Gardena Valley News

The Gardena Valley News is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. It serves the Gardena, California area, and has an estimated circulation of 10,000.[1]

History

Founded in 1904 by H. C. Morrill as the Gardena Reporter, the four-page paper billed itself as an independent,[2][3] with editor Morrill taking positions against the Republican party of which he was an officer.[4]

Starting in 1928,[5] the paper was edited by Lew Guild, who threw his support into the fight for incorporation of Gardena.[6] The town was incorporated in 1930.

In 1946, the paper was purchased from Lew Guild by Amos Dow, a former Nevada publisher.[5][7] Dow, a veteran, had been in poor health since being gassed in World War I.[8] Dow died shortly after the purchase, passing the paper on to his wife Agnes. Agnes Dow acted as not only publisher, but also reporter and editor for the paper.[9] When Agnes Dow retired in 1957, she passed the paper to her brother, Don Algie. Algie died in 2008.

References
  1. "Gardena Valley News". Mondo Times.
  2. Rowell's American Newspaper Directory. Printers' Ink Publishing Company. 1907.
  3. "Gardena Valley News Collection". Online Archive of California. Online Archive of California.
  4. "Untitled Item". San Pedro Daily New. 28 September 1906.
  5. "Veteran Buys Newspaper". The Los Angeles Times. 12 January 1946.
  6. "First 36 years are the hardest, Gardena publisher hopes". The Los Angeles Times. 10 August 1940.
  7. "Nevadan Purchases Paper at Gardena". Nevada State Journal. 13 January 1946.
  8. "Death Learned of Amos Dow". Reno Gazette-Journal. 16 March 1946.
  9. "Paper scooped on wedding of its own editor". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 12 Apr 1955.
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