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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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