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"), 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,"  "Ribs 'n Jibs" and "Goin' It Alone"), Roy Robinson("Geezers" and "Roy's Roux"), Daryl Jay Frank ("Gilley & Wynn"), M.L. Zanco("The Upside"), David Anthony and Dan Alan ("Kwurks"),  Cliff Ulmer("Homeboy" and "Leah and the Boys"), George Jartos(general cartoon humor), David Ward and Bryan Picken ("Arkane Humor" and "Ripped from the Headlines"), Leo Ouellette (general cartoon humor), and Roger Martin and Todd Martin ("The Outer Edge").

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 XIII.................. NUMBER 15...................FEBRUARY 6,2012 * News…. Florida Governor Rick Scott announces his satisfaction that the Florida House of Representatives has taken seriously his commitment to passage of an education bill that provides large increases for funding K-12 instruction; the Governor notes that the Appropriations Committee has shown that its members think public education requires that much support by voting an extra $1 billion for that purpose, and the Governor says, “The most important thing we can do to ensure Floridians have the job opportunities they deserve is to provide our students with a quality education and prepare them to be competitive in our 21st-century workforce.” * Business...The New York Stock Exchange announces that, in trading of (ownership) shares in U.S. and foreign companies, 3.214+ billion shares of stock have changed hands today, with shares of the portrait-photography company, CPI Corporation decreasing 12.58 percent in value, more than shares of any other company. * Sports...The National Football League (NFL) reports, as  Kids’ Newstime went to press, that the New York Giants are celebrating their 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots yesterday in Super Bowl XLVI, a battle pitting the National Football Conference champions against the American Football Conference champions, held in Indianapolis, Indiana.

* Weather...The National Weather Service forecasts that the warmest spot in the Lower 48 States tomorrow morning is expected to be Key West, Florida, at 71 degrees Fahrenheit.  Check the map, kids! * Other earth news...The National Earthquake Center, in Golden, Colorado, reports that the two highest-magnitude quakes recorded earlier today—based upon the Center’s measurement of universal time—were of magnitude 6.7 in the Far East (44 miles north of Dumaguete, Negros, Philippines) and, outside the region of the Philippines, 4.5 on the continent of South America (82 miles west-southwest of Tupiza, Bolivia).   (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.) * Today in history… 197 years ago: February 6,1815—The State of New Jersey issues the first American charter to operate a railroad company. * A Quotation worth remembering...by Thomas Jefferson (3RD U.S. President):  "You seem to have misapprehended my proposition for the choice of a Senate.  I had two things in view: to get the wisest men chosen, & to make them perfectly independent when chosen….  —Now as to the representative house which ought to be so constructed as to answer that character truly.  I was for extending the right of suffrage (or in other words the rights of a citizen) to all who had a permanent intention of living in the country.  Take what circumstances you please as evidence of this, either the having resided a certain time, or having a family, or having property, any or all of them.  Whoever intends to live in a country must wish that country well, & has a natural right of assisting in the preservation of it. think you cannot distinguish between such a person residing in the country & having no fixed property, & one residing in a township whom you say you would admit to a vote. —The other point of equal representation I think capital & fundamental. am glad you think an alteration may be attempted in that matter.  —The fantastical idea of virtue & the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, assure you was never mine.  It is only the sanguinary hue of our penal laws which I meant to object to." (Letter of August 26,1776 to Edmund Pendleton)    answer that character truly=be truly representative of the people; right of suffrage=right to vote;  admit to a vote=allow to vote; capital & fundamental=important and central; -- fantastical idea of virtue & the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes=fantastic idea that good character and commitment to the public welfare are enough to protect the community against crimes; only the sanguinary hue of our penal laws which I meant to object to=only the blood-thirsty nature of our criminal laws which I intended to protest.