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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2S, 1941. PAGE THREE Retirement Ends 31 DEAN OF VALLEY PRINTING CRAFT; .1 TAKE EASE Learned Trade 56 Years Ago On Iowa Weekly-Co-workers Respect And Admire. At 2:30 p. m. Wednesday, A. Frederick Stennett will make his final inspection of the Mail Tribune's page one form, will yell "page one!" notifying the press crew the day's issue is ready to go to press, and thus will end thirty-one years con tinuous service as foreman of the Mail Tribune composing room. During the long tenure of his foremanship, Mr Stennett has organized and maintained a crew of proficient, temperate, loyal craftsmen. In all the 31 years of his foremanship he has never found it necessary to dis charge an employe. And at no time has the management ever found it necessary to rebuke him for his method of operating the composing room. Most of his fellow employes have been with him from six to 29 years. Everyone in the Mail Tribune company, from the owners to the office boy, respect Mr. Sten nett and admire him for his skill and efficiency, loyalty, patience and his quiet but deep sense of humor. Everyone in the organization regrets his re tirement but everyone wishes him the good health, peace and contentment his long years of faithful service merit. "I am retiring at my own request because of a multitude of disabilities that retard me in filling the position efficient ly." Mr. Stennett said, adding with a twinkle in his eyes. 'otherwise I might consider trying to stick it out for an other 31 years. In Sam Room It was exactly 31 years ago January 1 that "Sten," as Mr. Stennett is known around the plant, became foreman of the Mail Tribune for the second time. (He had put in a short term previously.) The news paper was then located in its present building and Sten has worked in the same composing room excepting for a short period when it was situated upstairs. Sten is the only one here now who was identified with the printing business in Medford 31 years ago. "Arthur Powell, publisher of the Central Point American, was pressman on the Mail Tribune when I returned to the paper and he is the only one who might contest my claim to the deanshlp of the local printing j fraternity," Sten commented. - Thirty-one years ago, Mr. Stennett recalled, the Mail Tribune had but two linotypes, a secondhand flatbed press, no metal saw at all and "lot of ad type older than I am." Today the plant has five lino types, a perfecting 16-page color press, a Ludlow type casting machine, an Elrod rule casting machine and three saws, as well equipped as most modern news papers of comparable cities. In 31 years Mr. Stennett has naturally seen a lot of amusing and ludicrous errors creep into print. "Two that happened more than 25 years ago, however, stick out In my mind as the most comical." he said. "One day the office girl brought me two news Items and two cuts to go with them. One was about an evangelist who was to preach that evening in the Presbyterian church and the other was about a male dancer who was to per form the same night at the It theater. I asked the girl to iden tify the cuts and as she seemed hesitant I had my doubts. But there was nothing that I could do but accept her identification. Foreman Hid Out "After the paper had been printed that evening, two of the I maddest men I have ever seen! TRY OUR HERBS Wben Others Fail For quick and permanent rallai oi ailments avail ei long standing. CHINA HERB CO. 235 E. Main St. Medford of Foreman Stennett Years With Mail Tribune fa- - VJ, J ,4r t i &Ci , f . : " 3 iiiiuM ami fir "inirsrW rr -t t. n .... A. Frederick came dashing Into the front office. One was the preacher, whom we had dancing H the It, and the other was the dancer, whom we had preaching at the Presbyterian church. The girl blamed me for the mixup and I hid until the two men had cooled off. "An inexperienced galley boy accounted for the other mistake I remember so vividly. A wed ding story without a headline had been set and I told the boy to put it under the standing head "Wedding Bells." I sup posed he had carried out my instructions but imagine my surprise and consternation when the paper came off the press land I saw the story under the heading ' 'Fights Last Night fl'U.t nnA - ' n lo,,rK off." Sten, like his three brothers, had beeji picked out by his father to be a farmer and he probably would have been but for snakes, the "billions of snakes that - Infested western Iowa." There were "rattle, bull, garter, house, copperhead and Joint snakes everywhere : you stepped," Sten avers. 