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Todd Reed

Capturing life on film

By Steve Begnoche Special to the Daily News

It was a great honor to work with the Ludington Daily News and be part of its editorial mission. I hope people realize the importance of the Ludington Daily News and all media, big and small, to help keep our country true to its instincts and true to its founding values.’

T

odd Reed found a home at the Ludington Daily News practicing journalism through reporting, writing and photography.

It wasn’t exactly his plan.

The plan he had mapped out would have sent him to Aspen, Colorado to work for the Aspen Times and ski.

But a phone call from D a i l y N e w s Managing Editor Paul S. Peterson the day before Reed’s college graduation in June 1971 kept him in his hometown. Reed had interned at the Daily News the summer before his last year of college.

Reporter Bob Sculley had suffered a heart attack. Peterson asked if Reed could start work the next day, which was a Saturday.

Reed said, “No,” because that was graduation day, but he could start on Monday.

“Twenty-three years later, except for time in the Coast Guard Reserve, I was still there,” Reed said.

Aspen lost its chance to get the dedicated journalist and photographer, who today co-owns Todd and Brad Reed Photography Studio in downtown Ludington, just across the parking lot from the Daily News office.

The studio is the former Ludington Photo store-

Todd Reed

Todd Reed captured this image when Scotty’s Wrens Roost burned in 1977 while he was a staff writer/photographer for the Ludington Daily News. front, which was where, as a practical joke, Reed and Lloyd Wallace would send new staff members to purchase half-tone photo dots.

But photo dots — what the newspaper printing page camera translated images into so the press could print photos — could not be purchased.

Humor and harmless practical jokes were part of the culture at the newspaper. But the job was far from all fun and games.

“When I look back on it, what really strikes me about it as a young journalist was how much the entire country believed in the Fourth Estate,” Reed said.

There was great respect for journalists such as Walter Cronkite, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post

through those Watergateera years, Reed said.

Reed’s son and photo partner, Brad, is named after the iconic newspaper executive.

The staff of the Ludington Daily News took seriously its job covering the community, Reed said.

“We were all in,” he said.

“Paul Peterson was a dedicated journalist who was totally devoted to the seriousness of the role we played in our community.”

The same was true for Russ Miller as it pertained to local photography and to Lloyd Wallace when it came to local sports.

He compared the local journalist’s role in a community to that of local firefighters, police and paramedics.

“We worked hard. We were and are one of the finest community newspapers in the country,” Reed

said, praising the work of today’s staff, too.

“And we all had our personality differences. Those differences were often what made us better in the whole. Different people brought different things to the table,” he said.

Reed, like all Daily News reporters and photographers, often responded to the scene of an accident or a fire.

Not only did he take photos for the newspaper, he and other staffers would often take evidence photos for the police or fire departments.

But in those earlier days of his career, Reed frequently would go even further, lending a hand to the responders in doing their jobs by passing equipment, moving transport cots and, at least 10 times by his recollection, driving the ambulance to the hospital while the paramedics worked on the patient in the back.

“Times were different then,” he said.

The production process at the newspaper was

also different when Reed first started at the Daily News. Typed stories were sent down a chute to the composition department, where, in 1971, Gardiner Miller, Fred Schumacher and Peg Winey worked.

The stories were set in hot lead on linotype machines and placed in chases that made up a page.

He remembers the sound of the shop: “It was sort of like a tinny, clankety-clack sound in the shop in those days due to the linotypes running. The one thing you would never do as an editorial staff member was to touch the type. The mallet might come down,” he said.

Mallets were used to tamp in lead spacers and letters so the words and lines in the chase were properly aligned and held in place.

A page proof could be made by hand. Then, Reed remembered, Mary Ann Listing and Ken Case would proof each page before printing. “That was serious,” he said.

They were not to be dis-

Todd Reed, mid 1980s turbed.

Newspaper stories and editorial stances sometimes ruffled feathers, but, Reed said, “by and large our community realizes we have an outstanding newspaper.”

“By and large the Ludington Daily News continues to succeed because it continues to serve the community well,” he said.

“In addition to covering hard news and tragedies, it also does a far better job of celebrating the good news of the community than the big city papers, and that’s why it still survives.

“We were a family — a brotherhood, a sisterhood — of professionals who teamed well together to produce an outstanding and important product.

