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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1955)
- -. . - . - -. .... Statesman Adds New PhatO News Facilities Constantly growing with the tret it' serves. The Oregon Statesman has installed or now is installing additional equip ment and services in three fields news, photos and engravings. ;Such facilities include: ' :' L The Associated Pren P hotof ax, hooked directly with the AP's nation-wide Wirephoto system and bringing i 60 to SO pic tures daily from all over the world. 2. The "AAA" and "BBB" trunk news wires of The Associated Press, giving this newspaper via the AP's high speed teletypes a complete' news service duplicated in only four other northwest cities. : J. A additional Fairchild engraver doubling .the potential f plastie engraving output and enabling pictures to be published la this newspaper withia a very few atiautes after they are. re ceived. ''. '.'J. . The Photofax and Fairchild equipment are for joint use in The Statesman-Journal Newspaper plant The "AAA" and "BBB" wires are for the exclusive use of this newspaper. t Your COMPLETE Newspaper Statesman Adds AP's . . . . Main Line The two high-speed trunk wires of The Associated Press will bring an additional 70,000 words of news a day into Salem for the exclusive use of The Ore- inn Ctataamsn within fh tart two weeks. The circuits, constituting the AFs "AAA" and "BBB" wires and connected in -The Statesman news rooir with 60-words-a-minute teletype printers, com prise the complete nation-wide news facilities of the Associated Press, and will give Statesman News Editor J. Wesley Sullivat a' tremendous selection of stories uow'avaU-bls to newspapers in only four other northwest cities Seattle, Portland, Spokane and Tacoma. The Statesman, as a charter member of The Associated Press, has received its wire news via the AP s northwest circuit, filed from Seattle and Portland, for many years. But growth of the news paper during the past decade has left such service inadequate. Heretofoie, news carried on the AAA , the BBB and lesser wires has ' been condensed and channelled into the single-wire northwest circuit which serves more than CO newspapers r non metropolitan areas of Oregon and Washington. Now, The Statesman mill receive , the "AAA" .and "BBB" wire in fui and directly. The-high-speed trunk circuits will operate 24 hours a -ay in The Statesman's special Associat ed Press room where visitors also may ,see in .operation., toe new Photofax picture-receiving equip ment, joined with the AP's world Equipment for Engraving of Photos Added Two new Fairchild Scanarrav era have replaced the single piece of oider equipment in The Statesman-Journal Newspaper plant and many of the pictures appearing in The Statesman- are being reproduced from engrav ings made from them. '. The Fairchild machine turns out a one-column e. graving in seven minutes, large, or es in pro portion. It is based on the elec tric eye principle, a beam scan Bins a positive p int and trans ferring the image via heat etch- tv (fwauc uiaiciuu wiutu la glued directly on page casts for the high-speed rotary press which printed this nerrspaper. The Fairchilds are in The Statesman-Journal's photo lab in - the basement Nearby are the darkrooms in which locally-produced photos are developed and printed, ready for engraving. In the same rtoiu, too, is th trans mitter by which photos - from Salem are sent directly oa The Associated Press' n t i o n-wide Zinc engraving, still consid ered the finest means of repr duciag a photo for publication. also remains a vital facility for The Statesman, and many of The Statesman's photos are so trans formed. The Fairchild operation supplements the zinc production and cermita ouick nuhlication of photos which may not be avail able during hours in which The Statesman Publishing Company's tine plant is in operation. Careful Choice of Finest Features Where does The Orecon Statesman get its outstanding features? from any one syndicate but by purchasing the premium panels, comics and columns from many sources. Among them are the New York Herald Tribune (Alsop column and Mommie); Chicago Sun (Grin and Bear It); Warren ttwtdrich (Animal - CrarVprO- General Features (Eve. Starr's , Inside TV); Gordon Features (Look and Learn, Better Eng lish. Modern Etiouel): Des Moines Register (Channel Chuckles); Chiogo ' Tribune n;lr Trarv and Gainlina AL ley): King Features (Jimmy Hat- JO, Bionaie, du nip xur- by, - Barney Google, Annie Rooney): Bell Syndicate (Star b ' rrorn Daaw' .it s.. ..