| Type | Biweekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | Emery Telcom |
| Founded | 1891 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 625 East 100 North Price, UT 84501 |
| OCLC number | 13039549 |
| Website | etvnews |
The Sun Advocate was a bi-weekly newspaper located in Price, Utah, United States. [1] Emery Telcom has owned the paper since October, 2018 and is published as ETV News Sun Advocate.
The newspaper was the successor to a number of older publications. In January 1891, the Eastern Utah Telegraph was established. [2] In February 1885, the Telegraph was sold to S.H. Brownlee and renamed to the Eastern Utah Advocate. [3] In 1889, Robert W. Crockett, who previously worked at the Salt Lake Herald and Aspen Times , bought the Advocate. [4] In May 1907, the Carbon County News was founded in Price under the business management of J.H. Nelson. [5] The company was incorporated with Frank F. Fisk as president and B.R. McDonald as vice president. [6] That June, editor Carl L. Williams took charge of the News, [7] but he left later that year. [8]
In July 1913, Crockett sold the Advocate to Fred L. Watrous, [9] but foreclosed on the mortgage in May 1915. A few weeks prior, Watrous had sold the business to B.R. McDonald. A judge ruled the mortgage only included the printing plant, which went into the receivership of Carl R. Marcusen. The name rights and subscriber list were transferred to McDonald. [10] That June, Crockett used the plant to start a new paper called the Price Sun. [11]
In July 1915, McDonald bought the Carbon County News from W.C. Benfer and merged it with the Advocate to form the News-Advocate. Benfer stayed on as manager. [12] Also in July, Crockett bought the defunct Advocate plant from the sheriff's auction. [13] Throughout this time, both rival papers were sent to the same subscribers, with each urging customers not to pay for the other. [14] [15] In December 1915, Harry Wilbert Cooper took charge of the News-Advocate and published it until his death in 1923. [16] His widow Mrs. Grace A. Cooper then published the paper. [17] In June 1929, she sold it to William T. Igleheart. [18] In January 1932, P.K. Nielson bought the News-Advocate at sheriff's auction. [19]
In December 1932, Joseph L. Asbury, owner of The Richfield Reaper , bought the Price Sun from Crockett and the News-Advocate from Nielson. He merged them to form the Sun Advocate. [20] In 1935, Asbury sold his Price paper to Hal G. MacKnight and Val H. Cowles. [21] In 1937, the two bought the Helper Journal and appointed Clifton N. Memmott as manager. [22] In 1938 Cowles, a World War I veteran, was elected to serve in the Utah State Senate and would continue to do so for 9 years. [23] In 1941, Cowles sold his interest in the Journal to Memmott. In 1942, MacKnight sold his Journal stake to Joe Tullius. [24]
In 1948, L. Earl Durrant became Sun Advocate co-owner with McKnight. [25] In 1950, Tullius bought out Memmott from the Journal. [24] In 1966, MacKnight sold the Sun Advocate to an ownership group lead by Robert L. Finney and included Robert Cribb, [26] who then in 1973 bought the Journal from Tullius. [24] In 1975, Finney acquired the Emery County Progress. [27] In 1976, the Journal was merged with the Saturday edition of the Sun Advocate and renamed to the Sun Journal. [28]
In 1981, Communications Investment Corp., acquired the Sun Advocate and Progress. The company was owned by George C. Hatch and Wilda Gene Hatch, owners of the Ogden Standard-Examiner . [29] In 1989, Hometown Communication acquired the Sun Advocate and the Progress. In 1996, Brehm Communications of San Diego purchased both papers. [30] In 2018, Emery Telcom bought the Advocate and Progress from Brehm. [31]