| Show PAPERS THAT CAME -AND MANY THAT WENT became the owner Forbrief period of time in 1974 Denny Osborn and Walt Schaffer were lessee co-publishers but the paper then reverted to Stahle On March 28 1980 the News was sold to and Bette Cornwell publishers of the Murray-based Green Sheet group They renamed it the West Valley View tailored to newly-incorporated West Valley City It retained that name until the Green Sheet was bought by Diversified Suburban Newspapers in 1984 LAYTON Laytonnewspaper history dates to October 26 1925 when Hector Evans founded the Weekly News-Express In addition to Layton Evans ambitiously indicated his paper domain was Kaysville Clearfield Syracuse and Davis County That placed it in competition with the Weekly Reflex of Kaysville and the Davis County Clipper of Bountiful The latter paperpublisher John Stahle Jr bought the News-Express on November 16 1933 He was its publisher for 17 years and changed its name to The Layton Journal On February 24 1950 it was sold to Albert Epperson manager andmajor stockholder of Inland Printing in Kaysville and publisher of the Weekly Reflex On November 1950 Inland was sold to Lloyd Anderson former Ogden Standard-Examiner advertising staff member Both the Layton Journal and the Weekly Reflex continued to be published by Inland On February 18 1958 the Layton Journal was renamed the Davis News-Journal Anderson sold the paper on January 1965 to John Stahle Jr returning him to the publisherchair ofLayton newspaper after an absence of nearly 15 years The Davis News-Journal was later absorbed into the group operated in tandem with the Weekly Reflex MIDVALE Midvalesomewhat obscured newspaper history difficult to trace because early files are largely non-existent began in 119 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
