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Houston Press

Editors
In its 52-year history the The Press had six editors:



Journalists



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Managing editors




Business manager

 * 1939–1964: Ray Lyman Powers (1900–1983) was, from as early as 1932, Advertising Manager for the Press. In 1936, he was promoted to Advertising Director; and, in 1939, he was promoted to Business Manager. Born in Barrington, Illinois, he had entered, in 1919 as a freshman, the University of Minnesota. In 1922, he earned a B.S. degree in General Business from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

He was advertising manager for the Press for several years, in 1936, was promoted to advertising director. His son, Ray Lyman Powers, Jr. (1928–2010), graduated from Dartmouth in 1949. In 1934, he was President of the American Advertising Federation - Houston.


 * Ray Powers, Jr., was an actor, known for the role of John in Victims (1982), Jimmy in Opening Night (1977) and a ticket clerk in Episode 1, 1977 of the TV series, Lucan (1977). He died on July 28, 2010, in New York City.


 * Powers was President of the TDNA (Texas Daily Newspaper Association?) from 1952 throught 1954


 * Powers was President of the Houston Press when it was sold in 1964.


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Journalists

 * 1947–1951: Sig Byrd ( Luther Sigman Byrd; 1909–1987), born in Blanket, Texas, was popular for his "The Stroller", which led to a book, Sig Byrd's Houston (1955; Viking Press). His beat covered areas and neighborhoods, including Congress Avenue, the Segundo Barrio, Catfish Reef on Milam Street, the Bayou of the Buffalo Fish, Pearl Harbor, The Big Casino (not Houston's oldest saloon at 908 Congress Avenue ... "But this is the new Big Casino, on Preston Avenue." ), and Vinegar Hill (red-light district, between Prairie and Congress Avenue). In 1951, he left the Press for the Houston Chronicle. His grandson, Sigman Mercer Byrd, Jr. (born 1964) is a journalist.

Walter Cronkite
Cronkite, beginning 1933, attended the University of Texas at Austin for two years, studying political science and economics. While a student, Cronkit was Campus Correspondent for the Press, and later, a reporter for Scripps-Howard bureau covering events in the Texas State Capitol. He left the Press in 1936 to join KCMO in Kansas City.

C.E. Gilliam

 * Clarence Emile Gilliam (1879–1947) was, on the inaugural masthead of September 25, 1911, identified as Business Manager. By 1918, he was with the Cincinnati Post. For Scripps-Howard, from about 1922, he became the Business Manager for the Warren Tribune Chronicle and had also been associated with newspapers in Toledo, Cleveland, and Denver.






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Marjorie Hunter

 * 1949–1950: Marjorie Hunter (1922–2001) graduated from Elon College in 1942 and, from 1961 until 1986, was a Washington Correspondent for The New York Times. She had worked as a reporter for the Press from 1949 to 1950.

Houston Press Realty Company of Houston
Capital stock: $25,000 Incorporators: Alford O. Anderson; P.C. Edwards; C.E. Gilliam; all of Houston.



Ward Carlton Mayborn

 * 1919–1921: Ward Carlton Mayborn (1879–1958) was General Manager of the Press. One of his sons and son's wife, Frank Willis Mayborn (1903–1987) and Sue Mayborn ( Anyse Sue White) are the namesakes of the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas.

Building
U.S. Interstate 69, formerly known as EastTex Freeway, was constructed around 1951.

Tax case



 * Houston Chronicle Publishing v. United States



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