| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION the Payson Globe It was their decision to eliminate the name of the town from the banner resulting in the American Eagle masthead In 1898 Martin Willumsen who was also Mur rayPostmaster acquired the paper He produced it until 1905 when Joseph Barlow became the publisher For period of time during the two decades he was at its helm the paper was the Murray American An entrepreneur Barlow also established the Happy Hour and Iris Theatres in Murray published the Midvale Times circa 1909-10 and the Magna-Garfield Messenger in 1918 No files have been found of either publication When he sold the newspaper Barlow became an advertising agent officing his firm Artogram Systems in downtown Salt Lake CityBoyd Park building During Barlowtenure Murray was quite brieflytwonewspaper town In 1914 John Weaver unveiled the Murray Citizen -and in the same year the publication expired No files have been found Paul Nielsen became manager of the American Eagle in 1918 and three years later acquired ownership In 1925 he gave the paper the name it has carried for 70 ensuing years the Murray Eagle On January 1927 Clement and Edna Wallace became the co-publishers He had joined Western Newspaper Union in 1914 asclerk and salesman his energetic wife published both the Morgan County News and the Summit County Bee with his part-time assistance during the early 1920s They leased the Eagle to their son John Jack Wallace in 1943 and on May 20 1948 it was sold to brothers Ted and Pat Heal sons of longtime Salt Lake Tribune editor Bert Heal The Eagle became the property of another husband-andwife publishing team Jim and Bette Cornwell on July 1955 They are generally regarded as the pioneers of subur ban newspapering in south central Salt Lake county In 1958 they introduced the News-Advertiser publications in the western and eastern portions of the valley later merging them into the Green Sheet group When West Valley City was incorpo 96 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
