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UTAH'S SIX SURVIVING DAILIES ing news gathering and editorial policies designed to push the "irrepressible conflict" farther and farther into history and to promote conciliation rather than division. With Fitzpatrick at the helm, The Tribune thrived financially and strengthened its prestige throughout the decade. In 1924, A. N. McKay died and Fitzpatrick became publisher in name as well as in fact. In 1927 he employed G. B. (Bert) Heal from The Telegram staff and placed him in charge of The Tribune's news-editorial department. Heal continued in that role until 1950 when he relinquished news responsibilities, but served as editor until his death in 1951. At the beginning of the 1930s and the Great Depression another important change occurred in the city's newspaper structure. The Evening Telegram came to the end of its financial rope but was saved from the city's already crowded newspaper cemetery through re-purchase by The Tribune. When Fitzpatrick bought The Telegram for the Kearns-Tribune Corporation, he acquired along with the newspaper several key men who served The Tribune-Telegram long and well. Among them were A. L. Fish, Thomas J. Mullin, and Arthur C. Deck. Fish and Mullin were lessees and co-publishers of The Telegram at the time of its purchase by The Tribune. Under Fitzpatrick, Fish served as general manager of both newspapers until his retirement in 1947 and Mullin as business manager of the combined papers until his retirement in 1949. Deck served successively as city editor and managing editor of The Telegram and as executive editor of The Tribune. He was succeeded by John W. Fehr in 1981 and by James E. Shelledy in 1991. During the Great Depression the balance sheets of all newspapers, along with business generally, suffered, but Fitzpatrick continued to plow diminishing profits back into the newspapers and they emerged at the end of the decade stronger than ever. In 1947, in partial celebration of the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley, 155 |
