| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Frank and Frank Beckwith arefather-and-son combination in the Newspaper Hall of Fame GUNNISON The Gazette Gunnisonfirst newspaper was started October 20 1899 by Gledhill Sons and continued until its purchase on May 1919 by Howard Cherry transplanted Californian Mr Cherry had beenUtah newsman in Marysvale and Moab before coming to Gunnison He changed the papername 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 Jr Wes then published the News until selling it July 1971 to Kent Crandall Ten years later it was acquired by Mark Fuellenbach of the Richfield Reaper and on April 1984 became the property of Kevin Ashby of Roosevelt He sold it in 1993 to Post Publishing Company which defaulted afteryear It was then purchased in November 1994 by Jim and Lori Olsen who had been resident publishers for the Post organization KANAB Thereno link between todaySouthern Utah News and the earliest papers published in Kanab The communityfirst the Clipper was launched bynewsman who lacked neither ambition nor vision but never enjoyed journalistic success He was Camp whose career was marked by failed efforts in Elsinore Lehi Marysvale Park City and Richfield -and eventually Kanab Historian 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 1900 Four months later Albert Stewart the County Clerk bought the paper then sold it to Mr and Mrs Heber Cram They operated until 1903 when in an experi 86 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