-i.ti you tht latest news pictures or they ' ... i :.,iacl Nnw. happen... rr with this great assowuiCm t; velopment, PK f otos By WENDELL WEBB Managing Editor, Statesman Pictures by the score, from all over the world, are arriving daily via wire in The Oregon Statesman office, through a recently-completed installation of Photofax one of the latest ad ditions in the field of elec tronics, -j j . -. ' Many !of the pictures are spot-news' of major happen ings, . tragedies, meetings, mo mentous events. Others are of the feature variety interesting, lively, new. They come from any of the scores of major transmission centers or the more than 200 portable trans mission units placed strategic ally througnoui me country 10 f A ffikswv rv - : m: - - I : I- -. I - : ' -i ! ". -::V. - ' f rl imw brimigs yy ' ""A ' . I , f IV ff w il IV I it ft ak I i rf i sitiBi ' a m ma aw aV ! I ill . . rc mcmc Dirrimcc m if . covers phoUJtransmitter. ia ion Dieao . . . from ' ,w " f Ymilanti . . . trom chleaao ... Cairo to AP Wirephoto brings deiiverea m nunw . . a.J D,.tt nA the tanni nr w. the world nave msu Every rom serve The Associated Press nation-wide network or from for eign countries via radio-photo to the AP's control point , in New York. As a major point on the net work, Salem also is a transmis sion center. Outstanding photos taken by Statesman Photogra pher John Ericksen, or by oth er fine photographers in this area on which The Statesman .draws for its pictures, can be sent anywhere in the world. The Statesman will not use all the Wirephoto pictures it receives, any more than it will use all the thousands of words of teletype news it receives daily, via Associated Press wires. No newspaper uses everything .at the .wPniTr where Every hand. Careful selection is an im portant factor. Too, the addition of directly received Photofax pictures wul not lessen The Statesman's em phasis on photos of people and things right here in the valley.; They will still take precedence.' -But The Statesman already has started to devote , a half-page : daily to the outstanding Photo-; fax pictures it receives. It ap pears with The Statesman's com ic columns, and it will be a reg ular feature there as often as , possible. Many other Wirephotos will be used - on other pages, too, as space permits. I It takes eight minutes to transmit a -picture via Wire-' photo. That, means a photo tak- en in New York; or anywhere, will be received in Salem very shortly after a photographer snaps his shutter. He has only to develop and print a picture and place it on a transmitter. j The Photofax machine con stitutes a new method of re ceiving pictures. It is connected with the' regular Associated Press network for Wirephotos, but as different from the Wire- fhoto method of reception the hotofax pictures arrive as pos itive prints and go directly to the engraving room. Wirepho tos, which many newspapers still receive, must be developed and printed before being en graved. Use of Photofax is permitting I I I r y .:s - Hdwewton 1111 11 i ecti .f ""STentlra world, lag pictures froni ver w Morning more and more newspapers to join; the Wirephoto network. In. Oregon, . Eugene and Salem thus far are pioneering .the Photofax field. Heart of .Wirephoto -equipment is the photo-electric f. A photo-electric eye flooksat a picture on a revolving cylin der! on the sending machine and translates what it 'sees" in light and dark portions Into el ectrical impulses. Those impulses travel over the; wires and into newspaper offices connected ' thereto. At The Statesman, the impulses "stain" a chemically-treated pa per? with the authentic tones of the! picture at the sending point The "stain" is formed as In The Editorial Department, the picture is takes ff the equipment receiving the picture, AP Photo fax, a specially designed facsimile machine which "stains" the picture on chemicallv treated paper . with the authentic tones of the original photographs. Now it is ready for immediate use. . i wlreohoU picture, Now the treated paper is drawn at a constant speed between a stain less steel writing edge and a thin metal ribbon wound spir ally around a cylinder. The im pulses being' received from the transmitting point cause a che mical action, producing the var ious degrees of "stain." The joint movement of the paper and the rotating cylinder, causo the point of contact to mark the taper in a series of horizontal ines that gradually build the reproduced picture. The Photofax machine, con nected directly with the APr Wirephoto network, operates in The Statesman -Journal . plant from 4 a. m. until 10 p. m bringing up to 80 pictures daily. recetv- Gazer J ... i i
