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FOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS, OREGON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1948 cJbo 3totus-Keuiew Published Daily Except 8unday by the News-Review Company, Inc. Batarai M aaeana iIin aialtar Ma 1, IKa, at taa Bart afMaa M barf, Oracaa. aaaar act at March 9, li;S CHARLES V. STANTON d"r EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Minagtr Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations ataaraaaataa! ar WEST-HOLLIDAY CO.. INC, arrieaa la Haw Vark, Caleaga, Saa rraaelaaa, Laa Anialaa. SaaiUa. rartlaaS. lb Laala. I'Slt tirriON SATES I. Oracaa r Mall rar Taar Si at. all aiaatha I4M, Ibraa aiaatba ll-at. By City Carrlar Par raar tlS.ae Ua aaaaca), laaa Ibaa aaa Taar, ear mania lias. Oatalda Cragaa By Mala Tar yaar Se-aw, all aaaalbi Ikraa aiaalba M.15. PRINTING A NEWSPAPER OUT OUR WAY r By J. R. Williams By CHARLES V. STANTON Few people who have not been associated with newspapers realize the large amount of specialized machinery needed in printing nor the skill required of the men and women work ing in the various mechanical departments. There are few unskilled workers in a newspaper plant. Nearly every em ployee has had many years of training. In fact no man can obUiin a journeyman printer's card until he has proven ability to do tasks which in the learning involves several years. A printer is a mechanic working with metal at a process involving extreme accuracy. Slugs from a typesetting ma' chine must be true in measurement to within thousandths of an inch. Machines used in the nrintinir trade must be ex tremely precise and must e operated by mechanics fully familiar with them. We are in the midst of the observance of National News paper Week, the purpose of which is to make the general public more conscious of the importance of a free press and the relation of a free press to continued liberty. Many people seem to think there is little involved in publishing a news paper other than gathering a few news items together and printing them on a piece of paper to be distributed to readers. It is a peculiar thing that nearly any normal person feels he could operate a newspaper or run a restaurant. That pe culiar quirk of human nature results from individual taste for reading and for food. Each man would publish a news paper to suit his own likes and dislikes, in the belief every one would be pleased thereby, while his restaurant would serve the dishes of which he is fond and which should satisfy all other appetites. But neither editing nor running a res taurant is that simple. Printing, for instance, is a highly skilled trade, necessitating heavy investments in machinery and equipment Even the small weekly must spend many thousands of dollars before it can produce a readable news paper. Each expansion involves more thousands of dollars, to which the News-Review can well attest, having only re cently purchased a new press and stereotyping equipment, added to its typesetting equipment, including another lino type now in process of installation to bring our battery to six machines; saws, mitering machines, and numerous other pieces of apparatus needed for good printing. Let's follow a news item through the plant. The reporter prepares a story. A headline is written and a slug line, bearing the first two or three letters of the head line is attached. The copy then goes to the typesetting ma chines. One machine sets the headline and another the body type, the slug line furnishing identification to bring the two together. Magazines on the typesetting machines are filled with metal matrices on which faces of type are indented. As the operator works at a keyboard, the matrices fall into a "stick" until a line has been composed. The stick then is carried to a mold, melted type metal is poured into the mold, flowing into the indented faces of the matrices. As the slug of metal is cooled, it is forced out of the mold and trimmed to exact size, while the matrices are lifted back by an elevator arm to be distributed to their separate slots in the magazine. Succeeding slugs of type, each one column in width, are pro duced until the item has been set in type. The type then goes to a proof galley. It is inked and a proof made in a proof press. This proof is read for errors and returned to the typsetters for correction. After corrections are made, the item is moved to the make-up stones where each page is composed in a chase, or form. Each page, in turn, goes to a mat roller, where a heavy paper, resembling blotting paper, but of harder texture, is placed over the type and forced into the type faces under a heavy pressure roller. The pjiper mat then is taken to the stereotyping room where, after being backed with small pieces of material to fill in low spots, it goes to a scorcher in which it is thoroughly dried. The mat then is placed in a casting box which has a solid core and a space between the core and the outher shell. The mat is drawn to the out side of the shell by vacuum, and metal is pumped under pressure into the space, producing a slotted cylinder with the type faces on the outer circumference. The cylinder then is placed on the press and is revolved pt high speed against ink rollers