Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-05
STAR BUILDING
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record storage rooms, mainte-
nance shops-and a viewing gall
lery for visitors who will come to
watch the presses in operation.
The third floor will house the
mailroom-roughly the size Of
q football field where papers
are assembled for delivery. The
editorial offices of the paper also
will be located on this floor, in
Guiding the Photographic depart
ment. library, color photo studio
and communications center.
The Offices of the business and
advertising departments. as well
as the composing room, stereo-
type and engraving departments.
along with the promotion and
mechanical production Offices,
will be located on the fourth
floor.
A cafeteria, conference rooms
and club rooms for employees will
occupy the fifth floor. together
with the heating and air condi-
tioning equipment. Included in
the plans is a roof-type garden.
From the first to the fifth
floor vertical transportation will
be by escalator and auxiliary
elevator.
Press Installation First
Engineers will erect the build
ing around the presses due to the
enormous floor space required
for the mechanical heart of a
newspaper. The area immedi-
ately below the presses from
which the paper is to be fed into
the presseS-plus the press
room itself-will involve a space
rs feet in width, 270 feet in
length and As feet in height.
In many respects the new Star
will be two buildings in one
one side housing the mechanical
equipment and the other the
staff of the news and editorial
and business departments.
An interesting engineering
feature of the plant will be the
conveyor system for transporting
the large tonnage of newsprint
within the building, a problem
with which every large newspa-
per must cope.
According TO present plans. a
rail spur, running from the
Pennsylvania tracks along Vir-
Rinia avenue, would lead directly
into the building.
Freight cars carrying paper
would be shunted into the first
floor, where the newsprint, will
be unloaded and mechanically
moved to storage space capable
of handling 1000 tons.
Printed papers will be carried
IS feet up to the third-flool
mailing room on conveyors
where they will be counted, as.
sembled and bundled automati'
cally.
Then. sliding down large, spira
chutes, the 1858 Star will be de-
livered inside the circulation
trucks, which will have entered
the building through a covered
paSSageway.
Presses Have AZ Units
The six new presses will b
composed Of seven press unit
each. or a total of AZ unit;
compared with The Stars pres
ent "a. Each of the six presse
will be able to print. fold. GU
and count editions of The Sta
ranging from four to ga page
at the rate of $500 papers pc
hour. and from SO to 1913 page
at the rate of 26.250 per houl
The presses will print paper
in two, four, six or eight sections
Ink will be piped to the ink foun
tains from four 4.000-gallol
tanks.
Full color reproductions ca
be included on any predetermine
page and its companion page il
a 96-page edition.
The last word in splicin
equipment will, enable the lead
ing edge of roll of paper abou
to be fed into press TO be paste
to the tail end Of roll alread
in the press without reducin
press speed. Electronic device
will control this operation.
Together the presses wi
weigh 1880, 900 pounds and wi
require about is months TO mar
ufacture and 80 weeks TO install
The Star has been planning i
move to a new building in ar
other location for several year
Star representatives ha'
toured the country, searching Il
the best ideas TO be found in tn