| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION the publisher until May 1967 when upon his retirement Henderson of Spanish Fork became the owner On August 1972 Clark Bigler former United Press manager from Reno Nevada bought the Chronicle Payson native he published the paper until October 22 1975 when it was sold to Richard and Susan Buys Kent Fuellenbach brother of Mrs Buys acquired the paper March 1978 and was its publisher until selling to Michael Olsen on August 15 1989 PLEASANT GROVE This Utah County community haslengthy newspaper history Its first paper the Pleasant Grove News was founded December 1909 by David Larson but came to an end on July 15 1910 In April 1912 Gaisford began the Pleasant Grove Review which under its own banner or as an adjunct to the American Fork Citizen has since appeared for over eight decades Gaisford Sr was the next publisher and through the 1920s and 1930s Alpine Publishing Company produced the Review On April 10 1942 Abraham Abe Gibson of the Nephi Times-News bought the Review and was still its pub lisher when he was fatally injured in an automobile accident February 1976 His longtime staff member Jack Pace husband of Gibsondaughter Afton then assumed publishing duties The paper became the property of California-based Newtah Inc on September 1980 Brett Bezzant purchased that corporation on March 1982 later changing the name to Newtah News Group ROOSEVELT While Uintah Basin newspapers were more or less linked in the beginning as evidenced bythree-paper coalition in Roosevelt Myton and Duchesne see Chapter the publication which would emerge as the survivor was the Roosevelt Standard Published by May it began on August 29 102 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
