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UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Frank A. and Frank S. Beckwith are a father-and-son combination in the Newspaper Hall of Fame. GUNNISON The Gazette, Gunnison's first newspaper, was started October 20, 1899 by N. Gledhill & Sons and continued until its purchase on May 2, 1919 by Howard W. Cherry. A transplanted Californian, Mr. Cherry had been a Utah newsman in Marysvale and Moab before coming to Gunnison. He changed the paper's name to the Gunnison Valley News, which it has been for the past 75 years. His wife, Orsa, became the publisher upon his death in 1941 and retained the position until retiring in 1962. Their son, Howard W., Jr. (Wes), then published the News until selling it July 1, 1971 to Kent Crandall. Ten years later it was acquired by Mark Fuellenbach of the Richfield Reaper and on April 1, 1984 became the property of Kevin Ashby of Roosevelt. He sold it in 1993 to Post Publishing Company, which defaulted after a year. It was then purchased in November, 1994 by Jim and Lori Olsen, who had been resident publishers for the Post organization. KANAB There's no link between today's Southern Utah News and the earliest papers published in Kanab. The community's first, the Clipper, was launched by a newsman who lacked neither ambition nor vision but never enjoyed journalistic success. He was J. T. Camp, whose career was marked by failed efforts in Elsinore, Lehi, Marysvale, Park City and Richfield -- and, eventually, Kanab. Historian J. Cecil Alter, in Early Utah Journalism, commented, "Poor Camp was always decamping." Camp purchased equipment of the defunct Loa Advice and brought it to Kane County, where he unveiled the Clipper on January 1, 1900. Four months later E. Albert Stewart, the County Clerk, bought the paper, then sold it to Mr. and Mrs. Heber P. Cram. They operated until 1903 when, in an experi- 86 |
