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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1946 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PACE ELEVEN Many Complex Steps On 'Miracle' Machines Gets News Into Paper Scores of Pounds of "Mats"' In Hundreds of Thousands Used On Each Day's Issue In many senses, a daily news~ paper is the most complicated single product that ever falls in the hands of an average man, Fortue nately, though, most of that come plesty is absorbed and mastered intricate and ingenious machin~ ery, without coming to the attention of the reader, or even causing un~ due trouble for those who produce the paper, so long as their equip ment is modern, Each time an issue of The Dally Times-Cazette is produced, for ine stance, there is need to fit together literally hundreds of thousands of individual pieces of metal, as a step toward forming lines of type--to use scores of pounds of melted metal in shaping that type so it can be used in the printing process ~t0 send upwards of a ton of paper Rustiing through the presses, rune ning huge rolls of newsprint, et these things are done without any exitement or confusion, by men who scarcely give a thought to the fact that the machines they use represent some of the highest forms of modern magic, While details of departmental Operations of The Times-Ciazette are given in other articles in this section, the following is a summary, i by step, of the operations re~ quired to get news into a news- paper: News Gathering -- Trained report orial staffs in Oshawa and Whitby call regularly on estab- lished news sources, follow all "leads" to information likely, to be of rest 1 mde, A spe etype, or printing Ey pours the Tull leased wire report of The Canadian Press into the news department ~thousands of words per hour reporting the general news of Canada and of the world, Editing = The relative values of all the news received, whether from the local staff or Canadian Press is appraised by a staff of editors, who allot space and position in the paper to indi- vidual items according to the degree of interest they are be- lieved to have to readers, These {tems are then edited and given headlines to conform with such evaluations, Type Setting -- News matter is set into type on lino machines ~equipment of a kind that has been in use for many years but still ranks high among the greatest miracle workers in a newspaper plant. The linotype is operated from a keyboard bear: i some resemblance to that of a typewriter. Each time # key is touched a small unit of brass, known as a "matrix" or "mat", is dropped into a chane nel, Upwa of 40 of them form one line of one column wide, in the size type used In setting news, When the channel has beén filled, to form a line, the mats | are pushed up against the mouth of a metal pot, which pours melted metal into the openings in the "mats", thereby forming a solid line of h cast on what is called a slug. A similar method is followed in setting type of larger sizes, such as is used for headlines and in advertising, employing what is as & Ludlow slug casting Makeup = As the lines of type are set in their various sis, and cast as slugs of solid metal, they are taken to what are known as makeup "banks" and as sembled in their proper relation to each other, Headlines are fitted with the right stories, jdvattismtienis are Jade ap by bringing or .the various sizes produced by dif- ferent machines, Separate items, whether of news or adve , are then put in their proper position in metal page forms, the same size a8 & page of the paper in its finished atate. There they are "locked up"---fitted ether so tightly so that all of the hun- dreds of individual lines to a ge become a virtual unit, can lifted as one piece without any part falling out of the page. = N ia Stereotyping + No pining ) Ne which they are tand the printed, a "matrix" is used, but an entirely different kind in lino- is made of pa like a sheet of blank cardboard somewhat larger than a full page, This "mat" is placed on top of the page form, "Mat" and form are then put through a roller which forces the "mat" against the type surface with a ure of 30 tons to the square ch. As a result, the "mat" picks up an impression of every detail, whether in pictures or wpe, of the page form, e "mat" is then dried quickly and placed in a casting box, where is is shaped in the approximate form of a tube, ot metal of a harder kind than is used in Sing pe i Pimpea aga eo "mat", all the spaces left by the im- on, and forms a metal ube on which everything that was in the original is re produced in relief, After this metal tube has been trimmed, it goes to the press room, Printing -- The finished tubes are Melted Metal, Type, on each press unit, with one pair printing one side of the per and the second the other, 0 of them, one up and one down, gan be used to print