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A Fayette County judge will review briefs before deciding if there is enough evidence for a Brownsville man to stand trial on a criminal homicide charge.

Johnathan Godines, 36, is charged with beating John Eicholtz, 75, of Brownsville on Nov. 15, 2011, in Brownsville. Eicholtz died on Dec. 1, 2011.

President Judge Gerald R. Sol-omon ordered Assistant District Attorneys J.W. Eddy and Antho-ny Iannamorelli and Assistant Public Defender Benjamin Good-win to submit arguments about the charge and about whether statements Godines made to police and during prison phone calls should be suppressed.

During a portion of one phone call between Godines and his girlfriend, he tells her he was in a “jealous (expletive) rage” when he attacked Eicholtz. In another call, played during Tuesday’s hearing, he tells the same woman that he doesn’t want to incrimi-nate himself because he knows prison officials are listening to the calls.

Megan Boger, who testified she saw Godines go to Eicholtz’s car and pull him out of it and kick him, testified that after that occurred, Eicholtz got up and followed Godines around a building on High Street. Two

Judge to decide on homicide charge

Bob Brown sets out pumpkinsat Burkee’s Garden Center in North Union Township Tuesday afternoon, a sure sign that fall is here.

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BY NATALIE BRUZDA

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HeraldStandard.com will publish a special edi-tion Thursday marking the 75th anniversary of S.W. Calkin’s purchase of the Daily Standard News in 1937.

And to celebrate the milestone, the paper is recapturing the days of newspaper hawkers.

“We’ll have (newspa-per hawkers) walk up and down the streets of Uniontown dressed in period pieces,” said Clint Rhodes, circulation/mar-keting manager for Her-aldStandard.com. “They’ll be shouting out, ‘Pick up today’s Herald-Standard!’

It’s a show — a throwback to remind people where we’ve come from, and how far we’ve progressed.”

Unlike newspaper car-riers, newspaper hawkers did not provide home de-livery to specific custom-ers. Instead, they stood on street corners, shouting out the day’s top headlines to passersby.

“Everybody is his cus-tomer,” Rhodes said of a

hawker. “This is a mobile sales force that is deliver-ing your product. It would be equivalent to news-stands in New York City — you have a newsstand on every corner.”

Actors from the Geyer Performing Arts Center in Scottdale will be posted throughout the city from 10 a.m .to 1 p.m., bringing

BY JENNIFER HARR

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The attorney for a Mill Run man sentenced to life in prison following an indecent assault convic-tion has filed court papers asking a judge to grant a new trial and reconsider the sentence.

Fayette County Judge Gerald R. Solomon sen-tenced Richard Bowers, 71, to life in prison in August under a statute that allows for that penalty because he has prior rape convictions. However, Bowers’ attorney, John M. Zeglen, contended in court papers that prosecutors should have given notice they were seeking that sentence and that Bowers’ prior crimes were not sufficient to fit under that statute.

Bowers was convicted earlier this year of inap-propriately touching a girl while she was between the ages of 4 and 6. A jury acquitted him of rape in the case.

Zeglen argued that the verdict was contrary to the evidence and the law.

He also argued that a judge should have thrown the case out before it came to trial. Zeglen filed

HeraldStandard.com enlisting hawkers for milestone celebration

We’ll have (newspaper hawkers) walk up and down the streets of Uniontown dressed in period pieces.

Clint Rhodescirculation/marketing manager

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EXTRA! EXTRA! New trial sought for man sentenced to life for assault

Please see Godines, Page A2

Please see Bowers, Page A2Please see Extra, Page A2

BY FRANCES BORSODI ZAJAC

A self-made man who founded a communications company that now includes newspapers, television stations and digital me-dia, Stanley Willis (S.W.) Calkins Sr. started it all in Uniontown in 1937.

That’s when the Pennsyl-vania native purchased con-trolling interest in the Daily New Standard newspaper, which merged with the Morning Herald in 1941 to create the Herald-Standard. It is still part of what is now known as Calkins Media, a family business based in Levittown, Pa., near Phila-delphia, that includes opera-tions in several states.

“I think he really had an entrepreneurial spirit, and courage and determina-tion,’’ said Calkins’ grand-son Stan Ellis. “He had the confidence and determina-tion to be his own boss. I don’t know how many peo-ple could have done that. There were no guarantees. For him to take that leap of faith with what turned into Calkins Media. I always ad-mired that.’’

“I think my grandfather had great confidence in his ability,’’ said grandson Charles Smith. “He had a great ability to pick mar-kets. Based on his news-papers’ histories, he knew what markets would be suc-cessful and that was born out over time.’’

What began in Uniontown would spread to other cities as the company grew into what would become Calkins Media. Calkins purchased a newspaper in Beaver County, Pa., in 1943 that became the Beaver County Times. He expanded into the Greater Philadelphia market in 1954, acquiring newspapers that are known today as the Doylestown In-telligencer and the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown. In 1958, Calkins founded what is now known as the Burlington County Times in Willingboro, N.J. In 1961, he purchased week-ly newspapers in Florida that became the Homestead News-Leader.

Calkins was publisher of

all his newspapers but con-tinued to make his home in Uniontown with his wife, Helen, and their four chil-dren: Shirley, Carolyn, San-dra and Stanley W. Calkins Jr., known as Bill.

After Calkins’ death at age 75 in 1973, the company continued to grow, adding more newspapers and tele-vision stations. That includ-ed obtaining full ownership of the Herald-Standard in 1980 after the Calkins fami-ly purchased the newspaper holdings of the Harader and Spurgeon families.

And Calkins Media has remained a family business with Calkins’ three daugh-ters: Shirley Ellis, Carolyn Smith and Sandra Hardy serving today as owners. Grandsons Stan Ellis and Charles Smith join Hardy on the board of directors. Other family members spanning four generations have also been involved with the busi-ness in different capacities through the years.

