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.
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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.
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