| Show UTAH SIX SURVIVING DAILIES priority to covering projects involving Cache Valley citizens Because it has been the arealeading printed voice it has seldom takenpro-or-con position on controversial matters but has attempted to present both sides without bias Among many vital issues in which this has been demonstrated were countywide garbage collection the long-standing dispute about the widening of Highway 89 through Logan Canyon and installation ofwide-ranging sewage disposal system Proponents of that improvement pointed out some raw sewage was being dumped into the Bear River Numerous awards have been won by Herald-Journal staff members in competition conducted by the Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press organization The Color Country Spectrum The statenewest daily newspaper traces its roots to the Tri-State News Advertiser founded in 1963 by Errol Brown in Kanab where he published the Southern Utah News That small circulation weekly withconservative voice was mailed tomajority of homes in southern Utah northern Arizona and the Nevada area surrounding Mesquite Two years later Myrlan Brown the founderbrother purchased the paper and moved it to Hurricane Southern changing the name to Utah Free Press More and more conservative it became the communicating arm of the John Birch Society and forshort time was renamed Title of Liberty When Myrlan passed away in 1969 his son Andy assumed ownership In that same year Gail Stahle openedweb printing shop in Bountiful and shortly thereafter contracted with Andy Brown to print the Free Press and deliver it to southern Utah In mid-1970 Errol Brown re-acquired the paper purchasing it from his nephew and renaming it the Southern Utah Press Aduvertiser In 1972 Stahle bought the paper from Brown It was at that time free-circulation to 12-page weekly newspaper and advertiser mailed to000 tri-state homes 167 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
