| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION travelling theatrical groups he sang danced performed in vaudeville acts and often played the heavy in melodramas He was the head of his own group Peters Peerless Players when it was booked into Panguitch Lake and as the saying goes was greeted by an unusual number of people disguised as empty seats He thereupon quit the boards settled in Panguitch and in April produced Volume Number of the News He subsequently left his mark on other Utah papers in Mt Pleasant and Tooele The Panguitch editor his wife Elnora Mae published the News fornumber of years after Willdeath on November 11 1929 Subsequent publishers were George Brewer and then Stanley Mikulewicz the latterPennsylvania native who for two decades had been with International News Photo in New York City He took over the paper February 25 1950 seekinghigh dry climate because of his asthma His wife and co-publisher Clara who had once beenprofessional basketball player in the East passed away on May 1974 The paper was purchased by Norman Fuellenbach of the Richfield Reaper in October 1974 Sixteen years later in 1990 Jim and Katie Thomas acquired the News and subsequently Mrs Thomas became its publisher following her husbanddeath PAYSON After the communityearly manuscript papers the Advocate and The Intelligencer had come and gone in the 1860s Payson had no printed voice until May 1889 At that time the Utah Enterprise published by Frank Pickering drew plaudits from other publications but closed its doors in April 1891 An opposing newspaper begun in January 1891 was the Payson Leader under the editorial direction of Powell Its death was almost simultaneous with that of the Enterprise Very briefly early in 1892 Pickering returned to the field to initiate the ambitious but ill-fated Daily Hummer Its swift demise opened the field for the first not the present Payson Chronicle and then the Enterprise-Chronicle published by 100 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
