Texas Newspaper Oral History

In purchasing the Dawson County Free Press in Lamesa, Walter Buckel entered the newspaper business in 1967.
In 2008, Buckel, the 108th president of the Texas Press Association,  was inducted into the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame.
Forty years earlier, in  March 1968 Buckel merged his paper with the Lamesa Reporter. James Roberts had just bought [...]

William E. “Bill” Berger was born in Ferris, Illinois on June 6th 1918. His father ran a small grocery store and Berger sold magazines and later had a newspaper route.
He later became a country correspondent for the weekly county journal, located in Carthage. He went to college in Carthage and dropped out after two and [...]