The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1956-09-08
"CREDO OF THE NEGRO PRESS"
YE EDITORS NOTEBOOK

In discussing Ye Editors Notebook of a fortnight
ago telling something about members of staff with
our managing editor, agreed that while the column
dealt with members employed there at least one
other whom we should mention That individual is Jesse
D. Parker who not very long ago separated
We pleased to mention j. D.. as we call him
When he asked for job in the year $780, we put lot
of p, not pie before him and told him go work Pi
in the print shop is when all kinds of type fall apart and
are thrown into a receptacle of some kind.
j. D. did good job Tried him on handbls and dis
play work He was alright so We employed him.
When we purchased our first cylinder press Ga Lee
tworevoution) in 1880, j. d. the pressman and he
taught the other boys to operate it.
Parker first came to Miami with the Jenkins Orphan
Band Old timers will remember their annual visits and
how in their red and blue uniforms their band paraded
the streets of Miami and gathered in pennies nckels
dimes quarters halls and dollars j. DIS job to
that the boys did not swipe any of this change for them
selves
At the present time J.D. is not in the best of health
If correct he between sc and 81 years of
and should now be collecting social security
Now that again writing about staff members
we will mention some others.
There is Edward Davis. He owns the Excelsior Press
Davis staff for several years In fact he COM
pleted printing in the Times office.
Davis is married. Mrs. Davis a fine person. We men
ton her because want to tell the philosopher
call her husband Well Mrs Davis was secretary in
the Miami Times office. Soon after she joined the staff
the Philosopher invited her movie Later we received
our invitations for the wedding. That's it.
There is John Davis relative to Edward. John was
an apprentice in the Times office Finishing high school,
he went to FAMU and completed printing John owns the
Davis Prinery and is also employed at the airport He
married, his wife is local school teacher.
Charles North who the Norths Travel Bureau
is also printer, and product of the Miami Times.
Some years ago P. B. Young, publisher of the Nor
folk Journal and Guide Norfolk Va asked we could
find him printer Although Charles of best
men, sent him to the Journal and Guide where he
could widen his experience Charles worked with the
Guide for time, then went to Washington D. c. and
joined the staff of the Washington Tribune.
North also wrote column for the Times entitled
Miami and Your Ami
Mrs. Evelyn Evans who manages the Dorsey Hotel
and the Marsha Ann, with the Miami Times for
time She wanted to know how to set type and she learned
Let's mention B. A Mills great fellow He came to
the Times printer: Mills also jack of many other
trades He first linotype operator and taught
present operator, Lawrence Cooper.
We can't get by without mentioning Anthony Gardi-
ner, assistant principal at Carver High School;
Thomas P. Johnson Percy Gardiner now deceased.
These here in their teens learned the trade
went through high school and college.
Now for word of thanks to two columnists,
Henry Mckinney and Lawrence Cooper for the encomus
given in last weeks issue of the Times. Thank you
fellows