until 1912 when E.J. Finneran purchased the paper. Finneran bankrupted the newspaper in 1916, partly due to the purchase of a perfecting press that proved too expensive for such a small newspaper. The University of Oregon's journalism school briefly ran the paper during the receivership under the guidance of EricW. Allen. In April 1916, Fisher returned along with partner J.E. Shelton, forming The Guard Printing Company. Fisher continued to publish the Capital Journal in Salem until 1921. In 1924, after Fisher died, PaulR. Kelty purchased the Guard and published it with his son, before selling it in 1927. The paper was purchased in 1927 by publisher AltonF. BakerSr., whose father had published The Plain Dealer. Three years later, Baker bought the Morning Register and merged the two papers on November17, the first edition was the next Reporter William Tugman was recruited from The Plain Dealer to be the managing editor of the new paper. Post-merger history In 1953, Tugman was one of four editors in the country to sign a declaration opposing Senator Joseph McCarthy's questioning of New York Post editor James Wechsler in closed Senate hearings. Eugene S. Pulliam of The Indianapolis Star, J.R. Wiggins of The Washington Post, and Herbert Brucker of the Hartford Courant were the other editors to sign the declaration, calling Senator McCarthy's actions "a peril to American freedom." Alton F. "Bunky" Baker Jr., son of AltonF. BakerSr., inherited the newspaper in 1961 and later passed it on to his brother Edwin. In the late 1980s, it was handed down to AltonF. "Tony" BakerIII, who remained the paper's editor and publisher for more than 28 years, until 2015. It was an afternoon paper on weekdays until 1983; the last evening edition was on Friday, September9, and it dropped "Eugene" from Saturday editions had shifted to mornings a dozen years earlier, in 1971; the last afternoon edition was In August 1996, a photographer and reporter from the paper were arrested by the United States Forest Service for trespassing at the site of a timber protest in a national forest. The Register-Guard responded by suing the Forest Service for violating the First Amendment freedom of the press. The criminal charges were later dropped and the civil suit was settled out of court. Originally located in downtown Eugene, the paper moved to its current location in northeast Eugene in January 1998. The former Register-Guard building was leased by