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EIGHT MEDFOBD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday.' September 13. 1956
ress Department i
ncludes
rmtin
(Editor'i noie: Thi u the
fourth in a lix article! des
cribing the departments of the
Mail Tribune, and how they
cooperate to produce a fresh
newspaper each day. from
gathering and writing news
and advertising, to its delivery
on the front porches or mail
boxes of its more than IS. 000
subscribers.)
q, a-
cereotyping
Many newspaper plant em
ployees consider the noise of the
big press the most exciting sound
in the entire operation.
It signifies a climax lo com
bined efforts of all departments.
It also serves notice it's time to
buckle down to producing the
next day's edition.
The Mail Tribune's final
phases of production, stereotyp
ing and printing, both take place
in the press department. This de
partment takes over where the
composing staff leaves off
after the type has been assem
bled and tightly locked into
forms.
Duplicates Made
These forms are moved to a
"mat" rolling table where a du
plicate of each page is produced.
This is done by placing a moist
blotter-like cover over the type
and1 running heavy rollers over
it. This cover or mat consists of
wood fiber, clay and about 18
per cent water.
After the impressions have
been made, the mats are dried in
a scorcher where temperature
ranges from 350 to 400 decrees.
When dried, each mat shrinks
about 916 of an inch in width,
allowing about one inch of addi
tional space for copy in a two
pace span.
The mat then goes into the
cylindrical casting box. where
hot, molten metal is pumped
against it. This metal consists of
80.5 per cent lead, 13.5 per cent
antimony and 6 per cent tin. In
the casting box a metal cylinder
impression of the mat is formed.
It 15 then trimmed, cut to fit the
press cylinder and routed. In the
routing process, unwanted pieces
of lead are removed from the
cylinder to avoid unsightly
marks on the pages. The metal
cylinders are placed on the press
cylinders, where they are
securely locked. As the press run
begins, ink is distributed over
form rollers and idling rollers,
which convey the ink to the page
cylinders and so to the paper.
In 1931 the Mail Tribune se
cured this cylinder type press,
(a tubular duplex') capable of
printing 27,000 papers per hour
when running at maximum
speed. Previously, the paper was
printed on a flatbed press capa
ble of printing only 3.000 to
4,000 papers per hour. The high
er speed cylinder press enables a
run of 17,200 papers, of up to 16
pages, to be completed in about
one hour, allowing later dead
lines and bringing more recent
news to readers. j
The Mail Tribune, w hen two !
sections are produced, is printed
in two separate press runs, one
rf KJiWt .ft
PREPARING PAGES One of the final
phases of nrvvspaper production takes place
in the stereotype department, where page
forms of type are converted into page mats,
and then cast into tubular form to go on the
press for printins. At extreme left, Don
Wethcrbee is shown with, the equipment
which casts the press cylinders. In left fore
ground Dick Greene, pressroom foreman, and
Duane Rifenbark are preparing a mat for
casting. Behind Green, George Spaunhorst is
operating the router, which trims unwanted
bits of metal from the page cylinders.
ON THE PRESS Your Mail Tribune is print
ed on large rolls of paper, such as those shown
above on the press. When a roll is depicted
in the middle of a press "run." another roll
must be substituted and "spliced" on the
web already- threaded in the press. This pro
cess is being performed in the picture above,
with Don Wetherbee at the paper rolls. Fore
man Charles R. (Dick) Greene ready to start
the press with the control buttons, and W. O.
(Bill) Fillinger, former foreman now semi
retired, who works about one day a week,
looking on. Twelve rolls of paper are used in
an average 24-page press run. This tubular
Duplex press can print 27,000 sections per
hour at maximum speed.
Feather Falls Marking Time
Until Outcome of Negotiations
aootn iu.m a.m. ana tne tinai icnt labor-management fights in
run auuui .13 p.m. i iive ion: 1 recent years
or paper must oe commnea in
order to print an issue of 24
pages, the average size. The
papers come off the press auto
matically folded and counted.
Comprising the press crew are
Charles R. (Dick) Greene, fore
man; George Epa'jr.hr.rst. assist
ant foreman. Don Wetherbee.
Duane Rifenbark. Kenneth
Shockley and W. O. (Bill) Fill
inger, who is scmi-retircd and
works one day a week. Fillinger
was press foreman from 1931 to
1953 and 'supervised installation
of the cylinder press.
By JERRY REYNOLDS Mho .nin with th f .
United Press Correspondent rorism." But Luther Sizemore,
Feather Falls. Calif. (U.R .international representative of
A union sound truck stood si-; the union, denied the union was
lent but ready today, a mute I connected with them in any
symbol in one of the most vio-' way.
