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MAURICE
WILLIAM HEATON
With broad experience in journalistic and
publicity work, Maurice William Heaton is well qualified for the important post
of business manager of the Press-Telegram, published at Long Beach. Born in Los
Angeles, October 25, 1898, he is a son of C. E. and Bessie (Cresmer)
Heaton, who are also natives of California. The father has official connection
with the Holmes Supply Company who are labor
contractors for the Santa Fe Railway Company. He has two sons, of whom the
younger is Culver Heaton, now a student at the University of Southern
California.
Maurice W. Heaton was a grammar
school pupil in Fresno and Los Angeles, California, and graduated from the
Manual Arts high school of Los Angeles. At the time of the World war he
enlisted in the United States Navy and was stationed at San Diego, California.
Following the war he went to work for the Los Angeles Times in the classified
and, then, the display advertising departments for a period of five years. At
this time he went to Chicago, where for two years he was connected the Williams,
Lawrence & Cresmer Company, newpaper
(sic) representatives. In 1926 he became connected with the Press-Telegram, the
leading newspaper of Long Beach, and proved so capable that he was made
business manager of The Sun, the morning paper of Long Beach, which has been
acquired by the owners of the Press-Telegram. The two dailies are published in
the one plant, which is thoroughly modern in its equipment.
Mr. Heaton was united in marriage to
Miss Helen Bouchard, of Wisconsin, and they have one child, William, born
December 3, 1929. For recreation Mr. Heaton turns to athletic sports,
particularly enjoying baseball and handball. Keenly interested in events that
have influenced the development of his state, he has a valuable collection of
data relative to its history, a subject upon which he is thoroughly informed.
He worships in the east Side Christian Church, and is a member of the
Progressive Executives Club, the Advertising Club and the young men’s division
of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce. In the life of his city Mr. Heaton fills
an important place and is esteemed for the sterling qualities to which he owes
his success.
Transcribed By:
Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: California
of the South Vol. II,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 489-490,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
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