The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-06-13, Page 42Page 10S
It wasn't)a good day Co talk
to the. composing room.
foreman. Lloyd Lounsbury,. a
man with over 30 years ,ex-
perience in, newspaper com-
posing rooms had just come
through another gruelling week
of problems.
This week it had been more
hectic than usual. The big corn-
putor bad at one ,point
produced only gable. The tape
punch machines all had
required servicing Monday and
Tuesday, two of the busiest
days for „Lloyd Lounsbury and
staff. Repairs are costly, not
- only in charges for the ser-
viceman but in precious time
lost.
Deadlines. are an important
consideration f4 'Lloyd Loun-
sbury. The pressroom crew is
on a tight schedule and they
need all runs at the appointed
hour if things are to go
'smoothly - .disabled equipment
or not.
The man in the middle,
that's LIO'Yd Lounsbury. At he
beginning he's pushed '••,by
editorial staff and advertising
personnel for quality and per-
fection. At the end he's chased
by the press crew and mailing
department to ensure that their
duties can be, performed op
time and without delay.
For all the difficulties facing
Lloyd Lounsbury every week,
he's one of the best natured
staff members. at Signal -Star
Publishing Limited: He has
unusual role to fill and he han-
dles it well.
Lloyd's staff consists of all
women. He is in charge of the
typists, the paste-qp staff, the
proof room, the headliner
operator.
"There's a problem in itself",
Lloyd smiles.
Lloyd's been at the,Signal-
Star since 1965-', the beginning
of the -Shrier era, He says one
of the joys in his- job has been
the royalty of his staff, par-
ticularly Ruth Leonard, Shirley
Straughan,H Millie Johnston
and Ila Pollock. They came to
..the Signal -Star and stayed.
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They work, hard and are as
dep‘ndable as any staff can be.
There have been some
changes in the proof • room.
Presently Mrs. 'George Ellis is
the senior member there. Her
long time association with the
Signal -Star makes her a valued
employee Also employed as a
proofreader with the Sig -nal is
Beatrice Aberhart,
Headliner operators and
typists change often. Two
typists' 't7ive remained faithful
to the Signal operation - •Judy
Austin who has worked with
the company off and on since
October 1968 and Betty
Helesic, a fulltime typist since
May 1972. •
Other typists presently
working with the company are
Debbie herratt, Susan Sed-
don, Arva Ball and Carol
Fowler. Headliner operator is
Ann SEImis.
"Good typists are hard to
find", Lloyd remarks., "They
are hard to keep, too: because
the job is monotonous. It is
typing all day long with no
variation. And we demand ac-
curacy as well as speed."
In the future, modern equip-,
ment may ' solvepart of the
problem to locate typists.
Machine'ry is now on th.e
market whereby copy will go
directly from the editor's desk
into an auto reader -
eliminating the typist!
"But we will always have one
Composing room foreman
Lloyd. Lounsbury
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anent man
or two typists", Lloyd quickly
added.
One of the main drawbacks
'to becoming a typist at the
Signal -Star has always been
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