and impression rollers, while newsprint, coming off rolls, travels between the cylinder and the impression roller, thus imprinting the type on the paper. Each step requires the use of machines of extreme accu racy and workmen able to properly operate the machines. Also involved are the arts of layout of advertising copy, composition of advertising material into ty, engraving plates from photographs, etc. let the newspaper Is geared to do all these processes and put a paper on the press at a specified time each day. rzaJ HE KEEPS I ( BOTHERIN' I ( YOU'RE JUST . YOU WAITIM7 J ME WE TH' PATIEMT AN' M I'VE SAT ON) ( ( ONLV BEEN J SCA1RT NUMB- I 1 r7 EVERY PART HERE A S) BUT WE'RE 11 OF ME AND (VERY LITTLE ) GOINT THRU TH' - - V THEY ALL J WHILE.' J AWFUL TORTURE ) VVJ" faACHE V OF WAITIN' J BEMTJ jjggv 0FF1C I nt viUHiLtr ntLt-'tK . t are e "T.orr. I n copw iww by nr. aravicf rwr J 'M B yvhnett S. Martin 'Half of this story Is true," blithely writes author William Pene DuBols, In his preface. "and the other half might well have happened." Then he goes on to tell what happened to Pro fessor William Waterman, "who had been teaching arithmetic at a school for boys In San Francisco for forty years and was thor oughly tired of the idea ... he thought of balloon travel as a way of spending a year after retiring. At the age of 66 he stopped teaching, built himself a huge balloon, and filled the bas ket with food ... he thought he could float around for a whole year, out of touch with the earth, with nobody to bother him, leaving his destination to the winds. This book, THE TWENTY ONE BALLOONS, tells of his ex citing trip." For Rood measure the author also Illustrates the book with some of the most fantastic draw ings, perfectly fitting the book. It is a book anybody might en Joy, especially the tired school teacher, I mean 'educator.' The Viking Press published the opus. In his foreword Mr. DuDois speaks of a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Diamond as Big as the Rltz," published by Charles Scrlbner's, and his own "horror that It was not only quite similar as to general plot, but was alto gether a collection of similar ideas ... I can only explain this embarrassing, and to me, most maddening coincidence by a firm belief that the problem of making good use of the discovery of a fabulous amount of diamonds sug gests but one obvious solution, which Is secrecy. The fact that F. Scoit Fitzgerald and I would apparently spend our billions in like ways right down to being dumped from bed Into a bathtub is altogether, quite frankly, be yond my explanation." I know a little of how he felt because years ago, with the cor dial consent of the owners of the house, I used a dozen large and most beautiful pictures with an article for the only magazine they would approve of their house being in: "Arts and Decoration." My material was accepted by wire. Along with my pleased ex pectation of a sizable check was the feeling of pleasure at 'break ing into' so lovely a magazine with the story of a house quite worthy of its place there. Imagine my consternation when they wrote me, furiously, a little later, that my pictures had ap peared in a magazine devoted to architecture ... I was heartsick. Neither the owners of the house not I could solve the mystery I don't know to this day. In the Day's Hews (Continued From fag a one) Nation's Number I Jazz Fan Emerges From Attack of Flu By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK tT) There is no hobby too odd for a man seeking to find an Individual niche In history. I heard of a man who spent all his spare time standing on a rail embankment. As the trains sped past he noted down the number of each freight car and the railroad that owned It. In time he accumulated a long Crlf'sh Worry Over R:tli Thought Overdone . CHELMSFORD, England CP) The Kt. Kev. Dr. Henry Wil son, Anglican bishop of Chelms ford, thinks worrying about Com munism In Britain Is "rather ohm iione.'' T th'nk England Is no more 1'k. !v u become a Communist ( :i. i v il 'ii It Is to become a i i. o c." ho told his Wo c m e ii . I'cnce. T-.- .'jr Fi'ywosd Plant To Boost Production IIOJUIAM. Wash., Oct. 6.-.T) Now producing more than NX), 000 square feet of poplar ply wood each month, the Woodlawn Plywood Company plant will he able to Increase production 2.i per cent with a new 50 by ISO foot addition nearlng completion, led Stolesen. president and man ager, said yesterday. The firm, which employs about 101) men, is well supplied with logs for the coming year and may Increase employment In the near future. Stolsen said the firm Is the only m.iuuf.irturer of western poplar plywood on the Pacific Coast. It is specializing In that field. The plant's capacity for all products Is about l.!St.),ii00 square feet per month, Ktolson said. ger list of freight car numbers hers than anyone that'd ever lived. To him this was enough reward - to have done something no one else ever had. The other day another young man of this stern breed dropped in to tell me about his unusual claim to fame. He was Jack R. Williams. 