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THE DAILY TIMES-G OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle VOL. 7--NO. 105 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948 ZETTE WHITBY BUILDING ADDITION SUPPLEMENT CITIZENS ARE INVITED TO "OPEN HOUSE™ Will Be Guests of The Times-Gazette and Goodfellow Printing Co. Ltd.... Complete Tour of Plants Planned 719 § o'clock WEDNESDAY EVENING. Citizens Will Have Opportunity To Visit Modern Plants And Learn At First Hand Something of The Equipment Used To Produce The Times-Gazette.... Everyone Is Cordially Invited Tomorrow Evening 7 to 9 and Thursday : 2to 5and 7 to 9 p.m.--A Modern Printing Establishment Tomorrow, when the the doors of the enlarged, renovated and modernized Times-Gazette are thrown open to the public for an "Open House", marks another milestone in the long and successful history of this news- Fong Since its original predecessor, the Reformer, began publishing with an old Washington press and a hand- 1 of type more than 75 years ago, id Times-Gazette has made mam- moth strides in progress: to become | one of the leading provincial dailies in Canada. { cramped quarters with inadequate | machinery and material. The en- larged building, located at 57 Sim. coe Street South, | thousands of dollars worth of the | latest high-speed printing equip- ment so placed as to provide bright and airy working conditions com- parable if not surpassing the plants of many a metropolitan daily. Fast Growth When the original building at 57 | Simcoe Street South was erected in | 1914, it was then regarded the | ultimate in.a modérn printing plant | with space enough to handle any | | eventual expansion. Only 14 years | > BELOW: The home of The Times-Gazette and Goodfellow Printing Co. Ltd., 57 Simcoe St. S. The buildings have been enlarged and stretch through to Celina Street. There are more than 200 employees on the staffs of the two concerns. eC or ou = No longer does the staff work in | is filled with | WE Arrangements Have Been Made To Welcome Large Crowd of Visitors space | | noisy plant have been lined with requirements became so great that | modern, sound absorbing material it was found necessary to more than land' a tile , composition floor of double the size of the original plant. | pleasing design has been laid over Consequently in that year an addi- [he old wood floors. tion was joined to the building,| New attractive rest rooms. have forming a unified whole with more | been placed .in suitable locations. than 20,000 square feet. Again it The newsroom has been completely was thought that this would be large | Separated from the composing room e | so that the noise of typesetting future needs. machines will not, disturb the con- But again, with the rapid expan- | centration of editorial workers, A sion of the Times-Gazette and sub. | feature of the building is the shower |sidiary companies, this additional [2nd washrooms installed for the space proved to be inadequate and | comfort and convenience of workers in the press rooms and stereo later, however, in 1928, enough to handle any imaginabl | so tomorrow, the new addition, built | |on the Celina Street property of | departments. the company, and adding more than | New Henting Plant | 16,000 square feet to the building| A new he: plant, cap of | space will be thrown open to the |keeping the whole building at a | public for inspection. But the new | comfortable temperature no matter | | post-war printing machinery, is not ! the only point of interest. Offices Modernized section, which houses the latest in| how severe the weather, has been | installed. Storage space for paper | has been provided. In the newsroom, additional desks | The offices, completely modern- and phones have been provided for | ized and decorated in soft pastel | the enlarged staff, with a complete | greens, with large bright windows, | filing system for cuts and pictures. {are the outcome of the latest de- |In one corner are two teletype | signs in office architecture. The | machines which carry thousands of harsh, glafing lights of former years | words of news daily from The Cane | have been replaced with soft, fluor- adian Press headquarters in Torone | escent lightir - ceilings of the once | (Continued on Page 2) ------------ ee -------- \ N\ )