Show I Vernal Express Celebrates Anniversary I I I I I I For 75 years jears the Vernal Ex Express press has served the people of the Uintah Basin Esta Established bUshed as the Uintah Papoose Jan 2 1891 the page four three three- column pa paper pr was I published for a year then its na name me was wasI changed to the Vernal Express l I I Pin Th nt has grown continually ally until today the original d paper is now I an eight column sixteen siJ page edition I MRS 1 US KATE loan Jan Boan was editor and publisher of the I Papoose At the close of the year James Barker acquired acquire I tin new paper and soon after aCter I he changed its name because being bling an old bachelor did not like to be guyed about the I Papoose by the of the press II III I In 1894 1891 Dan II Hillman be came associated with Editor Barker in the publishing of the I Vernal paper as assistant lie He remained until 1897 In 1 March arch 1898 JA J A Holdaway beca nine mc editor and proprietor Aug 3 1899 the paper was edit edit- edited ed b by Charles B Bartlett with Ward E Pack associate editor Dan H IL Hillman was in charge of the typographical depart fluent ment Mr Hillman and Ashley Bartlett took over tine the reins of the paper in December 1900 Mr Hillman became sole ed ed- ed editor and owner in 1902 A stock company was organ organ- IA iz l and took over the Express in April 1910 1110 and Mr decided to devote his time to agriculture Bartlett W was lS mana managing ing edito Aug 4 1911 A new masthead Nov 8 1912 carried Mr 11 ns as man manager Aug 8 1913 showed sho i th that lt Mr lr Hillman had become I managing editor and Mr Cook news editor A V Watkins for for- former mer U S Senator succeeded Cook April 3 1914 but Cook be be- be became came news editor July 17 1914 March 19 1915 r Ur bit II Billman be be- be became came manager and operated the paper until 1917 1917 James Janes II H Wallis of oC Salt Lake City who visited Vernal in the I early part of 1917 as clean town judge a and sanitary in I for fol the State Slate Hoard Board of oC Health became interested in inthe inthe the paper and on May 11 1917 became its manager Mr Wal- Wal Wallis Its lis and his family operated the paper until Jan 28 1921 when George II h Harrison arrison became as- as associate associate editor and Violet Mar Mar- risen rison daughter of oC Mr Wallis business manager Mr Ir liar liar- risen became editor and pub pub- publisher lusher lisher June 15 1923 and Violet Harrison business manager JAMES H Wallis became editor and publisher again Jan 8 1926 1920 and Wm B Wallis city editor Wm B Wallis later c c came editor and manager and James II If Wallis remained as its publisher until his death in 1940 Wm B Wallis has con limed to be editor and pub pub- publisher lisher to the present time with his son Jack U R Walls Wallis as man man- managing managing aging editor THE mechanical equipment of the Express has evolved from flom an old Washington hand press and later a Junior Mer- Mer linotype to a roll fed fedt t ox Type O-Type and modern type type- typesetting typesetting Type setting machines News Is pun pun- punI I died ched on tape with a teletype machIne and feeds automatic automatic- automatically I ally alJy through a linotype Photos I I are made into newspaper en en- en enI engraving I graving with a and reduces the processing time from long hours to a few mo mo- moments ments The Express has a complete file of its issues from Crom the very I beginning Microfilm copies are found in tine the Huntington Library at Pasadena Calif and the University of utah at Salt I Lake EVER AN exponent of com cont improvement the Ex Ex- Ex Express press has unselfishly devoted its columns for more than 75 years to the development of this area The promotion of oC our vast natural resources and scenic areas have had a big portion of the papers paper's columns The Express has won many citations for its fine Cine newspaper news and community service Starting with a few dozen papers tine the Express now boasts a circulation of more than paid up subscribers |