GORDON ALLAN ""JACK"" AULIS, a North Carolina journalist died of a heart attack in Raleigh, at the age of 73. Throughout his career, Aulis worked in radio, television, and newspapers. He began his career in 1951 at The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, N.C

By: Vernelle Dorvil

JAMES E. CHARLET, 90, former publisher and general manager of The Leaf-Chronicle, a daily in Clarksville, Tenn., died May 6. Charlet purchased a share in the paper in 1946. By 1960, his venture had developed into the largest group of weeklies to be published by a single plant in the South. In 1973, he sold The Leaf-Chronicle to Multimedia but remained its president and publisher until 1978, when he turned the paper over to his son, James E. Charlet Jr.

EDWIN L. DALE JR., 75, a former New York Times reporter and spokesman for the White House Office of Management and Budget, died of cancer on May 3. Dale began his career in Washington in 1951 as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. By 1955, he began covering economics for The New York Times. From 1981 to 1987, he was assistant director of public affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, serving as a link between reporters and the Reagan administration and was well known for his expert knowledge of the federal budget. Before retiring in 1992, he worked in the area of policy studies. He also wrote two books on politics, ""Conservatives in Power"" and ""The People's Budget.""

WILLIAM P. GRUBER, 67, a former financial columnist for the Chicago Tribune was found dead, of a heart attack, in his Chicago home on May 11. He worked as business editor for an evening daily, the Chicago Today, until it closed in 1974. He retired from the Tribune in 1998.

A.J. ""JACK"" MARINEAU, 67, longtime newspaper publisher and real estate developer died of cancer May 18. Marineau's first newspaper job was with News Review Publishing, which published The Idahonian ? now The Moscow-Pullman Daily News ? where his father was minority owner and publisher. In 1980, Marineau sold his interest to the McClatchy Newspaper Group and founded Marineau Management, a real estate development firm.

GILBERT MILLSTEIN, 83, a book reviewer and reporter for The New York Times died of kidney failure on May 7. In 1957, Millstein wrote a review in The Times which brought attention to author Jack Kerouac, for his novel ""On the Road."" In addition to writing reviews and articles for the Times from 1949 to 1963, he also wrote for The Saturday Evening Post. In the mid '70s to mid '80s, Millstein was a news editor for ""NBC Nightly News.""

EUGENE SCHROEDER, 77, a reporter with The Associated Press for over 40 years, died in New York on May 6 of complications from a stroke. He was AP's Lansing, Mich., correspondent in the '60s. In 1978, Schroeder served on AP's task force on racial issues and became part of the news features staff . He was special features editor until he suffered a disabling stroke last year.
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