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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1972
From my window
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As most of my readers know,
I work for a weekly paper in
my town. As editor, I've got
plenty of headaches and prob-
lems. I don't need any other
upsets to mar my Tuesdays and
Wednesdays.
This past week, though, we
had an upset to end all upsets
in our office. Our type -setting
equipment broke down on Mon-
day night. No panic, we though
Get a repairman early Tuesday
morning and we're back in bus-
iness.
But fate did not smile that
kindly on us last week. Our
computer for output of copy lay
coughing and spitting blank
sheets all through Tuesday desp-
ite the frantic attempts of a
repairman to alleviate the sit-
uation.
By Wednesday, the repairman
had given up in disgust and left
our crippled computer sitting
idle...along with a full staff
of eager -beaver employees who
were as helpless as kittens in
traffic.
But the hierarchy of our est-
ablishment would not give in.
Very quickly, arrangements
were made for copy and ads to
travel almost the length and
the breadth of the province for
setting. Employees were disp-
atched here and there to set,
proof and correct. In the mean-
time, the remainder of the
staff did what could be done,
slept a little in preparation for
Steer
This
Way
BY
LARRY
SNIDER
Definition of defensive driving:
trying to prevent accidents by
anticipating the wrong actions
of other drivers.
An overcooled engine is as
undesirable as one that's
overheated. It runs inefficiently
and wears out rapidly.
Safety designs for future cars
eliminate sliding front seats.
Instead, there'll be movable
control pedals to allow for
differences in size of drivers.
If your front tire treads show
wear on one side only, your
wheels probably need align-
ment.
Shut off windshield wipers
before turning off your engine.
Otherwise, any sharp particle
on the wipers might scratch the
windshield when you restart
your car in dry weather.
In wet or dry weather, you'll get first-
rate service from our skilled
technicians at
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EXETER 235.1640
LONDON 227-4191
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Drive in soon!
BY SHIRLEY J. ICELLE
IR
the long, long night ahead and
prayed in a way that only news-
paper people can.
By about 10 p.m. Wednesday
night, staff members were beg-
inning to trickle back in with
copy. The big push was under-
way. It was all hands to the
wheel as the president, vice-
president, advertising staff,
typesetters, proof readers, edit-
orial people, paste-up, mailers
and press crew began to assem-
ble ads and pages for three
newspapers.
Would you believe- on second
thought, no one but a newspaper
type would comprehend it --
that by about 3 a.m. Thursday
morning, all three papers were
assembled and ready for the
cameras. And would you furth-
er believe that by 7 a.m. all
three papers were printed and in
the mail BEFORE DEADLINE
to our customers? Just fantastic,
believe me.
It has been a long, long time
since I've worked through the
night. I was dead tired and I
know everyone else on our staff
was exhausted, too. But today,
Friday, after everyone has had
a good sleep and a day to re-
couperate, there's an air of
pride about the place that hasn't
been here for a while.
Staffers are honestly satisfied
that their performance was
worthy. They are a tightly -knit
group now that has come
through a crisis shoulder to
shoulder, and the feeling now
is that we're a team unlike any
other team we've had.
The computer? It still sits
idle, its innards spilling out
like a goose after the slaughter.
The repairmen returned on
Thursday but the beast just
would not respond.
Where to now, you ask.
Quite frankly, nobody knows
what next week will bring.
Maybe there will be new prob-
lems, new hills to be climbed,
new peaks to be surmounted.
Who cares?
My husband, of course, has
a theory. (He always has a
theory.) My husband has been,
is and probably always will be
against computers. He absolutel
hates the things.
My husband believes that if
all the computers in the land
were tossed into a giant excav-
ation and covered up with tons
of earth, tightly packed, the
world would be better off.
He's not very progressive, I
suppose, according to modern
man's viewpoints. But my
husband gets things done, .. and
obviously, our computer is
failing miserably in this field.
I think we've all learned
something from this past week's
experience. It is that people --
plain ordinary folks like you
and me --will work efficiently
even though we're broken and
tired, unlike computers, we
don't quit at the first signal of
trouble.
An electronic brain is great --
but a heart and a soul are val-
uable when the chips are down.
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