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Praise For Carriers 8 By Circulation Head During the severe snowstorms and blizzards of this past winter, . 250 boys and girls, members of the Oshawa Times Carrier force, plodded through the deep snow, and braced against the cold winds to bring the newspaper to the homes of Oshawa Times sub- © scribers. : The carrier force, mostly com- posed of school boys, has within its ranks 30 girls. : Oshawa Times circulation man- ager, Robert Young, was full of praise for the 200 carriers in the building and loaded into six First Report On Television This item, which was published in the July 7, 1937, edition of the Oshawa Daily Times, may be of mailing room on a system of interest to all television viewers. conveyers. The papers come off| London, Eng. -- Belief in the ; : (ultimate establishment of a tele- in lots of 50, men stationed along| ion service covering all parts the conveyers then add or sub- f {he country was expressed by tract from the bundles to make'gjr Noel Ashbridge, Chief En- up the proper number, The bonud bundles are carried {by a cecond conveyer outside !districts who have the most new : i. starts in a certain period will orange colored trucks for déliv-|® ery to the carrier boys. Papers| 8¢t the trip which will include: for the district are delivered by|Visiting Rockefeller Centre, a {boat trip to the Statue of Liber- private vehicles under contract.| A number of Oshawa Times sub-|{¥ and a Circus, and Broadway gineer of the British Broadcast. ev ew ry vy wv ve ing Corporation at an exhibition here. He recalled two or three years ago the range of television had been exceeded by at least 25 per cent, | BBC officials said their prob- lems would start when a religble receiving set was developed and on the market at a reasonable Iprice. | The exhibition traced the his. tory of television from the dis- covery of selenium in 1817 to its |present-day development, Among the exhibits are selenium cells designed by Sheldon Bidwell in 1881, the experimental apparatus \for television made and used in 1882 by L. B. Atkinson, and a working model made according to suggestions made by A. A. Campbell, Swinton, in 1911. One of the most interesting of the present - day develop : seribers receive their copies by e | The circulation of the Oshawa ments was a film ransmitist [Times has climbed steadily dur-|from which films are transmitt Several copies are -gent to ing the past 10 years until it is/to a demonstration gallery, where Oshawa and 150 in the surround- ; a mail ing districts, whom he termed the "backbone of the circulation department." He said they : stuck to the job in the worst weather. Mr. Young tells the story of one paper boy, who walked in § the height of one of the storms all the way to the Times office to get more paperz after his bun- $ Florida, oihers go as far as now more than 17,000 paid for|a series of receivers may be seen Great Britain and Germany to Canadian Servicemen, {copies every day. in action. As well as his office staff, Mr.| Young has two field representa- tives in his department. Ormond] Bowman and Donald MacPher-| son supervise the carriers and || ensure that customers receive) ROBERT YOUNG the best of service. ner and then covered with sev- Winter storms aud eostomer's : f low. i ; | eral feet of snow by a plow. [the mailing room. Adjustments oie will seem quite dis-| The most essential aspect of|can be made daily in the num- distributing more than 17.000 ber of papers in each bundle. |{ant Matters from the top of the papers, is organization. This| The labels are scheduled on| pire State building in Rew tarts in the circvltion officcithe rolls to coincide with the York. Ten Oshawa Times car- of the first floor of the Times|delivery runs. They an: then riers i ecelve an all expensel building. |stuck to wrappers in prepara- paid fiveday trip to rgd ors Here all the labels for the car-|tion for the press run, {in April at the close of the cur- riers parcels and the maile rent circulation, sales boosting copies of the paper are printed CONVEYER SYSTEM |contest. | on long rolls and then taken to When the pre:ses begin rolling] The five -carriers from Oshawa | the phpers are carried to the'and: the five from the outlyingi™ The Heating and Plumbing IN THE NEW SHAWA TIMES BUILDINu Supplied and Installed Bik Pe HAROLD R. STARK | of me a Plumbing & Healing : ~ & Engineering Lid OSHAWA TIMES ON THEIR OFFICIAL OPENING OF THEIR PLANT and OFFICES MAPLE LEAF TOOL & DIE CO. 40 WELLINGTON ST. dle had been dropped «t a =) The business office of a news paper, thoug important d dom noticed In the Oshawa Tir ant Robert Malcolr staff of eight w a GILLIS PURCELL General Manager, The Canadian Press, Sincerely, : 3 Pros oronto, Ont. ROBT. YOUNG, CIRCULATION MANAGER (STANDING) SUPERVISES