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(top) New desks are a nice thing - until it comes time to move the accumulation of years of toil. This is how the Nonpareil's newsroom looked before the transformation. Some of the desks had been around for longer than most want to admit…

Learning New Methods . . . for printing newspapers is the objective of an adult education class at Iowa Western Community College. Teacher George Peterson shows Harvey Christensen a phase in offset printing. Christensen is The Nonpareil's composing…

Checking The Results . . . of the drying lamps he installed is Gerald Goeser.

(top) There's Quite A Contrast . . . between the old-style press plate which weighs 60 pounds, held by pressman Dick Petersen, and the new plastic style which weighs only a few ounces. It is held by Judy Gurney, assistant circulation manager.…

(1) Setting Type . . . with an Intertype machine has been one of Russ Haley's duties. The machine is being replaced by computers and photographic paper.

(2) Composing An Ad . . . using new computerized equipment is Larry Hedrick.
All of the…

Checking The Quality . . . of some of the first papers off The Nonpareil's temporary offset press Monday is publisher A. R. Gross. The Nonpareil will continue to use the temporary press until the old press is torn down, and the new offset press…

Hoisting Out . . . the last plate cylinder of The Nonpareil's old press are Joe Underwood, 1705 S. 11th St., Andy Andersen, Omaha, and Gene Brazeal, 915 N. 28th St. The crew, of Masthead International, Inc. of Albuquerque, M.M., is scheduled to…

Teamwork . . . went into the production of Friday's Nonpareil as the news staff began working directly on the front-end computer system. Here Compugraphic One Systems Applications Manager Kathee Belvin guides Nonpareil Wire Editor Glen Fahrenkrug and…

Wire Editor Jim Etter . . . checks the AP Photofax machine which will bring The Nonpareil wirephotos from throughout the U.S. and from most nations in the world.

Paul J. and Patricia Wettengel with 9 of their children, standing next to a trailer/RV.