After the week-long "reign of
terror." Sizemore said his boss-
On the surface, townsfolk, mill ' es made mrn "'Pull the sound
workers and union pickets alike I truck-" At the same time, vio
went about their business quiet-1 Icnce' decreased to a minimum
ly though somewhat warilv i except for the truck dynamiting
"But if you were a suspicious j .?lfy: t
individual, vou. would be look-1 1 d them Just about whiP"
ing right into the eve of a gun," i ped wnen ,hpy called me of"
one observer remarked. j-Sizemore said. He said he ex
T,, , ,. :, it , , . ' pected to replace the sound
1 he town itself seemed to be -
marKing lime until announce-
ment of tiie outcome of higli
1 level negotiations Friday in San
j Francisco between the Lumber
i and Sawmill Workers Union
I and the Georgia-Pacific Ply
I wood Corp.. owner of the mill.
I "If no agreement is reached
you can expect things to pop
this weekend," the observer
said.
Things began "popping" three
weeks ago when a railroad
bridge across the south fork of
the Feather River canyon was
burned. The bridge was owned
by the Feather River Pine Mills,
the struck plant, and was its
main link between here and the
railroad yards at Orovilie. Calif.
19 miles away.
The company posted adver
tisements in local newspapers
for days offering So. 00(1 reward
for information leading to the
conviction of the arsonists.
In the meantime, the company
built a truck bridge
truck near the plant if Friday's
negotiations fail.
The union went on strike two
years ago, but the mill reopened
a few months later with non-union
help. Quiet picketing by two
men was the extent of union ac
tivity until Sizemore was as
signed to the mill three weeks
ago.
Today armed guards are pro
tecting the mill, the bridge, rid
ing with the lumber trucks and
escorting workers to and from
work. And everyone seems to be
waiting tor the results of Fri
day's negotiations.
Bullfighting Reported
In Disrepute in Spain
By PETER KNOX
Madrid (U.R) Bullfighting
in this land of its birth has fall-
jen into sad disrepute ?nd the
; trouble seems to be that mod
ern Spanish bullfighters don't
' care for the occupational haz-
! ards.
j Critics of the current stars of
: the national sport are saying as
j much in terms as blunt as the
i horns of the weakling bulls they
; claim are being foisted on the
; public.
j These critics say the time has
j come for the real moment of
; truth not the moment when
I the fatal sword ends the life of
j a brave bull, but when the
1 friends of the sport must speak
I Already, they sav. the youth
ross the ! of Spain is more interested in
river and posted it with armed j football than bull fighting and
guards. Since then one truck ! it is the tourist trade that helps
driver was beaten, the home of i fill the plazas not the afici
a trucking executive w as bomb- j onados who "must be the back-
oone ot the sport.
.A section of the national press
Rain Is Reported
In Middle West
By UNITED PRESS
Rain covered the nation's mid
section today from the Northern
Rockies to the Western Great
Lakes where cooler air advanced
from Canada.
Meanwhile, tropical storm
"Dora" died on Mexico's Gulf
Coast after causing the death
of 13 bus passengers yesterday
when the bus plunged down a
ravine from a section of washed
out highway. Weathermen also
said the latest tropical storm.
Ethel." located 500 miles east
of Palm Beach. Florida, appear
ed to offer no threat to the Unit
ed States coast at this time.
Heaviest shower activity dur
ing the night was concentrated
in the western portions of the
northern plains, but rainfall gen
erally was below an inch. Light
er showers extended to the West
ern Great Lakes. A few showers
also wet the northern portion of
New England.
Fog blanketed much of the
northeastern section of the na
tion earlv today, but the south
ern half of the country enjoyed
rtear skies.
Little change was expected to- : organize the pea pu-kcrs and
dav with fair weather continu- rUn you out of there."
i nver most southern areas. While the sound truck set the
Scattered showers and thunder-1 pace, violence continued. House-; of the bull and condition of his
storms were to range over the , wives were threatened that their 1 horns are observed could be
northern and central Rockies husbands would be beaten if ; counted on the fingers of one
and Plains to the northern Great they continued work j hand." the influential newspa-
Lakes while a few showers William W. Gamble, general j per ABC says,
drench New England. manager of the mill, charged 1 Once it was the ambition ot
ed and this week a lumber truck
was blasted in an apparent at
tempt to knock it over into the I charges that matadors, who
canyon. Xcf individuals have i make as much as S2.500 for two
been seriously hurt. j hours work, are fighting under-
The morning after the bridge weight bulls, drugged bulls,
burning, the AFL union stepped ' sandbagged bulls and bulls with
up picketing at the plant and in-, blunted and shortened horns,
troduced the sound truck. It They allege the stars are
blared such threats to non-un- i ducking the Madrid Plaza. where
ion workers crossing the picket ' standards are kept high and the
line as: "Go ahead and work be
hind that picket line. But when
we get organized we'll run you
into the pea patch. Then we'll
bulls are always dangerous. In
stead they go to the provinces
and even there pretend illness if
it appears they won't be facing
an easy bull.
"The number of plazas where
the rules as to size and weight
every bullfighter to appear in
Madrid, lamented the newspa
per Hoja Del Lunes.
"Today the reverse is the case.
