DEDICATION DOOKLET

SEPTEMBER. 1961

OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
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PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS OF CATHOLIC PERIODICALS



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Souvenir of Dedication

of the

new publishing plant of

OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
INCORPORATED

September 20, 1961

Huntington, Indiana

Dedicated by His Excellency

The Most Reverend Egidio Vagnozzi, D.D.

Titular Archbishop of Myra and

Apostolic Delegate to the United States



His Holiness Pope John XXIII

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September 1, 1961

Your Excellency:

On the auspicious occasion of the dedication of

the new publishing plant and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding

of "Our Sunday Visitor, " it gives me great pleasure to inform you

that our Most Holy Father, Pope John XXIII, has graciously deigned

to impart his Apostolic Benediction upon you, the staff, publishers

and readers

.

In the past years "Our Sunday Visitor" has

proved to be a most effective instrument in providing the valuable

service of instruction to its readers. At the same time it has made

available many publications which have served for the spreading of

the doctrine of Christ and His Church. Now, even more so, with

new facilities, this worthy newspaper will be in a position to better

carry on its important work of defense and promotion of truth.

To this Blessing, prompted by the paternal

affection of the Sovereign Pontiff, I join my personal congratulations
and prayerful best wishes for continued success.

With sentiments of esteem and renewed

felicitations, I remain

Sincerely yours^in Christ,

Most Reverend Leo A. Pursley

Our Sunday Visitor

Box 390

Fort Wayne, Indiana



The Most Reverend Egidio Vagnozzi, D.D

Apostolic Delegate to the United States



The Most Reverend John Francis Noll, D.D

Founding Editor of OUR SUNDAY VISITOR

1875 - 1956



The Most Reverend Leo A. Parsley, D.D.

Bishop of Fort Wayne — South Bend

President of the Board of Trustees of OUR SUNDAY VISITOR, INC.



Office of the President

OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
INCORPORATED

PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS OF CATHOLIC PERIODICALS

Most Reverend Leo A. Parsley, D. D., President

Box 390 • Fort Wayne, Ind.

July 27, 1961

To the Friends of Our Sunday Visitor:

A late comer to the scene I can contribute little to

the present occasion beyond my recollection of events going back to

the beginning of Our Sunday Visitor. Archbishop Noll was pastor of

my home parish from 1906 to 1910. In that year he was transferred to

Huntington. I remember a meeting of the parish councilman at my

father's house to consider sending a delegation to Bishop Alerding in

the hope of persuading him to rescind the appointment. The wiser

decision prevailed, however, and two years later the first issue of

Our Sunday Visitor appeared.

The fifty years that followed form a record of steady

growth reaching a climax in the building of the new publishing plant.

As bishop of the diocese with which Our Sunday Visitor has always been

identified, it has become my privilege to be associated officially

with those who are now directing the greatly expanded operation of

this unit of the Catholic Press. Their zealous devotion to the

apostolate, of which I have been witness, deserves the highest praise.

I write this brief message on the day when I blessed

the chapel, dedicated most appropriately to the Holy Spirit, and offered

the first Mass in it, a Mass of joyful thanksgiving for the blessings

of the past and a Mass of fervent petition to the Divine Source of the

Light that must guide us at every step if we are to serve the cause of

Truth.

Devotedly in Christ,

2fe<,
G.

MOST KEV. LEO A, PURSLEY/' D.D,
,

Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend

President, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.



O.S.V.’s Board of Trustees

Our Suiuhnj Visitor, Inc., is governed

by a board of trustees of which the

Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, D.D., is

president. Other trustees are pictured

on this page.

Francis A. Fink

Managing Editor and Secretary

Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph R. Crowley

Editor and Vice President

Most Rev. Andrew G. Grutka, D.D.

Louis F. Niezer

Vice President

Timothy P. Galvin Cecilia M. Fink

Treasurer and Assistant Secretary

(Non-board Member)

Arthm-
J.

