20 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, Merch 26, 1960 CITY EDITOR FORD LINDSAY, LEFT, PHOTO( The Life Of A Newsman? Its Anything But Humdrum By W. FORD LINDSAY south from Peterborough, the While the life of a newspaper- auto spun out of control man is far from being humdrum, passengers held their breath as there perhaps more of the the car turned end-for end four spice of life attached to the work times in the of seconds of the sports reporter than any with guard rails by on the writing pro- both sides. W came does the report- to a stop ing 1 field get the Liftlock City, no one said a word opportunif y watch excild but the driver and his four pa se . filled games but, as sengers must have said a silent experience, he some- prayer times has brush with death Hey has 2 DIS i geal, as BRUSH WITH nine li If this Ir Late have three lives left ¢ cause of incidents which occur red during the early 1930's when offs a a Tr on it was privilege to cover was or the return p from the sports events for The Oshawa Bay of Quinte town that another Daily Times sports group missed In those days Oshawa, which death by inches. Ald. Walter had been a power in the old Branch, who was a member of Central Ontario Baseball League, the group will vouch for the au- was getting back into ball|thenticity of the facts : through the medium of the West While passing through Brighton Toronto Baseball League. Home the group ran into a heavy games were played in the stad- and windstorm. About two m ipm at the rear of where the On. to the west the car came over a tario Motor Sales now stands and knoll, in pitch darkness, to see a the home games of the Toronto lantern be waved on the side teams were played at Earlscourt of the road Due to the slippery Park condition the road a stop was impossible ar NARROW SQUEAK the uld be broug It was while travelling to To ronto along Highway 2 for a Sat urday afternoon game that I had had fallen my first brush with death. Be- The car tween Whitby and Pickering, the about four Dshawa party noticed an auto lying flat on the road approaching from the west along other limb of similar a level stretch of highway. When skimmed the roof. Bj the auto was about 100 yards were away, the two-wheeled trailer b was drawing became detach and started edge highway the path Toronto-hound Oshawa auto There was only one thing head-on collision peeded up hawa is space flash car toward other field of fess er on. Not only ba Spo suspen was my TRE true t the nex 1 bu Tim softt team won ts ie and entered the play ainst J team. It my Oshawa quick before a of car stop, it section a limb ameter le 1 over n bounced nches proportior good fo small car tune there pranc ssed hes in throu to ACTOSS into of MORE EXCITEMENT to de However, that wa The th n t's excite men topped ir to avoid a Oshawa pulled 1 wheels were in the d that the career od the rear fer ng the north tur auto had } e driver over so ow brancl lim on had the As a and 1 raged in u fted out re END-FOR-END On ar ¢ ( owing seal of the Peter- er eated Fortunately spor ed h he ¢ and tos horough hetween t er he return a pitch da 1 1 ar yach and the in the rea: an a ip to Oshawa d seat of It Recall Death Of Sir Wilfrid One Oshawa forme A of the predecess The O ried the death Feb me story Can: i ) y. He consider many to be the ablest ada has produced and one SIR WILFRID LAURIER DEAD "The past week death removed ~ of H from the ge politi and public life in Canada, one of the most outstanding figures in the history of the country, in the person of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, late leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. He ~ was stricken with a paralytic stroke: while preparing for-church at his ; home in Ottawa, last Sunday morning, and passed aw 2.50 Monday afternoon. He is be a state funeral at eapital on Saturday LEADER FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY "For nearly half a century held a leading place in Councils of his country, and ng premier the Dominion, for v. However year the longest term on 71 0 1 the ord exc that of 1 da John A MacDonald DOWE long public career he unimpeachable character was ever able to cast any sions on t ever much they Wilfrid I manner thi 1919 riers on Friday orator cates time mand and in day he was able to carry a audience as it were through the power quence. His love of the asthetic showed itself in persona » and made him a nywhere. His er : him the greate the age, but must more than t hold dence and command the of the majority of ( ple for a of off of 4 hay 0 career ost any by storm of his elo his ap 1emic actor o e have bec at to the t the 0 the « given inadi so lon ne » was the idol of the hi them adh in proved his 0 but s held by war eventua fror from a the 18 | do of fe o ent the aie In all h ¢ bore an no one a and advan nation : sessed to of the per the hone might 2 "A N fo St Magic Top picture