Toyota: Writer gives McClean the credit
Dave Peyton, a columnist for the Charleston Daily Mail in West Virginia, gives the late George McLean, longtime publisher of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, a lot of the credit for the Mississippi city’s economic successes and paving the way in ink for such developments as Toyota. Turns out Peyton was in a delegation from Huntington, W.Va., which visited Tupelo in the early 1990s to learn of its achievements.