As the company observes its 75th anniversary, Shir-ley Ellis said of her father, “I think he would be proud of our spreading the media and working on digital. His legacy was to keep going.’’

Born in Shavertown, Pa., near Wilkes-Barre, Calkins was educated in Pennsyl-vania and New York pub-lic schools. He left home as a teenager and worked his way through college at Carnegie Institute of Tech-nology in Pittsburgh and then Northwestern Univer-sity in Chicago.

A lifelong baseball fan, Calkins moved to Florida where Shirley Ellis said her father played semi-professional baseball before

becoming involved in other work. Calkins entered the newspaper business at the Morning Sentinel in Orlan-do, Fla., in 1924 as business manager, becoming general manager in 1930.

In Orlando, Calkins also met his future wife, Helen Bargeron Calkins, a native of Springfield, Ga., near Savannah, who was work-ing as a teacher. The couple roomed at the same board-ing house. They married on April 8, 1933, after Calkins had moved to Texas when he began working for Gen-eral Newspapers Inc.

Shirley Ellis said her father, who had devised a bookkeeping system for newspapers, had started working for Charles Marsh, a newspaper publisher and activist in the Democratic Party who later became a promoter of Lyndon John-son, future president of the United States.

The couple moved into a home in Austin but didn’t live there long before Calkins received a new assignment: a transfer to Uniontown.

“Charles Marsh asked my father to troubleshoot a newspaper in southwestern Pennsylvania that was not up to his standards,’’ Shirley Ellis explained.

As General Newspapers’ financial adviser and news-paper accountant, Calkins came to Uniontown as the chain’s representative for The Daily News Standard. It was in Uniontown that Calkins decided to become his own boss and, in 1937, he purchased the outstanding stock and controlling inter-est in the Standard.

In 1941, the paper re-verted back to its original name of The Evening Stan-dard when it merged with The Morning Herald. The Evening Standard was the first daily newspaper in Uniontown, starting publi-cation on Dec. 17, 1888, and later merging with the News to become the Daily News Standard.

The Morning Herald be-gan publication on Jan. 8, 1907, as a sister paper to The Evening Genius, which was founded in 1900 by Fay-ette Publishing Co. Both papers traced their lineage back to weekly publications: the Herald to 1798 and the Standard to 1827.

Under the 1941 merger, The Morning Herald and The Evening Standard op-erated as separate newspa-pers at first but were even-tually combined into the Herald-Standard.

When Calkins began ex-panding his business, he divided his time between Beaver and Uniontown , spending part of the week in each city. But the family home remained in Fayette County.

“As I look back, growing up in Uniontown was won-derful. It was a great place to grow up,’’ Shirley Ellis said.

Family life included the newspaper but there was also time for relax-ing and involvement in the community.

“My father cared about people and politics. He en-joyed a good sense of hu-mor and playing practical jokes. He loved the Pirates and horse racing,’’ said San-dra Hardy. “He was a hard worker, with the solid val-ues of caring for others and

providing for his children.’’Calkins shared his love of

baseball with his children and later his grandchildren. He was an avid golfer and the family belonged to the country club. He was also a fan of horse racing, visiting tracks when he could over the years.

Calkins learned to fly an airplane and Shirley Ellis remembered her father flying her on Sunday after-noons from the Connells-ville airport to Morgantown and back. She said when her father became president of the Pennsylvania Newspa-per Publishers Association that he visited all of the pa-pers in the state, often flying himself if possible.

S.W. and Helen Calkins were both active in the community.

“My mother was involved with the Uniontown College Club and the Uniontown Progress Club. I think she did everything that came down the pike,’’ Shirley El-lis said. “My father was a Rotarian. He loved Rotary and wouldn’t miss it. He wouldn’t go to Beaver each week until after the Rotary meeting in Uniontown. He loved socializing with peo-ple and the ability to help people.’’

The Herald-Standard was a place that became familiar to all of the family. Shirley Ellis remembers evening visits to the paper with her father to check on opera-tions and then he would take her to a local store to buy paper dolls.

As teenagers, the Calkins youths had jobs at the news-paper, working in different departments such as the newsroom and advertising. Sandra Hardy explained they started working at age 16 at their mother’s insistence.

As adults, the second gen-eration of Calkins eventu-ally began working at the different papers their fa-ther acquired. Shirley Ellis and her husband, Marvin, who is now deceased, went to work at the News-Leader in Florida before moving to the Burlington Times in New Jersey. The couple had three sons: Stanley, Bradley and Wesley.

Carolyn Smith worked at the Bucks County Cou-rier Times as a reporter and lived in Philadelphia where she met her hus-band, Charles, who is now deceased. They eventu-ally went to work at the Doylestown Intelligencer and then the Bucks County Courier Times. The couple had two sons: Charles and Timothy.

Sandra Hardy and Bill Calkins worked at the Bucks County Courier Times. Bill Calkins later left Calkins Media. Helen Calkins, who remained in Uniontown, died in 2002 at age 92. The Calkins sisters today remain owners of Calkins Media with other family members also involved in the company.

Meanwhile, as his chil-dren began assuming leadership positions in the company, S.W. Calkins kept watch over his newspapers and enjoyed visiting with his family.

Stan Ellis remembered strawberry-eating contests with his grandfather at the family dining table in Flor-ida and his grandfather tak-ing him to a ballgame dur-ing spring training where he met Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell and other stars of the era.

He also remembered vis-its to Uniontown: “I thought it was the coolest place. Where my grandparents lived, there was a whole neighborhood of kids. My grandmother was a charm-ing Southern lady and her lawn was pristine. Yet, ev-ery summer, she let us turn it into a baseball field. By the end, there would be patches of dirt in the lawn. I remember those neighbor-hood baseball games. There was also a dime store at the top of the hill and that’s where I bought baseball cards.’’

Charles Smith remem-bered that he didn’t like sweets as a baby and his grandfather was adamant that “no grandchild of mine will not like chocolate.’’

