Who We Are: Continental Features/Continental News Service, Inc. publishes work from a number of foreign correspondents: "Perspective on Asia" by William R. Stimson; "Assignment: UK/ Europe" by Steve Healey; "Macro Viewpoint" by Charles Moore(Canada); and "Dateline: Middle East" by Norman Rubin(Israel). In addition, CF/CNS administers two newspaper-feature divisions: Champion Features and Spirit of '76 Features. In doing so, we represent the quality features of award-winning travel columnist Ann Hattes("Travelers Checks"), retired American League pitcher David Frost("Sports and Families"), one-time Hollywood Reporter Managing Editor Harley Lond("OnVideo"), how-to answer man Charles Collins("Ask Mr. Solar"), humor columnist Mike Krivyanski("No Assignment Too Difficult"), newspaper-feature writer Bill Starr("Starr's Treks"), Gary P. Salamone("Question Time With Public Figures"), Greg A. Anderson("Report on Science"), Charles Hampton Savage("News and Comment" and "Court Watch"), film critic Leslie Rigoulot("Movie Talk"), John "Sloop" Biederman("The News Of Our Time--In Rhyme"),  and Gary P. Salamone/Editor-in-Chief("Continental Viewpoint").   Among the fine newspaper feature cartoonists who produce for our periodic newsmagazine, Continental Newstime, are Frank Hill("Milo" and "King's Court")--who has also worked on such studio property as "Dennis the Menace"(and who has written some of the Sunday gaglines)--Stan Hardison("Neighbors"), Dick Leahy("Great Moments"), David Anthony and Dan Alan("Kwurks"), Greg Panneitz("Fusebox"), Brian Crowell("J.V. All-American"), Mitch Schwenke and Alex Avedikian("It Could Happen To Hugh!"), Mick Williams("Morons With Money"), Jack Ricketson("Chumley" and "Haywire History"), Charles Hendrick, Jr.("Short Short Stories"), Ellsworth E. Jackson("Blackouts" about African-American life), David Illsley("Boomer Blogs" and "Ribs 'n Jibs"), Roy Robinson("Geezers" and "Roy's Roux"), Daryl Jay Frank ("Gilley & Wynn"), M.L. Zanco("The Upside"), and Cliff Ulmer("Homeboy").

Those editorial cartoonists, in turn, who exercise their talent under CF/CNS' banner number Christopher Doyle--who focuses on news morsels spanning world, national and California state politics--Cliff Ulmer, and PIKE("Portfolio"), whose caricatures of public figures in the news are easily recognizable. Committed to developing and maintaining a diverse news-gathering organization and newspaper-feature agency, Continental Features/Continental News Service, Inc. encourages writers, cartoonists and photographers to apply for sponsorship in syndication. Please write us at the address below for our current submission guidelines, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. An "online" version of these guidelines--kindly specify which one(s) relate(s) to your specific feature proposal--is also available by E-mailing CF/CNS at the E-mail address below. (No telephone calls, please.) Note to Newspaper Editors/Publishers: You pay only tenths of a cent per subscriber for these newspaper-quality cartoon and text features—your principal cost being printing.  Also, if your newspaper is part of a newspaper chain, you'll be interested to learn that CF/CNS has introduced, feature-pricing reform, too.  For example, instead of paying the feature rate for (a newspaper of) circulation of 20,000-50,000 twice for two newspapers having circulation barely above 20,000 apiece, your group pays only once. And Continental Features/Continental News Service, Inc. welcomes suggestions from your newspaper business office that we extend your paper a special introductory offer. Please contact: Continental Features/Continental News Service, Inc., 501 W. Broadway, Plaza A, PMB# 265, San Diego, CA 92101 (858) 492-8696.  E-mail: continentalnewsservice@yahoo.com

Kids' NEWSTIME—A sampler of America's children's daily newspaper first published in the early 1990's and restarted on November 4,1995! Kids, how many newspapers can you read a day?....... This is today's final edition: VOLUME XI..................NUMBER 107…...….SEPTEMBER 3,2010 * News...North Dakota Governor John Hoeven has paid tribute to Retired Major-General C. Emerson Murry—who died on August 29—and expressed deepest condolences to his surviving family members; the Governor noted that the former Adjutant General of the North Dakota National Guard had not only served the U.S. during the difficult years of World War II, but went on to become an attorney and otherwise exemplified what it means to be a “distinguished North Dakotan.”  After all, Murry had also been chief of the North Dakota Legislative Council. * Business...The New York Stock Exchange announces that, in trading of (ownership) shares in U.S. and foreign companies, 3.534+ billion shares of stock have changed hands today, with shares of the temporary blue-collar staffing company, TrueBlue, Inc. increasing 17.50 percent in value, more than shares of any other company. * Sports...Major League Soccer (MLS) reports, as Kids' Newstime went to press, that, in the Eastern Conference, Columbus leads New York by 4, in total points, with seven matches scheduled tomorrow throughout the league, while in the Western Conference Los Angeles leads Real Salt Lake by 3, in total points.

* Weather...The National Weather Service has received reports of damaging wind, so far today, in Tennessee’s Hamblen and Grainger Counties and in Arizona’s Pima County.   Check the map, kids! * Other earth news...The National Earthquake Center, in Golden, Colorado, reports that the two highest-magnitude quakes recorded earlier today were of magnitude 7.0 in the Southern Hemisphere (27 miles west of Christchurch, New Zealand) and 6.3 in the Northern Hemisphere (30 miles east of Adak, Alaska).  (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.)   * Today in history...96 years ago: September 3,1914—An Italian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, from Genoa, succeeds Pius X as Pope and becomes known as Pope Benedict XV, but is unable to influence the peace ending World War I in Europe. * A Quotation worth remembering...by Thomas Jefferson (3RD U.S. President): "This institution [the University of Virginia] will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind."  (Letter  of December 27,1820 to William Roscoe). illimitable=not capable of being limited.