Fontana Herald News

[1] The Herald was established as a weekly on June 7, 1923, by Cornelius DeBakcsy when Fontana had fewer than five hundred residents.

[2][3] In July, 1931, the newspaper moved into a building formerly occupied by a justice of the peace and two businesses, preparatory to extensive remodeling to accommodate a new printing press.

Harbison, editor of the San Bernardino Sun, Justus Craemer of the National Editorial Association, John B.

Later he worked with Ahmed Pasha, the head of the Young Turks after Abdul Hamid, the last Turkish Sultan, was overthrown, and he covered the Balkan War as a correspondent.

He also said that in 1904 he was editor and publisher of the official newspaper of the Hungarian government, and in 1905 he established the first news service between the Balkan states and Western Europe.

[8] In 1915 he was named associate editor of Szabadsag (Liberty), a Hungarian-language newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio, after he was prevented by the outbreak of war from returning home while he was visiting his brother, Charles G. DeBakcsy in Portland, Oregon.

[11][8] In February 1935, DeBakcsy spoke to the Arcadia, California, Rotary Club, saying that there were more communists in America than there were in Russia at the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917.

[8][19] A bas-relief plaque of DeBakcsy was presented to the Fontana Women's Club by artist Yucca Salamunich on January 26, 1948.

Hays said it had a circulation of 2,500, which made it the fourth-smallest among 113 daily California newspapers, employing 24 full-time and 10 part-time workers, and that it was financially unsuccessful.