He said, “I was nine months old when my grand-father fed me chocolate. To this day, I have chocolate every day.’’

Charles Smith also shares baseball memories of his grandfather, noting that Calkins would leave games early to beat the crowd but remembers the one game Calkins didn’t: the legend-ary game seven of the 1960 World Series that became famous when Bill Mazeroski hit a ninth-inning home run to win the world champion-ship for the Pirates.

Today, the family remains proud of the achievements of Calkins.

Looking back, Shirley El-lis said, “We never under-stood it until we were adults with our own kids – all that he had accomplished.’’

And they remember the lessons their parents taught them about life.

Shirley Ellis noted, “I tried to teach my kids the principles my dad believed in.’’

Those beliefs include the role that newspapers play in a community.

“We try to run our papers for the betterment of the community,’’ Shirley Ellis said.

“My biggest hope is that we don’t lose sight of work-ing to be a partner with the community and part of the community and helping the community.’’

Sandra Hardy said, “I was always taught that the papers belonged to the com-munity and the employees and that we were to provide information and run the business to support each of them.’’

Stan Ellis said his grand-father felt that newspapers have a unique role in their communities.

He remarked, “Part of the role is to give back. The newspapers are only as strong as the communi-ties we serve. Part of the newspaper’s mission is to move forward and prosper, but (my grandfather) also felt that it’s important for newspapers to give back to the communities.’’

Speaking of the 75th anni-versary, Stan Ellis said, “It’s something to be proud of. When you’re in the middle of it and dealing with the day-to-day stuff, you lose sight – you’re stuck in the trees and can’t see the forest. But I’m proud of the fact that we’ve been in these communities and like to think that we’ve helped the communities, that we’ve made life better by everything from expos-ing corrupt politicians to giving information on where to purchase a car.’’

He continued, “My grandfather had the de-termination and courage to build this company and I see it in my mother and her siblings. To them, they are stewards of their fa-ther’s legacy but they’ve made tough decisions over the years, branching out to television. That took cour-age and the decisions they made helped to propel the company forward. And you can attribute that courage, dedication and work ethic to the thousands of employ-ees who have worked for us. People have had to do their jobs well for us to be stand-ing here today.’’

Charles Smith said, “My grandfather instilled in his children, and they in their children, a respect for the properties and the work put into them by the hands of other people.

“They were raised to know what it means to be a community newspaper. We want to make sure the ownership structure is com-mitted to that.’’

“We want to stay in these communities,’’ Stan Ellis said.

“They have been very good for us. We feel it’s im-portant for us to continue to serve them.’’

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CALKINS NEWSPAPERS CELEBRATES 75TH ANNIVERSARY

S T A N L E Y C A L K I N S PURCHASES DAILY NEWS STANDARD

Standard Merged With Morning Herald

In 1941

S.W. Calkins is shown with his five grandsons at his house on Princeton Avenue in Uniontown in the 1960s. Clockwise from the top is Bradley Ellis (standing behind S.W.), Wesley Ellis (in his lap on right side of photo), Charles Smith (kneeling at his feet), Timothy Smith (in his lap on right side of photo) and Stanley Ellis (kneeling on left side of photo).

He Then Expanded To Jersey and Florida

CALKINS BUYS BEAVER, PHILLY N E W S PA P E R S

Company Continues To Grow, Adding TV Stations

S T A N L E Y CALKINS DIES AT AGE OF 75

Family Continues With Calkins’ Vision

C A L K I N S ’ WIFE, HELEN, DIES AT AGE 92

Try To Run Newspapers For “Betterment of Community”

C A L K I N S F A M I L Y PROUD OF C O M PA N Y

S.W. Calkins is shown in his Daily News Standard office shortly after buying the paper in 1937. The Daily News Standard was a predecessor of the Herald-Standard.

Calkins Balances Newspaper and

Family Life

Calkins Marries Helen Bargeron

S.W. Calkins is show working in his office at the Herald-Standard. The photo was taken in the early 1960s.

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By Patty yauger

In 1937, when Stanley W. Calkins purchased the Uniontown Daily News Standard, there was no shortage of news.

In Europe, a second world war was brewing. The readers of Calkins’ News Standard were kept informed of the ongoing construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fran-cisco that would eventually open in May.

In June, pilot Amelia Earhart, along with her flight navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Mi-ami in the first leg of their around-the-world flight.

Perhaps the biggest news story of that year was the trial of seven prominent Fayette Countians who were charged in the kill-ing of Frank C. Monaghan, a 64-year-old businessman.

Before his demise, Monaghan, according to the Daily News Standard, was a prisoner in a hold-ing cell in the basement of the Fayette County

Courthouse. Earlier, he had been picked up for drunken driving, but while being transported to the courthouse had allegedly sliced the throat of county detective John C. Wall.

During the early morn-ing of Sept. 11, 1936, Monaghan was killed.

The next day, charged in Monaghan’s death were district attorney James Reilly, assistant police Chief Charles Malik, As-sistant District Attorney Harry Burne, sheriff’s Deputy J.A. Hann, assis-tant county detective Wil-bert Regis “Patsy” Minerd and state police troopers Stacey Gunderman and Anthony Sanute.

Bold headline banners detailed the arrests of the public officials.

The sensational case was moved to Somerset, but multiple stories of ev-ery aspect of the trial filled the pages of the Uniontown Daily News Standard.

On Feb. 6, 1937, two days before the trial was to be-gin, George Gray, a News Standard staff correspon-dent, wrote “the curtain on Pennsylvania’s most cel-ebrated murder case will be drawn aside for what is

expected to be one of the greatest battles of men, minds, personalities and law the country has seen in many years.”

Each of those charged received a separate trial, keeping the readers eager to learn of the unfolding story for months.

Six of the seven charged were exonerated, with Gunderman found to have inflicted the fatal injuries, but only while defending himself when attacked by Monaghan.

