VOL. 74—N0O. 14 Special Tabloid Section THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1962 Revolutionary New Equipment Gives The Post A New Look For more than a year the staff of The Dallas Post has been experi- menting with a revolutionary new process of newspaper production en- tailing the use of some of the most advanced and modern machines developed since the invention of movable type by Johannas Gutenberg in Germany during the fifteenth century. This process of putting words on paper is as different from conven- tional letterpress printing as night is from day. The heart of letterpress printing is three-dimensional movable wood or metal type. The basis of the process used by The Dallas Postis the production of two-dimensional words by photoelectric photography. While the use of offset presses for the laying of an-image on paper is not new, the composition, or setting of words photoelectrically, is so new that the method was practically unknown five years ago. The publishers of The Dallas Post are proud to present this tabloid section which has been produced by combining photoelectric composi- tion of type with the better known offset method of printing. All of the text matter has been set in 8 and 9 point Century School- book on the fabulous ATF Typesetter. The presswork was done on the ATF Chief 22 Offset press. With the exception of some of the advertising pages, not a single piece of movable metal type or hot lead was used in its production. The Typesetter, made by American Type Founders Company, is so new that not more than three of themare now in use in Pennsylvania — none so far as we know, in any newspaper plant. Twelve of them, how- ever, were recently put into production in the new plant of the Arizona Journal which opened some weeks ago in Tuscon, heralded by national publicity and with the attention of the newspaper world focused upon it. SPRING VISITORS Betsy Mulcey and her French Poodle, Patrick, stop by ona spring morning for a chat at The Dallas Post. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mulcey, Overbrook Ave- nue, graduated last month from the School Of Journalism at| Pennsyle vania University. She will be mar- ried shortly and live in Wilmington, North Carolina. ..---«+-THE WANDERING CAMERA -------- Story, photos by Ralph Downend Jr. As if to herald the coming of the warmth and gentleness of the new season with its sometime uncertain- ties and apparent lack of regard for such things as pattern and weather forecasts, the abundant crop of spring lambs at Hillside Farms bounced across white-faced barnyards and open meadows, completely defying our efforts to approach them on a friendly come- been blessed with seventy-five lambs including fifteen sets of twins. ‘Seven of these were consecutive births. The least timid were the bottle- babies who seemed to think the camera was intended for some harmful purpose quite estranged from picture taking. One lad, only fifteen minutes in this world, having refused us an “AND TWINS don’t even run in the family.” closer-we-haven’t-brought-our-tele- photo-lens basis. After gaining the confidence of a pair of the bottlefed youngsters, we succeeded in being accepted as something to be put up with by the other lambs in the fold. These lambs, being Dorsets, have something of an aristocratic back- ground and we are sure this ac- counts for the condescending at- titude they assumed the minute we closed the gate and tried rather clumsily to blend with the back- ground and record their cavortings with the wandering camera. A great deal of mutual affection/ was in evidence as the lambs and the devoted drover Marvin Scott with farm superintendent Charlie “Simms” Hemenway, made their way about the sheep fold. This year, the Hillside Farms has interview, tried diligently but vainly to remove himself from his pen while his ever patient ma baa-d re- assuringly thatthiswasjusta phase and that he would outgrow it. On the second level of the barn, in what borea striking resemblance to a penthouse, we found six evi- dently very embarrassed eight month old youngsters, recently shorn and not quite surewhatto do about it. One of them mentioned something about a show. for prize stock in the fall. The others baaaa-d in agree- ment, glancing atone another hope- fully. y We left them in their high state of nervousness and returned to their less excitable kin in the barnyard. A slight whistle and a click or two of the tongue by Mr. Scott and din- ner was on for the flock. Those little “MY DOCTOR says I just crave ~ affection.” an o <3 = Ge “THE LITTLE ones not quite strong enough . . .” ones not quite strong enough to make a place for themselves at the troughs waited impatiently while larger, older lambs soothed larger hunger pains. - We took our leave of the sheep fold wondering at the beauth of an evening which only a week earlier would have provided bitter cold air and sure resentment toward the slowness in coming of the Spring. Newly Remodeleled Library To Hold Its Open House This is National Library Week and every man, woman and child in the Back Mountain Region is invited to visit Back Mountain Memorial Library during its Open House on Sunday and Monday. As will be seen elsewhere in the double spread of pictures in this section the Library plays an important function in the cultural life of this community. Visit it! Learn how it can serve you to live afullerlife. Learn first hand some of the problems it must meet in orderto serve you even better. You are always welcome. 3 The Library - da Editorial There is some doubt this year whether the Library’s annual financial report should be published. These statements, revealing as they do sound, managementand an at- tempt to establish an endowment fund to assure the library’s future, are often misinterpreted to give the impression that the Library is rolling in wealth and needs little or no other support than the annual auction. This, of course, is false. The library needs every cent it can get in order to grow and to render the service this community requires. No other single institution serves all of this community or at such low cost to every individual. The truth is that, but for the Auction, the Library will operate with a deficit of $8,000 this year. And the truth is that, not Back Mountain citizens as a whole, but generous merchants of this and other communi- ties and Auction patrons from other towns, contribute disproportionate share toward maintaining good Library service here. It is well to keep this in mind. 3 Of the many institutions that annually ask for your support through coin cards, auctions, benefits, dinners and contrubutions, the Library is one of a very few that annually publishes its complete financial state- ment for all to see. That is because it is your library and you have a right to know. You have a right to know that during its early years, the library met all of its current operating expenses from your contributions to Friends of the Library and from the generous annual contributions given to it by Dallas Woman’s Club, the school districts and Dallas Borough Council. The Auction was a bonanza that gave this community national and statewide publicity beyond value—and the extra funds which permitted the Library Association to pay for its original building, buy and re- model the Annex and equip it with books unequaled by any library in a community of comparable size in the State. Today all that is changed. School Boards have withdrawn some and Borough Council all of its support. Friends of the Library contribute less than $900 a year. But for the income from investments, and the Auction, and the increased contributions of the Woman’s Club the Li- brary would have to close its doors. How long the Auction can continue to carry the load is a question. Many more persons are making many more trips to the well. It could ‘go dry. One thing is certain, so long as the Library depends on Auction re- ceipts to meet its current operating expenses, it is in a precarious posi- tion dependent upon weather, the enthusiasm of afew, the hard work of the dedicated and the generosity of outsiders. What Going To Denver Means To Me BY BARRY SLOCUM Dallas Senior High School I am a senior and although I will miss graduation, I am going to Denver. Denver to me, is the most exciting thing that has ever happened in my life. It is a symbol of what a small town high school can ac- complish through the constant work of all the people in the community. Denver is something that was put beforeus at the beginning of last summer. It gave us a goal to work and strive toward, and it is a more than adequate reward for the time spent. Since the day that our invitation was guaranteed, the trip has been growing in significance. I think that through this trip, I will have a better understanding of American people and their way of life. I feel that the people of our community will be traveling with us spiritually and we will represent you as one of the nation’s finest communities. CERES “Why is it that the Ameri- can citizen is so demanding of his dollar’s worth at the mar- ket place, then hands over his tax payment freely — never questioning and not knowing where those hard-earned dol- lars are spent?”’—Ralph and Ruth Pogue, Noel (Mo.) McDonald County Press. MISSED On the library spread in this issue the names of Mrs. Hanford Eckman, Miss Frances Dorrance and Mr. Charles Frantz (represen- tative for Lake-Lehman School District) were unintentionally dropped. They were absent when the picture of The Board of Direc- tors was taken.
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