AP: CAPPON IS GENERAL NEWS EDITOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: October 4, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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Rene J. Cappon, 45, is moving
vp to general news editor of
the Associated Press, succeeding
Samuel G. Blackman, who re-
tires November 1 after a 38-year
career with the organization.
Wes Gallagher, general' man-
ager, announced the promotion
of Cappon from managing
editor of the AP along with
other appointments at head-
quarters.
Louis D. Boecardi, who has
been enterprise editor, will suc-
ceed Cappon as managing editor.
Nate Polowetzky, supervising
editor of Newsfcatures, was
named enterprise editor.
Blackman, a graduate of Rut-
gers University, started his
news career with the Loup
Brunel& (N. J.) Daily Nereid
and was later city editor of the
New Brunswick (N. J.) home
News. In 1931, he joined the
AP at Trenton.
In 1041, he was assigned to
the New York bureau and in
1945 became chief of the bureau
in New York, a? position he held
T .era.
Rona J. Cappon
until he was elevated to general in 1956 as a member of the
news editor in 1058. Ncwsfeatures staff. Two years
Cappon attended the Univer-.,.later he was made supervising
sity of Iowa. He joined the AP editor of that department, a post
in Baltimore in 1944. After as- he held until 1962, when he re-
siguments in the U. S. and signed to join a family news-
Europe he returned to New York paper in Anchorage, Alaska. He
fig for Tremane
Two executive assignments in
United Press International's
,headquarters operations were
announced this week by Minis
Thomason, president.
Frank Tremaine, a UPI vice-
president since 1958 and general
business manager since 1965,
was named general manager of
a newly-created North Ameri-
can department.
A. P. Bock, comptroller and
secretary of UPI since 1964,
has been elected a vicepresident
and will be assigned expanded
responsibilities for budget con-
trol functions and implementa-
. tion of computerized manage.
All of North America
Tremaine will be responsible
for all UPI operations in the
broadcasters throughout the
world," Thomason said.
Headed bureau during war
Tremaine, 55, was born in De-
tr9it, reared in Pasadena, Calif.,
and began his, UPI career in
Salt Lake City in 1936 after
graduating cum laude from
Stanford University with a de-
gree in journalism. He was
bureau manager in Hawaii when
the Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor in 1041 and was in
charge of UPI coverage in the
Pacific throughout the war. He
was UPI's first Tokyo bureau
manager after World War II.
North American area which will
include the six U. S. divisions,
Canada, the Caribbean and
Mexico-Central America. Other,
geographic departments in the
UPI structure are Europe-
Africa-Middle East (London),
South-America (Buenos Aires),
and Asia (Tokyo).
"The changes are designed to
strengthen UPI's general man-
agement organization, clarify
lines of internal communications,
and streamline our structure for
better handling of UPI's ex-
panding news and ne
He headed bureaus in Mexico
City and Los Angeles, and the
Korean war desk in Tokyo, be-
fore moving to the newspictures
department in New York in
1952.
Bock, 50, joined UPI in New
York in 1937 and, from 1949 to
1952, was comptroller for South
America in Buenos Aires. He be-
came general accountant in New
York and was appointed assist-,
ant treasurer and secretary in
1957 and comptroller and secre-
tary in 1964. Bock is a native of
New York. During World War
II, he was in the U. S. Army
counter-intelligence corps.
managing editor.
Boccardi, 32, is a native of
New York and a graduate of
Fordham College and' the Co-
lumbia University Graduate
School of Journalism. Before
joining the AP in 1067 as an
executive assistant to Black-
man, he worked for the New
York World-Tclc;/rcvm & Sun,
rising to the post of assistant
managing editor. He was also
assistant managing editor of the
World Journal Tribune.
Polowetzky, 48, is a graduate
of Rutgers. A native of Now
Jersey, he gained his early ex-
perience on the Newark Star
Ledger before joining the AP in
New York City in 1344. From
that time until 1061 he was in
the foreign service. Ile returned
to the United States to become
business editor. Two years
later he was reassigned as as-
sistant general news editor
under Blackman, and in 1964
was named supervising editor of
newsfeatures.
McDowell Lyon
U PI will set up
newspicture lab
United Press Internatipnal
plans to set up a newspicturo
research department to concen-
trate on wired transmission of
color pictures.
Minis Thomason, president of
UPI, said the research work
would be carried out under the
direction of Cliff McDowell, vice-
president and since 1965 general
manager of UPI Newspictures.
The laboratory will be located
in the San Francisco area.
F. W. (Bill) Lyon Jr., now
southern division newspictures
editor, will succeed McDowell as
general manager of the news-
pictures department in New
York. The new assignments will
be effective January I.
McDowell has headed -UPI's
orldwide newspicturo opera-
tions since 1965, coming to New
York from San Francisco where
he had been Pacific division
newspietures manager..
tind Lyon began their ca-