| Show THE BETTER NEWSPAPER CONTEST expected the new daily division of the contest will generate future interest and become part of the lengthy tradition The Color Country Spectrum captured General Excellence honors in the 1994 contest As might be expected some papers have been more consistent winners than others What isbit unexpected is thatchange of publishers didnalways end the winning ways prime example is the Park Record which has captured seven General Excellence plaques in three different circulation groups and under three different publishers The Record sharedfirst place with the Nephi Times-News in 1977 when in Groupand co-published by Richard and Susan Buys Two years later it captured Group II honors under the same publishers After the restriction prohibiting one yearwinner competing the following year was lifted the Record was the top paper in Group III for an unprecedented three consecutive years in 1983-84-85 under publisher Jan Wilking Subsequently it has won Group III honors in 1987 and 1993 with Andy Bernhard the publisher For numbers of General Excellence trophies in Group III the News-Journal of Brigham City and the Murray Eagle share honors Each has won eight Following his fatherretirement with four such awards Charles Tuff Claybaugh became publisher and took top honors in four additional years The Eagleeight were all directed by husband-and-wife copublishers Jim and Bette Cornwell with his column Herea Point winning the blue ribbon ten times Close behind is the Richfield Reaper with six first-places In 19 of 21 contest years from 1958 through 1978 one or another of those three papers captured General Excellence Since the rules then barredwinner defending the title two of the three publications which consistently rated high in the judgeeyes were in the competition each year Their successes were interrupted in 1964 by the short-lived Rocky Mountain Review and in 1967 by the Davis County Clipper The Manti Messenger has been the top choice of the judges eight times in Groupwith four different publishers The first in 1957 was LaVaun Cox In 1968 and 1971 Larry Stahle 391 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
