Show I THE- THE Ants E Eye Ants rs y a V View W co I t i I 11 I IBY DY BY MAC The editorial desk this week It is Iton ison on the poop deck of the linotype machine a big gadget type The publishers publisher's keyboard ard ardI is three times aa as big as that of the typewriter and the big dif difference difference ference in writing on on it is that you cant can't glance stance back and see what youve you've just written Theres There's a reason for this Our chief operator Lynx Langford Langford Lang Lang- ford I Is lolling on the beach In Long Beach Calif sniffing the I I I I balmy sea ea breeze And his replacement didn't show up I Maybe Its It's a good thing He dropped in 10 days ago to 10 look lookaround lookaround k around and get acquainted and make plans for his two wee weeks s replacement replacement replacement re re- re- re placement stay He wore dark glasses said his eyes had been bothering him Monday Monday morning when he be did not show up we called our Salt Lake representatives to find out why Well they found out He had left Salt Lake a week before taking a gob of hi hIs firms firm's money with him He hadn't paid any rent for quite come and sometime time and hl hi his wife pretty well cleaned out the apartment I So probably were we're just as well off Very unusual I always say to find a dishonest newspaper newspaper- man This Is kind of like fishing in that it gives me a chance to get caught up on my brooding My poor little brain can just go away away and let Jet my eyes and fingers dothe do dothe dothe the work Actually many publishers of smaller newspapers newspapers do not nol bother both both- er with a typewriter They take their th notes to the linotype and write their stories on that key key- board Occasionally they leave out a verb or an object but who cares care Takes five years yeara to learn one of these then brutes brute but after you learn It you dont don't forget Kind of like riding a bicycle If Im I'm not the best beat operator In Utah Ill I'll do his hla Job till he comes And if you want to see the boss you should always contact My Lady Fair anyhow Just ask er We had bad a good example of how bow gossip gets started this week I Wb Whets Where t h thereto herb re smoke theres there's fire they say uy but this proves tha that that's 11 I not always true Two friends enjoy Kidding each other about Dig Big League baseball One Is II a Yankee fan tan and especially tally lally admires Mickey Mantle They met in a Care Cafe and the ribber fibber remarked Too bad about Mickey He broke both arms arms arm The fan fn agreed It was waa ter Left leg too he sug- sug jetted ested A listening lady was wall horrified tle 1 The only Mickey she knew was named well we'll say day Jones Jonel She dc do- elded the speakers were pretty callous to be chuckling over his bis misfortune And tHat's tt how the tory story I- I h t- gan gang Mickey Jones Jonn had been In a car wreck and broke both arms arma and one leg Hes He's In the hospital In pretty bad shape Well ell one never knows knowlI does does' one I pulled a good one myself myself my my- self last week We always try to prove our our stories quote stories quote lI some some one in position to knew That That's why J. J Reed Moore Moore the genial County Agent of Summit Count County was wai quoted as at authority for the the wrong date of the Summit County Fair Reed Heed never said any such thing I 1 said it in the paper and andI I said Reed need said it Reed knows better I dont Sorl Sorry Reed Mac |