 Sherman Democrat Whitewright Sun Thursday, December 14, 1944 pg. 1 J. Newell Johnston Quits Sherman Paper Sherman - J. Newell Johnston, managing editor of the Sherman Democrat since April 1, 1925, has resigned, effective January 1, and will be succeeded by W.L. Pendergraft, who will join the news staff next week. Mr. Johnston said that he was not able to his plans as yet but that he would move from Sherman. Mr. and Mrs. Pendergraft have been residing in Austin and they will move here in the near future. A daughter is now a sophomore at the University of Missouri, a student in journalism. Mr. Pendergraft has been in the newspaper business for 30 years. Last spring he sold his half interest in the Goose Creek Daily Sun. Previously he had been managing editor of the Brownsville Herald for several years and later was state editor of the Houston Post.  My father, T. O. Park, and Bob Stephens Sherman Democrat   E. F. Arterbury motor route carrier  Homer Goforth motor route carrier waiting for the paper to come off the press  P. E. Miley ...was
head pressman when the Sherman Democrat was at Travis St. and Lamar St.
in the 1940s and 1950s. The press, back then, was a tube press the used
type metal tubes and ink to print the paper. The lineotype operators up
stairs would make up a flat page of type and send it down to the press
room where Les Sutherland would make an impression of it on a type of
poster board. He would then cast a type metal (lead, tin, antimony)
tube from it that would be installed on the press. There was a big vat
of molten type metal on the press room at all times. When the press was
fired up, the whole building vibrated as well as the sidewalk. The
press had big open gears on each side that looked like they could chew
you up and spit you out, and the pressmen would have to reach over them
to make adjustments while the press was running. The ink used was
carbon black and oil and had a kerosene smell that was unpleasant. When
we rolled the paper, we tied it with string and, if it was raining, we
put on a wrap of wax paper but it didn't do much good not like the
plastic bags used today. 1960s  Cy Neal waiting for the press to run Sherman Democrat on Travis St. 1960s  Homer Wooten Sherman Democrat Motor Route Carrier waiting on the press to run contributor unknown Sherman History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |