Several changes have been made in the two Albany newspaper offices during the month. Operator Burt of the Herald is in Corvallis. Previous to going to Corvallis, Mr. Burt was sick a short time with asthma. A Mr. House is filling the position temporarily. At the Democrat office Operator Brooks went onto the floor and Charles Alexander of the Ring Neck Pheasant farm, an operator, took the machine. Mr. Buchnell of California, is a new man at the Democrat office.
Perry Prescott Reigelman, who for a year has been on the reportorial staff of the Daily Capital Journal of Salem, has gone to New York City to make a special study of photography as training for the aviation signal service of the army. Reigelman has had several years’ training in military work and was with M company of Salem on the expedition to the Mexican border in 1916.
Paul D. Murphy, formerly of Minneapolis and Chicago, for some months on the staff of the Portland Journal, is about to sail for France, having gone east two weeks ago as a member of the American Field Service, formerly the American Ambulance, for service abroad. Mr. Murphy expects soon to be driving an ambulance on the French front.
Fred Wegner, Western Union operator special in the Portland Journal wire room, is on the job again, after three months’ layoff with a broken arm and shoulder, the result of a fall from a cherry tree. Mr. Wegner has confided in no one what he was going to do with cherries in this time of drought.
C. C. (“Cliff”) Harrison, for a number of years marine man on the Journal, and one of the really popular newspaper men of the Rose City is now sporting editor of the Seattle Times. Mr. Harrison hated to do it, in a way, but the inducement was such that he couldn’t resist.
Jennings F. Sutor, news editor of the Journal, enjoyed the annual Round-Up at Pendleton.
Robert C. Hall, former editor of the Glendale News and Sedro-Woolley, Washington, Courier, has recently accepted a position with the school of journalism in the University. He has charge of the University Press and all shop work. It is the plan to have his work merge into that of the school in the way of classes, laboratories, and general all round practical printing.
Rex H. Lampman, whose identity as a “formerly with” man now requires the tabulation of the Niche (N.D.) Chronometer, Portland Journal, Morning Oregonian and Cleveland Leader, has become telegraph editor of the Fargo (N.D.) Courier News, the organ of the Non-Partisan League of North Dakota. Mr. Lampman left Cleveland, Ohio, several weeks ago.
Lucile Saunders, a member of the journalism department of the University, is now working on the Bend Bulletin, along with Floyd Westerfield, also a member of that department and a graduate of the class of 1917. The Bulletin is losing a good man in Henry Fowler, who passed his physical examination for the selective draft.
The Oregon Journal has enlarged and rejuvenated its theatrical department and under the head of amusements is covering by announcement, criticism, interview and picture, all entertainment of a theatrical, operatic, musical and photo-play nature. Miss Edna Irvine is the new editor of this department.
Joe H. Jordan, automobile editor of the Oregon Journal, is soon to be married to Miss Edith Pettigrew, for several years in charge of the telephone exchange of the Journal. The date for the wedding has not been set.
B. F. Irvine, associate editor of The Journal, toured the Willamette valley in the interest of the second Liberty Loan Bond campaign.
Hyman H. Cohen, market editor of the Journal, has returned from a two weeks’ vacation at Seaside.
