The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-06-23
GLACIER WINS
FIRST AWARD
CONTEST AT 0. A. C. FARM WEEK
Judges Pay High Tribute to Oregon Press
The Hood River News a
Close Second

!, (From the 0. A. C. news service of
d the Oregonian)
I. The Oregon weekly newspaper rural
service contest, judged at farmers
week, was won by the Hood River Gla-
/, cler with an almost perfect score. AS
OASIS of awards the committee con-
,, , slueIed the amount and quality of
rural news. features and editorials
, written to play up the farm or the
! country dolngs. The Glacier was
nhally selected as the winner of the
loving cup, first place in the contest
Second place was taken easily hv an
other Hood River paper, the News, II
took the judges considerable time and
thought to decide between the News
and the Glacier for first place. as both
were declared to be excellent" The
prize for second place was $40 cash.
The Record -Chieftain of ENTERPRISE.
Wallowa county, was well in advance
OF all others for third, and won the
So cash prize offered.
For fourth place five awards-S4. so
fountain pens We're given. These
were awarded, after a great deal of
discussion on relative values of rural
service, to find which of seven or eight
| had to be eliminated, to the Polk
County Observer, Dallas; Argus. On
tario; Graphic, Newberg; Washington
County NewsTimes. Forest Grove.
and the News-Reporter, McMinnville.
The number of rural stories, total
inches rural service, total inches read
ing matter, exclusive of paid matter.
and ratio of rural to total news matter
of each of the three highest were as
follows:
Glacier-5l rural stories. 241 inches
rural service. 44l inches total reading
matter. This makes 54 per cent
rural service.
News-37 rural stories, l7S inches
rural service. 359 inches total reading
matter, making so per cent rural
service.
Record Chieftain - 36 rural stories.
20l inches rural service, 445 inches
reading matter, making a 40 per cent
rural service.
A letter announcing the winners was
sent to Professor G. j. Mcintosh of the
department of industrial journalism,
who was conducting the contest, bv c..
Il. ingalls,, editor of the Gazette Times
Of Corvallis and president of the State
Editorial association; E. +. Flavelle,
editor of the Western Farmer, and
chairman of the agricultural commit
tee of the Portland Chamber of Com
merce. and W. +. Kennedy, advertis-
ing specialist for j. M. Nolan q Son of
Corvallis, Judges
Your committee appointed to iudqe
the Oregon newspapers probably would
have passed the buck had they known
the kind of job they were getting
into, said the letter. "It was ex-
Lremely difficult among so many very
excellent country weekles to select
aven eight of the top-notchers. In
fact, the committee hesitated long
time IN making a choice for first place
between the two Hood River papers.
There was no question but that one
'r the other of them should have it,
lut which one stumped the committee.
lhe Glacier had bad makeup on its
ront page on account of advertise
nents, but its makeup on the inside
vas better than that of the News,
which had good looking front page.
The committee would have declared
hem tie had they had another cup,
ut the decision was finally given to
he Glacier on account of having sew
raj more articles in the issue on dis
LAY, of a farm news nature, than did
he News.
Third choice was not so difficult,
he committee being unanimous in
andlng 1t to the Enterprise Record
'hiettain, which carried a large num-
er Of mighty good rural interest
tories.
Your committee was glad that it
as permitted to name five fourth
loice" papers, but wished it had been
even. There was no hesitancy about
lcluding the Dallas Observer, the
ewberg Graphic, the Ontario Argus,
ne Washington County News-Times
nd the MeMinnvile News Reporter,
1t there was some hesitancy about
aving out three or four others.
The committee suggests that the
ntest be made an annual feature and
at some arrangement should be made
hereby the papers may be divided in
class according to size, whether or
{ they are county seat papers,
neither or not they use ready prints,
c. For instance, there were num-
r Of papers ftthe smaller size whose
oportion of rural interest news was
lly as great as that of the larger
pers. We understand that the week
S published in plants that also pub.
h dailies were eliminated entirely
cause Of their evident advantage,
{ for the same reason there ought to
some scheme devised whereby the
alier papers could be properly
indicapped'. as they do in races and
#.
The committee was greatly i'm
'ssed with the large amount Of rural
crest news carried by the Oregon
IS. Most of the papers carry fine
portion Of gOod,editorials.
q may be interested TO know that
merchant member of the commit
said merchants prefer to advertise
! paper that has a good editorial
e.