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MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE -VEBf ress Observes 50th Anniversary of Transmitting Friday, June 21, 1957 lews United o O Early News Handlers, Telegraphers Recall First Days of Operations by United Press BY UNITED PRES3 At leas' two 01 the newspaper men who handled Vnited Press rXpaUr.es on the receiving end when the t" P. was born 50 years t'i ar active today on the game Bewapapers. Tr.ev are M. F Bo wen, 83, daJly columnist ar.d feature writ er for The Da:iy News ol Mc Keea.Kirt, Pa., and Thomas F. Murphy, 73, ajociate editor of the Scranton 'Pa j Tmies. In interviews on the L' P. gold en anniversary being observed today, they retailed newspaper da of 1907, whfai the first U P. news came chattering into Uie off'.re in the j'rky candences of the Cot dan teiepraph code and was cnpid on a typewriter by an operator. 'We had no designated tele graph editor at that time," Bow er aid. 'a h man in the office woukl g'ab a piece of copy from the telegrapher's small df-slt, slap a headline on it, and turn it in to the editor. Jim Laudrbaugh, the operator, worked a good tight boms a day, and the stuff came over in pretty good shape. New Moved Fast "Be niade no carbon copies Just bung the single sheets on a ti? book. Once in a while, if we Mere in, a hurry, we'd grab a Piece right out of the typewriter. We had one edition, it hit the stree'j about 3 p.m. . "t was doing sports. From the U P. accnurts, we got out extra editions on the World Series that fail, and that was considered crrelh'pg in those days. I find, from the file?, that on June 21, .1907. our sports pagps carried: " 'New York Wise money picks Nealon to win the Subur ban: John W. Gates gets down on J0-to-l shot to win $80,000." Our front page carried items ; dealing with Dan Hannah's div orce case in Cleveland, a West ln Union strike in Chicago, and rabie from Paris about soldiers itfikiruf against doing strike duty." Murphy, who this month re ceived an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Scranton, recalled that he was relief man for the regular teleszraph editor in those days. "The U.P. news was spicily written, and we played it up," he said. "I think it helped to mske th Times the leading newspaper in ScraJiton. The U.P. seemed more humanized, less conservative, than other serv ices had been. "We got copy from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the teletjraph oper ators were loyal about staying on In a big story emergency. We ft out two editions, at 2 and 4 p.m., and I believe we work ed a little more leisurely than we do today. But we did a lot of leg work. I think some of the boys today lose a lot by relying on the telephone and not getting on the scene of a news event '' Murphy started with The Scranton Times 60 years ago in the circulation department, and progressed to the city desk, city first edition on the streets as a hall, and politics. He now is boy of 10. He did his first repor chief of the editorial page. He j torial work on the Johnstown has written extensively of the ' flood in 1889. history of Scranton. j He later covered courts and In McKeesport, Bowers bezan ! city hall and worked on the city his long association with The j desk. His daily column is con Daily News in 1884 selling its ! cerned mostly with local history. -- -. - - iiit .yyy:K 2H1.ZlPtVmi I WnT ill y v4 y ilHM Br UNITED PRESS Three telegraph operators who were working for United Press the day it was born, June 21, 1907, looked back today on 50 years that has seen the tele graph key replaced by teletypes and teletypesetters. i The three original U.P. teleg i raphers are Eugene O. Tomlin- son, 85, of Ulendaie, cam., James Doyle, 77, of Minneapolis, FOUNDER OF THE UNITED PRESS was the crusading E. W. Scripps. Taking two regional press associations of his own, he bought a third to unite with them into a single organization, the United Press Associations. The date of founding was June 21, 1907. Teletype Circuits Replace Morse Code To Sped World News New York W When the another relay to United Press Mail Tribune Continuous UP Member Since '42 Th Mail Tribuna today xtendi congratulations to United Press on observance of its 50th anniversary in transmitting news gathered from all points of the world to newspapers, radio stations and television stations around the globe. United Press news stories first appeared in the Mail Tribune on Nov. 5, 1929, when the newspaper subscribed to a daily "pony" report of 500 words. Between 1929 and 1942 the paper used United Press and Associated Press news reports alternately, and for a period during that time, simultaneously. The Mail Tribune has been a member of United Press As sociations continuously since Aug. 21. 