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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 22

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Lubbock, Texas
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-VOUTII EVANGKUSM Doyle Holmes, left, area superintendent of the Lubbock Baptist Association discusses results of the: two-day Evangelism Conference with Pam Rogers ot Plainview, Dellen Kite of Alpine and Keith of Midland. Holmes reported more than 5,500 crowded the Park Coliseum Thursday night-and between 4 CM and 4,500 returned Friday for the conclusion of the conference, drawing young people from the Panhandle-South Plains area with groups coming from as far as Orange and Fort Worth. The meeting was one of five such conferences held throughout- Texas and sponsored by the Texas Baptist General Convention. (Staff Photo) 35,309 Tour Avalanche- journal Since September By TAXNKB LAINB Avalanche-Journal- Staff llc The Avalanche Journal has for delivery. or the mail or route room, A'hcre the newspapers are baled ti-elcomed 5,309 visitors since t' A 7 SHIL-U lne ODS ot reporters and last beptemher and more are editors, and naturally newspaper expected before the count date route personnel, are best known Sept.

rolls around. to visitors because these contact I These visitors in all shapes 'he genera! public most. 2nd SiyPS. With ertvne nt ill and sizes, both sexes, and ot all ages, have taken 193 tours of the rs as een ow newspaper plant this count year, you in color?" accordhi" "The figures, kept by official -lour guicies, do not include personal tours made by various Staff members, showing family and friends "how it comes $ut!" Visitation is the increase, according to Charlie' Couk, veteran lour guide. His figures $how that for the period of Sept 1, 1970 to Sept.

1, 1371, a total of persons took guided tours. And from Sept. 1, 19G9 to Sept 1, 1970, the total was 9nly 2,774. Ruses Seen Krequcnlly The visitors include civic and service clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Bluebirds, Brownies, and of course many school groups from the city and area. Arranged By I'Jione i Guided tours are arranged'by telephone.

Most of them'' are Scheduled around 10 a. or 2. p. press times, so, that the visitors get to see the big presses rolling, from an observation room point Tour numbers have grown to the point that two men, arc Designated to-be official guides Couk and H. C.

Fcemster, ppth of the newspaper's circulation department. A tour guide meets the group in the lobby on the ground floor the newspaper plant. There is a briefing session and then the group moves through the entire plant, department by department. Explain Operation look inside the teletype room is part of the editorial loom visit. Working conditions are not faked and the visitors Saturday Hindu; 1972-littBOCK AVAUNCttJMttMAU4.3 DISPUTES FINALLY SETTLED Chess Championship Set Tuesday KKYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) all day Thursday loft in doubt until an hour before Uiey drew lots thai Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer would play for the world chess championship, informed sources Friday.

Telephone calls from the camp of the Russian champion and the American challenger confirming that play would start Tuesday reached Die organizers at about 7 p.m., or 50 minutes before Spassky reached the playing hall for the draw. He won the him the important first move. The sources said that during the disputes, Lothar Schmid of West Germany, the chief referee, twice threatened to quit. Harry Golombek, acting in the absence of Dr. Max Kuwe president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) overruled Sclmiid and said, "We will go on." Having dropped their demand that Fischer forfeit the first game because of his )ale arrival for the scheduled start last Sunday, the Russians asked Thursday morning that Spassky be allowed to rest until Tuesday.

They said he u-s "tired and upset" by all the controversy and delay. Lawyer Paul Marshal and the other men representing Fischer first, rejected the request. Pick-up or for Cool Ckcmicalf, Acceitorwj, Filters, All Typei of Repair TARDY'S POOL CO. 34th The jobs of reporters and lave received their version of a newspaper in a miniature publication of their own, compete with drawings (pictures), news and ads," he added. The predominant question in recent years has been "how do to the guides.

The -publishing of a newspaper, step by step, is explained to the. visitors as they move along in the plant. Sometimes, youngsters are given souvenirs such as engravings, old photos, wire photos, etc. Most get so'uvenir's scratch' pads on which to write up their trip. Greatest thrill ho th youngsters and adults alike is to sec next Sunday's comics already printed while touring the week before, the guides say.

Questions are invited. And guides say they get some odd ones, like "how many miles in that big roll of paper (newsprint)?" (The answer must be ready: "six and onc- haJf Requests Increase Tours require 45 minutes to one hour, depending on the size of the group and number of questions. Tour requests have increased yearly since the Avalanche- Journal moved into a new building in 195D. Previously, tours were small and informal. One of the first guides was Dudley Repp, a former employe.

Couk said he got into the touring guide job by filling in one day for business manager J. C. Rickman, who had to leave-'a tour stranded to take an important telephone call. Couk devised the route plant and interviewed various department -heads get the answers to some of the questions the visitors might all the thousands of visitors touring the newspaper plant, not one has been injured. One came see the employes at their close.

A small boy was so respective jobs in normal opera- engrossed in a souvenir mat he tions. So many visitors, have looking at, that he "walked coursed by, many employes through" a large glass door ftever look up from their desks when leaving the building. He or machines when a tour comes was not even scratched but was by. The tour guides explain what plenty scared, each employe-is doing. Compliment Visitors nf ininrnef n- "In a wnv thnt wnc a Points of special interest, ac- toniing to the guides, are' first: lorklifting to 1.800 pound rolls of paper onto a flat car of the "smallest railroad track in the world," to.be p'ush- into the press room.

Next is the huge press in action. However, many visitors are fascinated by the Photofax machine on which pictures are jfeceived from wire services, while others want most to see 4 mat rolled under tremendous pressure in the composing room 'In a way that was a compliment to the sjt'b dial workers," they maintained, "that glass was so clean, the little boy thought that door was open!" Tour guides have a compliment for many of (he young visitors. "Usually they write us a 'thank you' letter or note," Couk said. "Once or twice, we Air Moves Texas (ny Unllnl Cold air wWch dropped temperatures to record lows in as was rapidly replaced by in most sections 9f the state Friday, though scat-! tered rain showers were expect-' to dampen Texans this week-' end along the Coast and in thel Panhandle. Uibbocfc's high was 85, five! degrees above Thursday's maxi-J mum.

The temperature rose toi 35 in Abilene. S6 in Amnrillo and! 51 in Midland. Hobbs received .69 of an inch! rain late Thursday and early' Friday, while Amnrillo got .11 and Pampa .12. Some thunder-; activity was reported inj the northwest corner of the Pan-' Handle late Friday, moving southeasterly. Temperatures are expected to approach 90 degrees in the South Plains today and Sunday, and the National Weather Scrv- held out only a 20 per cent chance of precipitation today or tonight.

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1927-1977