Friday, December 7, 1951
THE BATTALION
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Products Often Seen—Seldom Heard
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Their product is something you
see all about you. They produce
everything from the paper you
are reading to the checks handed
out by the college. It is, the A&M
Press, which is housed in the base
ment of Goodwin Hall. They pro
duce all of the printed matter for
the college, and part of the sys
tem’s printed requirements.
The Press is headed by Frank
Tucker, a fellow who worked his
way up through the ranks of a
printer. He is assisted by Mac
Goode, who works out the majority
of the mechanical difficulties. In
all, counting students and non-stu
dents, the Press employs close to
a half hundred. They work every
thing from a shovel at the melt
ing pot to fine finishers in the
bindery.
In a recent conservative estimate
of the value of the press it was
set at about $200,000. This is ex
tremely low for an estimate which
will run from low $200,000 to $450,-
000. It is equipped with most of
the modern machinery used in the
graphic arts industry today.
But following a typical job order
through the shop you have to start
with the men operating the line
casting machines such as George
H. Shearer, Clyde Johnson (who is
adjusting the pig on the linotype
machine) and Joe Pustka. If the
job happens to be a newspaper, it
will go to people like C. E. Sullivan
in the middle top picture, who is
tightening up a page in prepara
tion for printing. Henry Ince and
Charlie Schoedel, left to right in
the same picture, are making up
the ads which appear in this issue
of The Battalion. Henry is one of
the many students employed in
various capacities by the Press.
If the job is for a booklet or any
of the multitude of other smaller
printing jobs, it will be made up
by such men as R. H. Taylor or
Steve Andcrt. Andert is the fore
man of the composing room.
On the bottom row are seen the
men who make the work of the
other men visible. In the lower
left picture are seen Roy Goode,
Wesley Mason and Hector C. Guit-
errez who operate the newspaper
press. Mason and Guiterrez are
also students. In the picture on
the left they are putting out a cur
rent issue of The Battalion.
In the middle picture Jack Loo-
ney, Jack Welch and Joe Hudson
can be seen cleaning the presses
after the completion of one print
ing order, in preparation for the
next one.
In the bindery cutting paper
stock which has been printed are
Male,pm Gaugh and Garland Sluder.
Mrs. Gladys Raborn, Mrs. Lu
cille Cobb, and Mrs. Ula Mae Riley
check and fold Christmas cards,
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