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( Nation Paper Routes 'Big Business' For Carriers Faithful Boys Go Out In All Kinds Of Weather, Bringing News To Doors Today, the nation honor Us newspaper carrier boy the boys who Rive most newspaper readeri their closest contact with their paper. This past week has been Na tional Newspaper week, with the theme, "Freedom Goes Where the Newspaper Goes." The week has been the occasion for speeches and editorials remind ing Americans of their heritage of freedom, to which newspapers nave mane a material contribu tion. The final day of National News paper week has been dedicated to the carrier salesman, who deliv ers his papers to the doors of h i customers in all kinds of weath er every day it is printed. To take care of his route properly he must have many qualities. It takes energy and persistence to get out every dav and cover that route. It takes business know-how to keep his accounts straight. Courtesy keeps his cus tomers happy. He must be cai-e-ful to avoid putting the papers in the wrong place. It takes sales manship to get new customers and keep old ones. Big Enterprise Early in life carrier bovs leain about one of the big enterprises of the world. Newspapers com bine many of the things that make modern life. First thev ar-? business enterprises. Sale of ad vertising and the papers them selves involve principles a 1 1 business men use. They are al.ii manufacturing plants turning out a physical product. They are pait of a giant world wide communi cations system. There is also the news gathering and presentation which involves many things writing, illustrating, and editing, lor instance. The news Itself starts with the reporter who goes out and gath ers i act s. inose iacts go to a newsroom where they are written into stories. If the facts that make the story are far away from the paper you read, they usually move through a wire service. The Associated Press maintains bureaus all over the world, tunneling news to your paper through a vast system of wire and radio channels. But whether it is local news gathered by your paper's own it porters or "wire" news, it goes to a desk which is a part of that paper. There it is edited and headlines for It are written. From there the stories go to the "shop." Manufacturing Process That is where the manufactur ing part of the process starts. The typesetting machines used by modern newspapers are among the most complicated used in Industry today. These ma chines turn out lines of type which are put together in "gal leys" or columns much as they will appear when printed. A "proof is taken of these "galleys" and is read by the proof readers. The corrected proofs go back to the machines and corrections are put into type. These corrections are then in serted Into the galleys and the incorrect lines of type thrown out. After that the "floor" men take over the Job. And here the RRlleys of news stories meet the advertising. This is gathered from local sources and from national agencies in a process somewhat similar to the gather ing of news. There is also, how ever, a sales problem. Advertising copy is edited and sent to the shop in much the same way that news is handled. To The Presses The floor men take the news niinfiumuii umiriiminV vviiinvinu ntnjrunmvi inn n jonn uuvan, no numon vnt V.MKHICK uowntown Bunnetimen know fclwood hes been a carrier salesman for The News-Review elmoit three Heberly, who is setting out on his bicycle to deliver The years. In this time he hes demonstrated his ability to satis- j News-Review to subscribers on Route No. I. Most of the ! feetorily serve his eujtomerj end secure new subscribers, seysjeerrier boys own bicycles end provide speedy delivery to 'f Circulation Manager Fuller Johnson. ( Staff picturel. Honors Its Mevjspaperboys NEWSPAPERBOY DAY PROCLAMATION Governor Douglas McKay of Oregon signs the proclamation for National Newt paperboy Day Oct. 8, in the presence of Delton Miller of Salem, carrier of the Oregon Statesman. Delton is 13 years old, at tends Leslie Street High school, and is in the 9th grade. His hobbies are football and basketball. He carries I0S pepert daily and averages $35 per month or over $400 per year. little Merchant Plan' Teaches Boys Thrift And Good Customer Relations To have a paper route teaches a boy to take care of his own business in a business-like way. That is the basis of the "Little Merchant plan," which has been adopted by The News-Review and advertising type and put it into "chases." These are stoel forms the size and shape of printed news pages. Some papers put chases with the type locked into them on the press and print from them. On other papers, how ever, the chase goes to the ster eotyping department. Here it is covered with a spe cial cardboard "mat" and forced under a steel roller at great-pressure. When the mat is lifted off. the type and pictures have thrust themselves into the mat. Every detail is duplicated. ihe mat goes to a form where hot type metal from a big furnace is poured around it. Ihe result is a type metal page form. These inked forms are locked on the presses. Great rolls of news print rare past them, picking up the Inked impressions, and your carrier boy gets the paper he will bring to your door. 