In July 1937, the coun-ty’s first radio station, WMBS, went live over the airwaves.

The first broadcast was from the ballroom of the former White Swan Hotel on West Main Street. The studios were formerly lo-cated in the Fayette Bank Building, but since 2000 have been located at the in-tersection of South Mount Vernon Avenue and Ever-green Terrace.

The Edgar Kauffman family moved into their stately new home de-signed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Octo-ber 1937. Fallingwater was the summer home to the family through 1963 when it was donated to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

First lady Eleanor Roo-sevelt and her friend, to-bacco heiress Doris Duke, visited Fayette County on

Nov. 29, 1937, according to the Uniontown Daily News Standard.

The pair visited Penn Craft, the state’s second subsistence homestead, located in Luzerne Town-ship. Much like Norvelt in Westmoreland County, the government program was instituted to address the needs of unemployed coal workers and their families.

While the Daily News Standard highlighted many major stories that year, it also reported on other stories of interest to its readers.

In January, the Union-town YMCA celebrated its 50th anniversary, with its president, Harry Whyel, telling the Daily News Standard it was his goal to “show a record of progress for the 50-year period.

Later that month, Con-nellsville firefighters battled a blaze at the First National Bank on Crawford Avenue. According to the newspaper, the fire broke out in the elevator shaft about 9:50 p.m.

“The night porter, Ar-thur Alsop, 50, discov-ered the fire while riding down the elevator in the building,” according the story. “The elevator sud-denly stopped between the fourth and fifth floors and the occupant was obliged to squeeze himself out of the shaft.

“The elevator crashed to

the bottom of the shaft a few minutes after the man made his exit when flames burned the cable.”

Damage to the six-story building totaled $125,000 and was attributed mostly to water damage and fall-ing plaster. Occupants of the building included the Troutman department store, the American store and about a dozen doctors and dentists.

In April, Fayette Coun-tians were asked to weigh in on whether daylight sav-ing time should be imple-mented, as Uniontown City Council was pondering the initiative.

According to poll results, about 2,200 respondents were supportive, while only 83 indicated that they wanted to maintain the tra-ditional standard time.

Some other interesting 1937 stories in the Daily News Standard includ-ed millionaire Howard Hughes setting a transcon-tinental air record of seven hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds; the soap opera, “Guiding Light,” made its debut on NBC radio; and the first permanent auto-mobile license plate was issued in Connecticut.

Also, cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Petunia Pig made their debut and Adolph Hitler informed his German mili-tary leaders of his inten-tions of going to war.

By Carla DeStefano

In 1937, the average an-nual cost to transport a stu-dent to school was $1.95.

That wasn’t the price of gas per gallon, nor did it have anything to do with a school district’s contract with a bus company.

According to a November advertisement in the Daily News Standard newspaper, that was the cost of chil-dren’s school shoes on sale at Kaufman’s in Uniontown.

While buses were in the early stages of existence at that time, most area stu-dents walked to school and they needed good shoes, well, because it was three miles to and three miles home — uphill both ways — and snow up to here. Who hasn’t heard that story a

time or two?Life was certainly differ-

ent in 1937, as chronicled in the Daily News Stan-dard, purchased that year by Stanley Willis (S.W.) Calkins Sr.

The News Standard merged with the Morning Herald newspaper in 1941 to create the Herald-Stan-dard, which continues to op-erate from the Uniontown location today.

A look through the 1937 issues of the Daily News reveals much has changed in 75 years.

Prices for anything seemed like mere pennies. It’s wise to keep in mind, however, that according to historical statistics, the av-erage annual income in the late 1930s was only $1,368.

That year, Bryson Motors in Uniontown offered a used 1936 two-door Plymouth sedan for $525 as shown in an October ad. The ad-vertiser played up the car’s biggest features — a heat-er and a radio. With those as standard equipment in

today’s automobiles, the car shoppers of late are look-ing for other features, like heated seats, built-in navi-gation systems and televi-sion screens, and they are willing to pay upwards of $30,000 for it.

Those looking for a new farm had the opportunity in a January 1937 classi-fied ad to buy 92 acres in Grindstone with a frame house that included seven rooms for a staggering $5,000. These days, $5,000 on a farm purchase may cover the closing costs.

Food 75 years ago also was inexpensive by today’s standards. Shopping the sale in the October ad at the local Kaufman’s gro-cery store, a family of four could enjoy a complete din-ner of chicken, egg noodles, canned peas and peaches for a bargain price of about $1.67 for the entire meal. Aside from a single selec-tion from the Dollar Menu, that total is less than any one meal at any local fast-food restaurant — and a whole lot healthier.

According to the ads in the Daily News, merchants were rather savvy when it came to pricing. One ad features a 28-ounce jar of

apple butter selling for 12 1/2 cents. At that cost, a cus-tomer’s choice was to buy two jars or lose a penny on the purchase. There would be no half-cent change to give.

And if too much apple butter caused a toothache, Uniontown dentists Dr. Fox and Dr. Shaffer could pull a tooth for 50 cents each, ac-cording to their January ad.

There also were major differences in how the news was reported back then.

In 1937, there was no Health Insurance Porta-bility and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect a patient’s privacy, so it was no big deal to publish under the “Hospital News” section the name and health status of every patient admitted.

The section was filled with information regard-ing who had a tonsillecto-my, who had a mishap with a wringer washer and who was recovering well from an operation and when that person was expected to return home. These days, with HIPAA laws, in-quisitive minds must rely on the grapevine for that information.

Baseball games were at the height of family

entertainment in the 1930s and, in 1937, the New York Yankees clinched their sixth World Series win of what would eventually be-come 27 championship wins to date.

It would be another 23 years before the Pittsburgh Pirates claimed victory again in the World Series, ironically taking the cham-pionship from the Yankees.

In the off season, families could flock to the theater for a show. In late 1937, “Heidi,” starring Shirley Temple, made its debut on the big screen at the State Theater in Uniontown.

