William C. Payette; Longtime Executive With UPI
William C. Payette, 75, a longtime executive with United Press International and United Features Syndicate who headed UPI’s Los Angeles bureau in the 1940s. Payette, after joining United Press in 1936, established the first radio Teletype delivery of news to South America and the first daily overseas transmission of news pictures. He also organized Movietone News. In Dallas on Thursday of cancer.
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