Gallery: The Herald-Dispatch in the 1960s

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The first copy of the American Weekly is stuffed into the Herald-Advertiser by Levnal Bowen of the The Huntington Publishing Co. Circulation Department in this undated photo.

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A group of visitors take a tour of The Herald-Dispatch's pressroom in this file photo.

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An employee adjusts a camera in the prepress department at The Herald-Dispatch. The camera was used to shoot gridsheets to create the film.

Photo courtesy of Rush and Geneva Lafon, Wilmington, N.C.

Inner-Dept Basketball Champs 1960-61. Front row, from left, Larry Burchett, Bill Bowen, Gary Hesson. Back row, from left, Paul Hardesty, Pat Crouch, Rush LaFon, Carl Webb, Clyde Holley.

Courtesy of Rush and Geneva Lafon

Rush Lafon rolling mail in 1960 or '61.

Submitted by Angie Nibert

This photo was taken Christmas morning 1966. This is my Dad reading the The Herald Advertiser's Sunday Comics, and the I am the little girl in the red dress. Throughout the years, I remember my Dad reading the comics every Sunday morning.

Courtesy of the Bess family

Circulation manager Bill Bess cutting possibly a retirement cake in his office in 1967.

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A delivery boy for the Huntington Publishing Company is shown in this 1960 photo.

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Hand setting lead type in 1960.

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Hand setting lead type in 1960.

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Old linotype machines are shown in this 1960 photo.

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W.T. Bess places the open house sign outstide the Huntington Publishing Company building in 1960.

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A boy and woman stand infront of the Huntington Publishing Company building during an open house in 1960.

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Visitors tour the Huntington Publishing Company during the 1960 open house.

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Employees are pictured in the new mezzanine during The Herald-Dispatch's open house in this June 9, 1960, file photo.

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A maintenance crew is pictured in this 1960 file photo.

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Herald-Dispatch photographers, 1960

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The Herald-Dispatch, 1960

Courtesy of Roberta Fay Lovejoy

This photo shows the 1963 retirement of Bob Clement from the pressroom, including David Lovejoy, Freddie Porter and Howard and Lyle Hoschar.

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Craven A. Baumgardner, mechanical superintendent, and William M. Scaggs, mail room foreman, retired in 1964 after 59 years of service each. The began work with the company in 1905. R.J. Baumgardner was announced new production chief, and William Clark, maintanance foreman.

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Prepress is making plates to print the newspaper in this 1967 photo.

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Plates are placed on the press to print the newspaper in this 1967 photo.

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The switchboard at The Herald-Dispatch is pictured in this Aug. 18, 1967, file photo.

Courtesy of Mike Hoback

Copy editor Mike Hoback with reporter Harry Flesher in 1960.

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Reporter Jack Hardin, right, speaks with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the early 1960s.

Courtesy of Mike Hoback

The Herald-Dispatch newsroom, May 25, 1960. From left, Assistant City Editor Richard Smith, reporter Bill Wild, reporter David Scheen, Editorial Page Editor Boyd Jarrell, copy editor George Jewell, reporter Harry Flesher (in back), Managing Editor Billl Gibson, City Editor Eddie Oliver, reporter Bill Turley, copy editor Bob Crotty, copy editor Mike Hoback, copy editor Charles Krell, reporter Tim Smith, sports writer John Stewart, Assistant Sports Editor George Rorrer, sports writer Sam Stanley and Sports Editor Fred Burns. Missing from the photo are Religion Editor Doris Miller and Woman's Editor Jackie Swann.

Courtesy of James E. Casto

A candid portrait, circa 1960s, of Herald-Dispatch Editor-in-Chief Raymond Brewster.

Courtesy of James E. Casto

Reporter James Casto's press card from the 1960s.

Courtesy of Robin Hager

Dayshift switchboard operator Gloria J. Baumgardner Perkins, taken in the 1960s. She's working an old plugin switchboard. Perkins worked for The Herald-Dispatch from around 1964 through Dec. 31, 1991, when she retired.