Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-03-15

Washington, IL. C.-An aware
honoring James A. Billboard
Jackson, pioneer marketing special
list and advertising executive, has
been created by the National AS.
ISOLATION of Market Developers t.
be given annually to persons ex.
ceiling in marketing and its allied
fields.
The 1858 award will go to Will.
liam O. Walker, co-publisher and
editor of The Cleveland Call and
Post, Cleveland, who is also pres.
ident of the National Newspaper
Publishers Association. Mr.. Walker
will also address NAMD annual
awards dinner to be held in Nash
vile during the associations 18th
annual marketing clinic and con-
vention, March 1922.
On the occasion Of the wards
dinner, which will be held Thurs
day evening, March 20, on the cam
pus of Tennessee A. and l. State
University, NAMD will also honor
men and women who have been
associated with one product for ten
or more years in the area of Negro
market activities. Ramon S
Scruggs, Michigan Bell Telephone
Company, Detroit, head the Awards
Committee for NAMD.
Other participants in the awards
dinner will include DR.. w. S. Da-
Wis, president of the University;
Joe Albright, NAMD president and
director of Albright and Associates,
Nashville, and Moss H. Hendrix,
The Moss H. Hendrix Organization,
Washington, D. c., and NAMD
board chairman, who will read CT
tation for and introduce Mr.. Wal
ker. DR.. William V. Crump, pub
lie relations director and head of
the Division of Business at A. and
l., will serve as POSTMASTER for
the dinner.
specialized Marketing Pro-
grams in Periods of Social Change
has been designated as the theme
of the marketing clinic to be held
on the University campus Thurs
day and Friday, March 20-21. The
clinic is sponsored by the Univers-
ity with the cooperation of the
Market Developers, under the d.
rection of w. V. Harper, chairman
of the institutions Department OF
Industrial Education. A number OF
marketing specialists will serve or
three panels devoted to the clinic
theme.
The clinics keynote session will
open at $3.50 on Thursday morning
March 20, at which time the session
will hear statements by President
Davis, Mr.. Albright, and Mr.. Har-
per. Following the opening cere
monies, Mr.. Albright will moderate
panel session featuring Wendell
P. Aston, ESQ Standard Oil Com.
pany of New Jersey; Clarence
Hottie, Batten, Barton, Durstine &
Osborne; John Hope, IL, Fisk Uni
versity, Nashville, and Louneel
Pemberton, Dayton (Ohio) Urbal
League.
On Thursday afternoon, A. c
Williams, Radio Station VIDAL
Memphis; Edward Davis, Davi
Motor Sales Company, Detroit
Berned Creswell, P. Ballantine an,
Sons, Newark, and Tom Hawkins
Hendrix Organization, will form
panel under the direction of Jess
]. Lewis, Jesse ]. Lewis and Asso
ciates, Birmingham. The morning
panel session will discuss the con
ference theme while in the after
noon attention will be devoted t
local situations.
| The third clinic session will b
held on Friday morning, with tn
NAMD holding its convention i
the afternoon and on Saturda
morning. On Friday mornin
Frank Dee, Schenley Distillers
Dan Kean, Gulf Oil Corporation
William G.. Porter, Anheuser
Busch, Inc, and Herbert W
Wright, Philip Morris 4 Co., Ltd
nc. will be panelists in q discus
ion on national aspects Of tn
theme. Leroy Jeffries, vice pres
ident, Johnson Publishing Com