Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 32, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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SOONER STATE PRESS
PAGE THREE
Jones Observes Twentieth
Year as Tribune Publisher
Twenty years of vigorous newspaper
leadership by Richard Lloyd Jones
publisher of the Tulsa Tribune are
portrayed in a big anniversary edition
of the newspaper issued October 8
Jones purchased the Tulsa Democrat
in 1919 and changed the newspaper
into the present Tulsa Tribune
In an autobiographical sketch Jones
said that he was attracted to Tulsa
because it was a growing city in a
state still in the making He came to
Oklahoma after a distinguished writ-
ing and editorial career in the east
and in Wisconsin
Jones became interested in newspa-
per work while studying law in Chi-
cago he narrates After doing some
free-lance work in Chicago he went
east first editing a daily paper at
Stamford Conn and later writing
editorials for the Washington Times
Editor of Cosmopolitan
Then he joined the staff of Cos-
mopolitan and became the magazine's
editor within two months After two
years on the Cosmopolitan he joined
the staff of Collier’s Weekly as as-
sociate editor in charge of special ar-
ticles For nine years he was connected
with this magazine during the period
it was known as a great crusading
journal with articles by such men as
Norman a Hapgood Mark Sullivan
Will Irwin and Samuel Hopkins Ad-
ams During this period Jones became in-
terested in establishing a memorial
to Lincoln and it was thru his efforts
that the famous memorial at Hodgen-
ville Ky was finally built
Fights German Propaganda
After 14 years of editorial work in
the east Jones turned his eyes west-
ward and bought the Wisconsin State
Journal Here he became involved in
one of his most dangerous editorial
fights — the war on German propa-
ganda before and during the World
war Once a bomb was found under
the State Journal’s press His activ-
ities against pro-German propaganda
during the war were done at the spe-
cific request of President Wilson
By the time the war was over Jones
felt inclined to sell his Madison news-
paper property and seek a larger field'
Instead he became attracted with the
idea of starting a paper in the young
state of Oklahoma
He purchased the Tulsa Democrat
from the late Charles Page changed
the name to the "Tribune” after the
old Roman word of the people’s "Tri-
bunal” and launched a new career in
a new state
Besides including the regular Sunday
news section the anniversary issue of
the Tribune contained five tabloid sec-
tions devoted to the oil industry man-
ufacturing history of Tulsa and the
state and prospects for future growth
Besides articles by regular staff
members contributors to the edition
included Mrs Walter Ferguson
Scripps-Howard newspaper column-
RICHARD LLOYD JONES
ist Governor Leon C Phillips John
Francis McDermott Washington uni-
versity historian Gen Hugh S John-
son Scripps-Howard newspaper col-
umnist and Dr Henry G Bennett
president of the Oklahoma A and M
college
Poteau’s First News Sheet
Printed on Wrapping Paper
The first newspaper published at
Poteau was printed on wrapping pa-
per obtained at a general merchandise
store the Poteau News recalled last
week in a special edition devoted to
the forty-first anniversary of the in-
corporation of the city
The earliest Poteau paper was the
Poteau ' Leader established by Ed
Hooker When the first publication
date for the paper arrived newsprint
ordered for the issue had not been
received Rather than be late with
the issue Hooker purchased all the
available paper from a local store and
issued his first edition on wrapping
paper
Strain of 'Hitlerism' Is
Too Much Magee Declares
The German people cannot stand
the "strain of Hitlerism” for another
year Carl C Magee former editor of
the Oklahoma News said in a talk
October 2 before the Gibbons Dinner
club in Oklahoma City
The former Oklahoma editor who
now lives in New Mexico said that
Hitler will fall as soon as public
opinion in his own country goes
against him
Magee said he approves President
Roosevelt’s viewpoint on neutrality'
but warned that "liberty has a to be
fought for” "Let’s keep America out
of war but not by any price” he said
Publisher at Orlando
Is Fatally Injured
In Automobile Wreck
R W Bircket editor and publisher
of the Orlando Citizen was fatally in-
jured in an automobile crash October
6 near Oklahoma City He died a
few hours after he was taken to an
Oklahoma City hospital
Bircket suffered back skull and leg
injuries when the car in which he was
a passenger went 60 feet down a 100-
foot embankment The driver of the
automobile was Miss Della Glidewell
17-year old Guthrie high school girl
Another passenger was her sister Miss
Eva Glidewell 19 year old who was
employed recently as a stenographer
by Bircket
A resident of Orlando for many
years Bircket operated a garage-and -an
implement business in addition to
publishing the newspaper of which
he became publisher last year
Surviving relatives are his wife a
daughter Carol Bircket a sister Mrs
Fred Walker of Orlando and two
brothers Frank Bircket' of Orlando'
and Earl Brickett of California
Several Changes Made
On Paper at Blackwell
Several recent changes on the staffs
of the Blackwell Daily Journal were
announced recently
Cloyd Teter photographer on the
Journal has accepted a position di-
recting a new engraving plant of a St
Petersburg Fla paper Teler an
employe of the journal for five years
had been in charge of the Journal’s
plant since its establishment in 1937
Harold Bishop Blackwell commercial
photographer formerly of Wichita
Kan has taken Teter’ s place
Roger E Rice a member of the
editorial department of the Journal
since 1935 has taken a position with
the Griffith Amusement company at
Stillwater where he is enrolled at the
Oklahoma A and M college He
handles part of the theaters’ advertis-
ing at Stillwater His place was taken
by Philip Burger Blackwell
Dwight Hinshaw advertising sales-
man on the Journal resigned to join
the advertising staff of the Wichita
(Kan) Eagle Hinshaw went to the
Journal from the Eagle in the fall of
1938 Dick Scurlock former mem-
ber of the Blackwell Tribune adver-
tising staff has been employed in Hin-
shaw’s place Scurlock has been oper-
ating a weekly at Littlefield Tex for
the past seven months
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Student Takes Photographs
Betty Buhl Tulsa student in the
school of journalism at the University
of Oklahoma took the photographs
of the annual meeting of Theta Sigma
Phi women’s national journalisma fra-
ternity published in the October issue
of the Matrix official organ of the
society Miss Buhl represented the
Oklahoma chapter of the fraternity at
the convention held in Chicago last
summer
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