Palmer



O.S.V.’s Colorful Beginning and Growth

At the time of dedication of
its new building, OUR SUNDAY

VISITOR is well into its fiftieth

year and its trustees and em-

ployees are anticipating the observ-

anee of its golden jubilee on May

5, 1962.

These five decades, although not

without disappointments and set

hacks, have been mainly years of

growth on the strong foundations

laid by the founding-editor of

O.S.V., the late Most Rev. John

Francis Noll, D.D., Archbishop-

Bishop of Fort Wayne from June,

1925 to July, 1956.

The history of O.S.V. and of a

large segment of the Catholic Press

during the first half of the twenti-

eth century was largely the story

of Archbishop Noll’s life. As he

often recalled, his e.xperience as

author and editor almost from the

time of his ordination in 1898 to

his founding of O.S.V. was “like

an apprenticeship for the e.xperi-

ences which were to follow.”

Father Noll first “used pen and

press” in 1902 to produce a pamph-

let, Kind Words from Your Pastor,

intended to help settle a dispute

among French and non-French

parishioners at his parish in Be-

sancon, Indiana.

The pamphlet was mainly in-

structive, with only a few pages

given to the parochial dispute. It

proved successful — and proved to

Father Noll the crving need for

printed instructions for adult Cath-

olics.

^Vith minor revisions. Father

Noll sent sample copies of the

pamphlet to fellow pastors in

neighboring cities and states. Or-

ders flowed in, and soon the au-

thor-publisher was contacting all

the pastors of the nation. He wrote

many other pamphlets, but Kind

Words from Your Pastor remained

his “best seller” until it was dis-

continued in the paper-shortage

days of World War II. In all, more

than 4,000,000 copies were dis-

tributed.

In 1906 Father Noll was trans-

ferred to Hartford City, Ind., with

Montpelier as a mission, because

OUR SUNDAY VLSHOR

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First Issue of OSV

May 5, 1912

there a minister had been deliver-

ing anti-Cathohc sermons and pub-

lishing anti-Catholic articles in the

local newspaper. His role again

wars to be that of peacemaker or

“harmonizer.”

Father Noll engaged the minis-

ter in ne\^'spaper contro\ers)’ and

in public debate — and totally dis-

credited his charges against the

Church. The principal good from

the incident, however, as he fre-

quently said, was that he recog-

nized a critical need for periodical-

ly printed instructive material

for our own Catholic people, so

that, better informed, they could

properly represent their Church to

their non-Catholic friends.

Father Noll sought such instruc-

tion in a parish monthly for his

two churches. For the first few is-

sues he used the magazine Truth

as a “body” and added his o\wi cov-

ers and extra pages containing

parish notes and local stories. But

soon he was writing his owm

articles for the entire magazine

and supplving the instruction he

felt his parishioners needed.

M"ord of the Parish Monthly

soon spread and pastors in neigh-

boring areas ordered copies for

their parishes. At Father Noll’s

suggestion, they made the maga-

zine pay its own way Iw offering

ad\'ertising to local merchants on

specially printed covers and in-

serted pages added to the 32-page

saddle-back magazine.

The circulation soared, and in

1910, when Father Noll was trans-

ferred to Huntington, Ind., it had

reached 80,000 per month.

The magazine is still published,

but since 1945 under the name

T/iC Family Digest. It is used in a

36-page edition as a parish month-

ly by hundreds of pastors of small

parishes, and is circulated inde-

pendently in a new multi-colored

72-page edition. Total circulation

is approximately 220,000.

In 1911 Father Noll became



piinti'r as wa'll as author, oclitor

aiul puhlislu'v. 1 U' puivhasod a

job print slu)p in Huntington whon

it In'caino a\ ailabU' altc'r a inorgc'r

ol two (.laiK lU'wspapcMs. lininodi-

atoh' bo liogan to plan For a na-

tional Catbolio wookb': Our Suu-

(l(U/ Msitor. Its snbtitlo was “The

1 larinonizor"; its motto “to serve

the Cbnrch.”

