e and White Wins rombie Allen Newspaper Award
ecord Croup Attends Newspaper Day
An Estimated 400 Students, Teachers on Campus Today
IC Schedules lour-Edifice uilding Boom
| An estimated 400 student journalists, representing about southern California high schools and junior colleges, to-r attended SC’s 24th annual Newspaper day program.
Part of the day’s program included talks by prominent ^irnalists and educators, and an inspection of SC’s facilities.
¥■ The assembly opened with greet-I ings to the visiting journalists from Gerald Maher. Daily Trojan editor, j Then Prof. Roy L. French, director of SC's School of Journalism and chairman of the program, introduced Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, who extended a welcome I to the student journalists.
Sara Boynoff. cf the Los Angeles Daily News, spoke on “A Woman rst steps in the development of on General Assignment.” reater university will be taken Virgil Pinkley, editor and pub-year when four new buildings lisher. Los Angeles Mirror, discus-on campus.	"
The planned structures will cost million, and they are scheduled be ready for the opening of es in September.
’rews have already bored founda-test holes behind the Student |ion where a new $600,000 stu-|it cafeteria will be built. The cafeteria will more than double ^sent eating facilities.
)ld College, long a landmark cn campus has been torn down to te room for a $1 million four-Jry classroom-office structure for College of Letters. Arts, and fences. Construction on the new ilding is scheduled to start next bnth.
$1,240,000 women's dormitory,
1st unit of a proposed $10 million fadrangle, will be started soon, lie residence halls will house 200 |>men. They will be built in the
of a four-story “H fronting ! ed each June to a bey and 34th and 35th streets between j high school graduate.
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Los Angeles, Calif., Saturday, Mar. 26, 1949
Here's Afternoon Clinic Schedules
Clinics at 1 p.m. today include: High School editors and staffs. Meets in 2C6 Administrat'on.
Junior college editors and staffs. Mee's in 305 Administration.
High school and junior college newspaper business staffs. Meets in 305 Administration.
High school and junior college Yearbook staffe. Meets in 251 Administration.
Newspaper publishers’ conference in Faculty club.
sed “Eirth Pangs of a Metropolitan
Daily.”
Journalism awards were made at 11:30. Professor French announced the journalism scholarships award-
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rueroa street and Hoover boule Jrd.
)ne of the first wings will be Jown as Elisabem von KieinSmid smorial hall in honor of the late Ife of Chancellor Rufus B. von |einSmid. It will.hcuse American !>men students.
$100,000 armory for the Naval sserve Officers Training corps will built to provide a drill floor and simulated Hip frcm which future admirals m direct the “firing" of guns on he deck below.
In addition to the new buildings, $600,000 rehabilitation program .’as completed early this year. It lcluded reroofing some cf the cam-bus buildings, painting, installation bf new laboratory equipment and jumlture, plumbing and electrical pork, and flooring repairs.
SC Grads Fill Colorful Jobs
Maher Wins Award for
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Best Editorial
Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker presented the Ruth Apperson Eaker editorial award to Gerald Maher, editor of .he Daily Trojan, today. This award, e3tablislied by Gen. Eaker in 1934, is presented each year to the SC student who writes the best editorial printed in the Daily Trojan.
Maher attended Messmer high school in Milwaukee where he edited the school paper. After three and one-half years service in the Army, 31 months of it overseas, Maher entered SC. Since that time he ha", filled nearly every job that goes into the making of the Daily Trojan.
The award is maintained by General and Mrs. Eaker to encourage the development of skill in present-: ing good editorial opinion. The winner receives a prize of $20 and j his name is inscribed on the plaque which hangs in the Daily Trojan city rcom.
Members of the School of Journalism staff served as judges this year.
TODAY'S PROGRAM
The schedule for the 24th annual Newspaper day has been outlined by its originator, Marc N. Goodnow, lecturer and field worker in journalism, as follows:
9—Registration in the Arcade of the Administration building. 9:30—Assembly in Bovard auditorium.
Greetings by Gerald Maher, Daily Trojan editor.
Introductions by Prof. Roy L. French, chairman.
Welcome by Tracy E. Strevey, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. *
“A Woman on General Assignment,” by Sara Boynoff, Los Angeles Daily News.
“Birth Pangs of a Metropolitan Daily,” by Virgil Pinkley, editor and publisher, Los Angeles Mirror.
11:30—Announcement of journalism scholarships by Prof.