Clothing companies jumped at the chance to profit from Temple’s look in the movie, and dresses with the Heidi look were be-ing sold at Wright-Metzler Co. for $1.95.

Temple is a far cry from today’s latest child headline maker, Honey Boo Boo, a 6-year-old pageant star who, along with her proud-to-be-redneck family, stars in a television reality show on The Learning Channel. To get Honey Boo Boo’s look?

About $3,000 for a glitzy pageant dress and 75 years worth of attitude.

NEWSPAPER PRODUCTION DIRECTOR TELLS STORY OF 74-YEAR-OLD PHOTOGRAPH

By natalie BruzDa

In 1938, it was a big deal to be pictured in the newspaper.

HeraldStandard.com’s Production Director Al Sloan knows that because of the story his uncle, Bob Rush, told him about a photograph from that year.

The Daily News Stan-dard produced a special Golden Jubilee Edition on Friday, Dec. 30, 1938, to celebrate its 50-year an-niversary as a newspaper.

At the time, Rush was a newspaper carrier for District No. 1, and he and his fellow carriers were featured in a photo for the special edition.

“I had a copy of the pic-ture made and I sent it to him (Rush),” Sloan said. “So he’s told me the story of this picture.”

Sloan, who has worked at HeraldStandard.com for more than 30 years, immediately recognized his uncle when he saw the picture.

“As soon as I saw that, I recognized Bob Rush as Uncle Bob,” Sloan said.

Today’s special edition marks the 75th anniver-sary of S.W. Calkin’s pur-chase of the Daily Stan-dard News in 1937.

The photo now hangs on a wall in the advertising department, but the pic-ture in the frame is not the same as the one that ap-peared in the paper.

“He (Rush) said, ‘You notice that I’m looking over to my right? And this kid’s looking over to his right? Their buddies were

across the street, and they were going to pelt them with snowballs as they took the picture,” Sloan said.

Therefore, another pho-tograph had to be taken, with everyone looking straight at the camera.

Joining Rush in the pho-tograph were numerous other carriers, including Herb Matthews and Wal-ter “Buzz” Storey.

Matthews later served as a district sales manager for the newspaper, while Storey served in a number

of roles in the newspaper’s newsroom, including a stint as executive editor.

And all the carriers were wearing their Sun-day best.

“It was a big deal to get into the paper, because this fella is wearing a tie … and this guy’s wearing his fancy hat,” Sloan said.

However, one newspa-per carrier almost missed out on the opportunity to have his photo in the paper.

According to Sloan, the young man did something

he was not supposed to do.

“Bob never told me what he did, but his punishment was he wasn’t allowed to be in the picture,” Sloan said. “That would be like them saying that we’re all going to go the (Pitts-burgh) Steelers game, but you can’t go because you didn’t show up for work yesterday. It was a big letdown.”

To avoid the letdown, the punished newspaper carrier asked his friends for help.

“His buddies said to him, ‘We’re going to get you in the picture,’” Sloan said. “So what they said was, ‘When they go to take the picture, you stand be-hind the glass, and we’ll separate and we’ll get you in the picture.’”

So they did, Sloan said. And although the misbe-haved newspaper carrier’s name is not in the photo caption, his face can still be identified behind the glass wall.

“So that’s the story of that picture,” Sloan said.

A 1938 photograph shows District No. 1 Daily News Standard newspaper carriers. The image now hangs on a wall at HeraldStandard.com, but a similar photograph appeared in a 50-year anniversary edition of the Daily News Standard, which was published on Friday, Dec. 30, 1938. The Daily News Standard was purchased by S.W. Calkins in 1937 and eventually became the Herald-Standard.

One of the great signs of growth and stability in a town and surrounding area is the establishment of a newspaper.

For the new Uniontown, it came in 1798, just two years after incorporation as a borough.

The story of HeraldStan-dard.com extends in two unbroken lines for almost two centuries, through a be-wildering number of weekly newspapers which preceded and gave birth to the dailies.

The Herald traces its an-cestry to the Fayette Gazette and Union Advertiser, which had its first issue on Jan. 12, 1798, published by Jacob Stewart and C. Mowry. This was just 12 years after the first newspaper in western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Gazette, was started.

In 1805, in a burst of pa-triotic zeal, it was renamed the Genius of Liberty, a name which would endure through-out the 19th century and into the first half of the 20th.

The Standard descends from the Pennsylvania Dem-ocrat and Literary Gazette, which first appeared on July 25, 1827.

The debut of The Eve-ning Standard on Dec. 17, 1888, mirrored the growth and new-found prosperity of a town enjoying the early years of the coal and coke boom. All over the country, in a time of newspaper expan-sion, weeklies were becom-ing dailies in the more sizable communities.

It was time for the Repub-lican Standard, as its weekly progenitor was then called, to “go daily.” The first press run was 900 copies.

The name “Standard” first appeared in local newspaper history with the American Standard at Brownsville in 1814. This paper merged a few years later with the Ge-nius of Liberty.

It was consolidated with the Fayette County Republi-can in 1879 under the banner of Republican Standard.

After The Evening Stan-dard started as a daily, the Republican Standard also continued weekly for a time (combined weekly and daily operations were common at the time).

The Evening News was started as a daily in 1889, but the town proved not quite big enough at that time to sup-port two newspapers, and the News merged with the Stan-dard in 1893. That resulted in the name by which the news-paper was known for almost half of its first century — the Daily News Standard.

A new firm, the Fayette Publishing Co., bought the Genius of Liberty in 1900 and launched another daily newspaper, The Evening Ge-nius, on May 14 of that year — delivered by carrier for six cents a week.

On Jan. 8, 1907, it started a morning newspaper, The Morning Herald, published in tandem with the Genius.

In 1932, the Standard was sold to the Marsh & Pulliam newspaper chain, which was later divided between the two owners. Five years later, the newspaper was back in local ownership.

