THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL
ATCHISON--John Paul Allingham, 79, Atchison, died Sunday, Jan. 22, at the same hospital where his wife died on Friday. He had been a patient in the hospital about two months.
Mr. Allingham was longtime publisher of the Atchison Daily Globe newspaper.
He was born May 5, 1913, in Denver, the son of Rev. Robert and Cora Van Bendegom Allingham.
He started his career in the newspaper business as an office boy and paper carrier in 1927, in Amarillo, and later worked in advertising for the Amarillo Globe News. He moved to Atchison in the late 1930s as business manager and returned to Amarillo to serve as general manager and associate publisher in the 1940s.
He returned to Atchison where he was publisher from 1951 until he retired in 1979 when he sold the Globe to Thomson Newspapers.
Mr. Allingham was instrumental in introducing cable television in Atchison in 1968, and sold his interest in Atchison Cablevision in 1974.
His survivors include two sisters: Mrs. Betty Yocum, Plagler, Colo., and Mrs. Lois Craig, Denver.
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Interment: January 24, 1984
ATCHISON--John Paul Allingham, 79, Atchison, died Sunday, Jan. 22, at the same hospital where his wife died on Friday. He had been a patient in the hospital about two months.
Mr. Allingham was longtime publisher of the Atchison Daily Globe newspaper.
He was born May 5, 1913, in Denver, the son of Rev. Robert and Cora Van Bendegom Allingham.
He started his career in the newspaper business as an office boy and paper carrier in 1927, in Amarillo, and later worked in advertising for the Amarillo Globe News. He moved to Atchison in the late 1930s as business manager and returned to Amarillo to serve as general manager and associate publisher in the 1940s.
He returned to Atchison where he was publisher from 1951 until he retired in 1979 when he sold the Globe to Thomson Newspapers.
Mr. Allingham was instrumental in introducing cable television in Atchison in 1968, and sold his interest in Atchison Cablevision in 1974.
His survivors include two sisters: Mrs. Betty Yocum, Plagler, Colo., and Mrs. Lois Craig, Denver.
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Interment: January 24, 1984
THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL
ATCHISON--John Paul Allingham, 79, Atchison, died Sunday, Jan. 22, at the same hospital where his wife died on Friday. He had been a patient in the hospital about two months.
Mr. Allingham was longtime publisher of the Atchison Daily Globe newspaper.
He was born May 5, 1913, in Denver, the son of Rev. Robert and Cora Van Bendegom Allingham.
He started his career in the newspaper business as an office boy and paper carrier in 1927, in Amarillo, and later worked in advertising for the Amarillo Globe News. He moved to Atchison in the late 1930s as business manager and returned to Amarillo to serve as general manager and associate publisher in the 1940s.
He returned to Atchison where he was publisher from 1951 until he retired in 1979 when he sold the Globe to Thomson Newspapers.
Mr. Allingham was instrumental in introducing cable television in Atchison in 1968, and sold his interest in Atchison Cablevision in 1974.
His survivors include two sisters: Mrs. Betty Yocum, Plagler, Colo., and Mrs. Lois Craig, Denver.
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Interment: January 24, 1984
ATCHISON--John Paul Allingham, 79, Atchison, died Sunday, Jan. 22, at the same hospital where his wife died on Friday. He had been a patient in the hospital about two months.
Mr. Allingham was longtime publisher of the Atchison Daily Globe newspaper.
He was born May 5, 1913, in Denver, the son of Rev. Robert and Cora Van Bendegom Allingham.
He started his career in the newspaper business as an office boy and paper carrier in 1927, in Amarillo, and later worked in advertising for the Amarillo Globe News. He moved to Atchison in the late 1930s as business manager and returned to Amarillo to serve as general manager and associate publisher in the 1940s.
He returned to Atchison where he was publisher from 1951 until he retired in 1979 when he sold the Globe to Thomson Newspapers.
Mr. Allingham was instrumental in introducing cable television in Atchison in 1968, and sold his interest in Atchison Cablevision in 1974.
His survivors include two sisters: Mrs. Betty Yocum, Plagler, Colo., and Mrs. Lois Craig, Denver.
Added by JH
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Interment: January 24, 1984
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