'Ideal' Customer Prompt With Bill The Ideal customer? Tops with the newspaperboys are the customers who have their money ready when they come around to collect every month. That's the virtue in their sub scribers that carrier salesmen ad mire most, according to David Sylwester, 13, who is typical of The News-Review carrier boys. David has 111 customers, most of whom live in Laurelwood. He says it takes him two days to make his collections and he has no complaints to make on that score. Most of David's customers are pretty reasonable, too, on where they want their papers placed. For some of them, David takes the paper around to the back porch, but when it rains "They gotta be dry." so David : wains up ana puis ms papers .. - - , , - , . behind his customers' screen doors. There aren't any overhanging porch roofs to speak of on David's route, so he rarely lands his papers where they shouldn't be long. Sometimes on a windy Sat urday, when the paper is light, he'll hit the roof. "But you've gotta expect that," says David. TL- It r II L . ' for its newspaper boys. Fuller Johnson circulation manager, explains that a record is kept of the number of papers drawn each day by its carriers. At the end of every month they are hilled for the papers at a wholesale rate. Each boy has a "route book." which contains a slip for each ( his customers. Using his route bonk he fills out his receipt book, and every month he makes the rounds, collecting from his sub scribers. After he pays his bill to The News-Review, whatever the boy collects represents his profit. The value of a route to the boy. explains Johnson, is that it teaches him to meet people, to properly take care of his collec tions, and to serve his customers by delivering the paper prompt ly eacn day. "Most of the boys count on put- j ting so much of their earnings into their savings accounts each month," says the circulation manager. "They allot themselves so much spending money, other than the money they use to buy their clothes. Their savings accounts range from $100 to about $600. "We feel that the boys, in leai n. ing to be prompt in their deliver ies and courteous in their collec tions, are learning just as much as if they were in school," John son said. Boys Have Definite Time To Finish Routes Daily Rain or shine. News-Review carrier boys should complete the deliveries every evening by 6:15. Starting from The News-Review or from their homes, the boys are required to be on Ihe streets and placing papers on the customers' porches or in door wavs by 4:30. Two nours tnat s trie time 'ach boy is allotted to complete ,; ..,. ... feint. .....- r..nM -i his route, which varies from 80 to 125 customers, depending upon the part of town and terrain he covers. RAPID TRANSIT All News-Review carrier boys have a speedy means of trans portation in covering their routes. They ail have bievcles; all. that is. except three. Three boys now own motor scooters. ? 41 Ml tti ,uiiips Mif iir ' n I subscribers by bicycle. (Steff la. HE GOT UP AT 4:30 A. M. Governor, Once Newsboy . Himself, Sets Aside Day To Honor Carrier Boys SALEM, Oct. 8. (Special) Governor Douglas McKay still re members the days of his youth when he crawled out of bed at 4:30 a. m. to tramp down Portland's streets and throw copies of The Oregonian on front porches. 1 His experiences as a carrier Newsboys Carry NW Edition To Journal Readers In Portland, the Oregon Journal 1 is an afternoon paper. In Rove- burg, its Northwest edition is de livered in the early morning hours by 25 carrier boys super vised by A. H. Malone', local cir culation manager. The Portland papers the Jour nal and Oregonian are brought here by fast express truck, soon after they roll off the presses there in the early evening. The Journal's outstanding boy in this district is Jerry Jones of Myrtle Creek, above, who has "won every contest the past two years." according to Malone. He has already won two Thanksgiv- ing turkeys by securing new sub- scribe rs. "Jerry Is the first one to have his collections in every month, and keeps up his route by getting new orders," said Malone. "and he gets along wel with his sub scribers." Other Oregon Journal . boys are: Roseburg: Kenneth Mead, Mike Evans, Ronald Sheppard, Perry