Former Blade-Tribune Publisher Dies
Paul R. Beck, former publisher of the Oceanside Blade-Tribune, died Monday at a Carlsbad retirement home, friends said. He was 84.
Beck, a native of Centerville, Iowa and a graduate of Stanford University, gained his early newspaper experience working for his father, J.M. Beck, who published the Centerville Iowegian.
Retired San Diego Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin, who worked for Beck as a Blade-Tribune sports editor, said that Beck and his late brother, Harold, came to Oceanside in 1929 and purchased the Daily Tribune and the weekly Blade. They combined the two newspapers into the Blade-Tribune.
When Harold Beck became ill in 1954, the newspaper was sold to Tom Braden. The name of the newspaper recently was changed to the Oceanside Blade-Citizen.
After the sale of the Blade-Tribune, Paul Beck became a successful investor and civic leader.
He had been president of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce and the Oceanside Boys Club and was active in the Oceanside Elks Lodge.
Funeral arrangements were pending. He is survived by his wife, Mildred; a daughter, Joanna Wendel of Hawthorne, and two grandchildren.
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