First of Oregon newspapers to install a radiophone broadcasting station to send concerts, weather forecasts, high lights of the news and other intelligence out from its own office, the Oregonian dedicated the other day its new apparatus, just in stalled in a room under the big clock in the tower, with a concert by Miss Edith Mason, one of the stars of the Chicago Grand Opera Company.
The station is one of the most powerful in the west, with a radius at any time of 500 miles, and with favorable conditions it will operate much farther. When the apparatus was tested in New York, its broadcasting was heard from Halifax to Georgia and as far west as Chicago. Along the Pacific coast atmospheric conditions are said to be more favorable and the Oregonian’s service is expected to be heard from Alaska to Mexico. Radio phone receiving sets throughout the northwest states will pick up the Oregonian broadcasts with ease, it is expected.
Paul Robinson, editor of the Aurora Observer, is working out a plan which will take him all over the United States by auto in the interest of the 1925 exposition and in the promotion of interest in Oregon’s farming opportunities. Mr. Robinson’s plan is, he says, “without any excessive financial profit, to travel by auto through practically every state, visiting printing offices in small and large towns, auto camps, and among the actual land seekers, advertising by a properly lettered and attractive house car and thousands of circulars, the big fair and Oregon's opportunities.”
The Astoria Times is the name of a new weekly at Astoria. Owen A. Merrick is editor. and J. B. Myers business manager. The early numbers of the publication are lively and attractive.
Lou M. Kennedy, sporting editor of the Telegram, covered the training camp news of the Portland Beavers at Pasadena.
L. R. Wheeler, vice-president of the Portland Telegram Publishing Company, recently spoke before the Commercial Club at Hood River, on topics connected with the development of the scenic assets of the Pacific Northwest, and especially of the Mt. Hood district. Mr. Wheeler attended the annual meeting of the Baker County Chamber of Commerce, and on his return trip, stopped off at Pendleton and was one of the guests at a dinner given in honor of Edgar B. Piper of the Oregonian, by Roy W. Ritner, president of the State Senate.
With the installation of a second No. 14 Mergenthaler linotype with head-letter attachment, the Salem Capital Journal claims the best equipped plant of any of the smaller newspapers of the northwest. The plant comprises two No. 14 and one No, 8 linotypes, all full magazines and all new, and an intertype, a Ludlow typo graph with two full cabinets of matrices, a 16-page perfecting press and complete stereotyping machinery. The entire plant is electrically equipped.
George Huntington Currey, president of the Baker Herald Company, has undertaken the organization of an advertising club in Baker and expects to see it give some of the older clubs a run for their money. The Herald has, through its guarantee against fraudulent advertising, its guarantee of circulation, and many “shop ads” for advertising, promoted interest among business men for result getting newspaper space.
W. S. Kilgour, former managing editor of one of the Perkins papers at Olympia, Wash., is the latest addition to the night staff of the Oregon Journal, under Harry H. Hill. night editor.
George H. Neher, formerly of the Oregonian, is now foreman of the Mt. Scott Herald composing room. Louis Breidenbach is the new apprentice in the Herald press room.