“It was a great honor to work with the Ludington Daily News and be part of its editorial mission,” Reed said. “I hope people realize the importance of the Ludington Daily News and all media, big and small, to help keep our country true to its instincts and true to its founding values.

Jerry Funk

From press operator to firefighter

By Steve Begnoche Special to the Daily News

J

erry Funk worked 28 years in the Ludington Daily News pressroom.

More people might recognize him from his other, longer, 48-year ongoing career with the Ludington Fire Department, where he has been chief for the past 23 years.

Funk was press operator.

The Wisconsin native and still Green Bay Packer fan who moved to Ludington in 1960 began his Daily News career in September 1980.

He retired from the position at age 62.

His brother, Jim Funk, now deceased, also worked at the Daily News doing page layout, beginning when linotype was still in use before the offset era began.

The Daily News had moved to offset printing by the time Jerry began, though other pre-press changes were notable.

Jerry Funk, above, is now the Ludington Fire Chief after spending 28 years working in the Ludington Daily News pressroom.

“The big change was when we got rid of the page camera and went direct to plate,” Funk recalled.

Direct-to-plate technology

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Prior to that, items for pages were sent through a Compugraphic image setter, and

cut and placed by hand on pages using hot wax to affix them. When completed, the page was taken to the page camera — it easily was 6 feet long, had a large bellows and lens and sat at the south end of the press room — to be photographed to make the plate.

A change he didn’t like so much was the switch to a Saturday morning edition.

That meant press operators worked Friday morning and then came back Friday night to print the Saturday paper and the White Lake Beacon, often keeping them in the pressroom until 3 a.m. or later.

“We had good people to work with — except for the editors,” Funk said, participating in a lengthy tradition of good-natured kidding between the pressroom and the newsroom with this former editor.

“You’re always on deadline,” Funk said, adding that

the Daily News pressroom also prints the weekly newspapers, Oceana’s HeraldJournal and the White Lake Beacon, special sections and tabs, and at times other commercial projects.

The Daily News was good about his role on the fire department and allowed him to leave for fire calls as long as someone could cover, which he said almost always was the case. He recalled when someone once questioned that practice, former publisher David Jackson replied he thought Jerry’s work on the fire department was a nice thing to do.

No more was said.

Funk recalled that when people would complain to him about a story, he’d respond, “It’s not me, I just print it.”

Today, Funk said he reads the Ludington Daily News “every day. I enjoy it now more than ever.”

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C&O abandons local rail, carferry operations

By Paul S. Peterson special to the daily news

P

art of the decline of industry in Ludington was the economic catastrophe that befell the county when the railroadcarferry operation was abandoned by the Chessie System. On. Oct. 15, 1970, the C&O announced it had filed a petition with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to abandon its Kewaunee route.

Fighting the C&O was maritime and railroad unions, shippers, businesses in Ludington and Mason County, local and

Fighting the C&O was maritime and railroad unions, shippers, businesses in Ludington and Mason County, local and state government officials and the public. state government officials and the public. The railroad, with its crosslake carferry service, employed about 750 workers, most of them in high-paying jobs. The railroad and cross-lake ships were the backbone of Ludington’s economy for nearly a century.

Adding to the troubles was a nationwide coal

strike, which caused the carferries’ stockpile of fuel to run out on Nov. 4, 1971.

The boats sat idle for more than a month, costing the C&O $88 million in lost revenue.

In 1972, the C&O, in a memo to its president and CEO Hays Watkins, stated the average number of cars per month to use the cross-lake service de-

creased from 1,800 in the early part of 1971 to 750 in March and April 1972.

Shortly after that memo, the C&O outlined the properties in Ludington that could be retired if abandonment was complete, including carferries Nos. 21 and 22, City of Saginaw, City of Midland, Spartan and Badger; the marine depot, radio tower, ramp, marine shop, marine store; and property and tracks used for the carferries.

Watkins told the Daily News in 1973 that “the trainferry operation has not generated a profit in the general meaning of

that term for many years.”

The C&O filed for total abandonment of the carferry service through the ICC on March 19, 1975.

Protests were held. The state tried to assist by proposing to the C&O options for maintaining cross-lake ferry service.

More than once in 1976 and 1977 a carferry made what was thought to be the final trip to Milwaukee.

On Jan. 6, 1978, eight years after C&O filed to abandon the Kewaunee route, the ICC began hearings in the ballroom of the Stearns Motor Inn. More than 40 witnesses testi-

fied.