and foreign news coverage in The Oshawa Times i lare provided by two media wirephoto and teletype. They are {combined in one department, the wire desk The Oshawa Times joinea une Canadian Press wirephoto cir- cuit, Jan, 22. The network links i! 16 cities in Ontario and Quebec. Twenty-three newspapers on the receive newspicture {rans- mis ns. The Times receives its pictures by "Photofax'. This machine de- livers a wired picture in approxi- mately eight minutes S IMPROVED The principle of Pholofax 1s based on facsimile. This meihod has been used for many years to transmit official weatherma across the country. Recently the process was improved to permit reproduction for newspapers At the transmitting end -- To- ronto, Montreal, Ottawa or De- troit a photograph is mounted on the rotating drum of a trans mitter. By photo-electric process reflected light from and parts of the is iC PROC while black 0 picture info electr impulses Oshawa Time ceiver ensitized paper is drawn at constant speed between a steel blade' and a rotating The cylinder has on i a curved metal bar simi- to the thread of a screw Electric current passes through the paper at the point of contact between this screw-thread or helix, and the blade. Resulting chemical action causes a dark coloration ed re riting nder SAME SPEED Transmitter exactly the sity of the color strength of impulses received from the transmitter. Every tiny point on the original print is dup cated on the receiver's sensi- paper ofax builds up a picture by nearly 900 thin horizontal lines Each line is traced on paper in approximately half a second k and run same speed. Den depends on the eceiver at iRAPHER JOE SERGE The Oshawa Times is a mem- of Canadian Press, a cov-0p- series was in the Muskoka town Word dian Press wirephoto network was established in 1954. At first all receivers copied pictures on photographic paper by darkroom process. In 1955 the first Photofax re- ceiver was introduced. The time- consuming dark-room step was eliminated. Pictures are received exactly as they will appear in the newspaper. Cities in central Canada are linked 24 hours a day. The net- work can be extended to other cities in the West and Maritimes. A hook-up with Associated Press in Detroit permits transmission from the world's largest wire- phot netwrk. 150 PICTURES The Oshawa Times approximately 150 pictures per week. The network is able to deliver pictures from any place with telephone service. The Canadian Pr also pro- vides a 24-hour news service for The Oshawa Times, News is re- ceived by electrical impulses over the Teletype. The teletype trans- mits letters over the keys of a typewriter through Canadian Press circuits Pictures and news are received in the newsroom of The Oshawa Times by Wire Editor Eric Sisels Out of all pictures and hundreds of news items received each day he selects the best and most im- portant to appear on the pages of the paper. The wire editor's ity is primarily Page one, the show piece of the paper. He also makes up Page two, the financial page, the theatre page. all news and photos on the sports pages, editorial page and inside pages. After selection, he puts a head on each story or picture and cuts them to the size wanted The wire editor also supervises the make-up of the pages in the composing room eration with composing room per | sonnel. Mr. Sisel joined The Oshawa ITimes in 1956. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and served as |reporter on The Times, before receives wire ft Oshawa on a a and the team le March afternoon with blizzard blowing out the west NO REFRESHMENTS The PROMPTED late Tim Garton s the NEW MOVE er on that eccasion, I ts all was bus ar he Dear Mr. Wilson: I am delighted to hear about your new Times Building in Oshawa where you will have at vour disposal a greatly enlarg- ed and thoroughly modern newspaper plant. I eongratu- Jate you on your success and on the enterprise which has contributed so much to it It is appropriate that us bucked mo he way to the road Player ; and eporter piled out into g Snow and, with the aid of shovels and a tow rope, got the truck back on the road. It was with a distinct feeling of disappointment that the Oshawa party saw the truck drive off without so much as a 'Thank You' from its driver, as they had had vis of liquid refreshments for the p home, The the blindin er MISSED HOLD-UP the operated the harine dinne During Gener years the hawa Junior on its trips accustom. n the endezvous n the team SOT ed to eat late afternoon Restaurant On one si t res proprietor mask- ed thugs minutes ie Gen erals had I r+ their St Catharines Queen's Park aurant as held DONALD M. FLEMING At-A-Glance County Government By THE CANADIAN PRESS Bn f Submitted Thursday, March 24, 1960 1e HAMILTON (CP) A from 17 Southern Ontario coun ties requesting changes the ystem of county government will ymitted to the Ontario gov a spokesman said brief and in