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Show ' ' 'r f CHARLES W. CLAYBAUGH Charlie Claybaugh Heads National Editorial Association Charles W. Claybaugh, publisher pub-lisher of the Box Elder News & Journal, Brigham City, has been elected president of the National Editorial Association, representing 7,000 weekly and small daily newspapers in the United States. The election took place at the 77th annual convention of N E A. On Tuesday of last week, Mr. Claybaugh had a 30-min-ute private interview with President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D. C, discussing legislative problems as they apply to the nation's newspapers. newspa-pers. Mr. Claybaugh has served on the Board of Directors of the National Editorial Association since 1955, and this past year was Vice President of N E A when the 76th annual convention conven-tion of the association was held in Salt Lake City. He has spent a lifetime in the newspaper business starting start-ing on his father's newspaper, the Pretty Prairie Times, Pretty Pret-ty Prairie, Kansas, and graduating gradu-ating from the Kansas State College at Manhattan, Kansas, with a degree in journalism. He came to Utah in 1942 and purchased the Box Elder News & Journal. Since that time he has never ceased to be active in the Utah State Press Association, Asso-ciation, serving on its Board of Directors and as Secretary, Vice Presdient, and President. He is currently on the Board of Directors. He is presently serving as president of the Brigham City Rotary Club, past president of the Brigham City Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Utah Headliners Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Kappa Tau Alpha, and the Salt Lake Advertising Ad-vertising Club. He served as a lieutenant in the Naval Air Force during World War II. Mr. Claybaugh and his wife, Alwayne, live in Brigham City with their three chidlren, Charles Jr., currently first-string first-string fullback for Utah State University; Kathy, a recent graduate of Box Elder High School, and Van, a student at Brigham City Junior High. Mr. Claybaugh's newspapers, the Box Elder News and Journal, Jour-nal, have won virtually every award offered by the Utah State Press Ass'n. and its Better Bet-ter Newspaper Contest. These newspapers are also members of the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Circu-lation. His newspaper plant in Brigham City is one of the finest in the state. |