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Publisher Milton left 31% of the News stock to his son by his first wife, George Fort Milton Jr. To his good friend and longtime associate, General Manager Walter C. Johnson, went 18%, to his second wife and her daughters 51%, part of it in trust. Back to Chattanooga went Son George from Chicago (where he had been handling publicity for William Gibbs McAdoo's Presidential campaign) and took charge of the News...
Free Press. Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga. He bought a dairy to supply his stores with milk, a bakery to bake his bread, a laundry, a tire and gasoline company. He saw no use in paying good money to advertise in the papers...
...Grocer McDonald started giving away a little weekly sheet of his own, the Free Press. Other stores around Chattanooga began to advertise in the Free Press, and McDonald brought it out twice a week. About that time Publisher Milton's News was in the midst of a hot fight against Tennessee Electric Power Co. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's mammoth Commonwealth & Southern) in behalf of a municipal power system...
...Intrepid Spirit." For the News plant and equipment, its Associated Press franchise and other assets, Grocer McDonald paid $150,000, assumed the burden of its $325,000 bonded debt. Last week George Fort Milton started again from scratch. He had 675 backers, most of them in Chattanooga, a bare $25,000 capital...
...page 1 of his first issue Publisher Milton proudly slapped a. four-column enlargement of a letter: ''I congratulate you upon your determination to continue publication of a newspaper in Chattanooga. This resolution on your part exemplifies . . . courage of the highest order in the face of obstacles which could have crushed a less intrepid spirit. . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt...