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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
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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
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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
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network or from for
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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
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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.
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