 Four former employees of the downsized "Globe", itself an outgrowth of the merger of Durham's first daily, "The Tobacco Plant" and "The Durham Daily Recorder", organized a competitor newspaper, The Globe Herald, which would soon be renamed "The Morning Herald".In 1929, the Durham Morning Herald Company acquired "The Durham Sun", an evening daily that had been in publication in one form or another since 1889.The late Rick Kaspar was the first person outside of the Rollins family to run the century-old newspaper.