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UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Utah's most capable journalists and are the credentials he brings for admittance to the Newspaper Hall of Fame. DENNIS WOOD, Nephi Times-News Born January 3,1871 - Died November 9,1934 Installed in Hall of Fame at Salt Lake City, 1970 His first experience in newspapering was as co-publisher of the weekly Nephi City News, which had been started as a rebuttal to editorial policies of the community's other paper, the Juab County Times. Dennis Wood had a varied background, knew the community by virtue of having held several civic offices and apart from his lack of journalistic training was well-qualified to report on Nephi happenings. He and R. J. Henroid, who was an experienced journalist, launched the News on May 1, 1916 at the bidding of several leading citizens of the town who thought by starting a paper in competition with the Times all their problems would be solved. A year later the bankers and other businessmen who were advertising in both publications decided there was no necessity for buying ads in two papers. They urged the respective owners to consolidate. A. B. (Abe) Gibson was co-publisher of the Times with J. M. Christensen. They agreed to the proposal and on April 1, 1917 Gibson became manager and Wood editor of the Times-News. They'd scarcely started to collaborate on the new publication before Gibson departed for overseas army duty in World War I. Left with a staff which included a printer and two young ladies who set type by hand, Wood struggled to produce what had become a larger paper than either of its predecessors. The 654 |