two sides of a single page, if desired, There are four units to the now used by The Times- to 16 pages can be printed in a single operation, speed at which Ey Ss can be, pintede papers ol pages each hour~results from the fact that the page plates are in ' ® tubular shape, Lvery movement of the press is based upon the principle of going round and round--of roll~ ng. The newsprint unwinds off rolls, passes between rollers that press it against the tubular ng mechanism which trims off individual papers and folds them into shape for distribution to readers, The name of the press, indeed, tells the story of its operating method--it a Duplex ROTARY press, pring of one day's issue is complete, the whole operation is started over again, and using exactly the same materials, All of the metal that was used in casting the type used, and all the metal used in making page lates, is returned to the melt~ ng 'pots, to pass through the same processes in getting out another paper, As mentioned at the outset, Podusing a dally paper is a job nvolving infinite complexity, But it doesn't seem that way, The various operations are handled with such speed, and equipment used works so swiftly and with such precision, that 'the workmen who produce your' press Gazette, which means that mp, pase plates, moves into a fold- |, ; Starting Again -- As soon as the Dally Times-Cazette look upon their tasks as part of the day's work--a job to which they ap- ply their skill almost auto- matically, Manchester, Eng, -- (CP) --Lord Derby has been named honorary air commodore of the city's aux iary air force squadron, Responsible for Keeping Plant Tuned Up Jack Hooper, millwright; Frank Baker, Grennon, carpenter; Jack Taggartt, machinist, A electr ician ; Miller Alloway, plant engineer; Bert Ls A To keep all the machines in The Times-Gazette in smooth running order is no small job, Here is shown Jack Taggart and Frank Baker guarding against trouble, NA hi Borders for advertisements, column rule and str equipment, Left to right: Marshall York and Making Borders, Rules and Slugs 2 Apacing atari is manufactured on this Ibert X b ertell. WISH THEM SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PUBLISHERS OF THE TIMES-GAZETTE IN DECIDING TO RESUME DAILY PUBLICATION. WE EVERY. 'SUCCESS, The Robert Dixon Company, Ltd. COAL -- COKE -- WOOD -- FUEL OIL -- GRAVEL -- SAND DELCO-HEAT OIL BURNERS -- COAL STOKERS CONDITIONAIRS-- (Product of General Motors) fitted and locked on the press in pairs, with four of them used London (OP)~--Longest submare ine telephone cable between Brite ain and Europe has been laid to Cermany since the end of the war, It runs 200 nautical miles, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England -- (OP)--Finders of a 300 A.D, colleo= tion of Roman allver, 8, Ford and G. Butcher have been offered £1. 000 ($4,000) each by the British Museum, Mayor Robert Saunders Congratulates Publishers It is indeed a pleasure to convey heartiest congratula- tions on the occasion of your 76th Anniversary, which you are to celebrate with the re- of daily publication on October 1st, 1 am sure the people of the County of Ontario will receive fon, New serve a vital function the lives of its readers and create a community spirit in the area led by its subscribers, wishes for your continued success and progress, ROBT. H, SAUNDERS, Mayor of Toronto, Ontario Filing Editor Has Rigorous Schedule Rises at 4.56 A.M, to Scis- sor 130,000 Words Daily To 25,000 for 23 Daily Papers in Province By STEPHEN FORD The clatter of an alarm clock on 8 tin plate starts off one of Cana- da's screwiest working days at 4.50 am, The subject tumbles out of bed and into his clothes, washes, snatches the morning paper from he doorstep and is breakfasting at The breakfast is cereal, toast, boiled ef and coffee--whipped up by the subject himself from a poste time at 5.16 sharp, It is finished, and at 5.36<the subject and the morning paper disappear with a whoosh and a muffled slam of the front door, The next scene opens at 6.02 am, in a clatter of teletypes and a olute ter of news copy on the eleventh floor of one of Toronto's aky- scrapers, The early-riser dons an eyeshade, lights a cigarette and begins his Job of telling one-third of Canada's evening newspapers what the world is doing, Through the broad win. dows across the desk, the sleepy dawn struggles up for another day, This is the Ontario filing editor settling down to his day's work for The Canadian Press. A filing edi tor is the news-agency equivalent of & newspaper's telegraph editor, The average filing editor selects and cuts twice as much news copy as the telegraph editor: but he doesn't write neadings on it ag the telegraph editor does. What strikes the investigator of this screwiest working day is that the Ontario filing editor is by no standard an average among the species, No other editor in Canada