FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1939
DAILY NEDRASKAN
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61 head Nebraska press
association since founding
, 34 still living include Edgar Howard, Will Maupin,
' Dwight Griswold, Horace Davis, Marie Weekes
Founded in 1859 as a more or
less temporary organization, but
later solidly constitutionalized
into a lasting Nebraska institu
tion, the Nebraska State Tress as
pociation has been headed by 61
presidents.
According to records preserved
by Historian Henry Brainerd, 34
past presidents are still living,
among them Edgar Howard,
staunch old Columbus politician
who has seen service in Washing
ton; Will M. Maupin, chairman of
the state railway commission;
Horace M. Davis, now state fire
marshall; Dwight Griswold, Ne
braska republican leader who filled
in the term of Thomas Osterman
Jn 1031 upon the latter's death;
and Marie O'Donnell Weekes, Nor
folk, the only woman ever to head
an American State press associa
tion. Father and Son.
Lyman Cass, editor of the Ra-
Tenna News, is the only past pres
ident whose father was president
of the group before him. Lyman
Cass headed the association in
!I35, and his father, C. B. Cass,
who also edited the Ravenna
News, served in 1918.
Herbert Bushnell, one time ed
itor of the Lincoln Daily Call, was
president of the association from
1887 to 1890, the longest term any
president has served.
The complete list of past presi
dents: 18.'i9 Miltnn W. Reynolds, Nebraska City
Npwf.
18B4 T. H. Ri.tpfrtnon. Lincoln Pallv Call.
1K70 St.. A. D. Kalcombe, Omaha Repub
lican. JR73 O. H. V.err, Nebraska State Journal.
IMS Wcbuter Katon, Kearney Nonpareil
Pro.
1878 Webster Eaton, Kearney Nonpareil
Preaa.
1877 J. 8. McBrlde, NebraHka Farmer,
Lincoln.
1878 John Alrxnnricr MacMurphy, Platt-
mnulh Herald.
1879 Thomas Wolte. Seward Reporter.
lfc0 C. H. Gere. Nebraska Slate Journal.
18X1 Mentor A. Brown, Beatrice Kxpreas.
1882 K. M. Correll. Hebron Journal,
1883 Krrrt Nve, Fremont Tribune.
18hfl K. M. Correll, Hebron Journal.
1887 Herbert M. Bushnell, Lincoln Dallv
Call.
1888 Herbert M. Bushnell, Lincoln Dally
Call.
1899 Herbert M. Bushnell, Lincoln Pally
Call.
1890 C.eorj:e P. Marvin. Beatrice Pemocrat.
1891 Frank O. Simmons, Seward Reporter.
1892 Frank G. Simmons, Seward Reporter.
1893 Frank O. Edgecombe, Falls pity
I Journal.
.894 R. G. Hammond. Fremont Tribune
1895 Charles M. Huhner, Nebraska City
News.
189 W. M. llayton. York Republican.
1897 F. M. Kimball, McCook Tribune
1898 Fdgar Howard, Papilllon Times."
1899 W. N. Huse. Norfolk News.
900 W. M. Maupin, OerlnK Midwest.
901 D. O. Cronln. O'Neill Frontier.
1902 A. W. Ladd, Albion News.
1903 Adam P. rede. Hasting" Tribune
1904 C. J. Bowlby, Crete Democrat!
190. John Donovan, Madison Star-Man.
1908 Frank F. Reed, Rhelton Clipper.
1907 Henry C. Richmond, Omaha Ne-
braskan.
1908 L. D. Varner. Sterling Sim.
1909 N. J. Ludl. Wahoo Iemocrat.
1910 Asa B. Wood, Oertnt; Cour.er.
1911 John M. Tanner, South Omaha Pem
ocrat.
1912 H. O. Taylor, Central City Nonpareil.
1913 C. W. Poole, Johnson County Journal.
1914 H. A. Brainard, Hebron Champion.
1915 H. M. Davis, Ord Journal.
191(1 Davis continued In office.
1917 Clark Davis, short term,
1918 C. B. Cass, Ravenna News.
1019 W. C. Israel, Havelock Post.
1920 K. R. Purcell, Custer County Chief.
1921 Cieore C. Snow, Chndton Journal.
1922 J. P. O'Furey, Cedar County News.
1923 Jack K. Kroh, Keith County Ncwb.
1924 Marie O. Weekes. Norfolk Tress.
1925 W. O. Brown, Friend Sentinel.
192B J. a. Aiden, York Republican.
1927 H. P. T-tfRiSilt, Ord Quiz.
1928 C. R. Kuhle. Lei(;h World.
1929 J. F. Webster, St. Paul Phonofiaph.
1930 Fred H. Price, Newman Crave Re
porter.
1931 T. T. Osterman, Plair Pilot Tribune.
1M2 PwlKht P. (1rlswoM. Gordon Journal.