Bullfighters of standing flee
from here like scared cats."
Other critics assert a power
ful clique is turning the sport
into a high-powered racket
where quick fortunes are made
with a minimum of risk.
The way to the top can still
be studded with gorings. The
bullfighters' hospital in Madrid
averages 10 to 15 cases a week,
but deaths are rare for wonder
drugs prevent complications.
Charles Ketterling
Industrialist of Year
Washington (U.R) Charles
F. Kettering, one of the nation's
greatest engineers and inventors,
has been selected as the indust
rialist of the year.
The announcement was Issued
Wednesday in behalf of Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson by
the Society of Industrial Realtors.
Former Underground
Fighter Held in NY
New York fU.R) Author
ities held a former Israeli un
derground fighter in $25,000 1
bond today as a material witness
in the poisoned cocktail death
of a young language teacher.
Hugo Seinfield, 34, stumbled
into a police station early Wed
nesday and said that Avis Gray
25, drank a cyanide-and-cham-pagne
cocktail he had made for
himself after he failed to con
vince her to marry him.
Police determined Miss Gray,
daughter of prominent Brooklyn
parents, had died in an apparent
suicide pact. Later, however, her
death was termed "suspicious.'
Miss Gray's fully clothed body
was found on a bed in a West
Side hotel, where Seinfield said
thv hH rffistprfH at man and
wife for a "farewell date" to I
end their unhappy love affair.
Man Wins Wife With
Fertilizer Spreader
Mineral Point, Wis. r (U.R)
Jack Kenyon won his bride with
the use of a fertilizer spreader,
Kenyon. 24, spelled out the
name "Julie" on a prominent
hillside hear here by driving a
fertilizer spreader over a wide
area of the hill last spring. As
the grass grew, the name came
out in letters 100 vards hich and
a quarter of a mile long.
rvenyon eloped with Julie Fer
nekes, 20, to Nevada, Iowa, Wednesday.
2 New Teachers Hired in Medford
Medford school directors have
announced hiring of two new
teachers for the current school
year.
They are Robert L. Wobbe, a
graduate of Medford High school
and a former student at South
ern Oregon college, who is
teaching at the Roosevelt annex,
and Rampton Barlow, formerly
of Blackfoot, Idaho, who is
teaching vocal music at Hedrick
Junior High school. Barlow re
places Mrs. Ellen Meek, who has
resigned.
At a school directors meeting
held early this week General
Petroleum of Medford was
awarded the contract to furnish
fuel oil. for West Side. Oak
Grove and Lincoln schools dur
ing the 1956-57 year.
The company will provide the
fuel oil at a rate of 14.89 cents
per gallon. Other bidders were
Faber Fuel, McGinty Fuel. L. G.
McLaren and Company. Medford
Fuel, Valley Equipment com
pany and Western Oil and Burn
er company.
Pilot, Observer
Parachute to Safety
Tokyo (U.R) A U. S. Air
Force B57 crashed 95 miles
northeast of Tokyo today and
both the pilot and observer para
chuted to safety. Both escaped
with only a few scratches.
The pilot was 1st Lt. Jimmie
D. Martin, Cleveland, Okla. The
navigator was Capt. Charles B.
Ogle of Grand Junction, Colo.
The Air Force, searching for
the third day for a U.S. B50
weather plane that disappeared
in typhoon Emma, with 16 men
aboard said there was no truth
to reports liferafts - had been
found from the plane.
Methodists Call End
To Discrimination
Lake Junaluska, N.C. (U.R)
Representatives of 18 million
Methodists have pledged them to
seek a "human society in which
discrimination based on race or
color will no longer exist."
In a "message" adopted Wed
nesday at the end of a 12-day
session, the ninth world Metho
dist Conference called for an
end to racial discrimination and
the production of nuclear wea
pons. The 1,500 word message said
the conference, which represents.
church members in 70 nations,
"deplores the bitter strife which
bedevils human relations."
ASHLI
Wood Heater
GIVEN AWAY OCT. 27
Chicago Museum Run
On Non-Profit Basis
Chicago (U.R) One of the
biggest shows in Chicago runs
up operating costs of more tha
a million dollars a year and
takes in only about $32,000 in
gate receipts in the same period.
An annual report put out in
book form by the museum's di
vision of printing tells the story
of this not-for-profit show.
On each of the 1,072,676 per
sons who visited the museum last
year, it spent almost one dollar.
Adults are charged a 2 5 -cent ad
mission fee on four days of the
week and get in free on the other
three days. Children and stu
dents get in for nothing all the
time.
The report says the museu
not only maintains a multitude
of exhibits but also sponsors
world-wide expeditions. Last
year 13 expeditions added to
museum collections and conduct
ed scientific reserach in many
fields, including anthropology
and geology.
The museum also has the larg
est natural history library west
of the Alleghenies.
It's a show that's well worth
the price of admission especi
ally if you get there on a free
day.
This Heater Is Worth 13495
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