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.. The Summerville News, Thursday, August 28, 1986
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Accepts National Security Leadership Award
Seventh District Congressman Georfie
“BuddKl" Darden recently received the
1986 National Security Leadership
Award from the Coalition for Peace
Through Strength, a bi-partisan pro
defense organization. Presenting the
award to Darden, center, are from left,
John M. Fisher, president of the
etaoin shrdlu,
We Miss You
from second front
said. Gene recalls setting 19
galleys in eight hours at the
keyboard.
A recent week’s main story
on the Summerville City Coun
cil meetiniwas 33 inches lonf.
Using a Linotype, it would
have taken at least an hour and
a half to set, while modern
equipment allowed it to be set
in about 15 minutes.
To produce the size paper of
the Aug. 14 edition, lggvid
estimated it would have taken
at least seven Linotypes going
full blast all week.
* * *
HOT LEAD is one hazard
that operators of modern
typesetting equipment don't
face. It could be dangerous.
Gene recalls coming in one day
and finding that a Linotype be
ing operated by his difi) had
squirted hot lead to the ceiling
and on his father's arm and leg.
Gene and David both have tiny
burn scars on their arms from
hot lead. **You couldn't get it
off. When it hit, it hargened
but it was still hot and it stuck
to you,” Gene said. One of his
burns once became infected, he
said, and required medical
treatment.
The whirring, clatterin
machines were a fixture in afi
newspapers until the last 20 or
so years when the technology
revolution made them all but
obsolete. And they were never
“‘user friendly.” When was the
last time your computer spit
hot lead at you?
During World War 11, Gene
and David's dad made a lot of
parts for the Linotypes and
usually cleaned them and work
ed on them himself. Only about
two people other than their dad
ever worked on Linotypes at
The News, one of them being
the late W.B.J. Floyd, who was
also then shop foreman at the
Rome News-Tribune.
MR. ESPY and Mr. Floyd
both received their 50-year pins
from the Georgia Press
Association the same night,
Gene said. Even after his
retirement from the Rome
newspaper, Mr. Floyd traveled
all over the Southeast working
on Linotypes.
David recalled another
older gentleman who would
work on the Linotypes, despite
his arthritis. But his efforts re
quired the ‘“‘lubrication” of a
half-lpint of whiskey. ‘‘Daddy
would fiet him a half-pint and
after a little while, he would get
to working fine,”” David said.
Gene now does
maintenance and cleaning of
The News' Linotypes and
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American Securit{ Council; Evelyn Starr,
president-elect of the American Legion
Auxiliary; Phyllis Roberts, president of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs; and Maj. Gen. Evan Hultman, ex
ecutive director of the Reserve Officers
Association. The award ceremony took
place in Washington, D. C.
someday hopes to move one of
the units to Eis home *‘to tinker
around with.”” When the con
trfiptions were in operation
fulltime, intensive maintenance
was a must. Before it was
banned, carbon tetrachloride
was the most favored cleaner.
Lubrication was used sparing
ly and it was usually on?y a bit
of graphite in strategic loca
tions — other than the gears or
bearings.
* * *
ACCORDING TO the tex
tbook on the Linotype, it has
four major divisions, the
magazines which contain the
matrices, the keyboard and its
related parts, the lead casting
mechanism and the
distributing mechanism. To
the average person, even those
descriptions may sound like so
much Greek.
The matrices are brass and
each one is actually a tiny. mold
of a letter or punctuation. The
Linotype operator uses the
keyboard to select which
matrix is to be used and the
casting mechanism then
squirts lead into a line of the
matrices to produce the line of
type — or “Linotype.” After
the line of matrices has been
cast, it is automatically lifted
and carried back to the top of
the magazine where the
distributor allocates them to
their proper location back in
the magazine for use again.
Meanwhile, the still hot line of
lead type is pushed out of the
mold and into a tray next to
the keyboard.
A lot of newspapermen ac
quainted with the earlier era of
typesetting feel that Linotypes
established a certain aura or
romance to publishing, a feel
ing that doesn't exist with to
day’s sterile but very efficient
computerized equipment.
* * *
THE MACHINE, which
looks — and sometimes acts —
like a Rube Goldberg device,
was invented by Ottmar
Mergenthaler in 1886 when he
was 32. Within one generation,
newspaper circulation jumped
from 3.6 million to 33 million.