The first issue of O.Sd^. w'as pub-

lished on May 5, 1912. It w^as writ-

ten almost entirely by its founding-

editor, and a total of 35,000 eopies

were sold at cbnreb doors througb-

ont the nation — at one cent per

In its history of almost 50 years Our

Sunday Visitor has been housed in

three locations. Above is pictured its

first building, now occupied by a

large department store.

At left is the building erected by the

then Monsignor Noll in 1924 and

dedicated in April of 1925 shortly

before he was appointed Bishop of

Fort Wayne.

Below is an aerial view of the new

OSV building taken shortly before

landscaping was begun.

copy, wdth discounts to pastors for

quantity orders (60 cents per 100

copies )

.

Less than a year later the Jesuit

weekly America was to carry this

editorial note:

“A circulation of 160,000 copies

per week has been attained by Our

Sunday Visitor, a paper issued by

the Catholie Publishing Company,

of Huntington, Ind. It is less than

a year since Father Noll, of Hunt-

ington, conceived the notion of

bringing out a weekly four-page

paper, of general appeal, to eount-

eract the widely-circulated Men-

ace, and other papers of that ilk.



Father Noll had already been con-

ducting for some time The Parish

Motithhj, with special editions for

some 200 parishes, and the issue of

this monthly was some 80,000 per

month.

“His new venture, which he

called Our Sunday Visitor, was

even more successful. Its first is-

sues ran up to forty or fifty thou-

sand copies, and the number

steadily rose, until within one )'ear

of the paper’s beginning, it reached

160,000.

“Our Sunday Visitor has, of

course, especial features which

help to account for so rapid a rise

in circulation. It eschews sectional

or local news, so as not to interfere

with the diocesan papers; it prints

much apologetic and instructive

matter, of a sort that the ordinary

Catholic wishes and needs to read.

Then, too, its price, a cent a copy

with reductions for quantities,

makes it possible for pastors to

supply it to their parishioners, and

for friends to give it to friends.

“Yet, even when one takes into

account the special circumstances

which have helped Our Sunday

Visitor to its swift prosperity, its

wide circulation is standing proof

The O.S.V. Family

. . . has grown over the years. Pic-

tured above are employees who serv-

ed Monsignor Noll at the time of the

obseivance of OSV’s tenth annivers-

ary in 1922. Several of this group are

today among active or retired em-

ployees. Center photo was taken on

the occasion of the 25th anniversary

of the founding of OSV, in May of

1937.

Bottom photo was taken shortly after administration and production were under-

taken in OSV’s new building. Employees now number approximately 330.



ot tlu' possihilitic's of (-atholic

jounialisin in tlic Ihiitod States.

A eireiilation of 160,000 copies per

week, gaineil within a vear from

its eonnneneement, hv a paper

wlheli specializes in apologetics

and religions instruction and ex-

planation — this is an encouraging

sign of tlie times.”

The editor of America proved

to be right. Bv May, 1914, the

cireidation of O.S.V. had climbed

to almost 400,000, exceeded 500,-

000 during M’orld M’ar 1, fell back

to less than 300,000 between 1930

and 1933.

Since that time O.S.V.5 circula-

tion has increased steadily, if not

spectacularly, and exceeded a mil-

lion for the first time for a regular

issue on Jan. 31, 1961.

As Archbishop Noll so frequent-

ly emphasized, O.S.V. is not and

was never intended to be a news-

paper. It is more like a weekly

magazine, a zealous publication

that wants only to teach and spread

the Faith.

From the very beginning O.S.V.’s

motto has been “to serve the

Church.” For this it was founded

in 1912 when socialism was ram-

pant. At that time. The Appeal to

Reason, published at Girard, Kan-

sas, had a circulation of over a

million weekly. It was later sup-

plemented by The Menace, another

sheet devoted almost entirely to

hatred of the Catholic Church.

This earlier socialism was the

communism of its day. All the

socialist papers advertised the

books of Karl Marx, Hegel and

Engels — all atheists and anti-

Catholics.

