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Show Alex RoS!o Retires From Publishing Field Alex Rollo, who for over 50 years has been connected with the printing and publishing business in the state of Utah, this week announces an-nounces his intention to retire as editor of the Iron County Record in Cedar City. Mr. Rollo has been editor of the Record for the past 20 years. Mr. Rollo reports that he has turned over his interest in the paper to a daughter, Caddie Rollo, who with her brothers will continue to publish the paper. Mr. Rollo states that he will continue his work as Justice of the Peace and also as secretary of the Cedar City Rotary club. Founded Parowan Paper Mr. Rollo founded the Parowan Times in Parowan, publishing that paper until 1919, when it was sold to the late W. Warner Mitchell, after which Mr. Rollo obtained control of the Record and return-( return-( Continued on page eight) Rollo Retires (Continued from first page) ed to Cedar City, where he has published since. Known in the old hand-setting days as a "swift", Mr. Rollo worked on various papers in Nephi, Eureka, Provo, Ogden and Salt Lake City, before coming to Cedar City in 1893. He worked on both the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Herald while in the state capital. He was born in Dundee, Scotland, Scot-land, in 1867, and came to Ameri-1 ca when only six years old. At the age of 15, he started as an apprentice printer in Nephi, and by the time he was a young man had become an accredited journeyman journey-man printer while working on a paper in Ogden. He came to Cedar City in 1893 and found employment employ-ment with the Iron County Record, then published by Charles S. Wilkinson and Daniel E. Matheson. Mr. Rollo was one of the organizers of the Southern Utah Publishing company in 1905 and shortly after leased the Record. Six years later he organized a new company and founded the Observer, Obser-ver, which was consolidated with the Record in 1914. |