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OREGON EXCHANGES class journalism section met recently in Portland to discuss the future program of the organization. Plans were discussed for the annual meeting, which will be held in conjunction with the Oregon Newspaper Conference. It was agreed that benefits would follow monthly gatherings of trade and class journalists in the state metropolis. The time for meetings was set on the fourth Saturday of every month.

At the recent Portland session there was a hundred per cent. attendance of the board of directors. The University school of journalism faculty was represented by Dean Eric W. Allen, George S. Turnbull and Ralph D. Casey.

A large attendance of the Portland trade and class journalists is expected at the June 23 meeting.

Howard E. Wharton, of the Gold Hill News, writes: Recently we wrote the {{sc|Exchanges}] we were selling out for health sake. We thought we were. We were sure of it; knew we desired a change and had gone so far as to locate another and equally lucrative business venture to step right into. We even invested money in the other business and had a lot of plans

Approximately normal conditions of

personnel were restored to the Oregon Journal staff with the return of ill, in jured and other absent members about

the middle of May. E. N. Blythe, head of the copy desk, who had been a leave of absence for five or six weeks, and Earl C. Brownlee, dramatic editor, who had a

term of confinement in the hospital, re turned at the same time and their arrival was attended by the return of Phillip Jackson, associate publisher, and D. J.

Sterling, managing editor, who had at tended the meeting of the American Pub lishers’ association. Philip Parrish, re write man, who had been called East by the serious illness of his father, Randall Parrish, the author, had preceded the general return by a few days. As a re sult of the restoration of the normal force Fred Bell, who had been sitting in as copy

chief, relieved Fred McNeil as copy read er and the latter was assigned to the night copy desk taking the place of Pierce Cumings, who thus was released to City Editor Charles T. Hoge’s staff.

The Pendleton Tribune, conducted for

the last three years as a daily by Harry L. Kuck, has become a weekly, with W. E.

made including getting all our future

Lowell as editor.

printed matter stored ahead before chang

leased the plant to the Franklin Press,

ing, But, the' little old “bug” that gets

which in addition to the paper will con duct a job printing office. Mr. Kuck is expecting soon to engage in the newspaper

under the printer-man’s hide and eats

into his very soul ca.me to the surface and

Mr.

Kuck recently

when the time came for wishing the other fellow well we broke down and reneged. We are still with the News and have just

business in California.

Mr. Lowell, who

passed the 26th birthday for that paper.

of the Franklin Press.

Fourteen hundred uninterrupted weekly issues. Instead of selling out we changed

associated with him in the Tribune Roy

was part owner of the Tribune before Mr. Kuck took hold, has lately been president

He will have

in 30 days with three people on the job,

R. McNees, a practical printer of much experience, who has been foreman of the Tribune for six years. The new pub lishers plan to move their job printing equipment upstairs in the Tribune build ing, where they will make some improve ments. The paper, Mr- Lowell an

and 30 per cent of that is “velvet.”

nounces, will be republican in politics.

our management system permitting my

self outside work and turning the office over to Friend Wife and last month broke

every record we ever established in the printing game. Seven hundred dollars

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