Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 51, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 29, 1958 Page: 4 of 4
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SOONER STATE PRESS
Left to right Pat Flood Ardmore Oklahoma Daily campus editor Mrs Short
Washington onetime Daily staffer Sue Barton St Louis Mo managing editor
Women Are Able to Cover Top News
In Washington D C Beth Short Says
(Continued from Page One)
wrote of the Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burr presidential hassle and
Anne Royall caught a president in swim-
ming a succession of good newspaper-
women have appeared among those cov-
ering Washington news"
She emphasized that women who
want to write to earn a living or simply
to make a contribution of talent have the
opportunity to do so She continued:
“We have women now in Washing-
ton who are publishers managing edi-
tors and editors They cover science
rocketry high finances politics oil avi-
ation women's wear labor and almost
any specialty you could name — and do it
expertly”
She pointed out that the Associated
Press and United Press International
have had women covering almost every-
thing at one time or another “Charlotte
Moulton has been the UPI expert on the
supreme court for years” she added
Most exciting newcomer in the writ-
ing field is Mary McGrory of the Wash-
ington Star Mrs Short said “Her word
pictures and impressions of the McCar-
thy hearings plus her recent coverage
of the Goldfine hearing and the elec-
tions prompted Washington UPI bu-
reau chief Lyle Wilson onetime Daily
Oklahoman reporter to say 'She is the
greatest since Ernie Pyle and Bob Con-
sidine came to the capital’ ”
' Famous Oklahoma women writers
singled out by Mrs Short included Miss
Edith Gaylord former president of the
Women’s National Press club who docs
a column on magazines for the Daily
Oklahoman and Miss Frances Hunt
public information specialist in the de-
partment of health education and wel-
fare She said that now 110 out of the
795 members of the press galleries are
women During the war there were 125
women
Mrs Short a 1929 University of Ok-
lahoma journalism graduate spoke be-
fore two journalism classes at the uni-
versity “The reporter is just about the most
important person in the United States”
she told Dr C Joe Holland’s news writ-
ing class If a democracy is going to
work she said the nation needs to be
informed and reporters are the key to
keeping the public informed
Personal integrity of a reporter is
probably more important than skill she
emphasized for without it a reporter
may never approach the truth She said
her husband Joseph Short press secre-
tary to President Truman was admired
for his integrity and method of apply-
ing it
She told Prof Grace E Ray’s editing
class how the wire services operate in
the capital She explained: “With a
daily paper somewhere going to press
every minute we had to write new leads
bulletins and sometimes flashes Wire
services have numerous deadlines com-
pared to daily papers”
At OU Mrs Short was Oklahoma
Daily society editor After graduation
she worked on the Springfield (Mo)
Leader and Oklahoma City Times be-
fore going to Washington as AP staffer
in 1936 In Washington she married
Mr Short and he was presidential press
Miami News-Record
Moves From Plant
Used (or 40 Years
The Miami Daily News-Record pub-
lished by C C Woodson has completed
its move from a building it had occupied
for 40 years and is in full production at
a new up-to-date plant better adapted
to its requirements During the move
the paper kept its readers informed by
page 1 pictures and stories An aerial
picture showed both old and new loca-
tions which are about a block apart
Several days were required to move
the 40-ton press but editions printed in
advance were delivered daily during the
move Weekend events which the pre-
dated editions did not cover were sum-
marized later
Woodson said the old News-Record
building would be sold The new home
is in a building erected for store pur-
poses in 1947 It was purchased and
remodeled by the newspaper
In a historical story the News-Record
said two employes have worked for the
paper a total of 66 years They are John
Worley secretary who joined the staff
in 1919 and Grace Maxwell circulation
manager who has 30 years of uninter-
rupted service
Velma Nieberding News-Record re-
porter found in research that the news-
paper and Miami run closely parallel in
development In a historical review she
reported that one of the early papers in
the town was the Miami Republican es-
tablished in 1900 In 1917 it became the
Miami District Daily News which
merged in 1923 with the Miami Daily
Record-Herald forming the present
Daily News-Record
OU Journalism Student
Joins Watonga Weekly
Billy G Foster until recently a jour-
nalism student at the University of Ok-
lahoma has joined the staff of the Wa-
tonga Republican published by Gerald
T Curtin Foster is news editor and
administrative assistant
A graduate of Lawton high school
Foster attended Cameron college Law-
ton where he was vice president of the
student senate and editor of the Cam-
eron Collegian student paper At OU
he served as news editor and staff pho-
tographer on the Oklahoma Daily stu-
dent paper
secretary from 1950 till his death in 1952
She became correspondence secretary
to President Truman the first woman
to hold such a high White House posi-
tion She was publicity director for the
Democratic senatorial campaign com-
mittee 1953-57 then joined Monroney’s
staff
Miss Sue Barton St Louis Mo The-
ta Sigma Phi president and Oklahoma
Daily managing editor presided at the
banquet Miss Pat Flood Ardmore
Daily campus editor introduced the
speaker Miss Peggy O’Rear Altus
served as banquet chairman and gave
the invocation Miss Ray professor of
journalism is Theta Sigma l’hi sponsor
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