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Clinton News-Record, 1956-10-04, Page 3- After all the stories and advertisements are set in type, then the next job is to "proof-read" and check for errors. MURRAY MeEWAN who works in the back shop after a day at CDCI, pulls up the proofs on the proof press. MURRAY COI.Q1,111QUN is demonstrating the Hammond' Trim-o-Saw which is' used to cut the slugs of type the right \length. The pictures used in 'ads" and many in ,the news columns, mutt be trimmed to fit exactly. IS YOUR NAME IN ••• THIS WEEK'S PAPER? Well, if not your name, maybe the names of some of your, friends and neighbours. Probably few of you have had your name in the headlines. Very few of us do. . but the -names are there becausp you and your friends and neigh- bours are contributing to the 'useful , life and progress. of Clin- ton area, taking part in ;church and school activities, visiting the sick and doing the many things which make our commun- ity -a better place in which to live. A weekly newspaper is a news- paper about and for people like you . . . reflecting the community's life . . . determined to assist in its leadership. It wants to work with you . . . to tell about you . . and to 'serve you . That' is the job of a, good weekij, newspaper and, with your help that is what we are trying to do, editor, reporter, rural correspondent, and ad-• vertising salesman working together. „ . When You have news about you or your family. which you want printed in your home newspaper, get in touch with our office (Phone HUnter 2-3844) or the rural correspondent nearest' you: HAYFIELD .... Miss Lucy R. Woods (1955 Champion Rural Correspondent) Phone Hayfield 45r3 VARNA Fred IVIeClymont Phone HU. 2-3214 BRUCEFIELD Mrs. IL Berry Phone HU. 24572 HENSALL Mrs. Maude Redden Phone Henson 5 MIDDLETON CHURCH Mrs. Stewart Middleton Phone HU, 2,1525 GODM/C11 TOWNSHIP .......... ,Tatneg R. Stirling 'Phone IIEU. 29237 STANLEY TOWNSHIP Mrs. Gebege Baird Phone HU. 24390 PORTER'S HILL GOSIIEN LINE „ , Mrs. Doriald Harris Phone 11U. 2-2362 Mrs,. Clare McBride Phone Henson, 897r13 HOLIVIESVILLE Mrs. Frank MCCUllongh Phone 11U, 2-1418 Mrs. .IL Dnrnln Phone. Blyth 37r1.9 LONDESHORO CONSTANCE Mrs. Frank Riley N.. Phone Seaforth 841r32 Mrs, Fred Rosa Phone OtffiglitlitiOn 9r1.5 AUBURN EBENEZER Mrs. I. Merrill Y ........:.............Phone Mt 2-8385 BEACH ,D !PINES Mrs, Fred Wallis Phone 24898 The Home Papei With The' News' 'A.714P- . • • NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER WEEK OCTOBER 1-8 Published Each Issue This week is National WeeklyNewspaper Week and the Clinton News-Record is joining with th'i other weeklies in Canada to celebrate the occasion. The staff of your home paper thought that readers would he interested in hearing a little about the people who put the paper together, and how they do it. , First of all, of eeturse it the gathering of news, and advertiS- ing, for without the latter there Would be no Finances With, which to publish, and without both news A lot of odd shaped pieces of metal go into the make-up of a newspaper. /In an advertisement with a picture, the metal is first cast from a pressed paper mold. Then it must be trimmed to take off extra metal not needed to form the picture. The odd lengths of line you notice in advertisements must be trimmed to that size. Finally all the small slugs of metal, ,+ the pictures, the column rule which,' divides 'columns and the ads must be fitted into a forme. Each bit of type must ,be the exact size of the space into which it goes, The whole thing is then locked firmly into place so that, it may be , carried to the newspaper press. There is room for four formes at one time on the flat bed: of the press. SO four pages may be print- ed at one time. When your paper has 12 pages, like, this one, that means that pages 3, 4, 9, 10 are printed first and this group is cal- led the first run. The second run is of pages 2, 5, 8, 11. Then the last run consists, of front page, women's page, clasified and back page. The men in the back shop take turns running the newspaper press, and it's considered the most ted- ieUs task of any. T‘his'press is well over 50 years old', and is sloWed down to a speed' of little more than 950 impression an hour. After the papers have been fed into this, press (and on a 12-page paper that meant More than 6,600 sheets 'of paper fed one at a time) they must still be folded. The fold- er is operated by two men. The final operation is the mail- ing which is done with a hand operated machine into which is fed the mailing list on a long roll of paper, Each name is cut off and pasted onto a paper, Then the papers