Romney Wheeler, former AP correspondent, dead at 91

COLUMBUS, NORTH CAROLINA - Romney Wheeler, an Associated Press correspondent during World War II and former network media executive, has died in North Carolina at age 91. <br> <br> Wheeler, who died Saturday at retirement home in Columbus, worked for the AP for ten years. He was a war correspondent who also flew in combat with the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Europe in 1945. <br> <br> After the war, Wheeler served briefly as AP&#39;s bureau chief in Amsterdam and then became the news cooperative&#39;s chief diplomatic correspondent in London, covering the Paris peace conference of 1946. He later served in Atlanta as AP&#39;s Southern regional political editor. <br> <br> Wheeler left AP in 1948 to administer the postwar book translation program with Allied occupation forces in Japan. <br> <br> He became NBC&#39;s London bureau news chief in 1950, staying with the company for eight years, later serving as chief of European operations and president of NBC International Ltd. <br> <br> Wheeler became international television services director for the U.S. Information Agency in 1958 and joined RCA four years later as a senior media executive. <br> <br> Wheeler was head of public relations for Michigan utility Consumers Power Company for 12 years before retiring as a vice president in 1976.