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Clinton News-Record, 1958-10-02, Page 5TOWN OF CLINTON PROCLAMATION Canadian Weekly Newspaper Week In accordance with a motion passed by Clinton Town Council on September 9, 1958, I hereby proclaim the week from October 1, to October 8, 1958, .as Weekly Newspaper Week in Clinton, W. J. MILLER, Mayor, Town of Clinton 40-x CLINTON NEWS-RECORD ITTUR$DAY, OCTC13ER, 2, 1.013 PAGE FIVIA This week is Canadian Weekly Newspaper Week, and the Clinton News-Record is joining with the other week- lies in Canada to celebrate the occasion. We thought you'd like to hear a little about the people who put the paper together, and the jobs that are involved. Canadian t 2. Weekly NEWSPAPER WEEK Your Home Paper Tells Its Own Story Work at the Clinton News- Record is gradually increasing, as it is doing in a number of businesses in town. With Clin, ton's prosperity, we are grow- ing, and hoping to keep on top of all the requests for printing and advertising space that our many customers request. As an example of our growth: two years ago we presented a picture page of activities in the WILMA DINNIN, Editor of the News-Record, is also photographer and general reporter. News-Record shop, and there were seven people on staff. Now there are ten. In addition to those pictured on this page is Walter Charlton, who travels to Clinton every day by bus. "These are strange and peculiar times," says Wal- ter, He leaves Wingham at 8.30 and gets to work at 8.05 a.m., catches a bus at three o'clock, and gets home at five p,m. His borne town is one of those cling- ing to Daylight Saving Time un- til the end of October. And there is Kay Plurntree, who lends a helping hand with proof-reading and bookkeeping in general. Kay is manager of the local theatre, and has only a few hours to spend each day upon newspaper work. And there is Herb. Turkheim, editor, business-manager of the Zurich Citizens News, a tabloid paper printed each week in the News-Record Shop, Along about winter time, when it gets too cold to sell frozen custard, Frank McEwan will probably rejoin the staff, as intertype operator, pressman and all-round printer. In addition to the newspaper work, there is always a good bit of job printing to be done in the back shop of the News-Record. Some of our customers feel sometimes that their work will never get done, but actually a terrific amount of letterheads, envelopes, programs, labels, etc., do clear out of the plant each week, Now of course, regular customers (those who require a program printed each month, for example) are cared for as promptly as possible, Other than that, jobs are done on a first- come, first-served basis, unless there's some very good reason for placing that job ahead of somebody's that came in earlier. Larger jobs, such as cook books, prize lists, etc„ must be fitted into the schedule as best we can. They take much longer, and de- livery is not promised in some Cases under six weeks. Pride of the Shop . Second Newspaper Began in January, Zurich Citizens News—Circulation: 800 On Regular Rounds ... Pictures and "Pigs" Publication of the newest weekly in Huron County, in fact in Southern Ontario, began January of this year. The Zur- • ich Citizens News is now a thriving newspaper, gaining in circulation steadily and now totalling over 800 each week. Edited by Herb. Turkheim, resident in the village. the paper carries advertisements from the merchants in the hustling muni- cipality of Zurich, and hews of people and places within Hay Township, part of Stanley Town- ship, Grand Bend, Dashwood, Varna and Drysdale. Herb collects news, sells ad- vertising, and then brings his material to the News-Record shop. Here it is set in type, and printed. The paper is mailed Wednesday from the Zurich post office. The tabloid-size paper, gen- erally 12 pages, is published at the popular demand of the citi- zens of Zurich. It was begun after the sale of the Zurich Herald, published by Chester L. Smith, to the Exeter Times- Advocate. Largest addition to the equipment at the News-Record for many years, was the Intertype Machine at right, above, It is a Model C4 installed this spring, at a cost. of over $15,000. Equip- ped with four magazines, that is, with four different sizes of type, this new typesetting machine set all the words for this page, except the top line, That's Laurie Colquhoun, publisher, at the key- board of the new machine, and alongside is Tom Colquhoun, operator of the other Intertype, which has two magazines, and just two different faces of type. In white smocks, standing by, are the Inter- type company's servicemen Bob Goodhall and Morley Lappin, who installed the new machine and adjusted it for accurate operation. (News-Record Photo) AT THE RIGHT, Murray Col- quhoun is working in a section of the News-Record of almost equal importance to the town and community as the news- ' the J Automatic Press . Although Ken Caldwell, above, is involved quite a bit with pictures and pigs, he is neither a photographer, nor a hog farm- er. The pictures he deals with are those appearing each week in the advertisements of the News-Record and the pigs, are the long bars of metal used to feed the Intertype machines at the right. Used slugs of metals are fed into the pot at the far right of the caster; they are melted and poured onto asbestos paper mats, resulting in metal casts such as this one Ken is handling with pliers. At that state, the lead is much too hot to touch, When it is cooled, he cast is sawed into shaps for making up into the advertisements you reaa each week. The pigs of metal are fed automatically into the metal pots of the typesetting machines. Last Job: Addressing . ... Extremely important to the life of the weekly newspaper, as of all publications, are the advertisers who make use of the space available in it. Here Bob Miller, advertising salesman with the News-Record, discusses next week's advertisement with John Sutter and Mrs. R. B. Sutter at Sutter-Perdue Ltd. The hardware business is one which offers staple merchandise to their customers, and also special items for home and business. Sutter-Perdue Ltd makes good use of the advantages of the weekly paper to increase their business. Each week Bob calls on them, as well as upo about 30 other firms in town to help with layouts and attractive pictures to use with their advertising. S Last job to be done to the paper before it 15 delivered to the post office is the addressing of each one. Mrs. Jack Van- Egmond operates the recently-installed tlliott addressing machine shown above, which uses stencils, each one bearing the name of a subscriber, and the date on which his paper conies due. Each paper must be fed individually into this machine. RURAL CORRESPONDENTS, TOO PLAY THEIR VITAL PART IN PRODUCING YOUR PAPER When YOU have news about your family, or yourself which you want printed in your home newspaper, get in touch with the rural correspondent nearest you, or phone our office: HU 2-3443. BAYFIELD—Miss Lucy Woods—Phone Bayfield 45 r 3 VARNA—Fred McClymont—Phone HU 2-3214 BRUCEFIELD—(no correspondent at present) HENSALL—Mrs. Maude Hedden—Phone Hensall 5 MIDDLETON Church—Mrs. Stew, Middleton—HU 2-752 GODERICH TOWNSHIP—James R. Stirling—HU 2-9237 STANLEY TOWNSH1P—Mrs, George Baird—HU 2-3390 GOSHEN LINE—Mrs. Clore McBride—Hensall 697 r 13 PORTER'S HILL—Mrs, Donald Harris—HU 2-3362 HOLMESVILLE—Mrs, Frank McCullough—HU 2-7418 LONDESBORO—Mrs, Bert Allan—Phone Blyth 37 r 5 CONSTANCE—(no correspondent at present) AUBURN—Mrs, Fred Ross—Phone Dungannon 9415 EBENEZER—Mrs, L Merrill—HU 2-3385 BEACH 0/PINES—Mrs. Fred Wallis—HU 2-9898 , Many other citizens of town and country contribute regularly, though anonymously, reports of meetings, club activities, etc. Our sincere thanks is extended to them, and all of the rural correspondents for their great help. "The Home Paper With the News" Cliotott News-Record "Serving Your Community First" • • Padding and Booking ...