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22 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Scturday, Merch 26, 1960 TIMES COMPOSING ROOM IS LOCATED ON THE SECOND FLOOR Composing Room Spot Where Written Word Becomes Type The transformation of the writ- §ten word into type takes place 1 in The Oshawa Times composing room. For the layman the composing § oom -- located in the heart of g the Times Building on the first BIAS floor -- presents a mass of ine tricate machinery and co-ordin- == ated confusion. Yet, all manifold machines work together toward the finish- ad product in an integral step of & newspaper production. The de- partment is under the direction of Foreman Ray Scott. The written copy is punched into tape through a code system by three operators. The perfor- ated tape is then passed on to a bm series of automatic linotype set- Sak ters. ® To bypass the punching on + tape, written copy can be set into "% type by hand, a more time-con- ~~ suming operation. TYPESETTERS . The automatic linotype setters are grouped strategically in one part of the composing room. The 1 perforated tape is fed into the machines, which set type in single column width. The linotypes are fed from metal ingots, molten in an elec- tric. cauldron in the rear of each --Oshawa Times Photo machine. The molten metal is squeezed through an opening into| matrices, then cooled. The mat- rices and spacebands are auto- ; LINOTYPE MACHINES GET BRISK WORKOUT NEAR DEADLINE TIME THREE TIMES' TELETYPESETTER OPERATORS --Oshawa DOUGLAS NESBITT INSPECTS TYPE IN GALLEY --Oshawa Times Photo Times. Photo matically redistributed to their proper places in the machine. Copy received from the wire services is automatically punch- ed into tape through a tape per- | forator, synchronized with composing room, The finished type is compared with the original copy by three proofreaders for accuracy. Any errors are corrected manually on one of the linotypes i STORY HEADS Heads for each story as writ- ten by newsroom editors are Bm also set on one of the linotypes in a larger-face type. Especially arge heads, including the Page One banner, are set on a special * machine, called a "Ludlow" All type for newspaper use is assembled on the 'bank', a long table with metal surface. The type itself is kept in steel hold- ers, the "Galleys". From the bank the corrected type is taken to the individual pages in the "make-up" depart- ment. The make-up frames, made of precision-tooled metal, id rest on mobile steel dollys. Each 8 compositor is responsible for the make-up of one or more pages. Under the supervision of the --Oshawa Times Photo editors, the compositor puts the po ELROD CASTING MACHINE --Oshawa Times Photo OUR CONGRATULATIONS --to the-- Bolts on the underside of the sm metal frame are tightened to old the type securely in place. he dolly is then wheeled out of the make-up department and a final proof pulled for correction by the editors. The make-up frame is now pushed under a hydraulic press or "mat moulding machine". A sheet of slightly-wet mat ? paper is placed over the frame. Under tremendous pressure an exact imprint of the type within the frame is impressed into the mat paper. The page is now "rolled". Advertisements on the various pages are made up in a separate part of the composing room, the *'ad alley". This is a row of lino- types specially set aside for ad- vertising purposes, A compositor making up an ad according to the specifications of the display advertising staff, may spend several hours on the make- up o one intricate advertise- ment, VARIOUS DEADLINES Each page.of the paper has a eT TeNT GUEUDDE, WIL See time by which the page must be "rolled" and sent downstairs to the stereotype and press rooms. The earliest pages to be rolled are the women's pages, the sports pages, the classified -ad-- vertising pages and other inside pages. The financial page is lock. ed up at 12 noon to catch the latest stock market results from Toronto and-Montreal stock exchanges. The city pages, usually Page 8 . and the front page of the second section, are closed off around 1:30 p.m. The last page to be rolled in Page One, the front page. Even when the front page is locked up, room is-left open for "Late News Flashes", to be inserted just be- fore absolute deadline. After all pages have been roll. ed, the work of the composing room swings toward production of the next day's paper. type in place within the make-up | frame, as marked by the editor on a lay-out sheet. With the help | of metal slugs and leads each| head and story is spaced correct-| ly to give a uniform picture of! the page. | Each compositor works on a|| mirror-view lay-out of the page || the teletypes in the newsroom and | intellectual. {delivered | playwright jcalling him a |to Arthur Miller, saying she liked || | | | OSHAWA TIMES | and to its publisher MR. T: L. WILSON on the official opening of their NEW BUILDING Alger Press Lid. PRINTERS -- LITHOGRAPHERS -- PUBLISHERS 61 CHARLES ST., OSHAWA RA 5-3501 and must be able to read-type|| {upside down in reverse. After the |page is filled with type, the pic- | |tures from the scano-graving de- || partment properly fitted, the page frame is 'locked up". US. Writers Called Not Intellectual y LONDON (CP) -- Author Mary McCarthy says most contempor- ary American writers are anti-in-|| itellectual -- "'their minds would {never be raped by an idea." | She cited Ernest Hemingway as|| an example, describing him as "the top clubman of them all."| All his characters were members of a secret society, of which|| {Hemingway was president, and all wore the red badge of cour-|| age. | What she disliked most) was Hemingway's exclusiveness. || There was no room in his writing | {for the weak, the cowardly or the Miss McCarthy, visiting London |after a lecture tour of Iron Cur- | [tain countries, made the com- ments in a television interview. Smiling composedly, she de-|| severe judgment on|| Tennessee Williams, || "commercial" writer whose sensational stuff was dished out to audiences who | were "like cows waiting to be milked." She was a little kinder || Death of a Salesman and acknow- ledging him as a serious writer. || Miss McCarthy, author of The || | Groves of Academe, was intro- duced by the interviewer as one of the most intelligent women in the world. ra "Partners In Progress" \ LJ Sep Ss An Association of | More Than a Quarter of a Century! Our relationship with the Oshawa Times and its subsidiary, "The Rotary Printing Company", covers more than a quarter of a Century. During that period of time a warm association between the Principals and staffs of both our Companies has developed . . . and MORE MODERN FACILITIES now provided in these larger quarters it is our hope that this relationship will continue to ripen in the years to come! At this time we are happy indeed to extend our sincere Congratule- tions and Best Wishes on this the Official Grand Opening of the New "TIMES" Building! with the NEW THE PERFECT CIRCLE COMPANY LIMITED CONGRATULATES THE CITY OF OSHAWA AND ITS LEADING FORERUNNER OF PROGRESS THE OSHAWA TIMES Canada's leading manufacturer of piston rings-- Perfect Circle--is proud to be a part of the daily life in every garage and shop in Oshawa, and of our thirty-five year association with Oshawa's leading Industry, General Motors. As piston ring specialists, Perfect Circle produces rings for over 3,000 applica- tions in the internal combustion engine field. THE PERFECT CIRCLE COMPANY LTD. DON MILLS - ONTARIO