Moneywise. The Menace did so

well that it spawned a host of imi-

tators — Archbishop Noll counted

at least 30 — and the country was

lashed by bigotry as never before

in its history. The Menace died

finally in 1919, killed by Our Sun-

day Visitor’s exposure of the truth

concerning it and its publishers.

Father Noll at the editors

desk about 1915.

Mailing department in OSV’s

first building is shown here. At

right is Clarence Eckert, still ac-

tively employed.

First secretary to Father

Noll, Mildred Boyle.

Magazine and pamphlet depart

ment in OSV’s first building.

Young apprentices at
work. At right is Ray-

mond Saal now newspa-

per pressroom foreman.

Early Photos of

O.S.V. Co-Workers



Our Sunday Visitor

Begins a New Era

. . . with ground-breaking ceremo-

nies at which Bishop Purslev offici-

ated on May 25, 1959.

As building began to take sliape in early days.

First stage of construction was driying of 404 concrete

caissons for foundation.

Pre-construction site of OSV building.

Tie-in trench for underground utilities.



Steel girders are put in place

and concrete poured for

foundations and floors.

Early stages of the construc-

tion of heat pump.

Bishop Pursley, Mon signors
Crowley and Conroy at corner-

stone laying on September 19,

1960. Enclosed in cornerstone are

early copies of OSV, “Eather

Smith Instructs Jackson” and oth-

er books and pamphlets by Arch-

bishop Noll.

Roads around building laid as construction progresses.

Eirst aerial view of building.

Eirst units of magazine press installed. More heat pump equipment. Wood-block flooring laid.



One of three folders for Goss Unitube newspaper press.

Building readied for printing equipment.







O.S.V. Looks to the Future

OvR SUNDAY VISITOR looks
forward to its golden jubilee with

the completion of its newly con-

structed plant. The building con-

tains some 240,000 square feet of

floor space and, for the most part,

is a one-story construction. In the

production departments, only the

composing room and the delivery

level of the huge Goss Unitube

presses are on the second floor.

The building is situated on a

14-acre tract, fronting on the prin-

cipal federal and state highways as

they converge to enter Huntington

on its east side. Entering into the

building at the rear is a spur of

the Erie-Lakawanna railroad.

The building is of stone, brick,

glass, aluminum and steel construc-

tion. It is entirely air conditioned

and heated by the world’s largest

heat pump installation, designed by

the Carrier Corp.

Offices on the first floor of the

new building are occupied by per-

sonnel of the business and envelope

departments of O.S.V. On the

second floor are the editorial, ad-

vertising and art departments, a

small chapel, library and confer-

ence rooms. Largest items of new

pressroom equipment include a 12-

unit Goss Unitube newspaper press

capable of delivering both full

newspaper size and tabloid size

papers at a speed of up to 40,000

copies per hour from each of three

folders and a five-unit Goss Unimag

magazine press capable of printing

either “digest” or Time size maga-

zines at the rate of 1,500 feet per

minute or 31,300 copies per hour

of a 144-page “digest” size maga-

zine or a 64-page Time size. Four

colors are available on some pages

and two colors on all pages.

The O.S.V. plant is also equipped

with new Miehle and Miller offset

and letterpress presses designed to

produce either black and white

printing or full color. New bindery

and mailroom equipment was man-

ufactured by the Dexter, Lawson

and McCain companies, divisions

of the Miehle-Goss-Dexter Corp.

Our Stindoy Visitor publishing

company is the largest printing fa-

cility for religious publications in

the world. O.S.V. management

plans to print and mail other

periodicals in addition to its own,

which include O.S.V., The Family

Digest, The Priest and My Daily

Visitor. The Catholic Digest is

now being printed, bound and

mailed from the O.S.V. plant.

O.S.V.’s first outside diocesan

paper was published for the Dio-

cese of Rockford, then under the

direction of Bishop Edward F.