1933 J. Hyde Sweet, Nebraska City News
Press.
1934 L. A. Glasshurn, Exeter F 'erprise.
195 l.yman C. Cans, Ravenna I. ws.
1936 W. H. Plourd, Nance County
Journal.
1937 Ralph Kellev, Atkinson Graphic.
1938 S. W. Thurber, Terumseh Chieftain.
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and tribulations of the unicameral
system.
Those taking part in tonight's
performance: Verne Geissinger,
Otho Cooper, Virginia Nolte, Grace
Elizabeth Hill, Doris Poellot, Sarah
Louise Meyer, Erwin Roeser, Rich'
ard Rider and Ray Brown. Ar
mand Hunter will act as master of
ceremonies; Portia Boynton is to
accompany the singing. Scripts
for the show were written by
members of the Lincoln Press
club.
Nebraska Press Ass'n.
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Lincoln Journal.
GEORGE GROSS.
Well and ablv represented in
Nebraska's second unicameral
legislature is the state's rank of
newspaper editors and publishers.
Leading senator-editor is the
Lincoln Journal.
SAM KLAVER.
NPA's new president, E. M. Von
Seggern of West Point. He was
joined this session by three "fresh
men" senators who are also news
paper editors. They are William
Lincoln Journal.
WILLIAM J. NORMAN.
J. Norman of the North Omaha
Booster and Benson Times, Sam
Klaver of the Omaha Public
Ledger and George Gross of tha
Merriman Monitor.
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was the best of the towns over one
thousand, while the Stanton Regis
ter took second in this division.
To the Fremont Tribune went
the award for the best news sto
lies, with the Davenport People's
Journal second. Contest judging
was done on a number of news
stories rather than a single "yam."
Post presidents
feted at dinner
Past presidents of the NPA got
together for their traditional ban
quet at the Lincoln at 8 p. m.
Thursday, at which time the out
going president, S. W. Thurber, of
Tecumseh, was admitted to mem
bership in this select group.
Tribute was paid by those pres
ent to association members who
died during the past year: Dan
Webster of Central City, and
Harry G. Taylor of St. Paul, N. J.
Ludi of the Wahoo Democrat was
named chairman of the banquet
for next year s convention.
Miami university medical au
thorities report a decrease of more
than 50 percent in the number,
severity and duration of colds con
tracted by students as a result of
cold vaccine injections.
Journalism
Grads Lauded
Thurber asks NPA
to encourage men
Nebraska U's school of journal
ism came in for praise this morn
ing when President S. W. Thurber
made his annual president's re
port to the convention. He said:
"We believe that our press as
sociation should give the depart
ment of journalism of the Ne
braska state university every en
couragement. Schools of this type
have a place in the newspaper
world.
"The type of graduates turned
out by this school, the fine posi
tions many of them are holding
evidence the success of the
training, and the quality of serv
ice they are now giving, and will
continue to give the newspapers
of this state and elsewhere, sup
ports us in our contention along
this line.
"Ijet the graduates of this school
have your fullest confidence and
give them all possible encouragement."
A classical museum a valuable
collection of antiquities has been
opened at Vassar college.
Eduard Benes, former president
of Czecho-Slovakia, has accepted
an invitation toccture at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Members of Delta Kappa Epsi
lon fraternity at Brown university
chartered a plane to fly to the
Dartmouth -Brown game.
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NEBRASKA PRESS ASS'N
I t A sT Wm a MfAwiVtl a9 AA'41'n lit a v-n tirtT
A IS I- your gg annual meeting. You,
who represent the publishing industry in the state of
Nebraska, are once more the guests of Lincoln tha
state's capitol city. As an integral part of Lincoln,
as well as a community industry in more than one hundred other
Nebraska cities, we are proud to have this opportunity to bid
you welcome, and to wish you well again on the road to another
successful year.
An illustrious statesman is credited with the observation that
"In Unity There is Strength." No truer words were ever ut
tered, and the statement is particularly applicable today. Ia
your organization there is an undeniable unity. Members of the
press meet annually or even more frequently to discuss the
common good, resolving from these meetings a greater unity and
a greater strength.
The press, as an industry, is a public servant just as the electric
industry must needs be a public service. In countless instances,
our problems are mutual our objectives similar. We share
with you an ambition to serve the greatest number of people
possible, efficiently, economically with a service indispensable
to better living for all.
You are to be most highly commended for championing the
rights of the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, and
the freedom of worship. You have earned the undying grati
tude of every single person engaged in private enterprise, em
ployee and employer alike, for effectively fighting for the right
of freedom of private industry and stemming the influences
which would seem to curtail or destroy it.
The employees of the Iowa-Nebraska Light and Power Company
differ in no way from employees engaged in other lines of busi
ness. They earnestly appreciate their cause as you have sup
ported it and through the medium of this paid advertisement
as well as in other ways they mean to express this appreciation.
May you have a successful convention and a banner year ahead)