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Letter to the Editor


After some 19 years getting the Daily Press I had never liked the way the news pages were folded, that is with rear folded back above front because it didn’t make a neat pile with the rest of the paper, all folded square at 11 in.. But why, I wondered, and besides it cut off the last couple of lines in the occasional story that was apparently intended to appear entirely above middle half.

So I’d refold it to 11 x 11. But then a few weeks ago its fold was suddenly reversed , with fold below middle, apparently to expose the entire top story. Well great, I supposed, possibly also because it looks better. So I don’t even need to write that Opinion Letter! And it’s even easier to refold than the original.

But now a bottom heading gets cut off. So I wondered why not fold exactly in half, what an obvious solution; guess a new Letter is needed... "Yet maybe they didn’t do it that way,” I mused, "because their present folding machinery won't let ‘em."

(The same reason, I guessed, that some headings are still attached at the bottom of a blurb, with gap below, making the title look misplaced Still, others on another page are headed correctly. Guys didn’t you make that software repair to every page? So I resolved a letter to that effect--but put off outa sheer inertia….)

Thus I never got to compose either Letter; shameful laziness. Ah but finally you’ve apparently invested in some new folding gear, first evident today Sunday Oct. 9, folded exactly in half, wow! “Thanks!” I reacted. "But tomorrow?"

Alas, it was a random fold so today again Monday I have to refold in the middle. Compulsive? Sure, but it’s kinda fun.


Dale Hileman
Apple Valley