Hearings were also held in Washington. Protests continued.

A shocking development came on June 7, 1978, when an agreement was reached to allow the C&O to immediately abandon the Milwaukee service, end service to Manitowoc within two years and cease the Kewaunee service within five years if the boats didn’t “substantially” exceed 159,301 passengers, 51,470 autos and 26,980 freight cars — numbers based on the amount of traffic on the vessels in 1976.

Marion Riedl

Appreciated camaraderie of the newsroom

By STEVE BEGNOCHE Special to the Daily News

M

arion Riedl was hired by the Ludington Daily News in January 1972 to be the Women’s Page editor.

Working on an old, black Royal typewriter, using sheets of paper cut from the end rolls of newsprint, she was in charge of all the social news.

The many clubs active in the community called in meeting reports, which she typed up.

Parent Teacher Associations, Rebekahs, Odd Fellows, Eastern Star, Masons and many more had members whose job it was to report on meetings to the paper. Many, if not most, would call in on the phone, though over the years handwritten accounts also were submitted.

“You reported who poured the coffee, who poured the tea, who made the bouquet for the centerpiece,” Riedl said.

It was important to those club members that such

Marion Riedl started her work at the Ludington Daily News in Fellow staffer Cheryl Higginson and Marion Riedl display some 1972. of their awards. help was recorded. One woman still tells Riedl she misses those kinds of reports and that the reporting today has changed.

There were many correspondents around the county then who sent in their stories, such as who came to Sunday dinner.

“That was important stuff they wanted to share,” Riedl said, though much of that news was handled by another editor.

But all the milestones of

a person’s life would go through Riedl: births, graduations, engagements, marriages, obituaries.

“I handled everything people did from the time they were born, until the time they died, except for when they got in trouble.

I didn’t do that (cops and courts beat),” she said.

News from Epworth for Epworth Chit Chat was collected by Lois McCain, who worked with Riedl.

Not only did the types of

reports change in the ensuing years, how the reports were typed up and typeset did, too.

Riedl caught the end of the hot lead, letter press era at the Daily News, before it switched to offset printing in August 1972.

“I never knew what leading meant,” Riedl said about the origin of the print term that she knew meant spacing between letters and words in a line of a story or ad copy.

Watching the hot lead process, in which spacers were placed in lines to properly space the typed words, she understood “leading” came from the term for those lead spacers.

“If a line was too long, Jim Funk would get out the hammer and would smash it together so you had less leading,” she recalled.

Today, a line’s leading can be adjusted with the stroke of a key or two on a computer. The process is different, but still bears the name from the hot lead era.

Riedl and her role changed along with technological changes as well as changes in society and news reporting.

While she still helped on obituaries, weddings and anniversaries with staffers such as Jane Gray, Riedl, in the latter years of her 32year Daily News career, took over designing and putting together many of the special sections the paper produced.

By then, she said, she knew what the sections were supposed to look like

and had learned the computer design process and programs used to make the sections.

“It was difficult,” she said of the transition process. “It was different.”

She recalled the day — not necessary with fondness — when computers came to the newsroom. The change came literally overnight with the old Compugraphic typesetting system removed so there was no going back to the old way in the morning.

She prefers other memories.

“It was a good bunch of people to work with,” she said.

She liked how everyone worked together, especially on big stories like the floods of 1986 and the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

“Everyone pulled together, went into high gear, and got the paper out,” Riedl said.

Some things in journalism, whether in a fine major national paper or a quality community paper, never change.

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1972First bank robbery in 38 years committed at Fountain branch of State Savings Bank

More than 50 people arrested during two days of riots in Ludington Ludington officials approve new Longfellow Towers

48 buildings destroyed in Mason County by tornadolike storm

March 22 officially marks end of Ludington’s first century

1972

1973

Largest and richest Salmon Derby of its kind gets underway

C & O investigated while trying to close trainferry operations

County jail expected to be renovated to meet new jail regulations

1974

Ludington, Pere Marquette Township reach agreement to construct water waste treatment plant

Pumped Storage Plant begins commercial operations, awarded Outstanding Civil Engineering

Old Daily News building demolished

1975 Ludington’s first community swimming pool ready

Whiskey Creek Recreation destroyed by fire

Chessie officials deny plans to shut down carferry

Kmart opens in old Grant store building

Plans underway for Pioneer Village, later to be called White Pine Village Ludington Lumber Co. destroyed by fire