are bundled and taken to the kcal post office and in a feu/ minutes people in town are reading the week's. news, People in Tenn- to are reading about Clinton on Friday, A copy reaches the Sen- ate and Commons in Ottawa by Friday noon. By Monday, former Huron County folk in Western Canada are enjoying news of home, land those who have chosen to live in the southern United States are reading St soon after that. known as Cooney) MeEWAN, the Clinton News-Record "ad mahh" Bright and early; Monday morning, and HARRY (better MISS WILMA D. DINNIN clitpr and 'bookkeeper for the is ready to set off on his weekly calls., Clinton News-Record. FRANK MeEWAN (popularly known as words which appear in the "1-1.6me paperi.' are Timmer) puts in many an hour at the keyboard set in type. of the typesetting machine. Here all of the • CLINTON NEWS-RECORD "Serving Yo.te Community First" Deadline time approaches and the hands of putting some, finishing touches to the back page the make-up-men must work 'swiftly and surely. which is made up at the same time, maketup on the front page—that is, fitting in next day. Next to him is CLARENCE COOPER the pictures and stories which you will read thiE (Above) LAURIE CoLQUHOUN is doing the through the "big press".—(News-Record Photos) more than 6,600 sheets which, each week roll CLARENCE COOPER is feeding in one of the the last run of the "home paper" is on the way. (Below) Finally the presses are rolling and • Other Services Given the Community The News-Record Printing Sli'Op gives Good. Service, Excellent Quality and a Variety of Goods. Ye We Supply Job Printing of all Kinds: I PROGRAMS, MENUS, BUSINESS CARDS, P. PRIZE LISTS, COOK BOOKS, CATALOGUES, PRICE TAGS, ADMISSION' TICKETS, WEDDING 8TATIONEEV, SOCTAL PEINTING-, LETTERHEADS, STATEMENTS, INVOICES, EN_v E ES M LOP, I Agent foie Remington. Rand. Portable Typewriters and Adding' Machines. Supplier of,Itubber Starnp, Daterso Markers of all kinds; and the new Magic Marker. and advertising there would be no newspaper. Advertising arrives. at the office by a number of ways. Many cies-- sifted ads are phoned in. Others are brought in,', or mailed to US. HUt the greater percentage of ads are "gone after" by Harry Mc- !Ewan, our "ad man". Every Mon- day he sets out on a regular round of calls to the ,merchants in town. He carries e large "ad book" un- der his arm, from which advertis- ers may get ideas,' pictures, etc. • Harry also is the News-Record "sports' man') and not only takes part in. playing hockey and base- ball, but he takes care of stories on these and other sports. While he is out "getting ads", the phone is busily ringing back at the office. Throughout the first part of the week, many stories are phoned in to the office by press, reporters of the various clubs in town. News of the villages around Clinton is sent by mail from the rural correspondents who do a re- xnarkably fine job keeping track of social, church and other doings in their own neighbourhood. With- out tie help from these -willing reporters, it would be an impos- sible task for the News,-Record staff to gather all the nArt. As the news stories. cde into, the office th,e editor must sit down and do some serious editing. (That's the editor at the left. Miss Wilma Dinn,in covers council, farm meetings, etc., and takes .pictures too.) All reports are checked for spelling,. grammar, etc.,and some are changed to suit te editor's whim 'and sense of news' value. Editorials are written, pictures chosen,' and the whole is tent• to the back shop. The back shop is run by electric- ity. If power fails — everything stops. And then your home' paper is apt to be late. At the typesetting machines, which sets a line of type-at a time, Frank McEwan and Laurie Colqu- houn set all-the reading, type, and a good deal of the advertising too. This story you are reading was set on that machine. Actually there are two of them in this shop. One is called a Linotype and the other ,an Ihtertype, but 'both are basic- ally the same. To give you-an idea of the investment which goes into a publishing 'operation—these ma- chines when new cost about $14,000 each. -As the stories are set in type, proofs; are pulled. That is, ink is rolled on to the surface of the type, a clean sheet of paper is laid over it, and then, a roller pulled smoothly over that. An impression ,of the story comes up On the paper, and this is called a proof. Murray 1VIcEwan, son of Frank, who comes into the back shop after school each day, does* most of this work, as well as keeping the place rea- sonably tidy and is learning the printing trade from the ground up. (The proofs are read by Harry 1VIcEwan and Miss Dinnin).