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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1966-03-17, Page 13DEDICATE G I DIE 41) B vat E SA CONTINUiNG MEMORIAL Wingharn Advance,l'imes, Th rs,. March 17, 1966 Page 5 41, 0,4 „ow IT'S EVIDENT by the look on Bill Lee's face that the cafeteria customers are really enjoying their food today. eer, and complained for five minutes about her sewer situa- tion. During the winter I have been working one night a week at the Free Press and this sum- mer I will be back with them again, as long as no one dis- covers that I have been using fictitious names in all my news stories, because they are easier to spell. May be donated through your local funeral director ,',044"Lti4.4^4 ultok • vell CiSPtTALS Piii$9fameriti4 SCii A fLJ Snag ITALIAN SPAGHETTI $1.25 Meat balls, bread, butter, tea or coffee, dessert. LAKE TROUT DINNER $1.55 10 inches or over, includes bread, butter, tea, coffee, dessert. MILK SHAKES ONLY-15c Many flavors, regular 30c. Friday and Saturday, March 18th and 19th. Two to a customer. KINSMEN PAVIL BILLBOARD THIS WEEK THE KINSMEN PAVILION PRESENTS "The Becsurnonts" WITH NEIL RENWICK FRIDAY, MARCH 18th This is a very fine new group from Wingham who have been packing them in out-of-town. So be sure and attend this week's dance at the Kinsmen Pavilion and support these boys and the Kinsmen. ADMISSION — $1.00 DANCING — 9:30 to 12:30. FREE TRANSPORTATION provided by the Kinsmen from the Town Hall--9:30 to 10:00 p.m. FIRST TEN GIRLS ADMITTED FREE. a a 0 +J 0 Wingham District High School News ELWIN MQQRE, WPH GRADUATE Elwin Moore is another W,D.II,S, graduate who was requested to write an article for the school column, Readers of the A-T enjoyed his regular contributions when he attended high school here. Elwin won the Free Press scholarship when he graduated which includes full summer employment on the newspaper. He is attending the University of Western Ontario, BY ELWIN MOORE It was well past deadline when I rushed into the news- room. "Stop the press!" I shouted, My editor looked up from his desk and came to a quick de- cision, "Stop the press!" he roared. In the next department a linotype operator, our Conces- sion to Bilingualism, took up the cry: "Arretez la presse I" And so the message echoed and re-echoed its way down the building: "Stop the press!" "Stop the press!" "Fight forest fires!" "Help stamp out Viet Nam!" until it reached the press room. The press gang knew at once what they had to do. In a mot- merit they had assembled the copy boys on a ramp above the clattering chains, whirring rol- lers, and gnashing knives ofthe press. "Whose turn is it?" demand- ed the leader of the press gang. None of the boys spoke. "Whose turn is it?" he thun- dered again, with a fearful oath (mercy me), Then one slim but sturdy lad of 17, braver than the rest, stood forth from his cowering comrads. "We'll flip for it," he said, As it turned out, he lost, arid was dragged struggling and crying to the edge of the ramp. Then, with one energetic heave, the press gang pitched him headfirst into the fright fulrnaw of the press. His despairing scream was lost at once in the shrill pro- testing shriek of the rollers as they met with an obstacle too unyielding for even their mighty power. In a few sec- onds the shriek changed to a horrible grinding noise and the great press shuddered to a halt. "Well," muttered one of the more sensitive of the press gang, "we have stopped the press, but at what cost!" Back in the newsroom, my editor was saying "$4 an hour. That's what these copy boys are demanding now that they're unionized, So this had better be good." "It is, " I said, tossing a sheaf of papers written in my fine Italian hand onto his desk. "My, that's a fine Italian hand you have," he said, "Yes," I admitted with a modest blush, "that's what ray French teacher Mrs. Suter used to say." "What you have there in front of you," I continued, "is the inside story of the Bibb case." "I remember that -- a pret- ty messy business all around," he said. "Yes," I responded, "there were times I felt that I couldn't stomach it." "We have a new assignment for you," my editor said, hand- ing me a plain brown wrapper filled with train tickets, visas, and travel folders; "we want you to cover Viet Nam." "You can start now and get your lunch on the way; take a few years to get the feel of the country, make the right con- tacts, and keep your eyes open for any little human interest items that might brighten up the front page." On my way out, I hesitated. "When do you want sac to re- port back?" I asked, " Don' t bother," he said with a strange smile, as he pushed me outside and shut the door. I stood there for a while in the clear sunlit afternoon, thinking proudly that Viet Nam must be an important beat, and wondering how I was going to get there, outside of enlisting. 