'I didn't give them much thought, how ever, until one night when I was about 15 years old I awoke and found a snake crawling across my face. By the time it took the snake to crawl over my face I imagined it was 100 feet long. I let out a yell that is still echoing up and down the Nishna Botna valley. Mother, who was not afraid of the devil himself, rushed to my rescue, fished a three-foot house snake from my bed, took it out into the yard by its tail and snapped its head off. Left Farm at 17 "Ever after that I shuddered whenever I saw a snake and the end of my farming came when I was 17 and I was plow ing up a 10-acre millet field as directed by my father. In the first furrow around the tract I plowed out 11 snakes of as many varieties. The last snake I uncovered was aDout six feet long and it came out standing on its tall with Its head close to my face. In dodging It I fell down under the p'ow and the lines were drawn in such a way that the mules circled around and both fell on the plow under which I was basking in holy terror. When I got the mules on their feet again I unhitched them and took them to the stable, swearing that I'd never plow another fuirow on that farm as long as I uvea. I went down to the village, and got Job as apprentice on the little weekly paper at So a month. I workea tor me publisher three years before he starved out and then I took the paper and it took me only one iji'year to starve out. Mr. Stennett was oorn, iiKe Lincoln, in log cabin on a farm at Stennett, Iowa. July 8, 1868. The town of Stennejt was named in honor of his uncle on whose property it was located. At that time people thought it was destined to become a me tropolis because it was near a large stone quarry. "Since then," Sten related, "the town has fluc tuated In population from 19 to 23 persons and the last I heard of the place It was still holding Its own." In 1878 Mr. Stennett ! father bought farm near Mjcedonia. Iowa, about 18 miles from Sten nett, and It was there that the lad was driven from farming by the snakes. Joined Circus Band 1 After tha little weekly paper J "I Stennett had folded up. Sten rambled for a year over Nebraska. With a partner he then established the Allen News at Allen, Neb. Dis posing of his interest in this paper, Sten founded the Enter prise at Wausau. Neb. His feet beginning to itch, he sold the Enterprise and Joined a circus band as a trombone player. "I put in a hectic, sleepless season at $10 a week, most of which I never collected," Sten recalls. "I left the show at Granite Falls, Minn., and made my way to Sioux City In a carload of cook stoves " Sten went back into the print ing business and worked short stretches at Minden and Grand Island, Neb., and Phillipsburg, Kan., finally accepting the fore manship of the Boughton Print ing company at Lawrence, Kan. While he worked in Lawrence congress was framing a bill for opening the Cherokee strip to settlement. "About the time I thought the bill would pass I resigned and went to 'Lehigh, Choctaw Nation, to be near the scene of action," Mr. Stennett recalls. "I worked about a year on the Lehigh Leader before the proc lamation was issued to open the strip. I took the M. K. and T. train to Muskogee and then rode overland by horseback to Still water where I waited for the opening on Saturday, Septem ber 16, 1893. I made the 15 mile race with thousands of others and on reaching the townsite of Pawnee an hour ind a quarter later I drove my 17 stakes all on one lot. "Only the corners of blocks were staked and it was a guess as to which way the lots faced. I guessed wrong and had staked only a lot instead of a big tract. But I had the lot so well staked that I had no contest when I proved up. Issued First Paper "I issued the first newspaper in Pawnee the Wednesday fol lowing the opening. I staved there in the newspaper business lor three years and served two terms as city clerk. I also bought school bonds for Corden E. Lillie (Pawnee Bill) who then lived in Philadelphia. "I got sick of Pawnee on account of the sandstorms and rhinc bugs. I sold my paper and went to Joplin. Mo where I was foreman of the daily News Herald for several years." Mr. Stennett went to Spring field, Mo., where he was fore man of the Daily Republican for three and a half years. He was in Springfield when a mob . hanged three Negroes to the Goddess of Liberty statue and then burned their bodies in the public square. The city, Sten remembers, was under martial Follow The Sunshine as ARIZONA sod VAH-KI INN at Cool id f tdjoialat ftW famous Cats Grands National Monument. Vaa-Ki loo, to tour's drift from dthsr Phocnli Of Tucson, offers comfort and cooreoienrc with warmth of gcnuiiw hoipitality. Its total ci pacify f tweory fuetti li carefully selected for congeniality. Special eosiideration Is given to diets. Individual noods nd wiihet. Trips to poinfa of Interest and bsert picnics ar rranged and personally conducted by yoor hosts. THEODORA nasi WALTJCB SMITH tilt dtlttitMt httyXutt tt Id ottt bnfert. law for three weeks before order was restored. I Fort Smith, Ark, was Sten's, next stopping place but he stayed there only six months as foreman of the Daily South west American when he felt the urge to ramble through eastern Oklahoma and Texas. He reached Phoenix. Ariz., in the heat of summer and, as there was only one extra oper ator in the city at that time, he worked long, extra hours seven days a week for several months in shops all over town and made about double straight- time pay. About a year laier he was selected as foreman of the Republican, a position he quit two years later in 1909 to come to Medford to be near his parents who then resiiled in Ashland. Worked On Tidings "My first Medford position was with A. S. Bliton on the Mail." Mr. Stennett said. "In a short time George Putnam boucht the Mail and consoli dated it with the Tribune and I was employed first as a linotype operator and then as foreman. After a short time I resigned to become linotype operator on the Ashland Tidings. While on the Tidings I met her and soon we were married. "I had a chance to go back to a fine Job in Phoenix with the Phoenix Printing company and so I resigned from the Tidings and back to Arizona we went. I had not much more than got settled In my new position when general Job strike was called in Phoenix and for several weeks we lived on strike benefits of $15 a week. "The day I decided to leave Phoenix for Orange, Cal, I received a telegram from George Putnam inviting me to accept the position of foreman of the Mail Tribune again. I accepted and we left Phoenix at once. We arrived here January 1. 