After the Chicago Tribune bought the Valley News and Green Sheet in 1975, Schmidt took over as publisher and began the shopper's transformation into the L.A. Daily News. He later was publisher of California Apparel News and of the San Gabriel Valley Newspapers. His obit in the Daily News is by Dana Bartholomew.

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