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page 10 tribune anniversary wednesday june 29 1988 t5 started 33 years ago joan marshman sells classified and real estate ads in the tribune she began working there as a linotype operator before computer technology eliminated the need for the old machines joan remem bers the days not too long ago when real estate ads ran on the front page of the newspaper joan marshman a longtime employee of the tribune has seen considerable change over the years much of it of course relating to advancing tech nology when joan took her first job as a linotype operator in 1955 hand set type was still being used in the printing plant just across the street from the tri bunes offices old fashioned methods did have some advan tages however as joan re calls the sheets cf newspaper came off the presses indi vidually for hand collating and folding sometimes a spelling error might be spotted during that operation the presses were simply stopped and the error corrected of course this situation could produce momentary panic without home delivery customers often waited outside the plant for their papers liter ally hot off the press despite the many things that could go wrong and sometimes did the paper always came out on time joan remembers the great fire in october 1971 stouffvilles most devastating which razed the entire block on the southeastern corner of market and main streets as all nearby buildings including the tribunes printing plant had to be hosed down and this event occurred on the day be fore the tribune was to be pub lished all printing was rushed to safety at the era plant in newmarket where it was pro cessed and returned for deliv ery at the usual time another fire ordeal took place 10 years ago a small blaze in the back of the ron nies transport truck then used for distribution singed a number of tribunes on their way to dispersal points joan will never forget one very cold saturday morning about two years ago with temperatures reaching below the 30 degree fahrenheit mark driver russell lee cons idered it expedient to leave his vehicle running while loading papers at the plant door im agine his surprise when he turned around to see his vehi cle moving away without him the truck filled with the weekender edition was being stolen by chilled joy rid ers it was later found wrecked and abandoned joan has not as yet experi enced the desire to enter the journalistic arena but she still gets a thrill out of seeing the news before it is printed during her 30 years with the tribune she has worked on many of the operations in volved in producing a com munity newspaper from pasteups to bookkeeping all accounting related functions are now centralized at the eco nomist offices in markham and joan herself is in charge of the classifiedrea estate sec tion this section as we know appears towards the back of most papers she remembers seeing old editions of the tri bune in which the ads appeared on the front page although the latest computer equipment is a very visible and vital part in the assembly of to days tribune it takes but a smallbackwardswanderof the imagination to visualize wilf mordens old home and earlier days at the tribune office though open for under three years the larry cotter ford lin coln mercury dealership has proven to be a very successful one a small to midsized franch ise it handles almost 700 new automobiles and trucks per year and so has received fords distinguished achievement award in both 1986 and 1987 general sales manager frank szbedinszky believes their suc cess is due not only to excep tional service but also to the personal touch we take pride at our deal ership with the service that we sf9 jbhl itawsstes fgbsbijg although a relatively new dearlcship cotter ford has won ford dealership achievements awards in i98g and 1987 the firm sells appro ximately 700 cars a vcar at its location on llwy 48 provide he said repair check- ins and pickups can be made until 9 pm and courtesy cars are provided free of charge to customers for one day another reason for the suc cess claims szbedinszky is that both mr cotter and myself and as a result our staff believe that you can make a reasonable profit and give good service without overcharging or using gimmicks the logo is the greatest little dealership on earth and the people at cotter ford really be lieve it owner larry cotter is a for mer president and chief execu tive officer of revlon and before that president of shulton canada for the stouffville business man the switch from beauty products to automobiles is not such a strange one his mother is a retired ford motor com pany employee and as his dad was in the automobile business for over 30 years he virtually grew up around cars cotter whose lifelong ambi tion was to have his own deal ership is now doing something which is a real joy business is business said cotter believing that there really is a tie between beauty products and cars just as with your makeup etc you can project a particular imago larry cotter area ford dealer so a car is an extension of yourself at cotter ford lincoln mer cury there are no high pressure sales its a very personalized type of place said mr cotter he looks at everyone who com es in as someone to service and hopefully establish a long term friendship its located on hwy 48 south of 19th ave