For the first time since the linotype came into use about a quarter of a
century ago, the board in the com posing
room
of the Oregonian is
without the name of a “sub” and David Foulkes, superintendent, is faced with the problem of supplying
machine men. The war is the cause. He has lost a number of machine operators in the last few months and more are going. ‘To offset the situation Mr. Foulkes is working out plans for a training school for operators. Women proba bly will be used, and in this connec tion the country newspaper now using women printers may be affected as there is some inquiry from women printers throughout the state for posi tions on the daily papers of the larger cities. Some are now able to operate machines and they probably will be the first to come to the rescue.
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Leo J. (“Tick”) Malarky, instruc tor of athletics at Columbia Univer sity, and at the same time night po lice reporter for the Oregonian, and
Miss Helen Trask, of Portland, were married recently. Mr. Malarkey is well remembered as former coach at the University of Oregon, and of the championship McMinnville high school team. He has tried repeatedly to get into the army without avail, and con tributed an additional bit of war serv ice by joining the Oregonian staff re cently when there was a dearth of ex perienced men due to the calling out of the University of Oregon base hos pital No. 46, which took three of the reporters. “Tick” was a former stu
dent in the University school of jour nalism before coming to Portland.
0__ The Harrisburg Bulletin had all arrangements made for issuing a twelve
page
Liberty
Loan
edition,
when a letter came from the supply house saying it would be impossible to supply the patriotie plates ordered owing to the great demand for them.
0 Donald J. Sterling, Sunday editor of the Oregon Journal, has recently returned to his desk from a trip to Camp Lewis at American Lake and
to eastern Oregon. 21
Exoasnons
Roger W. Moe, editor of the Mosier Bulletin, and a son of A. D. Moe,
publisher of the Hood River Glacier, entrained the first of this month for Camp Lewis, having been drawn in the selective draft.
Mr. Moe already
has two brothers in the service.
Mark
is now in France with the aero squad
ron, while Forrest is sergeant in a battery of coast artillery at Fort Ste vens. The editor-soldier, who learned the newspaper business in the office of his father, was a student at the Uni versity of Oregon department of jour nalism for some time. He has left the Bulletin in charge of his father. ___.._.()_i
E. R.
(Tige) Reynolds, cartoonist
of the Oregonian, and one of the crack fishermen among the newspaper boys of Portland, reports catching a 32% pound salmon at Oregon City, Sunday, May 5. It took half an hour to land the prize and it was the second “whopper” he had worked on that day. Earlier he had a 20 pounder on his line, and after fight ing with it for half an hour, while a moving picture operator put him on record, it got away. The moving picture operator, disgusted, was sev
eral miles from the scene when he finally landed the larger one. ___.o__ W. R. McCracken, foreman of the Rogue River Courier, has been ap
pointed a traveling auditor of the state industrial accident commission, and left his position in Grants Pass on April 15. His territory will be in eastern Oregon, near Pendleton. “Mac” is a fine fellow and it is with regret that his co-workers on the Courier see him leave Grants Pass. He was connected with the Courier for more than 12 years. moi
Dennie Wood Jr., of Falls City, who has been associated with his fath er on the Falls City News, has on listed in the army and has left for
Fort McDougal. ?0_._ H. S. Prescott is a new reporter on the Oregon Statesman. He was pre viously connceted with the Oregon Ob server at Grants Pass.
