Paul M. Fulks Sr., 70th president, was known as the flying publisher of the Wolfe City Sun after taking private flying lessons as a hobby and later buying his own plane.

Fulks was president when Texas Press Association set up its first full-time office in Dallas in December 1947.

He was president of North and East Texas Press Association in 1942-43.

Fulks was born Oct. 3, 1903, near Reno in Lamar County. He delivered newspapers in Paris while attending school and worked for $2 a week in the printing office. Later he worked for the Commerce Journal and the Cooper Review and then became publisher of the Bowlegs City Derrick in Oklahoma.

He returned to Texas and bought the Ladonia News in 1931 and two years later, the Wolfe City Sun. He married Oza Nicholson in 1924.