1942, and now re ceives approximately 30,000 words a day. United Press began transmitting news 50 years ago the Morse key was the medium. Pictures could be sent only by messenger or mail. Today 60-word-a-minute tele type circuits blanket the United States by landline and the rest of the world by radio. Pictures are transmitted instantly throughout the United States bv landline and to newspapers abroad by radio. Many newspapers in the Unit ed States now set type from teletpe-setter tape punched in United Press bureaus throughout the country. Dot Dash Method Slow . In 1907 a story from Vienna went by dot and dash telegraph to London, with several relays en route to slow it down. From London it was relayed by cabl in dots and dashes, at a max imum of 20 words a minute, with more relays in Ireland and New foundland, before it reached the shores of the United States for Announcing Appointment of ' BEDFORD LUMBER CO. 3rd & Fir Ph. 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Another radio teleprinter signal direct from the New York news room goes around the world in both directions 19 to 20 hours daily, with 31 points in Europe, the Middle East and Asia receiv ing instantaneously and simul taneously, for translation and re disribution. Pictures received from foreign points can be and frequently are transmitted directly into the landline telephoto network in the United States. The first foreign picture to be transmitted that way was one of Captain Carlsen aboard the doomed Flying Enterprise off the coast of England in early January. Ths nation's number one finish to Redwood and Cedar. Formulated from perfect tin teed oils and color pigments to penetrate deeply. Allows woods to "breathe" naturally so Olympic-stained surfaces never peal, blister or crack. Yet Olympic Stain is actually less expensive to use than paint or Inferior stains. 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Ike Pays Tribute To United Press New York in The United Press marked its 50th anniver sary today with a tribute from President Eisenhower on the part it has played in strengthen ing the free world by straight reporting of the news. - On its birthday today, the 10,000 men and women who make up this unique news gathering organization were, as every weekday, sending almost four million words of news lit erally around the world. Their stories and pictures went to 1,560 newspapers in this country, were translated into 45 languages for clients in 71 foreign nations. They were heard on radio, seen on tele vision, beamed to ships at sea. and Edward Mullen, 74, of Cleveland. Tomlinson and Doyle have retired, but Mullen still is active in the Cleveland bureau as the chief telegraph operator. In 1907, good telegraphers could translate the clattering messages received in Morse and Phillips code into typewritten copy at a speed of sometimes as high as 50 words a minute. The sending operation meant instan taneous coding of news stories and relaying them to other U.P. bureaus. Sometimes telegraph ers had to double as correspond ents. Mullen Had Fast Fist Mullen was known as one of the "fastest fists" in the busi ness. His dexterity won him a transfer to U.P.'s Washington bureau as chief operator several months before World War 1. Mullen recalls that he pounded out the text of the U. S. declara tion of war against Germany in Phillips code and for three solid days transmitted by code the numbers of the selectees who were to make up the American Expeditionary Force. Mullen was assigned to the Cleveland bureau in 1920 and marked nis 50th anniversary with the U.P. and its predecess ors in 1955. Hugh Baillie, then president of the U.P., wrote then that Mullen and the United Press had handled "quite a pack et of history" together and Mul len had seen "changes beyond the imagining of Jules Verne." Tomlinson started as a teleg rapher with the "old" United Press, a predecessor of U.P., in Cincinnati in 1897. After several years with Scripps-McRae, he moved to Los Angeles to open an office for Scripps News. Tom linson, his telegraph key, and his battered Remington type writer became the U.P.'s Los Angeles bureau in 1907. Still Active At 85 Tomlinson opened the U P Tacoma, Wash., bureau in 1909 and did a variety of jobs for the wire service in West Coast bu reaus before he retired in 1931. Since then he has dabbled in real estate and pursued his hob by of gardening. He still drives a car daily. i-Joyie began nis career as a news telegrapher with Publish er's Press in 1904 and was work ing a telegrapher's key in Erie fa., wnen united Press was formed. He remembers one of his first