Show Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 10-- The 30 1986 One time af1 ® Mail Time That's how the nation's — and Logan's — newspapers were set By Steve Stout city editor ing The The Mergenthaler type Its name was Linoself- -' for that’s explanatory ' ' exactly what it did — processed one line o’ type at a time In 1950 The Herald Journal had three of the and display advertising still had to be typed by the advertising sales people and retyped on typesetting machines by the machines (and two similar Intertypes) which contained composing room The computer introduced here in May of 1983 changed all that Wire service stories are introduced into the computer system with the flick of a button Cycles for morning and afternoon newspapers are separated News now comes from a number of keyboards brass “matrixes" or metal three-sectio- n molds for casting typefaces and hot lead type Though they were at the time considered the equipment the Linotypes have become almost extinct in the newspaper industry having fallen victim to the age of the computer Simple mathematics re state-of-the-a- I j : rt machines could produce “galleys" of type per hour Galleys in essence were columns of type approxi- mately 2 inches wide and 21 inches long The Linotype produced nine lines of copy per inch In the 1950s the newspaper was constructed based on eight columns of type rather Press International scribers : j : I : : up” the pages with photos and complete headlines Today The Herald Journal can produce a page in ap- proxi mately 15 minutes the company’s new com- puterized typesetters able to produce 400 lines of copy a minute But The Herald Journal didn’t jump directly into the computer age from the Linotype era There was another step in the evolution process that was introduced in 1968 It was called offset printing Stories and headlines were still typed on typewriters and The Herald Journal once ran on linotypes like these ternational' national re- gional and state-wid- e copy came from United Press International through the tele- editors edited the typed pages with red pencils In the Editors sub- correct own ads The time saved with each innovation has undeniably helped keep the print industry current and effective But at The Herald Journal cost comparisons of the old Linotypes compared to today’s computers reveal a containing no advertising not including the time spent In Help when you need it And when you don’t And advertising representatives in the classified and display departments are responsible for setting their than today’s formats So it took between 5 and 6 hours to produce the copy and headlines for just one open page — a page “making ed ss copy on the video sceens eliminating the burdensome process of retyping a story six-colu- ' semi-motoriz- sources that are transmitted by satellite to all United 116 i 0s first-clas- number of other news The old composing i hand-sorte- mid-196- “queues” (lists of stories) computer has made in the newspaper industry since the Linotype i hand-sorte- first-clas- including an international wire national wire three regional wires three sports wires feature wires and a veal the difference the I wire was added Classified cumbersome composing i HJ had two wire service lines one for national and international news one for regional news and sports and in the late 1970s an all-spo- rts But the biggest change in postal service said Joe Thomas a Logan postal employee who started working for the Continued from page 9 postal service in 1957 has been in the postal service had their m mechanization Machines in start in the 1950s Ogden and Salt Lake City sort Although air mail dates from by machine the mail which the end of World War I (the first comes into Logan Some mail air mail flight took place in like bulk mailers is even sorted 1918 and the first transcontiby route in Salt Lake City however nental service starting in 1920) Mechanization the 1950s were the time of great Taylor said has not come to change The post office started Logan yet All local mail is still d and incoming s mail by hauling some plane when space was available mail except for presorted and d for on an experimental basis bulk m alien is is mail All route each outgoing Burge said In the almost all first- - class mail was placed in bags ana is sorted in going by air with only about Salt Lake City Mail handled by the Logan 1000 trains equipped to carry mail In 1977 tile postal service postal service has tripled since s the 195P' Taylor said began sending all All routes are at least mail by air Parcel post is and the trend mostly carried by trucks Where it used to cost 17 cents is toward curbside mail boxes to send a letter by air before the Taylor expects that in another switch letters went by air for decade Logan will probably see more mechanization the first-clarate of 13 cents phone lines to teletype machines and tape punches The composing staff was still responsible for the cumbersome task of typesetting and much of the proofread surprising statistic In a 1950 letter from the Mergenthaler Company to The Herald Journal each Linotype and its related equipment carried a price tag of about 815000 so the total for all three Linotypes and their counterparts was approximately 875000 The current computer system according to HJ Publisher Wayne Paul cost approximately 8200000 or just a little more than double the price of 35 years ago “The (computer) process is quicker and cleaner — and that means our quality is better" said HJ Managing Editor Mike Simmons when the system was installed When someone close to you has died the professional funeral director is there providing guidance understanding and care Of course many people prefer counseling at one’s prior to need when arrangements may be made leisure without urgency We offer complete information on available now without cost or obligaand tion of any kind Feel free to contact us at your convenience It may ease your family's concern tomorrow pre-financi- ALLEN-HA- ll Mortuary 34 EAST CENTER LOGAN UTAH 84321 752-324- 5 70S Jan 7 1973 (UPI) — Winter storm clouds are casting ominous shadows across the nation’s fuel supply a survey indicated Saturday The country may squeak through until spring without widespread shutdowns of industry and public institutions — but only if it’s a mild winter from here on in A shortage of natural gas is reported in almost all regions forcing industry and public establishments to turn to oil and propane This in turn increases the strain on those fuel supplies largely dependent for transport on wintry highways around the country The Midwest has been particularly hard hit with an icy winter following a wet fall which skyrocketed demand for natural gas to heating oil to dry SERVING CACHE VALLEY FOR 31 YEARS WITH BRAND NAME AUTO PARTS the corn soybean and sorghum crops THANKS FOR YOUR FAITH IN OUR SERVICE AND INTEGRITY GABRIEL ARROW STARTERS SHOCKS SERVING YOU: Complete Custom Meat Service Party and Dinner Needs 1 9 9 French Dip Roast Beef Swiss Steak Jerky Ham A it R'YBESYOS By WALKER ALTERNATORS CLUTCHES WATER PUMPS PERFECT DAYC0 CIRCLE BELTS & SHOES CASSIS HYDRAULICS UUViid RAC K I NGlCOMRANJi tjnBiittHP' STRUTS MUFFLERS nm HOSES PARTS co 55 WEST CENTER PH 752-756- 5 |