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Show NEW PAPER GATHERING STEAM A Look at the Eagle DUCHESNE-Utah has another weekly newspaper. It is captioned cap-tioned "The Duchesne Eagle", and is being published at Duchesne City by Jerry Micure, 27, who has worked in the newspaper business in Duchesne County for the past four years. The tabloid size paper is distributed each Thursday in areas throughout the county. County-wide advertising is solicited by the young editor. Duchesne, the county seat, has not had a newspaper since the consolidation of The Uintah Basin Record with the Roosevelt Roose-velt Standard by C.N Mem-mott, Mem-mott, Jan. 1, 1957. It has been nearly 15 years since a newspaper has been published in Duchesne. Prior to its merger mer-ger with the Roosevelt Standard, Stand-ard, the Uintah Basin Record was published by C.N. Mem-mott Mem-mott at Roosevelt, Utah. The Roosevelt paper was bought in May, 1965, by Clarin D. Ashby, who is editor-publisher of this weekly publication, The Uintah Basin Standard. Since 1962, Mr. Mieure has been employed by The Unitah Basin Standard at Roosevelt, Utah. Prior to coming to Utah, he was assistant editor of the Northwest Colorado Press at Craig, Colorado for a year. He started in the printing trade at the Suttle Equipment Co. at Lawrencevillc, 111. , and worked there operating two Kluges (printing machines) for a year, prior to starting to work at the Bridgeport Leader, a newspaper published at Bridgeport, 111. Here he learned learn-ed to operate the linotype, by going in to work at the newspaper news-paper at 6 p. m. , after already-doing already-doing a hard day's work, and operating the linotype for six months, with the regular operator overlooking and training train-ing him. This man is Francis Smith, presently the linotype operator at The Uintah Basin Standard at Roosevelt, Utah. The new editor states, "At Bridgeport is where I really learned the newspaper business, busi-ness, making up ads and doing first class job printing, including includ-ing printing high school and college annuals (yearbooks). " He graduated in 1955 from the Bridgeport High School at Bridgeport, 111. , at the age of 17. He was born and lived on a farm; While in high school, he worked weekends week-ends at a sawmill. In January, IiJbZ, he came West, and settled at Craig, Colo. One of his five brothers, Jack Mieure, lives at Myton, Continued on page 4: |