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FEBRUARY 16. 1953 How Your C The first anniversary of i The Clothmaker provides us i with an excellent opportunity i to explain to you just how | your paper is published each i month. It is obvious that a 1 lot of work goes into each is- s sue of paper, but we doubt if many of us know just how much detailed effort goes into each issue before it is delivered to you. The greatest amount of work each month is done by our 40 department reporters. These men and women, located in Pach Hpnartmpnt nil shifts at Clinton and Lydia 1 Cotton Mills, gather photo- * graphs and items of interest 1 from those in their individual 1 departments. These are turn- c ed in to the personnel office bv the deadline which is ap- 1 proximately the first of each * month. 1 While this is going on, your 1 editors have been planning what feature articles might be developed for the current month's issue. Plans are made for photographs and developing material. Sometimes a great deal of research must be made, such as the issue late last Spring which marked the 50th anniversary of Lydia Cotton Mills. All of the work is headed up by Calvin Cooper, Personnel Director of both mills, and editor of the paper, assisted by E. C. Huffstetler and Louise Sharpe of his staff. Mrs. Carolyn In giett at L,ydia and Mrs. Eva West at Clinton serve as the collecting point for news items at their respective | plants. j Photographs arc taken by Fred Galloway of Clinton Mills, and Fred Allen, who ' serves as an editorial consultant in publishing the paper. When all the news is collected on the first of the 1 month, it then must must be ; typed and carefully edited < with every effort being made to avoid any errors. Headlines are written, and photographs are scaled for the proper size desired. A rough dummy of the finished paper is then made. Occasionally a few news items have to be omitted due to the heavy flow of news during that wni A V 4 ^ f JyaH THIS IS THE LARGE PRESS prints four pages at a time, then t sheets then are folded, cut and tri on the Christmas issue, the paper times if color is used on eight page lloth maker ] nonth, but every effort is nade to use each and every tem turned in. Sometimes Dhotographs have to be held jntil the following month before they can be used for the ?ame reason. The finished material then joes to the printers, Jacobs Jrothcrs, located here in Ulinton. There all the mate'ial is set in type, and photo?ngravings are made from all pictures. This takes about a A,'Pfk Prnnfn nf iill vr>o onrl V r1- """ )f pictures then are deliver?d to us, and a paste-up is riade of the paper which is ?xactly like the finished Daper will look, except in a ough form. The paper then is carefully checked again for typographical errors and dentification of all photographs. A great deal of checkng goes into each issue with ill material checked at least M January 17, 1953 Bombline, Korea Dear Friends: For the past year I have been receiving The Clothmaker and wish to thank all concerned in making the paper possible. Since the first of this year, the USS Los Angeles on which I am serving has been operating on the bombline and making gun strikes on the city of Wonsan. We are returning to the carrier task force in the near future. The gun strikes are not much. We cruise around the harbor at five knots firing on targets spotted for us bv our helicopter pilots, mostly gun positions, supplies and transportation facilities. Today's BQ mm?m which prints The Clothmaker he he sheet is turned and four more mmed to the size which you re must go through again for colc s as it was in the December issi THE CLOTHMAKER s Published four times, but even with this careful work, occasionally errors creep in. The final paste-up then is delivered to Jacobs Brothers where the type and photographs are arranged just as on the paste-up. Page proofs are pulled and all material is checked again. With a final okay, The Clothmaker i s ready to be "put to bed" on a large press. In a few days, a brand new issue of The Clothmaker is again ready for delivery. Delivery o f The Clothmaker is another big job and is handled by a large number of people. Girl or E -y Scouts deliver the paper to all houses in the two villages, while copies are mailed to all of those living elsewhere. That, in a nutshell, is how your Clothmaker is made each month. firing brought the total rounds fired for this cruise to more than 3,000. At 300 pounds per round, that makes quite a few tons of steel tossed over. These gun strikes on Wonsan are just another move in affecting the United Nations blockade on this Red sea port. At one time Wosan could have been compared to our Chicago as a supply and railroad center, but due to the air and sea power of the navy, it has been reduced to a shambles and the reds have been forced to use poor inland roads and even these are subject to our air attacks. That's the navy's job. just part of the "Police Action" in Korea today but we like to feel that our part is helping toward building a better world. Sincerely, Wayne Saville (Editor's Note: Harold Wayne Saville worked in the Clinton Mill Weaving Department before entering the service. We were glad to receive this interesting letter.) I I Pfrfr 5 B- I lfh mCm wRm I I ^1 HI M ^ ffc I 5' i^H I >re in Clinton. The high-speed press pages are printed on the back. Th? ceive. When color is used, such as >r on four pages, or two additional re. I JS ^HT ? R A LOT OF PLANNING TAK Clothmaker lcng before 4he deadlii just as inteiesting as possible. Her Allen, newspaper consultant, discu Ml Bn ] 1/ ALL PHOTOGRAPHS WHIC have to be made into zinc photoen< ed. Downs Monroe and Richard Fo in Clinton, are shown examining i process. HBHWi ALL CLOTHMAKERS WHI< sorted according to towns, and R. to the Clinton post office for maili each month by Louise Sharpe ant Department. They are shown ab 3 ES PLACE on each issue of The le in an effort to make each issue e Calvin Cooper, editor, end FreJ ss ideas and plans for an issue. t" /2p H APPEAR in The Clothmaker jravings before the paper is printster, engravers at Jacobs Brothers one of the steps in the engraving m <b v 5i < CH ARF. M & TT m muct ?itci he F. D. numbers before being taken ng. This work is efficiently handled i E. C. Huffstetler of the Personnel ove in action.