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James Henry Hale "Jim"

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from Ruth Walsh

 
  James Henry "Jim" Hale, 75, of Savoy, Texas, executive vice president and general manager of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after it was acquired by Capital Cities Communications Inc. in the summer of 1975, died of natural causes Sunday at a medical center in Denison.
  Graveside service: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Ebenezer Cemetery in Arp, the Rev. Jim Conway officiating. A lunch gathering for family and friends will be held at the Wilson Ranch in Overton after the service.    Mr. Hale was born Aug. 22, 1927, in Arp, Texas, to the late Luther L. and Ollie Hale. He graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas in 1944 and after attending the University of Texas for one year he served in the U.S. Army for 22 months at Fort Sam Houston, mostly as a typist who processed discharge papers.
  Hale earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1950 from Baylor and then embarked on a newspaper career that spanned nearly 50 years and included stints as publisher of the newspapers in Altus, Okla., Laredo, Texas, the Clearwater (Fla.) Sun, the Star-Telegram and the Kansas City Star, beginning in 1977.
  After his retirement from the Kansas City Star in Dec. 1992, Mr. Hale signed on as president and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, the joint business and publishing arm of the morning San Francisco Chronicle and the afternoon San Francisco Examiner.
  Survivors: Daughter, Nancy Hale Sowell and her husband, Joe Morris Sowell of Savoy; and son, Robert O. Hale and his wife, Deana Setzer Hale of Monroe, Ga.  Published in the Star-Telegram on 1/13/2003.
  Aylene Holman
  1918 - 2002