S.W. Calkins, who had come here as the man-ager, bought the firm, with a minority interest held by O’Neil Kennedy, then the editor, from Marsh and J.Y. Chidester, who had a mi-nority part of the previous ownership.

In 1941, the two firms merged, the Daily News Stan-dard reverted to its original name of The Evening Stan-dard, and The Evening Ge-nius was discontinued.

The Evening Standard and The Morning Herald were at first operated with completely separate news departments, but operations were gradually consolidated into the Herald-Standard.

The Sunday edition was started in October 1980 and the evening edition was dropped in 1982.

Calkins died in 1973, but the family newspaper tradition is carried on by his daughters and grandsons. In April 1980, the Calkins family acquired full ownership of Uniontown Newspapers, buying the half-interest held by the Spurgeon and Harader families.

NEWSPAPER TRACES ROOTS AS FAR BACK AS 1798

Only Two Years After Uniontown Was

Incorporated

Look Through 1937 Editions Reveals

Much Has Changed

In The Uniontown Daily News Standard

SEVEN AND A HALF DECADES OF CHANGE

MURDER TRIAL TOP 1937 HEADLINE

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With S.W. Calkins Purchase Of The

Daily News Standard

By Frances Borsodi Zajac

Once a month, Herald-Standard.com retirees get together, and the stories fly around the table.

“When we retired, we thought it would be nice to keep up with everybody,’’ explained Harry Mc-Clelland, of North Union Township.

The group includes veterans of nearly every department of the news-paper. With hundreds of years of service between them, the retirees have witnessed a number of changes in technology and amazing stories as they produced a product that covers the life and times of the residents of Fayette County and the surround-ing area.

“I loved working at the paper. It was different ev-ery day,’’ said McClelland, who retired in 1995 with 40 years service. “There were new challenges and the people were great to work for.’’

“The newspaper was my life,’’ said Cloyde Van Sickle, of South Union Township, who retired in 1998 after 46 years on the job. “It was wonderful. I raised my family because of the newspaper.’’

“It was always interest-ing,’’ said John Renne, of Uniontown, who retired about 20 years ago after 50 years service. “There was always something go-ing on. I went through a lot of changes. It was a great job.’’

H a r r y M c C l e l l a n d founded the retirees group in 1995 with his wife, Patty McClelland, who retired in 1997, and Howard Brounce, of Uniontown, who also retired in the mid-1990s. Van Sickle joined the McClellands as coordinators of the group after Brounce moved to North Carolina.

During the September meeting, the retirees re-called stories of the news-paper, where they enjoyed coming to work and pro-viding an important role in the community.

“Absolutely, it’s impor-tant,’’ said Harry McClel-land. “How are people go-ing to get information?’’

The retirees reflected on all the changes they saw over the years.

“I remember the old let-ter press. I was there when the complete change hap-pened from hot metal to cold type,’’ said Harry Mc-Clelland. “In production, we used to have to paste all the columns and build all the pages. Now it’s nothing like that.’’

“Going to color was a big thing. For a press that wasn’t built to run color, they do a fantastic job,’’ he added.

“When we first did it, it took seven and a half hours to make a color picture,’’ said Van Sickle. “Now the computers make pictures in minutes.’’

“When I started, in the summer, it was hot in the building, You sweated until you left, ‘’ said Tadd Kezmarsky, of Uniontown, who worked at the news-paper for 34 years before retiring in 2006.

“And we loved it,’’ said Jack Miller, who retired after 47 years and then worked part time until retiring again this month. Miller noted his father and two brothers also worked at the paper.

“You see on the movies that someone yells ‘Stop the presses!’ That hap-pened only once in my time there when Big Lots at the Uniontown Shop-ping Center was on fire,’’ said Kezmarsky.

Besides this 1992 fire,

the ret irees recal led tragic national news that also made the paper take action.

Miller remembered, “When Mr. Kennedy was shot, we made a special edition.’’

“It came right after the final,’’ said Van Sickle. “I can remember Buzz (the late Walter J. “Buzz’’ Sto-rey, who was an editor at the newspaper) coming out. A lady had called and told him (the president died). In a matter of min-utes, it was over the (As-sociated Press) teletype.’’

“ E v e r y b o d y w a s stunned,’’ Miller said of the assassination of Pres-ident John F. Kennedy. “We couldn’t believe it.’’

N a t u r a l d i s a s t e r s also caused havoc for all departments of the newspaper.

The newspaper never missed publication during the blizzard of March 1993 but they had to deal with the challenges.

Sue Cope, who retired in 2009 after 30 years at the paper, said, “It was so bad, I walked to work one day. And then Ken Long (who was controller) sent a truck for me to get to work so they could get people in the office.’’

Leah Salutric, of Union-town, who retired in 2003 after 25 years, also said, “They came with a truck from the newspaper office to pick me up and take me in.’’

Salutric noted the news-paper received lots of calls from people asking about their paper when carri-ers had trouble getting through the snow. But there were many carri-ers who did make their deliveries.

Miller said, “I was de-livering papers. I took my daughter and son. They

had a paper route and I had to take them around.’’

Steve Seman, of Fair-chance, who retired in 2000 after 29 years, said, “It held up our progress edition (a special annual edition that highlights businesses, government, schools and community or-ganizations) because we couldn’t get out and our advertisers couldn’t open their doors. We pushed it back a week so we could catch up.’’

Seman said he had sev-eral successes in his ca-reer but noted his best job was working with C. Harper Chevrolet. He also mentioned successful ad-vertising ventures in Con-nellsville where he worked in the branch office, which the newspaper opened in the 1980s as well as a branch office in Browns-ville. The two offices op-erated for nearly two de-cades before closing.

Seman traveled in his job and if he saw news when he was out, he would phone in reports for the newsroom to investigate.

