| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Neither survived the test of time The first the Central Utah Press opened November 28 1891 under the guidance of Wallace It soon became the property of humorous columnist Arthur Howard who was commended and widely quoted by other Utah publishers until the close of 1900 when the Press succumbed todread disease newspaper people diagnosed as financial malnutrition Publisher Howard evidently receivedtransfusion of funds however for on July 19 1901 he revived the Press as the Salina Sun continuing his wit and humor until 1908 when he moved the newspaper to Richfield renaming it the Sevier Sun That Sun however is not the predecessor of todaypublication serving Salina The Sun of today had its beginnings in 1918 under the guidance of Ewing at that time publisher of the Richfield Reaper Perhaps it came into being because the doors had closed on another Salina publication On May 10 1906 the community had been introduced to the Salina Call under the guidance of Lund Jr decade later he changed its name to the Sevier Valley Call and in July 1918 the publication and its plant were moved to Mt Pleasant The change was anything but voluntary Lund had beenbit too editorially brittle for Salina tastes and what the publisher labelled mob escorted him to the city limits The opportunity thus opened up for Ewing to initiate what histor ian Cecil Alter jestingly labelled the Salina Sun II It was acquired September 1920 by Charles Richardson during 1921 was published by Jorgensen and then was returned to Richardson in 1922 The newspaper would give it longevity Howard and Orsa over on June 1923 Mr Cherry died April 23 widow became the publisher She and their son team which Cherry took 1941 and his Wes operated the Sun as well as the Gunnison Valley News until she retired in 1962 Wes Cherry who was UPA1969 president subsequently published until July 1971 when he sold the Salina and Gunnison properties to Kent Crandall He was the owner until 1981 when the papers were purchased by the Richfield Reaper under publisher Mark Fuellenbach 104 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
