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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1956)
Monday- StpUmbtr 10, 1958 MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRfBTJNE THREE Mail Tribune Staff of Ten Members Gets, Writes, Interprets Daily News (Editor's nott: Thii ii "th tint of a serin of six erticles describing how your daily newspaper is produced and delivered to your doorstep or mailbox.) Gathering, writing, processing, photographing and interpreting the news are the functions of the news and editorial staff of the Mail Tribune. Ten persons perform these tatks. The news-editorial function of the newspaper is under the over all supervision and direction of the editor and publisher, Robert W. Ruhl. Ruhl has been editor of the Mail Tribune since 1919, after purchasing an interest in the firm in 1911. In addition to his editorial duties, as publisher he is ultimately responsible for the operation of all departments of the paper. One of the high points of his newspaper career was in 1933 and 1934, when his editorial campaign against a violent group of local politicians won the Pulitzer prize for the paper. Managing Editor Eric Allen Jr. is in charge of the day-to-day i operation of the news and edi 1 torial department. He writes : some of the newspaper's editor ials, and supervises the activ ities of the newsgathering oper ation. He has been with the newspaper 8 years. 7'-z of them as citv editor. He succeeded the late E. C. Ferguson as managing editor, a post Ferguson held from 1923 until his death last January. Thra Staff Dirisiont Other members of the news staff fall into three divisions, responsible for general news, women's news, and sports. Compriing the general news staff are Earl Adams, city editor, who is responsible for the col lection, coordination and pro cessing of local news; Harry Chipman, wire editor, who edits between 45.000 and 50,000 words of United Press teletype copy and feature material on an aver age day, and who supervises the make-up of the paper; Miss Rosie Bolcy, courthouse reporter, who also fills in as a photographer and relief city editor; Elliot Carlson, citv hall reporter: Miss Peg Hutchinson, reporter, church page editor, and assistant to the women s editor; and the most recent addition to the M-T news staff, Bob Vroman, reporter photographer, who started his duties this morning. Don Robinson, a 1955 gradu ate of Medford High school has spent the last two summers as a vacation relief reporter on the paper. He leaves next week to resume his studies as a sopho more at the University of Ore gon school of journalism, to which he won a four-year schol arship. Women's Section Receives Honors Mrs. Bren (Olive) Starcher is women s editor. She assumed that position in December, 1941. and is senior member of the news department in length of service. Under her direction, the women's section has grown to be acknowledged as one of the best of its size in the state. In 1955, her Sunday women's section was rated best in the state and third in the nation in its classification by the National Federation of Press Women. Her weekly column. Potpourri, was judged second-best in the state. At the time of the contest, Mrs. Starcher was assisted by Mrs. Paul (Frances) Bulkin, who left the staff last June. I i jj i -i'll I r f i X W TS. I I II -v!"i fvc- Cj If) 3 s-; I If urn, 1 tYl It- & " f , . r 1 y-y.. 'HIV CV ---- J tf, -J v-jgST iff if , Ir rf- ---- 1 ? in i NEWS DEPARTMENT Gathering news, processing it and relaying it to the public are duties of these news staff members. Front to back are Harry Chipman, wire editor; Elliot Carlson, Miss Rosie Boley and Miss Peg Hut chinson, reporters; and Mrs. Bren (Olive) Starcher, women s news editor. Mrs. Starcher has been with the company 15 years and Chipman nearly 12 years. CONFERENCE OF EDITORS Examining an article for pub lication in the Mail Tribune are, left to right, Dick Jewett, sports editor, Eric Allen Jr., managing editor, and Earl Adams, city editor. Allen was city editor for 7J.2 years before becoming managing editor last January. Another long-time staff mem ber is Sports Editor Dick Jewett, who has been -with the paper nearly 11 years, six of them as sports editor. He has covered four state basketball tourna ments at Eugene and Salem, the state baseball championship play offs last spring in Portland as well as three state golf tourna ments in Medford. The material produced or pro cessed by tiie news department includes all world, national, state and local news, photo graphs, feature articles and col umns, editorials, communica tionss, reports from Mail Trib une community correspondents (of whom there are 15), church announcements and stories. Grange reports, and a variety of other material to inform and entertain the Mail Tribune's more than 16.000 subscribers and their families. Jonas Reiher Dies Of Heart Attack Sunday St. Ann's Bay. Jamaic, BWI CU.R) Jonas Reiner, 54, retired New York manufacturer and financier, died here Sunday of a heart attack. Reiner and his wife, the for mer Kitty Owen, a granddaugh ter of William Jennings Bryan, maintained a home here High Hope and a residence in New York. Reiner was widely known in this British island for his gifts to charitable organizations. State Constitution Allows School Close Raleigh, N.C. (U.R) The North Carolina constitution now allows communities to close schools and use the funds for private tuition as a last-ditch move to avoid racially mixed classrooms. Voters overwhelmingly adopt ed a constitutional amendment in a special referendum Satur day providing for this so-called "safety valve" for a pupil assignment law adopted last year. The amendment legalized the closing of schools by local op tion when court-enforced inte gration threatens and using pub lic funds to send pupils to pri- FIRST IN 25 YEARS 'Vienna (U.R) An American orchestra will give the first con cert in Czechoslovakia in 25 years when the Boston Sym phony makes a one-day stop here on its way from Moscow to Vienna, the Prague newspaper "Vercerni Praha" said today. vate,' segregated schools. Unofficial returns from 1.78S of the state's 2,047 precincts showed a vote of 439.105 votes cast for the amendment to 96, 986 against it. LapAcinc . IMDUSTRIAL 16 S. 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