“I was working with the greatest people in Fayette County,’’ said Se-man. “They were the most talented individuals, the most humble and they loved their work.’’

Freeda Walls, of Union-town, retired in 2004 af-ter 37 years. She started working the telephone switchboard with Patty McClelland.

“We were open until 10 o’clock. People came in all night to pay their bills and place ads. It was a hubbub of activity,’’ said Walls.

“We had a nice rela-tionship with our custom-ers,’’ Patty McClelland remembered.

Karen Randolph worked 13 years before leaving the newspaper in 2001 for

other work but was happy to be welcomed at the re-tirees club.

“I loved it. Freeda was an excellent boss and ev-erybody was amazing,’’ she said.

Randolph also believes the newspaper serves an important function, say-ing, “I think it’s impor-tant for people to read the news that’s happening in their community. The ads are important to do your shopping. And everybody wants the local news be-cause it’s about people they know.’’

Dave Rafferty, of Brier Hill, who retired in 2008 after 17 years as a Herald-Standard photographer, said he enjoyed his work.

“I liked the variety of the job,’’ said Rafferty. “You’re not sitting inside an office all day. I liked the people and getting around.”

Ed Cope, of Uniontown, spent 43 years as a photog-rapher, working at several local papers. He retired from the Herald-Standard in 2010 as chief photogra-pher after coming to the paper eight years earlier.

“I enjoyed working in Uniontown because it was a smaller paper and working in the community you’re familiar with,’’ said Ed Cope. “The Herald-Standard had a tradition of good people working together to get the job done.’’

Both men photographed quiet moments of life as well as exciting sports events and the big sto-ries of the day. Rafferty was one of a handful of photographers selected to go to the crash scene of United Flight 93 in nearby Shanksville on Sept. 11.

T h e y t a l k e d a b o u t the changes in technol-ogy over the years, going

from film to digital. They credited the late Charlie Rosendale, who served as chief photographer before Cope, for his leadership and noted that people from other newspapers used to come to Uniontown for seminars.

Tod Trent, of Union-town, retired in 1991 as sports editor after 40 years with the newspaper. He started in news but soon switched to sports and be-came sports editor for The Evening Standard in 1954 and in a few years, sports editor of both staffs.

Trent’s biggest nation-al story was covering all four home games of the 1960 World Series when the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Yan-kees with Bill Mazeroski’s game seven, ninth-inning home run.

But there was plenty in local sports with Trent noting, “Fayette County and western Pennsylva-nia was a hot bed in sports. The high school sports programs were fantastic. There were top division athletes.’’

He reeled off a list of athletes who made it to top college and professional sports, saying, “I never felt I had a job. I loved what I did and I worked with a lot of good people.’’

Sue Cope said employ-ees were always treated fairly.

“I think the company has always been fair with the employees as far as ben-efits. I never had to worry about my paycheck. I put my kids through college and paid for my house. It was a good pay for Union-town and Fayette County.’’

Edie Hoover, of Union-town, retired in August as credit collection coordina-tor after nearly 33 years with the paper.

“I liked all the excite-ment of the paper. I got to see the press run,’’ said Hoover. “ I liked the chal-lenge of the work.’’

The newspaper included several employees who went on to make names for themselves in the indus-try. Tom Wilson, who died last year, worked in adver-tising and later created the Ziggy comic. Barbara Cloud, who died recently, worked in the society sec-tion, and became a fashion editor and columnist for the Pittsburgh Press and Post-Gazette.

Bob Dvorchak, who served as a reporter, worked at the Associat-ed Press and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and recent-ly wrote a book about the Sandusky scandal at Penn State University.

George Esper, who died earlier this year, worked in sports and later worked at the Associated Press where he covered the Viet-nam War as bureau chief and served as a national correspondent before teaching journalism at West Virginia University.

The retirees remember them and other employees they worked with over the years. They talk about the camaraderie they shared with each other.

Hoover said, “I loved that we were a family.’’

Sue Cope said, “The people – that’s what I probably missed the most when I left.’’

Ed Cope said, “Every-body there were good, hard-working people and everybody worked to put out a good local product.’’

Van Sickle commented, “We were family. These people are good people — all of them. And we enjoyed working there. It was a wonderful place to work.’’

RETIREES RECALL LIFE AT THE NEWSPAPER

Steve Seman

Patty McClelland

Ed Cope Edie Hoover

Karen Randolph

Tod Trent

Tadd Kezmarsky

John Renne

Cloyde Van Sickle

Harry McClelland

Leah Salutric

Freeda Walls

Calkins Media had its start in Uniontown as Calkins Newspapers, Inc.

In February 1937, Stan-ley W. Calkins purchased the controlling interest in his first newspaper, the Uniontown Daily News

Standard. The Daily News Standard was merged in 1941 with Uniontown’s other daily newspaper, The Morning Herald, to form the current newspaper, the Herald-Standard.

In 1943, Calkins ven-tured north to Beaver County, buying the assets of the Aliquippa Gazette — the first of several newspa-pers purchased in Beaver County.

The purchases led to the publication of the current

Beaver County Times.The Calkins organization

expanded into the greater Philadelphia market in 1954 with the acquisition of the Bristol Courier in Bristol and the Doylestown Intelligencer.

The Bristol Courier was later merged with the Lev-ittown Times to form the present Bucks County Cou-rier Times in Levittown.

At the urging of build-er William Levitt and to strengthen the Calkins

Newspapers position in the Philadelphia market, S.W. Calkins founded the Levit-town Times in New Jersey in 1958.

The paper was printed at the Courier Times plant and had offices on Route 130 in Burlington City, N.J. The New Jersey operation was relocated to Willing-boro and renamed the Bur-lington County Times. It is the only Calkins newspaper started from scratch and it still exists as a separate entity.

In 1961, S.W. Calkins purchased the weekly Homestead, Fla., South Dade News and the Home-stead Leader/Perrine Post, another weekly. Today it

is the South Dade News Leader.

