| Show THE NEWSPAPER UTAH HALL OF FAME Your hometown paper rightly conducted is as necessary as the schools or the banks he insisted in to the community And perhaps conceding the papercriticism might not print always be totally justified he cast in lead at his Linotype keyboard on another occasion The trouble with some of us is that we notice the mote in the other felloweye and are not aware of the beam in our own The Wasatch Wave for years said on its front-page flag that it was The PeoplePaper remembers Helen Mountford the publisherwidow When he finished paying off the loan on it he said Maybe it was the peoplepaper for 50 years but now itmine she concluded Helen Curtis daughter ofPayson physician became his wife on October 1931 when both were teenagers Their marriage endured for 42 years producing in that order sons James Asa and Dr Paul anddaughter Karen Four years after Frankwedding his mother the widowed Mary Mountford was wed to Nephi Hicks one-time publisher of the Provo Post who is now enshrined in the Newspaper Hall of Fame Frankinterest in Utah State Press Association State would later be deleted from the title -was at its height during the time he newspapered in Heber City Electeddirector in 1949 he ascended to the presidency in 1953 Extending his interests to the National Editorial Association as well he attended three nationwide journalistic conclaves during the 50and in that time-frame was initiated into Sigma Delta Chi The Wasatch Wave annuallytop contender earned General Excellence honors in state press competition for both 1956 and 1958 Though never the sweepstakes winner the Wave and later the News were frequently lauded in addition for their Community Service projects The last move of his newspaper career came on June 30 1958 Leaving son Jim in charge of the Wave Deacon purchased the Washington County News at St George from Clyde and Nora Lyman The community in UtahDixie was on the 589 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
