Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-18
Nation S Publishers
And Editors Meet in
New York This Week
by the Associated Press


than 1900 newspaper publishers
and editors will participate in
the observance of Newspaper
Week here starting Monday.
President Eisenhower's adj
dress Thursday night in the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel will high
light the weeks activities.
The week will open with the
annual meeting of the Associ-
ated Press Monday. The Amer
lean Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation will hold its annual con-
vention from Tuesday through
Thursday.
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr.. United
States Ambassador to the United
Nations, will address Mondays
APP luncheon.
Two AP staffers held prisoner
by the Communists and released
since last years AP meeting will
be introduced at the luncheon.
They are Frank Noel, who was
captured in Korea, and William
N. Oats, former Prague chief
of Bureau. who was imprisoned
by the Czechs on espionage
charges.
Dictatorship Election.
In a morning session, the APP
members will elect six directors
and vote on applications of Is
newspapers for AP membership.
After the luncheon, four AP
staffers. three of them Pulitzer
Prize winners. will engage in a
panel discussion.
They are Mr.. Noel, who won
the prize for photography in
1913; Relman NORM, who won
the prize in 1851 for his Korean
war coverage; John Hightower,
the 1852 winner for his inter-
national reporting, and Tom
Whitney, who spent nine years
in Moscow. seven of them as an
APP correspondent.
The discussion will be open
to questions from the members.
The moderator will be B. M.
McKelway, editor of The Wash
ington Star and an APP director.
Terms of six APP directors ex-
pire this month.
They are Roy A. Roberts,
Kansas City. MOI. Star; Pal
mer Hoyt. Denver. (Colo). Post;
John S. Knight. Chicago Daily
News; James M. Cox. jr., Day.
ton. (Ohio), Daily News; and
Mark Ethridge. Louisville. (KyD,
Courier-Journal; all represent
ing cities of more than $4,000
population; and Dolph Simons.
Lawrence, KansD. Journal
World, representing cities Of less
than $4,000.
The nominating committee
was unable to renominate Mr..
Roberts and Mr.. Hoyt because
of bylaws limiting the service
of board members to three con-
secutive terms.
The committee re-nominated>
Mr.. Knight, Mr.. Cox and Mr..
Ethridge and nominated seven
other publishers for five direc-
torships representing cities of
more than $4,000.
Seven Nominated.
The seven are: Harold A. Fitz-
gerald, Pontiac, (Mich), Press;
Clarence B. Hanson jr., Birming-
ham. (Ala), Sunday News: Ber-
nard H. Ridder jr., Duluth,
(Minn.) News Tribune; Oscar S.
Stauffer, Topeka, (Kans.). State
Journal; James Kerney. jr.,
Trenton, IN. j., Evening Times;
James A. Guthrie, San Bernar-
dino. (Calif.), Daily Sun: and j.
Hale Steinman, Lancaster, pa.
Intelligencer-Journal.
The nominating, committee
also re-nominated Mr.. Simons
and nominated Clyde E. Palmer,
Ell Dorado, (Ark0, Daily News
for one dictatorship for cities of
less than $4,000.
Newspapers which have applied
for regular AP membership are:
Mountain View (Calif), Daily
Register; Durango (Colo0, Her
ald-News; Loveland (Colo.), Re-
porter Herald; Delaware State
News of Dover, Del; Leesburg
(Fla), Commercial and Ledger;
Panama City Fla.). News; Nor
ris ml0, Herald; Lebanon
IndJ, Reporter; Spencer da.),
Daily Reporter and Sunday
Times; Glasgow CKy0, Times;
Midland (Mich.). Daily News;
Clarksdale (Miss.>, Press Regis