{"id":691,"date":"2017-06-13T17:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/?page_id=691"},"modified":"2023-01-19T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:31:02","slug":"a-measured-approach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/a-measured-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"A Measured Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another fascinating story from Dean Nayes takes us back to the Salt Lake City Tribune in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

I RETURNED to the Salt Lake Tribune just a few months after going through the first time, on my way back to Denver, to get my family, and return to San Francisco.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I worked a few shifts in both directions. It was at the time that the Tribune had either just purchased the Deseret News, or they had merged, I don’t remember which. They had moved all of the production of the News to the Tribune, along with dovetailing the priority board in the composing room.<\/p>\n

There was some bickering about the dovetailing, and other pressures in that shop that I don’t quite remember, but when I sat down at my machine, I noticed the operator next to me take his line gauge and measure each take before he dumped it, and he wrote it down on a pad.<\/p>\n

He did this all night, until shortly before quitting time, when I saw him measure his take again, he took half of the type he had set and threw it in the hell box, and dumped the rest.<\/p>\n

When he returned, I asked him what he was doing. He answered, “They dupe us every night, everybody, and I keep track of my lineage, and when I reach the deadline, I refuse to set any more, and if I set too much I will dump it in the hell box.”<\/p>\n

There were a lot of Mormons who came from the News, and I believe this fellow was one of them because they all wore overalls.<\/p>\n

The deadline there was one of the toughest I had ever encountered, because the Deseret News, being a Mormon newspaper, had more obits in it than any other paper I had ever worked on, and just about every one had a thumbnail picture in it that you had to wrap the type around, in agate, classified measure.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of good operators who could not make the deadline there. But it was a very good place to stop and pick up a couple of shifts when you were travelling, because you could hit town by show up time, work a shift, and the chairman would cash you out at the end of the shift, and issue you a new traveller, and you could be back on the road again.<\/p>\n

Did you enjoy this story? <\/strong>If so, you may be interested to know that it appears in “Printers’ Tales”<\/strong><\/a> available as a paperback or ebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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