| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION the associationsecretary in 1911 its treasurer in 1913 and its two-term president in 1916-17 In 1913 duringconvention held in New Orleans he was elected secretary of the Western Editorial Federation He was also active in National Editorial Association and traveled widely to its conclaves held in many states His contemporaries became accustomed to the butterfly net he carried with him on association outings but the scientific world has remembered him more for plantlife discoveries than the pursuit of butterflies and moths The success of mining in another area of the Tintic district prompted Ike to initiate the Dividend Examiner The paper hadcomparatively brief life span though and is obscured by an almost total lack of files Isaac Diehlstudy of law bore fruit after Mammoth was incorporated in 1910 In the communityfirst election he was named City Recorder Later he served as City Attorney as well as Recorder In 1915 he was Clerk of the Utah House of Representatives the first lawmaking group to assemble in the then-new state capitol building When the nationeconomy foundered after the crash of 1929 the mining industry ground tonear-halt and Mam moth like every other community keenly felt the depression The Recordrevenues gradually diminished and finally with great reluctance Ike Diehl wrote -30to his journalistic career which had spanned nearlyhalf-century and had made hiswell-known name among Utah journalists His printing shop yieldedmeager income though and he wasfamiliar figure in both Mammoth and Eureka through the 1930s On July 14 1940 he died while hospital ized in Tooele The journalistic career of Isaac Diehl might easily be overlooked because his writings were in newspapers which have virtually vanished in the dust of time But enough survive to demonstrate that he upheld the highest ideals of his chosen work faithfully recorded in his columns both the event ful and routine happenings of his community and richly deserves commemoration in the Newspaper Hall of Fame 480 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
