f1mw A IME MICHIGAN DAILY RSDAY. J _ THE MICHIGAN DAILY TWTW~I~AY' iTThT~ ~t casWALWti A'JLi* NTJ,&'VJCs Pd, 17 YEARS OF 'DAILY' SERVICE: Shop Superintendent Serves as Liaison Institute Operated by 'U' Prospers in Philippines Townsend To Play at League Dance 4) By JOHN SOBELOFF, Ken Chatters probably does not nd on the first floor of the Stu- at Publications Building and Ld up the rest of the institution h its bare hands. But anyone who has worked on ident publications can tell you it the good-humored and effi- nt shop superintendent is, at st figuratively, the foundation the Daily's daily operation. He's A Landmark it The Daily, he's as much a idmark as the Publications ilding-and he's been around en longer. This July, Ken, who 19, will have been holding things at The Daily for 25 years. :n his familiar rimless spec- :les, shirtsleeves and vest, Ken ends about half of his workday advertising typography. He is. e man who knows what style of > to use, how big to make it, w to space it. Except for The Daily business ff and the advertisers, probably one is conscious of the results his typographical decisions. His >ographical skill is well recog- ;ed, however. He served as lec- 'er on typography for the jour- lism department from 1952 to 54, and has been consulted on pographical and mechanical )blems for several papers. Ken largely responsible for The ily's winning the coveted In- 7d Press Association Typography rard last year. Shop Manager Besides handling the typogra- .ial W'ork, Ken is the mechani- tsupervisor, responsible' for eping The Daily's $140,000 worth equipment running efficiently. On the side, Ken is responsible building maintenance-and is hief parking lot attendant," he lains with a laugh. One of the biggest parts of Ken's rk is his job as liaison between full-time mechanical depart- nt and the student staffs of paper. Ken's intense interest reflects pride in The Daily and in his fession. "He's a real typogra- ical scholar," one Daily editor t it. Ken's pride in and con- n for The Daily appear espec- * X400 --By Harding Williams INDISPENSABLE-Ken Chatters works amid the familiar sur- roundings of The Daily shop. owns a company publishing three weeklies in California," Ken said. Edited Paper At Flint JC, Ken was the first managing editor of "The College Clamor," a newspaper puolished irregularly, but printed. "The pre- sident shuddered at the name," Ken recalls - "Sounded like a bunch of radicals." After JC, Ken got married and went to California to work for his brother. He was sent to lino- type school, where he learned the mechanics and operation of that complex machine. "I began to take a serious in- terest in, it, and later I went back to the school again. I'd study the book at home, go down to the place at night and tak3 the ma- chine apart, put it together agin'." His wife helped him by typing his lessons when he took coires- pondence school courses i- jour- nalism and printing from the Uni- versity of California. Ken learned printing, mechanics and the eperation of various ma- chines during his five y ars ap- prenticeship. "I wasn't satisfied with one thing, I had to learn the whole business," he says. In 1930, Ken went back to Flint, then soon came to Ann Arbor where re went to school days anti worked at the Ann Arbor Press, and Ken began work on The Daily there. After a year and a half, lie heard of the shop superintendent open- ing at the newly-built Student Publications Building. Prof. Edson R. Sunderland of the Law School, then chairman of the Board in Control of Student Publications, interviewed and hired him. "I was young and exuberant, Ken remembers. "The fact that all this was in the midst of the' depression didn't mean anything to me--I probably didn't realize that jobs were so scarce. Has Thought of Le'iing Ken has occasionally thought of leavir. g his Daily job, lured by thoughts of bigger opp rtunities, but he has stayed with it because, he says, he likes the job and Ann Arbor. The University of the Philip- pines and the University of Mi- chigan are operating an Institute of Public Administration. Prof. Daniel S. McHargue of the political science department has been acting as liaison officer for the Institute. Recently he issued the sixth progress report on oper- ations of the Institute in the Philippines. Outstanding Center According to Prof. McHargue's report, the Institute is continuing to enlarge its reputation as the outstanding regional center for Southeast Asia in the field of public administration training. Ten graduate scholarships to students from Asian countries are granted annually to the Institute for work in public administratione School Serves a Need Reason for the growing popular- ity of the Institute was given by Philippine President Ramon Mag-' saysay when he wroteto Prof. Mc-' Hargue, "I recognize the need for employees who are especially trained in public administration and it is my earnest hope that the Institute will soon adequately fill this need with its graduates." Among the problems existing for the Institute, according to Prof. McHargue's report, is of adequate financial support of the Phillip- pine operation. Contract To Terminate The University contract with the. University of the Philippines for support of the Institute ter- minates next year. In addition, there is still a lack of adequate testing machinery through which Institute trained students can attain civil service eligibility and enter public service. About 35,000 American tourists visited Ireland in the summer of 1954, an increase of 20 per cent over the previous year. Al Townsend and his orchestra will be featured at the League's Saturday night dances during the summer session. Composed of four members, Townsend's combo will begin its fourth season tomorrow in the League Ballroom. The dances starting at 9 p.M. will serve a double purpose for University students, since they may come plus or minus dates. The price is 50 cents per person. Read Daily Classifieds ""'- I. Ii ially when he talks about The Daily's plant-which he largely built up. "At first, when the building wasn't paid for," he recalls, "we skimped on mechanical equip- ment." The Daily's press then was! worth about $8,000 and turned out about 3,000 papers "with erratic printing qualities." In his years on The Daily, Ken has seen more than 20 senior staffs come and go. "Because of the students' prerogatives, it has taken 20 years to accomplish some things we could have done in one," Ken says. Even a New Press Today, the special pride of Ken's shop is a new $75,000 press which can turn out 25,000 12-page papers in an hour, with consistently good results. Many other machines such as the Fairchild engraver which pho- to-electrically converts an ordi- nary photograph into a plastic Try FOLLETT'S First A engraving, are the result of Ken's shop improvement program. Prudent and Lavish Ken displays a prudent concern for the amount of type set but never used, and other such daily expenses. But in the matter of equipment, Ken shows what one editor termed "a comparatively monumental lavishness." Ken was born in 1906 in Gaines, Michigan on a farm just outside of town, but he "didn't stay there long." He moved to Flint, where he graduated from Flint Central High School in 1924. Ken's in- terest in newspapers started on the delivery end and worked back. 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