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June, 1917

The Pendleton Evening Tribune, justifiably enough, is patting itself on the back on the occasion of its reaching the status of a seven-column paper. The change was made with the issue of May 30. "Increased business has forced the change," said the announcement. It goes on to thank the subscribers and advertisers for their loyal sup port. The change marks the attainment by the Tribune of adult dress, mechanically speaking. In other respects, the paper had long since passed into the thoroughly grown-up stage.

The management of the Tribune is particularly pleased with the fact that the change was made at small cost and with no installation of additional machinery. An old Potter press already on the premises was rebuilt on the spot and has, so to speak, "staged a real comeback," for it has served admirably the demand for additional press facilities and has been humming along like a youngster ever since. Added prestige and increased business has come to the Tribune with the change.

Four of Eugene's newspaper employes will leave within the next few weeks. Forest Pell, city reporter for the Morning Register, will go with the Eugene Red Cross ambulance corps.

George Dick, mailing clerk for the Guard, and Harold Say, city reporter, will leave when the Oregon Coast artillery corps is called into service on July 15. Vance Cagley, linotype operator on the Guard, has enlisted as a printer in the quartermaster's corps.

E. S. Tuttle, former bookkeeper of the Guard, is assistant paymaster in the Puget Sound naval station at Bremerton. His place is taken by E. P. Lyons.

Miss Grace Edgington, 1916 graduate of the Oregon school of journalism, who is now society editor and proofreader on the Morning Register, of Eugene, has been elected to the faculty of the school of journalism in the University of Washington, at Seattle. Miss Edgington will take up her work at the opening of the fall term, in October.

The Heppner Herald since March 1 has been conducted by S. A. Pattison, an old-time Oregon and Idaho publisher. Mr. Pattison, who did country newspaper work in the Northwest for more than a score of years before dropping out four years ago, says he is happy to be back in the work and is beginning to feel at home. in a recent letter Mr. Pattison points it out as a sad fact that "the blacksmiths of Oregon have so nearly perfect an organization for their protection, and one that has practically put an end to all price-cutting in that line of endeavor, while the newspaper and printing people let things run at loose ends while, too often, they scrap like mad over a bit of county printing and cut prices on a $2.00 job. Is it possible that the black smiths have us beaten in brains as they have in brawn?"

Ed. C. Lapping, of the Astoria Budget staff, suggests he would like to hear newspapermen discuss how to eliminate the free space grafter. "For myself," says Mr. Lapping, "I believe that if all daily and weekly newspapers in Oregon would go on record as barring all free 'readers' and 'news stories,' it would be a big thing in the reduction of the newspaperman's worries and expenses." The subject may be taken up at the convention of the Oregon Editorial Association in Pendleton next month. 15