The Oxnard Press-Courier was a newspaper located in Oxnard, California , United States. It ceased publication in June 1994 after 95 years. In 1992, its daily circulation was 17,325.
7-645: The paper traced its origins to the Oxnard Courier which was a weekly paper established in 1899. A daily edition, obviously named the Daily Oxnard-Courier , started publication in June 1909. The Oxnard Press-Courier was the name adopted in 1940, reflecting a consolidation of the Oxnard Evening Press , Oxnard Daily Courier , and Oxnard News . George and Eva Grimes, and David Calvert and his wife, purchased
14-779: A Director of the Beaverkettle Company. At the time of the 1967 sale, Brush-Moore owned 12 daily papers, including six in Ohio (the Canton Repository , East Liverpool Review , Salem News , Steubenville Herald , Marion Star , and Portsmouth Times ) three in California ( Times-Standard , San Gabriel Valley Tribune , and Oxnard Press-Courier ), and one in Maryland ( Salisbury Daily Times ), Pennsylvania ( Hanover Evening Sun ), and West Virginia ( Weirton Daily Times ), with
21-744: The Los Angeles Times , which in 1990 began publishing a daily Ventura County edition, replacing a weekly Ventura County section of the paper. Today, news from the Oxnard City Council and the boards of education are now published in the Ventura County Star . A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles awarded the Associated Press a $ 3,780 judgement against Press-Courier publisher Dan W. Emmett on June 20, 1942, for attempting to withdraw from
28-454: The A.P. without giving two years' notice as required by the association's bylaws. Judge Leon R. Yankwich stated that when Emmett refused to accept service and, without notice, failed to pay his weekly assessment, he became liable for 104 weeks' assessments in a lump sum based on the rate Emmett paid in May 1940 when he entered the contract. Brush-Moore Newspapers Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc.
35-504: The group as one of the prominent newspaper groups in the country, with four papers and a total circulation of 30,906. In 1927, the "Brush-Moore" chain was created from their holdings. Joseph K. Vodrey, son of W.H. Vodrey Jr., became general manager of Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. in 1946. Vodrey was Vice-President and a member of the Brush-Moore board of directors from 1951 to 1968, when he retired. He also served as Vice-President and as
42-628: The paper in March 1945, when it had a circulation of 1,200. In 1963, the Brush-Moore Newspapers group bought the paper. In 1967, Brush-Moore sold the paper to Thomson Newspapers as part of a sale of 12 papers, for $ 72 million, in what was the largest ever newspaper transaction at that time. Thomson owned the paper until it shut down in June 1994, citing a poor economy and a competitive newspaper market in Ventura County . That competition included
49-584: Was a United States newspaper group based in Ohio which had its origins in 1923 and was sold to Thomson Newspapers in 1967 for $ 72 million, the largest ever newspaper transaction at that time. In 1923, Louis Herbert Brush, who had joined the Salem News (of Salem, Ohio ) as a manager in 1894 and purchased it in 1897, entered into a partnership with Roy Donald Moore and William Henry Vodrey, Jr. to purchase The Marion Star from then-U.S. President Warren G. Harding . By 1924, Time magazine already noted
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