Charles Neiswender; Award-Winning Journalist

Charles Neiswender, 74, veteran Southern California journalist and aide to the late Los Angeles County Supervisor James A. Hayes. A graduate of USC, Neiswender worked as a reporter for the Wilmington Press Journal, the Long Beach Independent-Press Telegram and The Times’ now defunct sister paper, the Los Angeles Mirror, where he earned awards from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. He later served as general manager of the Times-owned Costa Mesa Daily Pilot. Fluent in Spanish, Neiswender spent two years as general manager of a Spanish-language daily in El Salvador. In 1973, Neiswender was named press and community relations secretary to Hayes. Neiswender later moved to Connecticut, where he worked with a firm that recruits executives to help Third World countries. He died on Wednesday in Stamford, Conn., of throat cancer.