| Show UTAH production PRESS ASSOCIATION of the paper to Kanab He was succeeded October 27 1939 by Elmar Walton who in turn sold on January 14 1941 to Loyd Lovestedt Induction into the World War II military brought Lovestedttenure to halt and four publishers appeared in Kanab during90-day period Harold Holdaway who bought Lovestedtinterest on February 1942 was quickly followed by Harvey Larsen on February 19 1942 Larsen on March 20 1942 and Burnham Ford on May 22 1942 When Ford entered the military his father Clair and wife Annamay took over on June 1943 War-time shortages of materials and printers forced them to suspend publication on November 1943 and Jess Saunders revived the Standard on October 1944 and on July 27 1945 sold it to Myron Martin His one-week occupancy of the publisherchair is the shortest on record and Mark Holmes builder and realtor followed He yielded on September 1946 to Eugene Roberts whobeenbusiness colleague and the papereditor On May 28 1948 Vincent Keller became publisher and on August 13 1948 he was followed by David Pearson His brief tenure ended November 26 1948 withsale to Francis Kelly And on May 20 1949 Eugene Roberts returned to the helm Assuming the reins on November 11 1949 was Dee Crosby Longevity finally came to Kanabnewspaper on August 25 1950 when Errol Brown acquired the publication An innovator he began producingportion of the paper by offset as early as January 16 1953 And on November 1953 he added the name Southern Utah News to the Standard banner eventually converting it entirely to the new name On May 10 1966 Marlin and Delores Brown purchased the paper publishing it until 1990 when their son Matthew was handed control The Browns who incidentally were not related to Errol were still owners however when the News was sold on August 1992 to Dennis and Dixie Brunner former Wisconsin resi dents Marlin Brown commented that the 26 years during which he and his wife had been Kanabjournalists marked the 88 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
