Dan Miles, 1 Of 3 Founders Of The Los Alamos Monitor, Dies

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Dan Miles, one of the three founders of the Los Alamos Monitor, has died. He was 95. The newspaper's editor Jill McLaughlin told The Associated Press that Miles died Wednesday at his home in Los Alamos. The Los Alamos Monitor reports (https://goo.gl/JmmFxj) Miles started the newspaper with John Barnett and Mark McMahon in 1963 out of a small office above a jewelry store. A geologist for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Miles came to Los Alamos with the idea of starting a newspaper in a town that didn't have one. Miles was born in Akron, Ohio and served in the First Cavalry Division in World War II. He married Lois Wilson and they had four daughters. Services will be held at Tuesday at United Church of Los Alamos.