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The editor, publisher, reporter and general roust-abobt of the Petersburg .Press iwas! (singular verb as he's'.all- one man) running bis old job press in the back shop on a recent Sunday evening when into the perimeter of light stepped lone-time resident Bill Gribble.Bill, we knew slightly, hadworked on the Press 20 or so years ago and on the old “Alaskan”—the paper run in Petersburg back around the late 1920s by Louis Paul.“Hasn’t changed a bit. The only ‘time you can get any work done is when everyone is home in “bed,” Bill greeted uS knowingly-Bill almost started his Petersr burg newspaper career with the Press in 1913 when old manRevaVd bought the equipmentand shipped it here for the fore-runner of the Press.Revard was a lawyer between odd jobs and drew up a long contract.‘“From what I could make of it,” Bill related, “I would do all the work while Revard did the■*' \ 1 ■ *N.V* -v _• *v.the .ceiling and 931 that ; stuck wouid^be mine.”«.!• V.2\'*•lishers nefehad Much to^throw at,the ceiling'ior any place'else, (■Hasn’t changfedl —etQ • sBilf even worked on a1 newspaper once that cohldn’t affordnewsprint but sold for a dollar a copy when it came out on wall paper.It .was in Juneau about 1908-09. Bill*got a job hancbpegging type for Jack Russell and George Rig-giifB^on the Sunday Sun.'he Sun was printed on a i job press—lt;2 pages up— but each page was only the size of a sheet of letterhead.and writestory leavinguam.c, /'-but ’lekying/ no doubt I big rolls, of wallpaper. So I told’who ' hlt; rrieant. WJyes JRussell .who grabbed the ferry I'llwould get hold of the copies of I and‘returned to Juneau With .an I ti* the. Sun dnd-4? ’ •; j; arm'iload.”. ri,?Well, Bill’4id, the business'-1 .‘•There, was no way to cut it fc meh1 in Juneau decided' they’d 150 Gribble and his./bosses hung j Yj rup the Sunday Sun out! The ,the rolls on a pipe then unrolledpublishers were- vulnerable as cut off newspaper they were alw(ays short just a | sheets.wasn’t*flowery we printed on bothsizelittle money to as Viewspapersnewsprint— chronically were,supplier clamped downik—and the paper sides,” Bill reminised. J ^ - ■ + +V% A 4- % r*rtl v A « C‘But that issue quickly sold atRussell $olvejd the problem by $1 a copy. Visitors wanted one scrounging some butcher paper 1to take back to the states.”for one issue.The kids selling did good butpaperinsteadcopy but thtkids peddling PaPer as about then Bill startedtelling us about working on the
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Petersburg Press
Petersburg, Alaska, US
Fri, Jan 17, 1958
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Robert W.
USA 21 Apr 2019
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