U.P. dispatches con cerned a flood in Erie in which 15 persons died. When Teletypes replaced Morse operators in Erie in 1930. Doyle transferred to Minneapo lis to receive the U.P. telegrahic report for the old Minneapolis Journal. Later he learned to op erate a Teletype. He retired in 1951 with a record of only three days' absence from work in his 47-year career. News Gathering Freedom One of U. P. Principles New York (IP For 50 year the United Press has pioneered on the frontiers of news freedom. One of the principles the U P. adopted from the beginning is that it should have the freedom to gather its own news and to disribute that news anywhere, free from any private or gov ernment restriction. This principle stemmed from necessity when the U.P. was young. In the United States in those days, a press association was conceived to be little more than a network of wires over which newspapers exchanged news. International newsgathering followed a similar pattern press associations exchanged news of their respective coun tries with each other instead of sending their own correspond ents abroad. This method was easy, it was cheap and it be came monopolistic. For in ex changing their news, the major international agencies agreed not to sell their services in each other's territory. In this com fortable world news cartel, the British and the French played leading roles, the French pre empting Latin America as their exclusive sphere and the British reserving the sole right to serve newspapers in the Orient. The United Press began its fight for free access to iiews sources from the day it was born. U.P.'s own staffers were assigned to cover the news at home and abroad. In the United States the U.P. sold its service to any newspaper that would pay a fair rate. It invaded the territory of the cartel abroad by selling service in the hither to exclusive areas in the Orient, South America and Eur ope. In 1912, five years after it was founded, the United Press Hillman Franchise in Medford Changes Hands Jack White of White's Cycle shop, 36 South Bartlett St., Med ford, has sold the Hillman auto mobile franchise to Jack Par sons of Parsons Motor company, 315 East Fifth St., White has announced. The franchise includes sales, service and parts. White main tained the franchise for about a year for the English-made vehicle. White said he will con tinue to handle other sports cars and motorcycles. Alcester, S.D. IW Bert Wheeler and Einar Anderson de cided not to let their political feelings interfere when they went into business together Wheeler is an enthusiastic Re publican and Anderson has just as ardent feelings about the Democrats. This year they cele brate their 40th anniversary as a clothing store partnership. NOTICE ROSE GROCERY NEW SUNDAY HOURS 8:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. Phone SP 2-53R5 Picnic Supplies - Fresh Meata Cold Drinks of All Kinds -Kit, V f H UNITED PRESS NEWSROOMS, then and now: above, In the early 1920's, in the old World Building, New York. Karl Bickel, then U.P. president, stands in the center of the group by tx desk. Next right is his successor, Hugh Baillie. Standing, left: E. T. Conkle, superintendent f bureaus: and, seated, center, William H. Grimes, New York bureau manager. Below, the main news-, room today, in the News Building. ' " -"gag"!!T;''' """"" zz'-m" -rii was invited to join the cartel It declined and continued to build its independent resources. The experience and confidence gained in this early struggle are the roots of a tradition that has been carried on and developed The U.P. many times has de fended vigorously its right to access to the news, and treats any attempt to hinder its report ers as a challenge to the trust reposed in it by its thousands of clients around the world. At the end of World War II the United Press was responsible for reversing the plan of the military and getting the press admitted to cover the executions of the Nazi leaders at Nurem berg. In Korea the U.P. led the successful fight to cover the Panmunjom truce talks. At the United Nations Geneva Conference on Freedom of In formation in 1948 the United Press was the only American press association officially rep resented. Its representative kept before the delegates the import ance of facilitating the free flow of news among nations. The high hores then of estab lishing the principles of freedoai of information in firm treaties have been blighted in the year since by the tensions of the Cold War. But the expression methods for achieving interna tional news freedom remain In the record. You Never Had So Much Bounty for So Little Booty ! 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