22. a tall, freckled, sandy-haired former IT. S. sailor who believes he is the nation's number one Jaz Kind fan, Sammy Kaye Branch. "I have listened to more than a thousand broadcasts by Sammy Kaye. and earn time I w rote down every tune he played,'' he said proudly. To still any doubts I might have that he was really only a New York Philharmonic Sym phony Orchestra lan plavliig a belated April fool joke. Williams produced the evidence. There I hey were hundreds of pages scribbled with the names of melo dies. And he had carefully writ ten down where he heard them in sound so's puking lot. In his rar while out driving, aboard the V. S. destroyer Marsh In the Pacific. Began During Flu "I am convinced." I said, con vinced. "Tell me Jack, how did it all begin?" "Well," said Jack, who Is a baggage clerk In the Creyhound bus station In Columbus. O. "It is a long stnrv - It goes clear baik to ivc. 21', 11M1. "I was home In ld with the flu. I turned on the radio anil heard them announce Sammy haves Sund.iv serenade. I did government, our way (which Is relatively new In the world) Is better than the shooting way ( which is almost as old as govern ment Itself). MAYBE you're a perfectionist. The trouble with perfection ism is that it is so seldom PRAC TICAL. Generally speaking, It's wiser to wear the kind of clothes you can get than to go naked in freezing weather. ; aaa THE Security Council of United Nations meets in Paris to hear the Western Powers (our side) accuse Russia of endangering ttae peace and security of the world by blockading Berlin. Russia claims UN has no juris diction to hear charges against her. UN "sources" (meaning peo ple In the know) say Russia will SURELY veto any action taken against her and will Ignore any decision UN takes about Berlin. IF that's the situation (and It probably is) why. do we take our case before United Nations? Well, it might be better to stall and talk than to HEAVE RUS SIA OUT and take the chance that after being heaved she'd have no way left to save her face except to start shooting. The perfectionists will say: "Heave her out." The rest of us won't be so sure. We'll remember that every time shooting has started It has been hard to stop, aaa IF you'll remember all through this UN session that is getting under way that all we're really driving at Is trying the case against Russia In the papers, your thinking about it will be more realistic. U.S. May Restrict Soviet Diplomats In Hit-Back Move . WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (1PI The United States is studying the idea of giving Soviet officials In this country a taste of the same treatment Americans get from Moscow. Diplomatic authorities disclos ed that retaliatory measures are under consideration as result of the new Soviet order sharply limiting the movement of Amer ican and other foreign diplomats In Russia. The net effect of that order, the State Department says, is to bar travel outside the Moscow city limits. Russians in the Unit ed States, meanwhile, are free to travel anywhere, w ith no ques tions asked. A strict tit for-tat policy would require Ambassador Alexander S. Panyushkin and other Soviet Embassy officials to get State Department permission before leaving Washington. Whether any such rule is under serious consideration was not disclosed. Until now the State Depart ment has shied away from any idea of retaliation. Latest official figures show. however, that on August 1 there still were 290 Soviet officials and employes in the United Sta tes, excluding wives, children and other dependents. The United States Government on August 15 had 115 people in Moscow, including 14 dependents. Aside from these there were ap proximately eignt news corres pondents and a lesser number of American fur buyers. When the war ended In 1945, Russia had about 2500 citizens in the United States. These had been reduced to 516 by mid-1947, and last April 26 there were only 3-16 here, aside from dependents. 1& JOHNSON SCHOOL OF DANCING Classes on Monday ond Wednesday Afternoon Knights of Pythias Hall EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE DANCING REMINGTON WE DO REPAIR WORK TOO! KEN'S OFFICE EQUIPMENT Phone 1261-R 631 S. Stephen. Editorial Commenf From The Oregon Press gets a free bus pass to hear and meet Sammy Kave in person. "He let me lead the band once," Jack said softly, and In the busy room 1 could hear the muted trumpets that would sound in his ears forever. "Everybody In the band likes me." When he Is mowing the lawn, his mother now posts a warning note in the window saying: "Don't forget broacast at 7 p. m. Wouldn't he like sometime Just to listen to the broadcast with out writing down the tunes? "No. said Jack, "somehow It wouldn't be the same.'' A man with a real hobby can't Just sit there. He has to do something about it. CONGRESSMAN ELLSWORTH SINCERE FIGHTER The Ashland Tidings We have to admit that the de bate of and the game of tag be tween the two presidential candi date has not ignited any blister ing fire in our political brain as yet, but there is an earnestness and honesty of purpose about Congressman Harris Ellsworth that every contact we have with him increases our admiration of him and his record in Congress. We especially applauded at the time his fight for the reactiva tion of Camp White hospital, par ticularly his battle with the very powerful Veterans Administra tion, which did not want to oper ate Camp White, hospital, but