the victim is erased, it may be an unjust way to end a problem, but some person(s) in power believe it will end it.

As it is Yanks trademark to lay it on the line and name the names of offenders, this article will be no different. We’ve had it with the variety of newspaper companies who are so busy pointing their fingers at Yank, they have conveniently ignored what they have been up to, specifically for this article, Yank will cover some of the run-ins we have had with some particular newspaper agencies in the state of California. There are some supposed angels out there that do not deserve their self anointed halo’s.

YANK NAMES THE OFFENDERS
We’ll start with JOBS & CAREERS Employment Guide. In March of 1997 Jobs & Careers was caught with

Here is the photo Jennifer shot of the JOBS & CAREERS driver with our YANK rack hidden in

Over the years we have had a number of run-ins with Jobs and Careers, a second police report was filed in Palo Alto after fifteen newsracks, three of which were owned by Yank, the other twelve owned by a variety of newspapers, were taken by J&C during a “rack clean-up”. When Yank confronted J&C as to where our three missing newsracks were, J&C claimed they did the clean-up at the request of the City of Palo Alto. When Yank asked for some form of proof from J&C that the City of Palo Alto had authorized their company to enforce newsrack codes, J&C did not supply it. Two of Yanks three newsracks were returned, the newest of the three was never recovered.

Later, J&C stole twenty-five newsracks from Yank that we had purchased in a large group from a newspaper called the “Property Pages.” J&C painted the newsracks and then placed them back in the locations they had stolen them from us at, stocked with their papers. Now how’s that for coochi-nada’s?

involved, City Racks finally fessed up they had our newsracks out at their yard. According to Kim Gale of City Racks, it was Sharma, of ANG (Alameda Newspaper Group) that had told him to do it. ANG is the publisher/distributor of the Oakland Tribune, San Mateo Times and others.

Over the years, Yank has lost many newsracks during newsrack clean-ups by ANG. After the first couple newsrack clean-ups by ANG, Yank was able to stop by their warehouse and pick-up our newsracks, but as time progressed and the newsracks clean-ups in Alameda county became more frequent, ANG denied picking up Yanks newsracks. Consequently, whenever ANG does a rack clean-up in Alameda County, Yanks racks permanently disappear. Yank estimates we have lost 80% of our Alameda County route due to ANG’s and the CHRONICLE’S newsrack clean-ups and various other thefts by Spectator and Minor News Service.

This hostility and outright theft of Yank’s newsracks has gone on for years and the incidents noted in this article in no way encompass the vast number of newsracks that have been stolen from Yank. It’s interesting to note that the police didn’t investigate the theft of 200 newsracks within a one week period in 1999 from Union Square in San Francisco. Every publishers newsracks, except the ones owned by the Examiner, Chronicle and Guardian were stolen in broad daylight.

Yanks publisher has recently witnessed the disappearance of groups of newsracks in San Francisco that will disappear one day, then return a week later, with one exception, Yank’s newsracks, although part of these missing groups, does not return when the others do.