Carl Goerch, From His 1945 'Book Characters...Always Characters'

From the dust jacket to Carl Goerch's book, Characters, Always Characters, published in 1945

Carl Goerch came to North Carolina from New York State in 1913 and has been a resident of the Tar Heel State ever since.

He first went to Washington, N.C., where he worked as city editor of the Washington Daily News. In 1920 the paper changed hands and Mr. Goerch went to New Bern, where he worked as managing editor of The Sun-Journal. He remained in New Bern for about two years. Then he went to Wilson, where he assumed charge of The Wilson Mirror, a morning paper which had been started six months earlier by Colonel John D. Langston, Roland Beasley and others. the Mirror suspended operations about two years later, following which Mr. Goerch returned to Washington and bought out The Washington Progress. He ran this for eight years.

In 1933 he went to Raleigh, where he broadcast daily the activities of the North Carolina General Assembly, a job that he has held down ever since. That same year he started The State magazine, which is published weekly and has a general circulation throughout the length and breadth of North Carolina.

Mr. Goerch also has had a number of articles published in The American Magazine, Nation's Business and other national publications. He makes his home in Raleigh, is married and has two daughters. A portion of practically every week is spent traveling over the state.