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Henry
McClurg Publications |
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Henry
McClurg was a publishing force in Houston for decades, with
quite a few different publications over the years The first, Contact,
was national, and the rest focused on Houston. The history gets a bit
confusing when various entities were sold. "Montrose Star"
began 7/16/76 and by issue 65 (10/14/77) was just called "Star,"
and reduced its size from 11"x17" to 5 1/2"x8 1/2"
(it temporarily reduced it size further, for issues #87 to #94 to 'pocket
size, 4"x7"). The 10/6/78 edition, #113, was billed "Last
Issue," promising the return of "Montrose Star" the next
week, back to the 11"x17" format, on 10/12/78 but unfortunately
I have not had access to issues #114 through #119. Issue
19 listed Hal Deans as Publisher and "Henry (Parker) McClurg"
as Editor. "Henry Parker" was the name he used when publishing
Contact. In Issue 50 the masthead states the "Star newspaper chain
is owned by Montrose Star." "The
Montrose Star," under that owner, had failed after six months,
and McClurg, having a non-compete agreement was free to start again,
with "Montrose Voice," which he did on 10/29/80. Hollister,
incidentally, was murdered in 1987.
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51-070777, PDF |
55-080577, PDF |
62-092477, PDF |
63-100177, PDF |
missing
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Name
and format changed to The Star,
10/14/77 - 10/6/78
(there was a gap between issues #51 and #65 so could not scan) fortunately, the numbering was kept consistent throughout the three series |
69-11117769, PDF |
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112-092978, PDF |
113-100678, PDF |
Name
and format changed back to Montrose
Star, 1978 - 1980
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and |
120-120178, PDF |
195-061280, PDF |
Clippings about the change in ownership |
196-061980, PDF |
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