Watch Out for Merging Traffic

Depressing to think that your paper, with the nation’s top sports section, will be under the same ownership as the Chicago Cubs.

What changes can we expect? Sports Editor Bill Dwyre being replaced by an eight-editor team? One of your promising young writers being traded to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he breaks the late Jim Murray’s sportswriter-of-the-year record? Ivy on the sports department walls? Enquirer-ing minds want to know!

JERRY CLARK, Glendale

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After contributing tidbits to The Times for the past 63 years, I find it sad to hear about the merger with the Tribune.

Most of my writings have been to the sports section. In WW II from Germany, I wrote Bill Henry to inform him that I erected signs in the Remagen bridge area welcoming GIs to the east bank of the Rhine River that read “Welcome to Los Angeles City Limits.” Bill put it at the end of his daily column and troops got a chuckle out of it.

I’ve criticized the Reagan years, corrected Jim Murray, said goodbye to the Raiders and collaborated with John Dart five years ago on Hank Greenberg.

Naturally, I wish the very best for you and your excellent writers in this new era.

EARL S. DRAIMIN, North Hills

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With the recent takeover of the L.A. Times by the Tribune, I felt this an opportune time to submit my name for the position of NFL sportswriter. I realized after reading T.J. Simers’ columns year after year that I possess all the prerequisites for that position. First I have no journalistic training or talent. Additionally, I have a sense of humor that I alone understand. While it is true I have a vastly superior knowledge of the NFL than Mr. Simers, I’m more than willing to “dumb it down” to his level.

Thank you for your consideration.

MARK KUMMROW, Santa Monica