| Show CHAPTER SIX Papers That Came -And Many That Went Several other less-than-daily newspapers have been published during Utah Press Associationfirst century but no longer exist Numerous mastheads emerged but haddecidedly shorter history than their contemporaries Yet they were produced forcomparatively substantial length of time before vanishing That group would include BLANDING In this San Juan County community newspapers consistently failed through the years First 10 1917 dent On launched on the scene was the San Juan Blade begun August by Albert Lyman lifelong Blanding area resiMarch 29 1918 it was combined with the newlyIndependent Together they failed financially and ceased publication Lyman though would be involved years later as the writer ofcolum The Blandingite for the San Juan Record continuing until the time of his death in 1973 The Herald and the Outlook were the next papers pro duced in Blanding The former born February 1956 was published by Larry and Betty Roe of neighboring Monticello and edited by Linda Lyman It hadbrief life and left no files The latter publication survivedbit longer and its exist ence is recorded on limited microfilm files The Outlook did have the distinction of being one of Utahearliest offset newspapers Publisher Cox wrote in the first issue January 16 1959 This newspaper is printed by the offset process method being used by an increasing number of small town publications We acknowledge that there islittle roughnessin the appearance of this first issue we expect its ap Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
