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ObituariesV. Glenn Cootes V. Glenn Cootes, 78, died July 9, 2007, of multiple cancers. He was the longtime former director of communications for the city of Austin, and held various reporting jobs on Texas newspapers including sports editor of the Temple Daily Telegraph and managing editor of the Big Spring Herald. In 1970 he was hired by the city of Austin as the director of public information, the first position of its kind in Texas. He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Annette, who works with the Texas State Teachers Association. James Gresham James Chambliss Gresham, 93, died June 27, 2007. He was former editor and publisher of the Killeen Daily Herald. Gresham served as vice president of Killeen Publishing Co. from 1954 until his retirement in 1974. He also worked for the Temple Daily Telegram, Wichita Falls Times Record News and Dallas Times Herald. Harold Martin Harold Eugene Martin, 83, died July 4, 2007, at a nursing home in Bedford. He had suffered from Alzheimer ’s disease. He was a retired newspaper executive who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for special reporting. He won the Pulitzer Prize while publisher of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and Alabama Journal for a series of articles that exposed drug experimentation on state prisoners. He was president of Jefferson-Pilot Publications and publisher of The Beaumont Enterprise-Journal until December 1984 when he left to become a consultant for The Hearst Corp., according to archive stories. In addition to duties as Enterprise publisher, Martin oversaw 25 publications, including daily papers in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma Grace Myrtle Newby Grace Myrtle Newby, 101, died June 22, 2007, at Red River Regional Hospital in Bonham. She and her husband Gerald Randolph Newby, owned The Bonham Herald until selling in 1956 to the Bonham Daily Favorite.
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