1911, and I have been on the job ever since. "I don't know how this In active, do-nothing life will ap peal to me after about 56 years at the trade. From force of habit I'll probably set the alarm clock each night and when it begins to buzz at a quarter of six in the morning I shall rise up, give a horse-laugh and tell the clock to go to hell." BERLIN REPORTS BRITISH LOSSES Berlin, Dec. 27. (Official Broadcast Recorded by AP) Four British ships totaling 13,000 tons, have been sunk west of Gibraltar out of a British convoy which already had been heavily crippled, it was announced offic ially today. The announcement said the to tal toll of attacks on this convoy now amounts to one aircraft car rier and nine merchant ships to taling 37.000 tons sunk and two additional ships damaged. Bombers and dive bombers also sank four Russian trans ports totaling 7,000 tons and damaged five other transports and a number of smaller vessels with heavy losses in men and material for the enemy, the high command announced. The Germans said the attack on the transports occurred in the Straits of Kerch, which link the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov between the Crimea and the Cau casus. SEC. HULL FLAYS MANILAOUTRAGE Washington. Dec. 27. AP Secretary of State Hull asserted today that Japan, in bombing the "open city" of Manila, was prac ticing the same barbaric methods of cruelty and Inhumanity that Hitler has been using in Europe. The secretary's statement came in reply to a request for com ment on Japan's apparent lack of respect for International law in bombing Manila which has been declared an open city, un defended, to spare civilian suf fering. Hull said Japan had an en tirely consistent record in recent years especially since the In vasion of China in 1937, In prac ticing the same barbaric meth ods, the same methods of cruelty and inhumanity as Hitler prac tices and has been practicing in Europe. ftiVAH-kl I S WJ WJCOl COOLIDGfr I ZONA.' , JAPS, PUT UNDER CURB Stockton, Cal, Dec. 27. Sharp restrictions have been imposed on the activities of Japanese and Filipino residents of Stockton to prevent hatreds born of racial and economic quarrels from bursting into con flict. For two years, since Japanese , workers snapped up celery field I ficer of the Kancohe Bay naval Jobs left vacant by striking Fili-air station reported the recruits pinos, animosity has simmered ("without exception lived up to between the two groups, which: best traditions of the service." number around 2.000 for each nationality in Stockton alone. The Japanese military forces assaulted the Filipinos' home land. Instantly it was reflected in heightened tension between the two oriental groups. Chil dren fought In the streets. Po lice patrols were doubled where Japanese and Filipinos rubbed shoulders. Christmas night gangs coursed through the Japanese business section. Many windows were smashed. The next day a single shot rang sharply in a downtown garage office. Jungo Kino, 55. Japanese garage attendant, fell dead. Police said a witness told them a Filipino fired the shot. Yesterday a delegation of Japanese petitioned District At torney Raymond M. Dunne to give them protection. Japanese mothers told Dunne their chil dren had been set upon by Fili pino children while going to or from school. Dunne took the problem to police. Chief Harold Vogelsang declared his force was insuffic ient to provide special guards. He was considering deputizing more men. Chief Vogelsang ordered all Japanese to stay off the streets after dark. Filipinos were told to close their dance halls. PRICE OF LUCKY New York, Dec. 27. The American Tobacco com pany announced today that it had raised tha wholesale price of Lucky Strike cigarettes to $7.10 per 1,000 from $6.53 per 1,000. The company said the In crease of about 8 percent was necessary because of Increased expenses. A GRAND asas a""" T3P?f' 11 ' " ' ' ' ' o'ri'V 1 1(1 weWORO ft ri.-. Washington, Dec. 27. () New recruits at a Hawaiian naval station may have been "a trifle too reckless" in the De cember 7 Japanese attack on Oahu, the navy reported today, "and their disregard for danger undoubtedly increased the num ber of casualties." Describing acts of heroism while Japanese planes dived on the island the commanding of- Continuing, his report men tioned the "reckless" attitude and said: 'It was necessary to constant ly urge the men to scatter and take cover because most of them were so intent on repulsing the attack that they were disregard ing the enemy s fire." Use Mall Tribune want ads. Too Late to Classify OASCO BRIQUETS Now a.1550 per mm. tumpfr ana oeurr mm COA1. Valley Puel Co. Tel. 337fl. NiTW METHOD of FHYINQ CHICKEN, thorough It cooked to a golden brown, 35c. 6fc miles North on Pacific Htghwav. FOR RENT Unfurnished houses. 317 Portland Ave., and 330 Edwards. USE OASCO BRIQUETS for a long lnntlng fire. Valley Fuel Co. 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