James Gallacher Lang
Kentucky Post, Friday, 25
May 1945, page 1
CANDIDATE-James G Lang of Bellevue, associated with the dining car department of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Friday announced that he is a candidate for sheriff of Campbell county on the Democratic ticket in the Aug 4 primary. Mr. Lang said:
"I believe I have the necessary qualifications to conduct the affairs of the sheriffs office. I have been active in the Democratic party for many years and have been an employee of the C&O Railroad and a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and believe I will have a strong support from labor." Mr. Lang resides with his wife and family at 353 Berry avenue, Bellevue.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 9 October 1945, page 1
RALLY-James G Lang, Democratic nominee for Sheriff will be the principal speaker at 8 pm Wednesday when the Campbell county Democratic campaign is formally launded at Eagles Hall, Fairfield and Berry avenues, Bellevue.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 7 November 1945, page 1
FOR SHERIFF-James G Lang (D) 4865; C A Pop Keslar (R) 4283
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Kentucky Post, 9 December 1999
James ''Jim'' Lang was "a man of great ideas," said his wife Ann. Mr. Lang was one of the founders of WNOP (AM 740), an all-jazz radio station that is still on the air in Cincinnati. ''He could just look at something and know what to do with it,'' said Mrs. Lang, who worked at the station with her husband. ''He had wonderful ideas about everything.''
Mr. Lang, 93, died Wednesday at Highlands of Fort Thomas Nursing Home. WNOP was at first a hodgepodge of entertainment, featuring politicians and entertainers who came to town, Mrs. Lang said. The station then went from all-country to all-jazz before the Langs sold it in 1972.
Their next venture was a small religious radio station in the heart of the Bible Belt, Alabama, where Mr. Lang was born. He owned and programmed the Alabama Religious Broadcasting Co. and Mrs. Lang handled the finances until 1996. ''Jim was the brains behind it,'' Mrs. Lang said. ''He just had a lot of fun.'' Mr. Lang, Campbell County sheriff from 1946 to 1950, was also involved with politics, his wife said. ''That gave him an opportunity to be around people,'' she said. ''He just loved people.''
He was also an elder of First Presbyterian Church in Fort Thomas and a member of Henry Barnes Masonic Lodge No. 607 in Dayton. A daughter, Anna Marie Scholl, preceded him in death. Other survivors include a son, James E. Lang of Lexington; daughters, Linda Gard of San Antonio and Polly Palmer of Fort Thomas; a sister, Rena White of Satellite Beach, Fla.; 11 grandchildren and six grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian
Church of Fort Thomas. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Dobbling
Funeral Home, Fort Thomas. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate.