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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
OAR
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Other correspondants lived
in areas like Mapleton and
Glenada, and sent their articles
to The Oar.
“My mom did everything,
from the writing to the lino-
type, and my dad Carroll, my
uncle Leland, who also went by
Pete, and my uncle Wayne were
the main people on staff,”
Grimm said.
The process to put out a
paper then was long. Some of
their duties were placing the
type for the linotype printer,
folding newspapers and run-
ning the printer.
The typesetting was done by
hand, with individual letters,
characters and spaces, or used
“lines of type,” where linotype
got its name. Making the lino-
type involved heating the metal
over a wood stove, melting it
down and pouring it into
molds.
“I got to put the type away in
the individual letters,” Grimm
said. “I helped my uncle Wayne
put the type back where it
belonged after he had written,
or even put all the letters into
the story or article.”
She remembers certain
smells from being around the
whole process.
“You could smell the ink,
and the metal when it was of the paper.
really family-operated, and
being melted for the linotype.
“The stories I remember are very few other people worked
You could
t
h
e at it. It was really an experi-
smell
that
tragedies,” ence.”
hot metal,
Grimm said.
Not much changed over the
the ink and
“Or stories years. Grimm remembers that
the
paper.
with the har- Morgans purchased an electric
You could
bor. ... I typewriter and an offset press
really smell
don’t know in the later years.
the print,”
if I paid so
Although M.D. wanted his
she said.
much atten- whole family to follow in his
The fami-
tion to what footsteps, Dave Holman pur-
ly worked
was going chased the newspaper in 1960
the necessary
on in town. I and changed the name to The
long hours to
was focused Siuslaw News.
Carroll James Morgan
tell the sto-
on the paper.
“I would have followed the
ries the Siuslaw region needed It was like home.”
footsteps of the newspaper
to know.
The Oar’s building was on folks, but everything kind of
“Coffee started early in the the corner of what is now changed when the paper sold.
morning, and Jim Beam too,” Kingwood and Bay streets in Instead I went into social work,
Grimm said.
Old Town.
which is totally different,”
When she was in high
“The newspaper was the Grimm said.
school, she got to help on the main thing on there. You could
She still has ties to the
printing press. Before then, she look out the window and see Florence area. She missed the
mainly helped folding the print- the dunes, without all the grass. Siuslaw High School reunion
ed pages and helping put type The river was right across the this year, but she still plans to
away.
street from the paper and you visit in October.
“It was just fascinating. I could watch the bridge open
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loved being there,” she said. “I and close. It’s where we did
never seemed to be bored. ... I everything, right there,” Grimm
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business, being there and being
involved.”
She remembered men like
Del and Wally and Steve Hart,
a high school student who
wrote stories for the paper and
helped in the newsroom. Hart’s
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These photos of a newspaperman working are of
Corinne “Corky” Grimm’s father, Carroll James
Morgan, who was the son of M.D. Morgan, founder of
The Siuslaw Oar. Above, Morgan works on the news-
paper’s linotype, which the paper purchased in the
early 1940s. Left, he melts metal in a pot over a wood
burning stove at the original Oar building. These pho-
tos were likely taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s,
Grimm said.
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Rarely does a month go by that one or
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Since 2001, over 160 local men have
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Us TOO Florence participants know
early detection before symptoms develop
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Us TOO Florence’s MISSION is to
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BOB HORNEY, CHAPTER LEADER/FACILITATOR
Us TOO Florence has two monthly
meetings for your convenience:
• Tuesday Evening Group (2nd Tuesday)
5-7 p.m. - Presbyterian Church of the Siuslaw
Urologist Dr. Bryan Mehlhaff attends.
• Tuesday Lunch Group (3rd Tuesday)
12 noon – 1:00 p.m. – Kozy Kitchen
Urologist Dr. Douglas Hoff attends.
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