| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME In 1921 Heber was namedmember of the Utah State Securities Commission and permanently left the Post Nephi then served as editor and publisher until May 1924 when Rodgers bought the paper and merged it into what he had earlier purchased as the Daily Herald and had renamed the Evening Herald With the change of ownership Nephi became an editor of Rodgerdaily In 1927 he was assigned as editor and manager of the Springville Herald-Beacon weekly which had been purchased by Rodgers and Thorn Miner after years of publication as the Springville Independent The Evening Herald in the meantime had been acquired by Hornibrook who in 1925 added Gunnar Rasmuson as his co-publisher On September 14 1926 it was sold to the James Scripps Newspaper Interests and evolved into Provocurrent publication the Daily Herald Nephi Hicks left newspapering early in 1930 becameSalt Lake area insurance salesman and operator of the Mer chantCredit Bureau He was still in the insurance field at the time of his death February 1961 son of John and Anna Buhler Hicks Nephi was born February 1883 in Salt Lake City His family later moved tosmall farm in unincorporated South Cottonwood rural area some two miles east of Murray John Hicks died when Nephi was stillyoung boy leaving Anna with seven children She becamewidely-known and quite proficient nurse and midwife In addition to work on the familyfarm Nephi found employment at the Murray Smelter where he dumped hot slag from rail cars and the equally tedious work of weeding sugar beets and hauling hay He rode on horseback to deliver the evening Deseret News and the morning Salt Lake Herald throughout then sparsely-populated western Salt Lake County Nephi was able to complete an elementary education in spite of his various jobs and after the Hicks family moved to Salt Lake City he entered business college concentrating on shorthand typing and commercial law In the summer months he worked with Heber at Saltair Beach where their job was 551 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
