Frank R. White, well known newspaperman and irrigation expert, recently of Klamath Falls, is a recent addition to the copy desk of the Oregon Journal. 0 Edgar E. Piper, son of E. B. Piper, editor of the Oregonian, has arrived in France. He is First Lieutenant, attached to the head quarters company with special duties
in the finance department. Lieu tenant Piper is a fluent French
Ernest Bertz, the Journal’s hum orist ofiice boy, is now time keeper
in a logging camp. Lester Wilson is the new ofiice boy. ___0___ Mr. Dellinger, the proprietor of the Astorian has recently installed a new press of the web perfecting type. It prints and folds the papers all in one operation. All the daily newspapers in Astoria use the per
——-o W. C. Black, has sold the Advance, at Oakland, to its previous owner D. E. Vernon. Mr. Black is now
fecting type of presses now. 0 Guy Downs, make-up man in the Oregonian composing room, is trying his hand at editing copy. Mr. Downs fills in on the copy desk on Sunday nights. He is looking to
city editor on the Review in Rose
wards the time when he will be the
burg. Claude Riddle, owner of the Tribune, has been a reporter on the Review for several months, but ex
editor of a country publication. Mr. Downs is also a member of the Portland Press club. 0 Harold Weeks, formerly Reed College reporter for the Oregonian has been promoted to first lieu
speaker.
pects to go to his own paper this spring.
-*0 Charles H. Jones, managing editor of the Oregon Teachers’ Monthly, has been confined at his home by illness for several months and shows little improvement. The editorial work on the Teachers’ Monthly is being done by Professor E. D. Ressler of Oregon Agricultural col
tenant in the aviation section United States signal corps, and is ordered to New York preparatory to going
abroad. Roscoe Fawcett, formerly sporting editor of the Oregonian, first lieutenant of aviation, is now in New York commanding a squad
lege, Miss Cornelia Marvin, state librarian, and by members of the
ron of 150
state department of education.
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The Astoria Evening Budget
——o George F. Stoney, for the last five years copy reader on the Oregonian,
is
flying light with four of its men doing duty in the training camps
somewhere in the Northwest, while one is in the aviation branch at San Antonio, Texas. Ed C. Lapping, the genie who held down the reporters desk on the
Budget, is now doing yeomans ser vice in the Lone Star state. He writes semi-occasionally to the boys at home. He said that Mark Twain was right when he said that if he owned hell and Texas he would sell
Texas and live in hell.
Ed simply
men
preparatory
to
sailing.
has enlisted in the Canadian army,
forestry regiment, and is now at Halifax awaiting orders to sail. Mr. Stoney who is past 45 years old
enlisted when a letter from his home in Ireland announced that the war had taken a toll of more than 200
members of his family. Mr. Stoney is an American citizen, but he was beyond the age for acceptance in the American forces. He was ac cepted as 45 years old, but his friends
are
quite
certain
he
is
gave a graphic illustration of the
slightly older. He the hospital only
condition
He
having undergone an operation, but
thought that Oregon was not so bad after all, even if it did rain 117
he passed a surprisingly satisfac tory examination physically and mentally. 19
of
the
weather.
inches each calendar year.
has been out of a few months,