Clute, Bob Forrester, David For rester, Joan Welton, Klva Welton, Robert Stevenson, Keith Eddy, Cleo Wlgget, Burton Manning, Richard Basett, William Brown, Paul Rogan. Richard Spring stead. Jim Godfrey, Charles Mc Loughlln. Claud Butler. Tommy Evanoff. Ray Kemp , John Webb, and Arthur Maskala. Winchester: Everett Jacobs. Winston: Ronnie Miller, Bill Tabor and Bob Butler. Myrtle Creek: Jerry Jones, Gregg Bouman, Wilson Barnes, Don Metralf. Dan Johnson, and Wayne Springstead. Canyonville: Charles Pickett and Jerry Stevenson. Riddle: Steve Baxter and Dan nie Enslen. Trl City: Gregg Monroe. Dillard: Bob Green. Sutherlin: Ronald. Wolette, Da vid Pickette, Ronald Blglow, Pat sy Kelly and Ronald Stribling. Union Gap: Frank Pryor. Oakland: Donald James, Larry Cole, and Walter Smith. ! . -. picturel. j ,c ' ; n. i Today flooded back upon the governor toaay wnen he received a request for a statement designating Oct. 8. as National New-spa perboy day in uregon. ine request came from Maurice T. Miller of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, chairman of the Oregon ' a:e Newspaperboy committee. The governor recalled that many of his contemporaries in the carrier field are now bank presidents, publishers or heads of large corporations. It seemel tough at the time, having to bat tle with rain and darkness," the governor mused. "But the work brought a pattern of business or derliness into our young lives and taught us the meaning of the word 'responsibility.' " Governor McKay sent Miller the following statement: Oct. 8, 1949 has been designated as "Na tional Newspaperboy Dav" to honor the millions of newspaper boys throughout the nation, many of whom will be our future busi ness and political leaders. Many of our most prominent American citizens, such as Alfred E. Smith, Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas A. Edison laid the foun dation of their careers as news pa perbovs. The newspa perboy, as the own er and operator of a small Inde pendent business, is developing the basic qualifications lor our lu- ture business or professional man of tomorrow and the leadership or our nation. The newspaperboy or Independ ent merchant develops traits of honesty, courtesy, punctuality, thrift and self sufficiency. I, Douglas McKay, Governor of the State of Oregon, in recogni tion of the fact that newspaper boys of today will be our future leaders of tomorrow, do hereby designate Saturdav, Oct. 8, as National Newspaperboy day and do earnestly request all citizens of Oregon to know your newspa perboy better and to give him encouragement that he may be your future leading citizen. 29 Boys Deliver Oregonians Early Every Morning - Roseburg boys have the oppor tunity of serving two Portland newspapers as carrier salesmen here, as well as The News-Review. Every morning, some 29 boys load their bags with The Oregon ian to deliver these papers to their subscribers before break fast. The Oregonian boys in Rose burg and its suburbs are super vised by Barney Root, local branch manager. One of Root's outstanding car riers is Gary Long. 13. above. Gary, who resides at 110 Union avenue, has been carrying Ore gonians for 10 months. "This hoy has done a fine job of serving the public." says Root. Gary has managed to save $250 from his paper route, besides buying his school clothes a. id having his own spending money. Earlier this year he won himself an all-expense paid trip to Can ada, by writing 35 new orders. "Gary has a wonderful future ahead, and the experience he is now getting will be of great help to him." Root declared. Other Oregonian carriers In clude: Robert Cook. Thomas Bentley, Art Mandvill. Clair Sutton, Jim Hiatt. Kenneth Cook, Gary Saf ley, Ralph Tinner, Jerry Younr, Kenneth Frasier, Edward Hall, Gary Long. Dick Terho, Donald Abbott, Bradley Wiles, Billy Kel lev, Bernard Lacy, John Joelson, Steve Reed. Donald Baker. Steve Oakley, Willie Melhoff, Herbeit Walton, Jim Vasey, Everett Mask, and Richard Patterson, all of Roseburg; Eugene Milan and Raleigh Parker. Winston, and Er nie Jorgensen, Dillard. Low Turn Over In Boys i Cited By Their Manoger rriop in ine iari mat iews- Review carrier boys stick by their jobs is expressed by Fuller ,ohnson- circulation manager, has been row,UrnV'r c,mer The average carrier boy stays 1 ' mi mm mwJm i r - 37 s i?h j .rr ' s:J xtr !y--v ttMt i; ft Ik I f OUTSTANDING a. r y. ' I I -I'i I t ' j . tw as i i i a s s - r .1 . . i jrm 4i M ' 11 M T - i in -Jf i three have been News-Review carriers two ere carriers now, end four hope to be carriers. Left to right they are, Robert 5, Milton 7, Richard S, John 9, Herbert 12, David 13, Jim IS, Ted 16, end Paul 17. They ere the ions of the Rev. end Mrs. W. A. Sylwester, 1170 Mili tary street. The three older