How Flat Pages Move =i: = Ninety Years Total To Plates For Press flat form containing the type can compared with the earlier, "flat casting box, by means of a buil| Faithful service by long-ti be used to make a circular print-|bed press'. : A of The Osh T ing roll which can be bolted onto| The 'Page Mat", a heavy, the presses. |paper sheet impressed with type, PLATE TRIMMED One development in the tech- sology of printing which has vir- tually paved the way for the mod- ern printing press is the process termed 'stereotyping'. staurs. I* is then dried in a! |where metal maintained at al temperature of 630 degrees Fah- 75 per cent lead with tin a 'antimony added, is cooled in the lin water ing sy - to all departments. The Times This development led to thejcomes down a chute from the| mu. plate removed from the| composing room holds the record number of processes by which alhigh speed rotary presses as "mat moulding machine" UP- oasting bor is trimmed ic the|gor long-term employment. |right size and is reamed to the| nv .. men above all, hold right thickness. It is then ears and placed on a chipping block, or ecords ot Brand years aud on the "router machine", to take employ. They are Robert Stevens, not be printed. eta casing composed o "For Three Employees has brought top-notch efficiency _ off the high spots, that should Walter Bell and Phil Perry, all | members of the composing room | THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, Merch 26, 1960 23 VALUABLE RHINOS [valuable a simals in the famous WHIPSNADE, England (CP)--|z00 at ertfordshire town. Two giant rhinocerus from India, has the largest stock of animals costing £5,000 each, are the mostlin Britain. His family moved tg Toronto from Alabama the same year. WORKED AT GM In 1927 Walter worked for Gen- eral Motors of Canada Ltd., for three years. By chance he took a course in linotype in Torgnto. In 1930 a job was available in The Times composing room and Walter remained steadfast with Underwood extends The entire process from "Fage|ci.¢f the com; i » fied stall. pany since that day. Mat 0 the bisished plate takes Compositor Stevens started ap- | : ; Mr. and Mrs. Bell have thie Shout 18 sisites: |prenticeship with the newspaper : children, a daughter, Mrs, L The cylindrical plate is then; 1927 and worked as full ars pt Kirkwood a Sa er phi locked on to the press. If the TUR 50 rneyman since Nov. 28, 1929. daukhter. Mrs. W r isla is to be very extensive, such as|yo began his career with The dadiier, Mis NW. EB Dm ¥ job work oy 2dversisers, theinimes at the age of 22. F. J. Bell, an employee of the DR ae e Pla 9 Mr. Stevens Jollowed oo his / : U.S. state department as an | : father's footsteps, J. P. Stevens, advisor to the University of In- | The two rotary presses used| ® int in uebec % |for the production of the Oshawa Sie was: a printer Q donesia at Bogor, Java. |Times are capable of running pe : Phil Perry, who rose from Osh- | Mr, Stevens was born in To- awa Times apprentice to assist- |off 40 pages at one time, at a rate of 40,000 newspapers each|ronto in 1906 and moved to Whit- f ant fore n, Jet The was »; staff in 1933 after graduation |hour- The presses, however, are by at an early age. He completed Fai 4 usually operated at a speed). qcation at Whitby High WALTER BELL from the OCVL . that would produce 25,000 news-| is glycan 8 . ing he has! i Phil was born in Parry Sound papers each hour. | Setieol. Married in . |visen to one of the top linotype pq resided in Oshawa for the | The paper rolls used in the|two children, a daughter, Mrs. operators in the composing TOON. ach pipe Scholl lho presses weigh 750 to 800 pcurds,|D, Hann (Shirley) of Toronto and| During his youth he moved|World War he served in the and are equal to 13,000 four-page|, con Dennis, 14, attending high|/from Nashville to Chattanooga|RCAF from 1940 to 1945. | capapers. school in Whitby. |and later to Birmingham, Ala. He| go married the forme: | Each section of the press, that i |was educated at the Tennessee py, ence Croll of Port Hope and {prints four pages, is timed to the] RECALLS UNION land Alabama Schools for the (U€TiE C0 0 LO a ave correct sequence, so that the| Mr. Stevens recalls the first peat ang at Gallaudet College, Jo Tesiles LaS¢ page is delivered to the folder at typographical union formed in the washington, D.C. |the right time. The assembled paper in 1938. "The pay in those 2 paper is then folded, into the days was not as large as it is to-| VARSITY CENTRE [shape of a finished newspaper, day," he remembers, "but I think| At Gallaudet he played at land is carried on a conveyer up-|it was average for a town that/centre on the varsity football : " ha |staies to the matting, and cireula- size." (team and shortstop on the base- Dshava. Times Pho 'tios ¢eranmens. | He feels that the CompOSINg.y gqu59 Among Walter's fond- room in the new Times building ; has provided top working space est recollections of the athletic land better equipment. prowess of Gallaudet were the | One of the most colorful back- diamond engagement with the grounds among Times employees U.S, Naval Academy and grid- § is held 3 Bell, Vio was iron skirmishes against Villa jporn 18 _Nashvile, le Nova and the University of Vir- gini Congratulations to the Oshawa Times On Their Official Grand Opening! We of Underwood are happy in- deed to join with those in extend- ing Best Wishes on this auspicious occasion. It is with pleasure that we also announce that over 89% of the business machines in the offices of the Oshawa Times were supplied and are being serviced by us. Underwood Limited 73 KING EAST, OSHAWA RA 5-8811 | { | |the shadows of Vanderbilt Uni- versity. | Mr. Bell, a semi-mute, has| Among Gallaudet co-eds was a Canadian girl, born in Tara, Ont but residing in Carman, Man., whose father, the late J. W. Jameson, was publisher of the Dufferin-Leader. Walter married the Canadian girl and they set- tiled in Alabama in 1913. Following a wish of his wife, Walter secured work at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plant in Akron, Ohio, and in 1919, Si he joined the inspector's staff at Goodyear's New Toronto plant. 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