Frank Mayborn

Mayborn was born at Ohio to a rich family, his father Ward Carlton Mayborn, a media personnel was also a newspaper publisher of E.W. Scripps newspaper conglomerate and his mother Nellie Childs Welton, in 1910 his parents relocated to Westminster, Denver, Colorado to 1919 they went to settled at Dallas, Texas.[2]

The San Diego Sun newspaper in 1908-1935

Denver Post newspaper

Young Mayborn started working with newspapers since in his high as stringer at Dallas Morning Newspaper, Denver Post, per-time and summer worker at San Diego Sun and Dallas Dispatch, and as a correspondent in United Press before being a publisher on his own right, he then bought a publishing company in 1929 known as Telegram Publishing company of Temple Daily Telegram together with his father and brother at Temple and he also acquire the Sherman Democrat in 1945 before moving on in 1952 to purchase the Killeen Herald within some in 1959 he also owns the Taylor Daily Press company.[3]

Temple Telegram owned by Frank Mayborn Enterprises from 1940 to 1987

After graduating from high schools he continued and was an advertising salesman of the Dallas News and holds several positions in the Northern Texas Traction Company resided in Fort Worth.

Mayborn served as managing editor of Daily Telegram from 1929 to 1946 then he became the publisher and editor in 1946 and in 1952 he was operations manager of Sherman Democrat of Daily Herald, previously known as Killeen Herald, in 1974 the Taylor Press was sold together with the Sherman Democrat sold in 1977, he acquired the Frank Mayborn Enterprises, Inc, a newspapers of publishing company in 1978.[4]

Mayborn was involved in the development of Temple including the surrounding around the areas of Bell County. He the instrumental role of the location of Fort Good to Temple by the U.S. Department of War, he donated some hectare of land for the establishing of Frank W. Mayborn Convention Center for annual spelling bee. He even chaired the Texas Tech of Baylor University and also serves in the journalism advisory board of Texas A&M University and University of Texas.[5]

former Frank Mayborn Enterprises, Inc radio station KCEN TV, owned from (1978-1987). 2009 bought by NBC

Mayborn was a communication member and pioneers in media starting a radio station in KTEM at Temple in 1936 and was also the owner of WMAK radio at Nashville in 1945, and the KCEN-TV station in 1952 resided at Temple, Texas.[6][7][4]

After his marriage with Sue White in 1981, she served as an vice president of Frank Mayborn Enterprises, Inc in 1979 before their marriage and after the death of Mayborn Sue became the owner and president of Frank Mayborn Enterprises, Inc in 1987 including other subsidiaries of Mayborn till now as active in the company. Sue had being in friendship with Mayborn for long and William R. Poage, leading her to be involved with Baylor University in 1978 and she firstly had her first involvement focused on the Internship Endowed Program and Poage-Mayborn Washington Seminar by Mayborn Foundation said by her.[8]

Mayborn funds The W.R. Poage Legislative Library at Baylor University.[5]

He became the crucial role play in developing the Bell County. He started associating with the military in 1939 and organized a military affairs served as the Temple Chamber of Commerce president, chaired the military affairs committee and had a work of the War Projects Committee formed when with the Temple Chamber of Commerce, he was selected to work at Central Texas of Hood camp in army, later Mayborn and the committees are involved in the relocation of McCloskey General Hospital to Temple, Austin including some military instillation defence plant in Temple.[9]

Mayborn later joined the military in 1942/43 as a public relation official and work with General Dwight D. Eisenhower as chief assistant of public relation office in United States Army having earned up to a Bronze Star before retiring in 1946 as a major but did not stop activities in military affairs, serving in the civilian advisory board for several commanders in Fort Hood, he built a relationship with friends in the military.[7]

An old acquaintance, General Bruce Clarke, he accompanied to South Asia, Vietnam in 1968 for fact-finding tour and before his returned he was asked to accompanied an old friend Lyndon B. Johnson who later served as the 36th president of the United States of America, on controversy of M-16 rifle, before leaving the military affairs, he received the Creighton W. Abrams Medal in 1979 for his bounty contributions to United States military and the Fort Hood Commander's Award for Public Service.[9]

As an instrumental medalist, broadcasting and a little military career, he became involved in Democratic party politics issues for long even in his military career, he developed relationship with some leading Democrats members, through his service as newsman and advocate in Texas, the likes of John B. Connally who he works with, William Robert Poage a congressman were associated for several years, Jesse H. Jones, Samuel T. Rayburn, Oveta Culp Hobby and Lyndon B. Johnson who before had served in the military together.[10]

In 1946 he won the member seat of the Texas Democratic State Committee election and was a key crucial role in senatorial primary in 1948, after some role in politics the supporters of the primaries candidate of state election, Coke R. Stevenson accused the campaign of Johnson Johnson for "fraudulent voting practices" leading Mayborn to be summoned in a business trip of Nashville by John Connally but the campaign manager of Johnson and casting committee cast the deciding vote decision of 29 to 28 declared Johnson as the winner, in 50s Mayborn was active member of Democrats and found supporting some Republican candidate in 70s with both levels of the offices.[10]

After the death of Frank Mayborn, the zeal of his commitment to journalism lead to the formations of an award, giving to committed ones in this service of journal, the Mayborn Award for Community Leadership is giving to honor other newspaper people and one of the area Mayborn mostly specializes in, is education, the award is also presented to senior outstanding journal students in universities or college resides in Texas.[11]

The Frank Mayborn Foundation in 2007 endowed permanently in the scholarship program of Internship Endowed Program.[8]

• Frank Mayborn: A Man Who Made a Difference. Belton, Texas: University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, 1989, Odie B. Faulk and Laura E. Faulk
• The Dallas Morning News; Burke obituary, 29 July 2010
• Mayborn obituary, Killeen Daily Herald and Temple Daily Telegram, May, 1987
• Handbook of Texas history of Texas online, Frank W Mayborn Texas broadcaster and newspaper publisher, TSHA online
• Frank W Mayborn obituary, Temple Daily Telegram, May, 1987
• Frank W. Mayborn: A man who made a difference. Odie B. and Laura E. Faulk. Amazon
• Mayborn, Frank Willis. Texas State Historical Association: The Handbook of Texas