Roy L. French.
Ruth Apperson Eaker Editorial Award by Lt. Gen. Eaker.
The Crombie Allen Award presented by Lowell E. Jessen, SC ’24, publisher, Turlock Daily Journal and President California Newspaper Publisher’s association.
Announcements (luncheon, escorts, tour of campus, clinics).
12:30—Box luncheon in the Patio.
1—Clinics, panels, discussions.
Today's Speaker
Best Editorial Award Presented by Eaker
Alumni of the SC School of Journalism hold varied and inter-bridge'’ of a fight:ng | esting jobs. They work in radio.
public relations, government, and
for the wire services, as well as In virtually every capacity on newspapers .hroughout the West Coast.
Recent graduates include Richard New, public relations officer for the army in San Francisco, and Neil Clcmans, feature writer and photographer for the Los Angeles Mirror.
Two Schools Tie For Trip Honors
Four students and Adviser Bertha C. Oakley from Calipatria h'gh school share top honors for the longest trip to SC’s newspaper day program with four s udenis and Adviser J. E. Wame from Brawley Union high school, according to registrations made by late Thursday.
No word had b.?en received from Needles, last year’s distance record holder, by Thursday night.
Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commanding general of the Eighth Bomber Command in England during World War II. was the guest cf honor today when he presented the annual Eaker award to the student who wrote the best editorial published in the Daily Trojan during this last year.
Soon after graduating from SC in 1S32, he established the Eaker
eral Eaker in 1943, which acknowledged his position as one of the most outstanding “Sons of Troy.”
He served a tour of duty in the Philippines in a squadron and rose to the position of executive officer in the Department Air Office in 1920 and then to the command of the Philippine Air Depot at Manila.
He received an Oak Leaf Cluster on his D.F.C. for participating as
Annual Award in the name of his ™ of the Pilots in the now-famous
wife. Each succeeding year the name of the winner has Hlen added to the bronze plaque which is on display in the city-rocm of the Daily Trojan.
The Call Alumni Achievement Trophy, highest honor the SC Alumni association can pay to one of its members, was awarded to Gen-
refueling endurance flight cf the Army plane “Question Mark” over Los Angeles in 1929.
He was still a captain when he attended SC to obtain his degree in journalism. As evidence of the seriousness of his studies here, he has collaborated with his superior, General “Hap” Arnold, on several books, notably "This Flying Game” and “Winged Warfare.”
On the eve of World War II, he was ordered, to Mitchell Field in New York. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, on Feb. 20, 1942, Brigadier General Eaker arrived in England as head of the Eighth Bomber command, second in command to Major General Spaatz, who was then head of the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe.
Always an exponent of heavy-daylight bombing, he sent the first American raid over Europe. The raiding force consisted of just 12 bombers. Frcm this small start the raiding forces grew until a 1000 plane raid became an ordinary event.
Mirror Chief Edited Trojan
Virgil Pinkley, top speaker of today’s program, and editor-publisher of the Los Angeles Mirror, headed the Daily Trojan in his senior year. He was graduated in 1929.
He joined the United Press the same year and was sent to the London bureau. He was assistant
Newspaper Honored For 48 Progress
Bakersfield’s Blue and White has been selected as the high school paper that has shown the greatest improvement between Jan. 1948 and Jan. 1949. It was awarded the Crombie Allen trophy today at the Newspaper Day awards assembly in
Bovard auditorium at 11:30. *---
A representative of the Blue and
White staff was presented the trophy by Lowell E. Jessen, publisher of the Turlock Daily Journal and president of the California Newspaper Publishers association.
Faculty members of the School of Journalism selected the Blue and White from a field of 17. Judging wzl based on improvement in typography, page 1 make-up, readability, art and attractiveness, press work, editorial page, sports page, features, variety of interest and enterprise, and newspaper style.
The Crombie Allen award was begun in 1929 by Allen, former publisher of the Ontarion Daily Report, “to stimulate improvement in the standards of high school papers.”
Redland’s Hcbachi won the trophy last year.
COPY DESK of the Daily Trojan is shown in full action. After a reporter writes a story and it is accepted by the news desk, a desk editor specifies a headline size
Courtesy LA Mirror
for it and hands it to a copyreader to check for errors in grammer, spelling, and fact and write a headline. The copy then goes to the printer to be set up in type.
tudents Labor on Operation DT
by Ken Downs
"What in the name of old Joe ilitzer is this stuff?”
