Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume 31
Norman Okahoma January 14 1939
Number 17
Newspaper Guild’s
Progress Outlined
Jonathan Eddy National Executive
Of Union Gives Talk Before
Oklahoma City Unit
Despite its brief history of five years
the American Newspaper Guild has
“secured almost inconceivable changes
in working conditions of newspaper-
men” Jonathan Eddy national execu-
tive vice president declared in a talk
January 8 at the Hotel Biltmore in
Oklahoma City
The guild Eddy said has accomp-
lished in five years many things which
the International Typographical Union
took 60 years to achieve
Eddy was one of the group of New'
York newspapermen who began the
movement to improve working con-
ditions of newspaper workers when the
NRA codes were being set up in 1934
Guild History Traced
He traced briefly the inception of the
guild and its history and accomplish-
ments His talk was given before
more than 50 members of the Oklaho-
ma City unit of the guild and other
newspaper workers
“At first people jeered at the idea
that newspaper workers of all people
could forget their individualism to or-
ganize into a union for collective bar-
gaining” Eddy said “But the history
of the movement has shown that w'hat
seemed impossible in 1934 is the real-
ity of 1939”
The guild movement he explained
had its inception in the efforts of New
York newspapermen to obtain the ben-
efits of the NRA codes
Resolutions Are Defended
The decision to bargain collectively
and to affiliate with a labor union were
the outstanding disputes in the early
history of the guild Eddy said
The guild leader explained that the
organization’s propensity to pass reso-
lutions for and against things not con-
nected directly with its labor problems
developed by accident out of the first
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Texas Newspaper Opens
Branch Office at Hugo
Establishment of a branch office at
Hugo was announced last week by the
Paris (Tex) News in connection with
the fifth anniversary of its Oklahoma
edition
Miss Gladys M Brewer for many
years Hugo correspondent for the
newspaper will be chief of the bureau
it was announced Paul Lawrence for
several years district circulation repre-
sentative for the Daily Oklahoman and
Oklahoma City Times will have charge
of Oklahoma circulation for the Texas
paper
The anniversary Oklahoma edition of
jhe newspaper contained articles on
business and industry and on outstand-
nK leaders in the southwestern part
1 f the state
U A Albin Pioneer
Oklahoma Editor Die
At Home at Meridian
U S Albin pioneer western Okla-
homa printer and editor died at his
home at Meridian in Roger Mills coun-
ty January 3 after a long illness He
was 89 years old
Albin established the Altruist a
weekly newspaper at Erick in 1902
He later was employed as a printer
on the Sayre Headlight and as editor
of the Texola Tribune
After retiring from newspaper work
Albin served as a justice of the peace
in Roger Mills county for a number
of years
Surviving relatives are five sons R
O Albin of Wichita Kan W C Al-
bin and G M Albin of Sweetwater
Harry Albin of Spring Lake Tex and
George Albin of Reydon and four
daughters Mrs Lillie Maxwell of
Hartford Kan Mrs Lulu Burge of
Ponca City and Mrs Minnie Hodge
and Mrs Eva Guyer of Sweetwater
Altus Paper Challenged
On Matrimonial Record
Friendly rivalry over whose staff has
the best matrimonial matchmaking rec-
ord has broken out between the Perry
Daily Journal and the Altus Times-
Democrat The Times-Democrat began the
fight when Harrington Wimberly
publisher offered a necktie to the edi-
tor who could beat his record since
November 11 1937
W K Leatherock of the Journal
countered with the statement that
while the Times-Democrat has had six
marriages over a period of 14 months
among its employes the Journal has
had three since October 15 1938
“And that is what we believe to be a
much speedier altho not as numerous
record” he commented
Plane Flies Inaugural
Photographs to Tulsa
Pictures of the inaugural ceremonies
for Governor Leon C Phillips at noon
on January 9 were flown from Oklaho-
ma City by the Tulsa Tribune in time
to make the afternoon editions of the
newspaper
The photographs were taken by Bill
Wyatt staff photographer and flown
to Tulsa in a Spartan Executive plane
piloted by Henry C Thompson Jess
Green manager of the Spartan School
of Aeronautics said the plane made
the trip from Oklahoma City to Tulsa
in the record time of 25 minutes The
pictures were published two and one-
half hours after Phillips was sworn in
as governor
The newspaper also gave special
coverage of the inauguration sending
Jrnkin Lloyd Jones associate editor
and William P Steven managing edi-
tor to Oklahoma City to aid its regu-
lar capital correspondent Joseph E
Howell
Program Completed
For Press Meeting
Ten Headline Speakers Will Address
Convention Gridiron Show
To Be Feature
Ten headliners who will give ad-
dresses during the midwinter conven-
tion of the Oklahoma Press association
January 19 to 21 in Oklahoma City
were announced this week by Vernon
T Sanford secretary-manager
In addition several state newspaper
editors advertising men and staff
members will speak
The principal speakers will be Gov-
ernor Leon C Phillips Thomas V
Barnhart professor of journalism at
the University of Minnesota John E
Allen editor of the Linotype New's
Mrs Edna Eaton Wilson Ripley
Stillwater Gazette rural correspondent
who was named the best country cor-
respondent last year by a national mag-
azine Frank W Rucker publisher of
the Independence (Mo) Examiner
Gridiron Invitations Sent
Henry W Boggess Tulsa president
of the Oklahoma State Safety Council
Charles H Wiseman editor of Pub-
lishers’ Idea Exchange DesMoines
Iowa E K Burns Southwestern En-
graving company Tulsa and Arne
Rae managing director of the National
Editorial association
Invitations to the annual gridiron
banquet to be given Friday night Janu-
ary 20 by the Oklahoma City Grid-
iron club were mailed out this wreck
by O W McKowen Western News-
paper Union secretary-treasurer
Tickets to members of the Oklaho-
ma Press association McKowen said
will sell for $2
Dinners to Be Held
This year’s gridiron play written by
Ray J Dyer El Reno Daily Tribune
and Russell Hogin Oklahoma City
newspaperman will be centered around
the personality of Oklahoma’s new
governor Leon C Phillips The title
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Picture Short Course
Set for April 13 to 15
Dates for the third annual photog-
raphy short course held by the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma school of journal-
ism have been set for April 13 to 15
Albert A Sutton director of the
course announced this week
The general plan of instruction will
follow that of previous years with sep-
arate courses for beginners amateurs
and professionals
Well-known photography experts
from newspapers and magazines will
act as lecturer and instructors on the
course
Jack Price New York photographer
and author of a column in Editor and
Publisher will return to Norman to
head the instructional staff again this
vear Sutton said Price took part in
both the previous short courses
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