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|staurs. 1* is then dried in a! [scorching machine, which also shrinks it to the right size. Then| it is placed in a casting box, where metal maintained at a temperature of 630 degrees Fah- renheit is poured. The plate metal casting, composed of about How Flat Pages Move To Plates For Press ww msi compared with the earlier, *flat- casting box, by means of a built bed press'. : The 'Page Mat", a heavy, ™ water eooling system. |paper sheet impressed with type, PLATE TRIMMED led to thejcomes down a chute from the| mpe plate removed from the moulding machine" UP- casting bor is trimmed to the {right size and is reamed to the |right thickness. It is then -Iplaced on a chipping block, or fon the "router machine", to take off the high spots, that should Inot be printed. The entire process from 'Page| |Mat" to the finished plate takes| about 15 minutes. The cylindrical plate is then| |locked on to the press. If the run| |is to be very extensive, such as [job work for advertisers, the] A |plate is nickel plated for extra | durability. | The two rotary presses used #% |for the production of the Gshawa | |Times are capable of running ¢ off 40 pages.at one time, # rate of 40,000 newspapers each flat form containing the type can be used to make a circular print- ing roll which can be bolted onto One development in the tech- mology of printing which has vir- tually paved the way for the mod- ern printing press is the process|the presses. termed "stereotyping". It is a| This development number of processes by which alhigh speed rotary presses as"mat 1 Ninety Years Total For Three Employees Faithful service by long-time employees of The Oshawa Times has brought top-notch efficiency to all departments. The Times composing room holds the record : for long-term employment. Three men, above all, hold records of 33 years, 30 years and | 27 years respectively in Times ! employ. They are Robert Stevens, Walter Bell and Phil Perry, all members of the composing room staff. Compositor Stevens started ap- prenticeship with the newspaper in 1927 and worked as full journeyman since Nov. 28, 1929. He began his career with The Times at the age of 22. Mr. Stevens followed in his father's footsteps, J. P. Stevens, who was a printer in Quebec City Mr. Stevens was born in To- ronto in 1906 and moved to Whit- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, March 26, 1960 23 Teezhhd Seana) 1. VALUABLE RHINOS in the WHIPSNADE, England (CP)--|zoo at this Hertfordshire town. It 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 Toronto. In 1930 a job was available in The Times composing room and : Walter remained steadfast with the company since that day. Mr. and Mrs. Bell have three children, a daughter, Mrs, L. Kirkwood in Toronto; a second daughter, Mrs. W. F. Dunn in London, Ont., and a son, Dr. F. J. Bell, an employee of the U.S. state department as an advisor to the University of In-| donesia at Bogor, Java. | I [ Underwood extends Congratulations to the Oshawa Times On Their Official Phil Perry, who rose from Osh- | awa Times apprentice to assist-| ant foreman, joined The Times hour. The Presses, Bowever, are by at an early age. He completed ¥: a pe : : % usually operalec a. a Peed ihis education at Whitby High that would produce 25,000 news- . has papers each hour. {School. Married in 1934, he has|,;c.p 45 one of the top linotype! The paper rolls used in the|two children, a daughter, Mrs. operators in the composing room. | presses weigh 750 to 800 pounds, D, Hann (Shirley) of Toronto and| During his youth he moved and are equal to 13,000 four-page|, con Dennis, 14, attending high|from Nashville to Chattanooga WE RCAF from 1940 to 1945. newspapers. school in Whitby. |and later to Birmingham, Ala. He| po 00 tr for Each section of the press, tha ae {was educated at the Tennessee py .nco . pied, ip ormet prints four pages, is timed to the] RECALLS UNION orence Croll of Port Hope anc land Alabama Schools for the cides. gt 160 LoS. correct sequence, so "that the] Mr. Stevens iccalls the first peat ang at Gallaudet College, resides at 160 LaSalle ave page s delivered to the folder at typographical union formed in the Washington, D.C. he right time. The assembled paper in 1938. "The pay in those 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 ! on is Sairied 2. a SoVever up- it was average for a town that|centre on the varsity football stairs to the mailing, and circula- size. _ |team and shortstop on the base- Photo 'tion departments. He feels that the composing | He > ball squad, Among Walter's fond- : [room in the new Times building i ol 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 Thnes employee U.S. Naval Academy and grid- is held by Mr. Bell, who was .. termi : . born in Nashville, Tenn., within iron skitmishes ; agains Yila the shadows of Vanderbilt Uni- Nova and the University of Vir- | versity. ginia. Mr. has| Among Gallaudet co-eds was a 2 |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- tled 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, Hise he joined the inspector's staff at Goodyear's New Toronto plant. staff in 1933 after Sadun from the OCVI. . Phil was born in Parry Sound) and resided in Oshawa for the| |past 40 years. During the Second | World War he served in the WALTER BELL Grand Opening! We of Underwood are happy in= deed to join with those in extend- ing Best Wishes on this auspicious occasion. = | | now nue 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. 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