Press: Houston Post

Seven years ago Governor Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas, as publisher, combined his newly acquired Houston Dispatch (onetime Klan paper) with the venerable Houston Post and called the amalgam the Post-Dispatch. Shortly thereafter the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch went to Federal Court in Houston and demanded that Publisher Sterling change the name of his paper. Throughout the Southwest, they said, the Post-Dispatch was understood to mean the St. Louis paper. The court denied the suit. Last week Publisher J . Josey, who acquired the Post-Dispatch from Governor Sterling two months ago. voluntarily shortened its name to the Houston Post.