Gardena Valley News

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The Gardena Valley News is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. It serves the Gardena, California area, and has an estimated circulation of 10,000.[1]

History[]

Founded in 1904 by H. C. Morrill as the Gardena Reporter, the four-page paper billed itself as an independent,[2][3] with editor Morrill taking positions against the Republican party of which he was an officer.[4]

Starting in 1928,[5] the paper was edited by Lew Guild, who threw his support into the fight for incorporation of Gardena.[6] The town was incorporated in 1930.

In 1946, the paper was purchased from Lew Guild by Amos Dow, a former Nevada publisher.[5][7] Dow, a veteran, had been in poor health since being gassed in World War I.[8] Dow died shortly after the purchase, passing the paper on to his wife Agnes. Agnes Dow acted as not only publisher, but also reporter and editor for the paper.[9] When Agnes Dow retired in 1957, she passed the paper to her brother, Don Algie. Algie died in 2008.

References[]

  1. ^ "Gardena Valley News". Mondo Times.
  2. ^ Rowell's American Newspaper Directory. Printers' Ink Publishing Company. 1907.
  3. ^ "Gardena Valley News Collection". Online Archive of California. Online Archive of California.
  4. ^ "Untitled Item". San Pedro Daily New. 28 September 1906.
  5. ^ a b "Veteran Buys Newspaper". The Los Angeles Times. 12 January 1946.
  6. ^ "First 36 years are the hardest, Gardena publisher hopes". The Los Angeles Times. 10 August 1940.
  7. ^ "Nevadan Purchases Paper at Gardena". Nevada State Journal. 13 January 1946.
  8. ^ "Death Learned of Amos Dow". Reno Gazette-Journal. 16 March 1946.
  9. ^ "Paper scooped on wedding of its own editor". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 12 Apr 1955.
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