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Houston Press


Houston Press selected personnel[edit]

Editors[edit]

In its 52-year history the The Press had six editors:

  • 1911–1916: Paul Carroll Edwards (1882–1962), in 1975, was posthumously inducted into the California Press Hall of Fame. He had been associated with Scripps for 50 years. He was a 1906 graduate of Stanford and, in 1943, was appointed to Stanford's Board of Trustees, serving as President of the Board from 1948 to 1953. Edwards was editor of the San Francisco News from 1932 until his death.
  • 1916–1922: G.V. Sanders (né Gold Viron Gribble Sanders; aka Gold Vernon Sanders; 1891–1975) never used his first name, "Gold," until retirement.
  • 1922–1927: Charles Joseph Lilley (1893–1946) died November 18, 1946, while serving as Editor and General Manager of the Sacramento Union, a role he had held since 1930.
  • 1927–1937: Marcellus "Mefo" Elliott Foster (1870–1942)
  • 1937–1945: Allan Charles Bartlett (1897–1970)
  • 1946–1964: George Burnett Carmack (1907–1995).

Journalists[edit]

  • 1932–1936: Bonnie Tom Robinson (maiden; 1907–1993), born in Mineral Wells, began her newspaper career, as early as 1932, as a reporter for the Press.[1] She married George Burnett Carmack October 24, 1943, at Fort Riley, Kansas, while George was serving in the Army as a Captain.
  • Houston Chronicle (June 25, 1993). "Ex-Houston Press Reporter, Bonnie Carmack, Dead at 86". p. A31. ProQuest 395472804 (U.S. Newsstream database).

Managing editors[edit]

  • 1925–1929: Webb Chamberlain Artz (1889–1941), in 1924, after 4 years with the San Antonio Evening News as City Editor, left to join the Press in the same role. He went on to become Managing Editor of the Press.[2][3][4]
  • 1929–1931: Dudley Davis (né William Dudley Davis; 1901–1931) died July 10, 1931, of injuries after his automobile struck a bus.

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Business manager[edit]

He was advertising manager for the Press for several years, in 1936, was promoted to advertising director. His son, Ray Lyman Powers, Jr. (1928–2010), graduated from Dartmouth in 1949. In 1934, he was President of the American Advertising Federation - Houston.
  • Ray Powers, Jr., was an actor, known for the role of John in Victims (1982), Jimmy in Opening Night (1977) and a ticket clerk in Episode 1, 1977 of the TV series, Lucan (1977). He died on July 28, 2010, in New York City.
  • Powers was President of the TDNA (Texas Daily Newspaper Association?) from 1952 throught 1954
  • Powers was President of the Houston Press when it was sold in 1964.

Journalists[edit]

  • 1947–1951: Sig Byrd (né Luther Sigman Byrd; 1909–1987), born in Blanket, Texas, was popular for his "The Stroller", which led to a book, Sig Byrd's Houston (1955; Viking Press).CITEREFByrd,1955[6] His beat covered areas and neighborhoods, including Congress Avenue, the Segundo Barrio, Catfish Reef on Milam Street, the Bayou of the Buffalo Fish, Pearl Harbor, The Big Casino (not Houston's oldest saloon at 908 Congress Avenue ... "But this is the new Big Casino, on Preston Avenue." ), and Vinegar Hill (red-light district, between Prairie and Congress Avenue). In 1951, he left the Press for the Houston Chronicle.[7][8][6] His grandson, Sigman Mercer Byrd, Jr. (born 1964) is a journalist.

Walter Cronkite[edit]

Cronkite, beginning 1933, attended the University of Texas at Austin for two years, studying political science and economics. While a student, Cronkit was Campus Correspondent for the Press,[9] and later, a reporter for Scripps-Howard bureau covering events in the Texas State Capitol. He left the Press in 1936 to join KCMO in Kansas City.[10]

C.E. Gilliam[edit]

  • Clarence Emile Gilliam (1879–1947)[11] was, on the inaugural masthead of September 25, 1911, identified as Business Manager.[12] By 1918, he was with the Cincinnati Post. For Scripps-Howard, from about 1922, he became the Business Manager for the Warren Tribune Chronicle and had also been associated with newspapers in Toledo, Cleveland, and Denver.

Marjorie Hunter[edit]

  • 1949–1950: Marjorie Hunter (1922–2001) graduated from Elon College in 1942 and, from 1961 until 1986, was a Washington Correspondent for The New York Times. She had worked as a reporter for the Press from 1949 to 1950.

Houston Press Realty Company of Houston[edit]

Capital stock: $25,000 Incorporators: Alford O. Anderson; P.C. Edwards; C.E. Gilliam; all of Houston.[13]

Ward Carlton Mayborn[edit]

  • 1919–1921: Ward Carlton Mayborn (1879–1958) was General Manager of the Press. One of his sons and son's wife, Frank Willis Mayborn (1903–1987) and Sue Mayborn (née Anyse Sue White) are the namesakes of the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas.

Building[edit]

U.S. Interstate 69, formerly known as EastTex Freeway, was constructed around 1951.

Tax case[edit]

  • U.S. Tax Cases. Vol. Vol. 73, no. 2. Commerce Clearing House. 1974. pp. 81698–81699, 81706 (search term = "Houston Press") {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-date=, |lay-url=, |lay-format=, and |lay-source= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Selected articles[edit]


Bibliography[edit]

Annotations[edit]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Houston Chronicle, June 25, 1993.
  2. ^ Editor & Publisher, September 20, 1924.
  3. ^ Editor & Publisher, November 30, 1929.
  4. ^ Broadcasting, July 7, 1941.
  5. ^ Editor & Publisher, March 19, 1932.
  6. ^ a b Dobie, March 13, 1955.
  7. ^ Theis, November 10, 1994.
  8. ^ Weddle, November 20, 1948.
  9. ^ Bergan Evening Record, January 17, 1953.
  10. ^ CPI 2023.
  11. ^ Cottrell, 1997, p. 73.
  12. ^ Houston Post, September 26, 1911.
  13. ^ Houston Post, December 24, 1912.

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Bureau of Research in the Social Sciences of the University of Texas

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