UPI MOVES DALE JOHNS TO HEADQUARTERS POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300240029-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: May 9, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2004/09/03 : CIA-RDP88-013
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
9MeY197O
UPI moves Dale Johns
to headquarters post
New 'assignments for three
United Press International ex-
i ecutives were announced this
week by Mims Thomason, presi-
dent.
Dale -M. Johns, Central Di-
vision manager in Chicago, will
1 transfer to New York head-
1 quarters and become business
manager, North American de-
partment. He will report to
Frank Tremaine, vicepresident
1 and general manager of that de-
partment.
H. Calvin Thornton, North-
eastern Division manager in
Boston, will move to Chicago to
be Central Division manager.
Robert E. Page, based in Lon-
don as sales manager for Eur-
ope, Africa and the Middle East,
will return to the U.S. and go
to Boston as Northeastern Di-
,Vision manager.
All appointments are effective
June 1.
Johns, 56, has been Central
Division manager in Chicago
since 1962. Previously he was
Northeastern Division manager
at Boston for eight years and
before that division business
manager In Chicago. He was
;born in Iowa Falls, Iowa, and
was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Nebraska. He joined
graduated from the University
of Chicago. He has been North-
eastern Division manager jn
Boston since 1962. He joined
UPI in 1948 in Milwaukee and
served as bureau manager in'
Sioux Falls, Des Moines and
Minneapolis before he became a
UPI business representative in
the Midwest. He was -Central
Division business manager in,
Chicago prior to his transfer to
Boston.
Page, 34, went to London in
1968 after previous experience
as a general sales executive at
UPI's New York headquarters.
A native of Lincoln, Ill., he was
graduated from -Illinois Wes-
leyan University. He joined UPI
in Des Moines in 1960.
UPI in 1941 in Minneapolis
after previous news experience
on the Lincoln (Neb.) State
Journal.
Thornton, 44, is a native of
Washington, D. C., and was ;
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