Snowmobilers given permission to ride Scottville streets

Pioneer Village officially opens

Nordhouse Dunes permanently closed to off-road vehicles

Free Soil girls softball finishes as Class D state runner-up in first year MHSAA sponsors the sport

Vandals cause $100,000 of damage to Lakeview Elementary School

Groundbreaking held for Longfellow Towers

U.S. 31 reaches Mason County Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. closes Loomis Street office

Stretch of U.S. 31 from Pentwater to Mason County line completed

MCE girls softball team state runners-up

1976

Local commercial fishermen ordered to cease operations

MCE freshman Maria Shoup wins 440- and 880-yard dashes in Class D state finals; in four years at MCE Shoup won 10 individual Class D state track and field titles

1977 Old Daily News building demolished Longfellow Towers opens Fire destroys Pomorski’s Tavern, Scotty’s Wren’s Roost Restaurant, Acme Disposal

1978 Courts give Ludington right to buy C & O property for $125,000 for new city marina

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Tourism down 25 percent in county Star Watch Case sold to Precision Watch Case

Mason County Board of Commissioners tells state to stop activity to construct new social services building in county

In This

Era

1972 — The Watergate scandal began June 17 when burglars, who were connected to President Richard Nixon, were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, according to the History Channel. Nixon ended up resigning in August 1974, leading to Michigan’s Gerald Ford taking on the presidency and pardoning Nixon.

1973 — United States armed forces left Vietnam March 29. Also during the year, the U.S. launched the unmanned Skylab space station May 14. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the twin towers of the World Trade Center was held April 4. The towers each stood 110 stories high and accommodated 50,000 workers and 200,000 daily visitors.

1979 — The Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, near Middletown, Pennsylvania, partially melted down on March 28. It was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Also during the year, on Nov. 4, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran taking more than 60 American hostages. The prisoners would not be released until Jan. 21, 1981, 444 days after their abduction.

1981 — President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest and wounded by gunman John Hinkley Jr. in Washington, D.C. 1986 — Just 73 seconds after taking off on Jan. 28, NASA’s space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing seven astronauts and shocking the world.

Killed in the accident were Challenger commander Dick Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, mission specialists Judy Resnik, Ronald McNair and Ellison Onizuka, payload specialist Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe, who was set to become the first teacher in space. The Iran-contra affair dominated the news for many months in 1986 and 1987. It involved the Reagan administration selling arms to Iran and in exchange for the arms, Iran was to use its influence to help gain the release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon. The arms were sold for high prices and the excess profits were diverted to fund the Reagan-favored “contras” fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, according to the Washington Post.

The Challenger exploded just minutes after taking off on Jan. 28, 1986, killing seven astronauts and shocking the nation.

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Unemployment hits 21.3 percent in Mason County Ludington’s C. Howard Hornung named band director of the year

C & O makes final run to Milwaukee

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1980 Groundbreaking held for Crosswinds Condominiums Arson nearly destroys Camp Sauble

on girls cs team rth state nship in ow

Ludington Municipal Marina dedicated

1981 Sunday sales of packaged liquor approved Ludington buys former St. Simon Church property

Ludington voters approve new police department building

1982

Badger makes what’s believed to be final trip to Manitowoc Star Watch Company closes

First Ludington Lakestride HalfMarathon attracts Olympic marathon champion Frank Shorter, Boston Marathon winners Bill Rodgers and Greg Meyer, premier road racer Herb Lindsay of Reed City

Record 188 inches of snow falls

Historic Arcadia Inn in Upper Hamlin Lake destroyed by fire

1983

WKZC begins operation LHS girls softball loses in Class B state championship game

$5 million to $6 million expansion at Dow announced

More than a foot of rain in three days causes closure of dozens of roads, southbound U.S. 31 bridge at Pentwater to collapse, failure of Hart Dam

Ludington Fire Department receives new aerial fire truck

Dean Anderson elected Ludington mayor

1984

Healy Chrysler Plymouth Dodge opens in Scottville

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway sell City of Midland, Spartan and Badger to glen Bowden and George Towns; cross-lake service between Ludington and Kewaunee begins as Michigan-Wisconsin Transportation Co.

