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OFFICIALS of the News-Texan, Inc. and A. H. Belo Corporation are shown at the suburban papers' new facilities in
Farmers Branch. Left to right are President Robert Johnson and director Staley McBrayer of the News-Texan; and
Joe A. Lubben, H. Ben Decherd and Joe M. Dealey of A. H. Belo Corporation. The News-Texan, which publishes
suburban newspapers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is a wholly owned subsidiary of A. H. Belo Corporation.
TEXAS' OLDEST BUSINESS INSTITUTIONOn April II, 1842, a Boston printer named Samuel
Bangs produced a 4 page newspaper, The Galveston
News. This was the beginning of what today is Texas'
oldest business institution. It has often been said that
the story of The News is the story of Texas."
Bangs soon sold his struggling newspaper to Wilbur
F. Cherry and Michael Cronican; the latter promptly
sold his interest to Cherry In March, 1843, less than a
year after the paper was started, the editorship passed
into the hands of Willard Richardson who built it into
the most influential newspaper in Texas.
A graduate of South Carolina College, Richardson
had been a schoolteacher and had briefly edited The
Telegraph at Houston before joining The News.
Richardson was the first of the series of able leaders
who developed the small publication into a
communications organization known throughout the
world.
That organization, the A. H. Belo Corporation, is the
owner of The Dallas Morning News, the Texas Almanac
and WFAA Radio and Television Stations, located in the
Communications Center in Dallas, the News Texan,
Inc., which publishes a number of suburban
newspapers; KFDM Television Station at Beaumont
and has controlling interest in Atlas Match Corporation
and its subsidiary, Optigraphics, in Arlington.
Richardson started a campaign for the annexation of
the Republic of Texas by the United States, which took
place in 1845. Seeking to encourage settlers to come to
Texas, he established the Texas Almanac in 1857, a
publication that was destined to become known as the
"Encyclopedia of Texas."After the Civil War, Richardson hired a bookkeeper
who had been a colonel in the Confederate Army, A. H.
Belo. Belo became a partner in three months and
aggressively developed circulation and news coverage
into the interior of Texas.
The News is credited with chartering the first
special train for daily circulation, with installing the
first telephones in Texas and with the first
web-perfecting press in the state.
Oct 12, 1874, marked the beginning of another career
which profoundly influenced the development of The
News and its associated enterprises On that date a
15 year-old office boy was employed at $3 per week. He
was George Bannerman Dealey.
After he had proved his ability, he was assigned to
study and recommend a site for an interior newspaper
to be published by The Galveston News. His report
favored Dallas and led to the first issue of The Dallas
Morning News on Oct 1, 1885, with a circulation of 5,000.
G. B. Dealey was business manager of the new
publication, moving to Dallas as did certain other
officials from Galveston
Within two months, The Dallas News purchased its
morning rival, The Dallas Herald, founded in 1849,
combining it with The News. Thus, while recognizing its
indebtedness to the parent Galveston News The Dallas
Morning News carries a volume number which dates
back to the first year of The Herald, 1849.
The establishment of The Dallas Morning News
significantly changed the history of the institution
founded at Galveston, without modifying basic
traditions. Those inheritances included faith in the
future of Texas; willingness to experiment with new
methods; active, personal management by the
ownership; and dedication to responsibility andI\k
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