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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1989
Page
7
The Chetwynd Chamber of Commerce sponsors the first issue of the town newspaper titled Chinook printed March 7 1959. Frank Oberle president proclaims the aim to unite citizens and guide editors by Divine Power for the town's history and development with this inaugural issue.
The first edition will appear on Thursday March 12 1959 as a self supporting free publication. It will offer uniform ad space with ads priced at 3.00 dollars. Submissions for ads are due by Tuesday March 10 1959.
The history traces Chetwynd’s local press from the Chinook founded by the Chamber of Commerce, renamed Weekly Advertiser in 1962, to the Chetwynd Reporter in 1965, then to The Echo in 1971. By 1972 The Echo and Peace River Block News were sold to South Peace Publications Ltd, formed by Del Folk and MLA Don Marshall.
The narrator details starting a Chamber of Commerce newspaper with Frank Oberle in a shiplap pressroom. Eugene Embree heads a committee to operate the venture. The plan favored editorial content and used a used Addressograph duplicator for stencils despite lacking photography.
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