Hoban, now Archbishop-Bishop of

Cleveland. Others followed — and

most remained — until today spe-

cial newspaper-magazine periodi-

cals are published for the Arch-

dioceses of New Orleans and Win-

nipeg and these dioceses: Austin,

Charleston, Covington, Fort

Wayne, Gary, Jefferson City, La-

fayette (Ind. ), Marquette, Ogdens-

burg, Raleigh, St. Cloud, Spring-

field (111.).

In addition the national edition

of O.S.V. is sold by club subscrip-

tion with the locally printed news-

paper in the Diocese of Dallas-

Fort Worth. Still another edition

is printed weekly and distributed

exclusively among some 13,000

Protestant ministers and Jewish

rabbis. It is called the Operation

Understanding edition of O.S.V.

and is edited by Dale Francis, who

served as a minister before his con-

version to the Church.

In addition to its work in the

periodical field O.S.V. is among

the leading publishers of Catholic

pamphlets, in which field it also

plans expansion.

The Church Collection Envelope

Department of O.S.V. is its largest

in point of personnel. Among new

presses and machines installed are

the most modern rotary envelope-

making machines, new and speed-

ier printing presses, inserting and

collating machines. With the

growth in Catholic population and

a swiftly growing list of customers,

it is anticipated that this depart-

ment will triple its output with-

in the next decade from some 300,-

000,000 to almost a billion enve-

lopes per year.

At the present time O.S.V. em-

ploys 330 persons at its Hunting-

ton plant. Its advertising repre-

sentative, the C. D. Bertolet Corp.,

maintains offices in Chicago and

New York and, of course, local of-

fices are maintained by all of its

diocesan editions.

Editorially, O.S.V. is assisted

regularly by many clergy and lay

assistant editors and contributors

who are not resident in Hunting-

ton, but who are “on the staff.”

Father Richard Cinder is associate

editor of O.S.V., The Family Di-

gest and My Daily Visitor and co-

editor with Father G.
J.

Gustafson

of The Priest.

Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. was or-

ganized as an independent national

not-for-profit corporation in 1917.

It remains such today, and what-

ever earnings are derived from its

operations are used for religious,

educational or charitable purposes.



\’iew of tlie lobby of the OS\' building, show ing in the

baekground the bronze bust of the late Archbishop

Noll, sculptured by Ivan Mestrovic, University of Notre

Dame.



Bensing Webster

Personnel Director

IBM equipment adjacent to the office area handles multiple
related to payroll, billing and inventory.

operations

'

James Pauloski

Assistant Business Manager



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The Chapel opens into OSV’s li-

brary, where employees assemble

for Mass on First Fridays and other

special occasions.

OSV conference room, where the

Hoard of Trustees assembles for

its meetings and where staff meet-

ings are held periodicalK

.

On the second floor of office

building is the Chapel of the Holy

Spirit, which was dedicated by

Bishop Pursley on July 27, 1961.



OSV editorial department, in
whieli eopy is prepared for its

tliree national and 14 dioeesan

editions.

At left, Patrieia Petre, John F. Fink, and Paul A. Manoski

eheck a TWX teletypewriter message from the Catholic
Digest in OSV’s magazine department. At right, Mrs.

Florenee Luley, Martin Greven, and Benjamin Lingis eonfer

in the advertising department.

desk.

The Very Rev. Msgr. James P. Conroy at his desk in one of

the exeeutive offiees in the new OSV building.



A view of OSV’s composing room where type is set and forms made

up for its newspapers and magazines. Inset right is Zeno Broderick,

Master Foreman, who has been with OSV for 49 years.



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Mastheads of its products border the Goss

Unitube newspaper press which produces

more than one million copies of OSV each

week. At right below is the reel room, or

loading deck, of the press. Inset left is Ray-

mond Saal, newspaper pressroom foreman.



!

Cornelius
J.

Kluepfel

Circulation and Fulfillment

Promotional Director

A section of

paper mailing

more than one

are dispatched

OSV’s news-

room where

million copies

weekly.

Mrs. Darlene Welty and members of her staff in OSV’s

circulation department, where more than 600,000 stencils

are maintained for direct mailing operations.

