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Rh one of the best authorities on Portland journalism from the point of view of the working staff. After several years of retirement he died in Santa Rosa, California, in 1939.

Charles Hyskell had the commercial run aside from markets — including banks, finance, real estate, railroads, the commercial club, chamber of commerce. On retiring from active newspaper work he took to fiction and to secretarying for the Portland Press Club.

Macdonald Potts was business manager; W. J. Hofmann, advertising manager; Dave Smith, circulation manager, (recently retired), in the early days of the Journal.

Of the mechanical gang of 1902, only one, Tom James, remains. He is foreman of the Journal composing-room.

Philip L. Jackson, who was associate publisher under his father, became publisher on the death of C. S. Jackson and has remained in that position. On the retirement of B. F. Irvine as active editor in 1937 he succeeded to that position, putting Marshall N. Dana, for many years associate editor, in direct charge of the editorial page.

On the death of Mr. Trowbridge, managing editor, in 1919, Donald J. Sterling, Sunday editor, was moved up to the managing editorship, and B. F. Irvine took the editorship, involving the decision of the paper's editorial policies and the handling of its editorial page. Mr. Sterling, native of Michigan and graduate of the University of Michigan in 1908, after a year of reporting in his home town of Battle Creek, was made Sunday editor of the Oregon Journal in 1909. He has continued as managing editor and, assisted by his news editor, Jennings F. Sutor, has been responsible for the great changes in the makeup of the Journal, including the stream lining and ragtime headline change of three years ago. He has been active in the American Society of Newspaper Editors, of which he was elected president in 1939, and in the Associated Press.

Sunday editors since Mr. Sterling's time have been O. C. Merrick, Charles T. Hoge, and Sam Raddon Jr., the present Sunday editor. The present city editor is Arthur L. Crookham, former city editor of the Telegram, who succeeded Charles T. Hoge in 1927.

Mr. Dana, an authority on reclamation, has been, for long periods, lent to the government to help administer its reclamation work in the Northwest.

When the Portland News, on taking over the Telegram, abandoned its membership in the Associated Press, the Journal obtained the franchise for the afternoon field in Portland. From the old four-page papers when C. S. Jackson took hold, the paper has grown with the field until it issues regularly from 24 to 36 pages daily, with 72 to 96 pages Sunday.