Al Capp & Mrs. Billy deBeck

April 29, 1948: GETS CARTOONISTS' OSCAR - Al Capp, creator of "Li'l Abner", which appears daily in the Daily News, receives the Billy deBeck Memorial Award from Mrs. Billy deBeck, widow of the creator of Barney Google. Capp was given the award in New York by the National Cartoonists Society for outstanding work during 1947.