Charles Larr

Maih'oom Foreman



Above is the Goss Unimag press on which The Family Digest and

Catholic Digest are printed. At right center is the bindery where

magazines are gathered, stitched and trimmed. At right below is the

new high-speed mailing machine for magazines. Inset is John Riley,

production manager.



Vii'gil Casper

Foreman, Book and

Magazine Department

Above, William Winter operates new Miller letterpress in OSV’s book and

magazine department. Below, Riehard McCuteheon at new Miehle offset press.



Above are several of OSV’s envelope making

machines which produce some 300,000,000

envelopes annually. At left is Clarence Dougherty,

envelope jDiinting department foreman who in

November completes 50 years of service with

OSV. At right, James Kastner, envelope-making

de^iartment foreman. Below, Henry Kindler and

close-up of envelope printing press.



Newsprint and magazine paper are unloaded

from freight cars inside OSV’s building. Clamp-

lift trucks handle the rolls which weigh up to

2,000 pounds.

\hew of OSV’s storage department, which

appro.ximates the length and width of two

football fields.

Copies of OS\’, mailed in more than 6,.500 sacks each week,

conveyed directly to the trucks.

\’acuum-sweep equipment draws paper

trim and waste into huge baler, at left.



0S\^5 cafeteria which employees use for

luncheons and coffee breaks.

One of three 50U-horsepower-dnven

compressors which provide heat, air-

conditioning and humidity control for

the building. At right, John Padgett,

plant engineer, checks one of many

control charts.

A statue of the Blessed Virgin over

a reflecting pool is the centerpiece

of an attractive patio which divides

the office and factory sections of

OSV’s new building, affording light

and sound protection for the office.



Information About

OUR SUNDAY VISITOR
INCORPORATED

The Largest Catholic Publishing Company in the United States

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Background . . .O

• Our Sunday Visitor now occupies its third

home. When the late Archbishop Noll

started the publication in 1912, the office

and plant were housed in Roche Hall at Jef-

ferson and East Park Drive, present loca-

tion of the Wolf and Dessauer department

store.

Our Sunday Visitor’s second home was a

custom built printing establishment. It was

erected on a site back of its first location

and opposite the City Library on East Park

Drive. It was dedicated in April, 1925.

In 1958, the Noll Plaza area was purchased

from the Erie Railroad. It is bound on the

east by a residential section; on the south

by the Locke Steel Chain Company; on

the west by the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad

right of way; on the north by U.S. Highway

24.

The plaza acres were at one time a part of

a shanty village for the Erie Railroad main-

tenance of the way crews, and in more re-

cent years were the site of the Erie Ball

Park. The baseball diamond was used by

the Erie Railroad Marion Division’s base-

ball league and in season accommodated

the football programs of the city schools,

college, and semi-pro organizations.

The toe-path and bed of the Wabash-Erie

Canal, early waterway between Fort W'avme

and Logansport, once bordered what is now

the north boundarv of Noll Plaza.

\'oil Plaza . . .

• Cround broken for new plant: May 15,

1959.

• Cornerstone laying and blessing: Septem-

ber 19, 1960.

• Newspaper production started: Februarv

24, 1961.

• Chapel of the Holy Spirit blessed: July 27,

1961.

Celebrant, the Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley,

D.D.

• New plant dedicated: September 20, 1961.

Celebrant, Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,

Apostolic Delegate to the United States.

Construction . . .

• x\rchitect: Mo.\ Pohlmyer and Associates,

Fort Wayne, Indiana

• General Contractor: Wermuth, Inc., Fort

V’avne, Indiana.

• Mechanical Contractor: Baker, McHenry

and Welch, Indianapolis, Indiana.

• Electrical Contractor: The Sanborn Elec-

tric Company, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Symbols . . .

• The symbols above the main entrance re-

present Truth, Christ, and the Printed Word

and translate into this thought: The truths

of Christ through the printed word. De-

signed by Martin E. Greven, Our Sunday

Visitor, Huntington, Indiana.

