Chronicle wins three NNPA awards at convention -- The Baltimore Afro-American and Winston-Salem Chronicle newspapers received three first-place awards each and the "Houston Newspages" weekly publication was chosen number one in general excellence in the 1990 Merit Award competition of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) at the organization's 50th annual convention in Chica¬ go. Afro-American Newspapers President Frances Draper also walked away with the top John B. Russ- wurm trophy for the best newspaper of the year and Ernest J. owner Pitt, of the Chrohicle , was named NNPA Publisher of the Year. R.J. Reynolds-Nabisco, Inc., sponsor of the association s journalism scholar¬ ship program, received the NNPA Advertising-Mar¬ keting Award, and the Rev. Charles R. Williams, presi¬ dent of Indiana Black Expo, was awarded the organi¬ zation's Distinguished Service Trophy at the closing . Awards on behalf of the NNPA Banquet Foundation Taking time out for playfulness ... I recently estabhshixiby the Black-owned publications. LONDON - Winnie Mandela . Awards for excellence and achievement in their (AP) playfully profession were presented for First, Second and Third their closing press conference in Whitehall, place recognition in 19 Editorial, Advertising and Cir¬ London. Mr. Mandela's visit to Britain ended the culation Steve NNPA .and North American of a 14- i categories, lm?Vt^'i i Davis, Executive European legs Director, announced the tmtinulHWiBBIMBBBBBBBBBWWBBBHDBSu^BBBBBMB^MBBIBWBBBMBBcMBBBBWWBBBBKMMaaHWMMMBMM^MMMMMMWMBM^aMaMBMMMMMMMBMMi^ nation tour. Before to Zambia the black duringErniegolden anniversary Pitt, publisher of the Winston-Salem Chronicle, receives the coveted Publisher flying sessions, June 27-30, at the Chicago Hilton. The of the Year South African anti-apartheid leader said his Award; to his left Is Bill Carroll of Ford Motor Co., at right are Dorothy Leavell, publisher of the Chlca- meetings had surpassed expectations. Please see pagego A7 Crusader, yd Thomas Watklns, publisher of the New York Daily Challenge and NNPA president.

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Ernie Pitt, Chronicle publisher, congratulates Thomas H. Watkins, publisher of the New York Daily Challenge, who was re-elected president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association during the NNPA's 50th Anniversary Convention.

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