Dale Dropo

Dale Dropo (b. c. 1916) was the editor of the Weed Press-Herald, the weekly newspaper of Weed, California. In December, 1951, after an accident that involved loggers working for the Shasta Lumber Corporation, a secretary of the company, Marian Staley, approached Dropo about the fact that the town didn't have a hospital or an ambulance service to the nearest hospital in Redding. Dropo agreed that it was a problem, and wrote up an editorial. He cautioned Staley that the town didn't pay much attention to his editorials.