Volume 10 , Issue 22

1947 News - Editors To Talk Politics

January 24, 1947, this was the front page headlines in The Alva Review-Courier, Alva, OK, dated Friday, January 24, 1947. The headlines read: Editors To Talk Politics Over Station WKY Tonight.

The national political picture in Oklahoma was to be discussed by representative state newspaper editors in a WKY broadcast, January 24, 1947, at 6:15 p.m.

Editors who were participating in the 30-minute discussion were J. C. Hopkins, publisher of the Stilwell Democrat-Journal; Aaron Fischer, publisher of the Waynoka Enterprise; Bob McBrinn Cleveland County Times, Norman; Ben Langden, Mangum Star; G. T. Newby, Woodward Journal; and Mrs. Hattie Lachenmeyer, Cushing Daily Citizen.

Another feature of the broadcast was a discussion of the polio drive.

The sextate contained three democrats and three republicans. Three were returned GI's. Three of them published dailies and three weeklies.
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