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Show Journalism Group w Readies Meeting In Grand Junction Newsmen from four-states will gather May 5 in Grand Junction, Colo., for a regional convention of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic society, it was announced an-nounced today by William Kost-ka, Kost-ka, Denver, director for the society, so-ciety, it was announced today by William Kostka, Denver, director direc-tor for the society in Region 9 Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. All present or past members of the society are invited in-vited to attend. Headliners at the meeting will be Victor Riesel, labor columnist for the Hall Syndicate of New York City; Buren McCormack national president of SDX and vice-president of the Wall Street Journal; Preston Walker, editor and publisher, The Grand Junction Junc-tion Daily Sentinel; Albert Bates, associate editor-publisher, Huntington Hun-tington Beach, Calif., edition of the Orange Coast Daily Pilot; Robert Chase, associate editor The Rocky Mountain News, Denver; Den-ver; Paul Conrad, editorial car-toonist car-toonist for The Denver Post; and Gene Amole, co-owner of Denver radio station KDEN. Roundtable discussions on several sev-eral important phases of the news business will be held during the sessions and participants will examine the role of the society in increasing professionalism among newsmen, Kostka said. The convention is the first regional meeting of Sigma Delta Chi to be held in this area, Kostka Kost-ka said. Preston Walker is chairman of the convention. The Saturday afternoon luncheon speaker will be Buren McCormack, and the afternoon program will feature Albert Bates, a well known public pub-lic relations executive in New York City and Chicago for years, who recently went back to the newspaper business.' Bates, a former executive secretary of SDX, was awarded the Wells Memorial Key in 1945 by the society. His subject "Switching "Switch-ing from Public Relations Back to Newspaper, Work." Following Bates will be Robert Rob-ert Chase, whose topic will be ' "What's Wrong With Journalism Schols," and Paul Conrad, whose speech is entitled, "You Mean That's All You Do?" , The dinner speaker will be Victor Riesel, who was blinded by hoodlums who threw acid in his eyes as he walked out of Lindy's Restaurant in New York on April 5, 1956. He began his newspaper career with a small wire service and acted as correspondent cor-respondent for a number of labor publications. In 1945, he began his syndicated labor column. The New York Mirror offered a reward re-ward for information regarding the acid throwers, but they were never found. |