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He was editor of the Fallon Eagle at age 23. He owned the Mason Valley News with Walter Cox and later was sole owner before selling the newspaper to his sons.
A gutsy, smart, prize-winning editor, he was relentlessly competitive. He fought in the D-Day landing at Normandy.
In 1997, Nevada Sen. Richard Bryan honored Sanford and his newspaper with this speech to Congress:
Mr. Sanford’s newspaper career started as a printer’s devil when he was just 14 years old. After World War II, where he proudly served his country for 3 years in the Army, Mr. Sanford returned home to northern Nevada and gained experience working in virtually every aspect of the newspaper business. He came to own the Mason Valley News at the age of 35. Mr. Sanford’s two sons, David and James, also work for the paper.
It is with great pride and pleasure that I congratulate Robert Sanford and the Mason Valley News on 40 years of dependability and accomplishment and I wish them the best of luck for another successful 40 years.
