 Rodger Dean Duncan, who later worked for two White House administrations and is now a prominent business consultant, was managing editor of the two Texarkana newspapers in the late 1960s.Palmer determined the key to newspaper success was the readers, the advertisers, the employees, the creditors, and the stockholders, in that order.The paper earned the coveted 2010 General Excellence award from the Arkansas Press Association, competing against eight other large dailies, including the "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette," which placed second.