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376 rival paper, the Curry County Reporter, and publication of the Tribune was suspended.

The Reporter dates back to September 1915. Late in 1917 the paper, founded by E. M. Bogardus, was sold to A. E. (Jack) Guyton and John A. Juza, both of Marshfield, with Juza in resident charge as editor. Juza ran the paper for several years. Robert L Withrow, formerly of the Portland Telegram, conducted the paper for the Macleay estate of Portland until December 1932, when Reuben C. Young, former printer on the Eugene Register and the Redmond Spokesman, became editor and publisher. Mrs. Young (Olive Adams), daughter of Prof. Percy P. Adams of the University of Oregon, is a member of the Adams family to which W. L. Adams, pioneer editor of the Oregon City Argus in the 50's, belonged.

The Wedderburn Gazette, which is noted in Ayer's as running from 1893 to 1901, with E. M. Bogardus as editor and publisher, appears to be the old Gold Beach Gazette revived after the suspension by R. D. Hume reported by Mrs. Turner. Mr. Hume carried the volume number back to 1880 (the founding-date of the old Post), and the Gazette later noted in Ayer's with E. M. Bogardus as editor and publisher has as its founding-date 1893, indicating, perhaps, a resumption after a suspension.

R. D. Hume, representative of the Macleay estate of Curry county in the early 1900's, and an early salmon-canner of southern Oregon, was the founder and publisher of another paper, the Radium, issued at Wedderburn from 1904 to 1909 with O. W. Briggs, Hume himself, H. J. Criffen, and W. E. Thresher successively as editors.

Curry county has had several other newspapers. There was the Curry County Recorder, founded in 1902, which ran for several years, at Gold Beach, with August J. Krantz as editor-publisher. It was a Republican paper, issued Thursdays. It failed to get into the 1906 edition of Ayer's.

Then there was the Globe, launched by S. E. Marsters as a Thursday weekly in 1905, which ran along at Gold Beach under several different editors and publishers for several years.

The Port Orford News, fruit of one of the latest efforts to maintain a newspaper in the town, was established by George W. Soranson in 1926. As secretary of the chamber of commerce and publisher of the News he is credited with having done much to promote the development of Port Orford. He helped to get a coast guard station established, was largely responsible for clearing the coast highway of billboards between Bandon and the state line. He also assisted in having set apart a state park commanding a view of Battle Rock, a historic spot, at Port Orford. On his death, aged 56, March 10, 1933, it was proposed to honor his memory with a road-