scissors the full day's wire report for so many Sapers, does so much slicing or needs such knowledge of transmission technicalities. Clocked to the minute in every move, he chooses the news for 23 Ontario dailies between Cornwall and Sarnia, between Chatham and Timmins, He feeds a teletype de- vouring a word a second, He sweats to catch thirty deadlines within five hours each day, He is a time- harried historian of the hour, a multiple mind-reader and an em- bittered foe of verbosity--all rolled into one, oars, one of every three Ontario filing editors has been bald-headed, which is not sur. prising; not one has gone mad, which is, Most amazing is how this fabulous task of journalistic jug- gling has remained a secret from newspa in Canada, even from those whose teletypes click out the product of the Ontario fil- ing editor's snapping scissors and plying pencil, The secret came out the other day, An Ontario newspaper asked to see the routine instructions for the wire to make a change in its requirements, By return mall came an almost-book-length treatise on what Ontario's provincial dailies want, when they want it and how to make sure they get it on time, The In ten 1| pallbearer at hi pamphlet disclosed that just one men did the job. rte This one man--back 0! anony« nity of mnews-agency editors and dally paper deskmen--turns out to be "Ab" Pulford, the 39-year-old Ottawan who covered the Royal Visit from const to coast for The Canadian Press in 1030, News- readers know him for his years of work on the Dionne quintuplet story. A close friend of the late Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Fulford repre~ sented the Dewiiapeis of Canada as recent funeral, Fulford went back to wire-filing when The OP's young, technically~ trained editors trooped into the ser- vices, A wizard at detail, he Was & main cog in the complicated news- machine which collected the vote in the 19042 Dominion plebiscite, One reason he wants the war to end is so that Flying Officer Jack Calder can come back to take over his job. Onlder, an RCAF bomber navigator, is recovering after a crackup In Britain, What an Ontario editor thinks about, jotted down from his job memo: Soo wants steel and wolves in full , . . Kingston gets all drams and Welsh , , Orange celebrations and cheese in full for Woodstock . + . cheese for Belleville , . , obits for Galt , . , odd stories for Peter borough . . . Brantford likes poste war plans but hates misplaced "to- days" , , items with morgue-pic- ture possibilities for Welland , , . rubber for Sarnia , . . - Fulford shows no sign- of ip though he is within a few hairs the bald-heads who can say they used to do the job, Usually they don't say so until they get out of Toronto, for fear. some staff shift may put them back on the Ontario desk with its pre-dawn breakfast and distraction-deadlines, Most of the graduates of the desk are, in fact, away from Toronto, Foster Barclay, for instance, has been overseas since the eye-opening the great "fire-blitz" in December, 1040, For four years Barclay, who started as a news- paperman in Ottawa 15 years ago, filed the Ontario wire, Three times he was ticketed for a reporting job only to be disappointed when no ono could be found to take over. Finally The OP, a bit consclence« stricken, shipped him off to its London Bureau and now he's a war Sor ndent with the Canadians n Italy, Correspondents in London still tell of Barclays arrival in blacked out Euston station Bombs were thudding in the financial district nearby and fires were wildly ablaze. Barclay walked out of the station into the brilliant glare of the orange sky, set down his bags, blinked and said: "Boy, what a town! But what a relief after those Ontario oiroult deadlines!" Authority for the story is D. B, Burritt, chief of OP's London bur eau until named New York Supere intendent recently, It may not be accurate because Burritt is a bit of o joker and himself an Ontario wire alumnus, Home on furlough after three years in London, he walked into the Toronto office of The Canadian Press and recognised only a few of the war-wrecked staff, Old-timers greeted him, new= FILING EDITOR (Continued on Page 13) Three Quarters of A Century of Public Service! ' Congratulati fe] We Extend Sheers ons to the Times-Gazette on their Seventy-Fifth Anniversary « & lifetime of service and a record to be proud of." We have no hesitation in wishing The Gazette continued success in the wider field of news coverage. We of Mitchell's too . . . are proud of our record of public service to the City of Oshawa. Although we cannot boast of 76 years we are at the present time entering our 50th year of business in Oshawa. fond hope that we may continue to serve you and your family for many more years to come, MITCHELL D RL 4 SHote VY ul 9 SIMCOE 5T NORTHE TEL NO 48 49 "One of Oshawa"s Oldest Family Drug Stores" It is our