boys ere students et Concordia Lutheran academy et Portland. In the summer Paul is employed at Miller's; Ted et Roy's, end Jim in The News Review circuletion department. David end Herbert ere students in the Roseburg Junior High school. Fuller Johnson, circulation manager of The News .Review, seys these boys heve been "out. tending carriers," while their parents admit their sons heve benefitted from the business treining they received es carrier salesmen. Jk A" J iJ . ' -.Af-. Yiii ROLLING PAPERS This busy scene is enected every after noon in the carriers' room et The News-Review, when the boys receive their papers and fold and roll them prior to set. ting out on their routes. Each boy hes his own box, where his papers ere stacked and where he stuffs the folded pepers in his beg. These boys serve the downtown end close in residentiel districts. Pepers ere delivered to homes of boys who serve suburben erees end neerby towns. (Staff pictured Carriers Deliver The News-Review To Readers' Doors One of the major reason for the success of The News-Review In extending Its carrier boy serv ice to its readeri, Ii the good service rendered by the boys themselves, according to Fuller Johnson, circulation manager. In the city, The News-Review has long delivered each dayi edi tion to the doors of Its subscrib ers. This service is being extend ed in other communities of the county. The News-Review carriers lit Roseburg Include: Elwood Heberly. Roland Wag ner, James Boudreau, James Lowe, David LeCleu, Alfred An derson, Ralph Deal, Gene Horn, Richard John, Ivan Adams, Rich ard Bartlett, John DuVall, David sylwester, Dennis Llnnell. Charles Merrill, Herbert Sylwes ter. Donald Clark, Gerald Hash, Robert Speilman, Herbert Kelly, Gary Burghardt, Claude Westley, John DesHiens, Melvin Broad bent, Tom Roark. In other communities the boys are: Oakland, William Bowman; Sutherlin, James Magill. Wayne Card, and I.ee Montgomery; Can yonville. William Worrell; Mr tle Creek, Kenneth Hadley and Duane Hadlev; Winston, Robert Post and William Phelps; Dillard, Ernest Jorgenson; Riddle, Ken neth Brittain. with the newspaper about one to three years. Unless he goes in for sports, he can hold his route right into his senior hl;h school years. Turning out for afternoon sport and the school teams, of course, make It Impossible for the boys to continue carrying an afternoon paoer route. Johnson attributes the low rate of turnover to the fact the bovs are given full responsibility for ! managing their routes. They are "strictly on their own." and in j all except serious cases. Iron out their own troubles with the cuj tomers. I Sot., Oct. 8, 1949 -The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. NEWSPAPERBOY FAMILY These are the Alert Carriers Watch For New Subscribers How do The News-Review car rerlers build up their routes? Alert boys among the carriers watch for moving vans, and are there when new tenants move in to vacant houses. They observe new houses being built and get subscriptions from their owners. The News Review does not sponsor subscription drives and contests, explains Fuller John son, circulation manager, hut de pends upon Its boys to obtain per manent subscribers. "Our boys glory In the fact, when they have a street with every house taking the News Review," he said. Father And Son Banquet Annual Event For Boys Every newspaper rewards Its carrier salesmen In one way or another, for doinR a good job. News-Review carrier salesmen look forward each year to the an nual Christmas father and son banquet, when they can get to gether with their dads for a big leed. Parents look forward to it as much as their sons. This ban quet ia the principal event spon sored by The News-Review for Its carrier organization. S ayieato nine Sylwester boyi. of whom h M. Staff Organized For Roseburg High Annual The Roseburg hlRh school an nual staff is organized, and an outline has been made for the year book. With Mrs. Cloyd Riffe as advis or, the staff Includes: Janeth El lott, editor; Sue Brown, art edi tor; Betty Ann Harvle. business manager, and Kee Briggs, assis tant. There are still openings for those desiring to try for associate editor. All sophomore group pictures have been taken. The senior por traits are to start being taken Oct. 10. All pictures of Juniors and seniors must be taken by Nov. 15. Girls are to wear dark sweaters and pearl's. Boys are to wear white shirts, tics and Jackets. Students who wish to go to the studio for pictures must do so on their own time, it was announc ed. HUSKY FROSH WIN MOSCOW. Idaho. Oct. 8. (.V) Washington's Yearlings, out I downed 16 to 9. took to the air to ; set up two touchdowns and got j a third on a blocked punt In de feating the Idaho Frosh here yes I terday, 20-7. L- r- irk