Rufus Woods and the Daily World were instrumental in the 23-year battle for the Coulee Dam[3] and the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. Woods wrote the first story about the proposal in 1918, followed by hundreds of articles about the project and editorials promoting the concept. After Rufus Woods` death in 1950, his son Wilfred became editor and editor of the paper and continued to promote economic development in north-central Washington.[4] Warren Woods` son, Robert, was the paper`s editor and later the author of the editorial page. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Daily World (the name was shortened to The Wenatchee World in 1971) continued to promote regional development, sponsoring a series of trips across Canada and Alaska to study the region`s energy resources. In 1997, Wilfred Woods handed over the management of the company to his son Rufus Woods. The newspaper was owned by Wilfred and Robert Woods` families until March 2018, when Rufus Woods announced he was selling the paper to Wick Communications. All former employees were offered jobs with the new owners. The Wenatchee World is the leading daily newspaper of Wenatchee and East Wenatchee, Washington, United States. Wenatchee World, which has served Chelan, Douglas, and other counties north of Washington since 1905, prints on its front page that it was “published in the apple capital of the world and the belt of power loop of the great Northwest.” Two years later, the newspaper was purchased by Rufus Woods and his twin brother Ralph. Rufus published the paper, while Ralph, a lawyer from Tacoma, provided legal advice to the young newspaper.
Later, his cousin Warren Woods joined the company to manage the paper`s finances. [2] The World Publishing Company was founded in 1905 by businessmen C.A. Briggs and Nat Ament. On July 3, 1905, the society published the first issue of the Wenatchee Daily World. The theme included the commitment to be “an active and helpful factor not only in the Town of Wenatchee and Chelan County, but also in our neighbouring Douglas and Okanogan counties.” [1] The paper was a strong advocate of the economic development of the Columbia Basin and what it called North Central Washington.