This, bellowed by the news edi-jr. is usually a cub reporter's in-luction to the working process If the Daily Trojan.
From the news desk, the story i After the copy and head are will be given to tne desk editor, checked and rechecked by the desk He has been given instructions on editor and his assistant, they are
certain story positions by the managing editor. The DE has a “dummy” page on which the business manager has marked off the ad space. He will check the dummy The "stuff is a Siorv for the page for a place to put the story,
write a headline number on the coov, and fl p it to a copyreader.
The copyreader will slash through the stcry with his black pencil and laboriously write a headline. The head must fit a limited space, and usually the copyreader
place. There is usually a disagreement between the editors and the compositor over where the stories should be placed. Editors learn to hate compositors.
This process began at 1:30 p.m.
laper. It was assigned by the news fditor. who got a Up from cne of nany handouts or pi^^’ines cn cam— 3us. or was dug up by the reporter an his beat.
After the news editor has the re-;rter rewrite the story a few times.
will reluctantly accept it. Re- enough room to write a decent head. |porters learn to ha.s the news edi- Copyreaders learn to hate desk edi-
i tors.
sent down to the printshop.
When all the copy is prepared for the printer, everyone goes home except the desk editor, a few copy-
readers, and the editors handling j and usually the last page proof is the feature, sports, or womens’ pages. They grab a fast hamburger and plod over to the shop. They learn- to hate hamburgers.
At the printers, they all correct galley proofs and rewrite heads that haven't come out right. After the hasn’t j proofs are corrected, the page editors get in the way of the compositor putting the stories, which are now ife* type, into their proper
Newswomen Pledge One
Theta Sigma Phi, national professional and honorary fraternity for women in journalism, has pledged Betty Bowles, DT assistant women’s editor.
Requirements for membership are a 1.5 accumulative grade average, a 1.5 in journalism, and outstanding ability in the field.
Purpose of Theta Sigma Phi is
VIRGIL PINKLEY . . . Mirrorman
manager in Rome in 1934 and, in 1937, he returned to London as chief editor and general manager, continental department.
He was made general European manager of United Press in 1943 and became vice-president in 1944.
Pinkley covered the European war from beginning to end and was slightiy wounded while with the African campaign of the British Eighth army. The United States awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the highest award the government gives to a civilian.
Among his “beats,” Pinkley claims a six-weeks exclusive on the Hoover moratorium, a prediction of the Italian-Ethopian war “within 48 hours,” and the forecast of the German move into Poland. Pinkley was granted the only exclusive interview General Eisenhower gave during the war.
He includes among his bigger prewar stories the Bonus march on Washington in 1931. the first of the series cf Roosevelt inaugarations, audiences with kirtgs, rulers, and popes, and the Franco victory parade in 1938.
Panels Survey News Twists
Newspaper clinics, panels, and discussions headed by SC faculty members and student executives of the Daily Trojan and El Rodeo will be held at 1:00 today to discuss the twists of the news trade.
High school editors and their staffs convene in Administration 206 for a discussion with William A. Glenn, professor of journalism, and Gerald Maher, editor of the Daily Trojan. Junior college editors and staff will meet Miss Mabel A. Stanford. junior college journalism instructor. and Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, assistant professor in journalism.
High school and junior college business staffs will meet Robert Wilmsen, DT business manager, and Kenneth K. Stonier, SC publications head in Administration 351. High school and JC yearbook staffs will talk with Virgil Lubberden and Earl Anderson in Administration 251.
A Newspaper publishers conference will be held in the Faculty Club, third-floor. Student Union. Lowell E. Jessen, president of the California Newspaper Publishers association, will preside.
Marc Goodnow Recalls History Of SC N-Day
SC played host to high school and junior coUege journalists for the first time in 1922, when Marc N. Goodnow, instructor in journalism, founded Newspaper day.
This, the 24th annual event, will be the last one under the personal sponsorship of its founder, who will retire in July after 30 years of teaching.
Mr. Goodnow conceived the idea of Newspaper day with the purpose of allowing journalism students opportunities “lo near shop talks, study each other's papers, and, through prizes, to raise the standards and tones of journalism in Southern California.”
Except for two years suspension during the war, the event has been held each spring to bring students and teachers from schools of journalism onto campus for a day to attend clinics and speeches on new-paper work.