MCE schools voters reject annexation plan with MCC

1986

1985 Ludington farmer Edwin Bretschneider breaks world records with his dairy herd; rated top butterfat and milk producer herd in nation

Orgie’s Restaurant in downtown Ludington destroyed by fire

Plans announced to widen to five lanes of U.S. 10/31 between Ludington and Scotville, create a Scottville bypass on U.S. 31

MCC Spartans win Class C boys track and field championships

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“It is with much embarrassment that I return,” he was quoted as saying upon his return to Japan.

The Watergate Scandal began June 17, 1972 when burglars connected to President Richard Nixon broke into the Watergate Building, which housed the Democratic National Committee offices.

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Ludington Daily News Jan. 29, 1986 T

his edition of the Ludington Daily News, dated Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1986, featured a story on the Challenger space shuttle explosion from the day before. A localized story on community members’ reactions was also included. A possible break in the winter’s icy temperatures also made page A1.

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H.P. Furstenau, Walt Listing, George Wilson and Harold “Fuzz” Lovewell gather at the press in the 1980s prior to the sale of the newspaper to the Jackson family.

Former Ludington Daily News Publisher David Jackson spends time with the advertising staff in the mid to late 1980s. From left are Jackson, Jane “OJ” Anderson, Debbie King, Linda Farley, Maryann Listing, Shelley Kovar and Rob Schneider.

Jim Riffle

Worked together to turn out a ‘good, quality paper’

By Steve Begnoche Special to the Daily News

J

im Riffle worked at the Ludington Daily News in the early 1980s.

At the time he was employed at Briggs True Value in Scottville, when the business was being sold by the Briggs family. Denny Briggs, who had taken over the store from his father, Woodrow, said he wanted to make sure Riffle had a job in case whoever bought the store changed staff.

Riffle called a phone number that Briggs gave him, which led to Riffle being hired by the Ludington Daily News. The advertising manager then was “Big George” Wilson, who said the paper was starting a shopper and he had

a sales job opening.

Riffle j o i n e d Jane Pelter Anderson — “the other Jane Anderson,” who went by the nickname “O.J.” Anderson — Barb Rae and Mary Klemm. They worked upstairs in the Daily News building.

Gil Larsen was the general manager. Carol Sutton and Terry Lange were bookkeepers. The only computers in use then were God-given and in the heads of the staff. The advertising staff drew ideas on ruled paper sheets with six columns like the newspaper to determine if an ad was one, two, three or

more columns wide. The orders were given to the composition staff, who created the actual ad and returned it to the advertising department at day’s end in plastic bags for proofing.

Harold “Fuzz” Lovewell ran the composition department that also employed June Rozelle and Randy Malliott.

“It didn’t take me long to figure out to get along with that crew,” Riffle said.

When the ads came back from composition at the end of the day, Riffle said, as low man in seniority, he often had to help proof them, with one person reading the ad and the other following along the original copy for it. Riffle enjoyed the time proofing

with Wilson, who for decades was the street leader of the Scottville Clown Band.

“That was good for laughs. He was a character,” Riffle said of proofing ads with Big George.

Wilson later became a popular local radio host on WKLA-AM in the mornings, and for years was a Daily News columnist until his death in June 2012.

Every now and then, Daily News owner H.P. Furstenau would come by and say “Hi.” Ken Case was managing circulation.

The newsroom had Paul S. Peterson, Todd Reed, Cheryl Higginson, Marion Riedl and Lloyd Wallace.

Riffle said as a jock and San Francisco Giants fan, he got along well with Wallace, who would often

kid him, asking if the Giants would win the pennant — kidding that continued long after Riffle left the paper through the late 1990s.

“It was a good place to work. We had a lot of fun,” Riffle recalled.

Jane Pelter Anderson sold mostly via phone and was good at it.

“She did a lot of businesses,” Riffle said.

“George would say we were one of the most talented sales staff,” Riffle said.

Then he’d follow up by warning them not to think the world would care if they quit or got fired the next day.

“Those were the best of times for newspapers and radio,” Riffle said. “There was no other real competition for local news. We were

only competing against the radio station.”

“I enjoyed my time at the Daily News. They were great people to work with.

We had a great crew. I got along with everybody. I think we turned out a good, quality paper,” he said.

After about a year, Al Deering, who had purchased Briggs Hardware, called and asked Riffle to return to the Scottville store, and Riffle did.

Later, Riffle moved to Reliable Distributing and bought a farm, which led to him becoming a township supervisor, then Mason County clerk.

He’s currently Mason County drain commissioner.

Does he still read the Ludington Daily News? ” Yep.”

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