Sculpture . . .

• Bust of Archbishop Noll: I\an Mestro\ic,

Uni\'ersit\' of Notre Dame, Notre Dame.

Indiana.

• St. Francis de Sales: Robert C. Koepnick,

Dayton, Ohio.

• Our Ixady, in patio shrine: Robert C. Koep-

nick, Dayton, Ohio.



Major Presses . . ,

• NoMspapi'r: Goss Ihiitiibc Model 800. This

press lias 12 units, 6 eolor deeks, 3 folders,

nepending on the munber of pages, three

papers ean be printed simnltaneonsly. With

all units eom-erted into one, the press can

produce a 64-page tabloid size newspaper

pins a 16-page full size newspaper. Spot

eolor and multi-color can be arranged on a

gi\ en nninbcr of pages depending on the

size of the publication. The maximum speed

is 40,000 copies per hour per folder. News-

print feeds into the machine from a reel

room located directly under the press.

Newsprint rolls weigh approximately 1,000

pounds and contain nearly 9 miles of paper.

• Magazine: Goss Unimag Model 8020. This

press is 90 feet long, 28 feet wide, 20 feet

high, and weighs 276 tons. It has five units

with two folders. It can print two different

sized magazines: a product 7%” x 5%” with

a maximum of 144 pages; a product IDS’ x

8/1” with a total of 64 pages. The maximum

speed is 31,300 copies per hour. This is

equivalent to 1,500 feet of web (paper)

travel per minute.

• Bindery: Dexter, Lawson and McCain

equipment. Two inserter-stitchers collate,

staple, and trim the products from the

Unimag press and other O.S.V. productions

from a Miehle offset press, and a Miller

letterpress. Each unit has 9 folio feeding

pockets and can deliver 9,000 finished pro-

ducts per hour.

• Envelope Printing: Our Sunday Visitor

supplies 4,500 Catholic parishes with collec-

tion envelopes. 300,000,000 envelopes are

printed yearly. This operation is handled

through two die cutting machines, 7 enve-

lope making machines, and 10 automatic

dating and printing presses. Eive sizes are

manufactured and packaged. At maximum

speed and top capacity, the equipment has

a potential of more than 1,000,000 envelopes

per day.

Composing Room . . .

• Our Sunday Visitors composing room is

equipped with 8 Linotype, 3 Intertype, 3

Ludlow, and 1 Nebitype typesetting ma-

chines. Major auxiliary pieces include 1

Friden Typro photographing machine and

1 Vandercook Pre-Press reproduction ma-

chine.

Personnel . . .

® Our Sunday Visitors personnel roster in-

cluded priests and laymen. It fluctuates be-

tween 310 and 330 employees through the

year. Broken into general groups the num-

bers are as follows: Editorial and Advertis-

ing 19; Promotion and Circulation 19; Print-

ers 36; Pressmen 36; Mailers 33; Envelope

Department employees 63; Bindery 27;

Office 41; Maintenance 33; Miscellaneous

27.

• Unions: Organized workers in Our Sunday

Visitors plant belong to three unions: Inter-

national Typographical Union, No. 454;

International Printing Pressmen and As-

sistants Union of North America, Local 411;

International Brotherhood of Teamsters,

Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of

America, Local 414. Products of O.S.V. carry

the Allied Label.

Facts and Figures . . .

• 600,000 copies of O.S.V. are distributed

through 11,000 parishes in the United

States and Canada every week.

• 400,000 are mailed to homes in the United

States and Canada.

• Approximately 350 books and pamphlet

titles are in stock through the year.

• More than 1,200,000 books and pamphlet

units are sold per year.

® 15,000 copies of The Priest (professional

magazine for the clergy) are distributed

monthly.

® 50,000 copies of The Family Digest, plus a

supplementary 170,000 press run, are print-

ed monthly.

• 20,000 copies of My Daily Visitor (booklet

of daily meditations and prayers for the

Sunday Masses) are sold through indivi-

dual subscription and bulk to parishes each

month.





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