S.W. Calkins died in 1973. He was succeeded by three daughters Shirley C. Ellis, Carolyn C. Smith and Sandra C. Hardy, who ran the business for many years.

Today the directors of Calkins Media are Hardy and two of his grandsons, Stanley Ellis and Charles Smith.

In 1986, WWSB-TV in Sarasota, Fla., was bought by the Southern Broad-cast Corporation for $40.5 million. The shareholders were Calkins, Southern Broadcast Group & Robert R. Nelson. In April 1999, Calkins acquired all the

remaining shares of South-ern Broadcast Corpora-tion, giving it 100 percent ownership.

In 2002, Calkins News-papers became Calkins Media, a name change de-signed to be more reflec-tive of its status as a multi-media company.

Also in 2002, Calkins bought the Greene County Messenger in Waynesburg, an independent weekly publication.

The Ellwood City Led-ger, Pa., was added in 2005 as was another Florida tele-vision station, WTXL-ABC 27 in Tallahassee, Fla. In 2007, Calkins Media pur-chased WAAY-TV in Hun-stville, Ala.

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UniontownGrants revealed

Seven local nonprofit or-ganizations received grants totaling $45,000 from the Chevron Community Fund on Thursday afternoon. The ceremony was held at the downtown Uniontown office of the Community Foundation of Fayette County. See details on B1.

Drilling

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Impact fee hearingA Fayette County commis-

sioner and the Office of Plan-ning, Zoning, and Community Development representatives took comments on Thursday as to how the county should earmark its portion of the Marcellus shale impact fee.About a dozen people attended the final meeting to offer their input about the designation of anticipated revenue stream. See details on B1.

Stocks move aheadStocks notched their first

gain of the week Thursday after Spain announced se-vere budget cuts intended to convince the world that it can meet deficit-reduction targets. It was the best day for the U.S. market since Sept. 13, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke an-nounced further steps by the central bank to speed the eco-nomic recovery. See details on A4.

Monument’s removal demandedBY JENNIFER HARR

HeraldStandard.com

A Wisconsin-based nonprofit that supports the separation of church and state and two Jane Does sued the Connellsville Area School District over a Ten Com-mandments monument outside the district’s junior high school.

The suit, filed Thursday on behalf of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a junior high school student and her mother, wants a federal judge to order the monument, which is now covered, removed from school grounds. Attorney

Marcus B. Schneider also wants a judge to block the district from having the monument moved to the Connellsville Church of God, which borders the district’s se-nior high school and one of its athletic fields.

The suit contends that the monument would be lighted and prominently displayed “for view-ing by district students should the district move it there.” Schneider noted that the district rents and uses an athletic field from the church.

“Upon information and belief, these proposed arrangements are intended by the district to

continue to bring district stu-dents in contact with the Ten Commandments monument,” Schneider wrote. “Doe 4 will at-tend Connellsville Area Senior High School upon completion of her studies at the junior high. If the monument is moved to the athletic fields, it is assured that she will continue to view the monument.”

The student plaintiff in the suit is identified as Doe 4, and her mother is identified as Doe 5.

Does 1-3 are named in suit filed earlier this month against the New Kensington-Arnold School District, also over a Ten

Commandments monument do-nated by the Fraternal Order of the Eagles, and displayed outside of a school in the district. Doe 5 is also identified as a resident and taxpayer in Connellsville, and a member of FFRF. Doe 5 is an atheist and her daughter is non-religious, according to the suit.

As in the New Kensington-Ar-nold filing, the suit stated that the individual plaintiffs were iden-tified as Does “to protect them-selves from injury.”

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Rich Davis, an actor with the Geyer Performing Arts Center in Scottdale, stands outside the Fayette County Courthouse on Thursday afternoon dressed as a newspaper hawker handing out special anniversary editions of the HeraldStandard.com newspaper. The special edition marked the 75th anniversary of S.W. Calkins’ purchase of the Daily Standard News in 1937.

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World powers open to more nuke talks WASHINGTON (AP) — World powers decided

Thursday to lay the groundwork for another round of negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said.

But they want a significantly improved offer from the Islamic republic.

Neither the U.S. nor any of its international partners was ready to abandon diplomacy in favor of military or other actions, as Israeli President Benjamin Ne-tanyahu has advocated.

The new hope for negotiated end to Iran’s decade-long nuclear standoff came after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the foreign minis-ters of Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia

— powers that have sought, over several rounds of talks, to persuade Iran to halt its production of mate-rial that could be used in nuclear weapons. All such efforts have failed so far.

The latest stab at a diplomatic compromise col-lapsed this summer after Iran proposed to stop pro-ducing higher-enriched uranium in exchange for a suspension in international sanctions, which Clinton has termed a “nonstarter.”

The U.S. official said Iran would have to bring a much better offer to the table this time, but stressed that nations were seeing some signs for optimism and that diplomacy remained “far and away the preferred way to deal with this issue.”

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BY CHRISTINE HAINES

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PERRYOPOLIS — The Frazier High School audito-rium was packed Thursday for an informational ses-sion about the Small Games of Chance Law known as Act 2 that goes into full ef-fect in February.

Outside were fire trucks, many with “For Sale” signs on them, indicating that volunteer firefighters fear they won’t be able to keep the trucks running under the regulations.

Sgt. James Jones of the Pennsylvania State Police Liquor Law Enforcement division said most of the regukations are not new.

“Most of the problems the organizations are hav-ing with Act 2 are with the provisions of the kaw that have been in place since 1988,” Jones said.

One of those provisions is that only members of the organization holding the small games of chance license may sell raffle tick-ets. that means tickets can’t be sold at convenience stores if the employees do-ing the selling don’t belong to the organization, and un-der no circumstances may tickets be sold at bars or other places holding a li-quor license other than the club selling the ticket.

Many common activities such as 50-50 drawings and Chinese auctions as they are usually conducted are

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