DEPARTMENT Dear Tom: E ment of the business office. The| With its enlarged and modern- lines, a direct line to Toronto, and| to serve Ontario Co this apparatus channels calls to It is 30 years since The i mum of delay. work that used to start at 7 Click i office, has served the Times in| night before with about 39 co ed for ten years in the business| Women's page news. this specialized type of account-| news with its own reports of the offices, such as those in plants,| new quarters! GILLIS PURCELL, i rt . igns, Impor tant Work Done "TIMES" ON CP WIRE In Busi Offi FOR PAST 30 YEARS 9} usine S S 1CeS Congratulations on your move 4 into the new Times Building Times is equipped with a late-| ized plant. I wish you con- model switchboard, with six local; tinued success in your 22 inter - office lines. Run by an| the news of the day in the efficient switchboard operator,| most effective fashion. and from ' the various depart-) Times first cut in on the Ca- ments of the paper with a mini-| nadian Press teleprinter net- Mr. Malcolmson, chief account-| 8m. Now your teleprinter is ant and head of the business/ clicking away from 9 p.m. is this capacity since 1952. Before| umns daily of we rld and Cane he came to the Times, he work-| dian news, sport, financial and office of another newspaper, giv-| And The Times is making ing him a total of 18 y s ijn. more and more use of this ing. local and re al scene. The office differs from other All good wishes to you in the in that a rigid formula of d work cannot be kept. Spec itions, advert p E: , circulatio: | other fa BIG INDUSTRY Some 14,556,000 cords of pup Paper Reports | must be f - it must be wood were produced in Canada in able to adapt quickly to changes!1959, a 17-per-cent increase ove: 4 in routine. the previous year. oya Il ute q "wed To Sir Joh 3 'To Sir John i 3 5 é : The Oshawa Vindicator dated, i h i Wednesday, June 17, 1891 carried : ¥ J this footnote on history -- the death of Sir John A. Macdonald. Royalty Pays Tribute Shortly before the Senate Cham- ber was closed to the general public an incident occurred which | must be regarded as the most significant since the body of the premier was brought from Earns- cliffe, At that moment Sir | |Casimir Gzowski walked slowly | forward and placed on the casket | 2 beautiful wreath of white and] yellow roses from Her Majesty [the Queen. Attached to the wreath was a card bearing this inscrip- tion: From Her Majesty Queen i| Victoria, In Memory of Her § {4% Faithful and Devoted Servant, 8 Tast' Puzzled | 'This Chinese The Oshawa Daily Times, dated Mon, Jan. 9, 1928 carried this item on the front page. { Our Language "Too fast for The nerve newspaper--the te board -- is an imp e e of the m depart ROBERT MALCOMSON copy 4 | 2% : This Chinese" | "This story, vouched for as true by a member of the city police force, is accredited to a ' ; {Chinaman of the Globe Cafe: | ¥ ' : ; #1 "English", this waiter said, "is| 1 i |very hard for Chinese to learn. Teme" |' Take your word, 'fast', now. Sometimes I go to your church, ___ land the preacher talks about - | 20ing without anything to eat. That is fast. I go out on the street and see an automobile going like-- It is, also fast, A little farther on the| car is truck in mud, and once] more it is fast. It's a tough language!" fl Hospital Plan | fl Shows Surplus | Our Congratulations and Best Wishes TORONTO (CP)--The Ontarlo| government's hospital insurance plan paid out $13,000,000 a month Tok. st year of pera, « « «+ to The Oshawa Times on the official Grand Open- or. auiUrduliant. elisitian ol ing of their new newspaper building. It was our good the Hospital Services Commis-| fortune to have been awarded the contract for the heat- ing and plumbing in this new building. sion, told the legislature's health and welfare committee Thursday PLUMBING, HEATING and ENGINEERING that the plan covers 93 per cent {lof the population with a total LIMITED OSHAWA Greater Heating Know-How IN THE TIMES' NEW BUILDING a - ee -- Better Heating Units Highly Competitive Price Structure | / membership of 4,200,000. ! :| He said 26,000 groups or asso- ciations are covered by the plan] and that 550,000 individuals pay directly to the commission. The committee finished 1959 {with a surplus of $3,027,940 but | 4 there would be no reduction this) year In premiums. | Charles MacNaughton (PC--| {Huron), speaking for the Ontario |Farmers Union, told the commit-| !tee the hospital insurance plan] should cover students up to the| age of 20 who still are dependent : i on their parents. ; d # David Ogilvie, a commission Hi member, said this step would i | 255 SIMCOE ST. S. RA 5-3521 i ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SPACIOUS BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE OSHAWA TIMES i yy oe: Homever te LE A SOW SEW.)