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Show Publishers Honor Alex F. Dunn With High Award and is entitled to the highest honor in his profession." Mr. Dunn started in the newspaper news-paper business in 1910 at the age of 13 setting hand set type at the Tooele Transcript, which was owned by his father, James L. mmk mi. iium iiimfitii a mum and installed an engraving unit. His was the first Utah weekly to switch from a 13 pica column to 12, then from 12 to 11 . He was constantly endeavoring to obtain the best in printing equipment equip-ment and to use the best printing methods. Through the years he crusaded fearlessly for his convictions, with no regard for his personal popularity or business interests In 1937 he published an LDS newspaper in Los Angeles for six months. Two years later he became president of the Tooele LDS stake. He held this position for twenty years until 1959, and devoted most of his time outside the newspaper to church work. Since 1941 he has sent the Transcript-Bulletin free of charge to all servicemen and missionaries from the Tooele area. He and his wife Carol are the parents of two sons and one daughter, all engaged in some form of journalism. Dunn. He worked part time for six years, and then went on an LDS mission from 1916 to 1919. After his mission he finished high school and enrolled at the Brigham Young University, but the failing health of his father forced him to return to Tooele and take over the operation of the paper in partnership with his sister. He immediately began to modernize his plant and to buy out several competing papers, including the Tooele Bulletin, which name was added to the Transcript masthead. At the same time, 1923, he bought out his sister and became sole owner. Alex was active in the Utah State Press Association and was elected president in 1927. In 1932 a fire caused total destruction destruc-tion of his shop and the modern equipment he had been able to collect. Starting from scratch, and with the help of Howard Jarvis and Edith Ridge of the Magna Times, who donated the shop facilities, he was able to continue publishing until a new plant was constructed. Alex Dunn has filed his newspaper news-paper career with "firsts." In 1938 he started carrier delivery Alex F. Dunn Alex F. Dunn, long-time publisher pub-lisher of the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin, Transcript-Bulletin, "was accorded the Utah State Press Association's highest honor Saturday, February 18, by receiving the Master Editor and Publisher award of the USPA. As the placque presented to Mr. Dunn indicates, "he has worked I hard, lived honorably, thought S soundly, influenced unselfishly, |
