| Show YOUNG PAPERS THAT ACTUALLY ARE OLD 1914 some five years after the communityfirst publication the Uintah Standard had closed its doors The new paper in fact proclaimed in its first issue The Standard is born again unfurled this time to remain May departed after half-a-year and Arnold Reef whobeen editor under the founder continued the publication On September 1922 James Wallis of the Vernal Express replaced Reef as the owner and his son William Bill Wallis was named manager On January 1926 George Harrison became editor and publisher and his wife Violet business manager of the Roosevelt paper They were the son-in-law and daughter of James Wallis and had earlier been associated with him on the staff of the Vernal Express The Harrisons werededicated husband-and-wife publishing team He also served as president of Utah State Press Association in 1936 waslongtime Mayor of Roosevelt leader in the Utah Municipal League and head of the Utah Fish Game Commission under Governor Herbert Maw Cliff and Irene Fretwell of Ogden purchased the Standard on October 1945 and published it until September 1950 when Clifton Memmott former Helper Journal publisher acquired it Three months earlier he had sold his Helper inter ests On January 1957 he merged the Duchesne and Roosevelt papers into the Uintah Basin Standard His successor on June 1965 was Clarin Ashby formerly of the Emery County Progress who brought with him his popular column Ide-clair It was very nearlyhomecoming for Ashby whose birthplace Midview was near Duchesne On September 1978 Ashby relinquished the reins of the Standard to his sons Kevin and Craig and after Kevinacquisition of the Gunnison and Salina newspapers in 1984 Craig continued as publisher in Roosevelt SALINA This Sevier County community witnessed the start of two weeklies before and shortly after the turn of the century 103 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
