| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION co-investor the opening to which Innes responded Competition for subscribers and advertising dollars was constantly fanned by controversy about the locally-produced product versus an outside paper The Free Press proclaimed on its masthead Your Hometown Newspaper The Only One Printed and Published in Lehi The Sun labelled itself The Paper That Has Brought Sunshine Into Lehi Homes Since 1914 Partnership operation of the Free Press lasted only until February 1948 when Russ bought Healshare Subtle changes then began to appear in the makeup and content of the paper as the confrontation between the communitytwo weeklies continued unabated Then on May 12 1949 broth ers Frank Jr and Ted Gaisford sold the Sun to Innes The line beneath the masthead was changed to read Serving Lehi Northern Gateway To Beautiful Utah Valley Eliminating the costly competition and combining the circulation of the two made the Free Pressmuch more viable venture When the Gaisfords later prepared to retire Innes purchased the American Fork Citizen from them on June 1963 Like many Utah publishers at that time Russ was in trigued by the possibilities of photo offset production Not long before heco-invested with fellow newsmen Charles Clay baugh of Brigham City and Jim Cornwell of Murray in News Publishing Center Salt Lake City-based plant operatingVanguard V-15 web press Three days after he bought the Citizen it was converted to the offset method Utah county publication daily or weekly to change concept it was the third in Utah to do so following Transcript which had begun printing onGoss press July 27 1962 and Tooele Bulletin only days The first to the new the Tooele Suburban later The Free Press soon became the fourth After News Publishing was dissolved Innes and Harold Jack Sumner of the Orem-Geneva Times establishedweb offset press operation handling their own publications as well as several others in the area Producing the product on an innovative new press was onlyportion of what became known as The Offset Revolu 564 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
