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Show B Y U JOURNALISM CONFAB SET FOR NEXT SATURDAY Community journalism will be stressed this year at the 17th annual an-nual Intermountain Journalism I Conference Nov. 8 on the Bng-ham Bng-ham Young University campus in Provo, according to Dr. Oliver R. Smith, conference chairman. A large portion of the approxi-ma'ely approxi-ma'ely 500 students and advisers expected to attend from three states will come from small towns. A special section in the conference will be devoted to problems of cooperation between schools and weekly newspaper editors. Keynote speaker will be Hous-tonn Hous-tonn Waring, editor of the Littleton, Little-ton, Colo., Independent, and one 'of the better known small-town editors of the nation. Weekly newspaper editors in the intermountain area are invited in-vited to hear Mr. Waring in the general session and also attend an "editor's roundtable" at which Mr. Waring will talk on "Experiences "Exper-iences With the Colorado Editorial Edi-torial Advisory B Card Plan." The keynote session will be-j be-j gin at 10 a. m. Highlight will fie Mr. Waring's address on "The Important Job of a School Newspaper." News-paper." From 11 a. m. until noon students stu-dents and advisors will gather in eight groups to hear talks on various problems of high school journalism. Afternoon sessions will begirt at 1:30 p. m. and will consist largely of roundtable discussions during which students will be encouraged to enter into discussion discus-sion of mutual problems. The conference will end with a press conference at 3:10 p. m. for student writers. Students will interview a visiting celebrity celeb-rity and write stories for entry in a newswriting contest. Scholarships Schol-arships will be awarded to writers writ-ers of the six best stories. |