Except for the war. Newspaper day's only enemy has been the weather. Mr. Goodnow recalls that rain has sometimes marred the day’s activities.
A. tendance'at the event has varied from 350 to more than 500 in the years that Mr. Goodnow has officiated- Lunch was served for a time in the foyer of Town and Gown, and also in the old YMCA hut, which once stood just south of the Student Union.
Owl Informs Swingshifters
Hold on, people! The Daily Tro-janisn't the only paper around these
parts.
Across the street from the SU is another going publication, the Trojan Owl, with offices on the ground floor of the Administration building (only one flight up).
The Owl caters to the more than 11,000 readers of the University College, or night school, trade. The sheet is a weekly tabloid, and comes out every Monday through the leg-work of first-semester reporters. “Today's News Next Monday” is our unofficial mctto, but we do manage to scoop our foster relative, the DT, once in a while.
Bill Ahlborn and Dick Frahm are this year's head copy butchers. Jim Kalivas is connoisseur cf sports, and Hal Levich handles yams that fall under the heading, “features.’’
pulled and the paper is ready for j Vhe Los Angeles alumnae chapter, the presses about 11 pm.	composed of Theta Sigs from all
distinguish themselves in journalism, to achieve definite standards ,	, in the field, and to improve work- ; Redondo High T* f ing conditions fcr women in jour- ; Grossmont Football ^?h08S 1
nalism.	Santa Barbara Forge...... 1
Mark Keppel Aztec....... 1
Anaheim Anoranco........ 1
— Allen Award Scoring —
EXPLANATION OF SCORING. Judffinx wa* based on the decree of Improvement in issues of January 1949 over tho*e of January 1948. Consideration was Riven the following: factors:
A - Typography; B - Pace 1 Makeup; C - Readability; I) - Art Work and Attractiveness; E - Press work; F - Editorial Pace;
J - Variety of Interest and Enterprise: ]
High School Paper	A
Bakersfield Blue & White..	1 S. D. Herbert Hoover
Cardinal..........................2
Covina Cardinal & White..	1
I Gardena Lark........................1
Redlands Hobachi................1
....	1
Next day, the executive editor, ; over the U.S, annually sponsors a
who is guiding hand of all, goes through the paper with a large red pencil, marking what is wrong. Everyone hates the executive editor, but the reporters proudly point out their stories, the copyreaders smile over their good heads, and the page editors admire their makeup.
“Ladies of the Press” breakfast to honor women working in the field.
President of the SC chapter is Mary AnA Cailan, and alumna adviser is Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, assistant professor of journalism. Ursula Baumann is the chapter’s active member.v
Banning Port Light....... 0
Bell Gardens Lancer
Scroll................ 0
Brawley Wildcat.......... 1
Washington Surveyor..... 1
Whittier Cardinal & White 0
L. A. Poly Optimist........ 0
South Pasadena Tiger .... 1
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Fun Magazine Is Unspeakable
by Ben vVetnbery
About the only phase of collegiate journalism that is not getting the benefit of a panel discussion today is the operation and maintenance of a humor magazine.
Not that any such discussion would end up in a coke-smoke-joke session, but there doesn’t seem to be any set formula for a humor magazine except that it be funny. If any of the so-called “free forms" in art apply to literature, college humor magazines are about as unshackled as they come.
The Wampus is SC’s humor magazine, bom cf travail, bred in frustration, and dying a cudden death if the readers don’t like it.
Actually, it serves a better end than some persons think. It's not supposed to compete with the New Yorker cr S. J. Perelman, and it doesn’t, but it does serve as a practical laboratory for students interested in magazine work whether they be writers, artists, production workers, cr t>f a business-side bent.
Although it is under the wing of the department of journalism, staff members and contributors are drawn from the entire student body.
All in all, it’s a lot cf fun. The staff has a good time putting the magazine together, especially in their idea sessions, and ?-ny one connected with it learns something about magazine production.
Who needs a panel discussion? Next month well do a take-off on the Congressional Record!
DT Costs 45Gs Yearly
The Daily Trojan, rounded in 1909, has progressed through he tagss of a weekly, semi-weekly, and triweekly to a point where today it is a daily of approximately 7000 c rcuiation.
Forty-five thousand dollars a year is cpent in publishing the paper which is provided to the student bedy free.
A small salary i: paid to the editor, managing editor, news editor, and bu iness manager. Commissions of 15 per cent are paid to students who sell adverti:ements.