{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-1994-12-20-pt1-PgS18", "1994-12-20", 103, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO DONALD J. ``COOTIE'' MASTERS", "SENATE", "SENATE", "FRONTMATTER", "S", "S", "[{\"name\": \"Larry Pressler\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "140 Cong. Rec. S", "Congressional Record, Volume 140 Issue 150 (Tuesday, December 20, 1994)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 150 (Tuesday, December 20, 1994)]\n[Senate]\n[Page S]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n[Congressional Record: December 20, 1994]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]\n\n                TRIBUTE TO DONALD J. ``COOTIE'' MASTERS\n\n Mr. PRESSLER. Mr. President, there are thousands of weekly\nnewspaper editors in the United States. I have met many of them in my\nhome State of South Dakota. These editors contribute more than\npublishing the community paper. Few of the ones whom I have had the\nprivilege of knowing have contributed more or had a greater impact on\nme than my hometown paper's editor and publisher, Donald J. ``Cootie''\nMasters.\n  More than the publisher of the Humboldt Journal and a leader in our\ncommunity, Cootie Masters was a true South Dakotan. He took great pride\nin his work, his family, his community, and his faith. As the editor of\nour local newspaper, Cootie was part of the lives of thousands of South\nDakotans. I don't know whether Cootie ever really understood his\npositive impact on us. He was an example and inspiration to many South\nDakotans.\n  Cootie had a great impact on my life. He had been a member of the\nState legislature. He was a man of letters. He was a mentor of mine in\nmany ways. I always kept in touch with him, even when I was serving in\nVietnam, studying at Harvard Law School, and later at Oxford University\nas a Rhodes scholar. At my swearing-in ceremony to the U.S. Senate,\nheld at the Humboldt High School gym, Cootie was the master of\nceremonies.\n  Cootie passed away in October. I want to take this opportunity to pay\ntribute to him.\n  Cootie was born on July 7, 1906. He spent his life in Humboldt near\nthe farm where I grew up. His Humboldt upbringing and strong family\nties instilled in him a deep respect for traditional values. He\ngraduated from Humboldt High School in 1924 and went on to attend the\nUniversity of South Dakota. In 1924, it was quite an accomplishment for\na young student from a small town to attend college. This was to be\nonly the beginning of Cootie's many accomplishments.\n  In addition to his studies at the University of South Dakota, Cootie\nparticipated in basketball and became a fraternity brother in Delta Tau\nDelta. He demonstrated at a young age the importance of life of social\ninvolvement and a balance between intellectual and physical pursuits.\n  After Cootie graduated from college, he became involved in the family\nbusiness. His father owned and operated the Humboldt Journal and began\npassing on his business knowledge to Cootie. Cootie's father died\nsuddenly in 1936, leaving Cootie as the sole owner and editor of the\nJournal. Anyone in family business will tell you that the successful\npassing on of a family business to the next generation is much more\ndifficult than most people think. Cootie was not only successful at\ntaking over the Journal in 1936, he was successful in operating it\nuntil well after his retirement.\n  Cootie's life involved much more than his newspaper work. He\ncontributed to the whole State of South Dakota by serving in the\nlegislature as a representative from Minnehaha County from 1936 to\n1941.\n  Cootie balanced his successful business and political career with\ndevotion to his family and friends. On June 12, 1933, Cootie married\nMildred Newton. Cootie and Mildred had three sons: Neal, Tom, and Bob.\nToday, the Masters family includes 7 grandchildren and 11 great\ngrandchildren. I know Cootie considered his family to be the most\nprecious blessing in his life.\n  Aside from his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, what\nmay have kept Cootie young for so long was his robust enjoyment of\nlife. After college, he continued to participate in baseball and\nbasketball. An avid sportsman, Cootie enjoyed fishing and hunting. He\ncertainly picked the right State to enjoy the great outdoors.\n  What is most impressive about Cootie is that with all of his public\nactivities, he was always described as a man without an enemy.\n  Cootie was a true friend to me, to our community, and to our State. I\nalways will remember him fondly.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-1994-12-20-pt1-PgS18"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8247622065246105, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}