which apparently wanted to spend several million dollars for a new hospital in a locality that would offer more opportunity for pleasure and recreation than the Agate desert does. Congressman Ellsworth could not swallow the claim of the VA that it would cost more than a million to remodel the hospital and the report that only $325,000 w ill be spent for this purpose cer tainly vindicates our Congress man's denial that more than a million would be required. Voters usually recognize and appreciate such earnestness and sincerity and the record shows this is true in the case of Con gressman Ellsworth. Large Enough to serve all yet Small Enough to give friendship with service. Douglas County State Bank Mmhr fadaral Dapoalt Inauranca Corp. Pair Loses Board-Room Suit Against One's Kin SALEM, Ore.. Oct. 6. (.IV-A Tillamxik County farm couple was pivvented by the State Su preme Court today from charg ing board and room against the wife's mother. The high court upheld a $1,170 judgment against Sir. and Mrs Harry Hoffman, who were sued by Mrs. Mary K. Ibaeh, the moth er of Mrs. Hoffman. Mrs. Ibaeh. upon going to live with the Hoffmans, gave them $1,700 to keep for her In trust. 'Hie Hnllmuna oavu hr hit,.r $mX) of the money, but kept the ' P'aces. E hear a lot about fascism these days. Unfortunately It Is getting to be the custom to call everbody you don't like a "fas cist." That confuses us. What Is fascism, anyway? Well, here's an example: At a football game in Georgia last Saturday, a news cameraman took a picture of Alabama's gov ernor (Big Jim Folsom) while he was holding a paper cup In his hand. Dig Jim turned to one of his "special Investigators" (polite term for plug-ugly) and said: "Nick, If you had been on the ball, he wouldn't have got that shot. I don't want that picture to go out of here." N'lck got the point. He and "two or three others" shoved the ' cameraman into a corner, seized ' his equipment and destroyed the film. T HATS the way fascism works. This mild and undoubtedly ! old fashioned w riter has a notion that If the governor of Alabama j doesn't like to be seen holding a cup teven a paper onel In his 1 hand he'd do better to LEAVE CITS ALONE at least In public rest, charging it off to board and room. Mrs. Ibaeh then brought suit i against her daughter ami son in law, and collected $1,170. The Never boll an oyster. Ovster stews are best cooked over water. nt have anything els,- to do, soil.m'rr '"rl l'lrVuit Jl",b''- K I Just copied don the songs. ""Ok IVters gave her the $1,170 "I got Interested. 1 liked the music, and It was fun writing on grounds the mother was liv ing in the home as a guest, and down 'the tunes-so I Just kept t'-''der. It ,, ' I oday a decision nv Ones Ltd Band Since then he has missed few- Rut that Isn't the way fascists do It. BIG JIM FOLSOM (known some times ss "Klssin Jim") Is quite a clown. A lot of people laugh at his clowning Just as a lot of people laughed at Hitler's mus- Justice Hall ' taehe and Mussolini's Jutting Jaw, S. I.nsk ruled the same way. Thev not onlv LAt't.H at him. ..uTI'.'.T: ..!! ' -ny VOTE FOR HIM. That', brodcasts. Several times he has recently, so the $1,170 will so one way fasriam 'along with the Journeyed hundreds of miles he; Into her estate. other "Isms") gets started. American Girl Wins Out in Heart Rivalry SAN DIEGO. Calif.. Oct. 6-CP) An ex-army musician has elop ed with an American girl while paying nice compliments to a Pakistan beauty who had flown to America to visit at his home. Dick Cardwell, 24, told news men he eloped Saturday with Shirley McFall. They went to AJo. Ariz., he said, because his parents opposed the marriage. He said the Pakistan girl. Miss Ramona Hussey, -whom he first met in India in 1944. "is a fine girl and a real lady, and had nothing whatever to do with It." Miss Hussey. 19-year-old beau ty contest winner, said: "There was no romance. Dick and I were never engaged. I just came to visit his parents." Caldwell said "I had four dates with Ramona in Karachi, and then wrote to her. My parents got interested and invited her over here. Maybe they hoped that she would make me change my mind about Shirley, but any way she didn't." Anti-Red Romanians Lose Rights, Property BUCHAREST. Romania. Oct. S. .! A number of prominent Romanians were deprived of their citizenship by decree yes terday. Their fortunes in Ro mania were confiscated. Among these was Nicolaev Ma laxa. owner of the largest loco motive plant in Romania and its onlv tube factory. He has been in New York two years. The Romanians were accused of diversive activities against the (Communist I state. Some were accused also of. crossing the fron tier Illegally. Democrats Outvote G. O. P. in Washington I OLYMPIA. Wash.. Oct. S-C.r -i The IVmocrats outvoted the Re publicans in the primary elec tion, official returns showed. The returns, showed that the total IVmocratic vote for gov ;ernor was 27.124 more than the , total garnered by Republican gu . bernatnrial candidates. I Only 44 49 per cent of the states registered voters went to the polls, htiwever. Total regls 'eied to votf was 1.2.0j6 but onlv S.VS.418 cast ballots. PREPARE NOW FOR NEXT PHONE 4681 HAVE YOUR SAWDUST and WOOD DELIVERED. 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