Brush-Moore Newspapers

[1][2] In 1923, Louis Herbert Brush, who had joined the Salem News (of Salem, Ohio) as a manager in 1894 and purchased it in 1897,[3] 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.

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.

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 a total circulation of approximately 540,000.

[1][7] Ohio Broadcasting Co. was a subsidiary of Brush-Moore which focused on radio interests.