| Show ASSOCIATION PRESS UTAH Western Paper Company name maintained ongoing interest in the organizationaffairs as well as providing continuing support of its programs Julian Newman rose in that firm fromyoung clerk to top management between 1936 and his re tirement in 1987 He headed both Paper Western and WNU Company and in that time participated with near-dedication in associationactivities Hedescribes Jones role in these terms According to virtually all of the peopleve talked to who were around during the years following 1917 John Jones had more to do with getting USPA together than anybody else He has conciliation real He knack for the type of person that can get two people together duringmeal and talk and after itover everybody gets up feeling better about things It took time but Jones per sistent though tactful advocacy ofunited organization gradually JULIAN NEWMAN Western 2n2ger ardent associate eroded the hard feelings UNA members slowly brought the strength of their association into the diminished ranks of USPA and by the outset of the 1920s the division was only an unpleasant memory UNA totally dissolved Jones wasmember ofprinting-related family His grandfather wastypesetter for the Louisville Kentucky Courier-Journal His father Jones once foreman of Western Newspaper Union in Dallas was the founder of American Paper Company and later vice president of Western Newspaper Union After teaching history inTexas high school foryear Johnny joined APC in Mexico City then became manager of the Monterrey Mexico office of National Paper Type an export arm of American Type Founders 294 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
