| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME time of the day youbetter be careful which side you refer to For some months now the south face of the timepiece has been registering 10 minutes slower than the others Which leads us to observe that in Brigham City we doneven know what time it is Now and againbrief poetical stanza would pop up in the column such as this bit of tongue-in-cheek verse like to look at sweater girls everywheretravel Hoping that somedaymay see one of em unravel His demonstrated concern for modernization of the paperproduction plant playedgreat part in the success of the News and Journal On July 15 1963 the News became one of the earliest Utah papers to convert to cold typography and photooffset reproduction The Journal followed three days later Several months before that Claybaugh had becomepartner in Utahfirst commercial web offset printing plant News Publishing Center Inc of Salt Lake City The firm ownedVanguard V-15 press one of the earliest models introduced in the industry Later NPC was dissolved and the News-Journal acquired its own press News King Clay was president of Utah Press Association in 1952 and received its highest individual accolade Master Editor and Publisher in 1970 For 23 consecutive years he was an officer or director of the organization In August 1955 vacancy occurred on the Board of National Editorial Association asresult of the death of Utah publisher Albert Epperson Claybaugh was the Beehive Statedesignated successor and thus began his rise to the presidency of that000-member organization the name of which was later changed to National Newspaper Association He was the first Utahn ever to be elected its president an honor achieved in 1962 at Hershey Pennsylvania He relin quished the gavel at Seattle Washington in 1963 One of his most memorable experiences as president he often recalled was an individual audience with John Kennedy then President of the United States Perhaps his most lasting legacy to the national organization is one little known to its membership Together with 463 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
