The Greene County Guardian, December 13, 1956

Jamestown, Ohio December 13,1956 THE-GREENE COUNTY GUARDIAN Page Seven Cup O’ Coffee with GORDON BASKETT iewspaper Akimbo, Crystal Jail Busted, Bu t All Okay If we ever tunnel ourselves out from un- er this stack of paper and other para- henalia, we hope to set this here now ewspaper on a more even keel. 3ut we're go ig to need you, Jlp. Our cryst al all has been i t oken sinct lie last monsoon season ana h a t means we don't know inything that you folks don't ell us. Sadly, lots of people hink newspaper people auto- nat i cal l y know everything h a t h appens just because hey 'r e newspaper people. This is a fa r cry from the ruth. This is a local newspaper Interested in the doings of p e o p l e in J a m e s t o w n , C e d a r v i l l e , Bowersville, New Jasper, Jeffersonville, and points in between. That means that most any­ thing Is news.. . . if you have visitors for the weekend.. . . or go away on a visit__ .or have some news from your son or nephew or grandson In th e se r v ic e . . . . that's news. If y o u ' r e g e t t i n g mar­ ried. . . . or have a baby. . . . or planning an event in your club or Sunday School class or ch u r c h . . . .or just ride I One of o u r m a i n omissions has been g e t t i n g to all the ministers so that we can get up a page with the schedule of the church activities. The Rev. G. C. Reed of the Jamestown Methodist Church and the Rev. Harry E. Cole of the Grace Baptist Church in Cedarville were nice e- nough to ca ll us. Meanwhile, we'll get around to the rest of the ministers and have a complete church page set up., l t w o u l d h e l p i f . t h e good m i n i s t e r s would give us a b u z z so that we c o u1d get this rolling. And pictures. We can use p i c t u r e s just about as easily as we can use a n y t h i ng. We need lots of them. Wedding pictures, engage­ ment pictures, baby pictures, pictures of parties, birthday pictures, pictures of your boy in the service. We can use all of these and we 'll return them in the same shape we .get them. All we do is, in effect, take another picture of your pictures so that there is no harm done. . , . . . , "correspondent in New Jasper, up the road a b i t . . . . that s K Her phone number is 2-3851. news. Nice thing about our paper is that we don't think that you have to be big man in town to get your name in the paper. As far as we are concerned each one of our readers is just as important to us as the next one. There are lotsof things that we haven't had the time to dohere in the morass of get­ ting The Guardian r o 11 i ng. Mrs. Earl W o o l l e y is the €ur!ty's Tine Toeds CATER TO PRIVATE PARTIES Dotty 5)90 AJML - * *JK. Sunday 7i00 AM. r 9 9 M. Pi 4-7551 P i L Washington Charlie E. Haney, the bar­ ber. Drop the pictures in the mail, or by the o f f i c e , or call and we'11 see if we can't come by and pick them up if we find the time. One thing that we d like to start is a " l o o k i n g b a c k " weekly picture feature, using old p i c t u r e s of people and places in the area that we're sure you have yellowing away in the attic. The next time you get around to cleaning up in some of those forgot­ ten places dig us out a cou­ ple of those p i c t ur es. The other readers will be inter­ ested in them. Wehaven'thadtime to find a correspondent in Bowe r s ­ ville. Anyone want the job? No experience needed, the best qualifications are a re­ sidence long enough to know the people and a healthy in­ terest in the comi ngs and goings of folks. Our office is on S. Lime­ stone s t r e e t in Jamestown, right next door to tonosorial parlor of that local landmark. The Guardian, as you might have, noticed, is produced a little differently than a nor­ mal newspaper. The printing process that we use gives us tremendous versatility. It is called lithography. The shorter word for that is offset. Means the same thing. Our entire p r o d u c t i o n is done by what is called "cold type"--that is to say that we don'thave a piece oflead in the shop. Type forheadlines and dis­ play type in ads is produced photographically on a little machine that looks much like a tape recorder and can pro­ duce more than 2000 differ­ ent type styles. Mrs. Bo n n ie Jenkins types up the news matter and other smaller things on an electric typewriter that is proportion­ ately s p a c e d . That means that each letter on this type­ writer takes up its proper a- mount of space i n s t e a d of ordinary typewriter spacing wherein the long and skinny "i" takes up the same hmount of room as the squat and fat "m. ” Adapting this feature, B o n n i e does a bit of arith­ metic in her head and comes up with news m a t t e r typed in single column width with even right hand margins. These p i e c e s of paper we p a s t e on a larger s h e e t of paper that is the same size as our page and make a com pleted paste-up that is ex­ actly like the page that you read. This is photographed in a 24-foot long camera we have in the rear of the office and the negative is used to make a lithographic printing plate which is put on the press to produce the final product. I nc i den t a l l y , if it hadn't been for the fine cooperation o f E d d i e B r o w n and Roger R i t e n o u r we never would have had the camera wired up in time to p r o d u c e our first edition. It was a little m a 11 e r of the lights on the camera using more electri- c i t y t h a n c o m e s into the building. Found this out the hard way, a l o n g with our n e i g h b o r s , when we blew every fuse within a 50-m ile radius. I t ’s all okay now. The basic thing about our production method is that it is a photographic process and that means that 'most any­ t h i n g t h a t c a n be photo­ graphed can be reproduced. The first three issues were d i s t r i bu t e d free so that we could have a little time to get to know each other. Our weekly price per copy is going to be 10 cents but the y e a r l y subscription rate i in the county is only $4. 00, a s a v i n g of $1.20 over 52 I issues. Delivery will be made ( t hr ough the mails so that you'll get your papers every Thursday morning in the mail box. I t’s not a new process in the printing line by a long shot. But, as applied to newspaper production, the a d v a n c e ­ ments have been made in the past d e c a d e to the P o i n t where it is now, far short cf the ideal, but e x t r e m e l y handy for the small paper. We c a m e h e r e from the Opelousas (La.) Daily World, a daily n e w s p a p e r in the b a y o u l a n d of s out hwes t L o u i s i a n n a t h a t wa s t h e first successful offset daily. This month, the Daily World will be rounding out its 19th year of p r o d u c t i on by the identical method that we are using. In all, it adds up to a much b e t t e r b r e a k for all con­ cerned. We can give you a much more versatile news- paper--and a more attractive one - - s o m e t h i n g that is needed in these days of high- powered competion fo r th e readers time. Ha p p i l y , folks have been j a n g l i n g our phone off the hook (the number is 4-5091) wa n t i ng to subscribe to the Guardian. We were not ready to sell the p r o d u c t until after this issue - - we didn't think that anything much less than three copies was much of a sample. | Leave us repeat that this is j a n i n d e p e n d e n t operation I completley unconnected with I any former newspapers in this j area. The entire stock of the I G u a r d i an Publishing Com - i pany is owned by the over­ signed and James I. Gatten, f o rm er city ed i t or of the Xenia Gazette. We established the Guardian because we believed that this area needed a newspaper and past performance showed that . it could s upp o r t .one. And ’ t h a t ' s why we're here. We intend to stay for a long time. This is going to be an ex ­ tremely vocal newspaper on local issues--and our purview is not go^ng to wa nde r far f r om t h i s part of G r e e n e County--and we are not now, and have not been, in the habit of calling a spade any­ thing less than a spade. 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