Douglas F. "Doug" Attaway, Jr., was president and publisher of the defunct Shreveport Journal (1957–1976), a daily newspaper in northwest Louisiana

Louisiana

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. He was chairman of the board of KSLA-TV

KSLA-TV

KSLA, virtual channel 12, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Shreveport, Louisiana and the Ark-La-Tex region. Owned by Raycom Media, it broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 17. The sole transmitter is located in Mooringsport, Louisiana...

, the Shreveport, Louisisana CBS affiliate from 1966 until the channel was sold to Viacom

Viacom

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 in 1979. He was a former chairman of the board of Newspaper Production Company and the Attaway Newspaper Group, Inc.

Early years

Born in Shreveport to Journal publisher Douglas Attaway, Sr., and the former Bessie Fisher (1884–1967), he graduated from C.E. Byrd High School and held degrees in journalism and business from the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

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. He joined the staff of The Journal in 1934 as an advertising proof runner. He became an ad salesman, assistant bookkeeper and reporter and became managing editor

Managing editor

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 in December 1941, a position that he held until the senior Attaway's death in 1957.

Civic Organizations

Attaway was a member of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of commerce

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, and the original board of the Red River Navigation

Navigation

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 Association, a private trade association

Trade association

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 which successfully lobbied the Congress for navigation of the Red River from Alexandria

Alexandria, Louisiana

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 to Shreveport, the largest city in northwestern Louisiana.

Attaway was affiliated with Kappa Alpha Order

Kappa Alpha Order

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 fraternity

Fraternities and sororities

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, Rotary International

Rotary International

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, Downtown Shreveport Unlimited, Coastal Gun Club, American Bowling Congress, Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scouts of America

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, the Shreveport Club, the Petroleum Club of Shreveport, American Newspaper Publishers Association, Texas Daily Newspaper Association, and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He was the 1968 Cotillion

Cotillion

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 King of the annual Holiday In Dixie celebration. In 1965, he was named "Shreveport's Best Salesman".

Death and legacy

Attaway died at his home in the Fairfield section of Shreveport. He was survived by his wife of 57 years, the former Marion Sailor (1918–1999); son, Douglas Wesley Attaway, daughters Susan Elizabeth Attaway and Diane Kathryn Attaway Bolen.

The Attaways are remembered through the Douglas and Marion Attaway Professorships in Civic Culture at Centenary College

Centenary College of Louisiana

Centenary College of Louisiana is a primarily undergraduate, liberal arts and sciences college in Shreveport, Louisiana. The college is one of the founding members of the Associated Colleges of the South, a pedagogical organization consisting of sixteen Southern liberal arts colleges...

, where he was a trustee. Rose Van Thyn

Rose Van Thyn

Rozette Lopes-Dias Van Thyn, known as Rose Van Thyn , was a survivor of the World War II Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, who as a naturalized United States citizen residing in Shreveport, Louisiana, was involved for three decades in education about the Holocaust.-The Holocaust:In 1942, when...

, a survivor of the Holocaust, held one of the fellowships. There is also the Douglas F. and Marion S. Attaway Charitable Income Trust Fund and Doug Attaway Boulevard near Louisiana Highway 1

Louisiana Highway 1

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in Shreveport.

The Attaways are interred in Section V, Block 162, at the large Forst Park Cemetery in Shreveport.