Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 58, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 9, 1950 Page: 4 of 4
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rAGE FOUR
SOONER STATE PRESS
Journalism Teachers
In 45 High Schools
Organize New Group
Forty-five high school journalism
teachers who attended the Oklahoma
Education association convention in
Oklahoma City organized the Oklaho-
ma Asociation of Journalism Directors
November 14 It will be affiliated with
the national organization
Mrs Gladys Fischel Capitol Hill
high school Oklahoma City was named
president Others officers are Miss Eliz-
abeth Bonnell Muskogee first vice pres-
ident Mrs Sallie L McGinnis Clare-
more second vice president Orville
Pote Cushing third vice president Mrs
Thelma Coleman Capitol Hill Okla-
homa City secretary-treasurer
One aim of the organization is to
establish journalism as a basic subject
in state high schools It will meet in
February at Stillwater to wTrite a constitution
Weekly Puts Out Extra
The Kiowa County Star-Review Ho-
bart put out a football extra Novem-
ber 9 Advance preparations had been
made in hopes the local Bearcats would
win a championship game When the
game was close until the final whistle
the staff went ahead and put out the
first extra in the 6-year tenure of the
present ownership according to the
column of Clarence Frost publisher He
complimented these employes by name:
Bill Wingo Bake Harbour John-Harbour
Margaret Stillwell Incidentally
the Bearcats did not win
Old Publications Found
Newspapers magazines and almanacs
with dates ranging from 1859 to 1908
were found recently by J M Griffith
Muskogee while helping clean out a
barn Included was a tabloid-size news-
paper the Tahlequah Republican dated
April 5 1900 The editor O W Ors-
born in this issue offered to sell the
newspaper subscriptions advertising
contracts and the plant itself for $280
Other mementos retrieved were flower
and nursery catalogs a medical manual
booklets on the Italian war of 1859 and
railway timetables for 1881
Harvey L Scandrett Retires
Harvey L Scandrett who served in
the Oklahoma City bureau of the Asso-
ciated Press from 1923 to 1931 has re-
tired from the AP after 27 years’ tenure
-with the news service He had been in
the Dallas AP bureau since 1946 Pre-r
viously he had worked in supervisory
capacities in the Kansas City and Wash-
ington bureaus He began his newspaper
career in Kansas at the age of 12 ac-
cording to a story in the current issue
of the AP World
Mrs Floyd Simons is new society edi-
tor and general news reporter on the
Bixby Bulletin A resident of Bixby she
succeeded Miss Betty Compton who
has taken a job in Tulsa with the Bovard
Supply Co
Stromberg New Editor
Of Okemah Leader
Succeeding Anthony
Rolf A Stromberg is the new editor
of the Okemah Daily Leader succeed-
ing Howard A Anthony who resigned
recently as news editor and accepted a
similar post on the Holdenville Daily
News W G Strong is publisher of the
Leader
Stromberg has just returned from a
year’s study at the University of Stock-
holm Sweden He is a former student
at the University of Tulsa where he
majored in journalism served as editor
of the campus newspaper and as assist-
ant in public relations In 1948 he won
the Tulsa Kiwanis speaking contest
During World War II Stromberg
served three years in the airforce and
was a second lieutenant at time of discharge
Women’s Editor Engaged
Miss Mary Ellen Mitchell women’s
editor of the Enid Morning News and
Daily Eagle will be married December
23 to Elwood Britain Lee Norman She
received a BA in Journalism at the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma and worked a year
as reporter and news editor for radio
station KCRC before joining the News
and Eagle Lee is a law student in the
University of Oklahoma The bride-
elect plans to enrol as a graduate stu-
dent in English the second semester
Wife Subs for Editor
When Eugene V DeWitt Shidler
Review publisher editor and printer
became ill and entered a clinic at Win-
field Kan Mrs DeWitt took over the
paper She tried to run the linotype but
in her own printed explanation on page
1 issue of November 9 she “busted” the
machine Undaunted she got out a 4-
page paper anyway setting type by
hand DeWitt returned to Avork about a
Aveek later
Cone Named Ad Manager
Robert O Cone was employed recent-
ly as advertising manager and special
events man on the Midwest City Leader
according to an announcement by
George Winkler editor and publisher
Cone who served in the Democratic
state central committee’s publicity de-
partment during the general election
campaign is a war veteran with 20
years’ newspaper and public relations
experience the Leader stated
Snapping pictures on a Speed Graphic
camera is part of the day’s work for
Mrs June Sager advertising manager of
the Texoman weekly magazine de-
voted to Lake Texoma published by
Herbert J Pate who also publishes the
Madill Record The October issue of
Gamma Alpha Chi News Kansas City
has a picture of Mrs Sager and an ar-
ticle about her She won the Gerald V
Underwood memorial scholarship award
of $200 April 28 at the University of
Oklahoma school of journalism where
she was graduated in June
Houston’s New Play
Will Be Produced
In New York Soon
Noel Houston reporter on the old
Oklahoma News in 1928 and later a
courthouse reporter on the Daily Ok-
lahoman until the late 30’s is author of
a play scheduled for production in Jan-
uary on Broadway in New York It is
his adaptation of Richard Bissell’s wide-
ly acclaimed “A Stretch on the River”
In 1937 the Oklahoman gave him a
leave of absence to recover from ulcers
and to visit Paul Green Pulitzer prize-
winning playwright Subsequently he
was awarded two Rockefeller fellow-
ships and his one-act play “According
to Law” won him the American Civil
Liberties union award He also won a
Dramatist guild fellowship He now
lives in Chapel Hill N C and is best
known for his novel “The Great Prom-
ise” (Reynal and Hitchcock) and for
short stories in the New Yorker
SHOP TALK
Robert A Park Yukon Sun publish-
er won a 20-pound turkey when he
aimed and fired in the turkey shoot east
of town before Thanksgiving
Miss Nyla Jean Mainord Purcell is
new society editor of the Purcell Reg-
ister replacing Mrs Doyle McAfee
who resigned after holding the job the
past year
Mrs A L Barbee Red Bird corre-
spondent for the Alva Weekly News
was recently called to Pampa Tex for
three weeks while her sister and brother-in-law
were hospitalized
The “Starology” column of the Shaw-
nee News-Star states that “Stew” New-
lin former News-Star reporter now
heads the office staff of Governor-elect
Edward F Arn of Kansas
Miss Virginia Browning of Chandler
has withdrawn from the University of
Oklahoma journalism school to take the
job of society editor of the Shawnee
News-Star succeeding Miss Su Miller
society editor the past two years Miss
Miller has taken a secretarial job at
Neff’s Business college Shawnee Miss
Browning has worked on the Wood-
ward Daily Press Alva Review-Courier
and Anadarko Daily News She left the
Daily News in 1949 to enter OU and
while there served a term as society edi-
tor of the Oklahoma Daily
A Holmes Baldridge Oklahoma City
police reporter on the Oklahoma News
after receiving a BA from the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma in 1925 was nomi-
nated as assistant attorney general by
President Truman December 1 He quit
reporting for teaching and in 1931 re-
ceived a law degree at the University
of Nebraska Subsequently he has de-
voted his time to law Since 1937 he has
been in Washington D C where he
was chief of the general litigation sec-
tion of the antitrust division justice de-
partment when Truman nominated
him
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