The machines can be
dangerous, in addition to
sometimes spitting hot lead on
the operator. When he was
small, Gene said he put his
right hand on the huge cam of
a Linotype in The News office
and it made a turn, mashing
his hand against a solid bar
and causing extensive
bleeding.
But rather than cry out,
Gene said he hid in a corner of
the pafler because he feared
that if he told his father what
he'd done, he'd never be allow
ed in the back shop again.
“And you probabl
wouldn't,;' Daxid interjected‘.,
*
THE LINOTYPE operator,
Miss Wylene Perry, by chance
got up to check the distributor
at the back of the machine and
noticed blood on the floor. She
followed the drops of blood to
where Gene was hiding in the
corner.
The injuries required
several stitches but didn't
damage use of his hand.
So did his father keep him
out of the back shop?
“I told him I stuck it in a
fan,” Gene said with a grin.
It was hot operating the
machines in the summer but
since no one had air condition
ing, it wasn't all that
noticeable, Gene and David
said.
As for ‘‘etaoin shrdlu.”
* * *
THE NAME of that
unusual ‘‘fellow” appeared in
more than one column in The
News and in other newspapers
with Linotypes from time to
time.
It was there because the
Linotype operator, having
discovered he had made an er
ror, filled out the rest of the line
by dragging his finger down
the first row of keys on the left
side of the keyboard, which is
totally different from that on a
typewriter. Then he dragged
his finger down the second row
on the left side. They spelled e
t-a-o-i-n and s-h-r-d-l-u.
On a Linotype, the
keyboard is separated into
three sections. The left third
contains all the lower case, or
non-capitalized, letters; the
center punctuation and
numbers; and the right the up
per case, :)r cagital,*letters.
NEITHER DAVID nor
Gene had any problem swit
ching from using the Linotype
to typing on a typewriter
although the typing methods
are completely cfifferent.
The Linotype company still
exists today although it no
longer produces the large,
black machines. Instead, it
builds such exotic computeriz
ed typesetters as the
“Linotronic 300."
To that, Ottmar Mergen
thaler would probably exclaim,
“‘etaoin shrdfu!"
Merchants Meet
The Summerville
Downtown Merchants
Association is scheduled to
meet at 10 a.m. next Tuesday
at offices of the Chattooga
County Chamber of Commerce,
Summerville.
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During a two hour game at last year's
Summerville Recreation Center Checker
Club tournament Roy Finster, left, and
Leonard Bolden concentrate intensely on
their next moves. Twenty to 50 of the top
Talking Book Center Open
“Swimming and waterski
ing are just some of the sports |
blind and handicapped readers |
get involved in during the sum- |
mer,”" according to Bob Mann
ing, librarian at LaFayette
Talking Book Center. “We |
have any number of cassette |
books about handicapped peo- |
ple who engage in sports for |
our readers who are looking for |
summer activities to read |
about or try.” The facility is |
open to Chattooga Countians.
“For example, ‘‘Breaking
Through™ by Harry C. Cor- |
dellos tells how the author, who |
is blind, overcame his own |
timidity to become an ac- I
complished athlete in sports as |
diverse as waterskiing, gym- |
nastics, and distance running,” |
he said. }
Another book Bob Mann- |
ing mentioned is ‘‘Sports for |
the Handicapped,” Ey Anne |
Allen, which sketches the ex- |
periences of several handicap
ped persons who enjoy skiing,
swimming, football, horseback |
riding, and wheelchair basket- I
ball. Similarly, ‘‘Water Sports
for the Disabled’ gives advice |
on how handicapped people can |
participate in anfy kind of |
aquatic activities, from canoe- |
ing to skin diving. K
“Sports fans also have plen- |
ty to choose from including |
both fiction and nonfiction,” |
noted Manning. Stories of |
sports stars include the |
autobiographies of basketball |
player Elvin Hayes and cham- |
pionship boxers Jack Dempsey |
and Joe Louis. A biography of |
fighter Sugar Ray Leonard is |
among the books available, as |
is the story of Scottish runner |
Eric Liddell, which was the |
basis for the movie, *‘Chariots |
of Fire.” y
As Manning observed, }
“Sports has been a favorite |
subject of fiction writers.”
Some of the popular sports
novels include the satirical
“Life Its Ownself” by Dan |
Jenkins and ‘“The Year the
Yankees Lost the Pennant™ by
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