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THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME weekly to a semi-weekly, then to a tri-weekly publication in Logan and on February 16, 1928 became a daily. It was acquired almost exactly a year later, February 17, 1929, by the Scripps-Canfield Newspaper Group, which also published the Provo Herald. After a bitter struggle, the new daily's owners bought out England and Earl and on August 1, 1931 created today's Herald-Journal. The Journal's co-publishers then went into retirement. During his journalistic career, England strongly editorialized for good government and strived to have the Journal equally represent the city's varied civic and religious groups as well as the social life of the community and Cache county. Files of the Journal form both an accurate and interesting history of Logan and the surrounding countyside. Long active in Utah State Press Association, England was its ninth president in 1907. For many years he was a member of the Board of Education and served, as well, as a City Councilman. A teacher and leader in various LDS Church organizations, he filled missions to Great Britain and to the Southwestern States and was Bishop of Logan Second Ward for 20 years. He and his wife, the former Phoebe Woolf of Hyde Park, were married June 10, 1886 and were parents of five sons and three daughters. All but two sons are living today. When he passed away on Janury 28, 1952, Charles England was 88 years of age and had spent almost half his life in newspapering. His demonstrated skill in that field solidly substantiates his position in Utah's Newspaper Hall of Fame. ALBERT WILSON EPPERSON, Morgan County News Born October 17, 1910 - Died August 14,1955 Installed in Hall of Fame at Salt Lake City, 1972 For 24 years he indelibly carved his name on journalistic annals of the state of Utah as publisher of three outstanding weeklies and as a leader in newspaper-oriented organizations. In fact, had he not succumbed suddenly to a coronary occlusion at only 44 years of age, he would have had the dis- 489 |
