WfflTY È REÉ ffS, EDNESDAY, 0CTOBER Z 1991, PAGE ,7 PAGE SEVN as ajounalOst week. wok t heDalySetiel Beill inwanoodstock, Ont. Thiemail iybarsall editorial tayflisty dior, g a wia renwsedtor ierpres- n fwo s7 n Irite ohyjobtuareoa anst dtorith none-agesistt,a women'ed ift <toda thaitercaied. Li styl)with0on assistantTwhotoap eand a managewing edito. In Ad e malUp:ilha s rteen. il iyedtr The city editor greets me, points me to, a desk, shoves a pile of awkwardly-trimmed nowsprint and a sheet of carbon__________________________________________ paper at me._________________________________ _____ Prac=tice," be says. Nine o'clock the second day: the city editor bites the stem off bis pipe, waddles toward my desk in full flame. IriVe have a triple fata]ity down near Otterville," he says. 'Thone the-OPP and get the details. The funeral homes will give you obit information. You can put it aIl together in abut two takes." Huh? Biggest sltor f the month, and Mr. Junior Reporter gets R~prte nuberfie, as I said wrote'only obituaries but heywee pat ofa news story. ýThe police- reporter é ke-up drnk in a corîifield that'mormng nid receiveld bis, mothly firin. The education 'reporr d worked the weekendand %iad a day off. The city hall reporter was in hospital being treated for a ruptured spleen. I was the fil reporting staff. So what do you do Cali the OPP and finally get tbro h te the investigating officer. Scribble down somé deai,. Phone the funeral h res and scribble down morýi details. Lots of details. (It is through funeral directors and obituaries that you learn lesson one: accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.) But with no lessons on how to construct a news story, how d o*go about it? oucan bot high sehool English class was no help. Neither were tile science fiction short stories you used ta, write soe you could become the next Isaac Asimov. What did help were back issues cf newspapers, quicl grabbed. How did others write a fatal accidentstory?Cy thiepattern. . %'by noon deadline, I had 'put together' my firet news JNELNN URGLAN AMD GIFAMDSRES C. 1914 story. Bftii&80Uhi-oe weti rsdne fWfia -±n-adltr-ereMcîlva (Basd on starting salaries of $40 a week, you rnight 25 TZAIRS AGO wonder about the six. Some perspeta*ve: draft beer thon costfrmteTrsySpmbr9166eioncth 10 cents, a suede jacket with satin lining would set you back WEMMY wa"CIKIix.r'NEWS $25, a new car cost $2,500, a bouse $10,000 and mortgage* Mrs. Peter N. Spratt was honoured for 35 years cf service as organist and choir director at rates were set fer 25 years at 6.5 per cent. Even soý, $40 was St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. se low that bank toilers would gather around my pay choque* About 500 boy scouts and girl guides took part in a church parade on September 25. for a chorus of laugbter.) A number cf Whitby streets are being paved this fall. But the main difference between a newbpaper j»'in '62, * he Town's capital works budget is now over one million dollars. and beginning a career today lieàs in - traiing. A few ambitious people studied ournam at Ryers B.ut most beginners folowed the oter path: we walked mn off the street, were hired because we could type and would work for . 75 TZARS AGO îow wages. fromthe Thursday, Se to-mber 28ý, 1916 edition cf the ¶Hrm ll kglïfANE EM NICLE Today youneed, a minimum of two years at a community e Robert Jackson1 Correil and James Irving MéCllDan are Wbitby's first soldiers illed in college. hM;e have capped one or more degrees with a full the war i Europe. year at a community college. Based on those standards, * A large ban on'the Ontario Hospital farm was *deshWoed by fire yesterday afternoon. young Swany wouldnt have bad a chance. e Enrolment atte Whitby %ih School has reached 100, an increase cf 15 per cent over last 0f course, a love for long bours and low wiages still as ta, yeajr. be an advantage for those starting in thein dustry. Na. Make e A water metre weighing 1-112 tons bas been installed at the Ontario Hospital. lhe only that a necessity. other metre cf this size i Canada is in Montreal.