| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION ern Utah Advocate for the full time for which the subscribers have paid for the Advocate The manager of the Sun considers this an obligation and his duty inasmuch as Judge Albert Christensen of the District Court has decided that the subscription lists and books of the Eastern Utah Advocate are the property of Marcussen Receiver Inreminiscent editorial entitled Looking Backward John Crockett years later recalled that he and his brother had leased the Eastern Utah Advocate to Fred Watrous with an option to buy the plant The name of the Advocate was in some way omitted he wrote and Watrous retained the same later selling it to the Carbon County News that paper taking the name News-Advocate The Crockett brothers were left with the old Advocate plant and no newspaper so decided to establish the new Sun Robert Crockett was certainly notmeek editorialist He traded barbs with Benfer of the News-Advocate and expressed himself vociferously on matters he felt to be important to Carbon Countians It resulted in ongoing strife with many one of whom reacted in anger Though the incident went unreported in the Sun its competitor under the heading Indignant Citizen Wallops Editor carried this story in its July 1915 edition Driven to exasperation by the continual Jjibes directed at himself and members of his family by the Price Sun County Treasurer Alpha Ballinger last Sunday afternoon seized the editor Crockett threw him to the ground and gave himsound thrashing Crockett later stuckknife blade into Ballingerabdomen and that gentleman has been confined to his bed on order ofphysician since the cutting The story went on at great length painting Crockett in anything but complimentary terms Married to Monima Kennedy of Brunswick Missouri on March 21 1907 he was the father of sons Robert Jr Granville and John Robert Crockett died in 1930 and John then published the paper until December 1932 when it was merged with the News-Advocate to create the present-day Sun-Advocate forceful newspaper man and public spirited citizen this 474 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
