Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 1, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume 34
Norman Oklahoma November 1 1941
Number 8
Two Oklahomans
To Get Positions
On Chicago Paper
Charles G Werner Debs Myers
Resign to Join Marshall Field
Publication to Be Launched Soon
Two Oklahomans were called this
week to take topflight positions on the
new Chicago morning newspaper soon
to be launched by Marshall Field
They are Charles G Werner staff
cartoonist for the Daily Oklahoman and
Debs Myers United Press bureau man-
ager in Oklahoma City Werner report-
edly will received a salary of $10000 a
year and the change will mean a $1200
yearly pay increase for Myers
Werner who received the 1938 Pu-
litzer prize for the best newspaper car-
toon of the year has in the past two
Sars increased his national reputation
any of his cartoons for the editorial
page of the Oklahoman have been re-
printed in magazines as telling interpre-
tations of national and world events
Won Pulitzer Prize
When he won the Pulitzer prize in
1938 Werner was the youngest cartoon-
ist ever to receive the award He began
his newspaper career on the Springfield
(Mo) Leader as a cartoonist and pho-
tographer — mainly the latter
In 193S Werner went to the Okla-
homan as an artist and retoucher His
flair for cartooning received encourage-
ment from the newspaper and in 1938
he began doing a daily political cartoon
for the editorial page of the Oklahoman
His Pulitzer prize winning drawing
depicted a scroll emblematic of the No-
bel peace prize lying across a grave with
a headstone and the epitaph “Czecho-
slovakia 1918-1938’’ The caption for the
cartoon was “Nomination for 1938”
Began Career in Wichita
Myers began his newspaper career on
the Wichita (Kan) Eagle and had
worked on the Eagle seven years when
he resigned as city editor five years ago
to join the United Press in Kansas City
as rewrite man After nine months in
Kansas City he was transferred to the
Oklahoma City bureau
He has been bureau manager in Okla-
homa City since 1937 except for one
four-month period spent in the New
York office
Myers’ successor in the Oklahoma
City office had not been named this
week
Maverick Staff Chosen
Dona Denison Ponca City has been
named to succeed Pansy Plumlce Ton-
kawa as editor for the next five weeks
of the Maverick student weekly at the
Northern Oklahoma Junior college
Other new appointments are J Guy
Ziegler Ponca City sports editor Anna-
bel Holmes Billings associate editor
and Rosy Axton Enid and Mull Plum-
Ice Tonkawa news editors
Large Advertising Campaign
To Go to Oklahoma Papers
Chandler Editor
Asks Court Writ
To Open Records
A fight to force city officials to open
records to the public was started last
week by Miss Margaret Eakin editor
of the Chandler News-Publicist with the
filing of a mandamus action in district
court
Miss Eakin declared she had asked
the mayor the city attorney and the mu-
nicipal judge for permission to see pub-
lic records and had been refused on order
of Mayor R E Dixon
The mayor Miss Eakin said told her
“Chandler is too small a town to have
everyone knowing what goes on in po-
lice court and otherwise"
Miss Eakin asked for public support
of her fight in a front-page editorial cap-
tioned “What Do City Officials Have to
Conceal?”
“Why can’t the records of city busi-
ness be seen?” Miss Eakin asked in the
editorial “Is there something there that
the mayor doesn’t want the general pub-
lic to know? Do elected city officials have
the right to conceal any action that in-
volves city business which they are elect-
ed to transact for taxpayers?”
To get the answer to these questions
Miss Eakin filed a petition for a writ of
mandamus and hearing on the applica-
tion has been set for November
Even if denied the mandamus writ
Miss Eakin in her editorial pledged her-
self to find out all she can about munici-
pal affairs “As a factual reporting or-
ganization the News-Publicist is re-
sponsible to its readers and will delve
into every act of the city record or no
record” the editorial stated “We feel we
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Newspapermen to Aid
Tuberculosis Campaign
Four representatives of state news-
papers spoke last week at district meet-
ings of the Oklahoma Tuberculosis asso-
ciation held to plan the annual sale of
Christmas seals
The speakers were C M Bartlett
publisher of the Miami News-Record
at the Miami district meeting Harring-
ton Wimberly publisher of the Altus
Timcs-Dcmocrat at the Altus district
meeting R F Story publisher of the
Durant Daily Democrat at the Duranf
district meeting and Miss Katherine
Stull writer for the Muskogee Phoenix
at the Muskogee district meeting
Roscoe Belcher publicity director for
the Oklahoma state free fair spoke at
the annual state association meeting Oc-
tober 21 in Oklahoma City
One of the biggest advertising cam-
paigns ever obtained for small-city pa-
pers in Oklahoma will be explained to
state publishers and advertising man-
agers at a special meeting in Oklahoma
City November 4
The big account is one sponsored by
the United States navy in its volunteer
enlistment program The first series of
four advertisements to be issued in the
opening stage of the campaign win
amount to approximately $45000
Announcement of the special meeting
November 4 was made by Vernon T
Sanford secretary-manager of the Okla-
homa Press association at the meeting
of the advertising managers’ department
October 26 The meeting will begin at
noon at the Hotel Biltmore
Agency' Men to Speak
Details of the program will be ex-
plained at the meeting by representatives
of Batten Barton Durstine and Os-
borne Inc New York advertising agen-
cy Representatives to be present at the
meeting will include Bruce Barton J H
Kelly and George Gouge The United
States navy also will have representa-
tives present to explain the program
The initial phase of the program calls
for the insertion of four advertisements
totaling 1000 lines at the regular na-
tional rates of the newspapers
Newspapers showing good results
from the first four advertisements as in-
dicated by queries and enlistments re-
ceived by the navy will be eligible for
the second part of the campaign The
second phase of the program it is be-
lieved also will bring about $45000 to
papers in the area
Small Cities Selected
Oklahoma was selected as one of the
states in the navy program because it
has a high navy enlistment record Man-
agers of the campaign it was reported
are carrying on the campaign in areas
which have already indicated an interest
in the navy because they feel results will
be better than if they had to start to
build interest from the ground up
Advertising orders for the first four
advertisements in the series will be
placed in legal newspapers in towns of
under 50000 population All eligible pa-
pers must have a paid circulation and
second-class mailing permits
Also scheduled to appear on the pro-
gram at the November 4 meeting are
Governor Leon C Phillips Max Fife
Blackwell state commander of the Ameri-
can Legion and Alex Williams Musko-
gee state commander of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars
The luncheon which will start the
meeting will be a “dutch treat” affair
Sanford announced
Miss Haze) Fowler reporter on the
Oklahoma City Times was married Oc-
tober 26 at Nashville Tenn to Bowen
Nelson Miami Fla
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