Jaggers Chiles Stovall, 1970

Thanks to Dan Williams for sending in these scans of an article from the September 1970 edition of “Graphic Southwest” describing long-established trade-typesetter Jaggers Chiles Stovall’s move to new premises.

According to Dan, John F Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, worked at the company for a while. They produced some typesetting work for the US Government, giving conspiracy theorists a little fuel.

Jaggers Chiles Stovall — Outside view of the 30,000 sq. ft. plant

New Linotype arrangement eliminates extensive “operator travel”

According to the article: “Among the new features of the J-C-S plant is the spacious 3,000 square-foot darkroom with expandable walls to grow as J-C-S continues to grow. These facilities are handling the production of two Fototronic typesetters, one a newly-installed model 1200 which is one of the latest installations in the entire country of the Intertype tape-driven composing machines.

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Jaggers Chiles Stovall, 1970

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