 Other journalists to serve as editor were Jay Harris, Burle Pettit, Randy Sanders, Terry Greenberg and James Bennett.The "Amarillo Globe-News" Publishing Company, headed by Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur C. Hawk, would later own the majority of "The Avalanche-Journal".In 1951, the Whittenburg family in Amarillo acquired the "Avalanche-Journal", after their Panhandle Publishing Company was merged with Globe-News company.