| Show YOUNG PAPERS THAT ACTUALLY ARE OLD found articles and especially advertising matter Johnston and Will Peters were at the paperhelm by 1916 and two years later Kramer and Peters were in partnership While Johnston had no other Utah newspaper credits Peters did have He had once beentravelling performer the head of Peters Peerless Players After going broke on the road he launched the Panguitch Progress and was involved with the Garfield County News and the Mount Pleasant Pyramid Kramer who had been Salt Lake County Attorney in 1916 and would be again in 1940 had formerly edited the Mercur Miner the Bingham Press the Deep Creek News at Ibapah and the Ophir Examiner In 1922 he had founded the Magna Banner and the Garfield Leader The Bulletin was acquired by the Transcript on December 1923 bringing about todayhyphenated nameplate Alex Dunn had succeeded his father at the Transcript and would continue to publish the merged Transcript-Bulletin until his death March 29 1964 Dunn wasstaunch advocate of open meetings of governmental bodies and their obligation to makepublic accounting of their financial transactions When in the mid-1930s UPA failed to support him during suchcontroversy he withdrew remaining at odds with the association until February 16 1957 when he rejoined In time it might be added to help create the Newspaper Hall of Fame and to re ceive the coveted Master Editor and Publisher Award in 1962 At the time of his fatherdeath Joel third generation of the family took over the paper and is the present publisher His sons Scott and Clayton are active in the newspaper operation as well creatingfour-generation sequence James Dunn is commemorated in the Newspaper Hall of Fame TREMONTON The first newspaper in this Box Elder County community the Tremont Times was established by Fred Nihart one of three neighboring farmers who decided to starttown and develop its real estate potential Its original name Tremont 107 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
