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Rh and early 90's, was the scene of the organization of the Oregon Press Association, which has evolved into the present Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. The year was 1887, when the young state was swinging out of pioneer conditions toward the modern and when the number of Oregon publications was, roughly, half of what it is today.

There had been, as told elsewhere in this work, a previous organization, the State Editorial Association, formed in Salem in 1878.

The effort of 1887 appears to have been the first real drive for another organization since that time; and under more favorable conditions, the organization survived and prospered.

Yaquina Bay in 1887 was a popular spot. The railroad activity had combined with the attractions of beach and bay, to bring there in that summer a group of newspaper men on vacation. A call was issued by three of these for an organization meeting for an editorial association. The trio were J. R. N. Bell, editor of the Roseburg Review; Martin L. Pipes, editor of the Benton Leader, Corvallis, and Coll Van Cleve, publisher of the Yaquina Post (148).

Pursuant to the call, the following persons met at Yaquina City August 12, 1887:

M. L. Pipes, Benton Leader, Corvallis J. R. N. Bell, Review, Roseburg Coll Van Cleve, Post, Yaquina Charles Nickell, Times, Jacksonville Will H. Parry, Gazette, Corvallis J. S. McCain, Sentry, Salem E. M. Rands, Enterprise, Oregon City E. C. Phelps, Mail, Yaquina S. S. Train, Herald, Albany J. H. Aldrich, News, Newport J. B. Fithian, World, Portland Fred P. Nutting, Democrat, Albany D. T. Stanley, Herald, Monmouth P. L. Campbell, West Side, Independence Robert Johnson, Corvallis, (later founder of the Times) Frank Hodgkin, Salem W. A. Wash, Dallas, (later editor of the Observer) I. L. Campbell, Guard, Eugene Enrolled by letter: J. M. Shepherd, Sage Brush, Baker City T. J. Stites, Democrat, Albany A. Noltner, World, Portland. Beach & Beach [Frank W. and Seneca C.], Examiner, Lakeview