LOS ANGELES TIMES,  January 22, 2000

	John 'Jack' LAKE:  St. Petersburg Times Publisher
	John B. 'Jack'  LAKE, 79, St. Petersburg Times Publisher who helped
	the Florida city gain an art museum and a baseball team.  LAKE 
	served in World War II and the Korean War, working in advertising in
	the intervening years at the Eagle Gazette, a small daily  newspaper in
	Lancaster, Ohio.  After serving as advertising manager of the Elizabeth
	Journal in New Jersey, he moved to the St. Petersburg Times in 1960.
	LAKE rose from advertising director to publisher in 1971.  When he 
	joined the newspaper, its daily circulation was 100,000;  when he 
	retired in 1984, it had risen to 270,000.  Considered a leader of his
	community, LAKE served as president of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber
	of Commerce and the Suncoast Chamber of Commerce.  He was 
	instrumental in bringing the Salvador DALI Museum to St. Petersburg.  
	And along with Jim HEALEY, Lake was one of the first to dream that the
	waterfront city across the bay from larger Tampa soul have its won big
	league baseball team.  He worked to pave the way, and threw out the
	first pitch of the first game when St. Petersburg welcomed the expansion
	Tampa Bay Devil Rays.  On January 15, on Snell Isle off St. Petersburg
	of a stroke.



Florida Publisher dead at 79
St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP)
January 17, 2000
John B. "Jack" Lake, who as publisher of the St. Petersburg Times saw the
	newspaper grow in prominence along with the city died Saturday
	after an apparent stroke.  He was 79.  Lake, who was a community
	force as much as a newspaper leader; helped bring the Salvador
	Dali Museum to St Petersburg.  He also supported the city in
	its bid to lure a major league baseball expansion franchise,
	the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.  After serving in World War II, Lake
	started his newspaper career at the Eagle Gazette, a small daily
	in Lancaster, Ohio.  He began working in classified advertising
	and stayed at the Eagle Gazette 10 years.  After returning
	to active duty in the Korean War and a stint as advertising
	manager at the Elizabeth Journal in New Jersey, Lake came to
	St.Petersburg in 1960.	At the Times, the rose from advertising
	director through the ranks until taking over as publisher in 1971.
	He retired in 1964.  His years at the paper were marked by rapid
	circulation growth as the community grew.  The year before Lake
	arrived the Times' daily circulation was 100,000.  The year he
	left, it was 270,000.


Newsday - Nassau County Edition-Newsday; Long Island NY; 2000-1-17

OBITUARIES: LONG ISLAND NEWSDAY, Monday, January 17, 2000; page A31:
John B.  LAKE, 79, Ex-Newspaper Publisher, The Associated Press
John B. (Jack) LAKE, who as publisher of the St. Petersburg Times for
more than a decade say the Newspaper grow into one of the nation's major
dailies as the city he loved grew too, has died.  He was 79.  LAKE was
a community leader as much as a newspaper leader.  He helped bring
the Salvador Dali Museum to St. Petersburg and paved the way for the
city to lure a Major League baseball expansion franchise, the Tampa Bay
Devil Rays.  LAKE died Saturday at his Snell Isle home after an apparent
stroke, family members said.  "Jack LAKE combined newspaper values and
community values better than any man I've known," said Andrew BARNES,
editor, chairman and chief executive officer of the Times.  Along with Jim
HEALEY, LAKE was one of the first to dream that this quiet, but growing
waterfront city across the bay from Tampa should have its own big league
baseball team.  He threw out the first pitch of the first minor league
game when the Devil Rays' farm system started playing.  "He loved St.
Petersburg so much," said baseball legend and close friend Stan MUSIAL.
"Jack was somebody who loved life and loved people."  LAKE started his
newspaper career (after serving in WWII) at the Eagle Gazette, a small
daily in Lancaster, OH.  He began working in classified advertising and
stayed at the Eagle Gazette 10 years.  After returning to active duty in
the Korean War and a stint as advertising manager att he Elizabeth Journal
in NJ, LAKE came to St. Petersburg in 1960.  At the Times, he rose from
advertising director through the ranks until taking over as publisher
in 1971.  He retired in 1984.  His years at the paper were marked by
rapid circulation growth as the community grew.  The year before LAKE
arrived, the Times daily circulation was 100,000.  They year he left,
it was 270,000.  LAKE also served as president of the St. Peterburg Area
Chamber of Commerce and the Suncoast Chamber of Commerce.  "The whole
town and all of FL owe Jack enduring thanks for his civic vision and
dominant leadership," said Eugene PATTERSON, editor emeritus of the Times.
"St. Petersburg is a big-league city and the Times is FL's largest daily
in large part because Jack LAKE came this way."