![]() In 1928 Healey sold the Bulletin to his former competitor, and in 1929 the combined paper's name was changed to its present one, Casa Grande Dispatch. Wrenn, whose son Harold took over the Dispatch. In 1924 she sold it to Florence publisher A.C. The paper became more prosperous in the early 1920s. She took it back and kept it going despite difficult times economically. Hammer leased the paper out for a short while during World War I. She persevered, having her paper printed in Phoenix for a while. Hammer later bought the Bulletin, but a lender foreclosed on her equipment, an event that may have been hoped for by her opponents. The Times merged with the Dispatch soon after the latter's founding.Ī battle between the Dispatch and the Bulletin ensued. Her equipment first was set up on an open lot, then moved inside a warehouse with no front. An editorial she wrote about the water issue was hidden by Healey, but recovered and printed.Īfter further problems, Hammer split up the partnership, moved her printing equipment and began publishing the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch in January 1914. A bigger division was that he favored pumping of groundwater while she supported a water users group that wanted to use Gila River water for farming. Hammer was a Democrat and Healey a Republican. Nevertheless, the Bulletin, named after a paper Healey had in Cochise County, went into publication. An agreement was made, but problems occurred from the start: She had to pay the freight charges for shipping her equipment because Healey could not, even though he had agreed to do so. She was approached there by Ted Healey, a Cochise County newspaperman who had the idea of a paper for Casa Grande but needed a printer. She opened a print shop in Phoenix with the help of her teenage sons, Louis and Billy. She had a successful paper, the Miner, in Wickenburg, before deciding to take a break from the heated political climate there. The first issue was printed on a Washington hand press in Casa Grande in September 1913.Īngela Hutchinson Hammer was a divorced mother of three who had supported her family printing and publishing. The next year, a joint venture founded the Casa Grande Bulletin. The next month it changed, apparently becoming more formal: Wainwright Randall. It was not until July 1913 that an editor's name appeared on the masthead, Bunny Randall. Showing an interest in an issue still important in the desert, the Times supported formation of an irrigation district. It was not the earliest paper, but it was the first to endure. since 1963, and in January 2012 it began its 100th consecutive year of publication.Ĭasa Grande was without a newspaper for most of its 33 years before the Casa Grande Times appeared in January 1912, founded by J. It has been published under the current ownership, Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc. Circulated in Casa Grande and surrounding areas, it is Pinal County's largest paid circulation newspaper. The Casa Grande Dispatch is an American newspaper published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in Casa Grande, Arizona. January 1912 ( 1912-01), as Casa Grande TimesĬasa Grande, Arizona 85122, United States Interment will be in the Point Roberts cemetery later this summer.Newspaper in Casa Grande, Arizona Casa Grande Dispatch Type Cliff is survived by his wife Linda, his son Scott of Coquitlam, B.C., his daughter Shelley (Julian) of North Vancouver, B.C., four grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. ![]() Regretfully in 2018, because of health concerns, Cliff and Linda moved to Casa Grande, AZ where he enjoyed picking oranges and grapefruit in his backyard. He loved crabbing, clam digging and getting oysters and then sharing them with his friends with a rum and coke or a glass of wine. Cliff owned a cottage in Point Roberts from the 1970s and in 1995 Cliff and is wife Linda built their retirement home and moved permanently to Point Roberts. He spent the next 25 years successfully working for MAI Canada in computer sales until his retirement in 1991. There he was recruited by IBM and he spent the next 15 years as a computer tech in Calgary until he was recruited by a start-up company in Vancouver, B.C. Cliff was born is Sexsmith, AB, Canada, where he spent his early years until he attended SAIT in Calgary, AB. ![]() Our much loved Cliff passed away in his home in Casa Grande, AZ.
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