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Show Tuesdays are hectic enough around the COUNTY NEWS office without additional addi-tional difficulties, but when the typesetting machines begin be-gin acting up, (and they only do It on Tuesday) the ol' Redhead starts tearing out his hair. That's what happened Tuesday. Carol set type about five minutes, then, 'Hey, Red! This blankety, blank isn't working. Actually, Ac-tually, the ol' Redhead said most of the blankety blanks. 0 - Really, it's no big deal. Generally we just go and look It over and fix whatever what-ever is wrong and she goes back to work. Ten to fifteen fif-teen minutes lost, at most. Of course, if 10 to 15 minutes doesn't do it, then out comes the screw driver. If it works, no problem. If it doesn't, we call John. John is the guy who knows every relay, every contact, and can diagnose every problem prob-lem over the telephone. Within minutes we have it all torn down again, and make the adjustments he recomT mends. If it works, no problem prob-lem 1 If not, It's back on the phone to John. He suggests something else, and we try that. If it works, no problem. If not, then It's back to John. And we try to figure the best way to get the machine to him, or him to the machine. ma-chine. See, still no problem, except that by now the day is shot, and we've still got type to set for this week's issue. Actually we've been pretty lucky. We've had few breakdowns, break-downs, and most of the time they can at least be patched up to get the COUNTY NEWS out on time. We've only missed two deadlines In over 40 years in business. Once in 1944, when snow and sleet took down the power lines for miles around, and we had to wait until Friday to get the power on. The other time was in 1973 when we had to wait for a gear to be shipped in from New York for the old linotype. We still got the COUNTY NEWS out on Friday, just one day late. . BUT there have been otner times of stress, when we had to borrow equipment, cr go to a neighboring plant and use their equipment. You all know the show must go on. Well, publishers are Just as finicky about missing a publication. In our over 40 years we've suffered almost every Indignity to meet that deadline, so the subscriber will get his paper on time. It matters little whether the COUNTY NEWS is eight or 108 pages, the deadline is the same.It's almost Impossible Impos-sible to grab someone off the street to help out. Almost Al-most anybody can pound a nail make change or stock shelves. But damned few can set type, find their way around a darkroom, or strip up an ad. And the local TV repairman, repair-man, or office machine repairman re-pairman can't fix a typesetting type-setting machine. Soyoumay . find a few long or short lines in this week's COUNTY NEWS. But John will be here Thursday to fix everything. every-thing. - 0 But it all makes thatVari-typer thatVari-typer Com5et with the floppy disc, memory, visual scanner, and add-on keyboards key-boards look mighty attractive, attract-ive, even with Interest at 18-20 percent. - 0 - This is the annual Farm Ranch edition of the County News, and one we particular -ly enjoy. Most of the time we Just whiz by the agricultural agri-cultural community, at 40-60 40-60 miles per hour. We note that the alfalfa is getting get-ting close to cutting time, that so and so has a new sprinkler system, another new dairy barn Is hniu and such as that, but once a year we try to find out what is really going on with the farmers and ranchers. So last weekend we travelled travel-led around Beaver County talking to farmers and ranchers. And again we find they are an optimistic breed. - 0 -Here's a few of the facts we learned. The farmer with 600 acres under irrigation irri-gation probably has a million mil-lion dollar investment in land, equipment and sprinkling sprink-ling equipment. So, too, does the dairy farmer milking milk-ing 200 cows and raising his own feed. Modernization is a necessity neces-sity to stay in business. The latest equipment, modern technology, record keeping and hard work are musts for the successful farmer, At the end of WW II the average aver-age farmer raised enough food for himself and 15 (Continued on Page 4) HERE'S MORE ABOUT Just Between others. Today he must produce pro-duce for 70. We find Beaver County Farmers to be among the best. They are good businessmen busi-nessmen as well as being good neighbors. They work hard and know their business. busi-ness. Dairymen know every cow and what she produces. Ranchers recognize every brood cow, and take extreme pride in their quality bulls. The average farmer can tell you within a few pounds, how many tons per acre an alfalfa al-falfa field will yield - 0 Some say they are a dying breed. That corporation farms will take over. We don't believe so. The family farm is an institution. Most are dedicated to the land. They are educated, informed, in-formed, and tough. The COUNTY NEWS salutes salu-tes the Farmer and Rancher this week. They are the backbdne of Beaver County and the nation. They, more than any other industry, have given this country the high -est standard of living ever known to Man. They have met the test of time and conquered it. Inflation, high interest, energy costs have all struck a mighty blow. But the farmer will survive, and continue his stewardship of the land. And he'll do it with head held high. |