journalism was as the associate editor and the state editor, the individual in charge of regional reporting, of the now Gannett publication, ''The Shreveport Times,'' but his obituary does not give his date of service in Shreveport.''<ref name=obit/>

==Chamber of commerce==

==Chamber of commerce==