0 -0 -0 Actually, that isn't really what it was like working at The London Free Press last summer. For the first month I was on an orientation program, getting an ideal of different operations involved in the production of a daily newspaper. Although the newsroom is the most important part of a newspaper (anybody in the news- room will tell you this) there are other departments like Pho- tography, Classified and Dis- play Advertising, Circulation, and those concerned with the physical production of the pa- per, which include Pressroom, Stereo, and Composing. In Composing, stories and ads are set in type. Stories are done on linotype machines. The linotype operator punches a typewriter-like keyboard, causing letter molds to come together in lines. Hot metal is allowed in automatically and a bar of type is the result. All the parts of a page -- pictures, ads, and written ma- terial — are laid out according to plan and locked in a metal frame. Under extreme heat and pressure, an impression is made of the page on a fibre mat, which is flexible, In Stereo, mats are curved in a half circle around a metal form and a cast is obtained from the mats by letting in a hot metal mixture. The metal casts are cooled and sent to the press room where they are placed on a series of cylinders on the huge press. Ink is supplied to the cylin- ders and paper is run through the press, cut into pages, and folded automatically. The finished newspaper goes by con- veyor belt to the mailing room. This, believe it or not, is how a newspaper is produced. (The more I read it, the less I believe it myself; I have left out a lot of detail.) Getting back to the news- Wrestling BY NORM CORRIN Last week the Boys' House League wrestling was complet- ed, Individual winners were; 98 lbs., Doug Finlay; 106 lbs., Bob Johnston; 115 lbs„ Dale Meehan; 123 lbs., Steve Gorrie; 130 lbs., Larry Elliott; 136 lbs., Larry Nethery; 141 lbs., Dave Walsh; 148 lbs., Garry Walden; 157 lbs., Jamie Douglas; 168 lbs., Terry Rut- ledge; 183 lbs. , Randy Mc. Glynn; unlimited, Wally Hous- ton. Each house was awarded points for wins and losses, They scored as follows: Orange 31; Purple 25; Black 18; White 11; Red 10; Blue 5; Green 4; Yel- low 3. room, we find a lot of desks with telephones and typewriters for reporters, and a single-unit desk, shaped something like a big question mark (not much) for editors and rewrite men, The Sports department has its own corner of the newsroom and there is a special bank of desks for the Features editors. The Women's department is down the corridor, along with offices for people like the managing editor, the cartoonist, the edi- torial writer, and so on. I am describing the set-up in the Free Press's new 86,500,000 building on York Street, which it moved into during the sum- mer. The Free Press put out its Saturday morning paper from the old building, and its Mon- day paper from the new one. Overheard in the newsroom are conveyor belts carrying edit- ed stories to Composing and prints to and from Photo. The editors are responsible for deciding what stories will be covered and by whom, how the pages will be laid out, what stories will be used and where in the paper. Each has his own function. Copy editors, for ex- ample, check stories for spell- ing and grammatical mistakes, mark the story for the linotype operator, and write headlines. Rewrite men take stories by phone and other incoming calls to the newsroom as well as re- writing correspondents' stories and handling items (like obitu- aries) which can be done by phone. Every morning and afternoon an assignment sheet is drawn up for the reporters. Some report- ers have beats, like police, or city hall. Others are on gener- al assignment and might cover anything from a church service to a political meeting. I was on rewrite desk much of the time, and sometimes on gen. eral assignment. Busiest time in the newsroom is just before deadline usually. The Free. Press has one deadline in the early afternoon for the evening paper which goes main- ly to Londoners, and four dead- lines at night for the four edi- tions of the morning paper, de- signed for different regions of Western Ontario. The edition received in this area, the four star edition, is first off the press every night. Stories I covered myself dur- ing the summer included a wa- termelon-eating contest, a wa- ter ski show, and a greased pig catching competition that was stopped by the Humane Society. I also did quite a few obituaries and road reports, While on rewrite, I had my afternoons brightened by people like the old lady who was sure she had phoned the city engin- Tale of an Ontario town, to he taken WITH A PINCH OF SIN HARRY J. BOYLE Harry J. Boyle takes it with a pinch of warm humour, too, that brings the turn-of-the-century home town to life with vivid clarity. Seen at the fond distance of fifty-odd years, rural Clover provokes a wry laugh, a gentle chuckle and a misty eye. As you read, you will find yourself wish- ing that it had all happened to you and you may even be half- convinced that it did. It is all here, from a boyhood race in a broken-down rig to when the boys left for the Great War and came home quiet men. With a Pinch of Sin is a delight- ful reminiscence of a vanished way of life . in the tradition of "Mostly in Clover". At all booksellers $4,95 GI Doubleday 4 4 The Yaakee Peddler Went to His Customers -AND SO DO OUR ADVERTISERS- Our Advertisers specialize in serving people. They don't call at your door as did the old-fashioned peddlers, but they visit with you through The Advance-Times, at the times when you are free to sit down and concentrate on their merchandise and bargains. They make it easy for you to decide what you would like to see before you do your shopping. Our Advertisers are merchants who INVITE you to visit their stores. They WANT to serve the public and want the public to know it. READ THEIR MESSAGES IN THE Ithbancioamt My Newspaper Experience TOM MILLER and Ken Skinn get in a bit of target practice. Mr. Palmer is the instructor, MiclusTown ReoSaurmiat Across From the !GA Wingham, Ont. WINGHAM FIGURE SKATING CLUB Arounc the World Saturday, March 26 At 3 P.M. presents / / / I / Presentation of Marguerite Burrell Trophy Guest Skaters .1!