ernment, Thursday contents of the brief i released in advance An intercounty meeting unanim ously endorsed a report prepared a committee studying county government, he added said not be He by was established of Wentworth, Lincoln, Welland, Middlesex and The committee yy the Brant counties Hal Wate Es Delegates the counties Lambton, Ox fed Wellington, Pel Victoria Peterborough, Carleton and Ontario attended the of h confe NEWSPAPER NECESSITY IN PROGRESSIVE CITY ence LYMAN GIFFORD Times should continue to fol- low the policy of expanding its plant and acquiring the mos! up-to-date plant and equipment. You serve the readers in one of the most important commu- nities in Canada. Those read- ers will look with satisfaction upon your vigorous and enter. prising efforts to serve them. With every good wish, Yours sincerely, % Minister of Finance, Ottawa, Ont. [relevant "including the present' nese to Indonesia. ------ - p responsibil- | I RIC in close co-op-| ive news agency. The Cana-|taking over his present position. | EXPANDING POLICY DONALD M. FLEMING, |sanatoria in Ontario." | JL, AT TELETYPE--(WIREPHOTO AT RIGHT) PM Fy aes Market Break 'Marked Start Of Depression The headlines in the Oshawa Daily Times on Thursday, Oct. |24, 1929 were: "Heavy Death Toll 'Likely on Lakes', and *"'Attempt to Assassinate Crown Prince Fails' : | A one column {front page read: "TORONTO, Oct, 24 The [values of shares of companies listed on the Toronto Stock Ex- 8 [change were reduced by millions lof dollars this morning when the {local market followed the course set by New York and broke sharp. ly. However, the local situation was not as serious as that in Wall Street, but it was sufficiently bad to drop a wide range of issues two to ten points "Speculators made several ef- forts to halt the downward trend of values, but they were helpless before the heavy offerings which were thrown on the market block after block. | "The bears centred their attack on those issues which have en- |joyed a prominent place in local ltrading for the past six weeks, namely, the oils, agricultural | stocks, Brazilian Traction and In- ternational Nickel which are traded in on the New York and Montreal markets, bore a good share of the selling. The former dropped ten points at 52, while {Nichel sold down to 42% rallied to 43% for a loss of 4% points." | This event marked the begin- --Oshawa imes Photo ning of the great depression. story en fhe SAYS "TIMES" UPHOLDS A VALUABLE TRADITION of the world lies in an lightened public thinking and in a broad bond of sympathy be tween all people, 1 feel sure this worthy paper will continue to serve community with a high sense of responsibility keeping its readers informed on matters of local, national and Dear Tom en. May | fo all good Oshawa Times of the official new building, the democratic concept of free press is the right of all men to have the fullest access to information on the affairs of the day so they | world-wide interest may make enlightened deci- I join with all Canadian sions consistent with a good newspapermen in wishing The conscience Oshawa Times, with its new and The Oshawa Times has in | expanded facilities, continued the past upheld the traditions success in the years to come. of the newspaper profession by Yours sincerely, discharging its responsibilities I. H. MACDONALD, to the community in a very General Manager, real way Canadian Daily Newspaper In these days when the hope | Publishers Association extend wishes I'he on the occasion opening of Inherent your n its methods and practices followed} in respect of the purchase, dis- tribution, analysis, storage inven- tory and accounting" in such in- stitutions, the premier said. Premier The committee will decide an ll-member whether 'costs are reasonable will be formed having regard to costs of produc the of drugs and tion and the costs charged the) pharmaceutical preparation in general public." Ontario hospitals and institutions The committee investigation will cover dn "used for the treatment of patients in public, general and mental hos Committee Studies Costs Of Drugs TORONTO (CP) Frost said today select committee to study cost AUSSIE BROADCASTS The Australian Broadcasting spitals and Commission in 1960 started radio It will go into all matters|broadeasts in Japanese and Chi QUINTE MACHINE & REPAIR CO. LTD. WISH TO ONGRATULA THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES ON THE COMPLETION OF THEIR MAGNIFICENT NEW NEWSPAPER PLANT The Town of Whitby OSHAWA TIMES On The Official Grand Opening of Their New Building EST WISHES to the The Town of Whitby wishes to congratulate the Oshawa Times on another forward step in the building of a great newspaper. newspaper reflects the growth of this whole community and your Whitby Bureau has rendered yeoman service to the industrial growth of our com- munity. While you live may you continue to grow. Tie progress of your MAYOR