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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1948)
New Oregonian Building Fascinates Columnist (Editor’s note: Tom Marquis, Emerald columnist, toured the Oregonian building in Portland last week. Following is his ac count of the paper’s new home.) By Tom Marquis If it isn’t marble or chrome, it’s glass. At least that’s the first im pression a person has on seeing-the new home of the Portland Oregon ian. The new plant is strictly mod ern and functional in design, with out the gaudiness of many present day architectural monstrosities. Two sets of plate glass doors guard the entrance to the Oregon ian’s inner-sanctum. On the ground floor are the circulation depart ment, classified ad department, and other related sections of the business side of the paper. Pastel color schemes give the place a bright, pleasant appearance. A short ride in the chrome and blue elevator to the third floor puts you in the real heart of the news paper's new home. Here is the news side which is faced with the task of assembling the day's news and presenting it to the public in such a way as to build and hold circulation. The place where this is done i3 rather disillusioning if you have become indoctrinated to the Holly wood version of the typical news paper office. Two walls . of the enormous news room are practical ly all glass, which does away with Jenson Passing Out Traffic Slips There is no discrimination Of either student or faculty cars in the dispensing of parking tickets, according to Officer Jans P. Jen son. Interviewed in the Friendly hall parking area, Officer Jenson commented on the rather large number of tickets which have been given out in the last few days—24 Monday, and nearly as many Tuesday. One of the ciiief offenses Is the failure of drivers to put their parking permit on their cars. * Jensen says that he does not discriminate between students and faculty, and that the tradi tion of late-model student cars and antique faculty cars does not apply in practice. C.oin»- to town for Thanks giving—take a suit—always smart, always right. M4f»PARELHMlQ44WSL the perennial gloominess so char acteristic of the movie news rooms. At night batteries of fluorescent lights taKe up where the sun leaves off. There wasn’t a roll top desk in sight. Instead rows of flat topped executive desks filled the room. On one side of the news room are the allied news gathering sources that supplement the local news sleuths employed by the paper. The Associated Press bureau, with its batteries of teletype machines, the AP wire-photo receiver and trans mitter, and the adjoining photo lab, are near at hand. This grouping makes it possible to have the great est amount of flexibility in the handling of the day’s news. The night staff, charged with putting the paper to Pea, is small, efficient, and friendly. But here again there are differences from the cinema depiction of the typical newspaper set-up. No one was wearing a hat with the brim rolled up in front and a large press card pinned prominently to it. As a mat ter of fact no one was even wear ing a hat. No one rushed frantical ly into the room screaming, “Hold the presses.” Perhaps it was the wrong time of day for such com monly accepted antics to take place. The giant presses are located downstairs, which relieves news men of working under the con stant strain brought on by the thought of such machinery crash ing through the ceilings onto their heads, This fear is no laughing matter to those who did and still do work at a desk located on a floor under the presses. It is possible to stand in the de livery section of the building and watch the wrapped and tied bun dles of papers come shooting down the metal slides from Hhe circula tion section. The slides empty onto a conveyor belt which carries the bundles to trucks waiting to take the papers to distribution points. Directly over the conveyors are large glass windows through which the presses can be seen. The raw white paper is fed into one end of the press, and goes whirling at high speed through all the process es which print, cut, fold, and count the individual papers. Other ma chinery carries the papers up to the ceiling where they disappear through a hole, presently to be seen again when they come down the previously mentioned slides onto the conveyors. Today’s Staff ASST. ADV. MANAGER: Leslie Tooze DAY MANAGER: Joan Wagenblast LAYOUT: Kay Kuckenberg Jean Lovell Jean Hoffman Jean Burgess Lee McGraw Dave Ramstead SALES: Virginia Kellogg Margaret Edwards Larry Prairie Cyrus Prouty Old Book Store 1254 W illamette BOOKS BOUGHT and SOLD Books and Collectors ITEMS SEARCHED FOR. YW Prepares Holiday Dinner About 20 foreign students will en joy an American Thanksgiving din ner November 25 at the Zeta Tau Alpha house at 4:30, according to Marjorie Petersen and Amy Lou Ware, co-chairman of the YWCA international affairs committee. The foreign students will be the guests of YWCA and YMCA mem bers for the dinner and any people in Eugene are welcome to drop in after 6:30 for the informal get-to gether, the co-chairman said. Mrs. Ethyl Mitchel, . advisory board member of the committee, will act as official hostess for the dinner, which will be complete with turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and the rest of the traditional fare. The YWCA, YMCA, Kwama, Chi Omega, and Mrs. Frank Chambers, charter member of the YW, are pro viding the funds for the dinner. Last Chance Today For Job Interview This is the last day to apply for interviews with J. B. McComb, su pervisor of employment for the Arabian-American oil company, according to Mrs. Marian G. Sheck ler, graduate placement secretary. McComb, who will be on the cam pus Monday, November 29, will in terview graduate and undergradu ate students in the field of science who are interested in employment in Arabian-American foreign or do mestic organizations. Applicants may be married or single. For appointments or further in formation, call Mrs. Sheckler at the placement office. Carnival Workers Petitions Due Now All women students may peti tion for chairmanships Of the W AA carnival, annual event to be held next February. The peti tions, due today, may be turned in to Bep McCoarry at the Delta Gamma house, or Anne Goodman at the Emerald news office. 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