From AP, Jan. 17

Former Tribune-Review editor Carlton who led staff revolt dead at 71.  

Former newspaper editor Jack Warne Carlton, who inadvertently set off a staff revolt in support of a reporter who had spoken out against Richard Nixon, has died. Carlton was 71. 

He died Jan. 14 of heart failure at the Redstone Highlands Senior Living Communities in North Huntingdon, Pa. 

Carlton was the night editor at the Tribune-Review of Greensburg in 1973 when a young reporter, Jude Dippold, announced that Vice President Spiro Agnew had resigned. Dippold then said, in reference to Nixon, "One down and one to go." 

The Tribune-Review had been purchased four years earlier by Richard Mellon Scaife, an ardent Nixon supporter. Word of Dippold's comment eventually reached the publisher's office. 

"I was just being funny -- I thought," said Dippold, now the managing editor of the Times Observer of Warren. "I later learned that our publisher had donated $1 million to the (Nixon) campaign." 

Dippold was fired two days later. 

Carlton argued with the paper's owner and then quit. Within hours, nearly half the 24-person editorial staff followed him. 

Carlton went on to work at The Pittsburgh Press before his retirement in 1990, but was forever linked to the newsroom revolt that was covered in publications from Rolling Stone to the Columbia Journalism Review. 

"He was a wonderful mentor and I would have said that even before the whole incident," Dippold said. "He really worked with new reporters. He was a good friend." 

Carlton was regarded as an icon when he joined the Press, where he continued to work closely with young reporters. 

As the Watergate scandal spread, Scaife disavowed Nixon saying, "My country comes first, my party comes second." His paper called for Nixon's impeachment. 

Carlton is survived by his wife, Margaret, brother Michael Carlton, sister Mary Louise Carlton, and a granddaughter.